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Famine now unfolding in Gaza, says UN-backed monitor – Middle East crisis live
Famine now unfolding in Gaza, says UN-backed monitor – Middle East crisis live
Airdrops are not enough to avert the humanitarian catastrophe, says the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Famine now unfolding in Gaza, says UN-backed monitor – Middle East crisis live
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The DWP is refusing to release a report into deaths of disabled people
Buried for four years, we only know about the report thanks to the persistence of Disability News Service - but even now, the DWP is refusing to release it.
What is in it that is so damning?
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Buried for four years, we only know about the report thanks to the persistence of Disability News Service - but even now, the DWP is refusing to release it.
What is in it that is so damning?
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
The DWP is refusing to release a report into deaths of disabled people
The DWP failure to publish the report speaks to the political continuity between Tory cruelty and Labour technocratic authoritarianism
www.thecanary.co
May 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The DWP is refusing to release a report into deaths of disabled people
Buried for four years, we only know about the report thanks to the persistence of Disability News Service - but even now, the DWP is refusing to release it.
What is in it that is so damning?
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Buried for four years, we only know about the report thanks to the persistence of Disability News Service - but even now, the DWP is refusing to release it.
What is in it that is so damning?
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Here's a 👀 datapoint.
In January a whopping 67% of ALL UK exports to America were gold bars.
Ponder that for a moment.
67% of EVERY PHYSICAL THING the UK exported to the US (by value)
Totally unprecedented. Further evidence of the scale of gold outflows from Britain to America
In January a whopping 67% of ALL UK exports to America were gold bars.
Ponder that for a moment.
67% of EVERY PHYSICAL THING the UK exported to the US (by value)
Totally unprecedented. Further evidence of the scale of gold outflows from Britain to America
May 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Here's a 👀 datapoint.
In January a whopping 67% of ALL UK exports to America were gold bars.
Ponder that for a moment.
67% of EVERY PHYSICAL THING the UK exported to the US (by value)
Totally unprecedented. Further evidence of the scale of gold outflows from Britain to America
In January a whopping 67% of ALL UK exports to America were gold bars.
Ponder that for a moment.
67% of EVERY PHYSICAL THING the UK exported to the US (by value)
Totally unprecedented. Further evidence of the scale of gold outflows from Britain to America
To understand this government, look at who it bailed out – and the flailing UK sector it didn’t | Gaby Hinsliff www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To understand this government, look at who it bailed out – and the flailing UK sector it didn’t | Gaby Hinsliff
Universities, a key plank of our economy, face a bonfire of jobs. But are they the jobs Starmer wants to be seen to be saving, asks Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
To understand this government, look at who it bailed out – and the flailing UK sector it didn’t | Gaby Hinsliff www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Outrageous. Trump has told the UK that if we want tariff relief we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/No-chlor...
Keir Starmer: Stand firm in protecting British food and animal welfare standards in trade deals
I just signed the campaign calling Keir Starmer to stand firm in protecting British food and animal welfare standards in trade deals
act.38degrees.org.uk
April 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Outrageous. Trump has told the UK that if we want tariff relief we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/No-chlor...
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I am but a humble cable news host with a bachelor’s in philosophy, but I feel like at some point the bond market is also going to notice that the GOP is going to pass a deficit financed 5 trillion dollar tax cut. Maybe?
April 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I am but a humble cable news host with a bachelor’s in philosophy, but I feel like at some point the bond market is also going to notice that the GOP is going to pass a deficit financed 5 trillion dollar tax cut. Maybe?
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Biggest insider trading market manipulation scheme in history.
They aren't even bothering to hide it.
They aren't even bothering to hide it.
April 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Biggest insider trading market manipulation scheme in history.
They aren't even bothering to hide it.
They aren't even bothering to hide it.
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Trump is pushing students towards Britain – ministers, don’t let your immigration obsession stand in the way | Polly Toynbee
Trump is pushing students towards Britain – ministers, don’t let your immigration obsession stand in the way | Polly Toynbee
Beleaguered UK universities have a golden opportunity. If the government passes it up, it risks billions in revenue, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Trump is pushing students towards Britain – ministers, don’t let your immigration obsession stand in the way | Polly Toynbee
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Not one reporter asked about the Executive Orders targeting Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor during today’s Cabinet press conference. Not one. A president using DOJ to punish those who spoke out? That’s banana republic territory. I waited. The question never came.
Why? Has the fear already taken hold?
Why? Has the fear already taken hold?
