One interesting note is the most recent poll -- post tariffs ruling -- shows Republican confidence has dropped too. Will that trend continue if court clips Trump's wings on, say birthright citizenship? And would that lead to a rise in Democratic confidence?
NEW: Confidence in the Supreme Court has dropped to a new low, according to the latest NBC News polling.
Details:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
just remember all of the times we were lectured by people with very important positions in politics, news, and commentaries that we were not only wrong but harmful in suggesting Trump and the people around him were dumb, incurious, and careless, as this was disrespectful to the Holy Republican Voter
Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else?
Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.
Between population estimates, any drop in immigrants is presumed to be offset 1:1 by more native-born workers. This is a complicated fact, but one that workers at the Department of Labor should understand and not misuse for vapid propaganda purposes
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...
Have you seen these claims from the Trump admin saying US-born workers gained 2.5M jobs in 2025?
Well, they were wrong—updated population estimates released today knocked native-born employment by 2.5M.
“Traders are selling Russian Urals to India at a premium of $4-$5 per barrel to Brent on a delivered basis upon arrival at Indian ports in March and early April, Reuters reported on Thursday, after the US gave Indian refiners a waiver to resume buying Russian oil.”
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
It costs US military $1 to $3Billion a day inflicting death & destruction in Iran
President Eisenhower:"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies...a theft from those who hunger & are not fed, those who are cold & are not clothed."
www.edchange.org/multicultura...
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
Disabled people being pushed into poverty.
People with disabilities need support, not benefit cuts.
Requirement to score 4 points for an activity leads to loss of PIP support.
Govts attack human welfare whilst promoting corporate welfare.
We are all one event away from needing disability support
Competition regulator allows additional 2% -4% increase in England water bills on appeal.
Regulators side with industry.
Companies to collect more money from captive customers, dump sewage in rivers, pay dividends, exorbitant exec pay.
Rip-off continues. Who protects people?
omg, blink and you'll miss it but there I am at about 0:50!
tbh this means that it is very hard to interpret the economic deprivation measures because it's clear that the salience of immigration has to be driven by the proportion of retired people in these regions rather than anything economic.
Think Tank established exclusively to lobby for lower oil prices suggests strategy to lower oil prices shock …
Sienna Rodgers @siennama... • 51m NEW: My interview with Green leader Zack Polanski X • He's been speaking to a "handful" of Labour MPs about defecting to the Greens • There is a "sensitive and nuanced conversation" around Zionism - but he won't disavow the "Zionism is racism" motion • Explains why he criticised Corbyn for Labour antisemitism but doesn't now: "I believed what I was reading" • Blames bots for the online abuse targeted at him • How his upbringing shaped his politics • Will run for a parliamentary seat - nothing outside London, and not the mayoralty - and confirms one plan is to succeed, not beat, Diane Abbott
“I believed what I was reading” is IMO perfectly reasonable for a whole hell of a lot of absolutely insane fraudulent shit in the late-Brexit era. Surely our political/media class wouldn’t unite in cynicism and/or idiocy to just foghorn drivel at the public, as if it was all real. That’s crazy!
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
All of these people made their choices. These are the consequences.
If we ever started admitting just how horrific this stuff has been for years and decades, well, where would it ever end? It’d be annihilating. Better to just lock it up, deny everything and go along with it all.
It didn’t help that Tony Blair - whose continued presence and high status is apparently non-negotiable - is an absolutely crazed Israel partisan and clash-of-civilisations wingnut, whether out of his deranged personal convictions or just for self-preservation.
And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide. And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", and they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly. On the other side of them, we have people who are saying in full fucking voice, "No, we have the resources to save everybody, to give everybody a decent and worthwhile existence, and that is what we want." And that is the fucking real difference between these two, and you can tell that to the next asshole who tells you that they're actually two sides of the same coin."
And it’s not like the guy from Chapo Trap House was wrong about what this always was, considered broadly.
(Sorry, that first tweet should’ve said “clear in the 2010s”. You could see all of these dorks were lining up on the same side, guns pointing in the same direction, no later than the Charlottesville torchlit Nazi rally. All these guys knew exactly what they were and what they were doing together)
Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social • 12m The world we live in... The Jerusalem Post publishes an op-Ed by English far-right thup and serial criminal "Tommy Robinson." Following the Israeli government's increasing embrace of even the most extreme far right in Europe and beyond. = THEJERUSALEM POST Jerusalem Post / TOMMY ROBINSON TOMMY ROBINSON Tommy Robinson is a British patriot, street-level activist, and unapologetic truth-teller who has spent two decades exposing the rot in Britain's
I think it was pretty clear in the 2020s that fascism across the white-people world was an international movement, and that its adherents were far more closely aligned with each other than they were with their compatriots. Is this not the underlying point of the Trump-Putin stuff, after all?
Cclegraph 'Cambridge has been infected by trans activism. We're launching a battle for women's rights'
Again, the business of British newspapers is in large part just recruiting and exploiting the most bizarre cranks you can find for your horrible, unrelenting reactionary projects. IIRC the one on the right here is the daughter of a Times arts columnist, who is also a committed Gender War wacko.
I mean, what? We saw the largest far right mobilisation since before World War II on the streets of London last year, and our Sensible newspapers swarmed to instruct us we must respect the attendees. Our Sensible politicians went on TV to reassure everyone that they too love England flags. The end.
If you'd told me maybe three years ago that a UK news channel would be platforming someone to set out openly racist, far right, violent conspiracy theories, I would’ve said: What, even worse than the ones they’ve been actively promoting for about ten years?
If you'd told me maybe three years ago that a UK news channel would be platforming someone to set out openly racist, far right, violent conspiracy theories, I'm not sure I'd have believed you. And yet here we are. • Sunder Katwala (sun... @sunde... • 5h "There's a genocide happening in this island because it is being taken over by affiferent people that are not indigenous to this land" "I would love to know where you are planning to go when they really turn on us. Because it has happened before + will happen again"
The Times used its initial reporting on the abuse gangs in England as an excuse to declare war on liberalism, multiculturalism and the left broadly as a dire, immediate threat to Our Women, in 2011. And they have relentlessly pursued that war ever since at escalating intensity.
this is good journalism by the guardian, which will be ignored by their politics people - the ones who go on tv and the radio.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Particularly at the Guardian, where wild enthusiasm for the crank Labour right has long been acutely localised to management, the politics desk and a few of the arsier columnists.
Was it only the Labour Party that repeatedly and very belligerently insisted that this was excellent political strategy, and that the public would love it? And that this was so obviously correct, so clearly undeniable, that only stupid or crazy people would resist it.
Retreating to ethnonationalism marks, predominantly, the capitulation of the economic case of the political right. That’s not because e.g. free markets have been discredited but because the manner in which they governed concentrated power/wealth, protected incumbent moats and eroded state capacity.
