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The right everywhere understands that if you control the information environment, you control everything

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It's been coming for decades. The right has only ever reluctantly supported democracy, and now they've decided enough is enough and we all have to do what they say. The "they're not Nazis" takes will age like milk.

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Neil Kinnock, Sheffield, 1992:

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

It’s now unrealistic to expect genuine elections in the United States. Pre-Trump regime political life no longer exists. Fascism is taking hold like in Italy after the 1922 March on Rome, Germany after the 1933 Reichstag fire, or Russia after the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings.

submitted 14 hours ago • 5 comments

Sánchez defiende al fiscal general y ataca a Feijóo con la corrupción del PP: "Me llama capo, con el álbum de fotos que tiene" ow.ly/cGNm50W7wEV

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

the problem with this isn't the blithe disregard for ethical concerns, because none of it will happen, the problem is that it's blatant bullshit and these people are not only in charge of their massive industry but being taken seriously by governments. fortune.com/2025/06/06/g...

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

100% 👍👍👍 open.substack.com/pub/macdonnc...

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Read a fascinating Substack the other day that argued that Spanish speaking countries are often poorer than British speaking countries because in Spanish culture, it's all about family, friends and enjoying life. In English culture, it's about money. Very, very much matches my own experience....

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We are all Ed the Zebra.

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"Hi, Mom! I'm back, I'm home, Mom! Mom, I'm in #Ukraine! Hooray! Mom, you are the dearest person I have! Thank you for being there, for waiting! I'll see you soon!" The first phone call between the Defender released from Russian captivity and his mom. 📹: Dmytro Lubinets

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

I remember the early news reports when the Yugoslav civil war first started, and the army was sent into Slovenia by President Milosevic. Nobody believed then that a relatively developed nation with one of the highest standards of living in Eastern Europe could descend into full civil war.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

The Origin Story episodes about Appeasement have been superb. Eye opening. Thinking about it for days on end. But now I hear on British radio asking if Brits should be bothered with countries like Estonia, a long way away 😭😭 @iandunt.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Agree 100%. Day of the Jackal is a superb book, regardless of his politics.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 3 days ago • 894 comments

for more on the transcendent political genius of Pedro Sánchez, read the essay on him in the latest @renewaljournal.bsky.social:

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

BBC NEWS “In the last few hours Russia has begun targeting major British cities with an army of nuclear drones, but we’re interrupting coverage of the attack because Nigel Farage has just farted after eating an enormous ploughman’s lunch.”

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

If this continues we'll have to turn our backs on them. All of them.

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Murderbot is so good I'm rewatching the first 5 episodes with my wife. Just got to Episode 4 and she's had the same reaction I had "oh! This is great!!"

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On Twitter, a LOT of Magas are saying "is this the civil war we voted for?"

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I'm grateful every day that my friend Harley has Mark Carney leading and that we have Pedro Sanchez.

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that's because only people on the left have agency people on the right are not responsible for their awful thoughts and actions; in fact, those are usually also the fault of the left

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Fascism

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The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

In the UK they have the fox hunting twats, here it's these guys. Got taken on a fox hunt with a friend by a teacher, late 80s. We are appalled. He couldn't understand why. Male British 80s culture was very much based around "let's hurt people and animals for fun".

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If we can all just change the ratio of Jazz to Politics tweets in Bluesky, we'll all have a better life!!

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