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Ofwat investigating claims water companies are spending vastly more on refurbishment projects than operators in comparable countries. Sewage upgrade in Oxford up from £40m to £435m. New sewage network cost £29m in Denmark. People ripped-off again and again no, Ofgem slept.

submitted 16 hours ago • 15 comments

The value of a human life should never be measured according to economic contribution. We are meant to do more than just work, pay taxes, prop up capitalism and die. All humans have value, and as soon as we start debating who has the most? The fascists win.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

This will hurt Americans and not just blue cities - Florida, North and South Carolina, Texas, Nevada, Louisiana all benefit from tourism. The entire country does.

submitted 2 hours ago • 65 comments

Excellent thread about the threat of creating lists of people with disabilities. We’ve been here before. The Nazis had an entire program to target & eliminate the disabled. Creating a registry of autistics isn’t going to “solve autism”. RFK Jr knows this. We must remain vigilant & fight back.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

RFK Jr wants us to believe that chronic illness is a moral failing. That people should “try harder” to be healthy. He doesn’t want us to realize that poverty, food insecurity, lack of universal healthcare, poor public health and other government failures cause more disease than lifestyle ever will.

submitted 3 hours ago • 14 comments

Trump’s halting of data collection could have effects that last far beyond his time in office. Even if a future administration seeks to resurrect some of the curtailed efforts, the 2025-29 hiatus will make trends harder to identify and understand.

submitted 4 hours ago • 29 comments

The US government has dismantled all covid related tracking & reporting despite people dying and becoming disabled every day… Yet they’re establishing a registry to track autism cases and plan to access people’s private medical data. Autism doesn’t kill. It’s not contagious. This is eugenics

submitted 10 hours ago • 15 comments

Elon Musk had a WWE-style “screaming match” with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent feet from the Oval Office — which only ended when they were physically dragged apart. The fight last Thursday, which was over who should run the IRS, started in the Oval and the two took it outside to the hall.

submitted 9 hours ago • 251 comments

Al Gore ripped the Trump administration to shreds in a speech Monday at a climate week event in San Francisco.

submitted 7 hours ago • 304 comments

This is despicable and ridiculous, including "Governor" and not knowing who the actual Prime Minister is. But also: media outlets should routinely note Trump (a) has never once shown he understands what a trade deficit is and (b) is outright lying about the numbers (it was $35.7B in 2024).

submitted 7 hours ago • 73 comments

Stephen Miller turns the fascism up to 11 on Fox News

submitted 5 hours ago • 1322 comments

This miserable president has a pliable Congress and could make changes to the law but is instead just writing bullshit like “The Civil Rights Act no longer exists” on White House stationery and calling it policy

submitted 5 hours ago • 168 comments

Trump has signed more than 120 executive orders since taking office. These orders aren’t law, but you wouldn't know that from the headlines. 'It’s the media’s responsibility not to leave the public with a false impression,' @sulliview.bsky.social writes margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/trump-pret...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Wait. St George's Day has been moved? It's actually on the 28th April because the C of E has a tradition that any saint's day that falls during Holy or Easter week is moved to the week following the Easter fortnight, typically the first Monday. Does this mean that I have to suffer it all again?

submitted 16 hours ago • 22 comments

Zeldin and Trump have publicly called out environmental activists by name. On social media, people have responded to their allegations with calls to imprison the people he has targeted, charge them with treason and even execute them www.propublica.org/article/eart...

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

8 years ago on #EarthDay, we organized the biggest science advocacy event in history with millions taking part all around the world. We knew then that it would not be a once off—it was just the beginning. Today, we need to fight and organize for science like never before. Onward!

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Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

I’m not sure people understand just how much higher these types of visa fees are in the UK compared to our competitors but they are egregious ripoffs that harm our science sector without affecting immigration numbers more than a smidgeon.

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It’s unclear exactly how many citizens have faced the Trump administration’s dragnet so far. The government does not release such figures. Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

submitted 1 day ago • 1644 comments

Why won’t Trump release the Epstein Files? Hmm…

submitted 1 day ago • 410 comments

NEWS: Trump deploying U.S. combat forces to the Middle East as conflict with Houthis escalates

submitted 1 day ago • 614 comments

There is no bottom to this barrel.

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me. This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

submitted 1 day ago • 154 comments

ICE has detained Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist from Russia working on major advancements in cancer detection, since mid-February. If deported, she could face arrest over her opposition to the war in Ukraine. Another reminder that xenophobia hurts all of us.

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

MPs and peers oppose Donald Trump address to parliament during UK visit. Trump's invitation should be withdrawn. I will vote against his entry into UK parliament; will not attend any function where he is present. A felon, dictator, liar, threat to global peace must not be honoured by the UK govt.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

I feel increasingly disconnected from the party I voted for and had such high hopes for. Did we give them a mandate to cos-play Reform-lite? I want them to lead and argue for their vision instead of chasing polls. Oh and charge me more income tax instead of penalising kids & disabled people

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Happy #EarthDay! 8 years ago, as we held the largest day of science advocacy in history, I wrote in the @theguardian.com: "Why March for Science? Because when it is attacked, only the elite benefit." These words hold true today. When we stand up for science, we stand up for justice and equality.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it.

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

Look, ignoring for a second whether this works/is smart/is even actually their strategy for a second, if, less than a year into your first term you're already briefing about a defensive electoral strategy then something has gone wrong.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Absolutely horrific.

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On Wednesday, a leaked draft Health and Human Services budget document revealed, among other sweeping cuts to health- and disability-related services, that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department plans to defund protection and advocacy services for people with developmental disabilities.

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

Just got a notice from KDP that they were booting one of my near-future climate fiction stories out of the "hard science fiction" category because it "wasn't appropriate" and either it's AI doing shitty work or an actual attempt to say climate fiction isn't "hard sci-fi" which would be chilling. 1/2

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Intuit donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. He's now planning to end the free IRS Direct File program. Apple donated $1M. Trump exempted most of Apple’s imports from tariffs. Coinbase donated $1M. Trump’s SEC dropped a major lawsuit against them. See how this works?

submitted 2 days ago • 219 comments

Christ alive. Is this genuinely a lineup that would draw in people to pay actual money for tickets? The organisers must think so, but good lord.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

"Kennedy’s disgust with and devaluation of autistic people fits neatly into a eugenic logic that views health as virtue, and sees illness, or difference, as a kind of moral lapse which should be subject to punishment or censure."

submitted 2 days ago • 1317 comments

we had hearings. we had a whole bunch of fuckin' hearings. there was a 500-some page report about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Commission

submitted 2 days ago • 102 comments

The market's getting killed

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“This happens today: if the investments in the banks fall slightly… a tragedy… what can be done? But if people die of hunger, if they have nothing eat, if they have poor health, it does not matter! This is our crisis today!” -Pope Francis

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I first learned about Miles Guo when I made this video back in 2022 with @dfriedman.bsky.social. Guo's most significant connection (and the one we explore in the video) is to Steve Bannon, but he's also connected to Karoline Leavitt and Peter Navarro. Just a whole web of shady money moves.

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Pope Francis was a man of peace and justice, the MCB offers our condolences to our Catholic friends. mcb.org.uk/mcb-statemen... #PopeFrancis

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Claudia Tenney suggests Abrego Garcia did something wrong by being "caught with a car load full of people that are not related to him"

submitted 2 days ago • 439 comments

Debunked, half-true, and deeply ableist. RFK Jr. knows shockingly little about autism.

submitted 2 days ago • 702 comments

those jokes about falling for wallet inspectors are starting to hit pretty close to home

submitted 2 days ago • 477 comments