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Our long national nightmare of responding to disasters is coming to an end.

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

🚨SCOOP: Elon Musk's DOGE has just imposed a $1 limit on firefighting officials' credit cards, blocking them from buying emergency firefighting supplies & travel to wildfires. Trump has fired 3,400 forest service employees ahead of wildfire season.

submitted 11 hours ago • 51 comments

#DRCongo: Hundreds of thousands of people have left the displacement camps around #Goma following fighting and evacuation orders from the M23/AFC. Doctors Without Borders has deployed mobile teams to support people who are, once again, on the move.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

I think about this map a lot. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

submitted 13 hours ago • 139 comments

My latest: Republicans and Musk To Americans: "Time to Die" And right on time: Trump administration cancels meeting on flu shots, fueling anti-vax concerns open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

submitted 13 hours ago • 24 comments

Andrew Tate has been accused of rape and human trafficking in the UK. An attempt by the Trump administration to stand in the way of Britain's justice system would be deeply wrong. The Tate brothers must face justice here in the UK.

submitted 13 hours ago • 37 comments

This piece from @mjcrockett.bsky.social is excellent,and much needed.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

submitted 15 hours ago • 3090 comments

It takes some political incompetence to announce a defence spending plan that reduces our security, undermines our soft power, does not deliver for the UK economy, and puts the cost on the wrong people, but Starmer’s managed it. youtu.be/oMQ9sXCIJGM?...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

People volunteering in snowfall in Guria to save lives are targeted by the regime for a reason. Essentially, these people could unmask the propaganda in the eyes of the locals who overwhelmingly vote for the regime due to poverty-driven intimidation and lack of access to real information, 1/

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

DOGE strikes Antarctica: “…they’ll very quickly get to the point where they can’t even keep the station open, much less science projects going. If the South Pole [station] is shut down, it’s basically nearly impossible to bring it back up. Everything will freeze and get buried in snow.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

On his own social media platform, and without providing any evidence to back up his claims, Elon Musk indicates the skies over America are deeply dangerous for air travelers. And, of course, that his company - quite by chance, you understand - will be filling the breach.

submitted 15 hours ago • 26 comments

This thread is profound and important.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Thinking this morning about how many American disabled people and our families, and elderly people, are just a 2-weeks-late check away from homelessness

submitted 17 hours ago • 16 comments

Angus Fire: "it's important not to...sensationalise the matter...when key facts have not been established." Hard to establish those key facts when they won't arrange blood tests for local people. 🧵 1/3

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

NEW: A WIRED investigation reveals that Elon Musk’s Starlink is serving internet to scam compounds in Myanmar where tens of thousands of human beings are enslaved. By @mattburgess1.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/starli...

submitted 17 hours ago • 18 comments

New migration statistics out today show a 4000% rise in asylum refusals for Afghans from Qtr4 ‘23 compared to Qtr 4 ‘24. Have the Taliban been replaced with a feminist, human rights respecting democracy? Nope. Government are ‘clearing the backlog’ by refusing refugees status.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Not seeing a ton of concerned op-eds about canceled events, the harbinger of woke totalitarianism www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

submitted 16 hours ago • 45 comments

cw violence New: An "error" suddenly turned people's Reels feeds into neverending scrolls of murder, death, animal abuse, and violence. Truly horrifying stuff, one of the worst things I've seen happen to random consumers of the internet. www.404media.co/instagram-er...

submitted 16 hours ago • 51 comments

A new @resfoundation.bsky.social report warns that child poverty will reach 4.6 million, the highest level since 1998. Their key recommendation: abolish the two-child benefit cap. That’s why I voted to scrap it & was suspended from the Labour whip. The government must scrap the cap NOW.

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

the main effect of firing 800,000 people — in addition to debilitating the federal government — would be to plunge the US economy into a recessionary spiral that rivaled the Great Recession

submitted 1 day ago • 279 comments

220,000 Romanian Jews were murdered in WW2. And here we are 80 years on

submitted 16 hours ago • 41 comments

⚡️Russian troops 'bogged down' near Pokrovsk, Ukrainian military claims.

