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Why are Trump and certain tech billionaires trying to build new dystopian cities and democracy-free "zones"? It reflects a scary tech idea called "The Network State." For @techpolicypress.bsky.social, I wrote about why you should be deeply concerned 👇 www.techpolicy.press/trumps-gaza-...

"On Tuesday, a Palantir employee threatened to call the police on a WIRED journalist who was watching software demonstrations at its booth at AI+ Expo." New from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

Not long to go now! 🙂 Who's joining us this Saturday in London on the NHS bloc @peoplesassembly.bsky.social demo? Let's send a message to this government to prioritise our NHS! Details below - we look forward to marching with you 👊💙 Oh, and do spread the word! 🙏👍

This is so stupid that just reading the transcript I thought this was going to be some type of flippant snarky remark, but it turns out they’re all just dumb as bricks

In Greek mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water.

NEW: UK police guidance suggests officers search homes for abortion drugs and check phones for menstrual tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

The atmosphere was incredible… so let’s have a Linkin Park concert. Who is this for??

Please read, this is important. Sorry it’s long. Trump’s move to have Elon Musk step aside wasn’t a retreat. It was a distraction. With Musk’s name out of the headlines, many assumed the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had quietly ended. It hasn’t. It’s just changed hands.

Boyfriend has been on about having a threesome for ages. I finally agreed and said I'd organise it. Saturday night we're booked into an anonymous hotel twenty miles away. Can't wait to see his face when his mate Steve knocks on the door.

🧵 Avelo's contract calls for three 737s for use with ICE Air, but so far we've only seen two. From this post at "One Mile At A Time" about the new all-white paint scheme, we learn the identity of the third Avelo jet about to enter the ICE Air rotation. ⤵️ onemileatatime.com/news/avelo-d...

For four long years I was told not to call what’s coming our way fascism but here we are:

It was glaringly obvious to me from the start that this would happen. Machine writing and machine graphics were created to replace humans. And that's what they are doing. Here are a few people who've lost their jobs to the machine: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Trump International Hotel in NY 😂 TACO = Trump always chickens out

Revealed: #UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce sick patient transfers to hospitals! This saved them millions, but risked residents' health.

For 20 years we've campaigned to save the NHS from cuts & privatisation. We've saved 10 hospitals & stood side by side with NHS staff in dispute. Will you help us to be there for the next 20 years? We urgently need your help. Donate here 🙏 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/20th-anniv... youtu.be/FYxLQABN6Yw

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

I know he's younger than the previous pontiff, but even so, this is pretty impressive stuff given the limited time he'll have had in nets recently.

Supreme Court effectively overrules 110 years of president and as a practical matter abolishes all independent agencies authorized by law, with the exception of the federal reserve, which they were afraid to eliminate. 1/2

In an interview, the author Naomi Klein outlines the threat that tech oligarchs play to our future and democracy, and how to fight back. From @cerisecastle.bsky.social of @capitalandmain.bsky.social prospect.org/culture/2025...

Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis. It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.

Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...

There should be bipartisan concern about the reports that DOGE is merging HHS, Social Security, and IRS data into one database. That is the trifecta of personal information, and any competent person (or machine) could essentially put together a complete profile of your life.

Dire Straits - the only CD you could buy for forever #totp

Sinclair C5 is better than a Tesla. Fact. #totp

Page One must have been crowded. So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡 @schooley.bsky.social

The greatest description of Star Wars ever by a non-fan. Take it away, Malcolm Tucker

We are at the point in history where Germany is having to lecture the US on the need to fight fascism.

The story actually gets WORSE ICE knew this 2 year old girl was a US citizen And knew there was a guardian who’d keep her in the US Yet they held her in detention anyway Using her AS BAIT to get to her father Only after that failed did they then deport her-without meaningful process Despicable

Fun fact on the subject of cashless and crime more generally: the number of bank robberies in the UK fell from about two per day in the early 90s to one about one a week now.

Congratulations to the Henley Standard for getting a Life of Brian quote into their headline. www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/home/19...

🔴‘Peter Mandelson’s Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions’ Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...

Applying government pressure to a British company to take a commercial decision it doesn't want to take, with the aim of winning favour with a foreign autocrat by directly benefiting his business interests, isn't merely inappropriate, it's corruption. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

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Whoopsie! 🤷

One product that got a tariff exemption is PET resin, used for plastic bottles. Reyes Holdings, a Coca-Cola bottler owned by two politically connected brothers, recently hired lobbyists with close ties to the Trump White House to advocate on tariffs. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: NHS to launch safety probe into cataracts provider firm CHEC after multiple incidents reported by NHS A&E depts. Separately, patients treated by 2 other companies tell their story to The Sunday Times: READ: www.thetimes.com/article/0948...

There is no other word for illegally deporting a toddler with cancer apart from evil. Not just Trump and Stephen Miller but every single person involved in doing it from start to finish.

Connecticut’s attorney general sent a letter warning Avelo Airlines that it has jeopardized tax breaks and other local support by agreeing to conduct deportation flights for ICE. By @mckenziefunk.com

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