Thought my dad’s old phone had got just a nice shot of the eclipse vibe…. But zoom in and look at that bright bit on the ground 😮
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A drunk, a tramp and an unfit mother
Poll results vs. how poll results are presented in the Wall Street Journal.
My first total solar eclipse, on my birthday. Couldn’t have asked for a better gift. An absolutely unbelievable moment.
This is a video of a solar eclipse TAKEN FROM THE SURFACE OF MARS
This is an outrageous failure from Andy Burnham and this Labour Government. He says they "don't know the remedy." It's obvious to almost anyone. Nationalise water companies. Tax fossil fuel companies. Invest in renewables. Labour selling us down the river to please their donors as country burns.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 23h agoDowning Street's press release for Burnham's "emergency" Cobra meeting on the drought didn't even mention climate, with the Prime Minister blaming the growing numbers of wildfires on disposable barbecues. He's since appeared on GB News this afternoon to talk about migrant camps
We just brought a MAJOR new lawsuit to stop Trump from profiteering off of his market-moving Truth Social posts by charging $100,000 monthly for faster access to official government announcements. This scheme violates the First and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution.
Downing Street's press release for Burnham's "emergency" Cobra meeting on the drought didn't even mention climate, with the Prime Minister blaming the growing numbers of wildfires on disposable barbecues. He's since appeared on GB News this afternoon to talk about migrant camps
Quite weird to hear BBC News describe Jason Arday as “the black professor accused of plagiarism”. Is every story about a white professor going to include the relevant adjective?
A lovely story that made me get something in my eye. I knew the song, of course, but had dismisssed it as just another novelty record.
A moment that changed me: My stammer made life a misery – then a song gave me back my voice
As a teenager, I was so ashamed of my speech disability that even my family didn’t know about it. When Scatman John came on the radio, celebrating his own stammer in a hit about self-esteem, I knew I ...
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"FT has found evidence of controlled detonations and demolitions by Israeli forces and civilian contractors in dozens of border communities." Most of the destruction happened *after* the April ceasefire when territory was already under Israeli control (dark red dots). www.ft.com/content/25bc...
Voluntarily jumping into the middle of a shark filled ocean off of a goddamn aircraft carrier is one of the most desperate things I've ever heard
JD Simkins@jdsimkins.bsky.social · 2d agoFamilies of sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln spoke to Military Times about multiple incidents in which sailors have attempted to go overboard amid the ship's extended deployment in support of combat operations in the Middle East
Well. #YESon40 Vote yes on 40, CA. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Google co-founder Sergey Brin spending more than $100 million fighting California wealth tax
Brin has been pouring money into Building a Better California, a group that's backing two measures that could nullify a proposed billionaire tax.
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The sons of the FIFA Peace President sure do enjoy war profiteering. Attention must be paid to such men.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 7d agoDemocratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation into Eric and Don Jr.’s ties to 15 companies that have received $3.2 BILLION in defense contracts. Here's what you should know about their ongoing grifts.
Remarkable to see Reform doing exactly the screeching-in-terror, pointing-fingers, hysterical-denunciation then falling-over-pretending-to-be-injured routine mastered by Labour MPs and commentators, using it *against the press*. I don’t think it’ll work out well for them but oof, look at em go.
Similar thing they did with that guy they illegally sent to El Salvador and then kept trying to deport. Initial action exposed as corrupt and baseless; forced to walk it back; then double down to save face. Heinous!
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING WSJ: Trump White House officials have asked the Trump Justice Department to consider a new prosecution of David Hearn, the man accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool — as Trump fumes over U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's decision to drop the case.
Between 2016 and today, the US has spent almost $9 trillion on defense. It then ran dangerously low in many advanced munitions fighting a country with no air force and navy--after about two months of combat operations. This is an extraordinary scandal.
“‘He would get in trouble and just—nothing ever seemed to happen,’ a former Shaker Heights High School classmate and baseball teammate of Miller’s told Politico in 2021 for a story that documented no fewer than four arrests between ages 18 and 22 on criminal charges…” prospect.org/2026/08/11/m...
Max Miller’s Endless Wars - The American Prospect
The Ohio congressman fabricated a wild story of death threats on Interstate 90 and casually destroyed the life of a constituent. It’s one of many accusations Miller, now facing a spousal abuse scandal...
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How many stories have you read in the last month about how radical & extreme Francesca Hong & Abdul El-Sayed are, & how the Democrats are veering far left? How many stories have you read in the last month about how radical & extreme Tom Tiffany & Ken Paxton are, & how the GOP is veering far right?
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · last mo.Kind of remarkable that so much of the discourse is about the dangers of extremism in the Democratic Party.
Nine years ago we fought the Nazis. In the aftermath, lots of people tried to come out of the woodwork to take credit for a moral stand for opposing what happened in Charlottesville. But that summer I kept receipts. Here is a thread of some of them.
I don't think there should be a defibrilator on Snowdon. And that's a hill I'm prepared to die on
The U.S. has AGAIN sent people to a foreign country where they get imprisoned. This time, it’s to get around laws barring the deportation of people who face persecution/torture in their home countries. The U.S. gets paper-thin assurances that the below won't happen, which it knows will be ignored.
Emily Bregel@emilybregel.bsky.social · 3d agoImmigrants confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, after the U.S. deported them there without notice/due process, report worsening, dangerous conditions: "We’re living a nightmare." tucson.com/news/local/s...
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign.
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Matt Levine@matt-levine.bsky.social · 3d agoWhether they want to admit it or not, many women have always been attracted to bad boys and risk-takers. I can’t think of any archetype of man that fits that description more today than newsletter writers that put it all on the line every day. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
New: In another backwards step for transparency, the names of parliamentary staff no longer appear online members.parliament.uk/members/comm...
View current and previous versions of the Register - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament
Access current and previous versions of the UK Parliament's Register of Interests of Members' Staff.
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Sure, although this is a self-inflicted problem: nobody forced these lads to turn Nigel Farage into a household celebrity, and nobody forced them to mob together in secret with a bunch of Mandelson-friendly Labour cranks who had a plan to take over and purge their party.
Reform-supporting businessman Arron Banks reportedly hired private investigators to look into The Sunday Times' Gabriel Pogrund, editor of the Insight team that investigated funding to Nigel Farage. The publisher called the report "reprehensible" www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Exclusive: Brexit “bad boy” Arron Banks launched secret probe into Sunday Times star reporter
The prominent Reform member paid investigators to look into Gabriel Pogrund after his reporting on Nigel Farage's finances
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This 'adversarial' pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you | TechCrunch
A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.
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Sometimes I think about how Michael Gove was able to dismiss the Tories £ 10 billion PPE waste & industrial scale corruption as an ‘ honest ‘ error & UK media said ‘ Oh that sounds credible ‘ 🙄 & the story disappeared after 2 days .