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BREAKING: Congress has scheduled a vote on the SAVE America Act, a bill that would restrict the freedom to vote for millions of Americans.

Morgan McSweeney has resigned from government

Statement in full;

BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney quits as Keir Starmer's chief of staff amid fall-out from the Mandelson scandal

@leloveluck.bsky.social Hi Louisa I am trying to contact you - just sent you an email from lucy.bailey@bbc.co.uk

The Long Ukrainian Winter How You Can Help

Russia’s full-scale invasion began 4 years ago. It began in winter, and so this winter is the 5th. And, for civilians, the worst. Russia launches missiles and drones at energy infrastructure to force Ukrainians to endure the freezing cold. Here's how you can help
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Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers.

"Upon becoming aware of the individual’s presence, the patron was asked to leave the premises and was escorted out by staff in accordance with venue policy to maintain a safe and orderly environment for all patrons."

Trump refuses to apologize for video with racist imagery of Obamas posted on his social media Only a smattering of Republicans spoke out about clip in which Obamas’ faces were superimposed on bodies of apes * US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump said on Friday evening, after a racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes had been posted to his social media account and then deleted, that he had directed aides to post the offensive video but that he hadn’t seen that portion of the clip and he refused to apologize for it. The clip appeared during one of the 79-year-old US president’s increasingly frequent late-night posting sprees to his Truth Social account, and shows the laughing faces of the former president and first lady superimposed on the bodies of primates in a jungle setting, bobbing to the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Continue reading...

Trump refuses to apologize for video with racist imagery of Obamas posted on his social media

When Jeffrey Epstein was the world’s leading expert on getting away with it The convicted sex-criminal was obsessed with other high profile abuse cases, offering commentary, advice, and even financial help.

I wrote about all the men who flocked to Jeffrey Epstein's inbox to talk about sexual abuse allegations with an expert. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Federal judge: "The presumption of regularity that has previously extended to [the United States Government] that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds."

This is in a case where the Trump admin sued Oregon.

Sir Guenter Treitel came to the UK on the Kindertransport. He became the foremost authority on English contract law.
Famously, he held the Rolling Stones to their contract to play the Magdalen Ball in 1964 for £100 - they had suddenly become superstars after being booked as unknowns in 1963.

The UK quit coal. But is burning Louisiana’s trees any better? The U.K.’s push to meet climate goals turned a former coal plant into a giant woodstove -- powered by forests an ocean away.

The UK quit coal. But is burning Louisiana’s trees any better? #Climate

The US lost $35B in clean energy projects last year A new report indicates that Trump administration policy led to billions of dollars in canceled investment and tens of thousands of lost jobs.

The US lost $35B in clean energy projects last year #Climate

Will Trump ever pay WHO debt? Countries discuss what’s possible. The U.S. owes fees from 2024-2026, leaving the WHO $260 million out of pocket.

Members of the WHO are trying to figure out how to deal with the $260 million bill Donald Trump left unpaid when the U.S. formally quit the global health agency earlier this year.

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS.

Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse.

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Do incidents of Westminster “sleaze” damage trust in politicians? | LSE British Politics Trust in politicians has never been high, and even though the global trend is towards people trusting governments less, not every event of corruption will contribute to that trend.

Do incidents of Westminster “sleaze” damage trust in politicians? by @drjennings.bsky.social and @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social

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New York City joins UN health network after Trump withdrew US from WHO The New York City Health Department on Wednesday said it has joined the World Health Organization's global outbreak response network following President Donald Trump's withdrawal of the U.S. from the ...

🇺🇸🇺🇳 #NewYork city and several U.S. states to join World Health Organization global outbreak response network in defiance of #Trump's withdrawal from @who.int

The Governors of #California and #Illinois have also said their states will join this WHO network.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Kids at Stanford who took over a building in a pro-Palestinian protest are facing felony charges.

That seems bonkers to me, but I hadn’t realized it was such an outlier nationally.

Lorde donates merchandise proceeds from Minneapolis shows to immigrant rights groups Pop singer Lorde will donate money she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups, she shared in a post on Instagram on Tuesday.

Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.

“You’re asking me to do something that the Supreme Court has never done — that’s a bit of a stretch, is it not?” Leon asked the DOJ. Trump admin trying to extend the diminished speech rights of active duty military to retirees — which Leon said chills "many, many" retired military beyond Kelly

Just got out: seems pretty clear Kelly will win. Judge Leon extremely skeptical about members of congress who are retired military not being able to criticize the pentagon. How could they serve on armed services committees, he asked - “how are they able to do their jobs?”

Malaysia: Stop union-busting at Apple supplier Lumileds Please support this LabourStart urgent action campaign and spread the word.

After 1 week, 3,641 of us have told Apple to stop union-busting in Malaysia. By sharing this message widely, we can raise that number to 10,000. Share this link: www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaig...

Right now: the federal government has to help these folks and get the power back on, and if they can’t, they should resign

After that: we need a Grid New Deal and rebuild the grid for this century

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.

📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

Monday, March 23 (1) 24-1260 WATSON V. RNC Monday, March 30 (1) 25-5146 ABOUAMMO V. UNITED STATES (2) 25-83 JULES V. ANDRE BALAZS PROPERTIES Tuesday, March 24 (2) 25-6 KEATHLEY V. BUDDY AYERS CONSTRUCTION, INC. (3) 25-5 NOEM, SEC. OF HOMELAND SECURITY V. AL OTRO LADO Tuesday, March 31 (3) 24-7351 PITCHFORD V. CAIN Wednesday, March 25 (4) 24-935 FLOWER FOODS, INC. V. BROCK Wednesday, April 1 (4) 25-365 TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES V. BARBARA

New: The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the birthright citizenship case on April 1. www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor Vladimir Solovyov says that lying is good and beneficial

On Kremlin TV last night, Putin's favorite commentator tells his audience that telling lies (which comes naturally to him) is a completely legitimate tool of statecraft, and can be deployed aggressively in the interests of the Russian State. youtu.be/z2dMrDZEuEw?...

White House with image of a Black man and an emoji of chains.

And the chosen image is of Don Lemon doing journalism.

Never Fight Alone Anyone who would denigrate the service of our NATO allies clearly never spent a day in uniform.

"Anyone who would denigrate the service of our NATO allies clearly never spent a day in uniform"
from Admiral Bill McRaven
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Fossil energy minimum viable scale Unseen infrastructural threats to safety and decarbonization may arise as fossil energy systems are phased out

New from @gruberte.bsky.social and I in @science.org: The energy transition is at risk, and energy models are missing the threat. Fossil energy networks from oil to coal to gas have minimum viable scales of operation, and those thresholds are closer than we think:

www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.

It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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When the Greek government asked energy companies this week to bid for access to pipelines carrying American gas to Eastern Europe, the auctions were a flop.

Donald Trump's unpredictable trade policy is to blame, analysts warn.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/dona...