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Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used transgenic (genetically modified) mice.

submitted 19 hours ago • 748 comments

The bust of Sir Winston Churchill sits in Trump's Oval Office. He was an immensely brave leader who visited Washington, dressed in fatigues, seeking support against a despot. We all know what he would have made of today's unedifying spectacle and whose side he would have been on.

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

“Donald Trump’s highly public schism with Volodymyr Zelensky has yielded the kind of doublethink that is common in personality cults,” writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social. Pundits are avoiding the obvious, he argues: “Trump has an affinity for Vladimir Putin”:

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Beginning to think that the State Visit should also include Vance "accidentally" getting locked in a room with 2 Para.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Dr. Seuss in 1941.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Every single one of the Trump supporters sounds like a domestic abuser. "You should've let him hit you, you shouldn't have complained in public, you're never grateful, you never say thank you."

submitted 5 days ago • 90 comments

An extraordinary moment. America has publicly resigned its leadership of the free world

submitted 10 days ago • 45 comments

I’m sure I’m one of the ‘intellectual elite’ she’s talking about, and I can assure her I believe very much in our country and its success. I just don’t believe in fake nostalgia and bigoted bollocks.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Area free speech absolutist says journalists he doesnt like should face a “long prison sentence”

submitted 17 days ago • 261 comments

"Say what you like about the Nazis' Enabling Act or the Bolsheviks dissolving the Constituent Assembly but it shows the importance of putting in the hard yards when you're in opposition." Whoever gave this quote should stop answering calls from journalists.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

I think we can already award the prize for stupidest Labour MP’s policy proposal. “That thing that destroyed three Tory governments, the thing that if we did it would wreck our economy, let’s do that, in a doomed effort to pose as a knock-off Nigel Farage.”

submitted 28 days ago • 32 comments

Brexit was a con. Sold on a pack of lies by fantasists, ladybird libertarians, chancers, xenophobes and spivs. On this day of all days we should take a moment to remind everyone of that.

submitted 34 days ago • 113 comments

The public enquiry should also consider the behaviour of elected politicians during the investigation and prosecution of this case, and their willingness to confect rumour and spread inflammatory misinformation in the service of their own agendas.

submitted 44 days ago • 39 comments

There are more than a million British people with Pakistani heritage in the UK. For the Shadow Home Secretary to suggest they have an "alien" and "medieval" culture and to smear them by association with the crimes of a tiny minority, is the politics of the far-right gutter.

submitted 60 days ago • 245 comments

Thank God Starmer is prime minister. Imagine if we had someone in that position desperately doing whatever Musk wanted, as Badenoch evidently would. This moment would amount the complete subordination of Britain to a foreign tech billionaire.

submitted 59 days ago • 85 comments

As bad as Badenoch is, she is better than this piece of shit.

submitted 72 days ago • 65 comments

Under Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative pitch is “Reform are right, don’t vote for them. Vote for us and our record of failure instead.”

submitted 77 days ago • 16 comments

Britain's public services are already behaving like a start-up: running out of money and struggling to find viable ways of raising it.

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

The problem is that "blowing it up" is very easy and "fixing it" is very hard. The other thing is that, unlike the private sector, there isn't really a competitor to step in if you've blown yourself up.

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments

JONI MITCHELL: They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum / And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em TECH BRO: Sounds awesome but can we make it a monthly subscription

submitted 91 days ago • 23 comments

Asked by Sky News whether his fellow Reform MP previously being jailed for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend, and then subsequently lying to voters about it, should be grounds for his expulsion from the party, Nigel Farage replies that "I've got a million followers on TikTok" and storms off

submitted 97 days ago • 140 comments

The best way in which to counter Musk’s outrageous attempt to manipulate British democracy is to deactivate and then delete his propaganda vehicle from your phone and laptop. Do it now. Please.

submitted 101 days ago • 73 comments

Best to read the entire thread. Alarming, yes... but darkly amusing.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Step 1: Elon takes over Twitter, unbans and amplifies the worst white nationalist posters, methodically turns it into a right wing echo chamber. Step 2: Users who aren’t white nationalists or MAGA extremists leave for Bluesky en masse. Step 3: op-ed columnists fret, “is Bluesky an echo chamber?”

submitted 109 days ago • 239 comments

Imagine sitting down for a drink or a meal with people whose company you enjoyed & being told by management that half of the table would be now occupied by people who just wanted to shout ‘C**t’ at you. The exodus has absolutely nothing to do with ‘opinions’. Media reports must reflect this more.

submitted 111 days ago • 346 comments