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A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

Abortion bans mean more women nearly dying from miscarriages. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation. Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.

Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.

“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

America's Judicial System is Going Off The Rails Emil Bove is the most egregious example yet of the Trump administration placing judges with no respect for the rule of law into positions where they are determining the law, argues Matt Bernardini

🔴America's Judicial System is Going Off The Rails

Emil Bove is the most egregious example yet of the Trump administration placing judges with no respect for the rule of law into positions where they are determining the law, argues Matt Bernardini

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/americas-j...

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

“Firing the top statistical official sends a clear signal to others across the government that you are expected to compromise scientific integrity to appease the president… This puts us in dangerous territory far from an accountable and reality-based government.” @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

ImperialAI: the empire strikes back An essential conversation with journalist and author, Karen Hao, about OpenAI and its ambition to dominate and conquer all before it

I interviewed the brilliant @karenhao.bsky.social this week who called out the UK government’s AI deals as misguided & dangerous.

I’m just one woman not a newspaper or think tank but thank you to everyone who’s supporting this work🙏

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In short, this policy agenda, article, headline & front page placement is, I believe, a crock of shit.

Observer readers, you deserve better than this.

This is a billionaire-funded Tony Blair lobbying project being funnelled unchallenged onto the front page of a national newspaper.
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Virginia Guiffre statement to Maxwell read on the day of her sentencing.

Virginia Guiffre statement to Maxwell read on the day of her sentencing.

This is Virginia Guiffre's statement to Ghislane Maxwell, read by Guiffre's attorney in court the day Maxwell was sentenced.

I had to divide it into 2 parts. Please read each & share.

These are the words of a child rape victim, a victim of the monster Trump now protecting & arranging her freedom.

🎖️ Zelenskyy posthumously awarded the Order of Freedom to journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was killed in Russian captivity.

💬 "Viktoriia is one of those who told the truth about the war. She worked at the front and in the temporarily occupied territories, risking her life."

American history museum removes Trump's name from impeachment exhibit The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History made the change as part of a review that it agreed to undertake following White House pressure to remove an art museum director.

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth”

www.reuters.com/worl...

Former Tory MP Adam Holloway has defected to Reform. As someone who 'mistakenly' overclaimed £1,000 on expenses, defended an MP who sexually assaulted a 15 year old and tried to influence a judge over another MP charged with sexual assault, he should fit in perfectly.

Starmer and The Sun: An Appointment that Shows Everything that Is Wrong with Power and the Press in Britain Keir Starmer has signalled the direction of his Government by appointing a former Editor of The Sun newspaper – who has a criminal conviction under the Sexual Offences Act – as a communications adviso...

"David Dinsmore is emblematic of everything that has gone wrong with the relationship between power and the press"

Starmer has appointed a former Editor of The Sun – who has a criminal conviction under the Sexual Offences Act – as a communications advisor.

Again, as always, the water we swim in.

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted.

These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

Sudan gripped by deadly crisis as hunger, disease and heat intensify The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) raised the alarm on Wednesday over the rising toll of hunger, disease and displacement in various conflict-ridden parts of Sudan.

Starvation is also being used as a weapon of war in Sudan. Famine and death is on the rise and largely absent from the media.

news.un.org/en/story/202...

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.

“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.

Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.

Trump’s interference in the sciences shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science at the University of York. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”

WhoFundsThem: Literature Review Summary of existing research and polling on MPs interests

Britain has a corruption problem.

"MPs [with 2nd jobs] ask significantly more parliamentary questions. The avg Tory MP asks a median of 2 Qs a year, but this rises to 19 when holding a second job. The largest increase was with those working in the for-profit 'knowledge sector' (avg. 26 questions)"

❗️ Klitschko near the houses destroyed by Russian missiles:

"Among the injured are 9 children. This is the largest number of wounded children in one night in Kyiv since the beginning of the full-scale war."

Statement on the taxpayer-funded appointment of former "sexist of the year" & ex-Sun editor David Dinsmore.

Bravo to this wonderful woman who is stepping up and using her voice. Let’s all be brave like her, shall we?

They ask why Black people can’t get ahead, meanwhile several times in American history Black communities were massacred for being prosperous.

Yes, let’s talk about WASTE. There are no limits.

Wash Post headline: Trump admin to DESTROY birth control intended as aid (my CAPS)

2 million packets of birth control pills
50k intrauterine devices
2 million doses of injectable contraceptives
900k implantable contraceptive devices

this is a really good article and makes very important points very clearly

Standing for Reform UK in Barking this week.

He deleted his social after we exposed him.

Terrorist Russia bombing maternity hospitals and killing a pregnant woman.

Major backlash over Nigel Farage tech vow - 'doesn't care if kids are exploited' Nigel Farage has come under fire after vowing to rip up the Online Safety Act, which was brought in to protect children online and prevent more tragedies like the death of Molly Russell

Major backlash over Nigel Farage tech vow - 'doesn't care if kids are exploited'

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...