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In the early days of our movement, it was mandatory that all members smoke cigarettes and refrain from speaking, but we realized those traditions were stupid. He/him/his
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On the NS podcast, Andy has read a thing that’s convinced him Zelensky has overstated Ukraine’s mineral wealth to take advantage of Trump’s greed, and well wdik but what if the state department has better intel than even terrific journo pal Ed Conway

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“Puppets” are “assets” to begin with though aren’t they

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“No more illegal wars. Introduce a prevention of military intervention act and put human rights at the heart of foreign policy. Review all UK arms sales and make us a force for international peace and justice.”

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Nationalizing SpaceX and Starlink are going to be part of the conversation in any thinkable post Trump/Musk era. Democracies that become structurally dependent on infrastructures provided by unpredictable private actors are going to be weak democracies at best.

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Traditionally the term for the suite of policies the public support on paper but not enough to pay for, has been “not fucking happening then”. But I gather this is different

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I’d imagine quite a lot of polling results would look very different if they were followed up with a series of “are you sure about this tho” questions. And that would often be good, to be clear

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Tired: rearming to strike St Petersburg, Russia Wired: rearming to strike St Petersburg, Florida www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Bannon: I like to raise my arms sometimes, son. You got a problem with that? Freddie, savvily, raising an eyebrow so the listener can tell he doesn’t necessarily agree: no sir

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A decade ago, the London media scene was doing profiles of a new wave of public school-educated celebrities & politicians, and encouraging readers to agree that the aristocracy is very cool & sexy actually

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Logging into the 5-Dimensional Decision Matrix, assessing every conceivable data point, and then making a decision that would’ve taken a neocon 15 seconds? That’s the benefit of having forensic grown-ups back in charge I guess

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I mean they did convince Farage to stand down in a load of seats in 2019, and then unrelatedly several of the candidates got peerages

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Maitlis here, on the News Agents, explaining to listeners that she doesn’t understand what “soft power” means. Absolutely extraordinary scenes

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Funny the Government position is that Trump's interventions on Ukraine are good, helpful, perhaps even laudable, but also the direct cause of a massive security crisis that requires an immediate and huge defence budget commitment and the abandonment of a decades long Labour policy on foreign aid

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Lads from nowhere towns will presumably also have seen the uh narrative of their grandparents having to fill in a form to avoid freezing to death, and you can find that narrative quite easily without having to scour the internet for preachy leftists

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For all their talk about family & civilization I'm endlessly struck by how fundamentally anti-human these guys are. They live in the wealthiest society in history; a global hegemon with a continent's resources at its disposal yet somehow they've convinced themselves that Meemaw still has to die.

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Idk man, if these guys really believed the Tories are tanking themselves to the exclusive benefit of the Lib Dems, and the only losers are Nice Suburbanites who want to vote Tory but sadly can’t right now, wouldn’t the tone be less anguished www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Musk emails asking federal employees to explain their tasks are have already been sent. One described it to me as "a trap." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/military-p...

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Letters of last resort now instruct subs to place themselves under the command of Hulk Hogan

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Hahaha come the fuck on @theguardian.com

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Look this might seem extremely stupid but everyone in mainstream uk politics is obliged to pretend to believe the government is somehow wasting a trillion pounds a year on fax machines or whatever, so

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7 months in, with a handpicked cabinet of MPs who would deport their neighbours in a heartbeat if they thought it would impress the Sun, and man’s still sending memos

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Losing my mind a bit thinking about how the root of all this re-armament & systemic breakdown is almost certainly down to states responding to the imminent climate collapse, and how politically nobody can really say that out loud.

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If you were a Labour MP you'd probably want a Labour frontbencher to actually directly condemn Trump before you started writing odd letters on this subject to random other MPs wouldn't you

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Outside of the actual payroll this is like 15 guys, but yes I’m sure it’s very tough for them right now

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Hey, anyone remember that time the Labour Party adopted a blanket policy that sharing a platform with Ken Loach was an expulsion offence?

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Blanchard seems to have assumed a successful career of Knowing About Westminster would transfer seamlessly to Washington, and his bosses - in Washington! - evidently just agreed

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[Halfway through chapter 1] “Jill I’ve made a huge mistake.”

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It would be wild if Oxford university decided it would prefer not to associate by proxy with one of the 21st century’s most notorious child sex offenders, especially when top political journalists, the Labour Party & almost all national newspapers have shown no such qualms.

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