The Web of Evil

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

The Trump Presidential Library will have an entire wing devoted to Trump’s sworn denials.

you ever think about how the brain worm was the victim, actually

"they don't win the Nobel prize" ???? Omar Mwannes Yaghi won it for chemistry literally last year you ignorant piece of wet felt

I.... I literally don't know what part to correct first

read a story today about dem senator supposedly in consultation with the trump-appointed intel agency heads about what to do if trump disputes the election results and i ask again: why are senate democrats so brain dead?

*watching my lithium ion battery expanding* "soon"

Looks like the PM has just announced on LinkedIn Statutory Paternity Pay for self-employed parents

There are times on here when I’m not quite sure of the difference between a reactionary worldview and a ‘progressive’ one. What the fuck is ‘inigeneity’? Do we really want to go down a blood and soil route hmm? Callipers but WOKELY.

Just been told, by a white person, that race is scientifically real & that I should listen to the indigenous folk wisdom of non-white people and that this is progressive. No, I’ll read black intellectuals like Fanton, Douglass and Barbara Fields not do some racist noble savage bullshit thanks.

Imagine being a huge fan of The Cheesecake Factory and not knowing that they have a strict no firearms policy, though

"There are many who will claim that the reason the community is *divided* is not because of Nazis, but because some people make Nazism a hardline purity test, which makes it hard to build a coalition...with Nazis, I guess. So shame dies by atrophy." www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...

Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...

"A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women."

That IS him cleaned up. He's like the last, forgotten fish in a tin.

Sweden will switch from mRNA COVID vaccines to Novavax (protein-based vaccine) in 2027/28. According to Sanofi, Sweden will be the first country in the world to make this exclusive switch. Officials also plan to lift restrictions for under-30s after reassessing concerns about heart inflammation.

its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Today prog with their regular Reform slot around 7.35. Extra points if the presenter squeezes in the phrase ‘under a Reform government.’ It’s so blatant…😡

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

Not a single columnist has an opinion about this? Really? Really?

Completely off the Guardian and BBC news front pages. And, yeah, other news has happened, sure. But, again, I invite the reader to consider what sort of news would be bumped off the top spot if this had been, say, Seamus Milne working with the IRA.

Jenrick has set out how Reform would maximise our “Brexit freedoms”. And this is their list. This is the very best they can come up with. “Re-legalise imperial units” It’s truly pathetic that this is the pinnacle of their Brexit fever dream. And that anyone would still back this ruinous idiocy…

Speaking from experience: if the idea here is “Labour MPs will eventually come to their senses and do what benefits everyone, rather screwing everybody in their own interest” then I can tell you a lot about how that one usually goes.

The good news is that we are winning in court. The bad news is that we have to win every case. Trump only needs to subvert one election to break democracy.

*BOLSONARO: FEDERAL POLICE REQUESTED I GIVE THEM MY PASSPORT

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

6 months from now: Palmer Luckey announces the Warhound project has pivoted to breeding dogs he will only refer to as Belgian Malfoids

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

National borders have *never* been containers for politics and political processes. I don't have time to write a full thread, so here are some resources.

workers are disproportionately women, brown persons, and women who are brown, and are mostly nurses, teachers sanitation workers, food service, munincipal/state govt workers, agricultural workers, forest management, social workers... the White Man In Hard Hat thing is just a relic. it should die.

today in "how are US police ham-fistedly using and abusing drones" (cc: @faineg.com) www.tdtnews.com/news/central...

If you're earning minimum wage this would leave you with about £200 a month for everything else.

NEW | Have I Got Barely Any Views For You… THE AMOL RAJAN DISCONNECTION The former BBC big name’s big mistake is thinking that being well-known equates to be being well-liked. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-amol-r...

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

I was stopped on the tube this morning by a ghost who demanded proof that I was allowed to travel. It was the ticketing spectre

What's a werewolf's favourite white sauce? A ROOOOOUUUUUUUUUUXXXX

I recently got into an argument with the ghost of Theodore Roosevelt I do enjoy a spirit Ted debate

Instead we should focus on which messages, ideas, and visions beyond "we need to beat the far right" have mobilized large parts of society. We should understand the organizational structures behind these victories and acknowledge that they are about more than defending the status quo.