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Just watched the Home Counties private schoolboy Nigel Farage telling northern voters how he understands steelworkers because he used to work in the “metals business” himself. He was, ahem, a commodities trader at the London Metal Exchange in the City.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland with his wife and their three children, and has never been charged with any crime. The Department of Homeland Security issued him a work permit, and he joined a union, working full time as a sheet metal apprentice.

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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

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Good job everybody. Our tech overlords will gut our government so when hurricane season comes we can pay for subscription weather forecasts from their buddies.

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Fascism is here. Due process is dead. The Supreme Court is a hollow husk.

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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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Make America Great Again by destroying everything that made it the envy of the world and fill it with corruption, pollution, extreme prejudice, infectious disease, financial crisis and fear. I’m sorry Mr President, I can’t get that all on a hat, but the first four words sound great.

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🌍📉 Global carbon emissions in 2024: still rising A new study finds emissions grew by 0.9% last year – 36.3 Gt CO₂ total. At this pace, the 1.5 °C carbon budget may already be exceeded. Non-fossil energy rose 6.2%, avoiding ~9.8 Gt CO₂. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s430... #ClimateCrisis #SciComm 🧪

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So the whole thing about Hegseth , Vance, Rubio, Ratcliffe sharing military secrets on an unsecured group Signal chat is just gone? Like when Trump took a call about North Korea missile strike on a personal cellphone in a crowded public dining space at Mar a Lago?

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Trump has ordered a stretch of border land to be transferred to the Department of Defense so it can be put under control of the army, AP reports. It’s a way to bypass the Posse Comitatus Act which limits the government’s use of the military for domestic law enforcement.

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🧪 After Harvard, MIT. Bullying supremacist agenda is in trouble now.

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Take a moment to think about this. It is not hyperbole to argue that this is something hitler would have done. He is an idiot, a thug, a bully, a rapist, and a bigot. Reject him.

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🦪 Can mussels & saltmarsh plants save Italy’s poisoned Mar Piccolo?🌍 Once famed for seafood, now toxic from oil & military waste. Locals & scientists test phytoremediation 🧪 but funding is scarce. www.bbc.com/future/artic... #MarPiccolo #Phytoremediation #Mussels #NatureBasedSolutions

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“Why we sleep” is a FANTASTIC book.

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Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.

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What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.

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People love to list useless things done by Roman emperors, namely Caligula’s declaring war on the sea. But a technocrat “conquering space” w/an 11 min 🚀 flight carrying a brigade of rich female celebrities—when ticket $ combined are worth the entire NEH budget for a yr—is beyond Caligula levels imo.

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Felt this one in my bones.

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If Jeff Bezos can send Katy Perry into space, he can pay a wealth tax so every American has debt-free healthcare.

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Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

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China really upping their trolling game since the tariffs.

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This feels like a cult.

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Optimistic thought: sometimes you read about how Russia's lower economic output is counterbalanced by its much cheaper cost of munitions. But only if you compare to European production - not Ukrainian. www.economist.com/europe/2025/... From The Economist

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Chris Mullin in the Weekend FT

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Don’t be this guy.

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I agree with Gamera, here. There is simply no reason why anyone should be homeless, in a world with even one billionaire - let alone thousands. Yet AGAIN - the main issue is WEALTH INEQUALITY. It is the cause of 90+% of societal problems we see today. Demand a #wealthtax

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I have zero patience for “do climate work but just don’t call it that”. I am not talking in code about an existential threat bc a handful of Americans like profiting off oil and gas & have managed to brainwashed another handful of Americans. Don’t capitulate. They’ll take your funding anyway.

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Don’t have a Cow, man.

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How Fox this morning frames Russia’s latest missile attacks against civilians: “Both sides now accusing each other of violating the 30-day cease fire agreement.”

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No need to wait until September: We’ve identified the causes of autism and even some of the environmental chemicals interacting with autism genes involved early fetal neurodevelopment during pregnancy

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Opinion: Trump’s plan amounts to moving America back several decades. If that’s what his supporters want, they must also be content with making the nation poorer on.ft.com/43MB6LV

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The home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) was set on fire early Sunday while he and his family were inside, he said, an incident that state police are investigating as arson.

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I wonder if giant megacorps who can afford to purchase access to the president getting tariff exemptions will be good or bad for small businesses 🤔

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There is no way in hell this isn’t doctored. Sincerely, someone with an actual medical degree that practiced actual medicine.

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I wonder if the driver knows about the ECU under the hood

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there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

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This is organist Olena Kohut, killed today in Sumy by the Russian missile. Joseph Rheinberger, Visione, op. 156 no. 5 💔

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Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

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