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I had a boss once who insisted everyone email at the start of the day with five things you planned to do that day. If you hadn’t done them by COP he would shout in your face. Result: we all just emailed lists of things we did yesterday

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Hope everyone in the UK remembers what Elon Musk is doing to the US government the next time Domminic Cummings writes a 30,000 word blog post on his plan to replace all the "NPCs" in Whitehall with 19 year old Nazi superforecasters.

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Either Trump and Musk visit Fort Knox and say: Yup, our ridiculous conspiracy theory about the gold was bullshit. Or else, I CANNOT WAIT to see what happens to USD$ and US debt interest, if they come out and even HINT that the gold reserve is not fully there. So, watch them cancel their inspection.

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“America has turned” www.ft.com/content/1511...

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

I met a pair of Ukrainian police officers today. They've spent the last three years investigating war crimes, treating every victim as a homicide. They're doing this while still tackling their normal law enforcement jobs, while dodging missile attacks, and while constantly worrying about their kids.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

musk's private security deputized by u.s. marshals service -- potentially clearing the way for his personal bodyguards to be carrying weapons on federal grounds. um... www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 751 comments

The lies are the point: Ukraine is a battle for objective reality iandunt.substack.com/p/the-lies-a...

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Once more, Farage is claiming that he stood up in the European Parliament in early 2014 and predicted the Ukraine war. In fact, he stood up in September 2014, AFTER the annexation of Crimea, and blamed Europe for Putin's actions. I kept the receipts. Listen here 👇🏽 open.spotify.com/episode/77cz...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

I'm rereading my book Serving The Reich with increasing dismay, even horror. This, for example. Broaden "European" to "Western" and I have to say that I am no longer as confident in this statement as I was in 2013. That frightens me.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

the leopards have fully eaten the faces of foreign policy wonks and Team Checks And Balances so it might be worth markets people taking the risk of, er, unconventional policy, somewhat more seriously on.ft.com/4i4ZMmJ

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Scientists of the world, this is happening on our watch and we need to face it down. Evidence-based medicine weaponised for overtly ideological purposes. We do not need randomised trials of 'vaccine' versus 'no vaccine' when those vaccines have already been shown to be safe & effective. #episky 🧪

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Musk, Vance & Trump all misrepresent democracy. When they say “democracy”, they mean a free-for-all with no rule of law, where the winner takes all. When Europe says “democracy”, we mean proportional representation, collaborative politics, citizen rights, and agreed guide rails guaranteed by law.

submitted 9 days ago • 120 comments

Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

submitted 9 days ago • 222 comments

If only there had been some kind of warning - on.ft.com/40Zncmv

submitted 9 days ago • 215 comments

Great letter We are alarmed how quickly the business community has given in to the current administration’s retaliatory threats. It is not “illegal” for a company to create a business model based on what it believes to be important ethical and business standards. www.ft.com/content/f49c...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

A Telegraph journalist does not accept that judges make decisions according to the law, rather than the imbecilic whims of uninformed newspaper proprietors.

submitted 10 days ago • 73 comments

Opinion: It is disgusting to read the boast of Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, that ‘we spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper’. That this raises constitutional and legal issues for the US republic is quite clear www.ft.com/content/3e47...

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

Business: "Above all, we value stability and predictability." Also business: "We are very optimistic about President Chaos!" Also also business: "Oh no!"

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

For those not familiar with how financial markets work, US Treasuries are the ultimate safe asset, used as collateral for everything. Even a hint that some Treasuries might not be honored could bring everything to a screeching halt 1/

submitted 14 days ago • 197 comments

Re-upping this because I think it will be a blast, and we're selling early-bird tickets at a discount.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research? All of them.

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

Reform are panicking about people pointing out that they want to replace the NHS. So please don't share this clip of Nigel Farage saying he'd rather healthcare was done through insurance companies.

submitted 16 days ago • 63 comments

Did not have Words with Friends down as part of the Resistance

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Yep - I did a big old cancel and included a lot of detail about how deeply I hate copilot and how they've forced it into once-useful software tools. They don't offer the copilot-free version in Norway Fun fact: if you do a once-off purchase of word/excel/powerpoint, none include copilot.

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

Men’s monopoly on global health leadership is at odds with the scientific evidence, writes @jocalynclark.bsky.social. And with the current backlash against rights and equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts, it’s even more important to advocate for gender equality www.bmj.com/content/388/...

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

What is being woke? It now seems to boil down to “believing that people who are not straight white men may be good at stuff too”

submitted 17 days ago • 37 comments

Stop calling it polarisation. The world may be divided, but it’s not a “shame” when it’s a reflection of values. When some think lying is okay and others don’t, that’s not just a divide; it’s a moral line. Certain truths should be universal. Let’s start there.

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

In his first term Trump was lazy and so little was done. In his second term Trump is still lazy, but those around him now realise this means that nothing can stop them.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

You know things are a bit dicey when you can make fairly straight comparisons between South Africa’s infamous state capture and the United States of America today. Unnerving post by @jsphctrl.ft.com on.ft.com/4hKSxjK

submitted 19 days ago • 2 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 19 days ago • 134 comments

Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 946 comments

🧵 1/3 History rarely judges kindly those who, when faced with a moral choice, chose the path of least resistance. Link to the full article here: www.ft.com/content/5ba3...

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

submitted 20 days ago • 306 comments

Peter Dutton said today about the Coalition's nuclear energy policy that "you would expect a 44 per cent reduction, or of that order, being passed through in energy bill relief". To say this isn't true and has no basis in the Frontier Economics modelling he cites is an extraordinary understatement.

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments

Yesterday, payroll. Today, communication. This is pretty much textbook how you do a coup.

submitted 22 days ago • 19 comments

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 23 days ago • 1827 comments

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

submitted 22 days ago • 817 comments

Alex Antic is an Australian Trumpist and this is incredibly bad news. These people are not your grandad’s Liberals. Put them last. #auspol

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

This is what democracy failing looks like. No, really. It looks like this. You hardly notice it go by. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 23 days ago • 27 comments

It would be nice to see mainstream media acknowledge that every alarmist in their ranks about Trump and his henchmen has been correct, and every single "Let's all calm down" guy--a posture of blasé detachment that is consistently over-rewarded in legacy media--has called it wrong from day one.

submitted 23 days ago • 107 comments

Ahahahah

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Newsletter: The DeepSeek situation is a moment that should fill Silicon Valley with shame, a monument to the lack of vision and herd mentality of the American tech industry. OpenAI and Anthropic have no moat, no business, no innovation, and I believe no future. www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/

submitted 25 days ago • 93 comments

"Tesla’s biggest asset is hyperbole. The more extreme the hyperbole, the more valuable it gets." My colleagues on how Tesla could be the most overvalued company in the world - the "shitcoin" of big tech. www.ft.com/content/9cc3...

submitted 23 days ago • 30 comments

The real psychometric value of IQ is that anybody who talks about IQ numbers is guaranteed to have a defective brain

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

These 4 headlines are from the ABC, Guardian, SMH and The Australian Guess which is which. And guess which news organsations have not learned a damn thing about covering Trump.

submitted 24 days ago • 15 comments

It’s all beginning to feel a bit 1984. We’re in a battle against autocrats and oligarchs who are using money and misinformation to dismantle democracies. That’s why we’re looking for 1,984 new monthly supporters to make our biggest and boldest plans a reality (see link in bio)

submitted 24 days ago • 59 comments