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submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

Not content with purchasing the presidency, Elon Musk now wants to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court as well. His PAC just pumped $1M into supporting anti-choice right-wing extremist Brad Schimel. Wisconsin — don't become Musk's latest acquisition! Vote @crawfordforwi.bsky.social.

submitted 17 hours ago • 164 comments

“The UK and its people are among Ukraine’s biggest supporters, and we deeply appreciate this” Volodymyr Zelenskyy

submitted 20 hours ago • 28 comments

#Freiburg für eine solidarische, soziale gerechte und freie Demokratie.✊🏻

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

submitted 16 hours ago • 33 comments

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submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

submitted 22 hours ago • 28 comments

Thousands of Hungarian judges, court staff and supporters marched to the ministry of justice in Budapest on Saturday, demanding judicial independence, freedom of expression for judges and better pay.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

The difference in the average age of the TMS commentary team for the CT England games vs the non-England games must be about 25 years. Totally different vibe. Also very different diversity quotients.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Ukraine peace plan latest Subscribe to Private Eye: subsonline.co.uk

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Yep.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is an important new report from @cancerresearchuk.org. In more deprived areas there are higher levels of cancer incidence, higher prevalence of cancer risk factors, less engagement with screening programmes, and worse diagnosis and survival outcomes. www.cancerresearchuk.org/sites/defaul...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Another AI generated article supposedly 'quoting' me saying something I've never said today (geezerhood?!) Thankfully at least it's very recognisably utter AI bunkum. The next line is an AI classic: "The enjoyment of psyop in democratic beau monde enkindle pregnant honorable worry"

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

submitted 5 days ago • 278 comments

Forgive me if I don't have 100% confidence in Brook here.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Read this and the world will seem a better place. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Minimum Income Requirements continue to rip families apart, leave children without a parent, and destroy lives. No-one should be forced to see their family split up based on how much they earn. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1090 comments

Delicious

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Meritocracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

New: Plans for a £600m theme park celebrating British history have received glowing write-ups and endorsement from celebrity historians. But who is behind the plans and what version of British history will they tell? We took a closer look at Puy du Fou. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

So mild tonight that the heating hasn't come on and I've had to open the window. 😬

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

submitted 1 day ago • 134 comments

Is this what we are calling him now?

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

It's an episode of 1997 #TOTP and that Eurovision song by Katrina and The Waves is on It's an episode of 1997 #TOTP and that Eurovision song by Katrina and The Waves is on It's an episode of 1997 #TOTP and that Eurovision song by Katrina and The Waves is on

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Husband: "'Love Shine A Light' isn't even that good a song, is it?" Plus a discussion about the number of people allowed on the Eurovision stage at the time. #totp

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

the hollywood standard for men going from like “modestly fit [well known actor in his late thirties]” to “a body fat percentage that puts you on the verge of death” is probably bad and underpins a lot of rw subcultures i think

submitted 2 days ago • 108 comments

Could a UK band represent Germany at Eurovision? 🤯 London-based band The Great Leslie are a step closer to doing just that after making the semi-finals of the competition to pick Germany's Eurovision entry!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Well, at least Oksana Chusovitina qualified into vault finals at Cottbus in second place. And Winter Cup starts tonight. THERE IS STILL GOOD IN THE WORLD! fb.watch/xUbsvm75tu/

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

21 February 1931 | German Jewish boy, Alfred Guttmann, was born in Duisburg. He left Germany in a so-called Children’s transport. Adopted by a family in Haarlem. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1943 & murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

drugs have taken too many beloved celebrities from us over the years but drugs also have a rare chance right now to radically rehabilitate their image

submitted 2 days ago • 143 comments

LITERALLY EVERY FBI DIRECTOR HAS BEEN A REPUBLICAN. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

submitted 2 days ago • 164 comments

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 3 days ago • 556 comments

Beginnings

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

The National Science Foundation fired all its experts. The National Science Foundation. Fired. All of its. Experts. And they weren't even told to! The leadership worked toward the Fuhrer and went beyond the cuts demanded of them in anticipation of many, many more firings—up to half its staff.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series Doctor Who #WomensArt

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Commercial flights diverted as Chinese warships undertake apparent live-fire drill in sea between Australia and New Zealand

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Well there goes the worst kept secret in UK EU relations, as I've been saying since June 2024. Of course the UK was going to respond to the EU ask over youth mobility. Might have been easier to say from the start that of course we'll look at EU asks?

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

The confirmation of Kash Patel as FBI director sends a clear and simple message to MAGA opponents: Don't stand near any open windows. In fact, probably best to avoid upper storeys altogether.

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

🚨🚨 Oh, that went well: Russia used the first round of talks with the US over ending the war in Ukraine to demand the withdrawal of Nato forces from the alliance’s eastern flank, suggesting Trump admin could acquiesce to seal a peace deal according to Romanian government.🧵 www.ft.com/content/ac1d...

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Britain to offer EU youth mobility scheme in Brexit reset talks. Welcome back, guys! www.thetimes.com/article/f5e7...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk just had the Community Note removed from the clip of his interview with Trump that went viral on X. The note pointed out that Musk lied about having to rescue astronauts because Biden supposedly abandoned them.

submitted 2 days ago • 297 comments

what the FUCK

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 857 comments