Politics

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.

2025-01-30

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, …

2025-01-29

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)

2025-01-24

Advocates ‘deeply worried’ as Trump’s justice department halts new civil rights cases: One among many other extraordinarily worrying actions from the new president.

2025-01-23: So Nigel Farage is “reticent” about some of Elon Musk’s opinions. Former Breitbart …

2025-01-23

A rotten Apple: Tim Cook’s betrayal of LGBTQ+ rights: Never love a corporation part 9999.

2025-01-21: There’s a way in which nothing is new under the sun. No matter how appalling it seems. …

2025-01-21

Trump inauguration: Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk seated in front of cabinet picks: Remember the good old days where it wasn’t the done thing for political leaders to make their chumocratic oligarchy fantasies quite so obvious.

Trump embraces role of demagogue on divine mission to reshape America: Trump kicks off with an utterly shameless, quite chilling speech.

2025-01-20: From Reuters: U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday issued pre-emptive pardons for General Mark …

2025-01-20

New Year, same American violence: America is a ‘culturally violent place’, as well as having far too many guns of course.

Zuckerberg’s Spineless Surrender: Rehashing Old News To Enable False GOP Narratives: ‘Zuckerberg’s claim that he would stand up to government pressure on moderation is undermined by the fact that he’s revealing this literally while caving to government pressure on moderation.’

2025-01-19: Trump's inauguration fund has raised an unconscionable amount of money from people who should know better