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I don't say this lightly, but the BBC are really not up to this moment. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 195 comments

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

submitted 3 days ago • 430 comments

Dan's description does not do justice to just how fucking insane Billy Crystal's One Act Play About Robin Williams Performing A Stand-Up Gig In Heaven is. I implore you to read it. I know you will love it. I hope you will savour it.

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

submitted 4 days ago • 781 comments

Oh this is just straight-up treasonous black hat shit www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

this is the most unpopular regime in anyone's lifetime and it's been like 5 weeks, but also the fact they are willing to ignore their constituents like this already as a matter of party policy tells us they don't intend for "voter" to be a term that carries any significance going forward

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

submitted 10 days ago • 432 comments

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 16 days ago • 118 comments

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

submitted 15 days ago • 1249 comments

The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 17 days ago • 413 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 20 days ago • 308 comments

I wrote this on the most consistently terrible, and fatal, idea in centrist politics today. On Fanta, rebadging, and why attempting to win votes from fascists is morally disgusting and politically suicidal. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

When Democrats are in power, they can't do good, non-genocidal things because politics is complex and also the presidency isn't a magic wand, but when Republicans are in power they can make trans people illegal on Day 1 because politics is complex and also the presidency is now an infinity gauntlet.

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

It's such a clean statement. It has depth but with a sharp punch. I have used it, I admit. And the context it appeared in shows what an infinitely understanding and open person he was, but would not stand for unkindness.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Saw this at university with no idea what I was going to see. I can honestly say, if you haven't seen it, do that. I left with a sense of peace like I'd not felt coming out of a movie before, or since, for that matter. It just did its thing and rocked you very gently so things felt a touch kinder.