Trump lets the press know exactly what kind of questions he considers ‘good’: ‘He has certain expectations about what quality journalism looks like, and it involves asking him how awesome his awesomeness is’
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2025-04-26
ICE Can Now Enter Your Home Without a Warrant to Look for Migrants, DOJ Memo Says: ‘…anyone labeled an “Alien Enemy” is “not entitled to a hearing, appeal or judicial review.”’ - plus all police officers are basically immigration officers now.
2025-04-26: 📚 Finished reading Autocracy, Inc.
2025-04-25
Elon Musk and DOGE’s Savings May Be Erased by New Costs: Not only have they saved only a tiny fraction of what they promised but also there’s ‘a rough estimate that firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.’
Trump’s Crimea Proposal Would End a Decade of U.S. Resistance: Officially recognising Crimea as being Russian would break the principle ‘that no country can change the borders of another by force’.
2025-04-24: 📚 Want to read: Year of the Rat: Undercover in the British Far Right by Harry Shukman. The British …
2025-04-24
A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right: Lonely people, into nonsensical ‘race science’.
Lib Dems back ban on playing music and videos on public transport in England: A ban on playing things out loud, to be clear.
2025-04-22
2025-04-21
There’s a Reason the World Is a Mess, and It’s Not Trump: Economic stagnation.
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat: ‘The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother…’
The Guardian view on City deregulation: a recipe for recklessness: ‘…the Treasury seems to have forgotten one of the major lessons of the 2008 financial crisis: when regulation is lax, risks accumulate’.
This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare: The rich ones, at least, could worry about their mission to educate the masses over preserving the size of their endowment.
2025-04-20
The authoritarian takeover attempt is here: And their incompetence is seemingly the main hope we have of stopping it.
There’s only one way to fight the climate greenlash: appeal to the naysayers’ self-interest: ‘If green policy is going to survive the culture wars, it needs a new pitch - cleaner air, cheaper bills and healthier cities’.
2025-04-19: The long list of words that the Trump administration has banned or restricted government workers from using
2025-04-19
Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard: Perhaps the letter with their ludicrous demands was sent only by accident (or perhaps they just didn’t expect the pushback?).
Harvard’s Decision to Resist Trump Is ‘of Momentous Significance’: ‘…rejecting the Trump administration’s demands on hiring, admissions and curriculum’
2025-04-18
2025-04-17
Young Men Voters May Be More Likely To Swing Back: ‘Net approval for Trump declined by 29 points among young men registered voters, a significantly bigger shift than any other demographic’.
A crack in the manosphere: Joe Rogan’s guests are revolting: Everyone has some limit, so I’d like to believe.