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@simonoxfphys.com You haven't included the games bundle on your Jingle Jam fundraising page. See the Jingle Jam FAQs info.tiltify.com/support/solu...
December 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Excellent cover story by @willdunn.bsky.social who has the inside track on the bond markets influencing the Budget -

feat. the incredible bit of an analysis by one investor who found each welfare rebel MP equals a *£1bn* debt premium over the Parliament...
Meet the bond market vigilantes
Governments are now at the mercy of unseen investors
www.newstatesman.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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mattyglesias.bsky.social
I don’t know what’s really in Jared Golden’s heart as he steps away from congress but you have to think he’d have more zest for the job of his accomplishments were properly acknowledged.

www.slowboring.com/p/the-candid...
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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An abortion ban pushed me toward abortion
Is this what the pro-life movement intended?
www.theargumentmag.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
U.S. to Repatriate Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
It's going up to $40 billion.

USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.
October 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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samlearner.bsky.social
NEW: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution

Our story today on how storage is changing grids and extending the use of clean power

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How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution
Vast battery units are shoring up grids and extending the use of clean power
ig.ft.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Reposted by Tom Wilkinson
meredithmeredith.bsky.social
📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!

www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
An illustration of me, and the headline: "AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security" To put it bluntly, the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer. It will not be possible for apps like Signal—the messaging app whose foundation I run—to continue to provide strong privacy guarantees, built on robust and openly validated encryption, if device-makers and OS developers insist on puncturing the metaphoric blood-brain barrier between apps and the OS. Feeding your sensitive Signal messages into an undifferentiated data slurry connected to cloud servers in service of their AI-agent aspirations is a dangerous abdication of responsibility. Happily, it’s not too late. There is much that can still be done, particularly when it comes to protecting the sanctity of private data. What’s needed is a fundamental shift in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents. First, privacy must be the default, and control must remain in the hands of application developers exercising agency on behalf of their users. Developers need the ability to designate applications as “sensitive” and mark them as off-limits to agents, at the OS level and otherwise. This cannot be a convoluted workaround buried in settings; it must be a straightforward, well-documented mechanism (similar to Global Privacy Control) that blocks an agent from accessing our data or taking actions within an app. Second, radical transparency must be the norm. Vague assurances and marketing-speak are no longer acceptable. OS vendors have an obligation to be clear and precise about their architecture and what data their AI agents are accessing, how it is being used and the measures in place to protect it.
September 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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How Your Phone Gets the Weather (Gift Article)
The more weather observations meteorologists can rely on, the more precise their forecasts will be. Here's what goes into an accurate forecast.
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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July 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in court in the case of a spy who abused women
Security Service continued to provide misleading evidence even after its lie was exposed, BBC can reveal.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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American students in China face a barrage of questions about Trump
The number of U.S. students in China has plummeted, but those who are there now say it’s more important than ever for Americans to understand the country.
wapo.st
June 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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taniel.bsky.social
Federal law specifies that members of Congress can access any DHS facility, including ICE detention centers, but two US representatives were denied entry today: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/n...
2 New York Representatives Are Denied Access to ICE Facility
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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rcobooth.bsky.social
A new bipartisan bill would require private insurers to fully cover the cost of childbirth with no co-pays or deductibles. Average out-of-pocket costs today is ~$3,000.

It’s a big deal, with an unusual origin story, and backed by an even more unusual alliance of orgs 🧵

www.vox.com/policy/41491...
America might finally make childbirth free
An unlikely alliance is supporting a new bipartisan bill in Congress.
www.vox.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
Gordon Brown makes criminal complaint against Rupert Murdoch’s media empire
Exclusive: Former British PM urges police to reopen inquiry – and claims media executive Will Lewis attempted to incriminate him
www.theguardian.com
April 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Happy Easter
Scene is WAITROSE CUSTOMER SERVICES DESK. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone. BECKY [on phone]:  Yeah, hiya... 2 BECKY: Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs. 3 BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]: Sorry what was your name again? 4 [Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.] PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility 5 BECKY Sorry - Your name is Easter…? PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre. 6 VICKY: Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs. 7 PAGAN GODDESS: Sorry love, what’s your name? BECKY: Becky PAGAN GODDESS: Well, Vicky - 8 PAGAN GODDESS: If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here - TEENAGE BOY: Muuum… 9 PAGAN GODDESS: ….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too! 10 PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival! 11 BECKY: You mean… Jesus…? PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky. 12 PAGAN GODDESS: Is it too much to see  just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4? TEENAGE BOY: MUUUUM
April 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears
European Commission officials heading to IMF and World Bank spring meetings advised to travel with basic devices
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April 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/o...
Opinion | The Supreme Court Ruled. Trump and the A.C.L.U. Both Claimed Victory. Huh? (Gift Article)
The administration won a narrow procedural victory, but it took a substantial constitutional loss.
www.nytimes.com
April 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
A Dartmoor village is paying Prince William £1.5m-a-year for an abandoned prison - and former inmates say it gave them cancer
As ex-prisoners sue over claims that high levels of radon gas have led to serious illnesses, taxpayers continue to foot the rental bill
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour MPs launch campaign to introduce digital IDs
Backbench groups revive controversial issue to tackle threat of Reform and crack down on illegal migration
www.theguardian.com
April 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat
Internal investigation cleared the national security adviser Mike Waltz, but the mistake was months in the making
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Unite divided: British trade union grapples with twin scandals
Scrutiny of business ventures has led to allegations of conflicts of interest
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April 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism
A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.
wapo.st
March 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
The Democrat who just flipped a very Trumpy seat in Pennsylvania’s Senate made opposition to Elon Musk front and center in his campaign.

(lancasteronline.com/news/politic...)
Malone said Saturday that his campaign volunteers have heard concerns from thousands of voters over Musk’s work with the Trump administration to reshape the federal government, which he said has led to “benefits for veterans, retirees and students” being cut “so Elon Musk can get a tax cut.” “Josh Parsons might be OK with that but I’m not,” Malone said. “On Tuesday, you’ll get to make the choice between more Musk, or Lancaster values.”
March 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM