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Chinese lantern vine getting better each year.

Uber just announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or around 3,300 workers. Last year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made $35M — 360 times his median employee's pay — and announced a $20B stock buyback program to further enrich shareholders and himself. Textbook corporate greed.

Morning all. Photograph by Tony Ray-Jones, Portobello Road, London, 1966.

I was raised to not speak ill of the dead. In therapy, I learned that speaking honestly about the harm done is more important than protecting the dead. Lindsey Graham caused more harm to this state than anything else in my lifetime. His legacy is hatred and brutality. Now, SC can move forward.

Lindsey and Mitch get together in the afterlife...

Seeing Screaming Lord Hannan rail against Count Binface on policy… elevates British political farce to the next level. “Capping the price of a kebab is not a brave take on a glaring policy failure. It is what every half-wit who refuses to understand economics would do”

Morning all. Photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. Cat crossing the street, Byker, 1974.

Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"

Today, I voted YES to release the names of Members of Congress who used taxpayer dollars to settle sexual misconduct and other misconduct cases in Congress. No more abuses of power and no more hiding behind a system that shields perpetrators. We will always fight for justice for survivors—period.

Lilac and peacock combo.

Day 521 of continuous, nationwide protests in Georgia. Today, demonstrators march in solidarity with the media.

What a disgusting disgrace for a President. 🖕🍊🌮💩 ✊🔥✊

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

A large crowd as always at the weekly march in Tbilisi. Georgians have been protesting in 8+ cities every day for the last 507 days.

Starbucks UK sales and number of shops increase but appears to pay no corporation tax. The trick is profit shifting through intragroup transactions to low/no tax jurisdictions - royalty payments, management fees, interest on intragroup loans. Company accounts comply with UK law but are opaque.

I hate when fantasy films I made a long time ago begin to come true in real life.

"Trump's not conservative" Oh no you don't. No no no no no. I can tolerate Republicans moving on from Bush and the neocons, 9/11 and all that. But you fucking own Trump from now until the end of time. He told you exactly who he was from day 1 and you voted for him 3 times. That's on YOU.

Can we please stop electing geriatric leaders? While its generally true experience comes with age I'd learned many of life's lessons by the time I was 30. At least make it someone under 50.

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

Congratulations to Donald Trump for having the largest US protest in history today comprised solely of people who hate him!

Seeing Trump’s face so shiny brown today makes me wonder how he doesn’t get arrested by ICE.

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

EXCLUSIVE: Al Gore calls Trump's Iran war "an astonishing mistake"—says he ignored 50 years of war planning and told advisors "they'll surrender." They didn't.

First lab-grown oesophagus successfully implanted in pigs: Scientists at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and University College London (UCL) have successfully implanted the first lab-grown oesophagus into pigs, enabling them to swallow food. This groundbreaking re… https://ranked.news/354960?u=b

When I hear Trump say that he’s free to “take Cuba,” that sounds like an adjudicated rapist speaking. It’s the way he thinks.

Why is this only happening now? It should have been done decades ago. They won't pass it, they'll never give up the money they make while in office.

My favourite room

it’s incredibly blackpilling to me that it takes rising gas prices and rising gas prices alone to have people turn against the war in iran, and not the american government murdering thousands of children and civilians in iran. americans are incredibly selfish

Crockett: "What if someone from another country said 'We're gonna bomb America bc we have a warrant for the president's arrest bc of the child sex trafficking in the Epstein files.' Every single one of you sticking up for him right now would be screaming. The analysis has to be the same."

Why the USA can't afford anything.

River Esk near Samye Ling Monastery.

Shell CEO’s pay jumps 60% to £13.8m. Did yours? Execs rewarded for profiteering. Average real pay for workers hardly changed since 2008. Govts claim worker pay rises are inflationary, but silence on exec pay, dividends, share buyback and corporate tax abuses.

it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"

If Iran attacks the U.K. where will the ex-pats fleeing Dubai run to next?

Spain has kicked Israel's ambassador out. Another win for the brilliant Spain. Keep on winning.

How long before they start dropping all pretense and simply say 'Yeh! We shot her in the face 'cause that's what we do to anyone who disagrees with us or gets in our way'.

This sums them up nicely.

On January 6th, 2021, when Trump incited an insurrection, America's corporate leaders rushed to distance themselves from him. Today, as Trump destroys our democracy at home and stages more coups abroad, they're sucking up to him to pad their own bottom lines. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC0v...

Here’s the thing: We’re all addicted to our screens and they’re driving us insane. If you think I’m wrong, try stopping. They are toxic to our mind and body. We are living the end of times.

A new U.N. report documents some of the most widespread and damaging impacts of the 2023-24 drought in the Amazon basin, which affected hundreds of thousands of Amazonian people. The main impacts were impeded transportation, drinking water shortages, deaths of aquatic wildlife and wildfires.

Lillies are enjoying the sunshine.

There's a certain amount of satisfaction to be taken from seeing even stalwart partisans like Supertanskii wake up to the turd-in-socialist-clothing that is Starmer, but basically it's all too late & they can never be forgiven for actively undermining Corbyn & the one chance we had of real change.

Monday morning at my local nature reserve. Merseyside UK. We are enjoying some wonderful weather right now.