I'm not sure the average American is prepared for their cultural diet being dictated by the Trump politburo.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

British decline in one story.

Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.

Gov. Tim Walz: "Minnesota Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were shot and killed early this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination. Our state lost a great leader and I lost the dearest of friends...We must all stand against political violence."

the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

deploying the national guard without support of local law enforcement and when your boys already got trapped in a home depot parking lot by a couple hundred people with fireworks.

oh also its an area of millions of people and wildly spread out.

A brilliant decision by Miller et al, just strategery

Younger Americans Are Increasingly Unlikely To Say Holocaust Denial Is Anti-Semitic Recent polling highlights the worrying trend as memories of the genocide slowly fade from the collective consciousness

The share of Americans who consider Holocaust denialism to be anti-semitic is declining with age in a worrying trend

usapolling.substack.com/p/younger-am...

If the Starmer government doesn't understand that grovelling towards Trump will just make the UK look ridiculous towards the EU and China without any gains with the US then Labour is going to lose the respect of Right as well as Left wing UK voters too

Ahead of its time

Watch the Russians and their allies in the Trump administration suddenly decide elections this year in Ukraine are not actually a good thing as they realise that any election where Ukrainians still feel under threat returns Zelensky to power with a massive majority

Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.

BREAKING: Trump halts military aid to Ukraine, media reports U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a suspension of all military aid to Ukraine on March 3, escalating pressure on President Volodymyr Zelensky.

⚡️BREAKING: Trump halts military aid to Ukraine, media reports.

U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered a suspension of all military aid to Ukraine, escalating pressure on President Volodymyr Zelensky mere days after a heated exchange in the Oval Office cast doubt on U.S. support for Kyiv.

Bets on when Braverman is going to propose deporting herself?

Just embarrassing. This is precisely what Montgomerie signed up to. Nobody has changed their position in any way.

A Trump shill on Newsnight claims there are more people in prison in UK jails for freedom of speech violations than in Putin’s Russia.

These people are radicalised, insane, plain stupid or some combination of all three.

fuckin coward

This one is for all of those who said there was no point in Labour trying to deepen EU ties with the red lines in place. Economically, there's a lot to gain from regulatory alignment.

Why? Because that gives companies the predictably to invest in the UK.

LIVE: Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts | REUTERS YouTube video by Reuters

LIVE: Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts

Kilauea volcano spews lava in Hawaii.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZwD...

One reason that there is a legislative process for appropriating money is so that uninformed liars can't submarine programs on a whim.

Don't be Canada, Mexico or China was the main advice on dealing with Trump on trade. As predicted they are first in line to be hit.

Don't do a deal with Trump is next. He doesn't respect his own deals. That he signed with all three.

We are in the midst of an authoritarian takeover and it is unfolding at a very rapid pace.

Well that didn’t take long

10% of people evidently

Tried using DeepSeek and it's hilarious.

Gen Z doubts about democracy laid bare in ‘worrying’ survey More than half believe the UK should be a dictatorship and there’s a stark gender divide over equality, research for Channel 4 shows

I think we should take this story from the Times today (and picked up by many other outlets) with an enormous pinch of salt for two reason (mini thread):

www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...

Trump Disbands Cybersecurity Board Investigating Massive Chinese Phone System Hack For all the hype and warnings about how TikTok is clearly a “national security threat” from China, the Trump administration has effectively kneecapped the investigation into one of the most serious…

So, TikTok is supposedly a national security threat from China, but it seems odd that there's been almost no mainstream press coverage of Trump dismantling the board investigating the Salt Typhoon hack which is an ACTUAL PROVEN hack from China & incredibly damaging. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/23/t...

My morning has been pemmed.

Which is fine, I've advocated for the UK joining, talked to relevant folk in the EU, heard businesses who it could help, etc.

Problem is - this should be completely obvious. Every country in the region is a member. Why is it so hard for the UK?

Searching #liberal or #democrat on Instagram now returns "We've hidden these results", #Republican has no such problem. Seems bad.

Looking forward to the right-wing media spending the next 24 hours explaining how an obvious Nazi salute really wasn't a Nazi salute, you stupid libs.

Very important for everyone in the British politics to understand what we are dealing with here, and the stakes involved. Not politics as normal.