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Shitting on Britain is patriotism now
The Telegraph Tim Stanley Trump controls the world, and Britain ought to let him have it We gain nothing by pretending we're still a world power while our nation rots from the inside
January 18, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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i ain't reading all that i'm happy for u tho or sorry that happened
January 16, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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More royal court nosegay twiddling. “Analysis”
NYT article: “NEWS ANALYSIS In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions President Trump's statements on social media less than 24 hours apart showed the dissonance in his campaign against drug trafficking.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Bold, for someone who maps to Homer Simpson with 99.9999% accuracy
Trump
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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This reminds of a business conference sign a friend forwarded me recently:
A sign saying “Executing Strategy for Saudi Leaders”
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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This, however, seems to be the key chart.
Bank of England chart showing cashflow from QE/QT
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Maybe even he hates these people
Trump, apparently wincing through excruciating pain Trump, apparently wincing through excruciating pain
November 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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“has faced pushback over a story” =
A nothingburger
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Market risk:
The Spice Adams yellow suit meme
October 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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And wtf is this
A close up of what appears to be the handle of a large knife in the belt of Trump’s goon tzar
October 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Savaya seems about par for the course
Descriptions on reddit of M Savaya’s bad weed business
October 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
“The demonstration ended outside the central library where it joined another group of Palestine activists who were reading the names of all the people killed in the past two years in Gaza. The reading, which was done in order of the ages of the deceased from youngest to oldest, began at 7am and, by the time the march reached it at around 13:45, still had notfinished the names of toddlers.”
October 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Just look at these complete dorks
Melania and Donald Trump, grinning weirdly and looking weird
September 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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What a shitshow
Article: When asked to explain why the firm had expanded its caseload so dramatically and how it was possible to provide adequate legal representation for thousands of asylum seekers with just five immigration solicitors and a mix of 15 junior and more senior caseworkers, he said: "No solicitor was here during the expansion phase. It is difficult for me to explain how the firm suddenly grew so large in such a short space of time. I do not know."
September 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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On Blinken, who manipulated State reporting on Israel blocking aid to Gaza to dodge legal requirements to stop arming them:
NYI: “But several weeks before the report was set to be released, State Department brass locked Gilbert and her collaborators out of the draft. When she read the final version, she was shocked: It effectively absolved Israel. "I wasn't sure I read it correctly," she says. "I walked my dog around the block, came back, and read it again. Then I sent the email that I would resign." The same day, Blinken repeated the findings of the edited report to Congress. (Compared with officials who have at least expressed belated concern, Blinken, Gilbert says, is in a "different circle of hell.")”
September 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Womp womp
Sky News, January 13: “UK to 'mainline Al in the veins' under new plans from Sir Keir Starmer”
September 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Risk takers
Peter Mandleson with Jeffrey Epstein
September 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Nice
Lush UK website closed, reads “stop starving Gaza” with company announcing a one-day business shutdown
September 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Steve Coogan in The Day Today’s “The Pool” sketch
September 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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An enjoyable, and not too subtle, dig at the NY Times in Krugman’s latest:
And let me say that I don't think Trump's vulgarity is irrelevant to understanding what he's doing to America and the world. One of the best explanations I've read of who Trump is, and implicit predictions of what he would do, was a 2017 discussion of his design tastes titled "Dictator Chic." Trump's New York apartment, wrote Peter York, projects a kind of power that bypasses all the boring checks and balances of collaboration and mutual responsibility and first-among-equals. It is about a single dominant personality. Remember, this was written in 2017, yet it was a better prediction of Trump's current behavior than almost any judicious-sounding "news analysis."
August 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Holy shit - they did it
NYT: “The news that an adviser to Mr. Adams, Winnie Greco, had attempted to pay a reporter from an online news outlet, The City, stood out as a bold departure from political norms.”
August 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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In all God’s creation, is there a big enough hot dog costume for Jake Sullivan, Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order at the Harvard Kennedy School
Jake Sullivan: “"Israel's leaders are pursuing an open-ended military campaign that is returning negligible, essentially imperceptible, operational gains at the cost of inflicting an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe-grievous death and suffering— on innocent Palestinians.”
August 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Holy moly - they’re doing the bit
Jim Downey doing the Epstein bit on Conan O’Brien’s podcast
July 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The guy from the Onion’s ‘Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point’ story
July 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Drake meme disapproving of Iran’s nuclear system but approving of its political system
June 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM