Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:

2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503

So far in 2025...392 mass shootings in 349 days.

We do not have to keep living like this.

Thousands of speeding fines could be cancelled after ‘technical issue’ A software update is thought to have created a problem with some variable speed cameras, meaning motorists were incorrectly penalised Thousands of speeding fines could be cancelled after a “technical issue” triggered some speed cameras in England to incorrectly penalise motorists. National Highways has apologised for the error, which meant a “very small number” of drivers had been wrongly fined since 2021. Continue reading...

Thousands of speeding fines could be cancelled after ‘technical issue’

Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments

After taking over housing and healthcare, private equity is now buying up software used by volunteer fire departments — making it even harder for rural communities to respond to emergencies.

The only winners from private equity's price-gouging spree are wealthy investors.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

Community Land Scotland launches their 2026 manifesto Scotland goes to the polls in 2026, and Community Land Scotland reminds all aspiring MSPs that Scotland faces multiple and overlapping issues

"The traditional image of land ownership in Scotland is one of a tweed-clad laird with their wealthy friends, hunting, shooting and fishing on a sprawling heather covered moors. Who Owns Scotland website reports that half of Scotland’s rural land is owned by just 432 landowners."

The CEO of Google admits that Google search provides more accurate information that the company’s AI.

He acknowledges that Google search is "more grounded in providing accurate information."

A black and white cat wearing a snowman hood is staring straight at the camera.

Is this snowman on the nice list?

These space suits from Star Trek ToS effin rule!

Are you shopping Amazon, Target, or Home Depot today? Read this first. We’re joining a nationwide Cyber Monday boycott. Here’s why we’re skipping Amazon, Target, and Home Depot and what to do instead.

Are you shopping Amazon, Target, or Home Depot today? Read this first.
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Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California.

I urge anyone in the state to vote yes.

This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-shoul...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

ICE will reportedly hire contractors to surveil social media platforms 24/7 to target people for deportations.

The information would then be funneled into an existing ICE database built by Palantir (founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel).

"The party of small government,” folks.

I am travelling to the EU on or after 12 October. What is changing? All you need to know about handling the Schengen area entry-exit system

British passport holders – as well as other “third-country nationals”, from US, Canada, Australia & elsewhere – are about to become subject to European Union’s digitalentry-exit system (EES) from Sun 12 Oct

All you need to know about handling the Schengen area entry-exit system

The fake patriots always attack London. They say there’s ’no go areas’. They same it’s ’crime ridden’ - It’s not. They just hate the fact it’s hugely diverse and its mayor happens to be a British Muslim

Goodbye petrostates, hello ‘electrostates’: How the clean energy shift is reshaping the world order For more than a century, global geopolitics has revolved around oil and gas. Countries with big fossil fuel reserves, such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, have amassed significant wealth and foreign influence, helping shape the world order.

The global shift toward renewable energy is challenging current power structures. Renewable energy resources promise to become the new basis for geopolitical influence. #auspol #renewables #geopolitics

Al poses with Elijah Wood

Always wonderful to bump into my old friend Daniel Radcliffe!

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek in Portland: "I will not be approving utilization of the Oregon national Guard. The President does not have the authority to deploy federal troops on State soil."

Love a good Derby stop #rollerderby #derbystop #rollerdisco #skatecentralsheffield

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move.

1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Fears of new PFI-style ‘disaster’ as firms handed £6m to advise on using private funds for NHS clinics Exclusive: Consultants and lawyers hired to advise on using public-private partnerships to build ‘neighbourhood health centres’ in England

#Privatisation - a few profit and the rest of us pay. And only those few - and their agents - could possibly _still_ be promoting it

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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

No. No they should not. And California has had it with unaccountable, anonymous federal officers.

Kinnock tells Starmer to consider rejoining the EU to tackle small boats crisis Lord Kinnock says he understand it would not be easy but ‘if we really want sustained economic growth, we have to be part of a body of the single market with our nearest neighbours’

👏👏 Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has told Sir Keir Starmer it is “time to look at rejoining” the EU to ease the country’s economic woes and get a grip on small boat crisis.

Kinnock, led Labour 1983 to 1992, said UK could no longer afford the “huge self-inflicted losses” created by leaving EU

Celebrities including Cillian Murphy, Joaquin Phoenix, Steve Coogan, Billie Eilish, Finneas and Peter Gabriel are holding a Benefit tonight at 7pm for Palestine at OVO Wembly Arena.

Free Palestine, end the Genocide.

Human-Caused Warming Tripled the Death Toll of European Heat Waves This Summer, New Report Shows - Inside Climate News Public health researchers struggle to track the accelerating pace of global warming impacts.

A new study led by @clairbarnes.bsky.social shows that human-caused global warming tripled heat wave deaths in European cities this summer to 24,400. These 16,500 people would still be alive if we weren't burning fossil fuels like there's no tomorrow.

Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT.

I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.

"The rule of law is the silent partner in every contract signed, every investment made and every job created. Where rule of law is arbitrary, markets wither. And when rights are not protected, it is ordinary people, workers, families, who suffer the most": Attorney General Lord Hermer KC.

So it's dangerous for China to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.

But it's okay for America's billionaires (and Trump allies) to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps.

Do I have this right?

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