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View of Loch Long surrounded by wooded hills under a clear sky. Overlaid text reads: “Loch polluted by radioactive waste from nuclear bomb plant.”

🔴 NEW: Loch Long on the Clyde has been contaminated by radioactive waste from the UK’s nuclear bomb store where old water pipes have repeatedly burst and caused floods, files released after a six-year secrecy battle reveal.

Our investigation: theferret.scot/radio...

Alex Salmond and the truth behind our fallout, by Nicola Sturgeon In an exclusive extract from Frankly, she recalls the day her friend and mentor told her he was being investigated, why she refused to help and why she can never forgive him

”It felt to me that Alex Salmond would rather have destroyed the SNP than see it succeed without him. He impugned the integrity of the institutions at the heart of Scottish democracy and was prepared to traumatise, time and again, the women at the centre of it all.” @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social

How we can fight back against the right-wing coup For a better future the power of corporations and wealthy elites must be curbed and reversed

UK working class impoverished by right-wing coup

Wages taxed at 20% - 45% marginal rates
Capital gains 18% - 32%
Dividends 8.75% - 39.35%.
Private equity bosses at max rate of 32%.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%

Govts not keen on progressive tax policies

Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.

How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.

The dissent by Judge Pillard studiously and calmly dismembers the two Trump judges’ arguments. It’s long, but worth reading. This is what it looks like when Trump judges are more loyal to Trump than to law and duty, all to protect MAGA DOJ.

Narrator: Sadly though, SCOTUS has now exempted the president from the founders’ intent to criminalize bribery.

How the atomic bombing of Nagasaki tore apart Japan’s understanding of motherhood | CNN Eighty years after the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, aging survivors — some more than 100 years old — reveal the shame and stigma they endured as young women of childbearing age.

“People need to think carefully,” says Nagasaki atomic-bomb survivor Mitsuko Yoshimura, 102. “What does winning or losing even bring? Wanting to expand a country’s territory, wanting a country to gain more power? I don’t understand it. What I do feel deeply is the utter foolishness of war.”

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Trump’s corrupt DOJ is running political hit jobs, covering up Epstein, and losing in court on birthright citizenship. Catch up on these legal stories and more on Legal AF — live now!

Juni poses gracefully in the mud, Dabida proudly displays her beautiful butterfly ears, and Tamiyoi delivers the most elegant bow with a little trunk wave — her own perfect curtain call!

Each day the personalities of the rescued orphans in our care shine through.

Appeals Court Ends Judge Boasberg’s Contempt Inquiry of Trump Officials

Well, well, well.

With Emil Bove safely through his sham Senate confirmation proceedings, the two Trump judges just lifted the three-months-long administrative stay that had kept any evidence of Bove’s contempt of court bottled up.

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Chancellor could learn from new play’s about banking’s de... Make It Happen satirises the RBS collapse of 2008. It’s too close to real life for comfort

On leaving the Festival Theatre last week, my overriding thought was why is Rachel Reeves hell-bent on dismantling post-crisis reforms—such as the ringfence and senior managers’ regime—which were explicitly designed to avoid a repeat performance of the RBS and HBOS collapses?

Supreme Court approval rating sinks to a new low, poll finds. What caused shift? For the first time ever, the court’s approval rating dipped below 40%, the Gallup poll found.

For the first time ever, the court’s approval rating dipped below 40%, the Gallup poll found.

'It's Time to Bring Back Scotland's Wolves' As wolf populations grow in Europe, Adam Ramsay argues that reintroducing the apex predator could help control deer populations and rescue Scotland's ecology.

🔴 'It's Time to Bring Back Scotland's Wolves'

As wolf populations grow in Europe, @adamramsay.bsky.social argues that reintroducing the apex predator could help control deer populations and rescue Scotland's ecology

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/its-time-t...

Judge Henderson, joined by Judge Wilkins, does not mince words — even as she treads carefully.

“[N]o Congress should be made to wait while the Executive intrudes on its plenary power over appropriations and disclosure thereof.”

Independent review to examine how govt department handled prosecutions of Post Office staff The independent review will look at the "methodology and processes" used by the Department for Work and Pensions, and the "thoroughness and adequacy" of efforts to obtain case documents.

Independent review to examine how govt department handled prosecutions of Post Office staff.

There are 3 scandals
Relating to the Horizon IT system
Capture IT system
DWP prosecutions of postmasters.

In Feb 2025 govt promised independent review of DWP prosecutions. Nothing done to date.

Nixon's resignation letter.

Fifty-one years ago today.

21. United States v. Nixon In July 1974, the Supreme Court effectively cleared the way for the ouster of a sitting President—in a ruling that may have ultimately *bolstered* the presidency as an institution

51 years ago today, President Nixon announced that he would resign the presidency after a unanimous Supreme Court (in an opinion by a Chief Justice he appointed) ordered him to turn over tapes on which, as it turns out, he had implicated himself in the Watergate cover-up.

Those were the days...

JUST IN: New FOIA lawsuit for documents related to the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files goes to ... Judge Chutkan.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71059...

“How the Hell To Teach Constitutional Law in 2025: Twenty Questions and No Answers.”
www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/08/how-...

How we can fight back against the right-wing coup For a better future the power of corporations and wealthy elites must be curbed and reversed

The UK is in the grip of an ongoing right-wing coup.

It is the main cause of economic decline and social tensions.

Successive govts have been enrolled to make us subservient to corporations and the rich.

Corporate power must be curbed/reversed for a better future.

Federal judges are empowered to find probable cause to lodge formal judicial conduct complaints based on public reports.

There is enough here to sustain complaints against at least three judges: Emil Bove, Neomi Rao and Gregory Katsas.

UK Homelessness Minister Rushanara Ali quits over rent hike claims.

Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia The long read: When Ian Foxley found evidence of corruption while working at a British company in Riyadh, he alerted the MoD. He didn’t know he’d stumbled upon one of its most closely guarded secrets

When retired lieutenant colonel Ian Foxley found evidence of corruption while working at a British company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia🇸🇦, he alerted the MoD. He didn’t know he’d stumbled upon one of the ministry’s most closely-guarded secrets.

Courts service accused of covering up IT bug that caused evidence to go missing Sources say judges in courts and tribunals will have made rulings when evidence was incomplete.

Courts service in England & Wales 'covered up' IT bug that caused evidence to go missing.

Software had a long history of data loss.

Executives covered up flaws.

Judges made rulings with incomplete evidence.

Another Post Office type of scandal looms.

The minister for homelessness, who evicted the tenants from her east London property before jacking up the rent by £700 a month, resigns.

Health Experts Speak Out After RFK Jr. Eliminates $500 Million In mRNA Vaccine Contracts He is a danger to us all.

This man is a danger to us all.

Federal courts step up security following major hack of electronic filing system Lawmakers were quietly briefed on the hack last month and are now seeking more information on the fallout.

On Wednesday, we exclusively reported that the electronic case filing system used by the federal courts was compromised in a widespread hacking effort across several states.

Now, the federal courts are adopting additional security measures.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "There ought to be independent commissions in every state. The fact of the matter is that doesn't seem like it's possible. We have to recognize that, even though I'd love to see it for Illinois, we're not going to unilaterally disarm when R states are drawing crazy maps."

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

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On your marks… get set… go!

When Kapei made an impromptu dash to the imaginary finish line, little Lenny wasn’t about to get left behind. His mother, Lima Lima, couldn’t resist joining the race, too. With a coach like Lima Lima, it won’t be long before Lenny gives Kapei a run for his money!