I'm so glad @samfr.bsky.social has made this one free to read. 👏 The whole piece is not just a superb illustration of how to use a devastating/amusing combination of killer-stats and spot-on stories. It's also SO useful for anyone teaching politics/public policy at university (or even 6th Form)!

Is it odd though?

Teamsters president reveals Bernie Sanders stopped talking to him after he spoke at RNC Teamsters president Sean O'Brien said Bernie Sanders stopped talking to him after O'Brien addressed the RNC in 2024, citing changed attitude and access.

Good. www.foxnews.com/media/teamst...

Oh yes, it's literally on at the Prince Charles every week, must go...

Why am I spending so much time dissecting this silly & ultimately meaningless episode?

Because, friends, hear me: this is the template for the last 10 years of US politics. This is the US politics in a nutshell. This is how it *all* works.

Rarely seen this phenomenon so clearly explained. All the ‘don’t talk about anything woke’ advice from Very Serious People misses the fact that even if it was good advice (it’s not) you’d need it to be followed by the entirety of the internet for it to work.

'The biggest ever': Government launches latest clean power contract auction New Contract for Difference Allocation Round expected to secure record levels of renewables capacity, as government seeks to keep clean power plans on track

It's a very big day for the UK's clean power plans... www.businessgreen.com/news/4517447...

'We're calling on Britain's brightest minds': Science Minister urges tech pioneers to tackle peak electricity challenge Science Minister Lord Vallance announces new 2GW Peak Time Flexibility challenge to help researchers develop cutting edge technologies that can manage an increasingly flexible grid

Patrick Vallance launches a new government-backed challenge for new innovations that can reduce UK peak electricity demand by 2GW. www.businessgreen.com/news/4517408...

Oh God, every time. Literally nothing a leftish government does is celebrated, and the left wonders why it keeps losing.

The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it

An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]

Yup. Sod all this “when they go low” nonsense.

You can have democracy, or you can have X/Twitter. You can't have both.

I want Democrats who understand that the goal is to lay waste to Trump, his toadies, his movement, and his party, and that after you’ve done that you can turn the country over to the survivors and they can quibble over how to fund the social safety net with less-than-existential stakes

It’s what half those weirdos voted for alas.

Take Action: Make a complaint to Sky News about excessive coverage of Reform UK Change Minds → Change Politics

More than 5,000 Best for Britain’s supporters have made complaints to Sky News about their excessive coverage of Reform UK. 🚫

Be the next one - it takes less than two minutes:

"Promotes classical architecture". Yeah, that's invariably a good thing, isn't it. I know The Guardian is trolling us, but fucking 'ell.

‘Twas fab. Curse Upon Iron is also very heavy metal.

It's funny (well, not that funny) that a lot of Dems blame special interest groups for their woes when you could just ignore them if you think they're so bad, while also employing a collection of cretinous, grasping twats at great expense to tell them wrong information.

Anthony Albanese hardens on Israel as pressure builds within Labor caucus Australia now has some cover to follow the UK and France on a Palestinian state without fearing a backlash from the US.

Mark Carney has said Canada intends to recognise Palestinian statehood in Sep. It seems likely Australia will take a similar path www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

As am I!

Why, Will? WHY?

Such a twat.

Real talk about agriculture and climate An interview with Michael Grunwald

Agriculture is “1/3 of the climate problem. It's 70% of our freshwater. It's the leading driver of deforestation, wetland destruction, & water pollution. … basically anything that's bad for the planet, agriculture has a pretty big role to play in it.”

open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...

E.P.A. Plans to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change

I remember when Jill Stein told me there was no difference between the GOP and the Dems on climate change. 🤷🏽‍♂️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

Great report on "the radical domestication of existence" - worth a read

The British far left need to log off and go to bed.

What's wrong with them, they didn't accuse him of genocide once.

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I read some academic saying that sadism needs to be the next serious branch of political analysis into voters and politicians, rather than a side effect. Bleak.