GCSE economics lesson for Rachel Reeves

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Just posted this an hour ago and already need to update it.

Netherlands has joined Ireland, Finland, Denmark, UK, Germany, and Canada in issuing a U.S. travel warning. Belgium is about to.

The warning is for “LGBTQ+ citizens and all people traveling to the U.S.”

www.newsweek.com/netherlands-...

The one certain thing during my 67+ years on this planet is that if you want to have power but never suffer any consequences for your corruption, greed or incompetence then the UK is the place to be. #r4today From Aberfan to Hillsborough and from Thalidomide to Ibrox we protect the powerful.

Terrible news

The US agency that monitors weather will cut another 1,000 jobs, AP sources say Multiple sources tell The Associated Press that the Trump Administration is starting another round of job cuts — this one more than 1,000 — at the nation’s weather, ocean and fisheries agency.

Trump is slashing another 1,000 jobs at NOAA.

The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US.

A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. 

Again, this isn't about efficiency.

Let this sink in.

If it walks like a Nazi, talks like a Nazi, and salutes like a Nazi…

Keep the online pressure up, friends. And boycott Tesla.

Find out more about local protests at teslatakedown.com

How is this not treasonous?

Everything they accuse others of, they are in fact doing themselves.

bylinetimes.com/2025/02/26/k...

President Macron humiliated Donald Trump on live television. He shut him up and fact checked him mid sentence.

Trump sat there and smiled. #StandWithUkraine

Roberta Flack, the magnetic singer and pianist who was one of the most popular artists of the 1970s, died on Monday at 88. Flack was known for her majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” nyti.ms/4h1KzSh

After 1,000 National Park Service employees were abruptly fired on February 14, staff banded together to signal “dire distress” by draping an upside-down American flag from the 3,000-foot summit of Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan monolith.

Why are we still bankrolling outdated fossil fuels? #fundthefuture

Charlie Maynard, "Of the £1.4 billion going to Thames Water, £900 million is going out in interest expenses and advisors fees"

"So little of this will fix the problem, it's just a fees fest"

"Thames Water should be put in special administration, bankruptcy to you and I"

The #1 reported reason people avoid doctor’s appointments is because they’re afraid of finding out they have a serious illness.

If you have that fear, that’s normal and you’re not alone. Also remember, there is basically no serious illness that isn’t less serious if you catch it sooner.

Having some fun with pop culture mash up designs

Musk Team Seeks Access to I.R.S. System With Taxpayers’ Records A White House spokesman said that the initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency needed to review data to fix waste within the agency.

The IRS is preparing to give a team member working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive taxpayer data. IRS data is tied to millions of Americans, including their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details, and employment information.

Richard Tice but dim

Here's how the Conservatives managed to spend £715 million of taxpayers' money on the failed, inhumane Rwanda scheme.
https://buff.ly/41bZLrx

I love how Trump, Vance and Musk style themselves defenders of free speech, while simultaneously banning government agencies from mentioning climate change or diversity (inc biodiversity!), equity and inclusion, or even possessing maps which show the Gulf of Mexico.
Torquemadas the lot of them.

Make Bribery Great Again!

This one’s for the whole world. Go to your App Store. Leave Google maps a one star review. Feel free to leave other Google products a one star review as well. Reason: ignorance of geography and colonialist sympathies. #3E

Gulf of America

The return of plastic straws

The actual White House feed.

America hasn't become great again.... it's become absolutely fucking pathetic

Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks

🔴Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About

You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over recent weeks

bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...

Martin Rowson for an article in Byline Times

La Halle de La Machine #toulouse a magnificent #steampunk adventure

Oh I do hope they don't muck this up. Such a wonderful market.