california democrats hire this queen immediately

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

transition2025.com

“The Gaza of maps and memories is gone, replaced by a monochrome landscape of rubble stretching flat and still for 180 degrees.”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Israeli military escorts some foreign journalists into the parts of Gaza it still occupies…

A Celebrated French Writer Loved Russia. War Forced a Reckoning.

“Because a void has opened up,” he wrote in Kometa in late 2023. “Because I loved Russia and, however shocking it may be to say this about an entire people, one can still love some Russians, but one can no longer love Russia.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/w...

There is something magnificent about Nigel Farage, who has lost two of the five MPs he was elected with *last year*, explaining that HR departments don't matter.

Trump’s move to pardon Santos isn’t just about mercy—it’s the death of accountability in U.S. politics. When a convicted fraudster and liar walks free, it proves power now outweighs morality, and truth has become a mere instrument of political convenience.

George Santos has set up a GoFundMe to help him reassimilate to society. You just enter your credit card number and hope for the best.

I am curious how long this grandstanding commitment to upsetting and offending people would stretch if (for example) a member of the Oxford community began making a full-throated defense of October 7.

Against all the odds, against its own usual judgment, perhaps in a fit of absent-mindedness, Alma Mater does the right thing.

This guy is just infectiously likeable

They have begun by selectively prosecuting enemies who are (a) widely disliked and (b) let’s face it probably genuinely guilty of something so that they can later selectively prosecute enemies who are neither.

My statement today on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

The many media outlets, politicians, and commentators who rushed to declare “a great peace, glory to the king!” should ask themselves why they did that, and figure out how to not make the same mistake again.

We will keep marching.
We will keep organising.
We will keep speaking up.

Until there is a permanent ceasefire.
Until the siege is lifted.
Until the occupation ends.
Until apartheid is dismantled.
Until the perpetrators of genocide are held to account.
Until Palestine is free 🇵🇸

Giving people very good reason to think that a scheduled appointment might be a trap will do wonders for an orderly immigration system.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Here’s an update on Barbara Marques from her husband Tucker May. If you’d like to help, contact your reps, especially if you live in California. There’s an easy script on this gofundme:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-barba...

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE. An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

YouTube video by Annie Lennox Annie Lennox - "Why? - For Gaza" Live - Together For Palestine

Together for Palestine. 🇵🇸

Annie Lennox performs "Why?" #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
youtu.be/l1RkUE8YG5Y?...

If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer.
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
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How Graham Linehan’s gender activism led to career armageddon What began as a nasty Twitter spat seven years ago has led to a peculiar metamorphosis for the comedy writer

How Graham Linehan’s gender activism led to career armageddon

People get trapped in lies about their education or early life and start sort-of believing them. It’s happened to better Conservative leaders than Badenoch.

The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni? The long read: She’s been called a neo-fascist and a danger to Italy. But she has won over many heads of Europe, including the UK prime minister. Should we be worried?

Extremely well-done profile of Giorgia Meloni by Alexander Stille for the Guardian; of interest to all #skystorians, political scientists, and, hell, Europeans (and Americans!) out there thinking about fascism today: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/s...

Adam Shatz · The sea is the same sea: Bibi goes to Washington Under Netanyahu, Israel has run up a substantial bill in blood and tears. Unlike his wife’s credit card, it will...

The Netanyahu's fired Max Hastings to write a biography of Yoni.

Hastings reported hearing Benjamin say that

“In the next war, if we do it right, we’ll have a chance to get all the Arabs out, we can clear the West Bank, sort out Jerusalem.”

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Three thoughts.

1 - Should be "claimed" not "says"
2 - BBC online puts anything remotely tendentious in inverted commas. So should be "political prisoner" in inverted commas.
3 - The prisons are full of nasty, deluded criminals with bullshit reasons why the court was wrong. Treat her like them.

There needs to be a new edition of “Dictators’ Homes”