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Traffic-dominated streets, insufficient playgrounds. "Children are being driven indoors by a lack of safe spaces to play, move and socialise freely. We can’t just blame overprotective parents and screens" I'm lucky to live in a legacy LTN. My kids can play out. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Send the Marines, by Tom Lehrer. As posted by @AllenStricklandWilliams on IG.

Bombshell boomtowns: Europe’s forgotten cities now facing a boom due to increased defence spending A report from France, Germany and Poland, with @vendeline.bsky.social and Maria Wilczek economist.com/europe/2025/... from @economist.com

This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

“Brexit has shattered confidence in Britain’s economy” And yet the politicians who championed Brexit still strut around like they’re owed power, rather than a heavy dose of proper scrutiny and public disgust for the damage they’ve collectively done.

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

“Los Angeles descends into a moment of nervous silence as the curfew begins & troops keep watch over the people’s most sacred gathering spots… but with the rebels scurrying through the streets, how long can Ghoram stay quiet and will the Emperor have the city pacified before the Olympics next sol?”

Musk has left DOGE, but his acolytes are embedded across government: www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Do. Not. Travel. To. The. United. States.

NEW: The Trump admin has plans to send thousands of foreigners to Guantanamo beginning as early as this week, including citizens of close allies UK & France, with no intention of notifying their home governments in advance, per sources and documents

UK Govt's £122m claim against Michelle Mone-linked company reaches high court. Got PPE contracts through VIP lane. Govt claimed PPE was defective. After denials Mone and husband admitted they personally benefitted. Wheels grind slowly when it comes to the rich. Mone was sued in December 2022.

Southern Baptists overwhelmingly endorse a ban on gay marriage — including a call for reversing the Supreme Court's precedent legalizing it nationwide. Read more: cnn.it/45jI6R9

This is actually perfect. The emptiness makes it look as ridiculous and wasteful as it is.

Trump has wanted a police state with himself sitting at the top as its undisputed boss since his first administration. The standoff in L.A. shows how truly eager he is to turn America’s vast warmaking powers inward on his domestic foes and critics. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The UK government should long ago have exited X. The platform is not interested in appropriate moderation. It is a hotbed for extremism. This was clear nearly a year ago during the riots.

Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence fed the JFK files into an AI program, asking it to see if there was anything that should remain classified. https://trib.al/AqWNKuR

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map

Trump's tariff drama: ✅ April 2: “I want tariffs!” ➡️ Wall Street melts down ❌ April 9: “Just kidding, I want leverage!” 🤡 Day 62 of 90: Zero deals, zero strategy, zero credibility. My fear is that when we hit Day 90 we're back to punishingly high and incoherent tariffs.

President Trump on World War I: "Recently other countries celebrated the victory of World War I, France was celebrating, really.The only one that doesn't celebrate is the U.S.A.And we're the ones that won the war.Without us,you'd all be speaking German right now.Maybe a little Japanese thrown in."

What I cannot work out is *why* Labour thinks saying "It was right to cut Winter Fuel Allowance last year and it's right to reinstate it this year because circumstances changed so much" Is better than "We listened to you, we got it wrong, we've fixed it, and we're sorry".

He must be protected at all costs.

Hypocrisy. Leave it to Leavitt.

Rachel Reeves’s economic vision is coming into focus – a year too late | Rafael Behr

"Elon Musk’s father, Errol, described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “very stable and pleasant man” at a nationalist event in Moscow" www.kyivpost.com/post/54254?u...

I like this Gavin more than podcast Gavin.

Trump’s climate denial may help a livestock-killing pest make a comeback. Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing anything about it. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Flies #Climate #Livestock #Environment #Food #USDA

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CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest? Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.

If you don’t think Reform are being directly aided and abetted by the British press, then ask yourself this: why has a question asked by a Reform MP at PMQs, about banning the burka, been front and centre in discussions on the BBC, LBC and Sky News for over a week?

More people should be talking about the utter freak that is Stephen Miller and his white nationalist worldview. He's the architect behind most of this chaos as Trump is golfing, falling asleep during meetings, making money of memecoins and tripping while climbing stairs.

Trump, offering no evidence, "These are paid insurrectionists, these are paid troublemakers, they get money". truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

ok cool which groups and identity blocks (sic) should be excluded from the first amendment ? I’ll get a google doc going, you call Harper’s

Every so often I remember that interest rates were below 1% for 12 years. I realise this is not "news". Nor is it news that, during that decade-plus, we failed to use the potential of dirt-cheap borrowing to invest in infrastructure projects that we belatedly realised we desperately needed. Hmph.

Sen. Kevin Cramer on raising the federal minimum wage, which is currently $7.25: "I don't even know why we have a 'federal minimum wage' to be honest ... I think the market works really well ... I just think manipulating markets with mandatory wages doesn't make any sense."