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Five tragic casualties in a slow civil war

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Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

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"The days of unaccountable ivory tower are over," says someone who clearly has slept through the past quarter-century of UK higher education policy. Not one word about research, or really education as such. Universities are there to "deliver good jobs" to students.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

Three years before Stonewall, trans women and drag queens led a confrontation between queers and the Police. The Comptons Cafeteria riot was ignited when a police officer tried to arrest a trans woman and she threw her coffee in his face. The press deemed it too obscene to cover. #Trans+HistoryWeek

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

This was quite possibly the coolest science talk I've ever done. Let me tell you why 🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Beautiful to behold

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

“I get it” is what literally every PM says. Here we are with Cameron, Johnson, Truss and Sunak, just for example.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Reform are preposterously beatable. This flag policy should be called what it is - a Ukraine flag ban - and be an intense focus of attack from other parties www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 21 hours ago • 80 comments

be more bike #Cycling

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Labour: "Disabled people should work and contribute" Also Labour: "give your time to us for free"

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Today (May 6) is the anniversary of the Nazi raid at the Sex Institute in Berlin

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🚨🧵 We need to talk about child hunger in the UK. Families are struggling to put food on the table and pay the bills. Parents are skipping meals so their kids can eat. We’ve even heard from families who have as little as £1.20 to last them a whole week.

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

Appeal of decision by LB Hounslow that temporary accommodation was suitable despite an occupational therapist reporting it presented an immediate risk to a severely disabled child. Court varied the decision to unsuitable as no officer could properly find otherwise. nearlylegal.co.uk/2025/05/quas...

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And re-wet the vast areas of peat that cover the high moor, which have been badly degraded by drainage, swaling & overgrazing - and become dominated by fire-prone molinia (purple moor grass) as a result ‘Make Dartmoor Wet Again’ bsky.app/profile/geor...

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

A rough tally of 28 local election contests (14 County Councils, 8 district councils, 4 regional mayors, 2 local mayors) suggests Reform won 1.7 million votes in the 2025 local elections.

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

So refreshing to read chill voxpops. Let's hear more from people just getting on with things "We need more energy. I don't think it's harming anyone" "There were no objections" "When they built it we were concerned what it could look like, but it's fine"

submitted 18 hours ago • 24 comments

Important press release about Pride and why Prides should ban transphobic political parties like Labour. By @transsafety.network transsafety.network/posts/press-...

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Very happy to announce that the wonderful Mel Giedroyc will be the new host for our Where There’s a Will There’s a Wake podcast. Hurrah! She’s a gorgeous Goddess so the absolute perfect choice. Enjoy! I know I will! 🤗♥️⚰️🎧

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

Even if you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d still need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.

submitted 1 day ago • 829 comments

Inevitable. As if anyone could sign up to this without doing so

submitted 17 hours ago • 30 comments

Her brain, eyes and part of her trachea was removed, before she was placed into a body bag marked "unknown male". All of this was done in an attempt to obscure the fact that she was tortured and then manually strangled to death. This is systematic, calculated, brutality.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

What you need to know about Labour donors and the #NHS 👇👇

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First Trump hit our steel and car sectors with tariffs, now he wants to hit our world leading British film industry. What will it take for the UK government to work with our allies in Europe and Canada on a joint response?

submitted 17 hours ago • 26 comments

19. Cover story open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

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Today, I joined Goaldiggers FC on their 12 mile walk from East London to Wembley in protest against the FA’s decision to ban trans women from competing in women’s football. Let trans women play! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Your Spaceship Dick owner refused to publish a cartoon she did

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The brass fucking neck of the Washington Post to spike a cartoonist's work because she mentioned their owner, causing her to resign, and then claim credit for her Pulitzer.

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5 May 1928 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Rozalia Fraenkel, was born. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

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Microsoft has announced that the pioneering online video calling service that's been around for more than two decades will go offline on Monday.

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More and more people are ditching Teslas in favor of pretty much anything else, either because they want nothing to do with CEO Elon Musk’s antics or simply because they found a better car. Tesla sales in several European countries plummeted by over 50% in April. insideevs.com/news/758570/...

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You forgot to mention she resigned in protest in January after you killed her cartoon about your plutocrat owner.

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As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep The Government banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe a certain medication This should also be banned @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social unless you have a way to justify this?

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Why are private companies being allowed to turn the NHS into a cash cow? 🚨🚨🚨 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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This is where the Greens won big in the local elections.

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A gender critical activist turns out to be a pedophile who physically and sexually abused four children. www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...

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"Co-op’s chief executive has reaffirmed her commitment to “protect trans people to the end” following the recent rise in anti-transgender rhetoric in the UK." www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/05/c...

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Good for Microsoft — and good for Jenner. @nytimes.com $MSFT @jfallows.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b...

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This is what the start of an economic collapse looks like. #BlameTrump

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