The banks pay £5bn a year less tax than in 2022 because of Rishi Sunak's bank tax cut which has never been reversed.
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teenager has started making jewellery out of wire & I think it’s beautiful 💚🖤
'Amman has also been alarmed at a recent recruitment drive for religious Jews for a special Temple Mount police unit… This year, those holidays will come amid an intense election campaign, in which the far-right coalition of the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will be fighting for survival.'
'On 23 July, >2,000 Israelis from the religious right – mostly settlers led by the national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir – stormed the area... They prayed and performed rituals all around the compound in what Jordanian officials said was the worst violation in modern history.'
'Jordan is convening an emergency meeting of foreign ministers from the Arab and Islamic world over what it says is an “imminent” threat of an Israeli takeover of the most important Muslim site in Jerusalem, with the potential to “trigger a religious conflict”.' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Jerusalem’s most important Muslim religious site facing ‘imminent’ threat of Israeli takeover, says Jordan
Country convenes emergency meeting of ministers from Arab and Islamic world, fearing such a move could ‘trigger a religious conflict’
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It is not hard to see that we are going to have to reckon with the impossibility of living in a time of artificial food systems, artificial relationships, artificial leaders, and artificial intelligence. We are animals running terrible software on 10,000 year old hardware.
There are 10 transgender athletes participating in high school sports and the GOP is like "well we gotta get in the kindergartner's underwear" www.rawstory.com/anti-trans-s...
Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure
Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...
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Misschien is dit de echte les: degene die vragen stelt leert vaak meer dan degene die indruk probeert te maken.
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Australian town defends its ‘long-valued and admired’ statue of an enslaved African American child
Maitland city council has condemned an art exhibit challenging the 150-year-old figure, which the artist says ‘does not represent Black skin with any dignity’
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Here we have a pup enjoying the fruits of his labor after a hard day's work. 13/10 good for him
What El-Sayed actually said about why he was voting for Kamala Harris ahead of the 2024 election.
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Among other things, this gold coating covered up much of the detail, fine lines, and subtlety of these bronze statues, leaving them with the fake gold molded plastic Temu look.
BrooklynDad_Defiant!@mmpadellan.bsky.social · yesterdayIf this obscenely gaudy gold shit doesn't piss you off, you're not even paying attention.
Abandoned Because Of His “Ugly” Face, This Dog Found The Perfect Mom And Was Adopted. Before you scroll on, give Beaux a bit of your attention and love! 🤍👏 Original post
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We look at pigeons and call them dirty. We look at sharks and call them dangerous. But maybe the problem isn’t them. Maybe it’s the way we see them. Every creature on this planet is trying to survive. Every animal has a place in the story of life — including the ones we misunderstand.
Great White Shark Swims Towards Camera
ALT: Great White Shark Swims Towards Camera
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So Rubio just put out a statement saying the US will refuse a visa to anyone from another country who criticise Israel. That is not being a criminal. It's telling the truth.
This is pretty straightforward, and it's weird to me that people are against it.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d ago👀 Nathan Robinson takes full advantage of a chance to explain to Katie Pavlich why Democratic Socialism is on the rise 🔥
This problem did not start with the Trump administration; it is a structural pathology of the US system. The political objective for progressives in the US should be to fight to change it. Link here: jasonhickel.substack.com/p/no-the-uni...
No, the United States is not a "beacon of democracy"
The evidence against this narrative is overwhelming.
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In sum, the United States was not founded as a democracy, has not been a democracy for the majority of its existence, suffers very severe democratic deficits today, and has a long record of preventing, undermining and even destroying democratic governments abroad.
The US famously orchestrated coups or assassinations against democratically elected leaders such as Salvador Allende in Chile, Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala, and Patrice Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, all of whom were replaced by US-backed dictators.