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

A pro-Russia content aggregation network is churning out at least 3 MILLION pieces of propaganda per year, all on sites that are virtually unusable by humans. So what's the goal? We explore the idea that it might be to flood LLMs with pro-Russia content: static1.squarespace.com/static/6612c... 1/

submitted 17 hours ago • 22 comments

Andrew Tate being allowed to come to the U.S. and avoid facing trial for sex trafficking in Romania is beyond stomach-churning. This man is a HUGE influencer and uses his platform/following to further abuse women who have accused him. Now he won’t face justice, reaffirming his lies to his followers

submitted 18 hours ago • 393 comments

Thailand deports dozens of Uyghurs to China despite torture fears

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

These 7 companies are finally being investigated for 'professional misconduct' over Grenfell, maximum punishment a £25,000 fine and no possible jail time. They need to be charged with Corporate Manslaughter x72, punishment £5m-£1.5bn and up to 72 life sentences in jail.

submitted 18 hours ago • 12 comments

NEW: So today in DOGE order just went out that all civilian DOD credit cards are immediately frozen/can't be used. This applies to people who are in the midst of DOD official travel. So maybe you're in Albania and your credit card just stopped working. Or maybe you're on travel from ...

submitted 1 day ago • 273 comments

Musk is actively undermining air safety, potentially causing crashes, then awarding himself a $2.4 billion contract to fix what he is breaking? This is not conflict of interest, this is criminal insanity! Amount of money Musk is stealing from US is bigger than all his “savings” combined.

submitted 19 hours ago • 39 comments

Too many are ignoring the blaring warning sirens at our collective peril: "for those of us who reported there a quarter century ago, Mr. Trump’s Washington is bringing back memories of Mr. Putin’s Moscow in the early days." @peterbakernyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

The stakes in the coming Spending Reivew www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/693...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Breaking: Jasmine Crockett - ''We may be heading towards the next World War because we have a President that wants to pal around with Putin, and lying about who invaded who.''

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

Boeing, Airbus shipments reach Russia via India, despite sanctions Our investigation tracked hundreds of cargoes from 100+ western firms to Indian intermediaries that swiftly re-exported them to Russian buyers. Parts ranged from critical generators, radars and machinery to fasteners and fixings.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

🧵/ This heartbreaking case highlights why so many doctors like me have been begging NHS England & the Dept of Health to stop endangering NHS patients by substituting doctors with non-medically trained PAs We've been dismissed & smeared as "toxic bullies". Please read this thread & decide.

submitted 18 hours ago • 13 comments

This is also the legacy of Facebook having poisoned the media and communications ecosystem in Myanmar, first enabling a genocide and now cascading into countless other systemic harms.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Malaysian police now say the guy we identified has been caught and fined before, also for illegally dealing in wildlife! m.malaysiakini.com/news/735839 @alangbendahara.bsky.social

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture or maltreatment, according to a report by Syria Justice and Accountability Centre.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Here's the main question: Why would the Trump Administration be so invested in the Tate's case? Politics. The manosphere has played a key role in U.S. political discourse and Trump, an adjudicated rapists himself, has gained support from sexist media personalities.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

The inevitable end result of a society and economy which cruelly and maliciously discriminates against young people at all times and in all facets of their lives. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

This is one of those scandals every person relying on the system knows but those in power never mention: the DWP stops PIP and Carer’s Allowance when a disabled person is in hospital for 28 days. When at their sickest, make them worry they can’t pay their bills. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

This will be seen in Europe and the UK as an egregious attack on the rule of law and human dignity, aided and abetted by elements of the current US administration, who evidently see this as fan service.

submitted 22 hours ago • 192 comments

You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

submitted 19 hours ago • 664 comments

A new report from @livingwageuk.bsky.social has found there are a record 4.5 million low paid jobs in the UK

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

The government is still subsidising Drax to clear fell and import trees on a massive scale. There are far healthier things that this money could be spent on.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

The UK Climate Change Committee estimates the net cost to reach net zero at just £108 billion👇 For context, the Gov wasted £40 billion in winter 2022/23 alone protecting people & businesses from soaring gas prices. Money which just went into Big Oil coffers. www.gov.uk/government/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment