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Been an adult for 40+ years now and a left/liberal since the Republicans started trickling down on us. Have lived in NYC suburbs, Boston and now Philly (with a short stint in Las Vegas, but I'm told what happens there stays there). 2nd letter of LGBTQ.
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Keir Starmer's spokesman insisted on Monday that "clearly these changes will not be retrospective" for those already granted asylum, as Reform have been demanding.
Now we learn they will be
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Now we learn they will be
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Whenever I'm frustrated with the Democrats I take some comfort in the fact that they're not as bad as Labour (in abandoning liberal values). Not yet, anyway.
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Some people have asked what I mean when I talk about the need for anti-corruption reforms. Here are some ideas.
December 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Some people have asked what I mean when I talk about the need for anti-corruption reforms. Here are some ideas.
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I’ve had conversations with conservative intellectuals that boiled down to “don’t you think trans people are weird?” and like, no, bro, I don’t.
December 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I’ve had conversations with conservative intellectuals that boiled down to “don’t you think trans people are weird?” and like, no, bro, I don’t.
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Yes, the entire murderous campaign is premised on the GOP pretending we live in some kind of Breaking Bad Extended Universe where drug cartels are peer-state enemies with fleets, Air Forces, and maniacally dedicated soldiers who will continue “their mission” after being blown to bits in the ocean.
He might have been signaling the reverse-vampires, or the reptiloid mothership or something.
This is what republicans hope you’re stupid enough to believe.
This is what republicans hope you’re stupid enough to believe.
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Yes, the entire murderous campaign is premised on the GOP pretending we live in some kind of Breaking Bad Extended Universe where drug cartels are peer-state enemies with fleets, Air Forces, and maniacally dedicated soldiers who will continue “their mission” after being blown to bits in the ocean.
WTF does Jeffries think his job is?
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
WTF does Jeffries think his job is?
Nothing good, I'm afraid.
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Nothing good, I'm afraid.
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For instance the right has veered towards outright sociopathy because it is essentially immersed in a lynch mob 24/7, in which attention and fame are secured by endorsing ever-more-psychopathic expressions of violence towards a (largely hallucinated) class of subhuman out-group enemies
Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
For instance the right has veered towards outright sociopathy because it is essentially immersed in a lynch mob 24/7, in which attention and fame are secured by endorsing ever-more-psychopathic expressions of violence towards a (largely hallucinated) class of subhuman out-group enemies
It will never not disgust me that we Americans had a choice in 2024 of this guy or not this guy and a slim majority said, "Sure, why not?"
If this were your dad, you’d be texting the siblings: “We need to talk.”
December 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It will never not disgust me that we Americans had a choice in 2024 of this guy or not this guy and a slim majority said, "Sure, why not?"
I wish this weren't true but fear that it will be.
Something I think that is under discussed is that even if Ds pick up a trifecta w/in the party you couldn’t get agreement on blanket restoration of budget items to say 2023 levels apart from the real likelihood of lack of prosecutions there is a high chance we don’t see meaningful restoration
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I wish this weren't true but fear that it will be.
Alan Dershowitz because of course.
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Alan Dershowitz because of course.
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Debunked: Enoch Burke was jailed again, but NOT for 'refusing to endorse transgender ideology'
Misleading claims about the arrest were shared in Spanish, French, and Polish, as well as by UK and US figures.
www.thejournal.ie/enoch-burke-...
Misleading claims about the arrest were shared in Spanish, French, and Polish, as well as by UK and US figures.
www.thejournal.ie/enoch-burke-...
Debunked: Enoch Burke was jailed again, but not for 'refusing to endorse transgender ideology'
Misleading claims about the arrest were shared in Spanish, French, and Polish, as well as by UK and US figures.
www.thejournal.ie
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Debunked: Enoch Burke was jailed again, but NOT for 'refusing to endorse transgender ideology'
Misleading claims about the arrest were shared in Spanish, French, and Polish, as well as by UK and US figures.
www.thejournal.ie/enoch-burke-...
Misleading claims about the arrest were shared in Spanish, French, and Polish, as well as by UK and US figures.
www.thejournal.ie/enoch-burke-...
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In case anyone was wondering what it means for Elon Musk to own 500 billion dollars.
Just to understand the concept of a trillion.
1 million minutes ago it was October 21, 2023.
A billion minutes ago it was
114 CE.
A trillion minutes ago it was
1,900,114 BCE
1 million minutes ago it was October 21, 2023.
A billion minutes ago it was
114 CE.
A trillion minutes ago it was
1,900,114 BCE
November 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
In case anyone was wondering what it means for Elon Musk to own 500 billion dollars.
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Got to love how much praise NYT gets for one article, 2+ years late, that literally just rehashes things we all knew already but NYT has spent the last 2 years ignoring & denying & obfuscating.
