That's not 'generalizing' – that's racism.

'Drill baby drill': Trump opens wilderness to big energy From the majestic valleys of the Grand Canyon to the granite peaks of the Yosemite national park and ancient trees of Alaska's Tongass National Forest, US President Donald Trump has pledged to make America's federal nature reserves "beautiful again." National parks make up one part of over 600 million acres (243 million hectares) of US public lands that span forests, deserts, waterways and wildlife refuges. "These include some of the most ecologically intact and biodiverse lands in the country," said Jenny Rowland-Shea, who directs public lands policy at the Washington-based think tank, Center for American Progress. But critics say these landscapes are threatened by steep budget cuts and environmental rollbacks that open them to resource extraction. In May 2025, for example, the Trump administration proposed cutting nearly $1 billion (€860 million) from the National Park Service budget — a reduction that park advocates warn could force hundreds of sites to close or sharply scale back services. For Rowland-Shea, the weakening of the National Park Service and its conservation mission "under the guise of 'government efficiency' has only made parks and public lands less safe, less clean, less accessible, and more crowded than ever before." Two months after announcing the cuts,...

'Drill baby drill': Trump opens wilderness to big energy
->Deutsche Welle | More info at BigEarthData.ai | #TrumpFascism #Forest #NoDecency #Wilderness

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

ADHD-friendly life tip, which I'm sharing as doing it later today: pick one late afternoon or evening a month, take yourself to a pub, order yourself one (1) drink of your choice, and try to reply to every single outstanding message you've received in the past month before finishing the drink

is it a good sign that 2 people you've invited to be on your "Board of Peace" can't join you in Switzerland because they would be arrested for war crimes?

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

Royal Mail have written a GDPR policy for their letter to Santa scheme that is a) pitched at children explaining how their data is used and b) fully committed to the existence of Father Christmas and it’s just… really cute

Do you know a great history teacher?
Nominate them now for a new history teaching award! Maybe I'll see them at the Tower of London next year!
Nominate someone here: bit.ly/42yhGZP
#historyteachingawards

Dear Britain, it’s now clear: 20mph zones save lives and don’t slow traffic. Implement them | Sadiq Khan There is too much bluff and bluster on this subject. Ordinary people just want safe streets for themselves and those they love, and we can achieve that, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

The number of people killed or seriously injured on London borough roads reduced by 34% following the implementation of 20mph speed limits, with the number of children killed falling by 75%
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Letter of the day (in the Times)

This aged badly

Can Border Agents Search Your Electronic Devices? It’s Complicated. | ACLU We’ve been getting a lot of questions about when border agents can legally conduct searches of travelers’ electronic devices at international airports and other ports of entry. Unfortunately, the answ...

Everyone deserves the freedom to say what they think about the U.S. government without fear of retaliation.

Learn more about the precautions you should take to protect your devices from warrantless searches by border agents.

Surely this is just attempted highway robbery, first the minerals and now the nuclear? Targeting vulnerable countries. Disgusting.

Millions of universal credit and benefit claimants turn to food banks The government is planning to make cuts to welfare – but universal credit and disability claimants are already struggling.

More than three quarters of people claiming universal credit and disability benefits have gone without essentials such as food and heating in the last six months

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Wes Streeting, the health secretary, told LBC: "We're different political traditions, but I think we've all been struck by the pace at which President Trump's new administration has come in and made a whole bunch of changes to the way that Washington and the way that government works. "We might look at some of those changes and think, well, they're not quite the changes we would make, from a centre-left perspective, but the speed at which they've operated, we've actually thought, you know what, we can go further and faster. We will, we are. That's what the prime minister's doing."

Ugh. I can’t tell you how much I dislike this. To witness such cruelty, incompetence, contempt for the law and think ‘let’s have some of that’… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is utterly repellent language from Starmer’s government.

Cabaret at the Kit Kat club. Superb. But hits extra in a Trump world.

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

Screenshot of GB News video. The video shows a contributor on the GB News channel, with these subtitles "...tqi plus was a parasite on what was a very healthy". Below is an advert for Argos with a picture of a doll drinking from a coffee cup. The text reads: "Shop From Latest Range of Promo Codes And Offers At Argos"

Many Argos customers will be shocked that they've been advertising on this GB News YouTube video likening part of the LGBTQIA+ community to a "parasite": www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tehb...

You can take action by asking Argos to exclude GB News from their YouTube ads: support.google.com/google-ads/a...

BBC Radio 1Xtra
1Xtra's Guide to Sound Clashes

Dynamq breaks down the history, rules and do's and don't of sound clashing.

GB News seems to know that advertisers aren't comfortable with the misogynistic comments - and yet they keep happening...

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Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

Language matters. Words matter. Every single word matters.

Wow. I've just watched the footage. That was absolutely disgusting. And unstatesmanlike. Revolting behaviour from Vance and Trump. Zelensky behaved like a statesman and an adult and kept his temper. I admire him enormously. Slava Ukraini!

My three-year old daughter's developed/is developing a phobia/terror of the black lines at the bottom of the swimming pool. Have you seen this? Any advice? #phobia #BlackLinesInSwimmingPool #RisingThree

Today I commented on an M&S Facebook post to ask them to stop advertising on GB News. And I'm getting a lot of unpleasant responses. Tells me everything I need to know. I used to try and reason with people. Now I delete, block, and move on. #StopFundingHate

Many Marks and Spencer customers will be disappointed to learn that they've been advertising on GB News radio.

You can take action by leaving a friendly message on the Marks and Spencer Facebook page asking them to #StopFundingHate 👇

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Blimey - the most aggressively right wing and hateful network in the UK being funded by Marks and Spencer!

The far right rising Ahead of a historic German election, the AfD is courting the global right – and threatening to upend European politics.

Ahead of a historic German election, the AfD is courting the global right – and threatening to upend European politics.

@annettedittert.bsky.social on the far right rising