An lime-green infographic with a giant "7x" in large, white letters. Below it, in smaller black text, it reads: "The combined wealth of the 19 richest US households is more than seven times that of the 95 million least-wealthy ones."
Happy Tax Day.
you know the way "why did the Roman Empire fall" and "what are the causes of the First World War" are big questions that sort of function like Rorsharch tests, allowing people to debate ultimately inexplicable moments in history? "Why did no one stop Trump" a decent future shout for the third.
jorie Graham
It's just an objective fact that Republicans like it when mothers die. It's been a core policy plank of the GOP my entire life.
how significant is the petrodollar in all of this. particularly in light of the possible tankers granted passage if 'paid in yuan' story doing the rounds?
A year of USAID was $32 billion. So roughly next Wednesday. Monsters.
This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)
Given that the UK's position in the last 50 years is that settlements are illegal and Israel cannot annex the West Bank, banning trade with West Bank settlements is really the absolutely minimal ask. It's pathetic that it hasn't happened.
I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure this is how you get 9/11: the sequel
Yanar Mohammed is one of Iraq’s most prominent women’s rights activists and established the country’s first shelters for survivors of domestic violence and trafficking. She was assassinated outside her Baghdad home when two gunmen on motorcycles opened fire in the morning.
The chairman of the Board of Peace bombed the Gandhi hospital. Process that.
allende?
60 years ago today, Ghana's military overthrew president Kwame Nkrumah.
The UK Foreign Office conducted a covert propaganda campaign to help remove him, declassified files show.
www.declassifieduk.org/top-secret-d...
Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.
pretty good petition this for the uk to rejoin the creative europe programme.
www.openpetition.org/uk/petition/...
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
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More than 36,500 people were killed during Iran’s January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history, according to classified government documents reviewed by Iran International.
iranintl.com/en/202601255198
It’s 1:04 am in Kyiv and siren went off because Russia is attacking us with drones .
Hate the beginning of the siren , that loud first note and when it starts rising, crawling through your bones and muscles. it’s the most disgusting part. It gets under your skin. I was told once that it’s by design
This took me about 45 seconds.
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
A hunger striker is said to be ‘at imminent risk of death’ due to 59 days without food while on remand in prison.
Kamran Ahmed was transferred to hospital from HMP Pentonville in north London in the early hours of this morning
metro.co.uk/2026/01/07/h...
I think analysts specifically, and society more broadly, underestimate how much white supremacy and belief in conquest and racial hierarchy motivate the decisions of this administration. Like yes its "neo-royalism," yes its oil, but also its white supremacy.
music has undergone a revolution though. it can now be made with the sound of bombs falling on venezuela. it's no longer impressionistic. ethics are embedded which radically bends the form. (I find it more helpful to think about it as a rendering or reorganisation of time.)
fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US
uh holy SHIT?
NEW: A Russian family whose son volunteered to fight in the Russian army against Ukraine recently adopted seven children from occupied Zaporizhia Oblast. 🧵(1/9)
Read more: isw.pub/OccupationUp...
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uk tour coming up this week with @momokogill.bsky.social
london TONIGHT! then brum, bristol, sheffield
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
