Bart Crisp

Please God get rid of Netanyahu. I know the alternative isn't great but it's better than more of him with Ben Gvir and Smotrich.

“Alongside fellow MPs, I have received reports of applications being refused because of convictions linked to the 2019-2020 pro-democracy protests”, writes @bobbywdean.bsky.social 🗣️ Britain cannot shut the door on Hongkongers persecuted for defending democracy www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/brit...

It's bleak, but the reality is that there is a fairly substantial market for such people

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

It's the people and politics that are against being a signatory to the ECHR that proves the need to be a signatory to the ECHR.

You actually do not want your teachers, nurses, doctors, etc., to be authentic while they are in positions of responsibilty and care for other people. I have to control and hide my emotions a lot. Everyone does. It's called growing up.

a related observation--one recently reinforced via personal experience--is that when your organization is not accountable to a mass public, but rather to the pocketbooks of wealthy donors, you start shedding expertise and accruing cranks and kooks and buffoons

It was @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social who pointed out how one of the biggest things you see on early Drag Race is drag queens talking about familial rejection, and recent queens talk about their parents helping with their drag pageants as teenagers. And that show is 17 years old.

>new educational breakthrough just dropped >ask if it's just selection effects >they laugh and say "it's a good pedagogy, sir" >look inside >motivated students from high-SES families

Shapiro assumes that the "crime" being condemned here is violating the norm of filial piety, rather than tacitly endorsing sexual abuse, because that's what he cares about what he assumes everybody else cares about too.

And finally keeping at it, year-in, year-out demands not ironic detachment but sincere, even 'cringe,' commitment - of the kind that feels like vulnerability. It is not enough to be angry all the time, you must also be grieved and sorrowful and even sometimes joyous too.

It is, fundamentally, an exercise of choosing the lesser evil, over and over and over again, so that the total amount of evil in the system decreases over time. And you must keep doing it, because - since evil is easy - good is easily reversed.

Actually, positive change is slow, difficult and incremental by nature. Destroying is fast, building is slow. It is easy to bring misery to people - any idiot can do it, as Trump shows - but very hard to improve their conditions. Building a better society is slow, careful, patient work.

I do not claim that you can pour everything into the gap between Trump on the one hand and Biden/Harris on the other, but into that chasm nevertheless fit a great many lives lost or ruined. It turns out there really was a difference!

Yes and also this sort of 'uniparty' nonsense feels so hollow deployed in the midst of a national stove-touching. It turns out the difference between a 'milquetoast corporate Democrat' and Trump was really big! President Harris would not be driving trans soldiers out of the military!

found it . And the dogs were Explicitly Engineered so this new startup is literally a case of building the torment nexus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bre...

yeah "palmer luckey wants to resident evil dogs" is maybe a more straightforward glonzo pitch

Here in the UK, if a Muslim said this the right would burn down every polling station within reach

I'm happy to pay a licence fee surcharge to keep this case going for as long as is humanly possible

Rory Stewart's lecture at the LSE last week was pretty bloody good tbh www.youtube.com/watch?v=Meqf...

Like, someone should explain to Americans that - no - prices will not go down, prices will go up but by less and by the same amount wages go up, and someone should explain the French that - no - you cannot retire at 60 when life expectancy is 83 and fertility rates are below population replacement.

The fact that Western publics are unreasonably mad at objective trade-offs and tolerable living standards (and have to make up new words to describe a nebulous “crisis”) is bad because it generates real crises (avoiding trade-offs causes debt crises, grievance politics cause democratic crises).

Report from @csis.org: the Alabuga drone factory is 4-country joint effort: 🔹Iran provided the design and manufacturing expertise 🔹North Korea supplies mass labour 🔹China supplies batteries, engines, electronics, etc 🔹Russia built the factory and fires the drones at Ukraine

the right doesn't reject empathy entirely, they selectively deploy it. when a white person is murdered by an immigrant, for example, they will call upon your empathy. but empathy directed at their enemies is cast aside as toxic.

the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

"This hatred, it’s like a cancer. It spreads because people will always say, ‘Oh, it’s just the illegals.’ It’s not. “From what I experienced, it was anyone who was remotely different, different creed, different colour, different sexuality.” www.theargus.co.uk/news/2665180...

saw someone compare mamdani to goku and el-sayed to vegeta and that seems right to me

The Great Tolkien Reread encounters "Treebeard" today. In this essay, I argue that Treebeard is a second pass at the same ideas that went into Tom Bombadil, and that his success is rooted in the character's fundamental sense of tragedy. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

R.I.P. to all those tricked by Elizabeth Holmes but I'm different, and better, maybe even better than Elizabeth Holmes?

Good side-by-side comparison of Weidel & Le Pen in this thread. One important note to the similarities: they hate each other.

I think the realignment where republicans get Harry Potter yaoi was genuinely unexpected

A convening of dictators to plot out how to enslave the world

It's not a new trick, they've been doing it for years, you can tell the money spigot's been turned back on any time Jill Stein starts showing up again in your social media feeds

More or less the inevitable logic of the attention economy and tech companies deciding to monetize this instead of moderate it www.liberalcurrents.com/the-native-l...

“Playing at bigotry creates an environment for it, whatever our intentions may be.”

I lasted something like 3 days in a door-to-door sales job back in the day, but in fairness it was basically indistinguishable from a scam and I quit once I realised

I love the “not everyone can afford headphones” line. As if it’s obligatory to play shitty TikTok’s on public transport and you can’t possibly be expected to go 10 minutes without assaulting your eyeballs with mindless crap