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Ooh. They're all falling out. It's only been four months.

Remember when Trump gave Elon access to ALL of the government’s data?

What's so annoying is that Trump is right - why didn't Biden do it????

Populist radical right having a very fractious evening on both sides of the Atlantic.

Oh it’s OVER over

#oh www.instagram.com/p/DKh_YJvynj...

lol tesla’s stock is tanking bc investors are rattled about the trump/musk situationship

There it is. Elon Musk publicly admitting that he bought the 2024 election.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed fellow Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as her first choice for New York City mayor.

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he would have won without the financial cushion from the world's richest man. Musk said the money was chump change.... ''trump won because I rigged the voting machines... '' www.bbc.com/news/live/cy...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

“I suppose if there were something valuable that I could leave you with, it would be to say that you can play tiny invisible games inside of your plainest tasks.” The comedian and writer Jenny Slate offers some words of wisdom to new graduates. nyer.cm/9R5a4jH

Millions of Obamacare enrollees would lose health coverage under the Republicans’ major policy bill, which would make coverage more expensive and harder to obtain. Here’s how. nyti.ms/43y01Ct

Zia Yusuf dramatically resigned as chairman of the resurgent Reform UK party today in a bitter blow to leader Nigel Farage.

Big fan of this definition of "white British" that excludes the King

For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government. But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes. Where is the outrage over that?

Showing your pearly whites increases perceived attractiveness nearly six times more than a Botox treatment, a new study has found

A minor, 3.2-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Wednesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. https://trib.al/0UCYYfd

It’s a wild world

The old joke was Facebook knew what you did with friends, and Google knew what you did alone. New research reveals that Meta and Yandex have discovered a method to de-anonymize Android users and associate their browsing histories with persistent IDs. #privacyinvasion arstechnica.com/security/202...

#oh www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The 12-person crew, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, is expected to reach Gaza on June 7.

🎥: Paul Marshall is fast becoming a mini-Murdoch. The wealthy hedge fund manager founded GB News and UnHerd, and acquiring the Spectator. In this bonus ep of Media Confidential, @arusbridger.bsky.social speaks to @benjamin-clark.bsky.social about Marshall’s growing empire. youtu.be/Ubf6JObyDKs

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#oh

BREAKING | Dutch prime minister Dick Schoof has stepped down just hours after anti-Muslim populist Geert Wilders pulled his PVV party out of the right-wing coalition

NEW: Every Sunday, newspapers are full of ads for tech jobs that aren't really looking for applicants. They reveal an aspect of U.S. immigration law that hurts both domestic and foreign workers — yet has endured for decades.

Multiple nonprofits serving exploited children declined to speak on the record to ProPublica, fearing that doing so might undermine what chance they still had of getting potential grants. “Look at what happened to the law firms,” one official said.

Remember all those law firms that struck a deal with Trump? It’s not totally working out for them. At least 11 large companies—including Morgan Stanley, Microsoft, and Oracle—are cutting ties with law firms that caved to President Trump’s threats of political retribution. https://trib.al/WeNhjT5

This is unexpected.

The National University of Singapore said in a Facebook post about its programs that the city "happens to be a short plane trip from Bali and Phuket."

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

Mark Mardell spoke to two people who believe Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill is deeply flawed. Here’s what they changed his mind on. www.prospectmagazine...

Our latest on the seasonal worker visa. What jumped out at me when reading this government-commissioned report is that farm-owners will quite openly say that they prefer migrant workers to accrue huge levels of debt, because this pushes them to work harder so that they can pay it off.

Increasing inequality; the privatization of infrastructure, security, finances—we’ve seen this before, Cullen Murphy writes. Are we headed for a new feudal age?

Fox News will go down Mao’s little red book as a source of truth and power for good in the world

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Ebb and flow. Culture can’t be fix anymore than the tides. Tolerance not definitions www.the-guardian.com/music/2025/j...

Russia-aligned actors are amplifying anti-Ukrainian sentiment in Poland before June 1 vote through coordinated campaigns across X, Bluesky, Facebook, and Telegram, according to a new investigation by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

🔴NEW:The dark money behind UK's anti-abortion backlash - Key US anti‑abortion lawyer funding Toby Young’s Free Speech Union - Alliance Defending Freedom’s UK spending soars Warnings of “obvious danger” of “importing America's toxic far right politics” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...

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

Why temporary EFTA membership is the UK’s quickest and best route back to the single market and rejoining the EU.

“If a homeowner is thinking about solar and can afford it, now would be the time.” House Republicans want to end federal tax credits that help make solar affordable. If that happens, it could upend the economic calculus of powering a home with sunlight.

# always cite accurately. You may save the world www.theguardian.com/society/2025...