Elon is now willing to pay $100 per vote instead of $75. Offer valid until Monday. Step right up folks, you can sell your soul to Donald Trump and a South African oligarch will pay you $100 bucks for it! MyVoteBribe

Planning to leave X (for the same reasons as so many others, mostly algorithms that amplify hate). Sounds like main choice is #bluesky or #threads - any advice? Don’t want an echo chamber (liberal or conservative)

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

Morning - I have opened an account on Bluesky and will be posting my column there, now, and closing this one in December. Looking forward to exchanging message about potatoes there!

I think Elon is unhappy that Wikipedia is not for sale. I hope his campaign to defund us results in lots of donations from people who care about the truth. If Elon wanted to help, he'd be encouraging kind and thoughtful intellectual people he agrees with to engage.

...and next month, the Trump White House will mandate the removal of all water. It's a toxic substance, responsible for floods, drownings, shipwrecks, storms, a major component of acid rain ...

RFK believes the “cure for measles is chicken soup and vitamin A.” In 2019, he ran what he called a “natural experiment” in Samoa, derailing its measles vaccination campaign. 5,600 people contracted measles. 83 people died, the majority of them children.

He has claimed that “no vaccine is safe and effective.” Vaccines have saved the lives of 146 million people in the past half-century. Measles, smallpox, diphtheria, mumps, pertussis, rubella, and polio used to infect hundreds of thousands of American children every year. Today,

In 1948 George Marshall helped rebuild Europe to prevent the spread of communism In 1961 John Kennedy defended Berlin against Soviet aggression In 2025 JD Vance told Vladimir Putin to do what the hell he likes

Well said Douglas Murray 👏👏👏

Every word of this.

There is an aggressor: Russia. There is a victim: Ukraine. We were right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago—and to keep doing so. By “we,” I mean the Americans, the Europeans, the Canadians, the Japanese, and many others. Thank you to

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

If Trump was President in 1940

If you watch one thing today make it this remarkable speech by an independent French senator. It captures the moment Claude Malhuret

Congrats DOGE, you cut the deficit by .0001%, at the price of millions of lives.

Your occasional reminder that Penelope Keith is a national treasure. And that Russell Brand is a global embarrassment.

FACT CHECK: Trump: “China has become a rich country because of people in the WH who allowed this to happen.” FACTS: The current trade agreement with China "Phase One" was forged by Trump on Jan 15 2020 while in the White House.

If this is true then the speaker should instruct Jenrick to retract that statement.