Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
For those keeping track at home. The Iranians have now blockaded the Strait of Hormuz in response to the US blockading it because the Iranians had blockaded it, in response to the US attacking Iran to ensure that the Strait which was fully open at the time wasn't blockaded.
James Bembridge on X: Hate is too weak a word for what I feel towards the NHS. I'd tear it down and salt the earth upon which it stood.
Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.
The fat orange cunt holds on to two bags of hamburgers outside the Oval Office
A grandmother forced to work to pay for her husband’s cancer treatment delivers food to a President covering his office in gold.
Trump’s America. Burn it all down.
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Youth patients with gender dysphoria who were referred to gender medicine clinics in Finland were upwards of 3x as likely to need psychiatric treatment following referral compared to patients without a history of gender transition counseling/interventions.
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Armenia, Syria, Venezuela, possibly Iran and now also Hungary. The list of countries slipping out from Russian control is getting longer.
YES! Thank you for being so insightful and succinct. I’ve been so baffled/angry about why good US citizens are mostly just handwringing/shrugging and not doing anything about Trump and Congress, even moaning that the country is too big for national protests. It’s the fucking guns, warped everything.
Nearly six years reporting on working homeless families taught me one thing: the precarity isn't incidental to the profits. It's how you get them.
Kimberly-Clark could pay a living wage and still clear almost $2 billion a year. They can afford to pay workers enough to live. They just choose not to.
Tonight in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square, a sea of young Hungarians—who’ve only ever known Orbán’s corrupt, suffocating regime—are packed together, singing, chanting, and daring to dream of freedom again.
Their hope is raw, their courage is real. The heart of Europe is beating in Budapest tonight. 🇭🇺❤️🇪🇺
To all those who can’t read the article: “Male advantage includes greater height, longer limbs, broader shoulders, more muscle mass, and stiffer tendons. These factors enhance reach, stability and throwing mechanics, affecting consistency and precision.”
I’ve known Lebanon for three decades. What’s happening now is an invasion.
This is Gaza 2.0 – and the world is barely paying attention.
@CaroleCadwalladr for the Nerve
Link 🔽
If you are looking for something other than more bad news I give you this
I didn’t know that! Meanwhile in 2013, when a couple of old railway tunnels were being opened up and a new cycle path created from Bath out into the countryside, residents of one of the villages along the route said they didn’t want it because ‘youths’ would come into their village. Mental.
in a stunning victory, Donald Trump has forced the Iranian government to profit tens of billions of dollars a year against their will
After their utterly pathetic performances yesterday, I just can't imagine a Prime Minister Davey or Polanski. Leadership means keeping a cool head in time of crisis - not infecting social media with dozy point-scoring or appeals to 'do something.'
Not serious people
América,
Your No Kings protests were a good start.
But I’m afraid to make a difference your going to have to be more like the French.
Protest every day.
Shut the country down.
One protest every 3 months doesn’t effect change. Daily pressure does.
It would be nice to see Zack Polanski unequivocally welcoming the end of the two child cap, the higher minimum wage and new statutory sick pay rules all coming into force today.
After darkness falls, when the market closes and the crowds thin out, Sodaba puts on her brother’s clothes, takes her bicycle, and rides through the back alleys of her neighbourhood – away from the eyes of the Taliban.
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Thanks ladies for reporting resurrection, we'll take it from here (big group of men).
It's impossible to overstate how badly Americans have fucked up.
Don’t fool yourself. The large number of Americans who voted for Trump, twice, most certainly don’t believe in those things for all people.
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
Starmer announces that the UK is pursuing closer EU relations:
“Brexit did deep damage to our economy. And the opportunities to strengthen our security and cut the cost of living are simply too big to ignore. We want to be more ambitious. Closer economic cooperation. Closer security cooperation.”
If you see this, drop a hero with a sword
As Nathan Newby receives the George medal today for extraordinary bravery, read the amazing story, published in the FT Magazine in December, of how he talked a would-be hospital bomber down. It’s an astonishing piece of writing from Ravi Somaiya and it’s Free to Read www.ft.com/content/cd59...
