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political carthasis hits harder when everything else is fucked

Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.

Ghastly politics from the SNP. With Green and Labour support, the Scottish Government could easily deliver the progressive vision for land ownership that they promised in their 2021 manifesto. Instead, they’re working with the Tories to preserve the status quo. Nobody will benefit from this!

🧵1/3 We have seen a total lack of transparency around the plans of Discovery Land Company (DLC) for Taymouth Castle, Glen Lyon, the Moness Resort and Kenmore. It's been impossible to see what their long term vision for the area has been, we just see a large US landowner keeping its cards close to

I know a lot of folks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration--it's a resistance version of sean spicer. It veers into #resistanceporn and trades accuracy for clout, like other "blue maga" grifters on here. Pls consider finding other sources of inspiration/news/motivation

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

no other grown-ups in the house tonight so my 7yo is about to get the world’s most traumatic explainer about all this

Alba's MSP smashes a home run here. 🤣🤣🤣

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

nothing gets you over food poisoning like your 7 year old son telling you that “if this were the history times, you’d probably be dead by now”

hard to believe there was once a time when Doctor Who was good

really enjoyed watching Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots: The Movie today (meant as a compliment) ((also meant as an insult))

Americans when society politely asks them not to hurtle their death machines down roads at 90mph:

bringing back a form of corporal punishment famously used against queer people as recently as 70 years ago during a time of unprecedented growth in anti-LGBTQ sentiment and about four years out from getting the most far-right government of our time into power what can possibly go wrong?

did I ever tell you guys I’m in rogue one? did I? did I ever tell you that? have I ever posted it? once or twice maybe? ask my friends if I’ve ever told them. maybe one time at least? at least one, yeah

have retreated to my island

🚨 Our series investigating Trump's activities in Scotland begins today, and first up we're opening the books to see if his boasts about his businesses' financial success in Scotland are really accurate 🔎 www.thenational.scot/news/2513545...

Trump’s second term has been such a disaster so far that it seems to be ensuring the survival of liberal democratic movements across Europe, Canada, and Australia — a miraculous tailwind that has somehow managed to fully fucking bend around Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party

Is there any possible result overnight that wouldn’t have led to this paragraph being written?