"You tell them a lie, and then when you don't need it anymore you tell them another lie. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they'll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable."
- Terry Pratchett: "Guards Guards"

When people complain about red tape and health and safety gone mad, remember it's tragedies like this that we have learned from.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

The absolute callousness of announcing a 44% trade tariff against Myanmar this week, of all weeks.

Hahaha DOGE security expert NutsackHitler or whatever left their database open and the site got hacked

The White House has suddenly removed this page.

whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.”

The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

This is the GOP’s long con on full display.

Boris promised that post Brexit we would have a stronger economy due to us exporting scones and jam. The scones and jam surprisingly didn't work, it's now time to reverse Brexit.

Ros Atkins on...24 hours on Elon Musk's X timeline The BBC's Analysis editor, Ros Atkins, investigates Elon Musk's recent posts on X about grooming gangs - and looks at how one day unfolded on his timeline.

Elon Musk has had a lot to say about the grooming gangs scandal. With colleagues from BBC Verify, I've looked at 24 hours on Musk's X timeline. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Just call it Lebensraum and be done with it.

Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls

Donations to Biden's inaugural fund in 2021:

Meta = $0
Tim Cook = $0
Sam Altman = $0
Google = $200,000
Amazon = $200,000

Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025:

Meta = $1,000,000
Tim Cook = $1,000,000
Sam Altman = $1,000,000
Google = $1,000,000
Amazon = $1,000,000

The oligarchy is here.

There are 3.4 million girls 14 and under in England.

Elon Musk just wrote that 1 out of every 13 such girls is right now being “systematically raped by migrant gangs.”

The man has gone utterly insane. He’s a sociopath. His latest post is—unambiguously—neo-Nazi rhetoric intended to incite violence.

❤️ that era Warp. The design, aesthetic, the music.

Elon Musk is a good example of how terrible people become increasingly radicalized into the far right simply because the far right is a community that accepts cruel, terrible people.

It's tempting to say Elon is going "mask off", but I'd wager Elon didn't know who Tommy Robinson was 5 years ago. 1/

2025 is a year where we need to stop amplifying those whose brutality and bigotry is also their living - as Eve Kosofsky Sedwick wrote - we spend too much time identify poison and not enough time seeking nourishment - our reaction to those who hate for profit rewards them

OTD in 2009 Russia re-affirmed our commitment to 1994 Budapest Memorandum guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity signed in exchange for their nukes, associated delivery systems,
44 heavy bombers (Tu-22) and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles

Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.

By far and away, my favourite thing about this spectacularly dumb post...

Is that that's THE MATTERHORN

Bleak account of working in local papers for Newsquest, which continues to send millions of pounds a year to its US private equity owners, while producing "cheap, synthetic, low-quality fare" and using AI reporters to cover councils. westcountryvoices.co.uk/ultra-proces...