Insane thing for a White House Press Secretary to say

Trumpism is a Christian nationalist movement sorry not sorry

Nick Schwellenbach has shared this message that was sent to the entire FBI workforce from Acting Director Brian Driscoll

The TLDR is that Trump is demanding records on everyone who investigated the Jan 6 riots

Hate to be a doomer, but this is a major attack on the rule of law

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social sorry to be the bearer of bad news but i think your twitter account may have been hacked - unless you are really into Green Coin?

On American Oligarchy and the threat thereof - I stumbled across an insane example of how wealth inequality has accelerated

Just 10 years ago, you needed 50 oligarchs to equal the wealth of bottom half of the United States.

Today you only need two - Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos

He does have this weird idea that beer is better in a China mug?

Haven’t tried, probably won’t, sounds weird

Can’t get it all right

…in more ways the one

Orwell definitely split the G

Particularly interested in this part where he talks about pubs as community places and not just crack dens for alcohol

Also note his recognition that excluding children, in practice, means excluding women

With loneliness etc through the roof, he kinda nails it

Ahead of his time…

We were talking about the joys of the old man boozer on R2 today and I was reminded of George Orwell’s incredible essay on the qualities of a great pub

a genuinely hilarious and insightful read on what seems like a trivial topic from the 🐐

Seen people dunking on this and though idk about dictators themselves being doctors, cognitively/emotionally speaking, authoritarianism is 100% associated with feelings of disgust (and therefore purification) that are rooted in an evolutionary aversion to disease etc

Soooo kind of a based take?

i'm reading Annie Jacobsen's book about nuclear war and it includes some genuinely insane details about how the end of the world would actually go down

like the US President having 6 mins to decide how America should respond to a first strike while being evacuated from the White House - crazy

late posting this here but I recently made my Quillette debut writing about how Russia avoids Western sanctions...

apologies for the cringe but as a *working class lad* I feel v lucky to be writing essays on foreign affairs - so read it! And tell everyone its great so I can write more xx

link 👇