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In the UK at least since the run up to Brexit, in the US maybe longer, we've just been watching the Right become progressively more and more openly wacky authoritarians and yet receive the same "maybe the left need to listen to their reasonable concerns!?" treatment from a certain kinda centrist.
January 20, 2026 at 6:52 AM
In the UK at least since the run up to Brexit, in the US maybe longer, we've just been watching the Right become progressively more and more openly wacky authoritarians and yet receive the same "maybe the left need to listen to their reasonable concerns!?" treatment from a certain kinda centrist.
Don't shoot harmless animals for materials or experience. Dunno. Seems unnecessary.
January 18, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Don't shoot harmless animals for materials or experience. Dunno. Seems unnecessary.
Someone who's very prominent in the public eye has my Twitter account in their feed. They used to follow me before they got prominent but had to unfollow in the last year because I don't really have the sort of account they'd want to be caught being formally associated with and I get that.
January 18, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Someone who's very prominent in the public eye has my Twitter account in their feed. They used to follow me before they got prominent but had to unfollow in the last year because I don't really have the sort of account they'd want to be caught being formally associated with and I get that.
a small poem for #smallpoemsunday
'timelines'
HT @[ ]
“you can’t be true
to someone else
if you’re not true
to yourself”
#touchstone #prayer
home / discover /
(me ↑ this)
'timelines'
HT @[ ]
“you can’t be true
to someone else
if you’re not true
to yourself”
#touchstone #prayer
home / discover /
(me ↑ this)
January 18, 2026 at 5:48 PM
a small poem for #smallpoemsunday
'timelines'
HT @[ ]
“you can’t be true
to someone else
if you’re not true
to yourself”
#touchstone #prayer
home / discover /
(me ↑ this)
'timelines'
HT @[ ]
“you can’t be true
to someone else
if you’re not true
to yourself”
#touchstone #prayer
home / discover /
(me ↑ this)
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But even worse is his blithe admission that a happy ending is unlikely in Iran come what may. In contrast, we know that the lives of Palestinians could be hugely improved by restraining Israel. If we can only afford a limited amount of protest, where would it best be spent?
January 17, 2026 at 11:15 AM
But even worse is his blithe admission that a happy ending is unlikely in Iran come what may. In contrast, we know that the lives of Palestinians could be hugely improved by restraining Israel. If we can only afford a limited amount of protest, where would it best be spent?
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Jonathan Freedland is obviously arguing in bad faith, not least in pretending not to understand that Brits protesting the UK govt's policy re Gaza is not equivalent to Brits having sympathy for Iranians whose oppression is not facilitated by the RAF.
January 17, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Jonathan Freedland is obviously arguing in bad faith, not least in pretending not to understand that Brits protesting the UK govt's policy re Gaza is not equivalent to Brits having sympathy for Iranians whose oppression is not facilitated by the RAF.
He's 2 years too late, of course.
Every Democratic lawmaker needs to speak out strongly against #ICELawlessness & brutality like Governor Walz does here.
The time for mealy-mouthed timidness & focus group-talking points is over.
We're facing a deadly serious threat to our national security.
We need brave leaders, not cowards!
The time for mealy-mouthed timidness & focus group-talking points is over.
We're facing a deadly serious threat to our national security.
We need brave leaders, not cowards!
January 16, 2026 at 7:21 PM
He's 2 years too late, of course.
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Checking in on CBS News(max)
January 14, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Checking in on CBS News(max)
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I would ask: is this organic reporting that the paper has done of its own back or is it again a dossier of wild claims based on printouts of Facebook comments that Steve Reed and co have dredged together, then handed to a Times hack in the pub with a fist bump, like it was in 2019.
We appear to be giving the full media monstering treatment to individual members of the public who decline a visit from a Labour MP, at this point www.thetimes.com/article/cec9...
Diversity leader at school that blocked Jewish MP praised Hamas
Damien Egan, vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel, was due to visit to Bristol Brunel Academy, where Saima Akhtar also sits on the board
www.thetimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:02 AM
I would ask: is this organic reporting that the paper has done of its own back or is it again a dossier of wild claims based on printouts of Facebook comments that Steve Reed and co have dredged together, then handed to a Times hack in the pub with a fist bump, like it was in 2019.
And you can make all the shallow excuses you want, but she threw the election. Her internal polling showed her losing *if she stuck to her "eat shit" strategy*. And that's the strategy she stuck with.
If only Kamala hadn't thrown that easily winnable election then, huh.
January 14, 2026 at 9:22 PM
And you can make all the shallow excuses you want, but she threw the election. Her internal polling showed her losing *if she stuck to her "eat shit" strategy*. And that's the strategy she stuck with.
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To the liberals holding amerikkkan flags at protests saying, this is not the Amerikkka they know, I ask what fuking Amerikkka they been living in?
January 14, 2026 at 4:28 AM
To the liberals holding amerikkkan flags at protests saying, this is not the Amerikkka they know, I ask what fuking Amerikkka they been living in?
