🟠 The Amber Heat-Health Alert remains in place until 9am Wednesday. Drink plenty of water, avoid the hottest part of the day where possible and look out for those with health conditions, older people, and young children and babies who might struggle to keep cool.

Amber heat health alert for London as temperatures to soar

A previous heat-health alert had been upgraded to an amber warning with temperatures expected to rise above 30C

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David Ellison wants us to know he’s not ideological, and that’s why he put a conservative with no tv experience in charge of CBS

Sixty-nine million American women changed their name when they married. The SAVE Act was written knowing exactly what that means for their paperwork. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Your Senators: Protect our Democracy, Vote NO on the SAVE Act

Contact Congress today!

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can't remember, do presidents usually summon us attorneys to the oval office to pressure them on individual cases

Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?

If that Flock camera didn't want to be set on fire, it shouldn't have been out so late at night, looking so flammable

A woman could not have written Game of Thrones. I don't mean she wouldn't have been capable. I mean a woman writing about that much rape and incest wouldn't have been this globally revered as "realistic" and "dark" and would've instead been called a sexual deviant and her books fringe at best

Had an incredible interaction with a guy over the weekend who went to see The Odyssey and told me he was pissed that Elliott Page played Achilles, a character Elliott Page did not play that was not in the movie

Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.

A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US

Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…

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Congress: “We’ve tried nothing and we’re fresh out of ideas.”

UPDATE: The group that posted the audio of the religious activists' call with Blanche online, @IFAPray, has taken it down following POLITICO's story last night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSgP...

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NEW: Amid AG confirmation battle, Todd Blanche assured anti-abortion activists that he's working to make Dobbs 'permanent in every single state.' Admin will act 'soon' to limit mail-order abortion drugs. w/ @alicemiranda.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

How it works. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans

Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.

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I am still utterly gobsmacked by companies who want to pass themselves off as author-centric thinking that being "AI"-friendly is a good thing. Even the *perception* of being "AI"-friendly is enough to make actual authors avoid your services like the plague.

it's not why *everything* sucks, but having all three branches of the federal government captured by thieves, abusers, bigots, and cowards is definitely why a lot of things suck

Former CIA intelligence officer John Kriakou talks about Israeli spies bugging U.S. phone conversations Israel is not a friend of the United States of America www.facebook.com/share/v/1BqU...

I snarkyly said this in a comment but it is true. Stop complaining about the courts and start using them. Being angry on social media isn’t going to change anything. You have to bankrupt them and destroy their support. Isolate them culturally and isolate them socially.

'Thought I Was Going to Die': Black Musician Attacked While Recording White Nationalist Group Marching In Boston Receives $2.7M Judgment, Critics Say It's Tactic to 'Bankrupt the Group'

The white nationalist group Patriot Front and its leader, Thomas Rousseau, have been hit where it hurts most in a civil rights violation ruling. On Jan.

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For GOD'S SAKE. Massive landowners call for ban on disposable BBQs, but at the same time call for "a lifting of the ban on controlled burning" 'You oiks shouldn't burn moorland - that's OUR job' Entitled double standards. Ban both. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Calls to ban disposable barbecues in England and Wales over wildfire risk

Lib Dems and many Labour MPs join farmers, landowners and firefighters in urging temporary prohibition

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1959. Governments still sponsor oil exploration. commonhome.georgetown.edu/topics/clima...

Defense, Denial, and Disinformation: Uncovering the Oil Industry’s Early Knowledge of Climate Change  - Common Home

Georgetown Professor Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò explores the link between police brutality, climate change, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Any Senator who votes to confirm Todd Blanche is also siding with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell – and is actively participating in covering-up their numerous and heinous crimes.

Here is how to look for some trackers... Apple Android

He and his gang will be outraged, pure gold rage. Or actually not a bloody word of condemnation in reality. Scum, all of them.

I think this group need to be proscribed. Rather than people holding placards against genocide.

There are legal consequences for unlawful use of trackers, as intimidation is clearly the motivation in this instance: nationalprivateinvestigators.co.uk/vehicle-trac...

Understanding Vehicle GPS Tracking Laws in the UK: A Comprehensive Legal Guide

Discover key facts about vehicle tracking laws in the UK. Learn what’s legal for businesses and individuals to avoid fines and protect privacy rights.

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This is also the Ben Cullen who is due to appear in court after being accused of making indecent images of children.

One highways manager told the High Court she had been placed on medication after becoming “fearful of being followed home, tracked and exposed on social media”. Highways staff now wear unbranded PPE, work in unbranded vehicles, wear face coverings to hide their identity, and do not travel alone.

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

America isn't like this because Trump is president, Trump is president because America is like this.

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

Has anyone connected the dots between Ashley Hinson and Susan Collins shared network of Epstein-adjacent donors? Marc Rowan central to both, Lutnick big donor to Hinson. Feeds into general narrative of Republican corruption wnich Dems need to push hard. #uspol