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States with the lowest literacy rates shouldn’t be banning books, they should be reading them
Today's @mrjamesob.bsky.social column in @theipaper.com cites @britishfuture.bsky.social research on how the public, esp migration sceptics, remains unaware of the massive drop in net migration – and how this is exploited by anti-immigration voices. inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...
Farage is sounding more desperate than ever - these figures explain why
James O'Brien: Reform's favourite political weapon is losing its edge
inews.co.uk
If she has no knowledge of sacrifices by a lot of French in the Resistance, working with SOE, Le Cheminots sabotaging trains on the SNCF, the young mostly female teenagers escorting escaped allied airmen on the ‘Cometé’ line over the Pyrenees to get back to UK, then she has no business being an MP!
You need to read this and explain it to me like I’m 5.The same judge who dismissed these convictions writes in the end that the dismissals diminish and denigrate the prosecutors and law enforcement who fought so hard to get the convictions in the first place. WITAF? apple.news/A70QAZybORla...
Judge grants DoJ bid to dismiss January 6 cases against rightwing Oath Keepers — Guardian US
Ruling vacates convictions of founder Stewart Rhodes and other militia members who took part in 2021 Capitol attack
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. Crumbs Every single Dem voter better get out on Nov 3rd, or else 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Especially the 34% who never bothered to vote, thereby handing the election to Trump et al I suspect Latinos for Trump are not gonna support him again this time Not sure about Blacks for Trump tho, hope not .
Jeezus f**king Christ... In essence that ruling says that any time your side doesn't win an election, just ransack the capitol, and everything will be okay...
US judge grants DOJ request to dismiss January 6 cases against Oath Keepers
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday granted the U.S.
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Somewhere in a bank office in February 2021, a person sat down and typed the words "Account Closure Recommendation: Donald J. Trump." That memo exists. Its table of contents is public. Nobody looked, until now 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/twelve-day...
Twelve Days Before Trump’s Bank Cut Him Off, Somebody Wrote A Memo
Capital One hasn’t released it. The Trumps’ own lawyers described it in a filing nobody read. Plus 25 states in court over the tariffs, and the nurse ICE picked the wrong fight with.
dworkinsubstack.com
Did you see how Apple, Amazon Walmart and other big companies are refunding the billions of dollars they got back from the federal tariff settlement to their customers, who ultimately bore the cost of higher prices? Yea, me neither.
Letitia James has beaten Trump in court so many times it's practically a hobby. She's back for the tariffs, and she's already won this one once. 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/twelve-day...
Time to stop this tax dodging merry go round www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss
theguardian.com
Richard Tice investigated by parliamentary standards watchdog
Richard Tice investigated by parliamentary standards watchdog
Tice says the complaint related to a debate on Israeli influence and whether he should have referenced his register of interests.
bbc.com
The best way to make sure I never buy a product (or stop buying one I'm already using) is to advertise it using AI. It tells me a company is untrustworthy, destructive, out of touch, anti-worker, and just generally not an entity I should give any money to.
Every single one of them is at it. Anyone remotely surprised or shocked?
Sam Bright@writesbright.bsky.social · yesterday🔴 NEW 🔴 Campaigners are now demanding a parliamentary investigation into Reform MP Sarah Pochin following a donation to her office by food industry millionaires. 📝 @desmog.com & @goodlawproject.org report 👇🏻
Apple got a $2.2 billion tariff refund. Amazon got $600 million. Trump is sending the "refunds" to the companies, not working people. Every single cent of these refunds should go back to American consumers.
I'm delighted to hear that BP doubled their profits, making £4.2bn in just 3 months. Not that I have any vested interest in it, other than the £50,000 given to us by the wife of former senior BP executive James Hay.
Stop worrying about 2028, if we don't show up and VOTE them out in November, it won't matter.
Walmart put rooftop solar panels on more than 240 stores, and after 7 of those roofs caught fire the lawsuit it filed blamed the wiring and the inspections rather than the panels Tesla was the installer. More Elon quality share.google/GxB6EU5LRDrY...
Walmart put rooftop solar panels on more than 240 stores, and after 7 of those roofs caught fire the lawsuit it filed blamed the wiring and the inspections rather than the panels
A Walmart store in Indio, California caught fire, and it started on the roof rather than inside.
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No more distractions! Looks like more Trump-Epstein Files maxxing will be required...
France hits back at Reform UK plan to use navy to stop small boats crossing Channel
France hits back at Reform UK plan to use navy to stop small boats crossing Channel
Experts say Nigel Farage’s plan would only increase death and violence at the border – after the party promised the ‘largest military operation in the Channel since WWII’
independent.co.uk
Have those Pedophiles in the Epstein files faced justice yet?
The Nigel Farage Controversies. It’s not just the £5m and Cottrell, his whole career has been scandal ridden.
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!
actionnetwork.org
Eric Trump sued Capital One demanding to know why it closed the family's accounts. The judge gave him 90 days to make the bank hand over documents. He should have read them first. 👇
Twelve Days Before Trump’s Bank Cut Him Off, Somebody Wrote A Memo
Capital One hasn’t released it. The Trumps’ own lawyers described it in a filing nobody read. Plus 25 states in court over the tariffs, and the nurse ICE picked the wrong fight with.
dworkinsubstack.com