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Biggest trade deal since Brexit will boost economy by 0.1% by 2040 bit.ly/4jJyLGw Brexit reduced the economy by an estimated 5.5%. But it might help the next government but two or possibly three scrape over the line to positive grow!

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NEW: Internal DWP figures show 700,000 families already in poverty are forecast to be hit by planned disability benefit cuts That's on top of the 250k+ who are predicted to be newly pushed into poverty by the changes By me, for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

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"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'... "Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..." www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

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Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

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Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

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✍️ The ‘cocaine toilet belly-men’: a cautionary tale Going out of an evening should not mean running the gauntlet of drugged-up, groping thugs – time for a night-out revolution By Ingo Bede

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📢 The UK government is talking about making HUGE cuts to disabled people’s social security. Disabled people are already three times more likely to face hunger, and these cuts risk pushing even more people to food banks.

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"Most game carcasses still contain lead" The UK government has still NOT banned lead shots www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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“Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say it. That’s why I resigned” @kityates.bsky.social 👏 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.

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american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

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Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

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The unvaccinated child who died of measles in Texas was otherwise healthy. I interviewed a doctor who treated the child. Free link: wapo.st/3QBGSIr

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 77 days ago • 2211 comments

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

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“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

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Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

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It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

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Over the last few weeks BBC's #EastEnders has been airing a storyline where Phil Mitchell experiences depression with psychotic symptoms 📺 We've been part of the team advising on the storyline to ensure it's shown in a delicate, sensitive and non-stigmatising way, keeping it authentic.

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Measles cases continue to surge globally, putting millions of children at risk. More than 10 million people globally were infected with measles in 2023, a 20% increase from the previous year. bit.ly/48SAtkf

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Cases of measles in Seminole, Texas more-than-doubled this week and the outbreak's epicentre is in a county with one of the highest percentages of MMR vaccine refusal - an astonishing 18%. And Senate just approved RFK Jr. as Health Secretary. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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"Laboratories in a national network of 58 facilities responding to the spread of bird flu were notified Friday that 25 percent of the staff in a central program office coordinating their work were fired" Emerging 4th world country in North America! www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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#MTSA ... Make Turnberry Scottish Again!

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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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Free speech "is in retreat" in Britain, says JD Vance, who is part of a Government which is now targeting critical news organisations with politically-motivated investigations, while banning others from the White House for the crime of referring to the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name

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My word. The abject racism of it, in full view of the world. Just like the other day when it was a female Afghan reporter, speaking in perfectly comprehensible English.

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In RFK jnr, the USA now has a guy in charge of its public healthcare who thinks that the MMR vaccine causes autism and that flouride and chemicals in water cause cancer and turn kids gay and transgender. Good luck, America.

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Why do UK Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) guidelines still not acknowledge airborne transmission of Covid-19?

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This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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One for a Saturday: youtu.be/q9IYGku0CJ0?...

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⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

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“The world’s richest man has decided that the world’s richest country shouldn't help some of the world’s poorest people”

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Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02...

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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

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