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China halts $2.5bn beef trade from US, moving to favour Australian sellers instead: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

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The Librarians is a must-see documentary about the recent history of book banning in the US

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rfk jr wants you dead

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"Almost all the UK attacks reported in my study centred on LGBTQ+ materials." Meanwhile editors commission dozens more articles about the silencing of, perhaps, Britain's most published academic, Kathleen Stock. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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🔴The Big Money Firms Bankrolling a Global Retreat From Climate Targets A small group of “super investors” is quietly fuelling the oil industry’s abandonment of environmental goals bylinetimes.com/2025/04/14/t...

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"The security of the world is at stake." Well worth watching President Zelenskyy's interview on 60 Minutes www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine...

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NEW: Monday News Agents. Did a Chinese company or even the Chinese state try and sabotage British steel? And how this whole episode is an indictment of British industrial policy of over half a century. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Fascism is happening in front of your eyes. You can call it that or not - I don't give a fuck - but that is what it is.

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Harvard rejected the Trump administration's demands to change its policies to keep billions in federal grants. Its president said the demands are unnecessary and infringe on free speech rights.

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They should rename him "Shadow None of His Business Secretary"

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There we go. Support this man.

submitted 14 hours ago • 931 comments

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

submitted 14 hours ago • 265 comments

Electoral wake-up call’: dozens of Labour MPs risk losing majorities over welfare cuts. Starmer opening doors for Reform to benefit from protest vote who will inflict even harsher cuts and austerity. Insist on a face-to-face meeting with your MP. Tell him/her to vote against the policy.

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Excellent piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social. We all need to campaign for the UK government to tax wealth in its upcoming spending review & budget. bsky.app/profile/geor...

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Great response here to the government's Land Use Framework consultation by Rewilding Britain. Consultation closes on April 25th. Please make your views known. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity.

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Former Tory MP among 15 charged for alleged cheating connected to bets on timing of 2024 UK election. Inside information always helps. MPs are comparatively well paid. Why the insatiable urge for more and more? Seems to be a social sickness.

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Dozens of witnesses are set to take the stand in the trial, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is scheduled to testify for seven hours. The outcome could reshape the future of Meta.

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The FDA is asking laid-off employees to temporarily return after mass cuts decimated the agency’s ability to penalize stores that sell cigarettes and vapes to minors.

submitted 11 hours ago • 489 comments

The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds

submitted 13 hours ago • 364 comments

Tomorrow is a BIG day! @yorkshirebylines.co.uk turns 5. It was the first of our publications to launch, so we're celebrating our whole network's birthday - half a decade of citizen journalism that speaks #TruthToPower in the UK. Here's Su, one of our brilliant co-editors in chief to tell more.

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If Jeff Bezos can send Katy Perry into space, he can pay a wealth tax so every American has debt-free healthcare.

submitted 20 hours ago • 511 comments

❗️Russian propagandists are preparing Russians for the fact that negotiations will not yield results. Putin is determined to continue the war, - Zelensky.

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Have just turned on the TV and ex IEA chief Mark Littlewood - who now works for Liz Truss - is on the BBC talking about why Labour should revive Rwanda policy. Why is Littlewood still given airtime?

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When children and adults are killed by missiles, I do not understand why we cannot agree on additional Patriot systems, – President Zelenskyy during his interview with 60 minutes.

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Watch a major campaign being born.

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🇬🇧🤝🇪🇺 Former UK ambassador Sir Kim Darroch urges Starmer’s Govt to prioritise rebuilding EU ties over chasing a volatile US trade deal under Trump. With tariff rollercoaster eroding trust, it would be foolhardy to jump into bed with Trump! inews.co.uk/news/politic...

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Knowing my son was waiting for me in arrivals when I was refused entry to Hong Kong was incredibly tough. I just wanted to see him and hold my grandson. Let's be clear - my treatment is an insult to all parliamentarians, and there must be a full explanation of why it happened👇

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Sicilian gravedigger accused of removing corpses to resell burial sites

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Wow. But also, good!

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Jeez. Did Trump really just say President Zelensky started the war with Russia? Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous dictator called Vladimir Putin FACTS MATTER

submitted 15 hours ago • 108 comments

you know, it was annoying to have to spend a chunk of my morning at the DMV to get a REAL ID but shoutout to the people at my local location, who are clear, very efficient and quite polite (if necessarily a bit stern)

submitted 20 hours ago • 318 comments

Don’t worry, be happy: how best to beat anxiety Worry is part of human nature but what are the best techniques for reducing this all too often negative emotion? @iankirke.bsky.social

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Disabled people’s organisations tell Kendall benefit cuts are ‘incredibly dangerous’ and consultation is a ‘sham’. The best strategy is to mobilise opposition to the cuts. Meet you MP face-to-face, tell him/her to vote against the cruel and unnecessary cut.

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11 children that have been killed just by the Russian strikes on Kryvyi Rih and Sumy are not the results of "mistakes".Last night's drone strike on Odesa, daily murders of civilians in Kherson& Donetsk regions, attacks on Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv,Dnipro, other Ukrainian cities are not "mistakes."

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🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from experienced presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future. Here's what he got wrong... 🧵

submitted 22 hours ago • 81 comments

As I watch Starmer tear up Labour's prospects by attacking people in poverty, abusing those who care about the living world and appeasing the ultra-rich, I feel the same sense of dislocation as I did before the Iraq War. Anyone can see the disaster coming, except, apparently, the government.

submitted 20 hours ago • 165 comments

Everything is bad but birds are good so time to reinstitute BIRD PROTOCOL where a bird is deployed to offset endless evil vibes, please enjoy, birds are good, okay bye (photo by me)

submitted 18 hours ago • 603 comments

Tilly - you are an inspiration to us all! 👏 This is fantastic news, and your hard work will help to improve the day-to-day lives of so many. I will never cease to be amazed by the creativity and excellence of young Bathonians ⭐

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The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. But who benefits from those riches? Consider: the richest 10% of Americans hold nearly 70% of the nation’s wealth – while the bottom 50% hold just 3%. See the problem?

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More than three million children, many of them from Southeast Asia and Africa, are believed to have lost their lives in 2022 due to infections that are resistant to antibiotics, according to a new study.

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“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

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Yeah don’t worry Cybertruck owner, the rules don’t apply to you and you can park your shitbox in a bus stop 🙄

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This is organist Olena Kohut, killed today in Sumy by the Russian missile. Joseph Rheinberger, Visione, op. 156 no. 5 💔

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The mainstream media is letting the country down. Badly. If you support Bylines Network as a citizen journalism (ie democratic and pluralistic) alternative... ...then please chip in! We're changing the system. 👇

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there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

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❗️🇫🇷French and 🇬🇧British forces conducted a large-scale surveillance operation over the western Black Sea yesterday. The operation involved French Rafale and E-3 AWACS fighters flying from the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, while the British side operated RC-135 AWACS and Typhoon fighters.

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We’ve had enough of the Brexit failure, we really don’t trust Trump’s America and we want a better, more prosperous relationship with our European neighbours… “Will of the people” got us into this Brexit mess, why shouldn’t it get us out of it too? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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