The New York Times produced a detailed, data-driven report on President Trump showing signs of aging. The president, 79, responded by calling the female reporter who co-wrote the story “ugly.” https://cnn.it/48idUFL
November 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Got to love how much praise NYT gets for one article, 2+ years late, that literally just rehashes things we all knew already but NYT has spent the last 2 years ignoring & denying & obfuscating.
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
How can satire even compete?
Trump: "Instead of pardons, some of my more enthusiastic staffers were already drafting the paperwork to ship Gobble and Waddle straight to the Terrorist Confinement Center in El Salvador."
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
How can satire even compete?
Profiles in cowardice.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Profiles in cowardice.
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“Ladies, we know you aspired to full citizenship and equality in the public sphere and the home alike, but unfortunately men are feeling a little blue so it’s time for you to get back in the kitchen again.” -an article, white paper, or book that gets published like three times a week now.
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“Ladies, we know you aspired to full citizenship and equality in the public sphere and the home alike, but unfortunately men are feeling a little blue so it’s time for you to get back in the kitchen again.” -an article, white paper, or book that gets published like three times a week now.
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Setting aside this writer’s and the NYT’s agendas and motivations, what this kind of political writing does is legitimatize liars, bigots, propagandists, and authoritarians/fascists. Point blank. We are living in the result of such moral vacuousness.
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Setting aside this writer’s and the NYT’s agendas and motivations, what this kind of political writing does is legitimatize liars, bigots, propagandists, and authoritarians/fascists. Point blank. We are living in the result of such moral vacuousness.
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We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
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New rule: if you’re a Supreme Court Justice and you’re mentioned in the Epstein files, you have to recuse from any future lawsuit about the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
New rule: if you’re a Supreme Court Justice and you’re mentioned in the Epstein files, you have to recuse from any future lawsuit about the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
There's more to say on the subject and Cox says it well.
Ok, however much you've thought about this Nuzzi business, I promise I've thought about it more.
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
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Notes on Your American Canto Draft
I read it. Everyone deserves a good editor, even people who don’t get one. Olivia, Thank you so much for this. I’m impressed with the scope of your ambition...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
There's more to say on the subject and Cox says it well.
WTF?
Dept. of Ed is reclassifying all the female dominated professions (nurse, therapist, speech pathologist, PA) as not having “professional” degrees, which makes it harder for them to get educational loans.
Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power.
Take that shit to court!
Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power.
Take that shit to court!
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
WTF?
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Summers has maybe the most charmed resume in the country, has led a greater number of elite institutions than anyone else I can think of, and it's been clear the entire time that he brings no special insight, no management genius. The value he brings is his elite status itself, and nothing more.
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Summers has maybe the most charmed resume in the country, has led a greater number of elite institutions than anyone else I can think of, and it's been clear the entire time that he brings no special insight, no management genius. The value he brings is his elite status itself, and nothing more.
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Nixon was nothing compared to this "president".. I don't care about the sanitized version of this "full report", because it is not. Show us the list of video tapes that were found at the mansion, who is on it and did it show and prove blackmail was part of J.E. strategy.
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Nixon was nothing compared to this "president".. I don't care about the sanitized version of this "full report", because it is not. Show us the list of video tapes that were found at the mansion, who is on it and did it show and prove blackmail was part of J.E. strategy.
This is so crucial and for some reason so overlooked. For voters with transphobic or other bigoted views, you're not going to win them over with "a little" transphobia. They've already got a party that wholeheartedly agrees with them. Why would they turn to a candidate who gives them just a taste?
There is already a party that is giving bigots everything they want; they've got it all locked up. Anyone so devoted to their bigotries that they hold their votes contingent over it is going to vote for that party.
Differentiate to win.
Don't differentiate to lose.
This is very simple marketing.
Differentiate to win.
Don't differentiate to lose.
This is very simple marketing.
November 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
This is so crucial and for some reason so overlooked. For voters with transphobic or other bigoted views, you're not going to win them over with "a little" transphobia. They've already got a party that wholeheartedly agrees with them. Why would they turn to a candidate who gives them just a taste?
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I would put it like this. Minority communities and the majority of the majority community have integrated v.well. However, a significant minority of the majority community and a significant majority of the political class are stubbornly refusing to integrate, and that is where the real problem lies.
Fundamentally, the UK is a massive success story on integration and most of the anxiety around it from the right should be treated as in insincere concern trolling it actually is.
Remember integration? That thing voters "really, really" care about? Where's that in the latest plans?
My column:
My column:
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I would put it like this. Minority communities and the majority of the majority community have integrated v.well. However, a significant minority of the majority community and a significant majority of the political class are stubbornly refusing to integrate, and that is where the real problem lies.