Living in Scandinavia, I find myself morbidly fascinated by American progressives' inability to understand—or acknowledge—that the secret to a healthy, functioning welfare state is broad middle-class buy-in. Everyone pays something—some more than others; everyone gets something—some more than others
@andrewhunterm.bsky.social
Is there a precedent for a US President openly assisting a foreign power that is helping an enemy kill American soldiers?
Beyond the whole being a nice human being and respecting others thing, surely it's rule number one not to be a dick to anyone who's preparing something you intend to eat or drink
Idea for an app: every time you tap to pay something, a little Churchill pops up on your phone and tells you you're a true patriot
Delighted we're mere days away from Parliament unanimously passing legislation that all banknotes must feature a portrait of Winston Churchill
Presumably he'll require access to their changing rooms so he can personally carry out verification
Conservative Party tweet with tree logo replaced with a snowflake "Winston Churchill is a hero. He's earned his place on our Five Pound Note. He must not be replaced with an Otter."
A drunken sailor early in the morning? Intervention probably
At The Races with Leslie Nielsen and Red Rock Cider (Extended edition) from 1992
"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."
Republicans, when talking about war and absolutely nothing else.
Shame can be a destructive emotion, but this is what a culture without shame looks like.
And it's consistently rewarded and indulged.
Farage tweet saying that the Bank of England is replacing Churchill with a beaver ln bank notes, and thst this is the definition of woke
What if it's the Queen's beaver?
Detonate a series of nuclear devices strategically positoned deep underground in Turkey and Iraq along the border of the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates, pushing them apart thus creating a new sea route between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean
Attach tankers to seagulls and fly them out
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Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
Voters open to Dems & high info enough to be in these weeds are 100% fuck this regime. So, congrats on reaching the low info will never find about this but has niche fetish for helping MAGA staff up evil & is open to voting Dem voter. All none of them.
Hamilton HotelWashington, DC Wednesday, Jun 3 from 10 am to 6 pm Overview WelcomeFest - the largest public gathering of centrists. WelcomeFest showcases the array of leaders and organizations cultivating a partisan centrist vision on the left. At WelcomeFest, a community of like-minded elected officials, media figures, journalists, and thought leaders gather to mediate a new path forward for our party – providing a platform for connection, conversation, and action. WelcomeFest is an opportunity for us all to take lessons from candidates who overperform to craft a strong, robust, and vibrant centrist faction.
Imagine your whole ideology being we have no ideology. We stand for nothing - or at least nothing we will admit.
Now imagine that under fascism.
The BBC are really going out of their way to not call these The Peter Files.
A crypto-billionaire based in Thailand donated £12 million to Reform last year, making him the top individual donor to a British political party in 2025.
Check out our full Top 10 list of the biggest individual donors to UK political parties here: sharethewealth.org.uk/latest/top-1...
As Hig Hurtenflurst once said, "His feet are the wrong size for his shoes."
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year
Reaching net zero would cost about £4bn a year, @theCCCuk found
That's close to £100bn by 2050
Roughly equivalent to the energy-related costs of the fossil fuel shocks that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
www.theguardian.com/environment...
UK's Climate Change Committee has some of the smartest minds working on modeling the costs of how to get to net zero. And this assessment is likley to be applicable to any fossil-fuel import dependent country.
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tudor's gamble of making the Spurs players wear curling shoes hasnt paid off
heat pumps good 👍
bills skyrocketing every time there's a major event bad 👎
it's funny how farage has been basically given free reign to say "we're going to slash taxes and improve public services and kick out all the immigrants and you'll all be millionaires" for thirty years, but as soon as someone from the left comes along, Very Serious People want to know "how it works"
