This is important to keep in mind about the shameless and continuous dishonesty.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 5d ago

Like the hypocrisy and the open corruption, the naked, brazen lying is itself aspiring authoritarianism. They aren't lying to cover anything up. They're saying, "We know we're lying. You know we're lying. And we know you know we're lying. And there's nothing you can do about it."

Never has an American President so completely embodied the true spirit of that great warrior and leader His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al-Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada VC, DSO, MC, CBE

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · yesterday

This is a man who has a hard time looking in the mirror

When does the government intend to outlaw RTC as a terrorist organisation?

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d ago

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

But apparently it’s the immigrants and asylum seekers who are the danger.

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d ago

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

The High Court also heard RTC leader Ben Cullen had threatened physical violence to a resident removing flags, boasting that he was a “violent criminal” who had served 15 years in prison. Full report in today’s Clarion: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...

The Clarion, 4 August 2026

We're doing a rain dance. You? While we wait for some sorely needed water, here is some news, not all of it cheerful. Including less than savoury details about Raise the Colours; celebrating Oxford Ci...

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Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

correct are you serious about beating fascism or not? get in, we’re beating them in november you can be mad, you can be disappointed, but at the end of the day having someone with D in any and all seats is better than having someone with an R in them

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 16h ago

I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.

What should we do about prison over-crowding? At a conference a few years ago I was told that in Norway once convicted you don’t necessarily go to prison right away: you often have to wait for a place to come up, like you wait for an operation in the NHS. It’s a fascinatingly different perspective.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

like, i am not a marxist — but i am not *not* a marxist, because it’s completely insane to fully commit yourself to the ideology of someone who has been dead since long before the first computer came into existence. but you can learn a lot by reading thinkers if you don’t decide to put on a jersey!

Irate Historian (Pride Edition)@riceandsalt97.bsky.social · 2d ago

Like a lot of academic ideas, Marxism, when transmuted outside of the academy, got clipped of any nuance and intelligence and just became slop. “Economists are often constrained by their thinking and are shaped to prefer certain things” became “THE ENTIRE FIELD IS BUNK, DON’T BELIEVE THEIR LIES”.

corruption is going to be endemic to any economic system and any government, because it’s not about either of those, it’s about *people* and what we are and who we are and what we are willing to do and what we are not willing to do to enforce behavioral, legal and moral standards amongst ourselves

this is a real thing that happens a lot and it’s a total misunderstanding of capitalism and i really wish that more loud and online anti-capitalists would take the time to understand what it is they think they’re against, most of them are wrong about what they think they’re fighting

Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 3d ago

there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create

I *think* this is the experience of being a Centaur [per Cory Doctorow] and using AI as a personal tool

Elliot@1t2ls.bsky.social · 2d ago

I will try to explain, as someone who has had the experience. The tools are very powerful and they can keep pace with you on basically any topic imaginable. They can do ad hoc research, pull together hundreds of articles, make charts, build little apps.

His awful treatment of people always being extremely justified because the communist paradise would make everything worth it is exactly why I hate the Effective Altruists.

Protecting women, one unnecessary vulval examination at a time

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

this was brought up by & threshedthought last year, link to his thread about it 🔗 x.com/threshedthou...

Still important, still relevant. I listed a link to it myself just the other week, it was required reading for my MBA

Foreign Policy@foreignpolicy.com · 3d ago

A 50-year old book reveals the tendencies that undermine military competence—a century ago and today. Read our analysis for free:

Doing Origin Story reveals a few core narratives in history. One is: "This thing didn't really matter until right-wing journalists and activists twisted it into a moral panic that destroyed people's lives for no good reason and then moved on"

This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

The AI race will only become more competitive from here. The real prize isn't AI itself; it's the ability to shape the narratives that define our past, frame our present, and influence our future. bsky.app/profile/soci...

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · last mo.

This is why there's a race to control the answer machine. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

Question: Tell me what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Here are the answers from two popular open-source Chinese AI models.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 3d ago

"Most tech analysts are aware that Chinese models have Chinese Communist Party controls built into them, but the problem is often understood too narrowly. Many assume that these models simply refuse to answer politically sensitive questions..." www.worldpoliticsreview.com/china-ai-mod...

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

genuinely struggling to understand why the oil market seems to ready and willing to charlie brown and the football every time Trump is like "no for srs the war's about to end i mean it this time for real", making me question some of what i legitimately believed was true about the utility of markets

"When a university is bombed, it is not just a building that is destroyed but a place where thought is created... When a library is burned, the possibility for a young generation to engage with its past is burned." www.972mag.com/archiving-ga...

The battle to save Gaza’s cultural heritage

A new book documents efforts to preserve millennia of culture, refusing to surrender to the enclave’s destruction while laying foundations for its future.

972mag.com

His former wife would absolutely be doing these things to placate him to try to prevent him from hurting her and their child. This is basic domestic abuse dynamics.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."

“There’s zero direct evidence linking Israel to Moroccan migration to Spain, but it feels true because it’s the sort of thing they would do.” At some point this is indistinguishable from how Republicans talk about “voter fraud” and “stolen elections.”

Bob’s Your Uncle@bobsyouruncle.bsky.social · 3d ago

Zero direct evidence. There is in fact some smoke around this situation that makes it very suspicious

No, Israel, while a malign actor in its own right, is not responsible for every bad thing that happens in the world. And framing migrants as a danger in the first place is ultimately a far-right Great Replacement framing that reinforces the anti-Zionism of Tucker Carlson, not solidarity for all.

this is really just utterly appalling, we’re at the point where people who know better (Gorsuch) can dismantle the Trump lawyers in oral arguments and vote for them anyway because fuck you that’s why packing the court is the practical solution, they should be impeached, removed and disbarred

I will say, while we've often seen the far-right infosphere bleed into the far-left infosphere (TYT, Jimmy Dore, etc) this is the first time I think we've seen them actually fully unify on an issue. Fascists and communists are agreeing that the Jews are herding Africans to invade Europe.

ArgellaStone@argellastone.bsky.social · 3d ago

A lot of people decided that Spain was the moral center of the universe because of its government being ardently anti-Israel, and on finding out that it held territory in Africa and reacted to African refugees like all European countries do, panicked and decided they needed to blame the Jews.