Trump has ordered contractors to rip up 2 weeks of work on his White House helipad due to frustrations with its appearance.
Face it. The Court is captured by right-wing billionaire interests, just the way railroad barons used to capture the railroad rate commissions, or mining barons the mine safety commissions. Look up “regulatory capture” or “agency capture.” thehill.com/opinion/judi...
Just admit it: The Supreme Court is political
Let’s face it, the Supreme Court has dug itself into a hole, and it just keeps digging.
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Those arrested need to start filing some big lawsuits. ground.news/article/what...
Lawyers in Reflecting Pool case say Justice Department knew case was flawed
The Justice Department knew or should have known for weeks that its case against a former Olympian charged with intentionally damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was flawed, and that he bore...
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They gave me to someone who could not read or write … it would be better if you buried me alive Shabnam I was the top student in my university class but when the Taliban took Afghanistan again I was forced to marry and my dreams of being a pilot ended
They gave me to someone who could not read or write … it would be better if you buried me alive
I was the top student in my university class but when the Taliban took Afghanistan again I was forced to marry and my dreams of being a pilot ended
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‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social has a good point- Why are US tax dollars going to prop up Elon Musk when Musk is openly trying to usurp our Democracy? open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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The NHS data given to Palantir hasn't been anonymised so actually the USA/Israeli spy company has every single person's Medical Records. And they have even been paid £330m to steal them. AND the deal has been shown to have no measurable improvement on the NHS.
H/t to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for reminding me of this article by @natashabertrand.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com documenting how Trump's purge of the DOJ and FBI in his first term focused on experts in money laundering and organized crime. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump’s Top Targets in the Russia Probe Are Experts in Organized Crime
Some of President Trump’s favorite targets in the Russia probe have spent their careers in the Justice Department and the FBI investigating organized crime and money laundering, particularly as they p...
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I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …
Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups
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Aside from *everything else*, this continues a dangerous tradition of politicians wearing police uniforms. Politicians should not be allowed to use 'POLICE' uniforms. For one thing because they are not police.
Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · yesterdayI grew up among Conservative politics. This is beyond that now. Defending a neo-nazi candidate shows how far Badenoch has shifted them to the far right. There is now no difference between her party and that of Restore and Reform. That should not be normalised. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
But wait. There's more. bsky.app/profile/joan... Wonder which police force allowed this to happen.
Joanna Hardy-Susskind@joannahs.bsky.social · 4h agoMeanwhile, on Twitter, Chris Philp is wearing a police vest over a suit and tie.
We should be claiming this money back from leaches like Lowe... And while we are on the subject Mrs Mone and the £200mill she fraudulently acquired during Covid?????
Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼♂️😉@paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 23h agoThe Righteous Rupert Lowe-Life preached about leaches sucking the financial blood out of Britain. This is the same Whoopert Lowe-Life whose company took £100k in furlough cash despite making £7.9 million profit He really didn’t need it but it was free, it was available so he took it like a leach
German police deployed a bomb disposal robot after a drone carrying explosives was found at Leipzig airport, causing alarm and the diversion of several flights. Aisport is a hub in the transport of military goods and is a base for Ukraine’s #AntonovAirlines www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... #Putin
Bomb disposal robot deployed after drone carrying explosives found at German airport
Counter-terror team investigating after DHL plane also collided midair with unknown object at Leipzig airport
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This is 5-year-old Emilia and 10-year-old Sofia Dvornychenko, Russia killed them in a terrorists attack on girls own home in Sumy on August 4. 🕯💔 Russians struck the family's home with a guided aerial bomb, completely destroying it and killing two children…
Lou needs to rethink this pronto. It's doctrinaire and unnecessary. Keir was better on this.
Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12h agoI can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …
The judge's sentencing remarks said it would be difficult to imagine a more serious case of racially aggravated harassment bsky.app/profile/thea...
Ian Rennie@theangelremiel.bsky.social · yesterdayIt's worth reading the sentencing remarks the judge made about Joshua Bonehill-Paine, a man who is now a Conservative candidate for Somerset Council. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
Acht der größten Ölkonzerne haben ihre Gewinne im Frühjahresquartal im Vergleich zum Vorjahr fast verdoppelt. Die neuen Zahlen heizen die Debatte über eine Übergewinnsteuer an.
Ölkonzerne erzielen zwischen Irankrieg und Hitzewellen 93 Milliarden Dollar Gewinn
Acht der größten Ölkonzerne haben ihre Gewinne im Frühjahresquartal im Vergleich zum Vorjahr fast verdoppelt. Die neuen Zahlen heizen die Debatte über eine Übergewinnsteuer an.
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breaking a baby’s collarbone isn’t a bridge too far!!!!! i know i shouldn’t be surprised but FUCK that’s too dark for my soul to handle
Please excuse my cynicism, but I cannot help wondering if this was part of the plan all along — I mean, as well as destroying the US economy, trashing the US Constitution, alienating our allies, and making inflation markedly worse.
How could Andy Burnham do immigration differently? FGF’s @bethgardiner-smith.bsky.social sets out how Burnham can improve things in a @politicshome.bsky.social article, read Beth’s ideas for transforming the state to renew the nation 🔽 @siennarodgers.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
How Andy Burnham could do immigration differently
Andy Burnham arrived in Downing Street with a promise to do politics differently.
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This is a new view of the bulldozed White House complex. The criminal monstrosity subhuman filth won’t stop until he destroys everything, makes me sick to my stomach.
Zelenskyy calls for more air defences as Russian attack on Kyiv kills at least 17 Ukraine shoots down most drones but no ballistic missiles in overnight attack that mainly targeted warehouses
Zelenskyy calls for more air defences as Russian attack on Kyiv kills at least 17
Ukraine shoots down most drones but no ballistic missiles in overnight attack that mainly targeted warehouses
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Germany investigates drone carrying ‘explosive device’ near Ukrainian plane at busy cargo airport – Europe German state prosecutors including units working on extremism and terrorism prevention take over investigation into Leipzig incident
Germany investigates drone carrying ‘explosive device’ near Ukrainian plane at busy cargo airport – Europe live
German state prosecutors including units working on extremism and terrorism prevention take over investigation into Leipzig incident
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It was over for Max Miller politically when he said his wife couldn’t have been abused because she offered to make him dinner 6 days later. He may not have known it when he said it, but that was the end. You have to be a sick bastard to come up with that as your defense.
Calls to ban ‘toxic’ pet flea treatments that harm UK wildlife and environment Over-the-counter treatments for cats and dogs contain chemicals that are banned in pesticides and pollute waterways
Calls to ban ‘toxic’ pet flea treatments that harm UK wildlife and environment
Over-the-counter treatments for cats and dogs contain chemicals that are banned in pesticides and pollute waterways
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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is to meet Epstein survivors and may hold a full public enquiry into Epstein.
Burnham 'looking into' conducting Epstein inquiry, says victims minister
Alex Davies-Jones tells BBC Newsnight she discussed an inquiry with the PM when she was re-appointed as minister.
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Once again we’re in the Arrested Development meme. Did trying to get single market access without free movement of people work in the past? God no … but it might work for us.
Simon Usherwood@simonusherwood.bsky.social · 14h agoNick Boles on his plan for a European confederation. Paper with Demos coming later www.thetimes.com/article/8459...