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Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

Sam Altman was right - this unironically is PhD-level intelligence

And formally provably so because to drive you need theory of mind. You can indeed show with maths the limits of maths since it's a formal engineered system with knowable limits, see Gödel etc. We created trains which ban humans from tracks so the system can be safely automated, not so for roads. 1/n

The POTUS is sharing memes of Black Americans as gorillas. To every single person who gaslit us about him and the people who voted for him not being racist, you've been an acute part of the problem the whole time.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

The 2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators were treated far too lightly. Media and the public moved on too fast without grasping the seriousness of assassination. These are life and death issues, not just differences of opinion the USA is working out. The reactionary right is ready to kill.

#GraphicOfTheWeek: In 2025, wind and solar hit a record 30% of EU electricity – overtaking fossil fuels (29%) for the first time. This map shows many of the national milestones that made it happen.

Explore other graphics: https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/graphic-of-the-week/

Ilhan Omar about to punch a slime bucket of a man, just an absolute potato sack looking motherfucker.

nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted myself as a squared-up Ilhan Omar and you as a collapsing sewer ogre

We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA.

We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material.

In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights.

link.europa.eu/Fh8h84

A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.

This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

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This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon

imagine being the father or mother or son or daughter or sibling of one of those brave British troops who died in Afghanistan, and having to listen to this crass ignorance

RECTIFICATION 2 Summary Following a complaint from a member of the public that Mr Nigel Farage MP had registered interests outside the 28-day time limit set by the House, I undertook a wider review of Mr Farage’s entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. 5 Having done so, I identified several other interests that appeared to have been registered late, and I opened a formal inquiry on 30 October 2025 to investigate Mr Farage’s compliance with Rule 5 of the Code of Conduct. During my investigation, I established that there had been seventeen breaches of Rule 5 of the Code by Mr Farage’s failure to add interests within the 28-day period 10 set by the House. Having met with Mr Farage to discuss how these late registrations occurred, I concluded that the failure to register these interests on time was inadvertent because of staffing and other administrative issues. In making that decision, I also took into account Mr Farage’s acceptance of responsibility for the breaches of the 15 rules and the clear undertaking he provided that future interests will be registered on time. Having concluded that the breaches of Rule 5 were inadvertent, I decided to conclude my inquiry by way of the rectification procedure available to me under Standing Order No. 150. As part of that process, Mr Farage acknowledged and 20 apologised for his breaches of Rule 5. As is my usual practice, I have also asked the Registrar to arrange for the relevant entries in the Register to be annotated, so it is clear that they have been the subject of an inquiry. Daniel Greenberg CB 20 January 2026

"Following a complaint from a member of the public* that Mr Nigel Farage MP had registered interests outside the 28-day time limit set by the House, I undertook a wider review of Mr Farage’s entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests."

*(it was me! 😀)
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An old Russian joke: a man walks up to a newsstand, looks at the front page, sneers and walks off. The next day he walks up to the newsstand, looks at the front page, sneers and walks off. The third day he walks up and the newsman asks “Hey, why don’t you ever buy a paper?” And the man replies “I’m just reading the obituaries.” The newsman shakes his head “But the obituaries are in the back!” The man looks at him shaking his head. “Not the one I’m looking for.”

I think about this joke a lot these days.

"Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls..."

I'm perfectly aware this is by far not the worst thing he's done, but Trump's constant presence - day after day after day - in the lives and headspaces of hundreds of millions of people (billions?), in the US and outside, is so taxing. Every morning, we wake up and have to think about this asshole.

Also, when you defy Trump, you’re kind of implicitly making fools of the elite law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress, which is fun.

Banning X would have loads of upsides and really not many downsides for the government. The argument for shutting it down (distribution of CSAM) is incontrovertible, the people who are its most avid users hate the government anyway, and it would address threats to social cohesion and public order.

The BBC should be "impartial", but that doesn't mean refusing to make judgments.

A jury or a football referee should be "impartial": they should not be "partial", or prejudiced, to one side or other.

But that doesn't excuse them from making decisions. It's why we trust them to do so.

Glad we made this decision today

I know colleagues, the government and other organisations think they will be ceding ground and an important public discussion space if they leave X

It has been twisted too far into an unsafe, malign and destructive tool to morally use, & thereby endorse, anymore

“In the last 18 month you’ve taken about £13,000 from X, the social media site. Its new innovation for 2026 is child porn on demand, that kind of thing. I was just wondering – are Reform MPs and you going to continue taking child porn money?”

If you missed this question to Nigel Farage from The Critic's Rob Hutton – and it was over an hour into the press conference – then it was a particularly good one. The answer was... vague.

My 15 year old just texted me this TikTok video and told me that “this is our geopolitical situation right now.” I both love that he’s politically astute and hate that this is the world he has to grow up in.

Oh, I can help here. You see, it means that those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty. For too long, you see. Everyone in the entire world except you thought this was sufficiently clear, which is why I didn't change the words. Hope this helps.