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In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations in Britain came from just 19 people. Cap political donations. Now 31,000 people have signed 38 Degrees’ petition!! Do add your name and share widely. Thanks! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

The purpose of this Truth Social post was for Trump to convince low-information Evangelicals that when he makes the inevitable decision to go to war with Iran it was because God directly told him to do so The post is more nefarious, cynical and even grotesque than it seems—which is saying something

British decline in one story. Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.

Former Conservative and UKIP MP and Boris Johnson government appointee here calling for the mass deportation of British Pakistanis Islamophobia is absolutely rampant in conservative politics now and almost nobody even acknowledges it

For ten minutes, Wilf Frost tried to get Shadow Home Sec Chris Philp to accept the rank hypocrisy in saying his party was totally right not to do something for 14 years AND Starmer totally wrong for not doing it sooner than six months. But it was like arguing with a tenacious parakeet. ~AA

Today is the anniversarry of Jo Cox's assassination, yet we find ourselves wretchedly further away from the principles by which she lived and for which she died. ~AA #MoreInCommon

Just for clarity: Fortunate Son is an anti-Vietnam song specifically about those who dodge the draft.

Fucking hell: “Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer.”

Memo from Private Eye to our broadcasters

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US President Donald Trump showed a screenshot of Reuters video taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of what he falsely presented on Wednesday as evidence of mass killings of white South Africans.

🇪🇺 EU laws shape your daily life: digital freedom, safe travel, clean air, consumer protection, and more. They guarantee your rights, protect you, and offer you opportunities. 👉 But how are these laws made? Here's a step-by-step guide ↓ 📝

Race IS a social construct, but what does that actually mean? In the wake of Trump’s scientifically illiterate statements on race, I have written a handy explainer. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Up to 88,748 signatures. We need to get to 100,000 by 22nd May to be able to push for a debate in parliament...

This. A thousand times.

Seems the Global Warming Policy Foundation loves Badenoch’s speech. BTW GWPF directors have given tens of thousands of pounds to Badenoch’s shadow cabinet And GWPF is funded by Tory donors Small world…. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/liz-truss-...

Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo in 1969, is the only human, dead or alive, that isn't in the frame of this picture.😎😎😎

Another blast from the past for @adamrutherford.bsky.social - the car is not as upmarket ad these days

Not as eye catching as the tracksuit flares 👀

One for @adamrutherford.bsky.social season 77/78 apparently!!