Samuel Caveen

Giving the Peace Prize to a Venezuelan democracy campaigner is ice cold under these circumstances.

Is Brendan Carr going to threaten the Nobel Committee now?

Called this after the strikes (read: summary executions) on Venezuelan boats in international waters started.

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Casually announcing plans to murder American citizens for wrongthink.

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Ah yes, fixing the crippling housing supply problem by...

*reads teleprompter*

...further increasing demand!

Kemi Badenoch, a woman who excuse-makes for obvious racism and can't condemn it without doing mimsy false equivalences, talking about 'courage', is it?

Challenge: How do we convince left-libertarians who fear ID cards are the tool of a police state?

Solution: We'll make it about cracking down on immigrant communities, like the ones in their constituencies, and give it a nationalistic brand name.

Unfuckingbelievable level of brain genius in No10.

What Do We Have To Lose If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him? Plus: some natural borders; and the non-existence of grey, and other letters.

"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details. You stamp it into a million pieces! You draw a f*cking line!"

If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him?

Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas, with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

It’s always ‘we don’t have a problem with *legal* migrants’, right before targeting legal migrants.

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It's just all so ceaselessly bleak.

The way things are going, I wouldn't be too surprised if the Trump administration did a missile strike on US soil before the 2028 election.

Perhaps in a suburban building in a blue city (Seattle or Portland?), where they say a ‘Hamas-sympathising antifa cell’ was planning an attack, or something.

It was also just incredibly shortsighted because if your second or third thought in response to 10/7 wasn’t “oh my god they’re probably going to kill so many fucking people in response to this”, you’re either dumb or awful. I don’t have any special expertise on the conflict and I knew that!

You're living through a major technological revolution right now and it has nothing to do with AI.

The United States is in danger of missing it and getting left behind because our corrupt President wants us to be buyers-of-last-resort for fossil fuels owned by his paymasters in KSA and Russia.

I agree, but thinking about potential scheduling issues of having women's go to five sets. I'd just start the slams half a week earlier, and like you say, reduce the rest of the tour to enable it.

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For ages it's felt like the sport is more likely to go the other way, reducing the men's to three sets. But, as you say, the spectacle of rollercoaster matches militates against that.

Having both men's and women's go to five sets starting at the QFs could be a good compromise.

Police officers ‘also abused’ Rotherham grooming gang victims One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a South Yorkshire Police officer in a marked police car.

Remember, South Yorkshire Police didn't prosecute the grooming gangs because they were ‘too woke’...

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Pro-Israeli apologists for their crimes, seeking to portray every critic (including Jewish ones like me) as anti-Semites, often will ask, "Do you believe Israel has a right to exist?" My answer is "Do you believe these murdered Palestinian children had a right to exist?"

The Plot to Enslave America

I’m not religious at all but I know Stephen Colbert is and he has always seemed the sort to exhibit the very best of faith, and it’s a tragedy that politically active Christians in this country don’t follow the example set by a person like him rather than one of the most venal and depraved men alive

This thread is incredibly gross to see all together.

It’s one thing to “know.”

It’s a whole other thing to look at all of this in the middle of Trump acting guilty about the Epstein files - and to see the birthday card in light of these other stories detailing things he said.

the connections trump had to multiple "modeling agencies" that were actually fronts for human trafficking is pretty interesting! i mean, maybe not AS interesting as the question of whether tim walz visited china in may or june of 1989, but like, at least moderately newsworthy imho

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Someone start a “Death to the IRGC” chant – I want to test something.

I was stuck doing one for at least two minutes yesterday. I assumed it must've been a bug because there's no way that can be reasonable – a seemingly endless loop of “eliminate all the motorcycles/traffic lights/crossings” in photos shot on a potato.

(Notably Cleaver later became a hard-right conservative, because revolutionaries who seek to invert rather than topple evil hierarchies are just right-wingers who haven't succeeded yet.)

This is a real tension in the right wing coalition. The racist wing wants honest to God deportations of all Latinos, the business wing wants *the threat of* deportations as a way to create a group of second class laborers they can exploit with no rights.

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Trump is mobilising federal troops against US citizens with no clear legal basis

Yet the president’s latest constitutional outrage barely registers on the news

By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

(With added Wodehouse.)

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A deep moral stain is being left on the UK by its continued complicity in the crimes against humanity happening in Palestine.

That‘s hopefully dawning on Starmer. But don‘t hold your breath.

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This delayed action doesn’t gain the govt any credibility. The only positive is it perhaps shows them finally waking up to the scale of depravity in this Israeli leadership, and the commensurate action it necessitates in Whitehall.

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