Luke Hoyland
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Boy George: "The mission of music is to unite people." Also Boy George*: "Does it get ugly? You bet it does / When I know you wanna kill every last one of us.” *To be fair, he got an AI to write the song for him. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
Boy George pulls out of Jesus Christ Superstar after releasing pro-Israel song
The 80s star will no longer appear in role of Herod in London Palladium run, with manager saying decision is ‘in the best interests of my artist’
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They’re such tired, petty losers abusing their powers to please a would-be tyrant.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4w agoThe Trump administration issued subpoenas to New York Times journalists who wrote about the new Air Force One, an escalation of pressure on the media.
It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.
Michael E. Carter@deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · last mo."The Pope is the puppet of the Chinese authoritatian government" is a take you would make if you made billions by drinking paint.
Thoughts and prayers, once again, for satirists and their loved ones. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun...
Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show
Draft resolution seeks to shield board members and security forces from potential prosecution for work in Gaza
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A discussion about the social media ban on under 16s. BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?” Student: “Stare at a wall.”
“There was no clear checkpoint; just soldiers standing in the street. I stopped when I was asked to, and then the shooting started.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank
The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was in his mother’s arms when soldiers fired on family in Hebron
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Can't wait for the midterms so I can finally roll out my "lame duck à l’orange" joke
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New features in SecureDrop Inbox
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"Maybe the most pathetic men are the most dangerous ones" - Kyle Smith. Also: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik
Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Hey Google, does threatening genocide qualify as ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’?
Something many astronauts/cosmonauts have in common: they attest to what we all have in common. "You look amazing. You look beautiful. And from up here, you also look like one thing."
Fourteen years of Tories dishing out North Sea oil & gas licences led to "20 new and relicensed fields that have the potential, over their lifetime, to produce enough gas to supply the UK for only six months". A great thing about renewables: they're renewable. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Hundreds of North Sea licences granted by Conservatives have ‘so far produced only 36 days worth of gas’
Exclusive: Findings cast doubt on claims new drilling would help cut bills and boost energy security, researchers say
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VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry
Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets
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Feels like a day to reup this recent Democracy for Sale story Tony Blair’s Institute privately pressed a top European Union official working on the rebuilding of Gaza to work with Donald Trump’s Board of Peace. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...
Revealed: Tony Blair’s Institute lobbied EU to work with Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza
TBI pushed bloc on US plan for Palestine but internal disquiet on “taboo topic” Gaza grows
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Feel bad for the Channel 4 reporter reporting live from "deep underground in the Foreign Office 24/7 Crisis Centre". He dramatically points out all the important agencies present. And on all the big screens they're tuned into the news ... from the BBC.
If you drew a venn diagram of "People who have had a subscription to x" and "People who have threatened online to cancel their subscription to x", I wonder if there would be any overlap?
The Ministry of Justice has ordered the deletion of the UK’s largest court reporting archive. This risks undermining open justice, and I believe, undermines the public accountability role of the press by making it harder to see what is going on in the courts. www.thetimes.com/article/77b0...
MoJ orders deletion of UK’s largest court reporting archive
Courtsdesk, which supports the media in monitoring records, is an important tool for journalists and the move raises concerns over open justice
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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How could the Nobel committee have overlooked the guy who uses armed forces to kill civilians while threatening to use armed forces to kill those who use armed forces to kill civilians, which, no doubt, will result in the killing of civilians? It's such a mystery
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Has anyone ever read something about a post on Truth Social that wasn't from Twump? Does it even have other posters?
