Palantir made ยฃ247m in UK revenue in 2024, including ยฃ25m in profit, but paid just ยฃ2m in corporation tax. But middle income earners get hit for 40% income tax, stopped at source.
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Capitalism is increasingly toxic, accelerating ecological destruction, destroying human creativity, putting all power in the hands of the very worst people. Revolution is a necessity.
#OtD 5 Aug 1939 56 socialists, including 13 women and girls, known as the 13 Roses, were executed en masse by the right-wing regime of general Francisco Franco. Commemorated here by a shirt made by a workers' co-op supporting grassroots unions in Asia: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...
Social activists are wrangling data and exposing the networks of powerful entities behind Trumpโs expanding surveillance apparatus. Sarah Grant, Chris Hurl and Kevin Walby write. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
How Activists Are Fighting Back Against ICE Surveillance | The Tyee
Theyโre filing FOIs and mapping connections between data brokers, Palantir and governments.
thetyee.ca
"shackles are a modern-day version of the yellow stars of David that the Nazis forced Jews to wear in the years leading up to the Holocaust. They identify, stigmatize and continuously track a persecuted population whose legal rights were abolished virtually overnight." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...?
ICE shackles Haitian workers with GPS monitors after stripping legal status
The electronic branding of Haitian immigrants resembles nothing so much as the Nazi policy of forcing Jews to wear yellow stars of David.
wsws.org
Rod Liddle played the politics of hatred - we should be honest about his legacy, he was a racist, a bigot and an Islamophobe! www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/rod-...
Rod Liddle played the politics of hatred - we should be honest about his legacy
Tributes praised a 'great journalist', but very few touched on the fact that he was also a racist, a bigot and an Islamophobe
middleeasteye.net
misinformation was obviously going to be the main use case for this technology its so baffling they even released it for a minute
onion person@junlper.beer ยท yesterdaynew episode where we talk about google pulling down its disastrous AI image editing tool they put into Google Earth, you can now bet on wild fire outcomes, and more
Please help if you are able to.
Insatiable Antifa Slut@insatiableone.bsky.social ยท 4h ago๐จ Please help save Mahmoudโs life. ๐ ๐ฆต He urgently needs surgery to save his life and legs. ๐ He also needs medicine, bandages & tests. ๐ง His three daughters are hungry and need food & medicine. ๐๐ป๐ญ Your share could help save us. โค๏ธ We desperately need help. PLEASE!! ๐ญ๐ chuffed.org/project/omsham
Puerto Rico will implement water rationing measures in San Juan and other major cities as a drought grips the U.S. territory with no relief in sight.
Puerto Rican cities hit with water rationing measures as record dry conditions persist
Puerto Rico will implement water rationing measures in San Juan and other major cities as a drought grips the U.S. territory with no relief in sight.
bit.ly
Amid a national surge in arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, one of the largest ICE facilities in the country has become so crowded that people have been sleeping on makeshift beds on the floor, according to detainees there. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/05/r...
โComplete discomfort, little spaceโ: ICE detainees in Mississippi complain of crowding as arrests skyrocket โข Ohio Capital Journal
Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. Mukta Joshi, an investigative reporter atย Mississippi Today, is a New York Timesย Local Investigations fellowโฆ
ohiocapitaljournal.com
Here's my cat enjoying some Olive+Crate bedding selections.
This is good news. Among its many horrors the SCREEN Act is an incredibly anti-trans piece of legislation, so it's good to see it fail.
Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social ยท 3h agoSCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!
๐ Taeao manuia, ๐ฆ๐ธ Amerika Samoa! Today is Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026. Expect ๐ค๏ธpartly cloudy skies with a mild high of ๐ก๏ธ76ยฐF. How is the weather affecting your plans today? Let us know, and share any stories you might have!
I find the need to produce content about the horror of wildfires that inhibits the actual fighting of fires to be one of the most nihilistic things I can imagine. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Drones force grounding of firefighting aircraft in Spokane
On Sunday, there were 26 reported drone incursions in the restricted Spokane fire area, and four drones were "directly in the path of firefighting apparatus."
seattletimes.com
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Cรฅrรฅbine ร Citron ๐@carabinacitron.eurosky.social ยท 2h agoDonโt leave them alone in Gaza. Hammam is a volunteer nurse caring for the wounded daily. his family is homeless, hungry & has lost everything.His brother is ill with epilepsy & needs urgent treatment Any donation can help get food & medical care. Donโt ignore them. ๐โค๏ธ chuffed.org/project/1844...
