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California voters HANDILY passed the Gerrymandering Hardball measure.

Every single blue state should follow suit.

🚨Zohran Mamdani has won the mayor’s race for New York City.

He becomes the first Muslim and first South Asian to serve as mayor of New York City.

Three Northern regions since 1950. Labour's overperformance in the North West is a relatively recent phenomenon, whereas in the North East it peaked in 1997

womp womp

People's jobs are on the line as the UK has fallen behind our peer countries on pharmaceutical spending.

Those two albums in particular got me through a lot of university stress. But each subsequent release has been a tougher and tougher listen 😭

I think about the works that Madonna, Beyonce, Janet Jackson, and Mariah Carey were producing in their 30s or 40s, and how they managed to redefine themselves at that age whilst being creatively at the top of their game. End.

There's also a separate debate about how an artist typically matures with their audience. Swift has mastered longevity by bringing in a new fan base of younger listeners. So, props. But by hemming herself in creatively, I think she risks alienating people of my age who may have been fans years prior

It feels like she's taken the huge hits she had in Evermore and Folklore, and sort of typecast herself. But each time she writes something new, she's doubling even further down on the same vibe (and the lyrics are hence getting worse).

I think the problem probably stems from the fact that the last two albums were both made during the Era's Tour. It's quite hard to define a new project when, clearly, one would still be under the creative influences of the current preoccupation.

Adding to the Swift discourse.

I listened to the album a couple of times, but each time it just went in one ear and out the other. I could barely pay attention to the music or lyrics - it was boring. It's also become quite hard to tell many of her recent works apart, sonically and lyrically.

I'm not opposed to a national ID of some form, as I think it's silly how many different IDs we need to access all the different arms of the state - tax, healthcare, education, student loans, immigration, etc - but this doesn't actually improve any of that 😂

It's going to be added bureaucracy for HR departments up and down the country, for no clear benefit, as NI numbers already achieve all of the aims of this digital ID.

What they've done is reinvent National Insurance numbers but with extra steps, haven't they 😂

It's astounding how, just as Nigel Farage was getting bad media about paracetamol, the Government distracts from it with a debate about pointless ID cards. It's as if Labour wants Reform to win the next election.

Britain’s youth unemployment epidemic Graduates are in an endless cycle of applying for jobs that never existed

Graduating before AI took off feels like winning the jackpot.

www.newstatesman.com/business/wor...

An anonymised quote post: Lib Dems also falling into the bullshit of "if we resolve the asylum backlog efficiently, we defeat Reform". Reform don't care about the 'asylum backlog outside of it being a tool. It could be 0 people and it wouldn't matter as long as there are people of colour in the UK. That is the end goal. It was quoting the below: LibDem Lisa Smart, "We're calling on the Labour government to declare the asylum backlog a national emergency" "And set up Nightingale processing centres, just like the Nightingale hospitals during the pandemic" "We need Labour to clear the asylum backlog within six months"

An anonymised quote post: The Liberal Democrats are not left wing. If you're a Lib Dem and you care about basic human rights, you know what to do join.greenparty.org.uk Quoting: Sky News @SkyNews Sep 20 Sir Ed Davey has pledged to "stop the boats" as the Liberal Democrats toughen up their rhetoric on immigration. Sky's @amandaakass reports from Bournemouth, where asylum seekers were put up in hotels over the summer-..

The polarisation of immigration goes both ways.

The Lib Dems want to stop the boats because seeing people dying in the channel is barbaric. They also want to clear the backlog because asylum seekers being in limbo, living for months in hotels, is horrible.

The difference is what their solution is!

It took 48 hours but I managed to get from Hampshire, UK to Rome, Italy entirely by train 🚂

I'm exhausted but it was such a fun adventure.

Mockup cheque from The British Taxpayer to pay The Taliban £267,000,000, signed by Nigel Farage. Headline reads "Reform's Taliban Tax". Photo of Nigel Farage laughing.

Nigel Farage and the Reform Party’s Taliban Tax means sending hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money to an oppressive regime that British soldiers fought and died to defeat.

Potentially putting Afghan asylum seekers who worked with the British armed forces into concentration camps and then paying the Taliban to accept them back Afghanistan so that they can execute them should be a greater cause for alarm than it appears to be.

I was never on the Pete train and I'm glad about that.

Netanyahu’s plan to occupy Gaza is abhorrent and it's increasingly clear that his goal is ethnic cleansing.

The UK can't just sit on its hands. The Prime Minister must stop all arms exports to Israel and sanction Netanyahu and his cabinet.

The anti-LGBTQ+ lobby won't be happy until full gender segregation has been passed into law. I wonder if they have thoughts about the human rights situation in Afghanistan right now?

RFK Jr cancels $500m in mRNA vaccine development in the US Since taking office, the vaccine sceptic has made a number of changes to how vaccines are regulated.

The pharmaceutical industry is on its knees right now, with revenue down across the board and R&D spending cuts coming through. Many British jobs are affected. The UK Government needs to step up where the US is walking away, and secure British jobs and growth.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I saw a Dolly Parton news piece on the TV in the office lobby and nearly had a heart attack. Why did they make it look like she had died 😭😭

Rip :(

Ok but more should've said the financial crash

I have thought on it and prayed about it, and I have decided: I am running to be the next U.S. Senator from North Carolina.

In this example it isn't even the fault of the latest development, but whoever built and planned the one prior without leaving space for a road connection.

This is one reason why new developments isolate communities, and it needs long term thinking. Developers should have to leave space for public infrastructure.