Facebook's Help & Support is the definition of Kafkaesque. The enshittification of their "services" seems to have gone so far that we're in some sort of alternate reality.
January 14, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Facebook's Help & Support is the definition of Kafkaesque. The enshittification of their "services" seems to have gone so far that we're in some sort of alternate reality.
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Wow, perhaps we need to convene a parliamentary committee, ask urgent questions in the House and launch an all-channels two-month media campaign
January 14, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Wow, perhaps we need to convene a parliamentary committee, ask urgent questions in the House and launch an all-channels two-month media campaign
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In normal cases, a police officer could beat someone to death on live TV, and politicians will be queuing round the block to say they have full confidence not only in the police, but in that particular officer
January 14, 2026 at 11:15 AM
In normal cases, a police officer could beat someone to death on live TV, and politicians will be queuing round the block to say they have full confidence not only in the police, but in that particular officer
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I wonder how much of this is to do with the fact they got massively blindsided by the reaction to the decision, and put any old shit into the report in a blind panic
January 14, 2026 at 11:12 AM
I wonder how much of this is to do with the fact they got massively blindsided by the reaction to the decision, and put any old shit into the report in a blind panic
I honestly think the #VAR officials are deliberately fucking it up because they hate VAR and the way it removes so much (profitable) subjectivity from their powers, and they want to discredit it.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
VAR errors increase - every mistake so far in 2025-26 Premier League
The Premier League's KMI Panel makes judgements on every key decisions. Here's what they say the VAR has got wrong.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 9:33 PM
The objectively correct take.
Fuck Joe Biden
Fuck Merrick Garland
I will never forgive these men
Fuck Merrick Garland
I will never forgive these men
January 13, 2026 at 9:26 PM
The objectively correct take.
Wow they're really going there.
Israelis demonised as a ‘vehicle for hatred of Jews’, says UK terror laws watchdog
Israelis demonised as a ‘vehicle for hatred of Jews’, says UK terror laws watchdog
Jonathan Hall calls for police forces to clamp down on racial hatred based on nationality
Israelis are being demonised as a “vehicle for hatred of Jews”, the UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has said.
Jonathan Hall said police forces should be held responsible for failing to clamp down on the targeting of “Israeli citizens as well as Jews living among them”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Wow they're really going there.
The time to abolish it was 5 years ago.
It’s time to abolish it
January 13, 2026 at 9:09 PM
The time to abolish it was 5 years ago.
This, but like 20 years ago.
ANY SITTING DEMOCRAT WHO VOTES FOR ANY TRUMP NOMINEE NEEDS TO BE PRIMARIED.
cc @amyklobuchar.com
STOP VOTING FOR trump judiciary nominees.
cc @amyklobuchar.com
STOP VOTING FOR trump judiciary nominees.
January 13, 2026 at 8:56 PM
This, but like 20 years ago.
Neoliberals will smugly churn out this insultingly dishonest bullshit for decades, then act shocked when it results in a general population psychologically conditioned to fall for equally insulting far-right lies.
January 13, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Neoliberals will smugly churn out this insultingly dishonest bullshit for decades, then act shocked when it results in a general population psychologically conditioned to fall for equally insulting far-right lies.
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Once upon a time, when I was a teenager, Scott Adams wrote a comic strip that made me laugh and think. That was a very long time ago, and in the years since, he became exactly the kind of craven, hypocritical, logically dubious, and evil person he used to mock in his strip.
We owe him nothing.
We owe him nothing.
January 13, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Once upon a time, when I was a teenager, Scott Adams wrote a comic strip that made me laugh and think. That was a very long time ago, and in the years since, he became exactly the kind of craven, hypocritical, logically dubious, and evil person he used to mock in his strip.
We owe him nothing.
We owe him nothing.
I honestly think the #VAR officials are deliberately fucking it up because they hate VAR and the way it removes so much (profitable) subjectivity from their powers, and they want to discredit it.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
VAR errors increase - every mistake so far in 2025-26 Premier League
The Premier League's KMI Panel makes judgements on every key decisions. Here's what they say the VAR has got wrong.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 7:20 AM
I honestly think the #VAR officials are deliberately fucking it up because they hate VAR and the way it removes so much (profitable) subjectivity from their powers, and they want to discredit it.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Wait you're telling me Harris knew Trump would do this and she STILL threw the fucking election?
Jfc
Jfc
January 12, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Wait you're telling me Harris knew Trump would do this and she STILL threw the fucking election?
Jfc
Jfc
The issue with this would be that Trump might see it as a deal he can accept.
An Austrian NATO official sent a blunt warning to Washington: Touch Greenland & Europe seizes US bases.
Gunther Fehlinger says if the US annexes Greenland, every American base in Europe—from Germany to Italy to Romania—would be confiscated, ending decades of U.S. military power on the continent.
Gunther Fehlinger says if the US annexes Greenland, every American base in Europe—from Germany to Italy to Romania—would be confiscated, ending decades of U.S. military power on the continent.
January 12, 2026 at 10:25 PM
The issue with this would be that Trump might see it as a deal he can accept.