smkali.bsky.social @smkali.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A big thing Burnham has done with his speech is move the political agenda onto friendlier ground. 030
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION????? 1454291436
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialRevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Cornell rapists. Not one is trans. Not one is a drag queen. Not one is an immigrant. Not one identifies as a radical feminist, a radical Muslim or a radical leftist. But those are the people we’re supposed to be afraid of? 728149
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialSeleucid Dreamer @smollusk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Republicans are evil and want to kill and terrorize millions but Democrats are annoying and that's worse" is so incredibly predictable the mating call of people who have never had any actual problems 246155
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialEd Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.socialsammatey.substack.comHappy Stanislav Petrov DayTake five minutes to not destroy civilization 252104930
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 26/09/2026It often feels after reading these essays and post-mortems like Labour's target voter is a functionally literate 55-year-old miner, living in a company cottage with an outside toilet. And somehow, nobody seems to have noticed that he died in 1983. 815923
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7459752000
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialCraig Dawson @dossa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminded of this - India and Pakistan fans at the cricket watching the England football team in a penalty shootout against the Swiss in the last Euros. youtube.com/shorts/vbdYn...youtube.comIndia & Pakistan cricket fans unite for England at EurosYouTube video by Brown Town Rising 1375
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.social🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121825169
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialMichael Shepherd @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Absolutely! On local media and polarization: www.niemanlab.org/2019/02/want... . On effects of local tv news and rural voters: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... and www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... . On local news ownership: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... . I focus on rural news deserts in my book 021
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialJonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Vaccine-advocates are often accused of "blindly suggesting vaccines" or being in a "cult." But how do vaccine-advocates react when vaccines fail in trials? They acknowledge it 100% of the time. Always. What does that say about the vaccines we suggest? My latest featuring @boghuma.bsky.social.sciencebasedmedicine.orgVaccine-Advocates Didn’t Advocate for Moderna’s Failed CMV Vaccine. What Does That Reveal About the Vaccines We Do Advocate For?A vaccine-advocates in a cult? 05114
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My kids have measles, I can't afford gas, my country has been humiliated by Iran, and our senile rapist president is going to allow unregulated AI to destroy our civilization. But a lesbian bar in a town I've never heard of still has a mask mandate. I have never felt more politically homeless. 352567394
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A) 70/80 hour weeks? Right. When are you working on air con? 9 at night? B) NHS, free education, welfare system, bin collections, roads, wider state services. Go fuck yourself Dave 4763299
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialSharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 22/09/2026The real problem isn't that he's rich, insufferable, full of shit, or even that he's a landlord. It's the trick whereby a person's own success is presented as proof that structural constraints don't exist. “I managed it” becomes “anyone can”. “Anyone can” becomes “poverty is your own fault”. 1149748
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialSharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 22/09/2026A landlord making £100,000 a month says young people have “no excuse to be poor”. Excellent. I love financial advice. Gather round, children, let's examine how he himself stopped being poor. metro.co.uk/2026/09/20/i...metro.co.ukI’m a landlord making £100,000 a month — young people have no excuse to be poorSamuel bought his first home aged 17 with a 100% mortgage. 59546219
smkali.bsky.social @smkali.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is such a good point. The press took a white academic's alleged criminality much less seriously than a black academic alleged plagiarism. 000
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026That wouldn't happen to be tax paid on profits made, in no small part, from the delusions and often outright misery of thousands upon thousands of his fellow countrymen, would it?ft.comUK’s top taxpayer says he would ‘not wish to be reborn’ in BritainBetfred founder Fred Done threatens 500 shop closures over tax rises that have left him fearful for the UK’s prospects 93610149
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk. 571263304
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialJonathan Roberts @jonroberts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Can we stop conflating legitimate concern with plausible concern. All concerns are legitimate to the person who has them. My daughter has a legitimate concern about monsters under the bed. That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t try to disabuse her of this notion. 031
smkali.bsky.social @smkali.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is what just a delay in the vaccination caused. Absolutely tragic. 010
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026I think we as a society need to reconsider allowing the mustache-no-beard look to return to the mainstream. 2111410
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/09/2026🚨Theresa May: "Crypto assets are used by people who want to avoid anybody knowing what they are doing." "And in terms of our democracy and political parties, donations to parties or candidates, we actually want the transparency of knowing who is doing that donation, who is making those donations." 30439118
