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Water Follies In the 35 years before privatisation, 100 reservoirs built; no major English reservoir built since. Asset-stripping: Thames Water sold-off 25 reservoirs. Southern Water to decommission 43 of 93 by 2030. Companies paid £85bn in dividends, borrowed £70bn. People fleeced and abused.

I spent two years working on an entire audio series with @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social about how Obama turning hope and change into more of the same created the conditions for Trump's ascent. Find it here: adbl.co/meltdown

#WarnerBros. Discovery will split into two separate companies next year as David Zaslav looks to separate the studios and streaming from TV. filmstories.co.uk/news/warner-...

This stuff doesn’t look very protect-and-serve-y

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

#Superman production going swimmingly...new editors and new composer...tonal and structural changes and losing 15 minutes a month out from release? Kinda crushing to hear and doesn't bode well. Gonna be at least another 10 years before we get a fresh stab at supes...

Ranieri for Italy

This is depraved

M:I The Final Reckoning: For the love of God why is this film sooooo long. 2 great action sequences and the rest is awful. Could easily have cut an hour. Majorly disappointing.

It appears The Entity has been reviewing MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -- THE FINAL RECKONING. filmstories.co.uk/news/google-...

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

When Mr. Musk, the wealthiest man alive & major campaign contributor, expresses strong distaste for Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, Republicans will listen & obey. That means more cuts to Medicaid, nutrition & education. The oligarchs want it ALL. We’re not going to let that happen.

Republicans snuck an AI regulation BAN into the “Big Beautiful Bill.” That means companies like Real Page can use AI to get around price fixing laws and RAISE YOUR RENT. BUT this policy violates the Senate's budget rules. I'm calling foul — and fighting back to reject it.

Full cost of failed pandemic-era PPE contracts finally revealed after major fraud probe The Covid counter-fraud commissioner uncovered the £1.4billion figure in the first phase of his investigation into wasteful Tory spending during the Covid-19 pandemic www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Channel 4 News has released a detailed report on the timeline of the massacre near the aid distribution point in Rafah, Gaza, where Israeli forces killed more than 31 Palestinians and wounded over 200 as they waited for food.

"Well, we are all going to die." --Senator Joni Ernst That has to be the glibbest way any politician has ever told a constituent that they didn’t give a shit about them.

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

Civics 101: presidents are not kings…

Biased BBC reporting dehumanises Palestinians - blaming them for aid chaos BBC news repeating Israel's lies is even apparent in its reporting on GHF - where the broadcaster paints Palestinians as 'stampeding' animals www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Maximus, UK arm of a US contractor, that tests whether some people should receive disability benefits reported 23% hike in pre-tax profits, from £23.6m to £29.1m. It has £800m govt contracts. US CEO got $10.2m paypacket. Public services increasingly privatised. We pay more, get less in return.

The Lever just exposed how Trump IRS nominee Billy Long's debts were paid off by donors with IRS business. Watch MSNBC citing The Lever's reporting. Original story here: www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pi... Subscribe to help us do more of this accountability journalism: LeverNews.com/subscribe

🚨NEWS: Politico is being sponsored by a dark money group run by Trump operative Chris LaCivita, whose "Make America Affordable Again" campaign is designed to make it harder for you to hold corporations accountable when they fleece you. Details: www.levernews.com/meta-foots-z...

🚨NEWS: Republicans put a line in their budget bill that ends the wildly popular program letting Americans file their taxes for free. The bill then launches an initiative to enrich private tax prep corporations that just delivered campaign cash to the GOP.

Congress's new crypto bill includes provisions letting tech moguls issue their own currencies, require users to only do transactions in those currencies & charge big fees on those transactions. The bill comes as Meta is trying to launch its own currency.

Peter Navarro snaps at @andrewfeinberg.com after Feinberg points out that the administration always responds to court orders they don't like by railing against judges

In other news we are already seeing chaos as glaciers disintegrate even at this very early stage of global climate destabilisation. Drill baby drill means burn baby burn. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fines are not enough: What's been done is criminal and we should be seeing executives get prosecuted. #Renationalise water now

Mother Jones was a fearless fighter for workers’ rights, responsible for organizing miners across the US. We visited her birthplace in Cork, Ireland, to honor her tireless struggle with the working poor. Solidarity forever.

URGENT: NYU is withholding Logan Rozos’s diploma after he condemned the genocide in Gaza during his May 15 graduation speech. Drop Site is sponsoring a petition demanding NYU reinstate his degree and drop all disciplinary action. 🖊 Add your name: actionnetwork.org/forms/urgent...

You don't need to be a prophet. Images like this - of starved Palestinians hammed into fenced cages by Israel - will be remembered for generations as hideous evidence of a terrible crime. And history will remember not just those who cheered it on, but those who stayed silent.

Based Bill Burr giving the most based take

UK public purse to make £10bn loss from £45bn bailout of NatWest bank in 2008. Govt selling last of its shares, could have used it to fund SME/infrastructure investment. Boss who crashed the bank gets £600k a year pension. Bailouts for the City, benefit cuts for the poor.

🔥 TOMORROW 8AM 🔥 @sanders.senate.gov

Citizens United amounts to legalized bribery – plain and simple.

Irish pop star Bono broke his silence on the Gaza war at the Ivor Awards, urging Israel to be “freed from Benjamin Netanyahu and far-right extremists.” #skynews #Bono #IvorAwards #Gaza #Israel

Wait..A 6 time bankruptcy filer causes America to lose its PERFECT credit rating....WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED..🤔

exactly this 👇

Since everyone has been asking for it (no one has been asking for it), here’s me and @patrickklepek.bsky.social breaking down the trailers for the new SUPERMAN movie. I think they are probably doing a grave disservice to the movie! youtu.be/_RTeWP4HYZU

BREAKING: Microsoft Bans the Word “Palestine” in Internal Emails Story for @dropsitenews.com by @worqas.bsky.social and @mazmhussain.bsky.social

Glorious.