the median midwestern voter loves two things: electing republicans and thwarting republican policy goals via ballot referendum
Pawel Swidlicki
@pswidlicki.bsky.social
Probably the only Wisła Kraków fan on bluesky.
I really hate the way Miller's rhetoric gets sanewashed like this. Abuse of Jewish students is not 'criticism of Israel' and even if 'anti-Zionism' is a protected political belief it can't override basic standards of professional conduct, especially in a senior/junior context.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21h ago'A university has lost its appeal after a tribunal ruled that it discriminated against an academic by sacking him over his anti-Zionist views and criticism of Israel.'
Funny that one of the big talking points from the administration was they had “rebuilt the military” then turned around and used up all the PRsM’s, ATACMS, and half the tomahawks on a idiotic war of choice in the Middle East
George Pearkes@peark.es · 2d agoOkay Reuters on a heater this morning *US ARMY USED 'VIRTUALLY ALL' LONG-RANGE PRECISION MISSILES:RTRS
Does she realise Dunkirk wouldn't have even been possible if French forces had surrendered as opposed to fighting a rearguard action which allowed the BEF to assemble in Dunkirk and the evacuation flotilla to be formed?
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d agoThe war. It always comes back to the war. That happened long before they were born.
I think that unless it's essential life-saving treatment, if you reject treatment from a non-white practitioner, then the NHS should be under no obligation to see you and you can go private news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism
Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."
news.sky.com
Senior Republican congressional staffer on trying to recruit new policy experts: “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”
Are Young Republicans Too Based to Work for Congress?
Party veterans are concerned that the pipeline of young Republican talent is veering off course — and into terminally online extremism.
politico.com
In China on holiday. It's wild. China in the American imagination: communist factory state full of worker drones destroying our industry and hostile to our civilisation China as I am seeing it: we have KFC, 7Eleven and McDonalds at the exit to all of our most important cultural heritage sites
Guess the robust masculinity you hear so much about these days means that terms and conditions apply even when it comes to defending your own family members
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 5d agoOhio Senator Bernie Moreno doesn’t have a lot of thoughts on Representative Max Miller, who allegedly abused Moreno’s daughter—and granddaughter. trib.al/8zWoptc
I wish the Conservatives were as alarmed as I am about them finishing *behind Restore* in the Greater Manchester byelection.
Really intrigued as to how the UK's largest businesses will respond if they do end up with a government where the response to warnings the climate crisis is threatening food security and driving up inflation will be 'no it isn't - don't worry about it'. www.businessgreen.com/news/4533668...
'Climate change is upon us': Tesco and Aldi join 100 leaders in demanding action to strengthen UK food security
Letter from UK food industry to new Prime Minister Andy Burnham warns that 'the next food shock is not a question of if, but when'
businessgreen.com
Trying to desert from the Tsarist Army (OK that's more like 110).
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
Huh weird turns out the police can also royally screw up rape and sexual offence cases in which the perpetrators are white males as well.
Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · 6d agoEvery detail of this is miserable and horrific and in a truly just world Tate will die in prison, but it's hard to get into the details of the various cases against him and not come away full of rage at the utter failings of police to take women seriously. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
OK, but what happens to the actual Mediterranean in this scenario? And everything else further south?
"He volunteered to launder Trump’s bellicose, bizarre acts by finding an intellectual coherence that isn’t there." And he's not that good at it. @joestieb.bsky.social on Elbridge Colby:
Elbridge Colby and the Art of Defending the Indefensible
Trump’s impulsive foreign policy of grudges, threats, and contempt for allies is a self-defeating mess. His suave sophist struggles to spin it as strategically sound.
lnk.thebulwark.com
The fallacy at the heart of Frost's piece is that the UK is somehow going it alone on net zero when other countries are also stepping up their efforts and will continue to do so as the impacts of climate change become increasingly severe, and so by definition, economically damaging.
Fires in France have now burned over 91,000 acres, by far the most of any year since the satellite record started in 2006. Current area burned is about 34x larger than this date in a typical (median) year:
67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult
67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report.
The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.
washingtonpost.com
Wrote about the stolen valor behind the racist backlash to Nolan’s adaptation of the Odyssey. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The evidence just keeps that mounting that, at the very least, Zach is somewhat careless. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reform UK reporting Green leader Zack Polanski to police over Instagram post
The post included a photo of a man wearing a top featuring the name "Nigel" alongside an image of a guillotine.
bbc.com
Suspect that Gianni might soon learn the lesson that many other people have learned the hard way, namely that getting into bed with Trump almost always ends badly for you www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Fifa president Gianni Infantino called to appear before Congress over Trump ties
Democrat Jamie Raskin pushes Fifa to release records of contact with Trump, administration and family business
theguardian.com
Not enough attention has been paid to just how destructive Kemi Badenoch’s plan to withdraw from the ECHR would be. It wouldn’t just be internationally damaging but would have profound domestic consequences too. My latest open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...
One of several things that fascinates me about the US right is how they simultaneously do this performative hyper-masculinity (c.f. the whole Sydney Sweeney discourse) and then on the other this weird abstinence thing.
Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · last wk.Looks like Abstinence Only is back on the menu, boys www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
NEW: UK journalists are self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised in newsrooms. The abuse now means some journalists are changing what they write about… Grim findings: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
UK journalists are self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’
Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’
theguardian.com
Yes, I do think journalists find it easier to deal with outright abuse by brushing it off as opposed to be more substantive criticism from within their own peer group.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2w agoA lot of criticism of the White House press corps on Bluesky tonight, primarily coming from a journalism as fourth estate, truth to power, informing the public, valuing free speech perspective. In case you were wondering why many prominent media figures prefer spending time on X.
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Endlessly fascinating how many in the Tories and Labour combine an obsessive preference for two-partyism and a hatred of the internal pluralism needed to have the big tents required for a two-party system. The cost of ideologically pure silos is external pluralism.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w agoTory party ‘bans’ candidates who don’t back its human rights and net zero pledges ft.trib.al/6Q5KBLD
Bari Weiss, Seth Mandel, Jonathan Greenblatt, Sarah Hurwitz etc your boys have taken a hell of a beating
Never understood why commentators who vociferously profess to care about Israel's safety have failed to see how damaging Netanyahu's strategy is.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoEnten on the 67 point swing (!!!) against Israel among Americans: "We're not just talking about the Democratic base anymore. The general electorate has turned against Israel. This is not just a left issue. It's an American issue. The trend line is unbelievable."