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/09/2026Excellent letter in The Times. "Greater hate hath no person than to accuse those who put their lives on the line for others of being traitors." 11954349
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialMatthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026None of these AI companies is trustworthy but in terms of engagement with politics what OpenAI is doing is uniquely destructive. www.slowboring.com/p/a-simple-p... 510521
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/09/2026"when I listen to Democratic voters, they’re not asking for ideological recalibration or even policy specifics. ... Instead, the Democratic voters I’m listening to are almost universally asking a different question: Why aren’t you fighting harder?"theatlantic.comVoters Have a Message for DemocratsWhat I learned from 400 focus groups 22847181
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 484297717663
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia. 5953724313389
smkali.bsky.social @smkali.bsky.social · 13/09/2026We should make more videos like this. Hopefully with less obvious AI 010
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The UK now needs to introduce political spending limits across a parliament, not just for election campaign years. Otherwise, its election spending rules could fall over. Current rules: parties have a limit (about £34m) for 12 months before an election - but no limits outside the 12 month period. 11444139
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Everyone still using X is using a website that produces and distributes CSAM. It is disgusting and immoral and nobody has any excuse for not being fully aware at this point. 16892311
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Caps on donors would apply to future donations, so parties can get around this by getting the £ in quickly if they have a couple of billionaire friends. But caps on aggregate spending would apply to what parties can legitimately do with new resources, or with existing resources and assets. 1121
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialEd @notdred.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I guess it’s important to communicate that MAHA is fundamentally an movement by individuals to capture health care dollars by lying to people about having products and services that work 594735913
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/09/2026If every statement about Extinction Rebellion had opened with "Climate change is the single biggest issue facing humanity, and we understand why people have legitimate concerns the world isn't doing enough to tackle it…" this approach might be *faintly* defensible. But they didn't, and it isn't. 12730279
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialTom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 05/09/2026almost word for word 363653847
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/09/2026There's an argument for calling them masked thugs, because that is factually true. There's an argument for calling them pathetic cosplaying loser incels, also true, and laughing at them damages their tough-guy self image and hurts recruitment. There is no argument for calling them protesters. 351441341
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialSusan 🐝🐓🪴🌻🇪🇺🇺🇦 @susanf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The way Farage laughs and encourages the violent response is sickening. That man should be nowhere near the levers of power in a normal society. He is scum, his supporters are scum. 1258152
smkali.bsky.social @smkali.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I saw the clip of Milo talking about ICE detention and he seemed genuinely shaken & remorseful. I don’t think he’s lying. The question is how long it’ll last when his job is being a far right provocateur. I’ve seen too many people switch back to have much hope. 000
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialJosh Linden @joshlinden.bsky.social · 03/09/2026An incredible example of how institutionalized car culture is The parking lot, and the car they drove, are somehow naturally occurring and completely unseen as choices that engineered away physical activity Instead, it's the electric mobility devices that are threats to our way of life 334544
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise is a simple, correct one: you can't trust what Big Tech says in its promises to a local community. 522525502
smkali.bsky.social @smkali.bsky.social · 02/09/2026They should only be available to the visually impaired, until Meta can prove they can’t be used to invade privacy 000
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialThe Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Obnoxious take but I think it has some validity: I completely understand why MacKenzie Scott is spending money on practical causes, but I really fucking wish she'd buy the LA Times and 100 local newspapers and TV stations instead, because $26 billion buys a lot of fucking leverage 113626
smkali.bsky.social @smkali.bsky.social · 01/09/2026If I was a billionaire, and I was 100% selfish, I would be pouring money into medical research, especially cancer. Steve Jobs died of cancer at 56, how can they think they're immune? I'm willing to bet Jobs would have given his whole fortune away to live just 10 more years. 000
smkali.bsky.social @smkali.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This reminds me of what my friend said about fire alarms. Start moving the minute you hear it. Waiting to get your stuff / find out if it's a drill could kill you if it's a real event. Just move and figure the rest of the stuff out later. 0191
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 31/08/2026First, obviously this is a lunkhead thing to say. Second, trade wars are a function of your economic weight sure, but like real wars they're heavily dependent on national will and pain tolerance. Americans do not want this nonsense and are not prepared to suffer for it. 89717
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialCorey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Time to break out this banger: 28014
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Once again i'd like someone to ask the immigration restrictionists 'how are you going to pay for this?' 712535
Reposted by @smkali.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 25/08/2026How do I get it to "persuade the government to regulate social media effectively"? 01255
