If our TV networks had not been captured by the right wing, some very easy journalism would be to play this clip besides a very not on fire Portland and then tell viewers that the President of the United States is living in an alternate reality.

Fair point.

To be fair to the party leadership, they are currently to the left of Labour on most issues, but that reflects Labour’s massive rightward shift

People, generally, don’t like hearing the truth about a moribund party they’re also a member of, but I see nothing wrong with them peeling off Labour votes

They’re fbpe types, with all the negative things that entail. Not against Brexit for any principled reasons, in my estimation. Very middle England. Always considered them a nonentity when it comes to left-wing politics

My controversial take is LibDems, like most British people, are racist and anti-immigrant by default, they just don’t run on racism and anti-immigrant policy like more overt right-wing parties. I also happen to be correct

Quite a feat to go from this to "and therefore universities must ban faculty and students from belittling conservative ideas"

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Not really. They were in coalition with the Tories and originally split from Labour. They’re probably closest to a centrism of homeowners and landlords that are racist and aren’t keen on immigrants in practice, but in the normal British mode of operation, not the right-wing type that are overtly so

it's giving Germania

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

Good 🧵

Machado has embraced the United States's indiscriminate murder of Venezuelan mariners in international and Venezuelan waters in the Caribbean Sea. She thinks it will help her gain power.

This is your white "peace".

The first episode of Collateral Damage, my reported podcast with The Intercept, went up today.

Hope you’ll check it out and, if you enjoy it, give it a favorable rating or review.

Eternal thanks to my producers @lauraflynn.bsky.social and Andrew Stelzer for making it happen.

Three cheers for the inflatable frog!

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile starts... now.

Has anyone ever asked this man to explain what the is wrong with being Palestinian? Seems like a simple follow up question. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I don't even know anymore man

I would like to get to a place where consigning 14 million people to death isn’t described as “DOGE didn’t do much.”

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

I *really* want more reporting on this because the book was pretty heavily vetted by lawyers in advance of publication….

I need to take a razor blade to the first preamble. There are two preambles to the book review. There’s a coda that’s at least a third of the length of the review. Too long!

Sent a copy of the review to someone I know still in academia. No, didn’t send to LRB, but this may be the highest compliment I have ever received

invocation of the insurrection act will be the key moment for everyone. the white house, any state where it's invoked, especially the supreme court. all public officials are ultimately responsible for acting in line with the constitution. a false invocation of the insurrection act, itself a ...