Thuggery, intimidation and violent threat looks like a group norm among the protestors in this film. It looks very much like a sense of entitlement to harass, threaten and violence when they get angry at the police at the very end for impeding their harassment.

The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history.

Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...

Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...

Disgusting.

Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

🦤New Episode🦤Elon Musk has been continuing to stick his oar in and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social are back to tell you about what went down when he turned the site formerly known as Twitter into his personal plaything. Listen ⬇️
linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Have written about Starmer's speech- his best moment yet as PM. He implicitly identified what sits at the heart of this story: the emergence of a common UK/US online right, headed by the radicalised Musk.

It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.

Ballpark flat tax numbers: a fiscally neutral income tax flat tax would be about 25% - i.e. 5% increase in basic rate, 15% cut in higher rate. So the average earner would pay about £1,200 more tax/year. Someone on £100k would pay £5k less. Someone on £200k, £30k less.

I'm going to do some coverage on here of the assisted dying debate. If you're not interested please mute this thread now. It'll probably go on a while.

Tim Stanley, in what now appears to be a weekly slot on one or other BBC flagship politics programme, reels off a huge amount of absolute, provable nonsense about immigration.

And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA

A MEGA-THREAD 🧵1/