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The former head of an anti-vaccine group has been hired as a special employee at H.H.S.

EPA Chief Under Fire for Defunding Environmental Programs. #Environment #EPA #Pollution

Keir Starmer's spokesman repeatedly refuses to say whether the Prime Minister still has full confidence in Morgan McSweeney

What a hollowed-out fucked-up corporate “local news industry” we’ve got, reliant on disillusioned poverty pay graduates rewriting dodgy press releases that are gamed for SEO by a casino, all enabled by Google pushing this shit through its Discover tab. pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-pr-...

Renter groups have reacted with dismay to reports that the government's long awaited reforms to private renting - including the end of no fault section 21 evictions - may not take effect until next year

People like Munira Mirza, who worked for, enabled or cheered on Boris Johnson, should consider their own responsibility for the rise of "celebrity" politicians & "consummate bluffers", who "care more about personal popularity than real achievements". 1/4 www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Jennifer Griffin: "Do you have certainty that all the highly enriched uranium was inside Fordo?" Hegseth: "Jennifer, you've been about the worst. The one who misrepresents the most intentionally."

After Kemi Badenoch mocks Keir Starmer for skipping PMQs in order to attend the G7 and NATO summits, Conservative MP Mark Pritchard condemns her "partisan" jibes, adding that "I may get the whip withdrawn for saying that, but so be it. There are some things that go beyond party politics."

Priti Patel is advising the EU on migration? 🤔 leftfootforward.org/2025/06/prit...

The proliferation of these groups is a bit odd given it's all the same people on all of them. (And they have fairly similar policy views to most of the existing right-wing think tanks).

@senjeffmerkley.bsky.social questions Bondi on who attended Trump's crypto dinner: "Don't you think the American people have a right to know?"

Even Netanyahu himself must think this is pathetic. America, time for new leadership. "Bibi and I just went through HELL together, fighting a very tough and brilliant longtime enemy of Israel, Iran" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Restoration feasible: five drained wetlands in Ukrainian Polesia are to be rewetted Great news If Ukraine can do this whilst battling a war How pathetic are other countries who refuse to restore wetlands wildpolesia.org/blog/2023/12...

From the CWS ARCHIVE. 19th October 2020.

Labour is so feeble. "The involvement of the US government, which asserted diplomatic immunity on behalf of Sacoolas, will not be examined" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Poorest parts of England to get £2.2bn more for NHS to cut care inequalities Deprived and coastal areas to get extra cash this year for staff and resources in effort to improve health outcomes www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Beyond the policy specifics of (a) which Stephen has covered amply and well, its worth remembering just how bad the political failure here is. This is a government with one of the largest majorities ever, facing a humiliating climbdown or defeat (delete as applicable), one year after winning

Kari Lake is a liar. Rep. Stanton just demolished her over it

Billionaires’ wealth surged $6.5tn over past decade, Oxfam reports

The Implications of Trump's Bombing of Iran for Other US National Security Interests open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...

Did Donald Trump steal the 2024 election? A legal challenge in New York could reveal the truth behind allegations that last year’s election result was “consistent with vote manipulation” By Anthony Robinson @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

How Stormont works: The Executive's debt collectors are chasing a grieving mother for £47.64 owed by her dead son, who died with little money - while failing to recover thousands in unpaid rates for Ian Paisley's constituency office, stretching back years.

Sen. Alex Padilla: "Trump clearly has one litmus test when selecting people to appoint. It's not experience. It's not dedication to our country or the rule of law. It's whether or not a potential nominee is willing to bend or ignore the law to satisfy the president."

"Shooting kids in the head, bombing refugee camps and starving babies is bad" "You're Hamas"

One of the SpaceX fan cams caught a crane collapse at Starbase in Texas. This kind of thing only happens from a completely unacceptable safety culture failure and I'd be shocked if there wasn't a death here

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

JOY.

They are arresting Americans in wheelchairs at the Capitol who are voicing support for Medicaid

@timmiller.bsky.social: "They were zip tying the elderly people in wheelchairs who were protesting Medicaid cuts which is a bad image. I don't know if it was really necessary to bring out the zip ties."

Still can’t get over the fact that federal law enforcement officials can wear masks and have no warrants and round up US citizens in this country.

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: “Democrats' messaging is breaking through. I'm listening to voters in the focus groups — they're saying back what Democrats are putting out there, which is they are cutting your programs, programs that benefit you in order to give tax cuts to very rich people.”

Victory will be ours, Russian soldiers shout as they victoriously crash into trees.

Sen. Adam Schiff: "Since you're under oath, in the complaint it says 'Bove stated that the DOJ would need to consider telling the courts 'fuck you' and ignoring any such order.' Did you say anything of that king?" Emil Bove: "I have no recollection."

Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony theonion.com/bezos-w...

Overfishing has caused cod to halve in body size since 1990s, study finds

China is now importing record amounts of Canadian crude after slashing U.S. oil purchases by 90%, with the trade war cited as the main reason. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ossoff: We usually get this, which specifies how many folks you intend to employ. What we have is a 26-page PowerPoint. Here, it specifies about $17 billion in cuts to medical services. Who are you cutting? Collins: We’ll have more information as we go forward.

Police launch investigation after Red Kite killed in poisoning hotspot raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/06/25/p...