Richard Popham
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Putin wants to see Ukraine succeed like Trump wants to see America succeed.
People, and countries, are just playthings for bored, insecure sociopaths. They are sucking blackholes of destructive, egomaniacal need.
People, and countries, are just playthings for bored, insecure sociopaths. They are sucking blackholes of destructive, egomaniacal need.
December 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Putin wants to see Ukraine succeed like Trump wants to see America succeed.
People, and countries, are just playthings for bored, insecure sociopaths. They are sucking blackholes of destructive, egomaniacal need.
People, and countries, are just playthings for bored, insecure sociopaths. They are sucking blackholes of destructive, egomaniacal need.
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No one has ever been able to adequately explain what Putin is meant to have thought NATO expansion would threaten him with, apart from limiting his expansionist ambitions.
"He was worried they'd invade Russia."
No he wasn't.
He just wasn't.
That's not a thing anyone thought might happen.
"He was worried they'd invade Russia."
No he wasn't.
He just wasn't.
That's not a thing anyone thought might happen.
this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade
December 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
No one has ever been able to adequately explain what Putin is meant to have thought NATO expansion would threaten him with, apart from limiting his expansionist ambitions.
"He was worried they'd invade Russia."
No he wasn't.
He just wasn't.
That's not a thing anyone thought might happen.
"He was worried they'd invade Russia."
No he wasn't.
He just wasn't.
That's not a thing anyone thought might happen.
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“The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.”
Via @mmasnick.bsky.social
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.”
Via @mmasnick.bsky.social
Opinion | Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship
Mike Masnick: In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech.
www.ms.now
December 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.”
Via @mmasnick.bsky.social
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.”
Via @mmasnick.bsky.social
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Save this, it's perfect.
December 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Save this, it's perfect.
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there are many horrible brainworms you can catch online but none of them are as all-encompassing in their destruction of you as a human being as transphobia
start down that road and you become incapable of normal human interaction
start down that road and you become incapable of normal human interaction
classic story of some lady hitting the transphobia pipe harder and harder and becoming an intolerable shithead who alienates all her friends www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
How Sandie Peggie 'Benidorm Posse' friend group was torn apart by NHS Fife trans tribunal
The personal cost of the changing room row was exposed in expletive-ridden private messages as tensions boiled over in group chats.
www.thecourier.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
there are many horrible brainworms you can catch online but none of them are as all-encompassing in their destruction of you as a human being as transphobia
start down that road and you become incapable of normal human interaction
start down that road and you become incapable of normal human interaction
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Liz Truss is so funny because she might be the first recorded case of Twitter frying the brain of a celebrity without anyone on the platform actually engaging with her.
She became a fascist lunatic by osmosis because she's not important or interesting enough to have a fanbase to pull her right.
She became a fascist lunatic by osmosis because she's not important or interesting enough to have a fanbase to pull her right.
December 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Liz Truss is so funny because she might be the first recorded case of Twitter frying the brain of a celebrity without anyone on the platform actually engaging with her.
She became a fascist lunatic by osmosis because she's not important or interesting enough to have a fanbase to pull her right.
She became a fascist lunatic by osmosis because she's not important or interesting enough to have a fanbase to pull her right.
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We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.
Harrison Pitt accuses the King of treachery. Pitt is a Senior Policy Fellow for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, who also regularly co-hosts podcasts with his ally Tomlinson (who advocates banning all ethnic and faith minorities from public office). Like Lowe, Pitt is keen to dissolve boundaries/norms
December 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.
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This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
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This encapsulates what has driven me crazy about since she was trying to get professors fired when we were college classmates — this air of condescension, like she’s working for the common good and just trying to get you to do the same. Obviously it’s grift but the TONE of it just kills me.
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This encapsulates what has driven me crazy about since she was trying to get professors fired when we were college classmates — this air of condescension, like she’s working for the common good and just trying to get you to do the same. Obviously it’s grift but the TONE of it just kills me.
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Remember Starmer's "urgent" review into foreign interference after Nathan Gill?
Well, there's already two ex-UK ambassadors working in Westminster on behalf of a pro-Russian foreign government whose de facto leader is under UK sanctions...
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ex-uk-amba...
Well, there's already two ex-UK ambassadors working in Westminster on behalf of a pro-Russian foreign government whose de facto leader is under UK sanctions...
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ex-uk-amba...
Ex-UK ambassadors are lobbyists for sanctioned pro-Russia genocide deniers
Labour MP calls for rules to be tightened after Democracy for Sale finds former diplomats paid to lobby for Republika Srpska
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Remember Starmer's "urgent" review into foreign interference after Nathan Gill?
Well, there's already two ex-UK ambassadors working in Westminster on behalf of a pro-Russian foreign government whose de facto leader is under UK sanctions...
