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The 'Special Relationship' is over
You cannot cultivate a relationship with the political equivalent of the Sword of Damocles.
pthomasjohnson.substack.com
I started a politics/opinion blog!
My perspective on the future of the so-called "Special Relationship" between the UK and the US in the new era of Trump's international gangsterism.
My perspective on the future of the so-called "Special Relationship" between the UK and the US in the new era of Trump's international gangsterism.
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Since 1968, CEO pay has exploded while worker pay has remained stagnant. If worker pay grew at the same pace as CEO pay, today’s typical worker would make $431.80 per HOUR.
Instead, today’s typical worker makes $36.49 per hour — while CEOs make 280 times that on average.
The system is rigged.
Instead, today’s typical worker makes $36.49 per hour — while CEOs make 280 times that on average.
The system is rigged.
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Since 1968, CEO pay has exploded while worker pay has remained stagnant. If worker pay grew at the same pace as CEO pay, today’s typical worker would make $431.80 per HOUR.
Instead, today’s typical worker makes $36.49 per hour — while CEOs make 280 times that on average.
The system is rigged.
Instead, today’s typical worker makes $36.49 per hour — while CEOs make 280 times that on average.
The system is rigged.
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So comes to an end Halo Infinite. Lauded by 343i as a platform that would host the next 10 years of Halo, it didn't even last 4 before being canned. I expect the same to happen with the rebranded Halo Studio's remake of CE. They'll release a half-baked product and abandon the remakes in a few years.
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
So comes to an end Halo Infinite. Lauded by 343i as a platform that would host the next 10 years of Halo, it didn't even last 4 before being canned. I expect the same to happen with the rebranded Halo Studio's remake of CE. They'll release a half-baked product and abandon the remakes in a few years.
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Americans can’t afford this deal.
Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan.
A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.
Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan.
A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Americans can’t afford this deal.
Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan.
A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.
Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan.
A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.
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A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what appears to be the world’s largest spider web, which researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what appears to be the world’s largest spider web, which researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
Someone should remind Trump that every empire is only a few missed meals away from total collapse.
I'm glad to see Wisconsin's response to this was "fuck you, make me". That should be every state's response to this attempt by the feds to starve their people.
I'm glad to see Wisconsin's response to this was "fuck you, make me". That should be every state's response to this attempt by the feds to starve their people.
The Trump regime is now telling states to unsend SNAP benefits.
They want to do everything they can to make life harder for people.
It’s said often, but always worth repeating: the cruelty is the point.
They want to do everything they can to make life harder for people.
It’s said often, but always worth repeating: the cruelty is the point.
Trump administration says states must "immediately undo any steps" to send full SNAP benefits
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in a late-night Saturday memo, also threatened to impose financial penalties on states that did not comply with the government's new orders.
www.cbsnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Someone should remind Trump that every empire is only a few missed meals away from total collapse.
I'm glad to see Wisconsin's response to this was "fuck you, make me". That should be every state's response to this attempt by the feds to starve their people.
I'm glad to see Wisconsin's response to this was "fuck you, make me". That should be every state's response to this attempt by the feds to starve their people.
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🦉 An owl shoots down a Russian mavic 3t.
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
🦉 An owl shoots down a Russian mavic 3t.
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Facebook: 20 years of reuniting you with old friends so they can sell you on their herbal supplements pyramid scheme.
November 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Facebook: 20 years of reuniting you with old friends so they can sell you on their herbal supplements pyramid scheme.
I've often been vocal on how Wikipedia is a gem of the internet, the greatest library in human history, and is a golden example of what humans can achieve with zero profit motive.
So it's nice that this is balanced out by how unbelievably snotty, arrogant, and cliquey many of its editors are.
So it's nice that this is balanced out by how unbelievably snotty, arrogant, and cliquey many of its editors are.
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I've often been vocal on how Wikipedia is a gem of the internet, the greatest library in human history, and is a golden example of what humans can achieve with zero profit motive.
So it's nice that this is balanced out by how unbelievably snotty, arrogant, and cliquey many of its editors are.
So it's nice that this is balanced out by how unbelievably snotty, arrogant, and cliquey many of its editors are.
Nobody who has been blessed by the cat distribution system can possibly be sad.
10yo filled in a "mental wellbeing" questionnaire at school. A few of her answers:
Something that makes me feel happy: 'My cats'
A place that makes me feel happy: 'At home with my cats'
Something helpful I do to cope when times are tough: 'Hug my cats'
What have I learnt: 'I am happiest with cats'
Something that makes me feel happy: 'My cats'
A place that makes me feel happy: 'At home with my cats'
Something helpful I do to cope when times are tough: 'Hug my cats'
What have I learnt: 'I am happiest with cats'
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Nobody who has been blessed by the cat distribution system can possibly be sad.
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10yo filled in a "mental wellbeing" questionnaire at school. A few of her answers:
Something that makes me feel happy: 'My cats'
A place that makes me feel happy: 'At home with my cats'
Something helpful I do to cope when times are tough: 'Hug my cats'
What have I learnt: 'I am happiest with cats'
Something that makes me feel happy: 'My cats'
A place that makes me feel happy: 'At home with my cats'
Something helpful I do to cope when times are tough: 'Hug my cats'
What have I learnt: 'I am happiest with cats'
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
10yo filled in a "mental wellbeing" questionnaire at school. A few of her answers:
Something that makes me feel happy: 'My cats'
A place that makes me feel happy: 'At home with my cats'
Something helpful I do to cope when times are tough: 'Hug my cats'
What have I learnt: 'I am happiest with cats'
Something that makes me feel happy: 'My cats'
A place that makes me feel happy: 'At home with my cats'
Something helpful I do to cope when times are tough: 'Hug my cats'
What have I learnt: 'I am happiest with cats'
Rewatching DS9 again, and I never clicked before that in Season 2 with "Armageddon Game" followed by "Whispers", we get two back-to-back "O'Brien Must Suffer" episodes.
