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This article wins the award for the worst (of MANY) media takes on the Natal conference. No, the left shouldn’t embrace pronatalism because once you have decided people’s reproductive decisions should be the target of policy, human rights abuses inevitably follow. We’ve run the tape on this before.

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New colonialism. Trump ‘demands control’ from Ukraine of key pipeline carrying Russian gas to Europe. All part of US plan to takeover Ukraine energy and mineral assets; handing territory to Russia. Trump is no friend. Ukraine can pay back US aid over next 75 years, without being enslaved.

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Freedom of speech includes the right to criticise a president

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View from the Rialto Bridge, Venice #travelling #Venice #photography

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Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.

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Decline of drama at school prompts UK training drive for backstage work

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The price of coffee is at its highest in decades — bad news for caffeine-lovers, but good for bean farmers in Vietnam profiting from global demand

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The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024. This isn't due to luck or skill. Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

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Fascinating new insights into Neolithic society unlocked by aDNA analysis. I may have to rewrite my book, Ancestors!

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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Nearly 2m hectares of forests suitable for endangered koalas have been destroyed since the iconic species was declared a threatened species in 2011, according to analysis for Guardian Australia.

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Given how badly Brexit has turned out, it's almost beyond belief that Michael Gove has been given a peerage

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US price of $1,000 iphone could rise to $2,150, maybe $3,500. Due to supply chain issues, it will take years for it to be produced in the US. People also facing price hikes in everyday things. Trump's turmoils will hit other countries too as supply chains shift.

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"The combination of interest rates soaring amid a slump and the currency plunging despite rising interest rates isn’t what we normally expect for advanced countries, let alone the owner of the world’s leading reserve currency. It is, however, what we often see in emerging-market economies."

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Exclusive: Military contractors are pitching the White House on an unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants. Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince wants to cut a deal to skirt immigration laws and transport detainees from the U.S. to El Salvador.

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The government’s case against Mahmoud Khalil is so pifflingly weak that it’s both outrageous and terrifying that it’s taking this long and might indeed end with his deportation. His offense is that he might have thought, be thinking right now, or one day think something that gives off bad vibes.

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"Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships...effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions." apnews.com/article/ship...

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Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a federal court on Friday to bar prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against him, arguing that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s recently announced decision to do so was “explicitly and unapologetically political.”

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House of Commons to be recalled to discuss British Steel nationalisation

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A funny one from this morning's misty sunrise on Glastonbury Tor. At first glance it looks like someone diving over the sun into the mist below. It is actually a bird heading straight for me and yes I did duck although I am sure it would have missed me. 😂

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It has begun...

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China retaliates with 125% tariff on US imports. Trump hiked US tariff to 145%. China can hike US interest rates by selling US govt bonds. Trump can't do similar. China can sell to other countries. US imposed tariffs on all. They won't be keen to buy more US goods. Crazy Trump tactics.

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Matt Hancock intervened personally to help a pizza firm, owned by a Conservative donor, win a lucrative Covid PPE contract. Two days before winning the deal, the company, which had no previous experience of supplying medical equipment, removed ‘pizza’ from its name bylinetimes.com/2025/04/11/m...

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The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else. Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.

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No data, no problem in Trumpworld

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Nigel Farage lands tenth job as a commentator on Australian Sky. He's now earning an estimated £900,000 on top of his MPs salary www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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As discussed on @quietriotpod.bsky.social yesterday, nature friendly housing estates full of birdsong and blossom are a lot easier to build than Chancellor Reeves would have you believe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

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‘Do you want to show strength here?’: Russia’s ads recruiting Chinese mercenaries

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Word of the day is ‘foozle’, from the 19th century: of a golfer, to bungle a shot. More generally, to make a complete mess of something.

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Predictive policing has prejudice built in | Letters

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The insiders seem to have had a 20min warning before the public

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"Who was dumping the bonds? Somebody asked him if it was China, right? It wasn't. It was Japan," said Charlie Gasparino on Fox Business.

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This isn't The Art of the Deal. It's insider trading with a bad comb-over. Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’ Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.

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okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he believed 'the real number is much higher'. www.ft.com/content/bfa0...

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that a U.S. citizen had been released from Russian custody in a rare prisoner swap. The detainee, Ksenia Karelina, had been sentenced to 12 years in prison over a one-time donation to a Ukrainian charity group.

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Slow death of Royal Mail RM says it can't deliver 1st-class post in 3 days. Price Now: Ist class, postage £1.70; 2nd class, 87p. When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. RM doesn't meet any letter delivery targets. Email damaged it. Privatisation destroyed it. archive.ph/rieHC

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We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz

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The bloc's member states have voted in favour of the countermeasures

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Adolescence season two: Brad Pitt’s production company begins talks

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“vietnam has been very unfair to america and owes us compensation” is a wild take

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(I haven't checked these all personally, BUT!! I do know a bunch are legit soo00o) List of 25 sites to read books for free: 1. Project Gutenberg 2. LibriVox 3. Internet Archive 4. Open Library 5. Google Books 6. ManyBooks 7. Bookboon 8. Smashwords 9. Wattpad (cot'd)

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