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Dear god let this man cook.

submitted 2 days ago • 1145 comments

"On the doorstep people don’t make a distinction between graduate visas & small boats" This is: a) objectively wrong (plenty of polling evidence) b) suggests utter contempt for electorate's thought processes c) is a dreadful way to make policy Otherwise fine www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments

This makes total sense if you accurately frame DOGE as an ideological assault on the federal government rather than accepting the cover story of a cost-cutting exercise www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

The conversation on Loose Women about the Supreme Court trans case is so much more sophisticated than anything I've seen from traditional politics programmes youtu.be/dCsJms0TnGA?...

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

Israel just bombed a building in Hadath, a densely populated neighborhood in southern Beirut. Israel has violated the Lebanon ceasefire it agreed to in late November hundreds of times — and has killed at least 70 civilians.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Honestly ludicrous

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

✍️ Nine months in power: how does Labour’s legislative plan look? Since the election the government has been busy making new laws, but most people have not noticed. So, here’s a roundup of progress | Stephen McNair @eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

I’d ask my many cis-gender friends and followers to take a moment today to consider this scenario. You are so unhappy / uncomfortable with your birth sex that you choose to live as the opposite sex at the cost of family and other relationships.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

We’ve know this for ages but it’s good that this kind of analysis in now on mainstream TV in the UK

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

This is Truss-level stuff. The OBR does not incorporate the "lower skills profile" of migrant workers or the "displacement of British workers" precisely because they are paying attention to what the data and evidence say (unlike, it seems HO/No.10) archive.ph/qZfz3

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

It was never about saving money guys. You don’t need to go along with it

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

The Trump era, summed up.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

New: "Trump Store Selling ‘Trump 2028’ Hats—Weeks After Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About Potential Third Term" @molboha.bsky.social for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/mollyb...

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

Labour ‘no better than US Republicans’ on trans issues, says LGBTQ+ Lib Dems group

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Sen. Jon Ossoff: "Trump's hand-picked candidate to challenge me for that Senate seat in Georgia is executing magnificently-timed stock trades around these tariff announcements...It would not surprise me at all if the inside information is flying hot and heavy around Mar-a-Lago."

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

⚡️Europe rejects US push to recognize Russian occupation of Crimea, FT reports. An unnamed senior European official told the FT that the Trump administration had already been informed that European capitals would not recognize Crimea as Russian.

submitted 7 days ago • 37 comments

The US Constitution guarantees due process. Donald Trump is eroding it in real time – we must fight back to restore the balance of power. Today, I’m announcing a series of measures against El Salvador for aiding his unconstitutional deportation scheme.

submitted 8 days ago • 172 comments

If these Ukraine peace terms are as reported, they are a historic betrayal. Nothing in American history would come near to it. It would side the US squarely and definitively with dictatorship inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

submitted 8 days ago • 61 comments

This is what we all feared. The United States and Russia bullying brave President Zelensky into a terrible deal. Time for the United Kingdom and Europe to stand up to Trump and seize the Russian assets so we can go it alone.

submitted 8 days ago • 71 comments

The Guardian: London Marathon organisers boycott X over ‘descent into gutter’ under Musk www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Russia has struck a residential area in Zaporizhzhia. Several victims have been reported so far.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

This is simply extraordinary. The Trump administration's argument is, essentially: if you receive some massively aggressive legal missive from the White House, don't respond in a timely way. Instead, chill out for a bit, in case we take it all back.

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments

Hey, Justice Roberts, is this what you meant by "“facilitate and effectuate the return" of Mr. Abrego Garcia? Because I'm not a lawyer, but it sure as hell looks like contempt of court to me.

submitted 13 days ago • 84 comments

Capitalism: "A big part of the problem with society is that, instead of fixing our problems, everyone is trying to make enough money so that theproblems won't affect them." -Brian Baez

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 14 days ago • 700 comments

'People with disabilities don't lead lives worth living' is a core fascist belief Nothing they or their families say ever changes their mind

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

i know it's been said many times but i really can't get over how transphobia literally rots people's brains until they're slobbering and obsessed with gametes and chromosomes and don't realize how insane they sound. it's like a zombie virus

submitted 14 days ago • 48 comments

[turning up to the fist fight with a loaded gun] maybe Americans wouldn't be so obsessed with "seasoning" if they actually had access to produce that tastes of something

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

The Trump White House's desperation to sanewash a trade strategy is showing, and it's giving me a headache. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

lovely juxtaposition of gender critical people publicly going "ah, finally a victory for common sense :)" and trans friends wondering privately if they need to seriously consider emigrating as Britain just doesn't feel safe for them

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Parliament, not the Supreme Court should have decided today. I've written about why that's so problematic and why I fear today's judgment will be used to further delegitimise trans people, even though that is not what the Court intends. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/why-i-worr...

submitted 15 days ago • 94 comments

In a withering 46-page opinion on Wednesday, D.C. Chief Judge James Boasberg laid out how he came to believe that the Trump administration was acting in bad faith during its Alien Enemies Act removals.

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

submitted 15 days ago • 1869 comments

The Onion uncovers what’s inside Elon Musk’s $35 million Texas compound. Explore Elon Musk's entire compound here: theonion.com/inside-elon-...

submitted 15 days ago • 51 comments

What a joke

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

submitted 16 days ago • 193 comments

The sad part about this is that it does not shock anymore. It is clear now that the US and Europe have parted ways in the strategic assessment and aims for Ukraine and Russia.

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

I've been a journalist for 25+ years and I'm not sure I've witnessed as much wilful (and v likely coordinated) disinformation from certain corners of the UK media than over past few days. Sun, Mail and Telegraph have been truly awful - and seemingly shameless www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 17 days ago • 51 comments

NYT: "The White House scoffed at the prospect of returning a Maryland man who had been mistakenly deported, despite court orders urging it to pursue his return." I'd like to draw your attention to the word "urging." Courts don't "urge." That's not how courts work, NYT. Stop laundering his fascism.

submitted 17 days ago • 48 comments

“The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage, a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China.” on.ft.com/4jvBAdM

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 17 days ago • 1661 comments

BREAKING: Days before she was detained by ICE, the State Department had determined Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk did NOT engage in antisemitic or terrorist activities. Rubio revoked her visa anyhow. Gift article: wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

submitted 18 days ago • 264 comments