Just listened to this. I thought I was the only one who remembered that Captain America Bicentennial comic!

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.

Hmmmmmm.

I was out shoveling show for the city of New York during the blizzards. You're welcome.
It was both miserable and very satisfying work from 8pm to 4am.

Local police chiefs* breaking publicly with ICE and distancing themselves from it is an absolutely good and important development.

* who, yes, still have many of their own real problems, thank you, no one hear needs this lecture right now, thank you, yes, I'm glad you took a class on it, thank you

the SNL cold open writes itself

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

Tough split screen for the White House

As Trump passes the 1-hour mark of his remarks (on the left of the screen)... the DOW is down more than 900 points (on the bottom right)

A hand – spoiler, it’s mine – holds a pale blue paperback book. It’s called “SO YOU WANT TO OWN GREENLAND? LESSONS FROM THE VIKINGS TO TRUMP”

I’ll say this for the publishing industry: they’re bloody fast.

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

Turnberry Golf Course to be officially renamed Shit Holes, until all American tariffs on the UK are removed. #voteBinface

Seems unfair that you only get to use the bouncy slide to get off a plane when things have gone wrong. The bouncy slide should be a treat they give to the best passengers who did the flight correctly.

I would love to experience being in Dan Hannan's brain. Just for a little bit. What's it like to never worry about making a mistake? To just breeze merrily through a life where every wrong turn confirms your belief that you're smarter than the map?

John Boorman is 93.
This anecdote about him & Lee Marvin has quite the punchline.

Screenshot of Grok web interface showing a query "Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict. One word answer only." with the AI's thinking process displayed, including "Thought for 42s", analysis stating "The user likely wants a simple stance, but the issue's complexity suggests caution" and "I'm considering searching for recent views to inform my response", followed by a "Planning research approach" section mentioning searching for "Elon Musk's stance on the conflict to guide my answer" and noting "The response must be one word, so no citations will be included", with a search interface showing "Searching × for 'from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)'" displaying results including "@elonmusk" accounts, "Israel", "29 × posts", "10 web pages"

If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks

I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

I find myself going there out of habit because I haven’t properly curated my follow list over here. It’s horrible though.

But I came here specially to tell you that you must watch Strange Darling as soon as possible. It’s amazing.

If you have a Reform councillor now, monitor their attendance at council meetings. Let everyone know all the times they can’t be bothered to show up, which will be a hell of a lot if their dear leader is anything to go by.

Few things certain anymore. But expect over the next four years almost every one of the US’s ‘allies’ will end up saying something very similar.

The only question is how long it takes.

Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

“MY WIFE DOESN’T KNOW” I text to my wife

You’re playing 9 dimensional chess. Of course if you kep your phone and didn’t go looking for it you could be playing minesweeper

And pubs

Spoof text screen showing "Pintglass Pete" discussing Operation: Nuke France

Look, these messages could mean anything.

I’m pretty sure they have been discussing this for a long time behind the scenes

If you can “sneak onto” a signal chat, prolly shouldn’t have used signal right?

I didn’t say everyone. I was obviously referring to the PM. And while I would, in some ways, quite like it if he came out and stated the obvious security issues political realities mean otherwise.

It’s why I’m not PM.

Don’t be silly Ed. Of course he knows the risks but he also can’t say it publicly.

Well as a registered Democrat at least he lowered the average threat level to democracy of the group

I never thought I would watch a show where the removal of kidney stones over a couple of episodes would be so gripping

I had to check they really used children at school desks as props for Trump dismantling the Department of Education.