Janne Mantykoski

you'd think that the fact the president of the united states is completely fucking insane would be a bigger news story

This is the creepiest thing I've seen this year.

British.

Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.

YouTube video by Zoe Gardner Epping asylum hotel CLOSED BY MOB RULE? Where should they go?

Last night fighting an ex Liz Truss minister (for goodness sake) on Newsnight about what to do about asylum accommodation.

Pitch forks are dictating UK asylum policy now. 🤦‍♀️

My thanks as always to the brilliant @implausibleblog.bsky.social for the clip ❤️🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8auh...

‘Why has the number of PIP claimants gone up since 2019?’, I keep seeing asked in SW1 like it’s a proper mystery

We have an aging population, we have had a pandemic which disabled people, and the cost of living has exploded in recent years!

If you live in the real world it’s not a mystery, surely!

London's high poverty rates revealed in new report - OnLondon London has the second highest rate of poverty of any English region, with 2.2 million of its nine million people meeting the criteria, according to a new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. On...

Some refuse to accept that Londoners include people enduring great poverty as well as others who make big money and have great wealth. In fact, there's quite a lot of them: www.onlondon.co.uk/londons-high... #london

Screenshot of a daily Mail Headline

What do we think?🤔

Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.

Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!

So, what’s going on here?

Let’s take a look!👀

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Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet.

h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social

amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Here's Gary Stevenson calling for a return to the 1970s, when the top rate of tax was 98%. But did the rich ever pay it?

We spoke to 1970s tax dodgers and ex-HMRC staff & and crunched the data.

A 🧵, but here's a spoiler: the rich pay more tax *now*.

WELKER: When does it become the Trump economy?

TRUMP: It partially is right now. I think the good parts are the Trump economy and the bad parts are the Biden economy

I’d like to ask the flighty millionaires: where is your sense of civic duty? In their rush to defend the rich, the right have revealed a depressing truth – public service is now optional for the elite

In the long run, the save the rich strategy is nothing more than bad economics. Me for @theleaduk.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...

Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯!

"You journalists need to get your balls back"

Possibly the best analysis of Trump’s tariffs so far 👇

This is:

1. an absolutely nonsensical way to think about trade
2. nothing to do with tariff barriers, it’s just…relative trade. It’s just something else entirely
3. a CRAZILY back-of-the-envelope way to set global trade policy

It is mad that this is real.

Quick reminder: Le Pen wasn't found guilty because the French courts hate democracy. She was found guilty because she broke the fucking law.

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Apparently she is held in custody by ICE, and this sort of thing now seems to be happening quite regularly. I'm not going to risk visiting the US any time soon.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene refuses to take a question from a British journalist saying,

“Ok we don't give a crap about your opinion and your reporting. Why don't you go back to your country”

I guess Keir Starmer hasn't told her about the special relationship 🤷‍♂️

A shocking read which crystallises into a story about government contracts and the business of detention centres. Dehumanising people for money.

Every single one of the Trump supporters sounds like a domestic abuser. "You should've let him hit you, you shouldn't have complained in public, you're never grateful, you never say thank you."

Peace or Partition? Russians and Americans speak about Ukraine, without Ukrainians

My thoughts on the Russian-American talks on Ukraine, without Ukraine. The simplest interpretation of the available facts is that the Americans are using Russian violence to try to exploit Ukraine.
snyder.substack.com/p/peace-or-p...

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

YouTube video by Zoe Gardner GBNews’ new man SOLVES the small boats crisis

New video! 👀

GBNews has a brand new presenter to fill the gap in their anti-migrant coverage!

His name is Matthew Goodwin & luckily enough he knows HOW TO STOP AN INVASION!

Is this the solution at last? I looked into it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKI...