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submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Even if you found a haunted Pee Wee Herman doll in the woods behind Hitler's bunker, adopted it, and then educated it on nothing but Mein Kampf and Hogan's Heroes reruns that creepy little doll would still make a better Deputy White House Chief of Staff than goddamn Stephen Miller

submitted 23 hours ago • 54 comments

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to acknowledge that the Pentagon has developed plans to take over Greenland and Panama by force if necessary but refused to answer repeated questions during a hotly combative congressional hearing Thursday. buff.ly/JoMkw5A

submitted 21 hours ago • 29 comments

Billionaires make bad politicians. Musk and Trump think business smarts translate to government, but politics isn’t about winning at all costs. It’s compromise, not control. And history shows: when entrepreneurs enter politics, chaos usually follows. Full story by ‘Slicker’ in the latest issue.

submitted 12 hours ago • 16 comments

Martin Lewis’ charity has warned that Labour’s changes to the Personal Independence Payment (PIP), a key benefit for individuals with long-term health conditions or disabilities, will have a “catastrophic impact” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

submitted 11 hours ago • 16 comments

“Our trains are routinely patrolled by Tory leadership hopefuls desperate for publicity” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Progress for our swifts! After weeks of campaigning and thousands of us taking action, we’re now seeing signs of real change. The Government will update national planning policy to ensure swift bricks are incorporated into new buildings, giving the iconic birds a safe place to nest.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Proof the UK is taking serious notice of Operation Spider’s Web came only days after Ukraine’s devastating drone attack on Russia’s bomber fleet. 🧵 1/3

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Jon Stewart on how the L.A. ICE raids provide Trump with the perfect distraction from Elon's Epstein bomb

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

I only know what I'd do without Brian Wilson.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

kemi badenoch* sketch (*kemi badenoch is the leader of the conservative party)

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

God Only Knows was the song that made me fall in love with music. I listened to it with blurry eyes tonight. Paul understands.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

We're sorry to say this is a sad and unpleasant one. A new study has shown the hidden world of pain fish endure before they die after being caught. www.iflscience.com/fish-suffer-...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

NEW 🚨Reform UK’s newly appointed Director and Secretary Charlton Edwards has a history of promoting conspiracy theory and far right content online. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/06/12/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Totally utterly completely indefensible

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Start with them.

submitted 3 days ago • 323 comments

🔴The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was “non existent” @josiah.writes.news reports bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

The credentials of David Bull to be chairman of Reform: 1. He presented Most Haunted on Living TV, thus proving he's a dab hand with promoting absolute bullshit via a totally misnamed outlet

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Preserving the freedom of science: A call for respect and collaboration. #TIC2025 Open Access www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Meanwhile, in the “Land of the free”(!)

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

🚨NEW: @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social‬ reveals that reports of a “millionaire exodus” due to tax changes were false. Only 0.3% of UK millionaires moved to another country in 2024, but media headlines blew it out of proportion. No more excuses: tax the ultra-rich to fund our struggling public services.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

In 1931, a 17-year-old girl named Jackie Mitchell struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. A few days later, the baseball commissioner voided her contract and declared baseball "too strenuous" for women.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Ørsted’s cancellation of Hornsea 4 bodes ill for the UK’s 2030 clean power target.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It is a law as old as the hills: Permit agents of the state to use violence against civilians to "maintain public order", and they will use it to advance private and particular interests.

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments