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FACTCHECK: Almost all the headlines on Tony Blair / net-zero are wildly inaccurate REALITY: 1️⃣Net-zero is only way to stop warming 2️⃣Blair calls for tech to "turbocharge our path to net-zero" 3️⃣He categorically does not say "net-zero is doomed to fail" 🧵 1/6

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Oooh, to all those good US folk on Bluesky... check out the Bylines Network for some high quality, genuinely independent citizen journalism. I love what they do here in UK, and I'm sure these articles giving a voice to concerned Americans at such a challenging time will be well worth a read. 🙂👍

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The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 1 day ago • 150 comments

I enjoy and support bylines but I’m worried about y’all contracting something going this. J/k

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he's flailing

submitted 2 days ago • 90 comments

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

submitted 2 days ago • 1040 comments

Oh look @uklabour.bsky.social Here’s a wake up call of the fact that the 2016 referendum is NO LONGER valid. The young who are our future want to rejoin the EU!

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How a ‘Populist’ Media Has Mainstreamed the Far Right “Right-wing daily papers in the UK do not represent ‘public opinion’ – they simply reflect the radical right views of those ‘who own and run them” bylinetimes.com/2025/04/29/f...

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

1/ Except that it's not clear that anyone could do truly mass deportations or government cuts at anywhere near this level without it winding up being insane and inept.

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🚨Company That Supplied Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Unusable COVID Tests Saw Profits Skyrocket to £178 Million After Lobbying Conservative Peer for Contract. Here's a thread with all the detail behind my latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social report 🧵 bylinetimes.com/2025/04/28/v...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Results from Elections Canada. Pierre Poilievre has lost his seat.

submitted 3 days ago • 195 comments

Congratulations to Mark Carney and the Liberal Party on their election victory. The bond between Europe and Canada is strong — and growing stronger.

submitted 3 days ago • 318 comments

It takes a special kind of evil to try and blame your deporting of little children with cancer on the mother. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Mark Carney is asked how the lessons of Brexit apply to Trump's tariff policy. "When you break off or substantially rupture trade relations with major trading partners... you end up with slower growth, higher inflation, higher interest rates, volatility, a lower currency, a weaker economy." ~AA

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

Bessent is fast emerging as the Comical Ali of the Trump regime. As a policymaker, he seems out of his depth. As a spokesperson, his credibility sinks every time he opens his mouth. If he was a serious person he would resign rather than take responsibility for decisions over which he had no say

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(CNN) — He wasn’t joking. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 315 comments

"Vote for the guy who would help me take over your country" is an incredible closing message

submitted 4 days ago • 99 comments

People are NOT understanding what empty cargo ships from China means. It means no work for dock workers. No work for truck drivers, no work for retailers, fewer dollars circulating. The cascade effect is just mind boggling.

submitted 4 days ago • 1359 comments

The 8 very strong questions will go down in the history of anti fascism alongside the dogfights between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over Britain in WW2.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

“He and his party have never run anything – a local council, a parish council. He’s spent a lifetime doing what he accuses others of doing, which is riding the political gravy train” Farage will take your votes and then take the piss. Don’t give him that chance. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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“Vaccine scientists and medical leaders announced today they are launching an unprecedented initiative to react to vaccine misinformation and scientifically unfounded vaccine decisions by the U.S. government.” www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

submitted 5 days ago • 499 comments

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submitted 5 days ago • 84 comments

Travel bookings from Europe to the US for summer 2025 are down a whopping 25%. But worse than that - American expats like me are afraid to go back. And many Americans are afraid to cross the borders to leave or return. From @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/america/...

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

submitted 5 days ago • 318 comments

I agree with Mr Rentoul - albeit because of Badenoch's own extensive record of dishonesty, which is probably not the point he's making

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The former prime minister Gordon Brown has made a new complaint to British police over allegations that Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire obstructed justice, after stating he has spoken to officers involved in the original phone-hacking inquiry www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

submitted 5 days ago • 38 comments

“Gordon Brown makes criminal complaint against Rupert Murdoch’s media empire” I’ll be cheering Brown on from the cheap seats. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

But yeah, Nige, let them eat chlorinated chicken. #StopReform www.stopreformuk.vote

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About 30 years ago I was at a conference in the US with my wife and son (aged about 4) and there was a conference creche. The nursery staff said how 'special' our son was. On questioning it was because 'he took turns and said please and thank you'. The other kids in the creche now run the USA.

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The real scandal isn’t what they say. It’s what they’re trying to make us forget open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...

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Thanks to support from the trans community and its allies we are now advertising for a full time equalities solicitor. Trans people know they are at the thin end of fascism. If you're a lawyer, here's how you help them fight back. goodlawproject.org/vacancy/seni...

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

Class! Sheer class!..... NOT!

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UPDATE: Remember this case, where a federal judge savaged the Trump administration's "evidence" that a woman was in Tren de Aragua? Well, last week the Trump administration arrested her and her husband for the THIRD TIME — and now they say they'll use the Alien Enemies Act on them!

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Trump: What's all that clapping? Aide, nervously: "They're applauding the most respected man present at the funeral." Trump: "That's very gratify-" Aide: "Ahem! Erm!" Trump: "What? Spit it out!" Aide, very low: "N-nothing, Mr President. Just a cough. Doesn't your hair look MAGNIFICENT today?"

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

submitted 7 days ago • 633 comments

I'll never understand the mindset of people who are like "Dems won't like it if those files come out because there will be big Dem names in there, too." Good! I don't want scumbags in my party!

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Caller - (re Pope Francis) I called him the Woke Pope Vanessa - I take it that isn’t a compliment? You don’t think woke is a good thing? Caller - No! I didn’t approve of him. Vanessa - and how exactly was he woke? Caller - ….. well. He was kind.

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

Can't remember who wrote this recently, some retired diplomat, but if you put yourself in Trump's head, it's odd that he doesn't grasp the opportunity to show Putin who is boss, since they are def not equals, and with funding the US don't notice Ukraine would carry on destroying its army.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

"He's a disgrace and by the way I don't even know him" is classic Trump, like "I don't know anything about Project 2025, I've never even read it and by the way there's lots of parts of it I don't even agree with"

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Truly apropos of nothing, one of the most inexplicable parts of Trump Era media coverage has been the total lack of interest in his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. They were very close friends! Ghislane recruited girls AT MAR-A-LAGO. There's video of them giggling as they watch young girls dance!

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

Adam Kinzinger on the arrest of a Wisconsin judge: "This is nothing but fascism."

submitted 7 days ago • 88 comments

I think Cohn is spot on: there are reasons to think Trump will only get less popular from here. And we’re already seeing cracks in his coalition, and those will only deepen as he gets more unpopular. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

and we won't even see the april trade data until the end of may

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: TIME publishes interview with Trump. This is a REAL section of the transcript. It is impossible to read this and not conclude that Trump is suffering profound, cognitive decay.

submitted 7 days ago • 176 comments

The Trump era, summed up.

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