US politics is a DOGE eat DOGE world.

Tory MPs want to block overseas workers from UK care homes in extreme plan In a challenge to Rishi Sunak’s authority, Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson will speak at the launch of the New Conservatives Group that wants to block social care workers getting visas

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🔥 Just two years ago, a gang of racist Tory MPs led by Lee Anderson tried to stop qualified foreign workers from filling rhe 165,000 vacancies in English care homes. The MPs were correctly described as exremists back then. Today, Starmer is copying their racist populism.

UK government drops healthy eating push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals guidance for retailers in England changed after campaign by global food firms Government legal guidance urging retailers in England to offer millions of consumers deals and discounts on minimally processed and nutritious food has been dropped after a lobbying campaign by the world’s biggest ultra-processed food firms, the Guardian can reveal. Ahead of new regulations banning junk food promotions from October, the Department of Health and Social Care issued advice to thousands of shops, supermarkets, online retailers and other businesses to help them comply with the law. Continue reading...

UK government drops healthy eating push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms

Shocking betrayal of the public interest.

Britain should be a welcoming home for those who help us, not a hornet's nest of hate.The immigrant nurse is our sister. The immigrant delivery driver is our brother. Immigrants hold the fabric of our UK together. They're Britain's honorary children. They should be treated with respect!
#NoStrangers

The Brexit truth that everyone knows. Yet Farage might be our next PM. Bonkers.

Migrants contribute 👇
#Glasgow city centre

Sky News release audio of Conservative Chris Philp admitting that Brexit makes it harder to return asylum seekers to countries in Europe

That's right, inside the EU, with freedom of movement, the UK had the ability to return asylum seekers to Europe

Brexit created the rise in small boat crossings

I was going to get the train today. But I am increasingly concerned at the deficit I’m running with Great Northern Rail. I buy a lot from them and they purchase nothing from me.
Tempted to apply a 20% tariff. Sure my tickets will cost 20% more but it might mean I buy fewer and reduce the deficit.

Hey British media,
It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning.
Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Immigration is a beautiful thing and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise ❤️

It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.

Matt Frei, "Usually world events are caused by national disasters or wars"

"But Trump is the event"

"Today we ask whether he is an aberration in the history of this republic, or part of a pattern"

Congratulations to Mark Carney and the Liberal Party on their election victory.

The bond between Europe and Canada is strong — and growing stronger.

Donald Trump, beware – this is what a global liberal fightback looks like | Timothy Garton Ash From the Canadian elections to universities and civil society, the campaign to turn the tide against anti-liberal nationalists is well underway, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

Donald Trump, beware – this is what a global liberal fightback looks like | Timothy Garton Ash

Lib Dems continue to zero in on their anti-Trump message, reacting to Canadian election Ed Davey says:

A truly stunning result for the Canadian Liberal Party.

Mark Carney (with a lot of help from Donald Trump) has secured one of the greatest comebacks in electoral history. Liberals are up seats but so are the Conservatives. NDP rout. Libs likely a minority and will have to work with others.

Mark Carney is asked how the lessons of Brexit apply to Trump's tariff policy.

"When you break off or substantially rupture trade relations with major trading partners... you end up with slower growth, higher inflation, higher interest rates, volatility, a lower currency, a weaker economy." ~AA

Trump’s downfall begins now – his paranoia and baseless rage is his undoing This is what empires look like when they fall

This is what empires look like when they fall inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Wow, this is truly scathing.

The Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge, designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1676, completed in 1695; interior with distinctive limewood carvings by ‘The King’s Carver’ Grinling Gibbons, born #OTD 1648. @trincolllibcam.bsky.social

The Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge, designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1676, completed in 1695; interior with distinctive limewood carvings by ‘The King’s Carver’ Grinling Gibbons, born #OTD 1648. @trincolllibcam.bsky.social

The Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge, designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1676, completed in 1695; interior with distinctive limewood carvings by ‘The King’s Carver’ Grinling Gibbons, born #OTD 1648. @trincolllibcam.bsky.social

The Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge, designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1676, completed in 1695; interior with distinctive limewood carvings by ‘The King’s Carver’ Grinling Gibbons, born #OTD 1648.
@trincolllibcam.bsky.social

Screenshot of tweet from @realDonaldTrump, 6 Nov 2012, reading: "If the Dow drops 1,000 points in two days the President should be impeached immediately!"

what if it just took one though

Globalisation is unavoidable: it’s not a choice We live in a deeply interconnected world. The Heathrow fire was a wake-up call. The story of the microchip sheds further light

One factory in Taiwan holds the key to modern civilisation. If it falls, we go back decades. That’s how fragile our world is.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE

This was before the tariffs

It's just...unbelievable

So what about 3000 points in two days???

Starmer and Reeves keep talking about the national interest in response to Trump's tariffs

They're doing everything except the thing that is within the national interest, the a Customs Union with the EU

On Trade and Tariffs, Trump’s Stubborn Ignorance Shines Bright The president can't be taught. And we’re suffering for it.

"Our constitutional system was never meant to be vulnerable to the whims and fantasies of one man. But due to the cowardice and cupidity of the GOP and others, we’ve lost our antibodies to strongman rule, and find ourselves bowing before a power-drunk man-child."
www.thebulwark.com/p/trade-and-...