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Milei’s Candidate Drops Out of Race Amid Ties to Drug Trafficker Argentine President Javier Milei suffered another setback as an ally dropped off the top of his party’s ticket just three weeks before a midterm election amid corruption allegations that threatened to sap support for the market-friendly leader in the crucial vote.

Argentine President Javier Milei suffered another setback as an ally dropped off the top of his party’s ticket just three weeks before a midterm election amid fresh corruption allegations

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

I found this on LInkedIn…has anyone here seen this?

including not using CPI to set wages and RPI to fix higher journey charges...

Much better wifi and recognition of their regular customers...and lower prices of course..

‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd The US president’s recent behavior is strange to many, from reposting a false AI video of himself to confusing comments during press conferences

Donald Trump’s online behaviour is becoming increasingly unhinged.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power.

REPOST to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

This is terrorism.

Hey, folks at the White House and the Council of Economic Advisers! You guys ready to issue a correction yet?

This isn't controversial: It's arithmetic. Indeed, it's your arithmetic, but I fixed your errors.

Tbilisi, 🇬🇪 — thousands have taken to the streets right now and are marching toward the presidential palace.

A person wearing a sling (me) shows two very scratched forearms.

Spent yesterday evening in the ER after a bike crash, and the NHS was absolutely spectacular. Triaged in 3 minutes; drugged in 5; X-rayed in 10, all with a waiting room filled with Saturday drunks. The Health Service is a wonder of the world.

How do you rate Britain’s railways?

Greater Anglia honours timetables with good, if intermittent wifi, clean loos..5/10. East Midlands railway has no wifi, an ear-shattering tannoy & dodgy loos. 3/10. South Western Railways no wifi, dodgy loos, and a reasonable sounding tannoy. 4/10.

The global heating emergency..Speakers inc:
Dr. Leon Simons, Climate & Energy Researcher and Communicator;

Dr. Jim Hansen, Climatologist & Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's Earth Institute;

Sir David King, Founder & Chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group...
www.preventing2degrees.org

We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism

So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides – and that he worked on the Kremlin’s strategic ...

🚨EXCLUSIVE

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Insiders reveal that the former MEP - convicted of bribery for his part in the Kremlin’s strategic plan to crush Ukrainian independence - was one of Farage’s closest aides
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

Dutch news now reporting this Gaza demo in Amsterdam drew 250,000. If so, I think that makes it the biggest in the Netherlands since the anti-nuclear-missiles demo in 1981.

La constitution c'est moi.

Zohran Mamdani Claps Back After Trump Threatens To Withhold Federal Funding To NYC If He Becomes Mayor

That's how it's done 👏🏼

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

It's a Nazi platform. No such thing as good use of a Nazi platform

YouTube video by Middle East Eye Voices from Conscience flotilla: sailing medicine to Gaza under threat

'A new wave of flotillas are sailing towards #Gaza as one vessel, the Conscience, carries 92 participants, including paramedics & journalists from 26 countries.

Medical workers on board said they are sailing in solidarity with their colleagues under siege.'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=201B...

#Israel

Might do a separate sketch on Matthew Syed's speech, which is the most batshit crazy thing I have heard from a conference stage in years. And believe me, I've seen some things.

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

The global trade war: An update Since February 2025, the United States has undertaken a rolling process of resetting tariffs, driving them up to the highest levels since the 1930s. In this blog, we project the impacts of the US tari...

We updated previous models with September tariffs—over a decade, total employment will return to baseline eventually, but with a permanent structural shift from trade-exposed manufacturing, mining, & agriculture to the service sector & lower real wages for all.

El Silencio We urgently need your help to raise £2.2 million so that our partner Fundación Biodiversa Colombia (FBC) can save 1,495 hectares (3,694...

The World Land Trust is a UK based conservation charity that is well worth supporting. Donations to their latest appeal are currently being tripled. Please join me in donating.

www.worldlandtrust.org/appeals/el-s...

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests Officers will be able to tell organisers to move demonstrations if protests have caused

"Govt keen to arrest more grandmothers, ret'd vicars, align with Tories" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Billy Bragg has started a ‘reclaim the lampposts’ campaign and is happy to supply these stickers for you to attach to lampposts with flags on. If you want to call the Xenophobes out then send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Billy Bragg at Bragg Office PO Box 6830, Bridport DT6 9BH

The federal official in charge of public health should probably resign for this ongoing failure

Important point - announcements about "crackdowns" and "bans" are a way to try and convince people the state has power when it increasingly fails at basic tasks.