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The Times pretending to give a damn about a consequence of the abortion ban that it supported.

An Australian police officer who fatally shocked a 95-year-old care home resident with a Taser gun was found guilty of manslaughter reut.rs/496rcFB

🔴 EXCLUSIVE: A top Labour donor who has given the party millions under Keir Starmer’s leadership runs a hedge fund with shares in a private healthcare giant – which critics claim is profiting from the NHS crisis. Read the full story: bit.ly/3B041Qv

To be clear: It's £1m untaxed, plus £325k of standard tax free inheritance. You can double that if the farmer is married. So farmers can hand down £2.65m tax free, and their kids pay 20% on everything else. Tax on your job is 40% over £50k "Land owner" is not a job 🧵

What's really funny is I currently have 2,800 more followers than Laura Kuenssberg from the BBC! Let's keep this going and we can trick Bluesky into giving me her blue tick when they start doing those 😘

I have a question for you all! are you suffering from WELTSCHMERZ? Weltschmerz: A German word capturing the melancholy and disillusionment that comes from seeing the world's suffering and feeling powerless to change it. It's a sense of world-weariness and a longing for something more...

Desiree Martinez says police officers ignored her attempts to report her abusive boyfriend, who was also a cop. Those officers now have immunity from her lawsuit. reason.com/2024/11/14/s...

just thought this was cool

I regret to inform you that I do sometimes judge a book by its cover.

Powerful 154 page report today from HRW saying Israeli officials have deliberately caused mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza and are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity therein. "Israel’s actions appear to also meet the definition of ethnic cleansing.” menasky

WW3. Any thoughts?

The international nature of the market for land means communities can have little say over what happens to their own areas. Laws may be one way to fix this | Ken Moon

Racoon: what is this stuff? Me: it’s our garbage Racoon: it’s delicious, I understand why you chase me away from it, do you eat it? Me: no we’re trying to get rid of it Racoon: ok I guess I don’t fucking understand at all then

RIP 💔Tala Abuajwa. Killed while playing. We all now know that each killing of a Palestinian child lays bare the harsh truth that our humanity as fragile as the smallest star in this unforgiving void.

Michel Barnier, the man the pro-Brexit press loved to hate, could emerge today as the new French PM. According to the media, Barnier, 73, will be “tested” by President Macron today as an elder statesman who might be broadly acceptable to a majority in the much-splintered National Assembly. 1/

Due to the outpouring of hatred on Facebook by David Seymours Kiwis, the NZ Herald has decided to disable comments on Kingitanga related articles today

Whenever Maori culture comes to the fore, the racists lose their collective shit. 185 years of colonisation yet we still persist; the fullness of this on display in the past few days. Existence, really is resistance.

So 45 years of neoliberal austerity capitalism actually has bad outcomes for kids? Wow, crazy. I never would have guessed. * smacks forehead *

Czechs stamp out loan sharks to help tackle inequality https://www.ft.com/content/93c1fd48-55e5-4b1a-b9b8-ac0306a985fc

Residents and law enforcement had flagged concerns about then-sheriff's Deputy Sean Grayson before he killed 36-year-old mother Sonya Massey in her home.

For years the housing crisis has been down to government policies, not migration. There are thousands of vacant properties, building targets have been missed for years. If we spent money we do on deterrents, detention, and deportations on housing we could help everyone www.bbc.com/news/article...

Simply put, this is a definitive plan for, at minimum, semi permanent occupation, population transfer, permanent displacement & ethnic cleansing for, at least a portion of the remaining pop of Gaza. “He will also lead long-term civilian evacuation in order to “maintain international legitimacy”