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“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

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One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

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Let's be clear: the idea that breakfast clubs would adequately mitigate the impact of the two-child limit is absolute bollocks. The average household hit by the two-child limit loses out on roughly £3,800 a year. They're not currently spending that on coco pops.

submitted 4 hours ago • 30 comments

This isn’t drugs. This is him assuming other people don’t work because he doesn’t do that much work. Very common bad boss behavior. bsky.app/profile/rcma...

submitted 38 minutes ago • 45 comments

The tragedy of our universities in deep recession is that, for all the caveats, they produce exactly that connectivity, that sense of place, that attachment and even love that everyone is saying they want. You'll miss it all once it's gone.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Save the School of Music protest. It's a very bittersweet feeling watching these incredible musicians play. This is the talent we will be losing if Cardiff University go ahead with their shortsighted plans.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

23 February 1914 | Bernard Świerczyna was born, a Polish soldier, #Auschwitz prisoner no. 1393, one of the leaders of the resistance in the camp. 3 days before he was hanged (30 December 1944) he wrote those words inside cell 28 in the basement of Block 11 at Auschwitz I.

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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 21 hours ago • 464 comments

I doubt ADL could have stopped this - but they could have shown the way. But it turns out, they only knew how to punch down (when Nazis were down) - not up.

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A good friend who has been on repeat meds for decades and is an NHS worker didn’t know they could get emergency refills without a prescription.

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the arrogance and haste reminds me of when Cardiff was created through a forced merger (I was a student activist there at the time). But UC Cardiff was broke then. Now it has capital enough to build a new campus in Kazakhstan - yet is slashing courses in Wales.

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Was literally talking to a former senior UK MoD person involved in nuclear matters who was terrified Trump would figure out the Trident common pool could be leverage with Starmer—now this in the FT www.ft.com/content/762c...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

My dad (management) took same position. But his dad (manual labourer) used to say: “if you have to work to pay the bills, you’re working class”. Whether that political claim (not professional sociological sure) was his socialism or a kind of working-class inclusive confidence idk.

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Despite sanctions, critical aircraft parts continue to reach Russia. Hundreds of cargoes carrying generators, radars, propeller blades and other parts left western factories for India and were then re-exported to airlines and buyers in Russia — some under sanctions, customs data indicates. (1/13)

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1/2 Despite all the denialism from right wing polemicists, Lyndall Ryan kept going, patiently gathering the evidence proving that Australia’s colonisation entailed hundreds of massacres. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Fraser Nelson has noticed that a large part of the British Right is going mad. www.thetimes.com/article/27c9...

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

Important FYI: if you’ve run out of prescribed meds, a pharmacist can give you them without a prescription in an emergency.

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

We discovered at the inquest there was no need for Charlie to desperately seek a prescription in the final 48 hours of his life. He had the right to an “emergency supply” from a pharmacist even without a prescription. This was not said to him or my mum by any of the health professionals that weekend

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I wrote about my brother Charlie’s final 48 hours, and his increasingly desperate attempts to track down an emergency supply of medication from the NHS. It’s an upsetting read but one I’m proud of. He’d be delighted to have made the @financialtimes.com magazine front cover: on.ft.com/434zZqn

submitted 6 hours ago • 11 comments

By contrast, working class immigrants and their working class families are clearly not worthy of this respect. Hence this gaslighting that the wide-ranging hostility they have faced for decades from many sectors of British society is no more than the "concerns" of primarily working class people.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

People spouting conspiracy theories on the Pope and all I hear in my head is Erin

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

This Starmer aide needs a permanent holiday from politics. AI is not going to be providing personal care in nursing homes.

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

This review, or rather evisceration, by @jayrayner1.bsky.social is of course a thing of joy. But it's also great to see Jay mention Bath Restaurant Week. @thebathlandlady.bsky.social - I know you're involved with BID; what great publicity! www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

The political class and press loves to wheel out the cardboard cut out of the "working class voter" to justify its own anti-migrant urge. How about making public services work well in poorer areas? Good jobs? Why are we not worried about "looking down on" people's concerns about these things?

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

"Utterly delusional" does not even come close. archive.ph/OVHMg

submitted 6 hours ago • 86 comments

We're onto the final day of the #StopFundingHate Crowdfunder and we are massively grateful for the support here on Bluesky. We've smashed our fundraising target & raised more than we dared to hope we would! 👏👏👏 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-gb-news

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

I do hope MPs stand up for assisted dying. So many people are undoubtedly in untreatable pain, yet its speculative fear-mongering that gets headlines.

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Thieving farmers. “Some fields [take] hours to reach – but the farmer doesn’t pay the workers for that time.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

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“I just wanna say trans people are beautiful. We are never going to stop existing. I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration.”

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2416 comments

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be legislators right now. We need them to be politicians. There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

submitted 1 day ago • 157 comments

Some really good news for a change.

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments