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The UK press outraged at thought of British assets belonging to anyone but their natural owners - US hedgefunds.

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🧵Biologist Rachel Carson died OTD, 4/14/64, keeping two secrets: her love for women and her cancer diagnosis. But she was fierce in exposing toxic secrets about pesticides that other federal scientists would not go public about. “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men.”

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How did your Labour MP vote ... meme via @pileusmedia.bsky.social

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"More Labour MPs increase pressure on Keir Starmer to tax wealth over disability cuts amid rebellion fears" www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/mor...

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Bezos and co trying to make a ten minute flight into space regardless of the carbon footprint a blow for feminism whilst at the same time the Trump administration is doing it's best to disenfranchise married women says pretty much everything about the state of America

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Scotland would never go bust on Independence for the same reasons that the U.K. government cannot go bust. Scotland would have its own Central Bank and its own currency. It really is time that Scottish politicians and the people of Scotland understood that. youtu.be/jVdu8d8b-1E?...

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Emily Ratajkowski criticizes the Blue Origin space launch in new video: “You are going up in a space ship that is built and paid for by a company that is single-handedly destroying the planet.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 256 comments

BRITISH ELECTION INSIDER TRADING - 15 PEOPLE GOING TO COURT ! CAN THE AMERICANS DO THE SAME?

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You really see the incentive trap with the Bukele stuff; this is objectively extremely important, from the standpoint of liberal democracy it is one of the worst things the administration is doing, and politically there is essentially no serious constituency for loudly opposing it. Bad IMO!

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

brownshirts goosestepping through my town abducting people from their homes, performing summary executions in the street until the cul-de-sac runs red with the blood of the neighborhood children me: not to worry, the midterm elections are only 18 months away

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"The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.’"

submitted 22 hours ago • 51 comments

This kind of rhetoric is completely disconnected from the lives and values of everyday Americans. (1/3) www.advocate.com/politics/tru...

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Cyberattacks are not only one way news.cgtn.com/news/2025-04...

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💥 Whopper scoop from @andybounds.bsky.social: Brussels is issuing burner phones & basic laptops to commissioners & senior officials travelling to the US for IMF/World Bank spring meetings next week to avoid risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for China. www.ft.com/content/20d0...

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Proud of my alma mater and hoping the Ivies pave the way for universities like UMN to resist! ✊🏽🐻✊🏽

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15 Tories charged with betting over the Election. I remember Viceroy Jack placing bets and Alex Cole Hamilton placing bets. Response meh! crickets 🙄 Yet we're made to think Nicola Sturgeon shot Bambi 🤷‍♀️ BBC News - Scottish Lib Dem leader placed bets on election www.bbc.com/news/article...

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"And yeah, that means all of us, all of us, including our brother, SMART apprentice Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who we demand be returned to us and his family, now! Bring him home!" Sean McGarvey, President, North America’s Building Trades Unions

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Gross: The GOP is planning $5.3 TRILLION in tax cuts for their Sugar Daddy donors. And WE are going to PAY for them through tariffs and cuts to our healthcare. #MAGABlowingYourTaxes

submitted 15 hours ago • 303 comments

We are less than 3 months in. The regime is disappearing men to foreign prisons & wholly disregarding the judicial branch. Folks, authoritarianism is already here. We cannot keep going about our day.* *I say this as someone who is about to go about my day. We need a general strike, and soon!

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👏 It’s time we had a White Rose of Yorkshire emoji The White Rose stands for Yorkshire pride, peace, heritage and quiet defiance – it deserves its own emoji. Sign the petition today! By Colin Speakman

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

Any Democratic politician who doesn't understand Nayib Bukele's grave offense against the sovereignty of the American people and constitutional order and say as much publicly should have no future in elected office. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bukel...

submitted 17 hours ago • 349 comments

Ze Fuhrer does not make mistakes!

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So, if I understand correctly, the President of the United States is saying that the Supreme Court of the United States consists of nine “sick people,” including three whom he appointed. apple.news/AMHDqIFcpRxi...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1214 comments

🚨 I have another record to share - carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged a record high of 428.2 ppm in March 2025 10 years ago March averaged about 401.7 ppm Provided by gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/. Climate monitoring and data like this are at risk. #StandUpForScience

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

Extraordinary how this is going on in a country that supposedly has rule of law

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Oh look. Another bribery and extortion scheme.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1833 comments

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1292 comments

HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS. This is it. This is where America ends.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1488 comments

The worst, the most evil....

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