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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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Just a broad heads up to anyone, particularly Americans, who are wondering why Canadians are "acting like this" the answer is simple. Your president has made it clear that he is an existential threat to Canada and wants to drag us into the mess that's the USA. The overwhelming majority of us...1/2

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Glad to see Trump’s imperial threat against a majority indigenous population given its proper platform. This is not about Denmark. It’s about the Inuit who constitute more than 85% of the population of Greenland.

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"farmers are apoplectic. In Ohio, they’re stressed about USAID contracts and USDA cost-sharing investments. They held up their end. The government made promises. Now their family farms and livelihoods are on the line. Billions of dollars are at stake. It’s all being held hostage by Musk and Trump."

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From my book intro: if you follow the problems humans are creating for our societies back to starting principles, what are they? theupwardpath.com/pillars-of-a...

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This is also the logical conclusion of decades now of slow mainstreaming of far-right talking points Islamophobia, transphobia, anti-immigration discourses were never "legitimate grievances" that deserved to be aired. Their purpose was to prepare the way for this

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It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now is political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this

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🔴 BREAKING: Campaign success as supporters welcome Starmer's offer of a two year Youth Mobility Scheme with the EU, in line with Best for Britain and the UK Trade and Business Commission proposals www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Exhibit A: the UK digital rights movement (DIY amateur ops paying hobbyist wages on <12 month contracts, no career progression, & leadership stuck in the 90s) vs their Brx counterparts (serious ops staffed by valued professionals who are paid to stay and progress upwards, led by grown adults.)

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That’s how you write a headline, people.

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Literally just throwing entire families into poverty as punishment for being a federal worker. The best way to create more jobs in places without enough jobs is to boost incomes with UBI so people can spend more. What all this job loss will do is create a feedback loop of less income and fewer jobs.

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BREAKING: The USDA, under DOGE orders, has accidentally fired staff working to combat bird flu. It’s now trying to rehire them. It follows the accidental firing of nuclear safety staff last Friday. And the accidental firing of FAA’s experienced aviation safety staff. Incompetence will be deadly.

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Japan adopts new climate & energy policy, planning to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60% from 2013 levels by 2035 & 73% by 2040, extending its 2030 goal of a 46% cut. Policy calls for 50% renewable and 20% nuclear electricity by 2040, including new reactors. www.reuters.com/world/japan/... 🔌💡

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This part needs to be widely known: Musk has “received almost a billion dollars worth of new contract money from the US government in 2 weeks.”

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It's interesting how both South Korea and Brazil responded this way. They also happen to be places where universal basic income is most likely to happen first. Those who strongly defend democracy appear to be better at making sure everyone benefits from it.

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✍️"How did it come to this: that the water of our rivers became first undrinkable, then unswimmable, then untouchable?" 💥NEW piece from award-winning nature writer, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social calling on the government to get serious on water pollution⬇️ goodlawproject.org/update/rober...

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Good stuff from Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz.

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The head of the Autism, ADHD, and Externalizing Disorders Interventions Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health was fired over the weekend, 21 days shy of the end of her one year probationary period. She posted about it on fb.

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Canada's Parliamentary Budget Office has just issued a new report estimating that a basic income guarantee of $22k (75% of their low income measure) would cut poverty by 40% with a cost of just $3.6 billion after replacement of existing federal and provincial tax credits, based on 1.1% less jobbing.

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The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

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If you're an organisation sending an email to a list, make sure the 'from' is the name of your organisation. Not the name of some random individual your recipients don't recognise, leading them to ignore, delete, or mark as spam.

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@thersaorg.bsky.social Hi, has the RSA spoken out yet on the govt plan to weaken copyright protection for creative industries? bsky.app/profile/soci...

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Starmer and co, seduced by a shiny bubble machine, want to throw the creative industries - a genuine likely source of 'growth' - under the proverbial bus by weakening copyright protection so AI can feed on their work. There's a limited time to object. (Long letter but quick to add yourself.)

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Would a big Reform win actually happen on election day? Seems unlikely. But it's an indictment on a Labour party that campaigned on the slogan of 'Change'. When people don't see that change it pushes them toward the empty promises of shouting heads.

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Court approves Thames Water £3bn loan at 9.75%, adds to £19bn debt. Temporary reprieve. Thames Water banking on new equity investment (unlikely) and higher customer bills. Over one-third of customer bills cover interest payments. Sewage dumping, dividends will continue.

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I shared @monsterteatime.bsky.social's thread on this, but I actually have some thoughts of my own. First of all, this has the same vibe as "if we stop testing people for COVID, then the COVID numbers go down" in 2020. The reason numbers have gone up for ADHD and autism is we know and test more.

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role

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This is true of pretty much every critique of "woke culture" in the last decade. If you dig down through the layers & layers & layers of puffery & harumphing & table pounding, looking for actual substance, what you find is a few scattered, low-stakes anecdotes repeated ad infinitum.

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One political force that I've underestimated again & again is just how much collective fury is produced by asking people to be better.

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Do we really need growth — and if so, of what? Labour’s growth obsession ignores a key truth: we’ve already ‘arrived’ – instead of chasing more, it’s time to share prosperity fairly.

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‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts. Congress sidelined, judiciary silenced, judges threatened, media afraid, critical journalists barred from briefings, workers fired without notice, Govt Depts & regulatory bodies closed. US won't be the same again.

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My father, who died in 2020, was pretty ambivalent about the major parties until the late 80s. He became more progressive as he aged. He was pro UBI by the end. “The only thing holding the Republican Party together now is bigotry,” he told me. “They’d rather destroy the country than share it.”

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Whenever anyone laments the state we’re in, they’re met with a chorus of “but what do we do?” As plenty of good options are available, this response might often be wilful impotence*. I invite you all to nominate in this thread the best proposals and practices, around which we should gather. Thanks

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Reckless, stupid, worse. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

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This is true. A pal of mine who is a policeman went to a Scottish island recently to investigate a missing person and when the locals found out he was a Christian they stuck him in a giant human-shaped willow branch construction and burned him alive.

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Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

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Starmer confirming the UK is willing to put boots on the ground in Ukraine. An immense moment. Hard to overstate how important this is or how impressive it is that he's done it.

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Most smart Americans know this. US post war hegemony was mainly voluntary (with huge exceptions at the margins - Vietnam/Latin America/Iran/Iraq). Many nations sheltered under its nuclear umbrella because it seemed better than any other option. MAGA has no such attraction

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