Politics

2025-02-17

Trump’s birthright citizenship order shows how he is challenging the Constitution itself: He holds no more respect or love for ‘America’ than for anything else that isn’t himself.

2025-02-16: Starmer to join Macron-led European crisis summit on Trump’s Ukraine plan. Wouldn’t it be …

2025-02-16

Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests: Amongst those from other regimes, autocratic and otherwise.

2025-02-11

Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support

Elon Musk’s Big Government Grift: An article from 2020 on Musk’s mission ‘to get unimaginably rich by maximally gaming the government’s largesse…taking advantage of programs meant to help people who earn in a lifetime what he earns every minute.’

Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies: Old news, but let’s remember Musk’s success is at least partly down to government largesse.

More Than 800K Have Lost $2B on Trump’s Meme Coin: He, of course, profited vociferously.

2025-02-10

He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration: Curtis Yarvin.

2025-02-09

Baltic nations disconnect from Russian power grid to avoid power being used ‘as a weapon’: ‘Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania disconnected from the network in a move to block Russia’s ability to geopolitically “blackmail” them via the electricity system.’

2025-02-08: TIL: It’s illegal to sell or consume alcohol in Colombia during the days surrounding an …

2025-02-06

How Mark Zuckerberg, Once a Trump Foe, Changed His Tune on President-Elect: There was a time when he didn’t publicly admire ‘President Trump’s divisive and incendiary rhetoric’ quite so much.

2025-02-06: The Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy Act

2025-02-06: Zuckerberg hands over another $25 million to Trump

2025-02-05

Reform UK tops landmark poll for first time: Ugh.

2025-02-04

A Coup is In Progress in America: ‘The transformation happening before our eyes—from a government bound by law to one bound by personal loyalty—is precisely what generations of Americans gave their lives to prevent.’

2025-02-01

The UK is a World Leader in Stomping Peaceful Protest: There is, unfortunately, something we’re still good at.

2025-01-29

Trump’s calls with British leaders reportedly left staff crying from laughter: Maybe they were crying for other reasons too.

2025-01-29: Labour might be claiming that “growth” is their number one priority - and sure, …

2025-01-28

Dear Trans Kids, You Don’t Need the Government’s Permission to Exist: ‘In every era of US history, queer folks have carved out their spaces despite criminalization, discrimination, and violence.’

2025-01-28: Never let it be said that no tech billionaire has ever had a valid and accurate thought. Bill Gates …

2025-01-26: Spotify joins the inauspicious ranks of companies that funded Trump's inauguration

2025-01-26: We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and …

2025-01-25

Far-right pundit Matt Walsh rails against women in law enforcement: ‘It’s an absurdity!’: Matt Walsh is an absurdity.

2025-01-25: A perhaps surprising fact courtesy of a report on Labour’s desire to cut down the admittedly …

2025-01-24: Trumpian legislation via LLMs (we should be so lucky)