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Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔 Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked… 🧵1/22 (1/1)

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How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 228 comments

Minimum wage for a 9-5 full time job (40 hours a week) is, as of today, £25,396 a year for anyone over 21. Which is why it's amazing to see journalism jobs requiring a degree, job experience, and driving licence advertised at a "competitive salary" of £22,380. tindlenews.co.uk/careers/jour...

submitted 16 days ago • 66 comments

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

submitted 20 days ago • 138 comments

Real household disposable incomes (RHDI) is forecast to rise by just £1,200 over the course of the 2020s. That's less than it grew over the course of the 2010s,when it rose by £2,900.

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Attending a banned event will carry fines up to about €500, and authorities will be able to use facial recognition tools to identify attendees.

submitted 30 days ago • 24 comments

“I was contracted to produce three articles a year. For this, my peak salary was $498,141. Dinner parties at one’s home could be catered on the company’s dime. Town cars famously stood ready to whisk you anywhere. Editors received interest-free loans to buy new homes.” yalereview.org/article/burr...

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

We are once more again seeing the distortion created by who has access to media. Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes.

submitted 30 days ago • 11 comments

British comic book creator Becky Burke is still being held in a USA detention camp, without news of release or repatriation bleedingcool.com/comics/briti...

submitted 31 days ago • 42 comments

Newcastle United: winners. A piece I’ve waited a lifetime to write. #NUFC www.nytimes.com/athletic/620...

submitted 31 days ago • 14 comments

It's #stpatricksday and I present to you a thread on representations of Irishness from around the world, especially those not well-known in Ireland.

submitted 31 days ago • 12 comments

16 March 1942 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Nora Kohn, was born in Marosvasarhely. In May 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz, where she was murdered in a gas chamber.

submitted 32 days ago • 27 comments

I wrote this on young men, and why we need to stop lying about why they're easy prey for reptiles like Andrew Tate. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

submitted 33 days ago • 84 comments

South African car salesman tells U.S. Senator, American astronaut and U.S. Navy captain: "You are a traitor"

submitted 38 days ago • 115 comments

9 March 1931 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Judith Rosenberg, was born in Abaujszanto. In May 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

submitted 39 days ago • 23 comments

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

submitted 41 days ago • 219 comments

to clarify: Trump is refusing to take sides over a war in which North Korea and Iran are backing one side and all of NATO has been backing the other

submitted 48 days ago • 15 comments

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

submitted 48 days ago • 233 comments

The UK is among the worst nations in Europe for child poverty. In the UK, 11% of 15-year-olds reported they had skipped a meal in 2022 because there wasn't enough money to buy food. In the Netherlands and Finland, this number was 3%.

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

finally

submitted 48 days ago • 12 comments

Wish I could do more, we are recruiting at CDPR. Some writing positions on our team for Cyberpunk Orion will be listed here soon, too. If you know great game devs who got laid off - which could be so many people right now - please let them know. www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs

submitted 51 days ago • 4 comments

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

submitted 51 days ago • 56 comments

🧵Three years ago, when Russia invaded Ukraine, EU, UK and other nations vowed to wage economic war, via the toughest sanctions in history. So... how's that going? We've spent months documenting what ACTUALLY happened. Here's a thread of our investigations on the REAL story on sanctions... 👇

submitted 52 days ago • 17 comments

You can tell a lot about Britain because in the posh supermarket, Waitrose, the detector thingy is like “go off king. You put your laptop bag on the scale by mistake. We trust you” and every other self service detector is like “welcome to the country that gave the world Judge Dredd”.

submitted 55 days ago • 18 comments

TRUMP: You have a man who has let a country that had the more beautiful cities get demolished. The most beautiful domes. FOX: But that's Russia's fault, Mr President T: 1,000 year old domes. Everything is demolished. It's sorta like Gaza F: That's Putin's fault T: I get tired of listening to it

submitted 55 days ago • 477 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 55 days ago • 26 comments

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submitted 57 days ago • 13 comments

Whatever Times columnists might tell you, it was never about sports. It’s about elimination.

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

Final reminder for brilliant producers to get your applications in for this News Agents job. Can barely think of a more important time to be working in news. Come do it with us. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/po...

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

Deeply, deeply abject

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