Trump's immigration crackdown has come to the suburbs. On Long Island, expansive roads are fertile terrain for ICE agents to capture migrants without the critical eye of observers that has often accompanied officials’ actions in big Democrat-led cities. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/n...
Falling school rolls must be the major issue of the next 5-10 years which has least media attention.
Judges are more likely to be physically attacked by criminals or their families because of David Lammy’s plans to scale back jury trials, a former justice secretary has warned. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Call me Cassandra, but if you make thousands of HEI staff either compulsorily or 'voluntarily' redundant and create conditions in which senior staff take early retirement in an attempt to save more junior colleagues' careers without significant new hiring, a critical loss is exactly what happens.
It is genuinely wild how the GOP can insult Canada for over a year non-stop and then get angry about being "disrespected"
"A senior official from another Baltic state said Russia was also 'weaponising' the net-zero agenda to stir up public resentments."
"...it is only a matter of time before the tactics that are now being tested on the Baltic states are turned against other countries, including the UK and Germany"
It's a misdemeanor, but it's a start.
Great news! Thanks Virginia! Virginia just voted Yes to REDISTRICTING! Dems flipping the map in VA potentially 4 new House seats. The midterm arms race is ON and Republicans are scrambling. California ✅ Virginia ✅ Who’s next?
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
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It is objectively bad for democracy that both blue and red states are doing extreme gerrymanders.
But the only feasible solution — a national ban on partisan gerrymandering — has only been endorsed by one party. And it's not the one complaining about Virginia right now.
Huge win for ICE raid trackers!
Federal judge ruled Trump officials illegally pressured tech companies to silence tracking groups. The First Amendment won.
#VoteYesVirginiaToday
NatCon’s 2024 Brussels conference in was co-sponsored by MCC & Danube (both Hungary based), the European Conservative (registered in Hungary), & Nazione Futura (founded by an MCC alum). NatCon is the Thiel-linked recurring conference that elevated both JD Vance & Christian Nationalism in the US. 1/
"Raymond Frogner, the NCTR's head of archives, said the NCTR has received just 96 IAP files from the 38,000 survivors who took part."
Most people don't even know that their records are at risk.
Benzene: classed as cancer-causing in humans by the IARC
Chairman Comer and Republicans are canceling hearings because they are afraid we may force more subpoenas and advance the Epstein investigation. Oversight Democrats will not participate in these sham events where motions can’t be made and where we can’t call witnesses.
Watch how swiftly fake quotes get attributed to “S. Drimmer” now.
Thing is, this is exactly what ChatGPT was designed to do. Namely, jackhammer the grounds of truth beneath our feet. Whether the product is “good” or not is irrelevant. Its purpose is to remove people from acts of discernment.
xAI promised to cut “whatever was unnecessary” to make delivery of AI as efficient + cost-effective as possible
Apparently, people's drinking water is considered "unnecessary"
In the billionaire mindset, people's survival is secondary to relentless pursuit of profit
“He (Trump) invoked his privileged as the head of the military, so to speak.
It was apparently quite a blow-up.
"There's some very bizarre things going on in DC."”
The person negotiating in the Middle East on behalf of the United States does not technically work for the United States.
Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson
Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting
Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS
Nothing to see or everything to see
Palantir must be removed from the NHS
My article on what may be the last coal miners’ strike to ever take place in England. Nobody should be visiting that museum until this is resolved.
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Climate change (more heat & more wet) and heavier vehicles causing roads to flex and crack are increasing the potholes in our roads.
Watch a video here
Council budgets have been heavily cut for more than a decade making it harder to keep up…the daily outward symbol of decline
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Billions in foreign real estate deals while serving as head of state.
Billions in crypto deals while gutting regulation of the industry.
Suing his own government and negotiating a settlement funded by the taxpayers.
We're so numb to Trump grifting off the presidency that hardly anyone notices.
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
The point of StoryCorps was never to record every second of our lives or even of a dinner conversation (where people will either a) worry they're being recorded or b) forget they're being recorded and say things that will get them in trouble). It was to encourage people to share the power of memory—
The motto is StoryCorps was "listening is an act of love." CONSCIOUS LISTENING, intimate listening!
I feel sick thinking that this phrase is being used as cover to make people think that list listening all the time (Siri, Alexa, Prego, etc.) is also an act of love.
Unfortunately I’ve had to suspend sales to the US as I can’t find any carriers which now do tracked deliveries at a reasonable price. Orders received from the US will be posted this week but I’m not accepting any more. The reason is Trump having cancelled the de minimus exception on imports. This
Pretty frustrating that the New York Times is crediting AP with uncovering the existence of Aadam’s archive when I reported on it 15 months prior. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...
Every day, corporate media fails us in ways that matter. Which would be fine if the failures led to fixes: they don't. Instead, corporate media gets worse and worse and—incredibly—more and more dismissive of critics. It remains allergic to providing proper context in its reports.
Medical students in Gaza restore one of the oldest libraries after it was bombed by the Israeli occupation.
