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Quote of the week: “I wouldn't use this publication even if I ran out of toilet paper” [of The Mail on Sunday].

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Don't let the b*stards grind you down @zarahsultana.bsky.social Sending you my very best wishes and solidarity #DailyFail

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Breaking News! Code Yikes! The latest data from CERES just came in, and the 36-month running mean for the Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) held stead at 11.25 Hiroshimas per Second (HpS), or about 970,000 Hiroshimas per day worth of planetary heating.

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Gina Miller is now on BlueSky @thatginamiller.bsky.social

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Ex-Labour minister calls for wealth tax and public investment in June spending review. UK needs an economic reset, end of cuts/austerity and neoliberal policies. Can't revive economy without boosting the purchasing power of the bottom 50%. Must redistribute. Tax the ultra-rich.

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The problem with Solar Power is that electricity will be so cheap it is free. And nothing is worse than free to them.

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An abled couple sneered, not once, not twice, but thrice when I was able to gain access ahead of them with my disability ID. “You don’t look disabled” with an eye roll. Yeah? You don’t look human. Fuck yourself. How’s that?

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It is very likely that May, 2025 will end up with a global temperature anomaly below 1.4°C. If ENSO neutral (or La Nina) conditions persist this year, it is possible that 2025 will end up below 1.5°C. Last December, the Climate Casino put the OVER/UNDER for 2025 at 1.52°C. I'll take the UNDER.

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What Starmer and Labour have yet to figure out is that it's all very well having a 10-15 year grand plan for setting Britain to rights, but not if you do stuff that makes you so unpopular in the meantime that you only get 5 years in power.

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The story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman and US citizen detained by ICE, keeps getting worse She’s been in the country for 50 years. They took her wheelchair, denied her medications & threw her in a detention facility in Georgia Did you know she was a whistle blower against forced sterilization?

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Compromising with bigots has taken us from Brexit to elected officials openly calling for the ethnic cleansing of people of colour from the UK. Never compromise with hate.

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Social mobility has been declining for decades but that's fine, we don't need the talents of 340 million people as long as we have the several dozen children of our stupidest oligarchs

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A leading disabled artist has been forced to stop working by “devastating” and “destructive” cuts to the Labour government’s Access to Work disability employment programme. #AccessToWork #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/access-to-wo...

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“Fixing climate change is too expensive.” Um no. What’s really expensive is doing nothing. Climate disasters cost billions—and those costs are rising fast. Climate solutions save money and lives, as well as building a better world for us all 🌏💚

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Absolutely everybody has had their eyes opened to the blatant racial bias in our Media by the response to the Liverpool attack, who was a dangerous terrorist until he was found to be white. Then he become a Company Director, happily married and living in a cul-de-sac with 3 kids

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This is true. The Tories have destroyed themselves trying to ape Farage. Under the influence of Blue Labour, Starmer is doing the same to Labour. Amplifying Farage's message merely drives people to vote for the real Farage rather than the pale copy.

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“Elon Musk told people he was taking so much ketamine that it was affecting his bladder. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. He traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones marked as the amphetamine stimulant Adderall…”

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🔥 Superb article De Montfort was meant to be an “anchor institution” and “civic university” working for the “benefit of local people and the prosperity of our places”. But its executives have raided it and in 2-3 years claimed £278K in their own luxury expenses.

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For those who need to know.. let me fill in the blanks

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Your 'moment of doom' for May 30, 2025 ~ Planetary Inferno “For the first time, it’s not a fire in one region, we have fires in every region. That is a sign of a changing climate that we are going to have to adapt to.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I don’t want to live in a world where people are in jail and barred from work for smoking weed but an unelected man actively abusing ketamine faces no repercussions for illegally seizing all of our data and making decisions that kill hundreds of thousands of people

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Robert Jenrick attacking train fare dodgers while he tried to help a billionaire illegally dodge millions in tax exemplifies everything that is wrong with the UK, they demonise the minor crimes while protecting the massive criminals from justice

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How justice 'works'.

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Hermer spoke articulately, lucidly and morally about human rights so of course now the dogs of hell are after him www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...

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Disabled people are not expendable We aren’t “less than” We aren’t “getting a free ride” Being chronically ill is not like being on vacation Receiving benefits or any type of support is not easy The system is designed to dehumanize, discourage & punish We need support, understanding & allies

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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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"Maximus, a Virginia-based business, reported an increase in pre-tax profits for its UK arm from £23.6m to £29.1m... The company is the biggest provider of... tests [that] determine a person’s level of function and ability to perform everyday tasks" #r4today

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While Robert Jenrick MP spends his days wandering about the underground tackling fare dodgers and going on about the capital for clicks... his constituency has a genuine problem. ● Newark crime rate: 123 crimes per 1,000 ● London 105.8 per 1,000 But you know... "Sadiq"

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Thames Water hit with record £123m fine. Beware of the OFWAT spin. £104.5m fine for sewage dumping was announced on 6 Aug 2024. £18.2m fine for breach of dividend rules was announced on 19 Dec 2024. Companies allowed to negotiate fines. Can't end abuses without ending the profit motive

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Made a cocktail for my wife and she put it in the freezer, inadvertently creating a new superorganism please hel—glurk

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The average billionaire in the UK gets £300m a year in tax avoidance benefits. The top companies Shell, BP, Amazon... are getting up to £5bn each. If we are cutting benefits, cut them for billionaires and trillion dollar companies who definately don't need them.

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Sweden removed their student from Harvard because ICE are illegally arresting and deporting foreign students. The USA is not safe.

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Combining 2 anti-cancer drugs prolongs the lifespan of mice, & may help humans age better. Researchers analyzed the impact of rapamycin & trametinib, showing that the pair extended the animals' lifespan by around 30%. 🧪💊🐭 www.newsweek.com/aging-health...

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Easy Money Working for DWP. Maximus US contractor. The combined estimated value of the contracts, including subcontracting, is £800m over 5 years, with the option to extend for a further two years. www.maximusuk.co.uk/news/maximus...

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Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain needs a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily need universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

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All reporters and journalists out there 👇

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Brown = Terrorist White = "Lovely Family Man"

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Almost half of adults fear an unexpected £100 bill would leave them struggling to pay their rent or mortgage ‘When nearly half of people are so financially fragile that they are living in fear of a £100 bill, something has gone very wrong' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Amazing. Right out in the open: "universities are free to do research as long as they're sympathetic to the administration." I want to personally play this clip in the face of every fucking clown who spent the last several years pretending that the left is the "real" threat to free speech.

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Sensible 👏 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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By betraying his voters so comprehensively and so soon, Keir Starmer has done us a favour. He has given us 4 years to design the government we want. In this week's column I explain how it can be done. There's massive potential, but we need to start now. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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HMRC admits not collecting £40bn tax last yr. Others say over £100bn. Big accounting/law firms, banks mastermind tax dodges. Rarely prosecuted. No big accounting firm prosecuted; get govt contracts. Fewer than FIVE criminal cases brought in 2023-2024, 16 in 2018-2019. Govts chase little people.

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Great graph by @carbonbrief.org telling the story of why UK energy prices have risen in recent years It makes clear that it's largely due to wholesale gas prices. Which isn't news, and shouldn't need reiterating, but sadly does because of misinformation... www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

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