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When do we start taxing the rich?

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Judge blocks Trump from firing head of US agency that investigates corruption

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A man has spent 12 years pleading with a city in Wales to let him search a landfill for a hard drive he needs to access $800 million in Bitcoin. His last-ditch effort: Offering to buy the landfill.

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"I am afraid for our country because I know what happens when science denialism comes into power," writes @gregggonsalves.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

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Lanzhou's beef noodle soup is not as widely known outside China as dishes like mapo tofu or dan dan noodles. But in recent decades, the dish has begun to go the way of pad Thai. Our reporter set out to find the best bowl of beef noodle soup in New York City. nyti.ms/4b0tOpo

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The President of the United States welcome a leader wanted by the ICC and officially endorsed ethnic cleansing. Now would be a good time for our government to defend international law. If they won’t say it, we will: Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.

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The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

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The Inverness Courier reported that a couple had seen “an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface” of Loch Ness. Happy Burns Night #BurnsNight2025

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Tesla Model 3 surprise redecorated on the street in Austria, Vienna. Acts of resistance against Musk products and businesses increasing worldwide, especially in Europe.

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Thin Lizzy. “Holy War.” 1983. Well, it’s not trending on #Bluesky but John Sykes has passed away. Cancer. We are on the cusp of losing a generation of musicians and another #ThinLizzy legend leaves us today 🕊️ #JohnSykes #Whitesnake #BlueMurder #TygersOfPanTang

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Let’s do it

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Wealth of world’s billionaires grew by $2tn in 2024, with UK leading the way in G7! Number of billionaires rose by 204 to 2,769.Their wealth jumped from $13tn to $15tn – the second-largest annual increase since records began. TAX THE SUPER RICH www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

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Wow! @bsky.app just passed 28 MILLION users! 👏

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Decided to become a Blue Monday truther. It actually is the most depressing day of the year. The man just wants you to ignore it and be productive

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If more people in the UK bought a real Newspaper maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess… @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Just back from Twitter, a new level of depravity and misinformation has been reached.

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This is what explains Musk’s recent obsession with backing the far right in Europe and going on about making Europe great again. This and the racism. Everything else is noise.

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NYT: Trump begins selling a new crypto token, in a move assailed as an ethical breach. “It is literally cashing in on the presidency — creating a financial instrument so people can transfer money to the president’s family” one ethics lawyer said www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

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“It has hit me, but it doesn’t seem real because it has been such an impactful thing in my life.” TikTok users in the U.S. on Saturday scrolled through the app for what could be its final hours. The mood was relatively somber, at least by TikTok’s typically unserious standards.

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Having read various reports about Tulip Siddiq, the gifting of flats inc Panama Papers and numerous red flags 1. It's obvious the ministerial . code REMAINS unfit for purpose 2. Who on earth thought that she should even be a candidate for Corruption Minister! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Bringing order to a disorganized, cluttered closet can make daily life feel a little smoother. To help you get closets of any size under control, we asked eight experts for their best tips and tricks. nyti.ms/4fZdeqN

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As long as we’re renaming places, I’m renaming ‘Texas’ as ‘Old Mexico.’

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Los Angeles teachers, if you lost your classroom library in the fire, I am a HS English teacher and YA author and I will get you books whenever you're ready for them. The bookish community is here for you. There is no expiration date. tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...

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The man in charge of social media platforms used by billions should show some moral courage, writes @jemima.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/682c...

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More than 60 universities and higher education institutions in Germany have announced their departure from X In a joint statement, the universities condemned the platform for amplifying far-right populist content, calling it “unacceptable” www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/ov...

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Not a big fan of the (sub-)title, but a massive fan of the post

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"Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors." ~ Ernest Hemingway

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Has anyone else spent their morning googling "Ozempic butt"? www.ft.com/content/ff16...

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“Since August, 700 Russian soldiers and a handful of officers from the FSB spy agency have been captured in and around Kursk. This has allowed Ukraine to get back its own prisoners of war, including 189 returned just before new year, Syrskyi said” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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How hard would it have been for BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg to bring up this front page when Nigel Farage complained during his interview with her today that economically “we are getting poorer”

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Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social. propub.li/3DGXECO

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Thank you President Carter These pallbearers are the agents sho protected him for decades

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With one in five councils in the UK reporting they are “likely” to declare effective bankruptcy in the next 15 months, funeral expenses are one of the first things to be trimmed. www.prospectmagazine...

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Anyone calling to Farage to account for this disaster, everything he said demonstrably untrue? Oh no, I forgot we now must flounder under the new Brexit lie: how it was delivered wrong and could still be great. FFS www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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“In a group that’s supposed to be for discussion of the rights of men, they spend 90 per cent of the time talking about what women are doing”, said Harry. @emilylawford.bsky.social met some incels and men’s rights activists www.prospectmagazine...

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