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It's mind-blowing how little attention this extraordinary statement has received. It's briefly mentioned in a couple news articles, but this MSNBC opinion piece is the only extended discussion of it I've seen: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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“Two people deeply familiar with the Charleston 787 plant told the Prospect they had particularly acute quality concerns over planes that were delivered to Air India.” 😱

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HAPPENING NOW: Judge Charles Breyer (brother of retired SCOTUS justice Stephen) hears arguments on whether to grant California's emergency motion to limit Trump's deployment of the National Guard in LA. 🧵

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🧵 Another day, another email to the Bellingcat contact inbox from Russia's disinformation campaign, again targeting Moldova. This contains a bunch of X links, which has hosted a lot of Russian disinformation from this campaign, but this batch has some new and interesting characteristics

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Barragán: "This is not an effort to really get criminals. It's an effort to see 'let's see who we can sweep up along the way.' Why are they doing this? Bc this president said he was going to deport millions & the numbers have not been adding up. There aren't that many serious criminal offenders."

submitted 4 days ago • 320 comments

On Saturday, June 7th, President Trump attended the UFC fight in NJ. The same day, almost same time, the President has issued a proclamation allocating (at least) 2,000 National Guard troops (for 60 days or longer) to Los Angeles following the “clashes between ICE agents and protestors”.

submitted 5 days ago • 74 comments

This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions. Now, it has to happen in us. A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

Great question. It’s not enough to diagnose collapse, we need to build resilience. Here’s what “adapt” means in practice 🧵

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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

submitted 6 days ago • 171 comments

NEW ANALYSIS: UK's solar power surges 42% to a new record, after the sunniest spring on record * For the first time, solar was >10% of UK generation in consecutive months (April/May 2025) * In 2025, solar has already avoided gas imports that would've cost £600m www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uks...

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms. But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

Transphobia is no more "acceptable" than any other form of bigotry, and I continue to be absolutely astounded, shocked, and revolted that otherwise "liberal" people think otherwise. What do they want transgender people to do? Hide away? Pretend they don't exist?

submitted 58 days ago • 90 comments

🤡 @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 22 days ago • 151 comments

Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy. This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.

submitted 23 days ago • 1177 comments

Todays rental price statistics show the rate at which rents in the private rented sector have been increasing in recent years is out of control. Since Jan2020 rents have shot up by £300 a month, up 31%, over 2.5x the rate of growth in the preceding 5 years (12% growth)

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

There's no placating the Brexiters, no reasoning with them, no basic comprehension or adulthood. You can't debate papers behaving like the Sun or the Mail this morning. There's nothing to debate with. They view all trading relations with Europe as humiliation.

submitted 24 days ago • 322 comments

The new Neil Halloran documentary on Smallpox has completely changed how I see the RFK Jr. version of the world. Neil (softly) argues that realizing that disease isn't the fault of the sick /or/ the fault of the Gods ushered in a new future where we felt the authority to care for each other.

submitted 27 days ago • 112 comments

In this era, I think it's more useful to sort people by whether they participate in democratic discourse or disordered discourse, rather than left vs right.

submitted 29 days ago • 30 comments

The political media is obsessively relitigating the issue of Biden being too old and out of touch while the current president babbles incoherently at press conferences and regularly admits he's not the one making decisions on key policy matters.

submitted 29 days ago • 202 comments

“I woke up with a sense of dread…” — from an EU citizen in the UK on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging. Powerful open letter. 👇

submitted 31 days ago • 33 comments

My reaction on behalf of @jrf-uk.bsky.social, on today's labour market statistics and the Government's plans to cut disability benefits. The threat of widespread hardship among disabled people, unable to replace the incomes they lose out on through work, is even starker.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

I think I would have been about 5 when I first became conscious of the Second World War. That would have been 25 years after VE day. The war was somehow everywhere and nowhere. It was everywhere because it suffused the culture. My friends and I watched war films and read war comics /1

submitted 36 days ago • 11 comments

Since the election win Labour have 1. Appeased the far right 2. Delivered otherwise good policy ideas in a bad way e.g. WFA 3. Targeted the disabled with cuts instead of the richest with a wealth tax The result? 808 Reform councillors Labour need to change direction and be less cruel, fast

submitted 41 days ago • 78 comments

1/n I don’t understand the new Dept HHS assertion that childhood vaccines weren’t tested in placebo-controlled trials. That’s simply not true. I did a quick (non-exhaustive) PubMed search and they came up pretty quickly. For example here’s MMR

submitted 43 days ago • 126 comments

Vaccines do not contain any fetal tissue or cells, nor do they contain any cells derived from fetal materials.

submitted 43 days ago • 119 comments

On the eve of the #localelections thank you @privateeyenews.bsky.social for absolutely nailing the weapons-grade, rock-solid, brain-melting idiocy of voting for Farage and Reform…

submitted 44 days ago • 24 comments

I have been very disappointed, although not really surprised, to see commentators attempt to blame renewables for yesterday's blackout in Spain and Portugal. Let me explain what they've said and why it is wrong. /1

submitted 45 days ago • 13 comments

1/12 Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town However it’s a bit odd By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously 🧵🧵

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NEW: Government officials insist that neither DOGE nor Musk have any real decision-making authority—they merely “advise” or “consult.” But internal DOJ emails provide the most compelling evidence yet that DOGE is not simply advising—it’s calling the shots. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/on-d...

submitted 47 days ago • 189 comments

FACT CHECK: This viral graph from twitter claims to prove vaccines cause autism. But there's something fishy about the data! Let's dive in.

submitted 52 days ago • 11 comments

Take that, Bill Maher.

submitted 52 days ago • 154 comments

The key chart right now: Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers. This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

submitted 52 days ago • 113 comments

Just of four of today's headlines. Make no mistake: This is not, at its core, about illegal immigration or border enforcement. This is the federal government conducting a deliberate and nationwide campaign of white supremacist terror.

submitted 54 days ago • 16 comments

New(ish), from me: Andor returns on April 22. The first season detailed how bureaucracies in a totalitarian regime function, what is the toll of living under such regimes, and what causes people to rebel. Those themes feel more salient than ever. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-return...

submitted 56 days ago • 38 comments

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

submitted 57 days ago • 169 comments

It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service Just incredible grift

submitted 58 days ago • 566 comments

SCOOP --> The cop who initially attested to Abrego Garcia's alleged MS-13 membership was subsequently suspended and indicted for serious professional misconduct: Sharing case info with a sex worker. This undermines Trumpworld's smears. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1940...

submitted 59 days ago • 162 comments

🚨🚨 In another unfathomable and disgusting betrayal of #Ukraine, #US blocks joint G7 statement denouncing the horrible Russian Sumy strike. /1 kyivindependent.com/us-blocks-g7...

submitted 59 days ago • 15 comments

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

submitted 59 days ago • 575 comments

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 59 days ago • 712 comments

~ Marjorie Wallace ~ for the post below. "Once the spiraling starts, it is very difficult to stop it". ~ Charlie Sykes ~

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