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“Trump has terrorised Democratic voters; made them feel extremely threatened and disempowered. If you do that, the moment voters have the power to punish you, they will take the opportunity to do so and in large numbers. That is the real takeaway."

The Netherlands May Become the First Country With a Universal Basic Income D66's Dutch election win was fueled by a universal basic income plan, backed by trials showing removing work rules boosts well-being without hurting employment

The Netherlands May Become the First Country With a Universal Basic Income
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Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

As ever, the real story here, aside from the bribes themselves, is not who met who, or who knew what about who.

It is that Farage, Reform and its predecessor parties have consistently acted to promote and assist Putin & Russian objectives in Europe & the world.

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More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Pelosi Says Police May Arrest Federal Agents Who Violate California Law

“While the President may enjoy absolute immunity courtesy of his rogue SCOTUS those who operate under his orders do not. Our state and local authorities may arrest federal agents if they break California law — and if they are convicted, President cannot pardon them”
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The federal gov wants people to have more babies- but fired the entire Healthy Start team. Their job was to ensure Americans have healthy pregnancies and infants have a healthy start to life. Their work is needed considering we rank 33rd out of 38 among high-income countries for infant mortality

“If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart.”

- former First Lady Betty Ford

The East Wing is gone.

Over a century of American history, reduced to rubble.

All to appease the vanity of a corrupt authoritarian.

Trump says he has final say on paying himself $230m for past investigations President says government owes him ‘a lot of money’ for federal investigations during and after first term

Are the guardrails of the American Constitution ever going to kick in? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is a good response. Why did it take 48 hours? What kindal of Micky Mouse operation are they running in there?

Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity

Yes, they are actually saying that a "foreigner" who has worked here for decades, paid National Insurance, & is entitled BECAUSE OF THAT to a state pension, would be deported for the crime of claiming it.

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

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I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org.

Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

This is the first time former DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni has shown his face in such a public way. He says he felt he needed to speak out despite his safety concerns. cbsn.ws/4orCmuO

Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn

Can we please get some perspective. If Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were banned because of a risk to them it would absolutely be anti-semitism. When they are banned because they have a track record of causing violence it is just common sense. Preventing football hooliganism is normally a good idea.

Yep. Gene was founding member of the Committee for the First Amendment, a group of Hollywood artists who formed in 1947 to oppose the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and defend free speech.

Hello?

The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

There was certainly something recently which monopolised all public debate and paralysed all policy initiative in the UK for the better part of a decade, and I dont think it was trans rights.

If AI can use our words and thoughts so that they can replace our jobs, then people should be given lifelong reparations in the form of UBI.

If America does descend into chaos, Europe will be on its own against Putin and China will see an opportunity to supplant America on the global stage.

So the business model is dependent on theft.

🧵THREAD: Sir Michael Marmot (@michaelmarmot.bsky.social) says Britain is “not doing well.”

Health inequalities are widening, and the Marmot Principles offer a roadmap for change.

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