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we need a new slur to describe the bizarre combination of traits exhibited by elon musk. traditional insults are simply not enough

submitted 2 days ago • 214 comments

We are already at the ‘purging the generals and replace them with loyalists’ part of the Trump second term, just five weeks in. Totally normal. Not dangerous at all

submitted 3 days ago • 135 comments

I hope the good folks at Cyngor Gwynedd (Gwynedd Council) are not scared off serving their community by this ignorant trash from people whose value system starts and ends with making rich people richer.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

1. Here are just a few of the ways in which Starmer’s Labour Party seems determined to alienate its voters and lose the next election. As they pile up, you have to keep pinching yourself and asking, “what the hell is it playing at?” 🧵

submitted 14 days ago • 177 comments

The ultimate power of any court is in its coercive orders - and a machinery to readily enforce those orders. But once those coercive orders are defied without sanction, there is nothing left. That’s it: game over. Just pieces of paper with fancy words and writing.

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

if the president’s lackeys can functionally seize control of treasury funds and dismantle a congressionally-created agency without consequence, it’s not that it’s a constitutional crisis as much as it means the constitution is vapor.

submitted 20 days ago • 134 comments

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

submitted 21 days ago • 523 comments

we are reaching levels of national security threats I did not even realize were possible this is the kind of thing you put in a terrible b-movie where some nefarious cybercriminal has hacked The Entire Treasury and everyone rolls their eyes at the implausibility except somehow it's actually real

submitted 21 days ago • 107 comments

I was one of those warning how bad it would be and how Trump 2 would be much worse than anyone complacently assumed. But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all foreign aid, including to kids with HIV & malaria’ and also ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.

submitted 22 days ago • 235 comments

This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 22 days ago • 963 comments

None of what you saw today was normal. Shame on those Democrats and 'liberal media' journalists who helped normalize it. A narcissistic insurrectionist using neo-Nazi rhetoric, who should have been disqualified from running, who should have been tried & convicted long ago, is now president again.

submitted 35 days ago • 161 comments

"Culture war politics provides a kind of Trojan horse for billionaires like Musk, ensuring the election of rightwing governments that can sneak in inequality-enhancing economic policies through the back door." Me for @goodlawproject.bsky.social goodlawproject.org/when-billion...

submitted 45 days ago • 14 comments

Images taken moments before disaster... #TheTraitors

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll probably catch up with Traitors later, but the biggest flaw is that there’s no advantage to eliminating traitors until the end, because eliminated traitors will get replaced anyway, so it makes more sense to get rid of people you don’t like irrespective of whether you think they’re traitors.

submitted 54 days ago • 28 comments

looking forward to seeing how Day of the Jackal evolves for its second season in a post-Luigi Mangione world

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

It's astonishing how blind the British political establishment remains to the richest man in the world backing every neo-nazi cause around, including here

submitted 66 days ago • 50 comments

🚨🏠 New private rent stats also out this morning, with rents across the UK up 9.1% in the year to November 2024. In London, up 11.6%! These are HUGE monthly increases: Compared to a year ago, on average, it's an extra £110 per month in Great Britain and an extra £230(!!) per month in London

submitted 68 days ago • 3 comments

ah yes, Rita Skeeter, the original bluesky poster

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Reform is a party of and for millionaires, which voted against workers’ and renters’ rights, rail renationalisation and GB Energy. We cannot allow them to pitch to Labour’s left. To tackle the cost of living, let’s tax extreme wealth and bring utilities into public ownership.

submitted 70 days ago • 7 comments

ABC (Disney), Washington Post (Bezos), Meta (Zuckerberg), LA Times (Soon-Shiong)... all bending the knee to Trump, all obeying in advance, all sucking up to the Dictator-in-Waiting. This is (part of) how democracies die. This is the Orban, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi playbooks.

submitted 72 days ago • 365 comments

What do you mean his name is Luigi.........

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Reform is a party by and for men born in 1967 who believe they were personally gassed at the Somme.

submitted 77 days ago • 316 comments

one of the all time dumbest motherfuckers

submitted 79 days ago • 30 comments

Wow, Day of the Jackal just keeps getting better & better. This week's episode was crazy!

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Of course, only British billionaires should be able to play games & settle scores with our democracy!

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

The Three Stages of Life (cool edition): 1. I must inhale all of the olives. 2. I must inhale all of the olives. 3. I must inhale all of the olives.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

skeetbidi toilet

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

day of the jackal ep 7...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely love Captain Tom content. Give me more. Glossy BBC drama starring Rebecca Front as Hannah when

submitted 95 days ago • 4 comments

It’s a good thing Captain Tom died before the big Kate Bush renaissance, cos they would’ve had him running up that hill

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

I think we should just assume everyone has a travel show by now and @scottygb.bsky.social can update us if he finds someone who hasn't been greenlit yet

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

It’s been 24 hours & neither Keir Starmer nor David Lammy have commented on the ICC’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu & Yoav Gallant for war crimes & crimes against humanity. Perhaps they could apply the same standards as the ones they outlined below:

submitted 94 days ago • 44 comments