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YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

Music After Midnight

Only one song seems appropriate tonight given what's happening the other side of the Atlantic. Thinking of my friends living in that city.
Bruce Springsteen new release: "Streets of Minneapolis"

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Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this | Marina Hyde Truly, I am the country’s biggest fan. But in the spirit of free speech its leaders apparently love, here’s a few things the rest of the world needs them to know, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

"Top line, guys: all this makes you look like what your president likes to call a “shithole country”. Sorry! I assume it’s fine to use officially licensed vocabulary?"

Households in England and Wales must splash out more as water bills rise again Average bills to go up by 5.4% in April, with Ofwat approving record spending plans amid outrage over sewage spills Water bills in England and Wales will rise by an average of £33 per household in April, in the latest above-inflation increase intended to fix leaking pipes and sewage treatment works. The increase will push the average annual water bill to £639 in the year from 1 April, up 5.4% on the previous year, according to figures published on Thursday by Water UK, a lobby group for the industry. Continue reading...

Households in England and Wales must splash out more as water bills rise again

Reform's Gorton candidate runs to police — over a tweet Reform’s self-styled hard man couldn’t handle a tweet. Instead of answering critics, the party’s Matthew Goodwin ran straight to the police

Reform’s self-styled hard man couldn’t handle a tweet. Instead of answering critics, the party’s Matthew Goodwin ran straight to the police

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Costco sues Trump administration for 'full refund' of tariffs Two lower courts have already ruled against President Trump's use of emergency powers to impose tariffs.

Costco, (the world's third largest retailer) is suing Trump for a full refund of his tariffs. Importers like Costco have already paid about $90 billion in IEEPA-related tariffs as of late September.
#TrumpTariffs

Oxfam refuses to provide Israel with details of Palestinian staff in Gaza The UK-founded charity will not adhere to Israel's demand, saying more than 500 aid workers have been killed in the war-shattered Strip. Toog 67 Q ' 210 healthworkersandallies4pal In stark contrast... more

FIVE HUNDRED AID WORKERS

‼️ Russia will not be able to capture Donbas before August 2027, — ISW

Giving Russia the rest of the Ukrainian Donbas would be a strategic mistake, wrote the American Institute for the Study of War, arguing that it would take the Russian army at least 18 months to achieve this by force.

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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Not going to end well is it.

• Last week Nigel Farage was in Davos.

• This week Nigel Farage is in Dubai.

Meanwhile, Zack Polanski is in Manchester, the city he grew up in, talking to ordinary people like you and me.

Wait till the remaining percentage actually read their manifesto and find out they want to privatise the NHS

Reform byelection candidate refuses to disown claim that people born in UK not necessarily British Matthew Goodwin, who is standing in Gorton and Denton, said UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British

44% of the population of Denton and Gorton are ethnic minority, the majority of them born in the UK.

Reform's candidate says those people aren't British and are liable for deportation.

It's a bold electoral strategy: vote for me and I'll throw you into the sea.

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HUGE moment for the EU car market as battery EVs overtake petrol cars for the first time ever

But there's no "natural" demand for EVs amirite?

Article by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org

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Wonder if Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin remembers this.

Personally I think this is too much money to give to Donald trumps poorly trained but heavily armed Militia

5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

A lot of people gathered tonight outside the Department of Veterans Affairs in D.C. for a vigil memorializing Alex Pretti, who worked as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

Music After Midnight

Only one song seems appropriate tonight given what's happening the other side of the Atlantic. Thinking of my friends living in that city.
Bruce Springsteen new release: "Streets of Minneapolis"

youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

The most successful vaccine in history before RFK Jr and the anti-vax operatives appeared.

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Polio, Hepatitis, whooping cough and others to follow 😡😡😡😥😥😥😡😡😡

Bring ‘em all down

I agree with the thrust though the word “optics” is misplaced. The awful “reality” would be better. Unfortunately, for too many GOP politicians it’s still only the optics which matters.

New low for Trump approval today, at 39% of U.S. adults on average across dozens of pollsters. fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears" - George Orwell, 1984

As Trump removes the border patrol chief from Minneapolis after a second fatal ICE shooting, have observers have now become the city's eyes and ears?

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

From the Chartists to the suffragettes, and from the civil rights movement to the anti-apartheid struggle, every great protest movement has found strength in song.

There is extraordinary power in music. More than one injustice has fallen before a hail of ballads.

You see ICU Nurse Alex Pretti assisting veterans learning to walk again. Donald Trump sees a domestic terrorist and suckers and losers.

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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