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Al Gore ripped the Trump administration to shreds in a speech Monday at a climate week event in San Francisco.

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Ofcom announces new rules to keep children safe online

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Reeves to make case for free global trade at Washington IMF talks

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Trump does know that people can see these words, right?

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Now that AI driven search works pretty well using o3, the implications are quite large…

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👉 👈 Meta announced that they're changing their models to reduce "left-leaning [political] bias"--that means leaning them to the political "right". Lots to unpack about what that might mean. So I ran a quick "shot in the dark" study...and found a political right bias in Meta models. Some notes.🧵

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What could possibly go wrong?

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"14 reasons why Trump’s tariffs won’t bring manufacturing back" This a compelling and clear piece. Many of the manufacturing issues the US faces also apply to the UK, though of course we don't have the same litigious climate. www.molsonhart.com/blog/america...

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The freight guys have really started freaking out over the past 48-72 hours:

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BOOM!💥 The number of @bsky.app users just hit 35 MILLION!!! 👏 LETS KEEP GOING, LETS MAKE BLUESKY THE BIGGEST SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM ON THE PLANET AND SEND MUSK, ZUCK & TRUMP PACKING! LETS DO THIS!

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The main reason UK electricity prices are so high isn’t net zero but the fact that gas sets the price 98% of the time.

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No, it's not all in your head. Allergies really are getting worse every year.

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A very strange UK politics where it seems the two traditional parties are targeting the same ~20% of the population and nobody very much cares about the remaining 80%.

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It's a straightforward relationship: high #inequality leads to the triumph of the far right. It will keep winning until governments deliberately seek to make societies more equal. I'm looking at you, Keir Starmer. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Trump authorizes U.S. military to begin occupation of federal land along southern border | via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social #ksleg

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The White House moved the official portrait of former President Barack Obama to a new location in the East Room, replacing it with a painting of President Donald Trump with his fist raised in the air right after last year's assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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Homeland security apparently used British man’s tattoo to identify alleged gang members

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UK economy far exceeds forecasts to grow 0.5% in boost to Rachel Reeves

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The Liverpool area where two in three kids are living in poverty www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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This is not good. But with more people paving over their gardens and laying artificial grass, and landlords wanting low maintenance "outside space" instead of gardens, what do we expect?

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Trump is pushing students towards Britain – ministers, don’t let your immigration obsession stand in the way | Polly Toynbee

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1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Jesus—Trump just said that he will be looking at exempting certain US companies from tariffs. Reporter asks: “How will you determine that” Trump: “Instinctively”. Sounds like whoever will bend the knee and kiss the ring.

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China continues trolling the US with new videos. Here’s one - “US sweatshop factory”

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Via Press Gazette: Meta's fact-checking programme in the US officially ended yesterday afternoon, according to its chief global affairs officer

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