Not certain on ID but I think this might be Ciboria batschiana. It was attached to some leaf litter & a lump pf mud. I now suspect inside that mud was an old acorn. #MushroomMonday#FungiFriends
Sounds like these other parents had Genuine Concerns™. Turns out the gender critical campaign handbook can be applied to any situation where bigoted people want to control the lives of others.
I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents"
The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family
French authorities moved Kevin T., the 39-year-old accused of a racist shooting spree in Paris to a psychiatric unit on Sunday.
You can tell he is a White Man accused of murdering Black people can't you.
Disgusting.
Yeah the way some people talk about the people who voted for trump. You'd think they were all people in places like rural Appalachia and not well off suburbanites.
NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report.
Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.
HEADS-UP, IRELAND. Another ICE flight headed your way.
Based on info from human source, I expect this ICE flight — and/or another one tomorrow — to be unlawfully refouling Ukrainians through Poland.
🧊🛩️ EUROPE 🌏⛓️
😲 An ICE-chartered Journey Aviation G5 (tail: N62FF) departs Arizona, trafficking a load of chained humans across the Atlantic to a refueling stop in Shannon, Ireland 👀
🚨 Gov. Josh Shapiro rips into JD Vance in a new interview.
“The only smart thing it seems like [Trump] did was not endorsing Vance.
That guy is just a profoundly and PATHETICALLY WEAK human being who wants to preach morality every day.”
*Former Fed chair Alan Greenspan got nearly everything wrong, but he will be lionized at a VIP event next week that demonstrates just how the bipartisan capitalist establishment governs*
by Robert Kuttner
October 19, 2026
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🇪🇪🇺🇦 Zelensky:
Spoke with the newly elected President of Estonia. Congratulated Ülle Madise on taking office.
Grateful for the very necessary and correct signals: support for Estonia in all dimensions will continue. Estonia is also closely following diplomatic efforts aimed at achieving peace.
I've been looking at getting some supplies in for emergencies, even a solar powered extension lead kind of thing. Now I just look like Im listening to Wes Streeting. Proper embarrassing
There is one type of very prevalent psychosis in the world.
The belief that everyone EXCEPT billionaires is responsible for the state of it and the 'lack of money'.
This same psychosis fed to you by those billionaires tells you that nothing can be done about billionaires.
The billionaires can't be fought they are too powerful and too essential and blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's exactly what they said about Kings and Emperors.
Left wing leaders all over the world have congratulated Lula on his win over the Bolsonaro's, Trump, Israel and the fascist big tech billionaires.
Silence from Andy Burnham.
Lula says action must be taken against the US Big Tech billionaires who tried to fix the Brazilian elections
Brazil has the 2nd most Social Media users after the USA
If Brazil banned US Big Tech and launched their own Social Media it would be a crippling blow to the US Fascists
In case you are wondering about 80% of UK Company profits go to other countries or Tax Havens.
So more than £450bn gets taxed at an average of just 13.2%.
Which is the main reason taxes for Income are so high.
It's insane on just £28,000 you are paying a higher average tax than trillion dollar companies, who get to claim all their operating costs before they even pay any tax.
But you don't.
The system is built for the super rich and to make YOU pay for THEM.
Taxes for you
0% below £12,570
28% £12,571-50,270
42% £50,271-125,140
47% £125,140+
Taxes for companies
13.2% (average) even on tens of billions.
You have crippling taxes, theirs, most of whose shareholders DONT live in the UK so don't pay any other tax.
Are a joke
Google cut down a forest illegally in Finland.
It is unlikely they will get more than a fine.
Can you imagine the punishment if you went to Google and cut down some Executives.
Punishment should be the same, life imprisonment.
What Lula should do in Brazil
1. Ban US big tech websites, make Brazilian ones
2. Tax Billionaires, fund housing, healthcare and education
3. Extra taxes on every payout to someone who doesn't pay tax in Brazil
4 Price caps and renationalisation
Every country should do the same
Spanish Police battering teachers peacefully protesting for better working conditions.
We need to elect leaders who will fund education AND put these thugs and their bosses in jail where they belong.
I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.
FYI.
As anyone who's ever lived & worked in Landon knows...
Londoners don't go to Oxford street/West End as it is full of filthy rich nobs & rich tourists.
Glad to help u forins.
I preferred to shop in Walthemstow.
Excellent market.
Kroger just announced the largest layoffs in its history, with plans to cut 3,000 employees as it ramps up use of AI.
Reminder that Kroger has spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 and paid its CEO $14M last year — 417x its median worker's pay.
AI is turbo-charging corporate greed.
Congratulations to Lula and the Brazilian left for their victory over the far right in the second round of Brazil's presidential election.
For the working-class, for Indigenous peoples, for climate justice and for the Amazon. ✊