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Kristen Lindop
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Visual artist creating installations, performance & ink paintings in SW England. Exploring ecology & neuro-nonconformance.
‘All connects here.’
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Take a break from Kit Kat: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
March 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll be highlighting the advocates and everyday Americans from across the country whose stories helped make the Affordable Care Act a reality. Take a listen to some of those stories:
March 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Basil the Blackbird. Photographed today. #birds #ukbirds #wildlife #nature
March 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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More of this!
March 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult
"The vaccination has stuff we don't trust," said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died from measles at the end of last month. Tom Bartlett visited with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy:
The Texas Girl Who Died From Measles
Her father tells her story.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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March 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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The cover-up…

USAID officials were ordered to destroy classified documents, raising concerns about compliance with federal law. An internal email sent to remaining bureau leaders at the agency’s Washington headquarters provided guidance on “clearing our classified safes and personnel documents.”
March 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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If ever there was an opportunity – and a need – for a government to say that it needed to raise more cash from taxpayers, this is it
Don’t cut welfare. Raise taxes on the richest
If ever there was an opportunity – and a need – for a government to say that it needed to raise more cash from taxpayers, this is it
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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"What on earth is going on?"

@mrjamesob.bsky.social was so surprised by Donald Trump's turn as a Tesla salesman, he wrongly assumed some of the photos were faked.
March 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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🔴Needs Musk: Minister Pledges Crackdown on ‘Dark Money’ in British Politics

Keir Starmer’s Government looks set to close loopholes that would allow foreign billionaires like Elon Musk to bankroll UK political parties

bylinetimes.com/2025/03/07/g...
Needs Musk: Minister Pledges Crackdown on 'Dark Money' in British Politics
Keir Starmer's Government looks set to close loopholes that would allow foreign billionaires like Elon Musk to bankroll UK political parties
bylinetimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Tesla’s shares were down 4.6% at 11:53 on Friday, on track to erase their entire $700 billion post-election advance
Tesla Erases $700 Billion ‘Trump Bump’ as Sales Slide Globally
A slide in Tesla Inc. on Friday is capping off a round trip of epic proportions in the company’s shares.
www.bloomberg.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Is this a Nazi salute?

From the new Private Eye, out now.
March 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Jay Chester, 28, who intellectually knows which murky, hazardous social waters to avoid, reportedly decided that they were going to inevitably crash and sink, so they might as well get it over with.

www.patreon.com/posts/123068...
March 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Cynthia the Song Thrush. Photographed yesterday. #birds #ukbirds #wildlife #nature
March 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Fujitsu swore it wouldn’t bid for public contracts until the Horizon scandal inquiry wrapped up. And yet a new £300k MoD deal just landed in its lap. Their “no-bid” pledge is looking more like a PR stunt riddled with loopholes.

Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
March 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Sure hope so.
(art by Dave Tarnowski)
February 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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‘What a lie’: Danish astronaut responds to Musk claim that Biden abandoned ISS pair on purpose
‘What a lie’: Danish astronaut responds to Musk claim that Biden abandoned ISS pair on purpose
Musk claimed without evidence that Nasa’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were left stranded on the orbital outpost for ‘political reasons’ Elon Musk has got into a heated row with a Danish astronaut who criticised the tech billionaire’s claim that…
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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British Antarctic Survey

From the new Private Eye, out now.
February 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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A group of nongovernmental organizations will go to court to seek to reverse EU member countries' decision to downgrade the protection status of the wolf.
Groups take legal action to protect wolves from looser hunting rules
The Court of Justice of the EU will now look at the case and rule in a few months.
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February 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Number crunching: Fine handed to Barclays by FCA over ‘reckless’ fundraising in the 2008 financial crisis v bonus pool shared by Barclays’ bankers in 2024.
February 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Archaeologists discover first pharaoh’s tomb in Egypt in more than a century
Archaeologists discover first pharaoh’s tomb in Egypt in more than a century
Uncovering tomb of Thutmose II hailed as most significant discovery since Tutankhamun in 1922 It was when British archaeologist Dr Piers Litherland saw that the ceiling of the burial chamber was painted blue with yellow stars that he realised he had just…
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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The US is opposing calling Russia the aggressor in a G7 statement on the third anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, threatening to derail a traditional show of unity, according to five western officials familiar with the matter. www.ft.com/content/7380...
February 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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‘Every single thing he says is lies.’

@mrjamesob.bsky.social says Trump’s comments on Zelenskyy are ‘without precedent in the free world’.
February 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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US federal workers fired for alleged poor performance as part of President Donald Trump's remaking of the federal government received excellent performance reviews before they were fired, according to interviews and documents seen by Reuters reut.rs/3EOubYc
Federal workers were fired 'for performance.' Their records say otherwise
Federal workers fired for alleged poor performance as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's remaking of the federal government received excellent performance reviews before they were fired, according to interviews and documents seen by Reuters.
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February 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM