🇦🇺 Today is publication day for the Australian edition of our graphic novel, YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION! It will also be out in the UK next month. And what a better way to kick things off — than with this incredible feature in The Guardian!

Gen Z ‘Chinamaxxers’ fantasise about life in China. This journalist and this artist can never go back there

A graphic novel by Melissa Chan and Badiucao imagines China and the US at war in 2035. They hope to remind young people that ‘authoritarianism everywhere is bad’

theguardian.com

in 1989 francis fukuyama invented the clickbait title and has been punished for his sins ever since

It's true, the claim more left-wing economic policy will weaken far-right popularity has been proven wrong. But the claim that adopting some of the far-right's social policy will weaken far-right popularity has also been proven wrong. Other people being wrong doesn't automatically make you right.

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

I've been spending thousands of dollars at the supermarket every year, voluntarily exchanging money for food to feed my family. That's thousands of dollars I lost! So unfair. How could the store do this to me? Something must be done.

Ivan the K ™@ivanthek.bsky.social · last wk.

I think the economists' term for this interpretation of international trade is "fucking bullshit."

Maybe he’s taken a very large position in the prediction markets on Democrats doing well in the midterms

Politico@politico.com · last wk.

Trump announces 50 percent tariff increase on Canada for vehicles, steel after trade talks collapse

If I turn up at the physics department ranting about the ether nobody is obliged to pretend that I must be given a job.

Patrick Sturgis@patricksturg.bsky.social · last wk.

How about refuting them on theoretical and empirical grounds? That is kind of how science works. It doesn’t work by calling people names, refusing to engage with their claims and attempting to get them fired.

oh the problems they said weren’t happening? those problems?

the paper responsible for reporting on Watergate: actually Haldeman did nothing wrong

Not that anything matters anymore, but Oman hosts U.S. forces including USAF air wings alongside allowing us access to naval support facilities at Duqm. Great coalition building Mr. President! Very reassuring to our security partners!

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our goal in the war we started Having failed to achieve any goals we had at the start Is now to undo some of the damage we caused to ourselves Which we are also failing at While swallowing other losses that are entirely our fault And leaving ourselves weaker While hoping you don’t notice

Brian Finucane@bcfinucane.bsky.social · 3w ago

“That’s goal No. 1 — keep oil and gas cheap for Americans all over our country.” Goal No. 1 is undoing the mess created by POTUS. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/l...

Good morning. Someone is always going to make money on housing. I would rather see developers make money building new homes for people to live in than the situation we have now, where landlords and property owners are getting rich off of housing scarcity.

Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

thenation.com

Is this just business as usual in politics? No. Approval rates of federal disaster aid requests were about the same regardless of the state and did not vary much with the party of the President. This graph powerfully conveys the scale of the partisan discrimination now.

Prediction markets are not predictive and should not be covered as news

Sounds bad

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3w ago

RBADVISERS: “.. Yet another inflation impulse. The US basically has NO STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE (SPR) anymore.”

Wow, the president was really asleep at the wheel in 2020

Well, I’ll let you hear it from the presiding officer…

ringwiss@ringwiss.bsky.social · last mo.

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Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

We are losing a war, but ...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Trump: "Now we have a big decision to make. Do we take the pavers that are red -- the red, brick pavers -- and do we change them into a granite?"

time to reup this classic

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4w ago

“.. The president is ‘furious’ with Pirro, one of the sources said, telling CNN that he fumed about her all weekend.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...

Is there a connection between opulence and the decline of empire? Who cares, suggests Chad Mizelle, Trump's 2025 former Deputy Attorney General, as he comments on the tourism draw of gilded statues and the "opulence of the epicenter of once-great civilizations," without a shred of self-awareness.

🤯

Glaxton T. FireTheWholeDamnBullpenWolf@8stringandsushi.bsky.social · 4w ago

This war is now a Teams meeting.

So… they’re working

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering

These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races

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The president is just a smol bean.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Sen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."

Singing “Happy Birthday” to A Horse with No Name and watching the realization on everyone’s faces as we get closer to the end of of the song

The point of the famous "drunk driving" dril tweet is still true without the word "drunk", but you guys aren't ready for this conversation.