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Rewatching DS9 again, and I never clicked before that in Season 2 with "Armageddon Game" followed by "Whispers", we get two back-to-back "O'Brien Must Suffer" episodes.
This seems to play true for pretty much all Western democracies. The centre-left & left are constantly harangued for not being perfect, while the right can smear shit on the walls and get barraged with praise for the one day they didn't do that.
nothing drives me crazier than the fact Democratic governance gets infinitely critiqued for failing to succeed well enough meanwhile Republican governance hasn't accomplished literally anything ever
DOGE should hang like a steel albatross around their necks for a century at least
DOGE should hang like a steel albatross around their necks for a century at least
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
This seems to play true for pretty much all Western democracies. The centre-left & left are constantly harangued for not being perfect, while the right can smear shit on the walls and get barraged with praise for the one day they didn't do that.
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Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.
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"Wisdom and experience can only come with AGE" say the crowd that keeps voting overwhelmingly for a demented rotting fascist.
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"Wisdom and experience can only come with AGE" say the crowd that keeps voting overwhelmingly for a demented rotting fascist.
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Just in case you were thinking,
“To hell with it. Let’s move.”
OK, maybe a temperate rainforest island in the Pacific Ocean?
This is Tofino.
In Canada.
Not too bad. Not too bad at all. Pretty good, actually.
“To hell with it. Let’s move.”
OK, maybe a temperate rainforest island in the Pacific Ocean?
This is Tofino.
In Canada.
Not too bad. Not too bad at all. Pretty good, actually.
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Just in case you were thinking,
“To hell with it. Let’s move.”
OK, maybe a temperate rainforest island in the Pacific Ocean?
This is Tofino.
In Canada.
Not too bad. Not too bad at all. Pretty good, actually.
“To hell with it. Let’s move.”
OK, maybe a temperate rainforest island in the Pacific Ocean?
This is Tofino.
In Canada.
Not too bad. Not too bad at all. Pretty good, actually.
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For a generation that has watched CEO’s outgrow the working class pay by 1200%, taxing the top 1% for the betterment of the 99% should not be controversial.
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
For a generation that has watched CEO’s outgrow the working class pay by 1200%, taxing the top 1% for the betterment of the 99% should not be controversial.
Musk's $1 trillion pay package is equivalent to 3.3% of the *entire* GDP of the US, the world's wealthiest nation by far.
In the same nation, citizens are standing in cold rain for hours at food banks and many are about to lose healthcare.
The US is a rich nation pretending to be poor.
In the same nation, citizens are standing in cold rain for hours at food banks and many are about to lose healthcare.
The US is a rich nation pretending to be poor.
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Musk's $1 trillion pay package is equivalent to 3.3% of the *entire* GDP of the US, the world's wealthiest nation by far.
In the same nation, citizens are standing in cold rain for hours at food banks and many are about to lose healthcare.
The US is a rich nation pretending to be poor.
In the same nation, citizens are standing in cold rain for hours at food banks and many are about to lose healthcare.
The US is a rich nation pretending to be poor.
As it was in his first term: favours and generosity for fellow autocrats, punishment for liberal democracies.
🇭🇺🇺🇸 Orban: Hungary has won a U.S. sanctions exemption on Russian energy.
November 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
As it was in his first term: favours and generosity for fellow autocrats, punishment for liberal democracies.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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Hey, hey, this premiered tonight on Apple TV. My husband and a whole lotta friends of mine spent the last few years making it. It’s very good. You should check it out.
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Hey, hey, this premiered tonight on Apple TV. My husband and a whole lotta friends of mine spent the last few years making it. It’s very good. You should check it out.
When you think about it, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are the stories of two men who would rather cook meth and pervert the justice system respectively, rather than go to therapy.
November 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
When you think about it, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are the stories of two men who would rather cook meth and pervert the justice system respectively, rather than go to therapy.
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Thermonuclear take of the day: let’s all have a little more compassion for war victims all over the world
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Thermonuclear take of the day: let’s all have a little more compassion for war victims all over the world
Enough pussy footing around. Seize all Russian assets, be damned with the implications. The Z Fascists brought it all on themselves the moment they decided to commit genocide against a peaceful neighbour. So screw them.
Let justice be done though the heavens fall.
Let justice be done though the heavens fall.
This is what Myrnohrad looks like now.
As of January 1, 2022, Myrnohrad had a population of over 47 thousand people. Today, the Russians have destroyed this town.
As of January 1, 2022, Myrnohrad had a population of over 47 thousand people. Today, the Russians have destroyed this town.
November 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Enough pussy footing around. Seize all Russian assets, be damned with the implications. The Z Fascists brought it all on themselves the moment they decided to commit genocide against a peaceful neighbour. So screw them.
Let justice be done though the heavens fall.
Let justice be done though the heavens fall.