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Our country is staring into the abyss, and much of our national press corps lacks the fortitude that this moment demands www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...
TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
nytimes.com
Traffic filters will go live in Oxford tomorrow (Monday). Want to know how to get around the city? We share our best hacks on on how you can avoid the traffic filters entirely, and still visit all your favourite places in the city centre. oxfordclarion.uk/twelve-easy-...
Twelve easy hacks to beat Oxford’s Traffic Filters
Want to travel in Oxford, but worried about the traffic filters from Monday, 28 September 2026? We got you. Here's the tea on how you can avoid the traffic filters entirely, and still visit all your f...
oxfordclarion.uk
Is this an indication of the state of the education system in America, or does the Trump administration just select the thickest of the thickest?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayAssistant AG for Fraud Colin McDonald: "Apparently 35% of people have never even used their Obamacare account for any health services. That is a statistical impossibility and it's because these are not real people seeking real care. These are fraudsters."
Excellent news. So Americans will spend more on fuel than they need to, have more polluted air, and add that to dying from measles and other totally preventable diseases, truly Making America Grim Again!
Trump Action Tracker@trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 17h agoThe Trump administration has formalised new fuel efficiency rules for new vehicles and light trucks, which will gut one of the government’s most significant efforts to reduce gasoline consumption and support the country’s shift to electric vehicles. TAT: [Attacking science]
Tom Tugendhat in Sunday Times insists on leaving the ECHR to tackle “soaring” immigration. What a miserable rat. Lying to us all. Betraying our country’s best interests. Threatening to flounce out of our human rights framework, trashing our treaties and torching our protection from abuses of power.
Instead of constantly referring to refugees in dinghies as "fighting age men" why not call them "working age men"? And why not for example say "4 engineers, 8 builders, 2 electricians, 2 mechanics, 1 Dr, 2 artist/musicians, 4 teachers"??
Jeez. By now even Larry the cat knows it was Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal which caused the skyrocketing number of small boat crossings in the English Channel
Sure. Brexit meant we huffed out of our agreements on managing the flow of asylum seekers. The boats symbolise “taking back control” by going it alone. But it’s only a “crisis” because politicians and media choose to blame immigrants for their own failures. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Burnham blames Brexit for small boats crisis - but rules out early general election
Burnham lamented a ‘loss of collaboration with neighbours’ following Brexit but has ‘knocked dead’ the idea of an early election before 2029
independent.co.uk
Too many Americans seem to be infected with something far worse than measles....
Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · yesterday"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Rayner is correct: these proposals are economically damaging and politically counterproductive. Pretty clear that view is now almost universal in the Cabinet/Labour Party and the informed public. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Angela Rayner condemns Labour’s migrant visa crackdown
Speaking before the party conference, the housing secretary says Shabana Mahmood’s immigration plans would affect care workers
thetimes.com
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
theintercept.com
Yesterday, during a Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv, a baby boy was born in the shelter of a Kyiv maternity home that was damaged by the Russian strike. Mom Alyona and her son Kyrylo are doing well, thanks to the doctors and staff who were with them.
He's not an anti-migrant agitator, he's not a migrant activist. He's a far-right thug and yob just as the BNP used to be in days gone by. Stop trying to legitimise his actions as some noble cause.
Don't miss GB News to hear me spout Reform propaganda and talk absolute bollocks completely unchallenged because for some reason I'm the only MP allowed to get away with this.
You may have seen social media posts misrepresenting the Labour candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, Sagal Abdi-Wali, as an asylum seeker. Ms Abdi-Wali came to the UK as a child refugee in the 1990s, and is now listed as a British citizen. fullfact.org/politics/Sag...
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
motherjones.com
And they thought Muslim women choosing to wear hijabs (headscarves) and niqabs (face veil) was a threat to British values lol
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3d agoGood luck to the Hampshire police. Requiring those present to be identifiable could be one key to deterring disorder
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 3d agoFrom 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
This isn't 'detaining illegal immigrants' it's terrorism by the State, pure and simple. And as for the idea that children might get home from school to find their parents are just not there, shocking beyond belief.
Amanda Finley Digs All the Things@rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 4d agoI'm from Johnson City, Kansas, about 100 miles southwest of Dodge City. This is horrific. The only light in this situation is seeing so many people not okay with it.
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Note that arrested far right rioters have been found to have a much greater than average number of convictions for violent offences, including domestic violence meme via We Demand UK
The railway line at Didcot has reopened following the gas leak, and trains are now running between Oxford, Reading and London Paddington once again. There may be some knock-on disruption from trains being stranded in the wrong location yesterday while the line was closed.
Slow marching being an obvious threat to public safety meriting prosecution, unlike blocking ports and knifing boats with someone still on board /s
Robert/Tony/c@robert111.bsky.social · 5d agoAnother seven Just Stop Oil supporters acquitted after slow march www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...
Citizens showed up to the city council meeting with plans to let city leaders know how they felt about the city’s use of Flock. But Springfield mayor Jeff Schrag moved to prevent public comment on Flock. Then, arrests happened, @mjgault.bsky.social reports. Story: www.404media.co/woman-arrest...
The Maine Senate race should be first and forefront on every News Outlet Senator Susan Collins was under criminal investigation for bribery Trump stopped the investigation Full 🛑 Stop She should be resigning not campaigning