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Number crunching: Cuts to health and disability benefit, and reduction in financial support for carers v unpaid care carried out every year. From the new Private Eye, out now.

Lewelyn has lived in the U.S. for 50 years. She’s a green card holder, a lab technician at UW Medicine, and a trusted pillar in her family. Now, she’s in ICE detention while trying to come home after visiting loved ones in the Philippines.

Over on Twitter, the usual racists have been screaming about the fact that Stephen Graham started writing Adolescence after hearing about a schoolboy who stabbed his girlfriend in Croydon, and that boy was not white so it's AGENDA! How quickly they forgot poor Holly. news.sky.com/story/holly-...

Now do the UK.

"Ukrainians have shown Sisu in their fight against Russia…Finland will continue its strong support for Ukraine until the end…We are in this together” President of Finland, Alexander Stubb 👏

Deeply concerning news about our friend and former BF teammate Rebecca Burke whose backpacking trip to the US has ended with her being detained by ICE for over ten days, with no clear timeline for her release. Please read her father's statement here: www.facebook.com/paulrburke

You've got to hand it to Elon Musk - getting 71% of British people to agree on anything is impressive

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I forgot to post her on Bluesky, but here for your viewing pleasure is a very rotund robin

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

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Will the detective investigating your murder be sad?