Matt Aslett
@maslett.bsky.social
Director of research covering analytics, data and AI.
The second edition of "The System - a Truth Wars Novel" is now available around the world as a free ebook: https://books2read.com/u/3nAkzK
The second edition of "The System - a Truth Wars Novel" is now available around the world as a free ebook: https://books2read.com/u/3nAkzK
Get in the fucking sea…
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Get in the fucking sea…
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/8 There is no remotely plausible argument that it’s treason or sedition to point out that the military need not follow illegal orders. It is unquestionably protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
/8 There is no remotely plausible argument that it’s treason or sedition to point out that the military need not follow illegal orders. It is unquestionably protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
I mean… fucking hell
November 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I mean… fucking hell
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Yawns are weird. You're tired? Why don't you open your mouth really big about it? What's that? You're not tired, but you saw someone else open their mouth big? Well, guess what.
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Yawns are weird. You're tired? Why don't you open your mouth really big about it? What's that? You're not tired, but you saw someone else open their mouth big? Well, guess what.
Hang on, so the dossier that described editing and splicing together of quotes from Trump's speech as completely misleading compared the Panorama doc quotes with quotes from Trump's speech that were edited and spliced together to make them more innocuous...
Left: Donald Trump’s Jan 6th quote, as presented in the dossier that brought down two BBC bosses
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Hang on, so the dossier that described editing and splicing together of quotes from Trump's speech as completely misleading compared the Panorama doc quotes with quotes from Trump's speech that were edited and spliced together to make them more innocuous...
So fucking tired of seeing scumbags like this trying to normalize blatant racism. Get in the fucking sea...
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
So fucking tired of seeing scumbags like this trying to normalize blatant racism. Get in the fucking sea...
The separation of powers, like the constitution, is just a concept that exists in our shared imagination. What Vought et al are demonstrating is that the only thing required to destroy that concept is enough people with enough power to choose to wilfully ignore it
vought justifies all of this as a vision of "separation of powers" — an idea that i'm more and more convinced doesn't actually exist, at least not in any strong form, in the constitution — but the thing that comes across is his basic contempt for representative government
October 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The separation of powers, like the constitution, is just a concept that exists in our shared imagination. What Vought et al are demonstrating is that the only thing required to destroy that concept is enough people with enough power to choose to wilfully ignore it
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I had seen the headline and assumed it was satire but had forgotten it had been murdered
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize
US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I had seen the headline and assumed it was satire but had forgotten it had been murdered
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
This, still…
Wild that Trump is openly assembling a miltary disctatorship to unleash "overwhelming and punishing violence" on the "enemy from within" with "no rules of engagement" and most people seem to be just, like
The Sopranos Tony Soprano GIF
Alt: The Sopranos Tony Soprano sayig "what are you gonna do?"
media.tenor.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This, still…
Wild that Trump is openly assembling a miltary disctatorship to unleash "overwhelming and punishing violence" on the "enemy from within" with "no rules of engagement" and most people seem to be just, like
The Sopranos Tony Soprano GIF
Alt: The Sopranos Tony Soprano sayig "what are you gonna do?"
media.tenor.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Wild that Trump is openly assembling a miltary disctatorship to unleash "overwhelming and punishing violence" on the "enemy from within" with "no rules of engagement" and most people seem to be just, like
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I get the rapture jokes and I’m enjoying them as much as the next guy and also I hope everyone is keeping in the back of their minds the fact that these folks are literally praying that all the Jews in the entire world drop dead tonight so they can climb over our dead bodies to reach heaven
September 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I get the rapture jokes and I’m enjoying them as much as the next guy and also I hope everyone is keeping in the back of their minds the fact that these folks are literally praying that all the Jews in the entire world drop dead tonight so they can climb over our dead bodies to reach heaven
These people have demonstrated again and again that they are at war with reality and have absolutely no shame. To rephrase Shannon L. Alder, it's "like trying to play chess with a pigeon.
No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway.”
No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway.”
The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.
"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"
September 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
These people have demonstrated again and again that they are at war with reality and have absolutely no shame. To rephrase Shannon L. Alder, it's "like trying to play chess with a pigeon.
No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway.”
No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway.”
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Liberals have this mental model they keep trying to update where they try to fit the words and actions of right wingers into a consistent moral framework while in reality what the right believes is "I should get everything I want" and "I can say or do anything to get that"
September 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Liberals have this mental model they keep trying to update where they try to fit the words and actions of right wingers into a consistent moral framework while in reality what the right believes is "I should get everything I want" and "I can say or do anything to get that"
Michael Fabricant's hair defects to Reform UK
Another ex-Tory heads to Reform, and another likely suspect.
This will ultimately bite Farage in the arse. Half Reform supporters loathe the Tories. And these Conservative ex-ministers have massive egos and will soon be plotting to take over.
This will ultimately bite Farage in the arse. Half Reform supporters loathe the Tories. And these Conservative ex-ministers have massive egos and will soon be plotting to take over.
Maria Caulfield, former Tory health minister, defects to Reform — UK politics live
Caulfield says ‘the future is Reform’ as second Conservative MP in a week leaves for Nigel Farage’s party
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Michael Fabricant's hair defects to Reform UK
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Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday.
I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.
Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.
Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
September 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday.
I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.
Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.
Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
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The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
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If Mr. Johnson knows the assassin's identity and what their motivation was, then maybe he should contact the FBI.
If he doesn't, then perhaps he should shut up rather than stirring up fear and loathing.
Grossly irresponsible
If he doesn't, then perhaps he should shut up rather than stirring up fear and loathing.
Grossly irresponsible
September 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
If Mr. Johnson knows the assassin's identity and what their motivation was, then maybe he should contact the FBI.
If he doesn't, then perhaps he should shut up rather than stirring up fear and loathing.
Grossly irresponsible
If he doesn't, then perhaps he should shut up rather than stirring up fear and loathing.
Grossly irresponsible
This is not only an insult to disabled children but to the parents of diabled children who are forced to spend months on end banging their heads against multiple brick walls, just to get the services to which they are legally entitled. Tice can go fuck himself.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Send system 'hijacked' by parents, Reform UK's Richard Tice says
The Reform UK deputy leader says some children are receiving Send provision who do not need it.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
This is not only an insult to disabled children but to the parents of diabled children who are forced to spend months on end banging their heads against multiple brick walls, just to get the services to which they are legally entitled. Tice can go fuck himself.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Burying the lede…
Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out:
"Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."
"Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."
Trump Administration Says Boat Strike Is Start of Campaign Against Venezuelan Cartels
www.nytimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Burying the lede…