Joel
@snufkinlib.bsky.social
Cosmopolitan, liberal | Catholic | 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇮🇪🇬🇧🇦🇹🔶 | Mark 8:36 | he/him
The views I express here are mine alone and do not necessarily express the views of my employer
The views I express here are mine alone and do not necessarily express the views of my employer
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Joel
@snufkinlib.bsky.social
· Jun 9
Immigration is the central issue of our century and progressives must defend it or lose absolutely everything to fascism
I used to think about this, but if you can shift your mind a little, you’ll realize there are streets ten minutes from your house you’ve never seen
I still like having places that aren’t well known, and I’m worried that the Internet is paving that prospect pretty flat, and that the omni-gaze of Phone and Prestige-Seeking is going to put everything into a search for a vacation plan.
February 4, 2026 at 6:01 PM
I used to think about this, but if you can shift your mind a little, you’ll realize there are streets ten minutes from your house you’ve never seen
Getting home after a long day of work and immediately putting on BBC Parliament
February 4, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Getting home after a long day of work and immediately putting on BBC Parliament
Rough theory that there’s some document going “well, the President was friends with him to” that they’re desperately trying not to release
February 4, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Rough theory that there’s some document going “well, the President was friends with him to” that they’re desperately trying not to release
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I realize they were operating in plain sight, but having merch is a little much.
"My Jeffrey Epstein-branded sweatshirt has people asking a lot of questions which, now I come to think of it, are entirely reasonable."
February 4, 2026 at 2:05 PM
I realize they were operating in plain sight, but having merch is a little much.
Keir Starmer explaining to Donald Trump why he had to resign: uuuuuh
no reason
no reason
February 4, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Keir Starmer explaining to Donald Trump why he had to resign: uuuuuh
no reason
no reason
Elgot has been a national reporter since 2015, very high bar for how angry she’s seen Labour benches
I have never seen anger like this on the Labour benches in private and in public. This is the kind of territory where things can move very fast.
February 4, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Elgot has been a national reporter since 2015, very high bar for how angry she’s seen Labour benches
Enough is enough, time for him to go
Starmer forced to admit he knew of Mandelson's continued relationship with Epstein after the first convicton when he appointed him ambassador. Eek this is a shocker.
Badenoch has nailed him on this.
Badenoch has nailed him on this.
February 4, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Enough is enough, time for him to go
I would never have appointed Mandelson had I known full Epstein links - PM
I would never have appointed Mandelson had I known full Epstein links - PM
The PM says a due diligence process was gone through before Lord Mandelson was appointed US ambassador.
www.bbc.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:51 AM
This is worse than Chris Pincher
no hiding for the PM really, is there
February 4, 2026 at 11:49 AM
This is worse than Chris Pincher
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This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..
One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
February 4, 2026 at 11:13 AM
This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..
Aneurin Bevan shouting down from Heaven watching Herbert Morrison’s grandson crash a Labour government
February 4, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Aneurin Bevan shouting down from Heaven watching Herbert Morrison’s grandson crash a Labour government
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Dragging him slowly, slowly towards barely enough. But he is moving.
Federal agents tear-gassed demonstrators and children in Portland.
An agent in Colorado stole a woman’s phone and threw her to the ground.
The disgraced former head of Border Patrol urged mass arrests.
This isn't what Americans signed up for. We must rein in ICE.
An agent in Colorado stole a woman’s phone and threw her to the ground.
The disgraced former head of Border Patrol urged mass arrests.
This isn't what Americans signed up for. We must rein in ICE.
February 4, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Dragging him slowly, slowly towards barely enough. But he is moving.
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Every once in awhile a Republican tears their skin mask off to reveal they are actually alien beings
February 3, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Every once in awhile a Republican tears their skin mask off to reveal they are actually alien beings
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Remembering a Northern Line train driver coming on the tannoy to announce she would like to get off the train, go home, and let a passenger drive it. Sometimes people crack
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 3, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Remembering a Northern Line train driver coming on the tannoy to announce she would like to get off the train, go home, and let a passenger drive it. Sometimes people crack
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mr mandelson we find you guilty of everything. your punishment is to have gordon brown hit you with staplers for eternity
February 3, 2026 at 6:10 PM
mr mandelson we find you guilty of everything. your punishment is to have gordon brown hit you with staplers for eternity
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Just occurred to me that there is a timeline where Gordon Brown is currently the elected ceremonial Head of State of an independent Scottish Republic and is pacing furiously around Holyrood Palace muttering about Mandelson before the English Ambassador.
Hear me out: can we have Gordon back
Gordon Brown writes to Met to back case for investigation into Mandelson's 'inexcusable and unpatriotic' leaking - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
February 3, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Just occurred to me that there is a timeline where Gordon Brown is currently the elected ceremonial Head of State of an independent Scottish Republic and is pacing furiously around Holyrood Palace muttering about Mandelson before the English Ambassador.
The year is 2034. Peter Mandelson is forced to resign in disgrace from PM Goodwin’s Committee on the Migrant Question
February 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM
The year is 2034. Peter Mandelson is forced to resign in disgrace from PM Goodwin’s Committee on the Migrant Question
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‘I’m A Beshear-Era Democrat,’ Says Delightful Man 25 Years From Now
June 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
‘I’m A Beshear-Era Democrat,’ Says Delightful Man 25 Years From Now
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Watched A Man for All Seasons onstage tonight and it really hits different in a time where the US President is daily demanding oaths of allegiance on pain of his displeasure
August 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Watched A Man for All Seasons onstage tonight and it really hits different in a time where the US President is daily demanding oaths of allegiance on pain of his displeasure
Need this
As the old sing, so the young pipe: bad habits passed from generation to generation in the uproar of a Jan Steen household, 1665. Today is Steen's day.
February 3, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Need this