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Steven Swinford • @Steven_..30m If you want to get an idea of how much peril Keir Starmer is in this weekend, his allies are once again issuing stark warnings to his rivals about the risk of changing leaders at a time of economic and geopolitical instability Liz Kendall tells @TrevorPTweets: 'Keir Starmer is my favourite to be the prime minister to take us into the next election 'Let me tell you right now that with the cost of living crisis people are facing and with the world so uncertain - that's deeply frightening to people - any politician that focuses more on their future and their job, not only people's futures and their jobs, will lose the public support' • 20 {7
You can’t fire the Prime Minister over this ludicrous corruption scandal, while he’s so busy trying to prevent the country from sinking because of our criminal foreign policy fuckups. Why, our decades of looting the public realm have made us acutely vulnerable to crises!
This paper, more than any other, colluded with Peter and his friends on the secret wrecking campaign, on Sir Keir’s leadership campaign and on the purge of Labour. They want you to know that you’re upset about the Mandelson corruption scandal because you’re childish, stupid and self-indulgent.
Right?? Imagine setting a movie in 2015 and including flying cars! Technology consultants are pretty cheap, it's just lazy cost cutting IMO.
Andrew Gebo @Gebo_ She's been an American citizen longer than the First Lady. LeftyCrypto This is not an American @LeftyCrypto
'I feel profoundly let down.' Is Starmer's government mimicking the Tories and their '14 years of corruption and dishonesty'? James O'Brien says he was 'perhaps naive' to think it would be any different.
It’s not like nobody told James they were like this: he was told over and over what it was he was buying and how these people behave. The problem was, he was told it by people he regards as intellectually, morally and socially inferior to him, so he could not hear any of it.
The facts speak for themselves. The people have spoken. Or, really, roared :)
Movie!Tony Stark
And doesn't it feel a bit early and a lot desperate?
EXACTLY
It was the decade of my childhood, and I can with some confidence and no little venom say, taken on aggregate, fuck the 80s, it was a dreadful decade.
I was shocked how many people of a similar age were shocked by what genuinely felt to me to be a fairly obvious position.
People are weird.
As a fellow late Xer, I remember a few years back (following a light-hearted piece I'd written positing that The Lost Boys was, in fact, a bad movie) learning with dismay just how positively fetishised 'the 80s' had become amongst my peers.
The effective federal corporate income tax rate:
1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%
Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.
That is how we will pay for it.
Best case scenario. Today.
For REAL. I fear being in that kind of shape is likely beyond me at any age, but it's a definite spur to what's achievable. Legendary.
Brendan O'Neill It's so obvious Polanski's Leftist love-in will end in tears Dancing Greens at the Together Alliance march showed a glimpse of the fraying of the Islamo-Left coalition
Me: (smart, looking at glaring evidence that my analysis is comically wrong) Do you see how stupid these people are
Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men on earth, is raising $100 billion to replace workers with robots around the world.
The oligarchs want it all. Not going to happen.
Stand up and FIGHT BACK.
The “writing is thinking” posting will continue until a single freaking person in Silicon Valley has figured this out
Yeah, what we actually need is some kind of digital watermarks for AI output, IMO. Hopefully someone is campaigning for that
I won't be using the scheme, because it's meaningless, and will also mark my work out as high priority for AI companies to target (since they don't want to feed their own slop to their planet-killing plagiarism machines).
I'll never use generative AI for writing. That's my promise.
The New Statesman 2 @NewSt... 3h X THE GREAT BRITISH CRISIS by John Bew We are in the midst of the Fourth Great Disruption of the modern British state. Our politics, across every part of the political spectrum, is lagging perilously behind the realities we face. The fidelity of our political and official classes to the current order comes from an assumption, deeply ingrained in the generation who are coming close to retirement, that liberal or social-market economies were the only possible future and that the rest of the world was destined to become more like us. It is partly why austerity - like appeasement - had far more political support than we care to remember. It is why we spent 0.7 per cent of GDP on development assistance at the start of the last decade and barely 2 per cent on defence. It is why, after 1989, we added even more international and human rights law on top of the international legal order crafted out of 1945. It is why Brexit was such a psychological shock to this world-view. It is why we sometimes look like the last man at the bar at Davos, nursing a cocktail as the lights go off and facing a treacherous and icy route to an unclear destination. So as one world collapses around us, what is the shape of things to come? Here are some hard truths. The current social contract - particularly around welfare, health and pensions - is unsustainable on current + of growth. A domestic and internationa system that does not allow us to control our borders has lost legitimacy at home. We have
Okay, so the Thatcherite consensus went kaboom in 2008; we somehow managed to prop it up and keep staggering on with a desperate last ditch effort until 2024, and now it’s collapsing entirely, at the same time as the Pax Americana. I don’t think we can blame this on human rights or international aid
FWIW I'd love your perspective, and I'm sure a lot of other people would too. You're an exceptional critic and don't give yourself enough credit
Roses are red
Candy's there to be devoured
Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk’s X – Europe live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
VIVA LA FRANCE!
Please join @kitgonzo.bsky.social, @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social and myself at chapel as we discuss Sons of Anarchy, series 5.
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Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
Welcome to hell.
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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Alex Jeffrey Pretti was our union brother, dedicated to helping those who served our nation as an AFGE member and ICU nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital. On Saturday, he was doing exactly that: helping others, including a woman who was pepper sprayed. Alex was legally carrying a concealed weapon - as was his Second Amendment right - before he was tackled, disarmed, and shot in the back by federal agents who swore an oath to protect their communities. This state-sponsored murder has no place in our society. The labor movement was founded on the very idea of standing together in solidarity with our brothers and sisters to fight for a better future for all workers, and that includes our First Amendment right to peacefully organize and protest. Alex Jeffrey Pretti embodied what it means to be a union member and an American, from his dedication to serving others as an ICU nurse to his commitment to standing up for his community in Minneapolis. The federal government must listen to its citizens and stop the violence and chaos in our cities. The thoughts and prayers of our entire union are with Alex, his family, his union brothers and sisters, and the people of Minneapolis. Mark McManus General President, United Association
Statement from United
Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters (UA) General
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