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Atul Haria (immigrant)
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Former environmental scientist: soil water processes; catchment hydrology

Apparently, I represent a squalid chapter in UK history doing incalculable damage to the country; I've turned it into an island of strangers ~ Keir Starmer
Little ol' me. Who knew..
Pinned
Carl Sagan:
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Hey NYT, what the actual fuck is this headline?

“Help upend the political career of rep Matt Gaetz??” Your choice of words makes it sounds like it was her fault and he had no say in the matter. Holy victim blaming.

He 👏🏻 has 👏🏻 agency 👏🏻

Big time L on this one.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.

A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Climate effects aside, just the sheer scale of our emissions are astounding. Humanity makes more CO2 every year than all other materials we produce combined
1) Fossil fuel
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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For a government committed to restoring trust in politics, this sort of thinking treats voters as fools. Too clever, not clever at all.
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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The cowardice is actually on the spending side, not the tax side. They are deciding not to make the case for fixing things properly and, in doing so, they can’t properly rationalise the tax changes required to do it. It’s a failure to set out the project. And it’s costing all of us.
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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This. There is no plan. It’s just tactics all the way down. They don’t know what they want to do.

bsky.app/profile/nute...
What you have to understand is that Labour had to make the tax pledge so they would win a majority of 500 instead of 80, which was essential so they could…????
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Nothing builds trust in politics like behaving like the most jittery, uncertain, principles-optional political movement in history.
November 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Yay, the even worse option of lots of small taxes upsetting noisy lobby groups.
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Trump looking to lower food tariffs: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Trump Administration Prepares Tariff Exemptions in Bid to Lower Food Prices
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Why seek political office if you have a stonking majority and you use it to…endlessly fret about losing your majority rather than running a country? It’s no good. There is no theory for how to make things better. It’s not even well managed decline.
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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The Two Prominent Britons Who Come Up in the Epstein Emails

Newly released files from Jeffrey Epstein include correspondence with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to Washington
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
The Two Prominent Britons Who Come Up in the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Except it isn't broadly split between left and right flanks unless you position the LibDems to the right.
Half of voters who backed Labour in 2024 have deserted the party, according to internal polling shared with Labour MPs, reports PolHome's Harriet Symonds

The figures suggest Labour's lost vote is broadly split between its left and right flanks, demonstrating the electoral challenge facing the party
Half of 2024 Labour Voters Have Gone Elsewhere, Party Privately Tells MPs
Half of voters who backed Labour at the last general election have deserted the party, according to internal polling shared with Labour MPs.
www.politicshome.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Whoa! Immigrants come here with nothing and the next thing you know they’re buying houses that established citizens cannot afford? Those enterprising newcomers sound like just the sort of folks we need. Never mind that JD’s premise is as BS as his 30M number.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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working at the nyt
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Time to wean myself off Google products like I've done with Amazon (don't use, and never have, Meta products).
Mullvad do a decent browser I think...
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Not gay brownies! 😱
Christian Activist Rages After Gay Florida Teacher Told Students That His Husband Made Brownies
www.comicsands.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Well at least he was never political
Robbie Gibb showing his true colours after Brexit.
November 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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This is a pretty staggering conflict of interest for Tim Allan - more or less the same as the conflict of interest Peter Mandelson had.

He works for the Government but benefits personally financially if Government policy favours, e.g. horse-racing. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour faces questions over Starmer aide who holds shares in lobbying firm
Communications chief Tim Allan left Strand Partners in September but still holds a minority stake
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Here's my argument with Sir Bernard Jenkin MP about the report showing how the racist intimidation of Black and Brown NHS workers on home visits has been exacerbated by the far right's wall of flags.
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.

10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C

20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C

So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Was King Charles warned before the release that this was going to get bad for Andy?

In which case Charles looks to be acting only because he's been forced into it; not from any sense of morality or concern for the victims...
Not looking good for Andy.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Bending over backwards and shedding all morality for their developer buddies, so they can make even more money at the expense of UK nature.

For this reason alone, Starmer can go do one.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM