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So much progress has been made in my 7+ decades. But in the last 15 years it's being beaten back by the far right & Christian nationalists. I block fake 'Gaza accounts' Avoid personal attacks or demeaning posts (unless they are really really funny!) Mai=My
🇧🇪 ⚠️ Belgium wrestles massive wildfire amid weeks of blazes in Europe Much-needed rain has brought some respite to firefighters on their fourth day battling Belgium's worst wildfire in a century, which has scorched vast expanses of nature reserve on the German border
If you don’t have an FT sub the summary is: because MAGA is race-obsessed, they are trying to impose their white nationalist vision on our continent, and they are supporting quislings in our own politics to help make that happen.
Anthony Zacharzewski@anthonyzach.be · yesterdayFirst of a series, if you feel like you need your sinews stiffening before la rentrée: www.ft.com/content/c5e2... Why Maga came for Europe
The only reason Prez "wanted a treaty with NATO" is cos we couldn't honor UN Charter Nuclear NPT Helsinki Accords Belovezha Accords Budapest Memo Black Sea Fleet Treaty Friendship Treaty Azov Sea & Kerch Strait treaty Karkiv pact And others Cos treating Ukraine like a real country is imperialist
Rick—The Political Gardener@politicalgardener.bsky.social · 2d agowww.jeffsachs.org/newspaper-ar... Direct Quote by General Jens Stoltenberg: "Declared 2021; That Puti sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition for not invading Ukraine. Of course we didn't sign that.
JP Morgan 'warning' the UK Government
UK Politics News // Papernaut@ukpolitics.papernaut.co · yesterdayTHE GUARDIAN: JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon is warning Labour against taxing banks’ bumper profits, as HSBC, NatWest, Barclays and Lloyds channel £13.7bn to investors. Campaigners say a windfall tax could raise £19bn. - by Lauren Almeida
THE GUARDIAN: JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon is warning Labour against taxing banks’ bumper profits, as HSBC, NatWest, Barclays and Lloyds channel £13.7bn to investors. Campaigners say a windfall tax could raise £19bn. - by Lauren Almeida
JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon warns UK chancellor not to hike taxes on banks
theguardian.com
This looks good - @markeaston1.bsky.social on how crime has dropped but no one noticed, and why it might have happened. Three parter starts tomorrow www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - The Great Crime Mystery, 1. Going Down
Crime has been falling for decades in Britain - but why is that so hard to believe?
bbc.co.uk
Not hard to see why Reform did not announce their plan to abolish Personal Independence Payment until *after* the by-election..
A Spanish F-18 patrolling over Romania shot down an unknown drone overnight. Romanian FM says this is the third drone shot down in three weeks after illegally entering their airspace.
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Dear BBC (tagging in @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social for lack of any other obvious BBC account on here). What the actual fuck do you think you are playing at with this headline on the BBC News website and app?!!!?!? The simple addition of the word ‘claim’ would fix this if you were actual journalists!
BBC third attempt will be easier to defend against complaints: "Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments for millions" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Institute of Fiscal Studies in 2024 reported that "the cost-saving measures would save less than set out" of Reform's implausible claims to have identified £150 billion in spending reductions, from public services, debt interest and working-age benefits. ifs.org.uk/articles/ref...
Reform UK manifesto: a reaction | Institute for Fiscal Studies
An assessment of the tax and spending changes proposed in the 2024 Reform UK general election manifesto.
ifs.org.uk
A broadly analogous headline could be "Reform plan to abolish BBC licence fee to save public up to £4 billion" [while defunding the BBC] The propspects of the welfare plans achieving the hypothetical £50bn savings total are lower. BBC headline implies deadweight cost [large cuts affect 3m people]
This is an inappropriate, credulous & politically biased BBC headline. The claims about savings will be sharply contested. News reports should not imclude what reads as an ediorial endorsememt in the headline www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?
Tesla paid Elon Musk $158.3bn, 2.5m times more as CEO than its average worker in 2025. Received the median Tesla worker’s pay every 4.23 seconds. Money used to buy political favours, subvert democracy, fund far right groups. Like the rest of us, he will leave the world empty-handed.
Tesla paid Elon Musk 2.5m times more as CEO than its average worker in 2025
Tech billionaire’s $158.3bn deal an outlier in report showing widening gap of CEO to worker pay at top companies
theguardian.com
A fairer headline would be 'Reform UK proposes letting disabled people die'.
In what conceivable sense is empathy for people with disabilities “suicidal”? Contributing to social security spending through taxation is not going to kill you or destroy society. Being the kind of person whose lack of empathy means being outraged at having to help others just makes you a sociopath
Today Zia Yusuf will be attacking the following: Small jars of mustard Luton Town season ticket holders Ronnie Pickering The Scissor Sisters Carol Kirkwood❤️ People who whistle in the mornings The eclipse Moths Big Zuu All women named Lisa Deer Hairy mounds Virgin olive oil. 🇬🇧
Social media really does bring out the arseholes. I usually blur names when I share shit from FB, but these people don’t deserve that courtesy. What the fuck has happened to humanity? Social media happened.
CUBA The United States is now blocking 7,000+ containers of medicine, food, and resources for water and energy from reaching Cuba. The US threatens to freeze assets of entities providing support to Cuba.
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66K likes, 806 comments - michael__mezz on August 12, 2026: "let’s take a closer look at the upcoming AI IPOs 👀 follow @pop__economy for more insights on the economic trends shaping our world. #AI #...
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Day 626 of #GeorgiaProtests 📷 Giorgi Burjanadze
Tice makes some points here which seem "unjustified", and one or two which I'd like answers to. Media outlets tell us what the Commissioner for Standards is investigating, but he himself doesn't. Is it a matter of joining the dots, or is Daniel Greenberg announcing things I'm not connected to?
The Parliamentary Smears Commission
Reform’s opponents have weaponised the parliamentary standards system.
spiked-online.com
Front page news. I’m not one for conspiracies but it’s hard not to feel like the BBC has been captured by a far-right political ideology, certainly when it comes to people seeking asylum and exercising their human right to migrate.
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
And governments all over the world are completely ignoring this. Let's not upset the fossil fuel companies. Let's not upset the stock markets. Lets not upset the bond markets.
New Scientist@newscientist.com · 2d agoThe critical current could remain stable beyond 5°C of warming, but only if the warming happens very slowly
The critical current could remain stable beyond 5°C of warming, but only if the warming happens very slowly
Fate of the AMOC may depend on how quickly CO2 rises | New Scientist
The critical current could remain stable beyond 5°C of warming, but only if the warming happens very slowly
newscientist.com