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ex-uk-amba...
Well, there's already two ex-UK ambassadors working in Westminster on behalf of a pro-Russian foreign government whose de facto leader is under UK sanctions...
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ex-uk-amba...
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art this point I have to assume jenkins is either a far-right bootlicker or has a humiliation fetish. or both I suppose
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
art this point I have to assume jenkins is either a far-right bootlicker or has a humiliation fetish. or both I suppose
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Now Miller demands that CBS fire those involved in the CECOT story: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrcmYBkm/
Government censorship in practice
Government censorship in practice
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Now Miller demands that CBS fire those involved in the CECOT story: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrcmYBkm/
Government censorship in practice
Government censorship in practice
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The US just banned a guy from the country (Imran Ahmed) for pointing out that X is full of hate speech
The US is imposing visa restrictions on five Europeans, including Thierry Breton, accusing them of pressuring US tech companies to censor certain US viewpoints (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The US just banned a guy from the country (Imran Ahmed) for pointing out that X is full of hate speech
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I don’t wanna sound partisan but I think it’s bad when the president keeps raging publicly about free speech and late night comedy he doesn’t like and threatening state censorship all the time, and also using language that is easily construed as calling for someone’s death
December 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I don’t wanna sound partisan but I think it’s bad when the president keeps raging publicly about free speech and late night comedy he doesn’t like and threatening state censorship all the time, and also using language that is easily construed as calling for someone’s death
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Also screw the BBC for its naked agenda. It refused to carry a hugely expensive first ever YouGov survey we commissioned showing how awful trans lives in the UK have become because it was "not strong enough" but there's no piece of anti-trans hatred too petty for it to platform.
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Also screw the BBC for its naked agenda. It refused to carry a hugely expensive first ever YouGov survey we commissioned showing how awful trans lives in the UK have become because it was "not strong enough" but there's no piece of anti-trans hatred too petty for it to platform.
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One thing about mad shit like this is, the Telegraph Ukraine podcast is reminding its listeners each day that the EU is the organisation keeping Ukraine's lights on, financially and increasingly militarily, while the US has casually thrown it under the bus.
December 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
One thing about mad shit like this is, the Telegraph Ukraine podcast is reminding its listeners each day that the EU is the organisation keeping Ukraine's lights on, financially and increasingly militarily, while the US has casually thrown it under the bus.
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
You'll remember that when Biden delivered an address in 2022, networks refused to air it because they said it was "political" www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...
As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
Broadcasters NBC, CBS and ABC usually air presidential prime-time addresses live. But they found Biden's Philadelphia speech more "political" than newsworthy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
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Here’s the problem with Trump’s number one requirement, loyalty — it evaporates fast as soon as the president goes lame duck.
December 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Here’s the problem with Trump’s number one requirement, loyalty — it evaporates fast as soon as the president goes lame duck.
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Revealing on how much AI uptake is currently being driven by investor expectations - transmitted via boards - rather than people who actually execute stuff. Of course, if you're not an actual doer it is much more likely that you will be tempted by magical thinking.
A completely unhinged post from the head of Norway's oil fund: to hunt down the "leaders" of groups resisting AI implementation in companies and "remove" them
archive.ph/r0u2r
archive.ph/r0u2r
December 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Revealing on how much AI uptake is currently being driven by investor expectations - transmitted via boards - rather than people who actually execute stuff. Of course, if you're not an actual doer it is much more likely that you will be tempted by magical thinking.
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Feverishly working on this
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Feverishly working on this
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Also, I don't think a Brexit supporter can credibly criticise anyone else for "strangling" their economy
This, published by the "patriotic" Telegraph, seems to me pretty full-on, unabashed Putin apologia, blaming Europe for Putin's aggression. It is indistinguishable from the set of Kremlin-talking-points, that we have been hearing from his officials and proxies. ~AA
December 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Also, I don't think a Brexit supporter can credibly criticise anyone else for "strangling" their economy
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I know the shameless hypocrisy is the whole point but seeing maybe one of the single most socially conservative MPs currently in the House of Commons welcome a pornstar into his party isn't not making me feel fucking mental
Reform MP Danny Kruger on pornstar/provocateur Bonnie Blue announcing her support for the party: "We’ll take votes from wherever we can get them, we want all the support we can get. Quite like Bonnie Blue."
Says party isn't "going to be fussy, we're not going to be judgemental" about Reform voters
Says party isn't "going to be fussy, we're not going to be judgemental" about Reform voters
December 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I know the shameless hypocrisy is the whole point but seeing maybe one of the single most socially conservative MPs currently in the House of Commons welcome a pornstar into his party isn't not making me feel fucking mental
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I challenge you to think of one thing you would less like to do
December 13, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I challenge you to think of one thing you would less like to do