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Kempy 👾
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I do my best work when I’m meant to be doing something else.
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How people laughed when it was ‘Comical Ali’ telling us to disbelieve the truth of what we could see.
January 25, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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In 1993 small-c conservatives in the United States were aghast at what they saw as federal armed brutality at the Waco siege.

The contrast with now is striking.
January 24, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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Please reshare the below post, unfortunately some accounts with lots of followers have reposted the false claim and loads of people are falling for it.
I'm seeing people mistakenly claim the gun photo was posted before today, but its just how Google sometimes dates images based on the original date of the thread its posted in, not when it was posted. The photo was posted an hour ago in this 5 day old thread
www.reddit.com/r/fivethirty...
January 24, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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Genuinely think this coverage is worthy of formal complaint – and if the BBC doesn’t take it seriously, it should be escalated to Ofcom.

The appearance of caving to the Trump White House, when the BBC is being sued, could be disastrous for public trust.
The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.

It leads on "sharply contested narratives"

It has a dramatic skew to the US government

It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
January 24, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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The task for political leadership now is not just to tell the truth, but to make people care about what is true and what is not.
January 24, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.

The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.

Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.

Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.
January 24, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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I worry that Trump’s latest partial climbdowns, pathetic & insincere as they are, will bolster Downing Street’s arguments for keeping him sweet when it’s surely time to go full Mark Carney.
January 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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They don't tell obvious lies because they want or expect to deceive you; they tell obvious lies to let you know it doesn't matter what you think or know. They're not saying "What I say is real"; they're saying "Reality is whatever I say it is and there's nothing you can do about it."
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Billionaire tech moguls who love to tell Forbes profilers and audiences Techcrunch what committed liberatarians they are collectively decided masked federal government kill teams enjoying absolute legal immunity are a price worth paying for a regulatory environment more enabling of crypto.
January 24, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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That’s not even close to an apology. And besides, Denmark lost more people per head of the population than *any* other country in Afghanistan. The obviousness of his contempt for crucial alliances matches the obviousness of his contempt for the truth.
Clean up on aisle 47
January 24, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.
January 24, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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In case you missed it: My suggestion that Farage was whispering to Trump behind the scenes while Trump was going after Greenland has been essentially confirmed.

As @jamesdaustin.bsky.social notes: Working against your country's interest with a semi-hostile state - there's a word for that.
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Great little analysis of why the world is all so fuckin knackered and annoyed about that horrible mad cunt over there
1/ Others have pointed this out, but there are massive hidden costs in terms of effort and contingency planning to all the Trump threats that never materialize because he never meant them, TACO'd, got talked out of it, or got distracted.

I wanted to talk about why by explaining risk mitigation.
January 24, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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"I am just going outside and may be some time."
January 23, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Must read thread on the structural rot affecting liberal democracies
🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
Democratic politicians have, though, pursued growth in GDP at the expense of other values. One response to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com pessimistic scenario is refocus on those values, combined with egalitarianism, sufficiency and quality of life. Not "it's the economy, stupid" but "it's the the society"
January 23, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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We’ve spent years trying to fact-check our way out of this, and it failed. Democratic decay isn’t about bad information versus good information, it’s about the collapse of the systems that turn information into reality. If every bot and Russian troll vanished tomorrow, the rot would still be there.
January 23, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Treacherous cunt
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 4:20 PM
We’re in for a much rougher ride than I would have predicted a couple of years ago. If there is one thing to match how terrifying worst case scenarios now look, it’s the astonishing complacency of so much of the political, media and business class.
Bracing piece from the Bulwark, with many uh-oh predictions and a damning conclusion: "The problem is not Trump. It is America and Americans. This is who we are. Like it or not."

www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-th...
This Is the End
Putinism abroad always morphs into Putinism at home. And we chose this path. Why? Because something-something the price of eggs.
www.thebulwark.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Every day we all have to think about one of the most irredeemable cunts in the history of the world. What’s he doing? What’s he said now? How will it affect your life? What will be left once he’s finished smashing it all up? It’s unconscionable
January 21, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Can I just gently ask the good people of America not to elect a raving madman next time? It's a bit rum, frankly, and very trying for everyone else.
Trump: all we ask for is a place called Greenland
January 21, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Remember the Soviet joke about a man who always goes to look at the papers but never buys one. The news agent asks him what he's looking for and he says, "An obituary" and the news agent points out that they're always in the back section. "This one won't be".
January 21, 2026 at 5:55 AM
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They got so so much wrong. And we are all paying the price.
Not a prophetic insight as it turns out.
January 21, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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Weird to recall what a bombshell Biden’s fumbling debate performance was and now it’s like, ah yes, the president is demented in public every week, what can you do?
January 20, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
January 19, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM