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The true figure is likely higher since the current process for monitoring oil spills in UK waters relies on everyone's favourite system, self reporting. In 5 years of polluting incidents, only 2 have led to recorded convictions or fines. One fine was just £7000 or, in oil company terms, petty cash.

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They are going to interrogate federal law enforcement officers and employees with polygraph tests to try to find out if they are talking to the press.

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🔴Trump-Supporting ARC Conference After Party Cancelled at London Nightclub Following Protests Venue was set to host a cigars, cocktail and DJ night for British Trump-backers attending a conference addressed by Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch bylinetimes.com/2025/02/19/t...

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1. The Senate confirmed RFK Jr at the same time as a massive measles outbreak was sweeping through areas of Texas with low vaccination rates. RFK Jr visited Texas yesterday. Not to address the burgeoning crisis but to continue to push anti-vaccine messaging.

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Did You Know? The inventor of the bestselling Super Soaker was a Black man—and Hasbro tried to cheat him out of his royalties. In 2013, Lonnie Johnson, a nuclear engineer and former NASA scientist, won a $73 million settlement from Hasbro for underpaid royalties. Johnson holds over 80 patents.

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I am part of the 25%. The lifestyle change is worth it. This is the way…

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Although our motivation for doing cases about sexual misconduct isn't political - our first case was about the Observer - I am very proud that @goodlawproject.bsky.social is now in scraps with both GB News and the Daily Mail. They feel like powerful and malign targets for us to focus on.

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The Daily Mail has for a long time been protecting a senior journalist who it knows to be a sexual predator. We are helping his victims get justice by suing the Daily Mail - and him. goodlaw.social/24jb

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They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

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The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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Is she even looking at polling in her own party on Trump? Sounds like she should join Reform if she's that into DOGE.

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"Judeo-Christian" is what people say when they'd like to be racist but know they'd get into trouble if it was too blatant.

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1. Meta removed a Facebook ads criticizing Elon Musk's efforts to seize Americans' private information through DOGE. A notice from Meta said the ads violated its rules on "Unacceptable Business Practices."

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BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

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Ah yes, focusing on the issues that impact regular Americans.

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That’s the problem. We’ve been standing by for too long.

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We join 230+ organisations calling on all F-35 partners, like the UK gov, to take action in line with their legal obligations and immediately halt the direct and indirect transfer of F-35 parts and components to Israel. Read more here: amn.st/3637

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1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

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so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

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Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

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THIS IS SERIOUS: Republicans want to gut healthcare from millions of kids, seniors, and disabled people—all to fund $4.5T in tax cuts for billionaires. Not just numbers on a spreadsheet—kids losing inhalers, babies missing checkups, parents choosing between food and medicine. Hands Off My Medicaid

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6 questions, 3 scotches.

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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

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The gender affirming care ban executive order has been blocked in court! www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Pentagon schools suspend library books for ‘compliance review’ under Trump orders. Entire books and chapters banned. Govt censoring books, limiting access. Soon, books will be burnt. McCarthyite witch-hunts next. US constitution has failed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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They literally removed the T from LGBTQ and erased any mention of trans people who were present at the Stonewall Riots. They're trying to erase us from history. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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Thirteen more oil and gas licences could be cancelled after Rosebank court ruling www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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350 Rabbis took out a full page ad in the NYTimes today opposing Trump’s plan for Palestine and calling it ethnic cleansing.

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Musk absolutely wants to make it to illegal to criticize his shit-box products in the U.S., too - this woman in China was forced to pay TESLA after faulty brakes almost killed her family. Stop the rabid dog. apnews.com/article/tesl...

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We @propublica.org have now confirmed more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man downsize federal agencies one by one. And we're still tracking DOGE – reach out and help us 🔎 www.propublica.org/tips/federal... www.propublica.org/article/elon...

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🧵 THREAD: In the second Trump administration, we’re devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans. Here are some of the issues we’re watching — and how you can inform our work.

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Among the data used by Cambridge Analytica to profile gun owners in the database: income, debt, religious affiliation, whether they liked the paintings of Thomas Kinkade and whether the underwear women had purchased was plus size or petite. By Corey G. Johnson & @byardduncan.bsky.social

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Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

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Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

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I've just done a very quick update on Covid, Flu and the NHS here christinapagel.substack.com/p/latest-cov... Essentially: Covid very low, Flu highish but falling fast, NHS still struggling.

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These are the people supposedly running the world? 🤦

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Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

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It certainly will be interesting to see what concessions Trump is able to get from Putin. So far, it sounds like the dictator who invaded our ally gets everything he wants and gives up nothing. We will see.

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BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

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As US and UK refuse to sign the Paris AI Action Summit statement, other countries commit to developing ‘open, inclusive, ethical’ AI

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