This is concerning for a zillion reasons but, a dispensary in Michigan went viral for blocking a Flock camera in its parking lot designed to create a record of every car that goes there. Easy to imagine this being used in abortion, gender affirming care cases
![It is not difficult to imagine police in one state using Flock to track a resident of their state cross state lines to, for example, obtain an abortion that is legal in one state but not in another. Last year, 404 Media reported on police in Texas who searched more than 80,000 cameras across Flockโs nationwide network for a woman who had a self-administered abortion.
The case is also particularly concerning considering that Flock cameras have popped up outside of weed dispensaries in Michigan. The JARS Cannabis dispensary in Madison Heights, Michigan, went viral this week for putting a โNo Flock Zoneโ sign in front of a Flock camera in the dispensaryโs parking lot. โWe share our communityโs concerns about increased surveillance, which is why we placed the No Flock Zone sign in front of the camera to block its ability to record,โ the dispensary said in a public statement. โJARS does not control the camera or have access to any of the data it collects โฆ after we installed our No Flock Zone sign, the city issued a demand letter warning of sanctions if we did not remove it within 48 hours.โ But that Flock camera exists specifically to monitor the license plates of people who come and go to the dispensary. It was required by Madison Heights as one of the conditions for giving a dispensary license to JARS: โ[The dispensary] must place a FLOCK license plate scanning camera system at the entrance of the customer parking lot prior to commencement of retail sales, and it will give the Madison Heights Police Department unhindered live access to the FLOCK camera, camera footage, and any and all data, which must remain operational at all times.โ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cjfcz3t36f6nrprarkhkycxo/bafkreid622omkygkpo7nucauweh23yk2gaffcgf7vztawfyyjb7n2qbhze)
Here's a video I made using DeFlock to show how he was tracked:
"We need an exit ramp off the highway to climate hell. We have control of the wheel. The 1.5 degree limit of global warming is still possible. But we need to fight harder. Now." @antonioguterres No time to wait. #ActOnClimate
Ah, there it is. COVID seems uniquely suited to waking up the lurking beasts that drive an immune system mad. The virus itself can cause immune dysfunction but it magnifies the effect by waking up its buddies (Epstein Barr and cytomegalovirus). And then "friendly fire" goes amok. #MedSky ๐ฉบ
Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social ยท 3h agoSevere Covid leads to persistent viral reactivation, with >10 different viruses noted in the first 40 days after hospital admission. Long Covid was specifically associated with reactivation of latent Anelloviridae virus @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"I know your dealing with an international fascist conspiracy to enslave/torture/kill you and everyone like you but don't sink to their level! When they go low you go high!" [I pause long enough to flip a bird at you before returning to the sigils/reagents I've gathered for a "shit gravel" curse]
Eclipse a 'once or twice in a lifetime' event. ๐ญ ๐งช www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Channel Islands eclipse a 'once or twice in a lifetime' event
A Guernsey astronomer says people will have to wait until 2081 for the next total eclipse.
bbc.co.uk
"None of Englandโs fire and rescue services are thought to have direct access to firefighting aircraft." It's outrageous. Make the fossil fuel companies pay. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Fossil fuel producers should pay for wildfire helicopters, Zack Polanski says
Next week is the anniversary of the start of the Langdale Moor Fire in North Yorkshire, the largest wildfire in the country last year.
yorkshirepost.co.uk
A wealth of fossil seeds found in New Mexico rewrites what we thought we knew about how dinosaurs gardened ancient forests. To get pieces like this first, sign up for my newsletter on Buttondown. buttondown.com/restingdinof...
Flowers For Dinosaurs โ Riley Black
A wealth of fossil seeds reveal a burst of flowering plant evolution before the big asteroid strike that ended the Age of Dinosaurs.
rileyblack.net
Are you an antiracist teacher? Seeking community with like-minded peers and tired of being the only one in your school? On Tuesday, August 11, learn how to form a โTeaching for Black Livesโ study group in your school community. Register & more: www.teachingforblacklives.org/info-session/
Informational Session: Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups - Teaching for Black Lives
On Tuesday, August 11, Jesse Hagopian, Teaching for Black Lives co-editor and Rethinking Schools editor, will facilitate a 50-minute informational session for educators interested in forming a Teachin...
teachingforblacklives.org
Want to know how โTeaching for Black Livesโ study groups are changing education? One group coordinator said their goal is to โcreate spaces to nurture mutual support and resistance in the midst of attacks on teaching honestly about U.S. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.โ Find out more: โฌ๏ธ ๐งต
Meet the 2025โ2026 Study Groups - Teaching for Black Lives
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