A big fat cesspit of grift and corruption covered with a thin veneer of concern for 'the people'

The reality of the new fascism as represented by Reform and by Trump

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

Insider trading by Trump friends and family has been obvious for a while

Bigger question is whether Trump is deliberately causing volatility to enable this grift

All this gambling should be made illegal

No way you can argue it's efficient allocation of capital

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Musk summoned by French prosecutors

'If Musk fails to appear prosecutors will have several options, including initiating a legal investigation and seeking an international arrest warrant'

Good to see French law enforcement getting serious about the oligarch criminals

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The Onion has reached a deal to acquire Infowars

• It will be turned into a parody site of itself

• Has the support of the Sandy Hook families

“A lot of people gave up on doing the right thing over the last two years. Despite an insane amount of threats & bullshit, we persevered"

(via Variety)

France also moving away from US services like Windows, Zoom, MS Teams & supporting new systems is the sort of positive, adventurous response we need.

I wish we had a government with the guts to chase the real criminals rather than chat about banning teenagers, to invest in HE rather than AI

🎯

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸

Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in.

This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale.

Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS #Solar

Why are Koch-funded activists trying to derail a US city's public transit? Phoenix will vote Tuesday on a light rail system expansion. It faces opposition from business owners backed by activists affiliated with the Koch network

“Koch brother groups have tried to derail public transit plans in other cities around the country, from Little Rock, Arkansas and central Utah, to Nashville and Michigan. They have frequently called such projects ‘wasteful spending’. The Koch organization is also heavily invested in fossil fuels.”

Streeting refuses to publish secret Palantir NHS briefings | Good Law Project The health secretary wants to keep us in the dark about Palantir’s systems for handling sensitive health records, so we’re taking legal action with Democracy for Sale to fight back

Wes Streeting is keeping Palantir's secrets. So we're taking him to court.

How Europe’s Retreat From Corporate Transparency is Shielding the Corrupt For investigative journalists, beneficial ownership data is a proven weapon against crime and corruption. But with public registries closed across the continent — and a key reform deadline likely to...

How Europe’s Retreat From Corporate Transparency is Shielding the Corrupt

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🇮🇷 Iranian protesters violantly attacked by the government

Oh, sorry, wrong video.

🇮🇱 It's the self-described "only democracy in the Middle East" bashing 100s of anti-war protestors chanting slogans against Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest the war with Iran

The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images—and the problem shows no signs of going away.

“What AI changes is scale, speed, and accessibility. The technical barrier has dropped significantly, which means more people...can produce more convincing outputs with minimal effort. As with many AI-enabled harms, this results in a glut of content.”
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Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two peop...

It will be interesting to see who applies for the Flat Earth Professorship in Earth and Planetary Science
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Disney's CEO makes $45 million a year. He could take a 10% pay cut and cover all of these salaries and no one would even notice, not even him. Disgusting.

Palantir: NHS pilot’s “success” is questioned as second figure at major trust is linked to the tech giant

Data used to justify the expansion of controversial software in the NHS is flawed, experts say, and the pilot trust’s innovation adviser worked directly for Palantir
https://bit.ly/4stVolW

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

Link: www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-i....

We label “organic” foods as if they’re something different.

We’re doing it backwards.

We should label foods that are processed as they are what’s unnatural.

“Lebanon is not alone.” Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International

"We not only condemn the senseless slaughter in Lebanon, as in Palestine or Iran. We also defend Lebanon’s enduring right to resist and defend itself against Israel’s foreign aggression."

Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds Exclusive: MPs say profit-making levels in England are ‘scandalous’ and call for cap on amount private companies can make from NHS

Creeping privatisation creep, Wesley 'Money-Bags' Streeting has consistently defended the use of the private sector within the #NHX, arguing that it has a necessary role to play.

That role would be... bags of money, profit from pain...
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Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

More than *70* orgs are warning Meta that integrating facial recognition into smart glasses is a terrible, dangerous idea.

Five years from now, when the consequences are abundantly clear and prevalent, people will point at this warning (as has happened with Meta and Big Tech, time and time again):

💚​🕊️​ The Global Sumud Flotilla to #Gaza is about to set sail.

From Barcelona, more than 70 vessels and 1,000 people are preparing to sail in peaceful civilian resistance and solidarity with Gaza.

#ceasefirenow #humanitarianaid

I agree with Zack Polanski on this - 100%. Hard to understand why it’s not been done already.

🚨⭐️ EXCITING NEWS — We’re nominated for a Webby Award!

Our podcast, ‘We’re Not Kidding’ with Mehdi Hasan and actor and activist, Mark Ruffalo is nominated for the People’s Voice Award and we need YOUR help to win!

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What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

The background as to why Goodwin is even at this event in Budapest is here, explaining how the Orbán funded networks work democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

Some 340 people became billionaires in 2025, often simply because their dads died. And nine million people died from hunger.

"around 95% of species being hauled up were not the intended target of the fishery"

The destructive power of bottom trawling has been known for a long time yet authorities still allow it in so-called 'protected areas'

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Πριν 23 χρόνια σήμερα στη Γάζα, ο Βρετανός φωτογράφος Tom Hurndall πυροβολήθηκε στο κεφάλι από ελεύθερο σκοπευτή του Ισραήλ ενώ προσπαθούσε να προστατεύσει Παλαιστίνια παιδιά.

Η ανθρωπότητα δεν θα τον ξεχάσει ποτέ

Distraught woman, sitting on a bed, hands covering her face.

Rape and abuse survivors need help.
But the Norfolk PCC has slashed funding for a key support charity.
It will have to close the door on 100s of victims.

Celina Błędowska shines a light on this shocking story.

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Bondi: ‘My Only Regret Is Not Being Able To Re-Traumatize More Victims’

Bondi: ‘My Only Regret Is Not Being Able To Re-Traumatize More Victims’