“The Mar-a-Lago Mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights.” (Ossoff)
‘Hakeem Jeffries said: “Kash Patel is deeply unqualified, deeply unserious, and his behavior is deeply un-American.“‘
Responsible leaders must be honest with their societies.
Russia is already waging a war against Europe by systematically targeting civilian environment - the systems that enable everyday life. These attacks take concrete forms:⤵️
“reopen the strait and back away from its nuclear program.“
“President Barack Obama’s team, along with China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United Kingdom had achieved both of those goals with the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) Trump tore up in 2018.”
From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists
Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right
Well worth a read
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
So sad.
Most of the media reflects neither reality nor public opinion. It reflects the views and demands of those who own it: the Oligarch Class. They employ editors and journalists to channel their demands and sell their fictions. Hence the endless attacks on net zero.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.
“For every dollar of billionaire money that went to Democrats, they wrote, five dollars went to Republicans.”
“all these issues are so deeply connected to a small group of billionaires and mega corporations protecting themselves from the law and trying to make as much money and consolidate power. Thats what the whole damn thing is about, from the Epstein Files to the Big Beautiful Bill” Rep Frost
"I have been in a lot of briefings w/govt officials & other experts ... over the last 9 days. It's as if we have learned absolutely nothing.
We have to make the right policy choice, pressure the Trump Admin to find an off-ramp & get us out of this war."
- HASC Ranking Member @adamsmith.house.gov
This is horrific.
“Examples of Gemini in particular prompting self-harm have also surfaced, including one incident where the chatbot told a college student: “You are a stain on the universe. Please die.””
It upsets me so much that people with years and years of training in international studies and experience of diplomacy are over-ridden by tv presenters with neither.
Latest substack on Iran by @snellarthur.bsky.social is a must read
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Now, imho, the best and most important journalism source in the UK - and have often provided critical reports months or even years before anyone else picked that it really, really matters
‘Byline Times Substack’ open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...
Adoration in the eyes of a cult member (photo of Pam Bondi)
How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail I would rather eat Quavers that are six weeks stale, blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale, listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail, than read one page of the Daily Mail. If I was bored in a waiting room in Perivale, on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail, halfway through a circumnavigational sail, I would not read the Daily Mail. I would happily read the autobiography of Dan Quayle, 1001 Things You Can Do With Kale, selected scripts from Emmerdale, if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail. Far better to stand outside in a storm of hail, scratch a blackboard with a fingernail, be swallowed by a humpback whale, than have to read the Daily Mail. If I was blind and it was the only thing in Braille, I still would not read the Daily Mail. Brian Bilston
Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.
This conversation is really informative. Too many good things said to quote.
Main takeaway - inhumane. Please let’s not follow suit here in the Uk.
Almost satirical but actually probably not.
Cabinet Apocalypse (by Timothy Snyder)
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Please, someone, get these people out of these camps
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
"trump shown no respect for the principles upon which this country is based. His actions have done tremendous harm to Americans,” Senator Angus King (I-ME) said in a statement.To do so would require me to ignore all that has gone before and to pay him a measure of respect which he has not earned.”
Just a snippet:-
”Misogyny flowed around this island chain
Of Russia, Tech and Trump —
Misogyny Was the core thing that they had in common
Beyond their obvious arrogance and swag.”
‘Trump vowed he would cut “waste, fraud, and abuse” but cuts overwhelmed by spending on federal arrest, detention, and deportation programs, military strikes and threats against other countries - at least 658 air and drone strikes against Iraq, Somalia, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Nigeria, and Venezuela.’
Undocumented immigrants don’t vote
Trump was not “exonerated” re: Epstein
The board of peace is a huge grift
The Melania movie was a bribe
You pay the tariffs
The boat bombings are murder
The ceasefire is not a ceasefire
Ice is not targeting criminals
And on and on
Mind blowing
’As Washington predicted, the presidents Americans revere despite their faults—Washington, Lincoln, Theo Roosevelt, FD Roosevelt—are those who used the enormous power of the U.S. gov’t not for their own aggrandizement but to secure and expand the rights and the prosperity of the American people.’
Wow.
Extraordinary. My impression is that this is not where the sympathies of the majority of Americans lie.
Measles today, Tuberculosis tomorrow.
“MAHA leadership criticizes the pharmaceutical industry’s profit motives in order to promote the wellness industry, which of course also operates according to the profit motive.” Sara Silverstein
