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BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

submitted 7 hours ago • 982 comments

AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

submitted 6 hours ago • 164 comments

This is what they call a historic turning point “The independent forecaster Frontier Economics reckons that the impact of US tariffs will shrink UK GDP by 0.7%, while a deeper deal with the EU could instead lift GDP by 1.5%, despite US tariffs” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

The national guard, the military, they're just regular folk with loved ones throughout the USA. THEY and their families, friends etc are PART OF THE 99%. THEY TOO MUST RESIST. Or Trump will never cease. #DoTheRightThing #HONOUR #INTEGRITY #SELFRESPECT #99%vs1%-ClassWar #Resist #NowOrNAZI

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I'm reading the BMA doctors' testimonies about physician and anaesthesia associates. Horror story after horror story. Here's just one of them.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Why we think physician associates in the UK are a failed experiment. #healthpolicy #medsky independentsage.substack.com/p/physician-...

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

The world has changed, Trump has unleashed chaos as he turns the US into an autocracy. As Tom Bandwin @theguardian.com says, it's time for the Brexit red lines to go. The best future for the UK is as a member of the EU 🇬🇧🇪🇺 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #RejoinEU (1/2)

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Another nightmare story from US border control. No way would I want to go anywhere even near the place now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

This has been well flagged by sources. The youth visas don't require changes, and this is not a negotiating tactic by UKG. They just want a name change. And then everything is alright. 1

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

"A medical student in the UK can end up with debt of £100 000 before earning a penny as a qualified doctor. Is this how we want young people to start their working lives?" @kamranabbasi.bsky.social looks at the burden of debt to people's health and health systems www.bmj.com/content/389/...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

New #BMJInvestigation finds bans on junk food advertising in outdoor spaces have been derailed by industry lobbying. Some of the councils lobbied have among the worst rates of childhood obesity. Use our interactive infographic in the article to uncover more www.bmj.com/content/389/...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

submitted 1 day ago • 296 comments

Labour won't properly nationalise anything. They'll take control, spend taxpayer money fixing the problem and then when it's profitable again they give it back for either nothing or next to nothing

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

This story fails to mention the reason they couldn’t open the doors to save the people who died. Cybertruck doors can’t be opened from the outside when the electrical isn’t working, like when they’re on fire.

submitted 23 hours ago • 84 comments

British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding

submitted 21 hours ago • 32 comments

Why is the government and the news so indifferent to the meltdown happening in UK #HigherEd right now? Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.

submitted 22 hours ago • 23 comments

‘Don’t panic, but don’t relax’: Taiwan’s plan ‘to use 7-Eleven chains’ as wartime hubs

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

"Before our eyes, every single pillar of the old order is under assault, not just free trade but the rule of law and primacy we attached to human rights and democracy, the self-determination of peoples, and multilateral cooperation between nations." - Gordon Brown www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

'Professor Gina Neff told the BBC ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries.' That's OBSCENE. And that's assuming it's not 117 countries combined. #Ecocide #ClimateChangeCrisis www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 19 hours ago • 17 comments

Trump is such a fraud that his merchandise for his cult followers is made in China. Making China Rich, F*ck America is the real tag line.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

If you have yet to watch this relatively brief TED Talk by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, do make time this weekend to do so!

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

EU is no cuddly hive of altruism. It defends its interests implacably. Within, members scrap for perceived national interests. The EU took those fights from battlefields into committee rooms. That's the idealistic part. And the ultimate self-interest. UK needs to be back in those rooms.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

where a billionaire is given carte blanche to sack the government officials regulating his own business

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

A couple of things that come out of this steel story to me. One, the way in which governments increasingly have to negotiate with the companies that run critical supply chains. Two, the need for government to decide what actually is critical.

submitted 22 hours ago • 11 comments

After the events of the last few weeks, we need to change our language. Can we stop saying Trump wants “peace”. He is a war focussed president, who is happy to increase US military operations in the Middle East and to see the war in Ukraine continue. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

submitted 23 hours ago • 22 comments

All Donald Trump's crap is made in China. What a shame that will be priced off the streets... Not.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

State of Oklahoma: We want to create a "storm chasing license" because amateurs are hampering researchers ability to operate. Federal Government: We want to get rid of tornado researchers. Me: If there's no amateurs and no scientists out there... then who is going to tell us about the tornado?

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

The year is 2034. An animatronic Donald Trump announces, via his nationwide speaker system, he has imposed a 52 trillion per cent tariff on China, and also the Moon has been found guilty of disloyalty

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Crazy to think China could be bullied when CCP’s entire legitimacy is built around resisting foreign bullying. 百年国耻 (Century of National Humiliation) is taught to every kid, part of every museum exhibit, nationalist movie etc. The first line of the national anthem is 起来, “stand up” ffs.

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Hospitals in England offered unlimited bonuses for taking patients off waiting list ‘Reviewing’ every patient & removing anyone who could be treated elsewhere or does not ‘need’ an appt Who is reviewing exactly? Asking for #TeamGP @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

🔴 NEW 🔴 We have uncovered the mining magnates behind the new Reform think tank ‘Resolute 1850’ - which has already raised £1 million and is seeking more from MAGA donors. 📝 @desmog.bsky.social report with @adambarnett.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

This is an area in which I am a genuine expert. I did mergers & demergers at an international scale for 13 years before i joined the NHS. Rule 1: you bring people with you, or the uncertainty will cause the best to leave. Every other major rule doesn't deserve to be on the same page. 1/3

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

NEW: China increases tariffs on US imports from 84% to 125%. The dollar is slumping. US bond yields are rising, threatening a debt crisis. Stock market is set for worst week since global financial crash. Trump is in a war he should never have started. And he doesn’t have the cards.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I don't think Starmer is timid - until there is some clarity on the situation, it is, surely, wise to be precautious while gathering info to identify which path is most likely to lead to UK future success.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I am but a humble cable news host with a bachelor’s in philosophy, but I feel like at some point the bond market is also going to notice that the GOP is going to pass a deficit financed 5 trillion dollar tax cut. Maybe?

submitted 2 days ago • 937 comments

It is still quite hard fully to process the idea that the government of the United States of America, global hyperpower, has been captured by trolls. The only unifying, cohereing doctrine that makes sense of it is vengeful spite of insecure men.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Due to budget cuts, the TSA is now using the honor system.

submitted 2 days ago • 501 comments

"Trump lieutenants have walked out of meetings and earnestly asked one another if they thought Musk was high..." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 679 comments

The U.S. is the only major country on Earth that does not guarantee workers a paid vacation. When a husband, wife & kids are unable to spend any time together on vacation, that is not a family value. It's an attack on everything a family is supposed to stand for. Unacceptable.

submitted 2 days ago • 642 comments