April 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Not one reporter asked about the Executive Orders targeting Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor during today’s Cabinet press conference. Not one. A president using DOJ to punish those who spoke out? That’s banana republic territory. I waited. The question never came.
Why? Has the fear already taken hold?
Why? Has the fear already taken hold?
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:49 AM
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Excellent guest post by Mike Olson on how the ways libraries catalogue and organise information are not and never have been neutral. I've got a journal article in peer review at the moment which touches on some of these issues, among others. 📚
Guest Post - Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs - The Scholarly Kitchen
The renaming of "Mount Denali" and "Gulf of Mexico" to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley" and "Gulf of America" reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where mean...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
April 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Excellent guest post by Mike Olson on how the ways libraries catalogue and organise information are not and never have been neutral. I've got a journal article in peer review at the moment which touches on some of these issues, among others. 📚
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Mel Gibson will be allowed to own guns again, despite a prior domestic violence conviction against him, thanks to a new ruling by the US Justice Department.
Gibson had his rights revoked in 2011 when he was charged with spousal battery and pleaded no contest in a deal to kept him out of jail.
Gibson had his rights revoked in 2011 when he was charged with spousal battery and pleaded no contest in a deal to kept him out of jail.
April 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Mel Gibson will be allowed to own guns again, despite a prior domestic violence conviction against him, thanks to a new ruling by the US Justice Department.
Gibson had his rights revoked in 2011 when he was charged with spousal battery and pleaded no contest in a deal to kept him out of jail.
Gibson had his rights revoked in 2011 when he was charged with spousal battery and pleaded no contest in a deal to kept him out of jail.
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The more conciliatory I was to my ex malignant narcissist boyfriend the more controlling and cruel he became. Conciliation is a malignant narcissist’s sustenance. That’s why the world must not back down.
April 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The more conciliatory I was to my ex malignant narcissist boyfriend the more controlling and cruel he became. Conciliation is a malignant narcissist’s sustenance. That’s why the world must not back down.
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me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
April 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The look on those faces screams maybe it’s time to start thinking about getting a carer in
Trump: When you ran out the healthy arms, you ran out of really healthy— they had great arms but they ran out. It’s called sports. It’s called baseball in particular and pitchers I guess you could say, really particular
April 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The look on those faces screams maybe it’s time to start thinking about getting a carer in
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I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?
April 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?
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Thousands of federal health workers woke up on April 1 to find they had been fired or laid off. Scientists and civil servants at the FDA, CDC, and NIH were let go as part of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s pledge to cut jobs at the country’s most important disease-fighting agencies.
The Department Of Health And Human Services Cuts 10,000 Jobs
The cuts hit multiple agencies, affecting work on HIV, gun violence prevention, vaccines, minority health research, and more.
www.sciencefriday.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Thousands of federal health workers woke up on April 1 to find they had been fired or laid off. Scientists and civil servants at the FDA, CDC, and NIH were let go as part of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s pledge to cut jobs at the country’s most important disease-fighting agencies.
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Trump is on a spiral now, like a serial killer who's out of control. His narcissism is so malignant that he looks at the global damage he's caused and screams, "I did that, me, me, me!". His behaviour is getting more extreme. He can't stop himself. Every mad action needs to top the one before.
April 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Trump is on a spiral now, like a serial killer who's out of control. His narcissism is so malignant that he looks at the global damage he's caused and screams, "I did that, me, me, me!". His behaviour is getting more extreme. He can't stop himself. Every mad action needs to top the one before.
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It won't stop at Mahmoud Khalil.
The Trump administration is sending a message: If you dissent, you will be punished.
The Trump administration is sending a message: If you dissent, you will be punished.
Opinion | Our client Mahmoud Khalil is just the first victim of Trump’s unconstitutional crackdown
His case represents a clear attempt by the Trump administration to silence dissent, intimidate our universities and attack our freedom.
www.msnbc.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It won't stop at Mahmoud Khalil.
The Trump administration is sending a message: If you dissent, you will be punished.
The Trump administration is sending a message: If you dissent, you will be punished.
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The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work.
The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty.
I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink
The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty.
I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink
I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the government to rethink its cruel, shameful & completely irresponsible plan to cut benefits which will plunge 250,000 people, including 50,000 children into poverty - on its own impact analysis
This is how you can help
youtu.be/XrX4dF3wqt0?...
This is how you can help
youtu.be/XrX4dF3wqt0?...
I’m joining Trussell in calling on the Gov’t to rethink its cruel & shameful plan to cut benefits
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
April 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work.
The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty.
I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink
The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty.
I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink