Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Turning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW. 531934540
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026this shit is beyond parody, man. It truly is the make a wish presidency. now Trump is getting an award! 8604345974
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026i've never seen a human head shaped like this before 4751920198
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialThe Economist @economist.com · 29/09/2026The point of Donald Trump’s campaign against the press is not necessarily to win each fight but to wear the enemy down. Register for free to learn why bit.lyDonald Trump will lose his latest media battleEven so, his fight with the press is taking a toll 4157
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just because I strongly oppose any measure to tackle Russian misinformation, doesn’t mean I’m on Russia's side. In unrelated news, one of the few times I bothered turning up for work as an MEP was to vote AGAINST measures to tackle the spread of Russian misinformation... 281104337
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just me saying that any effort to tackle misinformation must be an attack on Reform, thereby admitting that Reform are helping Russia to spread far right narratives and create dissent and unrest. 701383432
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026hahaha! reminds me of this gem: 751826136
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialNick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Other officials tell a different story. As the U.S. military faces relentless attacks on its bases, the Iran conflict is “ultimately unsustainable,” one U.S. official told @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/09/15/i...theintercept.comIran War Has the U.S. Military on the Brink of a “Breakdown”As the U.S. military faces relentless attacks on its bases, the Iran conflict is “ultimately unsustainable,” one U.S. official told The Intercept. 40539162
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 15/09/2026Here's the video that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tried so hard to hide of him vacationing with his mistress in London that he allegedly lunged at an American tourist who recorded it. Share! 611179493
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026Freudian slip -- Mike Johnson refers to Trump's administration as "this regime" 1112014519
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialMarina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Just imagine how much disinformation and micro targeting £72m gets you… Shame on the leaders who did nothing to protect democracy from the assault coming its way …as if we learnt nothing from Brexit. 1062236601
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Tommy Robinson: Where’s the Money Gone? review – endless shocking allegations www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...theguardian.comTommy Robinson: Where’s the Money Gone? review – endless shocking allegationsFrom his claim of being ‘de-banked’ to a disturbing detail about a rape survivor’s story being used to fundraise, this film puts big questions to the co-founder of the English Defence League. But it i... 614937
stevopants.bsky.social @stevopants.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Not to state the obv. but rich become conservative and right wing because they dont want change. The staggering level of wealth now at the top and means to use it to control I wonder have never been so globally aligned. Unless we close the wealth gap we are fucked. 030
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This is deeply shocking. 4402236996
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialNadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Can’t quite get over the fact a party that waxes lyrical about how they are patriots and represent the views of the common Brit have admitted on camera they can’t get any British donors 😭 What a time to be alive 534085
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I can't remember a clearer smoking gun than that Channel 4 News footage. Nigel Farage and his senior aides all filmed discussing apparent plans to break the law by funnelling foreign money into British politics, plans which at least partly went ahead. A criminal investigation surely must follow 1283186848
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...channel4.comExclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donationsUndercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 391212347
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The Times & Telegraph laundered illicitly funded Reform polls onto their front pages as ‘exclusives’ yet not a single word on their sites. UK political journalism is so very broken 16806218
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... hugeyoutu.beUndercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plotYouTube video by Channel 4 News 802530932
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science. 293210815
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialGeek Ken @geekken.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Been thinking a lot about this quote from Roger Ebert today. 550298
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Today I've learned that Dolly Parton gave Black high schools band uniforms and wrote Eminem a nice letter when he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 132091342
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2026Seriously, what is going on with Trump’s rear end here? It looks like he has some sort of contraption back there 221655951338
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 16/08/2026A real question: What is a specific thing Trump has done that is *not* consistent with his being a paid agent of Russia, China, or NorK? (I *don't* think he is paid agent. Just vain, greedy, resentful, and ignorant. But old category of 'useful idiot' may be of use here, from RUS/PRC/NKor POV.) 1331792396
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This article quotes Matthew Elliot & Toby Young on how Arron Banks is a threat to free speech. There aren’t enough lolz in my body to respond to that. These men. All these men. Completely silent for the years when Banks waged a brutal & highly public war on my reporting 17986332
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Arron Banks is smack bang in middle of latest Farage scandal, threatening & surveillance journalists & the absence of reporting on his previous form in this area is…well, what? Answers on a postcard, please. It’s not me who’s being gaslit here. It’s anyone with eyes. 291106475
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 28/07/2026maybe you see this and think "wow hannity is pathetic" or "trump is so small he demands obsequiousness even at someone else's funeral" I see this and think it is just an absolute delight that even at his own funeral nobody gives a shit about Lindsey Graham 3259092
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 28/07/2026DNA Evidence Frees Black Man Convicted Of Bear Attack 231517168
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Just an absolute shout out to everyone out there who helped manufacture doubt around the question of this guy being a Nazi, particularly after the Nazi salute. 16878501887
stevopants.bsky.social @stevopants.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Bad Will Hunting where he is well behaved but only average at maths. He is content with his janitor job. 000
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialChauman @chaudman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026This remains the greatest video on the internet. youtu.be/aGguPXnnw6E?...youtu.beBlack history month on BT sportYouTube video by Sultan Iqbal 1419155
stevopants.bsky.social @stevopants.bsky.social · 24/07/2026There can't be many more stronger metaphors for the state of climate change action than this. 1162
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/07/2026At one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis." Musk literally just shrugs. 1212599693
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/07/2026lmao somebody gave Trump a baby chair. look at how low he's sitting! 82839119
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21/07/2026oh is it time for quarterly performance reviews alreadypolitico.comFBI Director Kash Patel plans Russia tripThe plans come as the U.S. and Russia have failed to come to terms on ending the war in Ukraine. 501195200
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Reform UK's Zia Yusuf is currently delivering a speech accusing his party's critics of using language that will put his colleagues' lives at risk. In other news, here's Zia Yusuf two months ago 641204468
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 14353961168
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Understand, this is the Reform leadership purposely attacking the accountability structures that functional democracies rely on this. What they're doing is fundamentally anti-democratic, not just political gamesmanship. Don't expect them to be any different if they win the general election. 1214224
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Robert Jenrick, Reform UK’s Treasury spokesperson, has joined the campaign to attack the institutional structures that will hold Farage to account. It's nakedly obvious what they're doing, and they need to be called out every time. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... 312520
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Like Russia attacking the OCPW or Trump attacking the media, it's all about avoiding accountability by attacking the credibility of the institutions where the responsibility for holding the powerful to account has been placed. 513813
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Doubt the Source, that whoever is producing the evidence or investigation is somehow biased, therefore creating a permission structure to at a minimum dismiss the source, at best use the source as evidence of the victimisation of the group or individual attacking the source. 18510
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Doubt the Claim, where the claim itself is attacked as being absurd or unthinkable, like "Assad would never use chemical weapons when he's winning!". For Farage, the next two are important. 19311
Reposted by @stevopants.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Disordered Doubt is when doubt is used to avoid accountability or justify an in-groups positions and reject information from the out-group. The pillars are Doubt the Evidence; for example, claiming an image is AI or photoshopped, usually with no evidence it is. 311716
![Jenrick describes standards committee inquiry into Farage as 'kangaroo court'
Robert Jenrick, Reform UK’s Treasury spokesperson, has joined Nigel Farage, his party leader, in accusing the standards committee of being biased against him. (See 11.09am.)
Jenrick described the committee as “a bit of a kangaroo court” – using a phrase that Reform UK has been using in private, and one that led to the privileges committee toughening the penalty it imposed on Boris Johnson after he accused it of being a kangaroo court.
Speaking on his LBC phone-in this morning, Jenrick said:
[Farage is] holding the byelection because it was inevitable there was going to be one. All the political party leaders have totally prejudged the situation.
Kemi Badenoch put out a tweet saying that they wouldn’t field the candidate in this byelection, but they would in the next one. Well, how does she know there’s even going to be another one?
She’s obviously hoping, planning for there to be one, and so Nigel, not unreasonably, concluded that it’s a bit of a kangaroo court. It’s a stitch up. They’re going to call a byelection at some point. So for his sake, but also for his constituents’ sake, let’s just get it done.
Jenrick was referring to the possibility that the standards inquiry into Farage will lead to him being suspended from the Commons for at least 10 days, which would mean a recall byelection could take place.
On LBC Jenrick also claimed it would be pointless to have a subsequent recall byelection in Clacton after the one in August. He said:](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2whlowi5jjjqrdrrj4lxh2lx/bafkreigpxpsoz6gdh76iko2gjbbaicek32uyttvv4jzma2pu3s7dom6gpi)
