The billionaires are full of bull: ‘You don’t earn trust with “balance” – especially not between two imbalanced things – you earn it by consistently providing evidence to support your findings.’

Starmer urged to change donation rules amid talk of Musk bankrolling Reform: Yep, it’s probably not a great idea to allow foreign billionaires to make huge donations to UK political parties by having their companies do it.

Chicken Farm: On the US healthcare system - ‘The “front line” of doctors and nurses are fighting a two front war: one against whatever ails you, and the other against the insurer’.

Why Romania’s election was annulled – and what happens next?: Romanian courts rule that their presidential election was too contaminated with social media manipulation, Russian interference, cyber attacks and illegal funding to stand.

I have a cunning plan…: Charles Stross comes up with a cunning business plan for a world in which Trump’s presidency leads to a reemergence of polio in the US.

Going off the record with Trump? That’s just kissing his ring: Yep, Trump really doesn’t seem like the sort of person you need to be off the record with hear what’s truly on his mind.

Syrians celebrate fall of Bashar al-Assad after five decades of dynastic rule: Although some also worry about what will come next.

Congressional Republicans conclude SARS-CoV-2 originated in a lab leak: Whatever the truth of the matter is, it’s obvious that the process that led to this particular report was a total abuse of science.

Russia Tests Cutting Off Access to Global Web, and VPNs Can’t Get Around It

Culture war and revolution: 30 Years of Manic Street Preachers’ Generation Terrorists: Great as they are, kind of a shame how many of their songs still make perfect sense decades later.

One million elderly people skipping meals as costs bite: Neither eating or heating is affordable for some.

Choke Point 2.0: A primer on the right’s latest conspiracy theory: Today’s wild claim is something like ‘Biden is personally causing his political enemies to be refused bank service’.

Federal Court Blocks Louisiana Law Mandating Posting Of Ten Commandments In School Classrooms: Turns out not everyone believes that the US separation between church and state should be destroyed quite so blatantly.

Bill Gates’ warning to the world: ‘As they reckon with their multiple defeats, progressives must avoid the twin temptations of fatalism and utopianism.’

Who is winning UK Politics Bluesky so far?: The left, at least as measured by the slightly strange metric of how many MPs follow them.

The far right grows through “disaster fantasies”: Their prioritisation of imaginary disasters that require individual solutions over real disasters that need collective action.

Texas AG Declares War On Advertisers Who Snub Musk’s ExTwitter: Ken Paxton seems to want to make it illegal to not give Elon Musk money.

What are the key issues in the assisted dying bill debate?: Things to think about as the UK vote on legalising assisted dying draws closer.

‘The Apprentice’ actor Sebastian Stan: Hollywood stars fear Trump: It’s not only tech billionaires - certain actors seem to be preemptively afraid to associate with their peers who portray Trump in anything other than the most positive of lights.