Rhys Needham

despite extraordinarily stiff competition from the Roberts Court, Citizens United keeps its place as one of the most damaging Supreme Court decisions of all time

‘Naming them is not justice’: robodebt victims feel let down by findings of corruption watchdog Nacc report into unlawful scheme found senior public servants engaged in corrupt conduct but declined to refer them for charges in what victims call a ‘massive letdown’

Jenny Miller, the mother of Rhys Cauzzo, who took his own life in January 2017 while facing Centrelink debts of about $17,000, said the report was a “massive letdown” and conceded her fight for accountability and justice “just pretty much stops from today”.

Officer having anxiety attack took ambulance sent for man dying from police shooting, report says A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

these guys are gonna pop back up when a dem is president and like nothing happened opine that some policy or other is "bad for the economy." they must be mercilessly struck about the snout with rolled up newspapers and ordered to lie down.

one upside of all of this is the revelation that the swinging dick bankers and big rah rah capital execs and billionaires are actually meek little scared dogs and president AOC or whoever (god willing) should walk them on a leash and make them drink out of a bowl

Website of people scared to answer their phone or put a child on a school bus has thoughts on how fun and badass shoplifting is (or, more likely, would be)

I think people are overrating the odds the ayatollah is a purely rational utility maximizer and underrating the odds the guy is rather upset about his father, wife, and daughter being incinerated and wants his pound of flesh.

There's something deeply amusing in an ironic sense about watching people who criticized U.S. COIN campaigns for lacking strategic coherence cheer on the Iran campaign, seemingly completely oblivious to the similar disconnect between tactical proficiency and political ends.

Exclusive | Hezbollah terrorists launch 100 rockets at Israel — overwhelming the Iron Dome “The IDF will not tolerate any harm to Israeli civilians and will forcibly respond against any threat posed to the State of Israel,” an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said.

"overwhelming Israel’s lauded Iron Dome system so much that only half were shot down"

Seattle NIMBYs:

We must appeal this growth plan because the Orcas cannot afford housing in Seattle if we build 4plexes

Imagine having to sit thru this

ooh decisions decisions

Hence all the jokes in the Life of Brian.

Socrates. Not the Brazillian footballer.

No written sources of his own.

80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

The 3 genders

Scranton, Pa., Republican

Daily Worker

March 11, 1926: Italy’s Senate approves a law that effectively abolishes unions and gives Mussolini’s regime broad power to regulate industry and arbitrate labor disputes. The dictator calls it “the most audacious, most courageous and most revolutionary” step by Fascism.

Here's @oliverdarcy.bsky.social with a point I should have given more thought to.

David Ellison keeps saying that the “editorial independence” of CBS News must be “maintained." Sounds good, right? But think about it. If you really wanted an independent newsroom would you choose a newbie to run it?

One for @actualnames.bsky.social

6-inch platforms?

Once again, the British electorate finds itself woefully out of touch with the Conservative Party and must apologise.

Preparing reading questions for my students on James Scott's Seeing Like a State, and it's just full of little delights. Such as:

"Telling a farmer only that he is leasing twenty acres of land is about as helpful as telling a scholar that he has bought six kilograms of books."

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Meanwhile over on Twitter everyone is losing their mind over a change to the design on the banknotes that they haven't used in six years.

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Everything is bad, but at least I can focus on my dissertation chapter about how the British in 1915 didn’t have the navy to force a strait when it needed to because it spent the previous decades funding their army’s misadventures in unimportant areas that turned into expensive quagmires.

Getting the ice cubes stuck up their nose as a result has sent them around the bend even further (an old Lenny Bruce joke)?

There are times I suspect the likes of Alan Brooke and many others in the War Cabinet would have loved to have seen Churchill replaced with a squirrel. An especially inspirational talking squirrel, that is.

istg the first party to promise covering veterinary care for pets under the NHS will rule this country forever

Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children.

A major throughline of the Trump administration.

Exclusive | Justice Department Probes Iran’s Use of Binance to Evade Sanctions The investigation is focused on money flowing through the crypto platform to a network that backs terror groups, including Yemen’s Houthi militants.

Recall that Binance co-founder CZ was pardoned by President Trump last October.

When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.

One of my favourite literary put-downs is from Douglas Adams's The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Zaphod Beeblebrox, who often reacts in erratic ways, claims to be “pretty dangerous when I'm cornered,” to which Ford Prefect responds “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.”