The Salopian Popular Front are splitters!

💔📹 In Kyiv, a father met his newborn son for the first time under heartbreaking circumstances. During a Russian strike on the city — Vadym and Tetiana Sakiyan — were gravely injured. Doctors had to perform an emergency delivery to save the baby. Tragically,the mother did not survive.

I trust - or rather I hope - this isn’t the beginning of the X for Bluesky.

The community, the discourse, and the sense of normalcy is good here. It would be a shame if the corporate-ification of the organisation pushed people away, marginalised them, or otherwise created imbalance.

Keir Starmer says the government is in talks with the EU about steel tariffs amid reports that Europe is about to introduce massive 50% tariffs on steel from outside the bloc, including from the UK

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White House raises shutdown pressure game by threatening no back pay for workers

Trump wants to sell some student loans. What if yours is one of them? Trump's considering selling US student loans to private investors. Can he do it? What happens if yours gets sold?

Trump wants to sell some student loans. What if yours is one of them?

Thou shalt put all these war criminals on trial at the Hague.

Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.

A new draft Trump memo argues that furloughed federal workers aren't guaranteed compensation for their forced time off during the government shutdown.
 
Those who represent federal workers or advocate on their behalf say the White House is misreading the clear intent of the law.

The foreigners aren't coming into the UK and 'eating the swans', but they are coming and buying £885,000 houses in cash with money that they earned from *checks notes* being a waitress.

I'm sure Nigel Farage would agree, that needs investigating.

Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

today’s Nobel honored three physicists who discovered two properties of quantum mechanics, the laws that rule the subatomic realm, could be observed in a system large enough to be seen with the naked eye:

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A Ukrainian An-28 used to shoot down Russian drones with its kill count painted on the side.

This strikes me as pretty bad

Portland And Beyond This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act: “I’d do it if it was necessary.

Attempts to deploy federalized National Guardsmen to Oregon, California, & Illinois, also, signs that Trump, or at least someone around him, is starting to think seriously about the Insurrection Act. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

KLOBUCHAR: Has the DOJ issued any subpoenas to journalists under the updated guidance?

BONDI: ...

KLOBUCHAR: You can respond

BONDI: ... ... I can't comment

Pam Bondi’s defensive attacks against Senate Democrats questioning her was not the flex she thinks it was. All it did was vividly point out how she has abandoned Justice Dept. independence to serve the desires of her authoritarian boss.

Bill Jenrick (father) LinkedIn:

"I served a 5 year apprenticeship at AEI Manchester and qualified as a Management accountant. Then I worked as an accountant...."

Robert Jenrick (son) : "...gas fitters like my dad"

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Tory populist Jenrick owns £1.1m Grade 1 listed mansion in Herefordshire with an imperial history SInce 2009 the current front runner in the (undeclared) Tory leadership race Robert Jenrick has owned an historic mansion in Eye, Herefordshire about 3 miles from Leominster. The house is Grade 1 l…

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Uncharted legal territory if Trump starts shutdown firings, experts say President Donald Trump has repeatedly tested the boundaries of executive power since his return to office and is exploring uncharted legal territory with threats to carry out mass firings during the federal government shutdown, legal experts and lawmakers said.

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Air traffic control staffing hit for second day, delaying flights Air traffic control staffing issues are impacting flights for a second straight day at numerous U.S. airports as the partial government shutdown reaches its seventh day, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a notice on Tuesday.

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Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

It's difficult to read this piece without asking yourself whether you need to be foreign to see England for what it is. It's difficult, too, to read it because doing so is to be reminded, again, how much we will miss Conor Gearty. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Russian air defense hitting a residential building in Belgorod. Russia causing its own blackouts 🙃

At Putin’s meeting with Russia's top military gang, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov was present, an unusual move explained by the discussion of sensitive intelligence on Transnistria. Also seated nearby was Black Sea Fleet commander Admiral Sergey Pinchuk.

Fighters of the 44th Artillery Brigade destroyed several guns, ammunition, and Russian launch positions using drones.

I am sure it reflects @seanjones.org's experiences. And I have enormous affection and respect for him. But others', including mine, differ.

I'd add this. Although human rights are universal, those who most need the shelter they provide are those without money and power and who are politically targeted. The cost of the Supreme Court's choice to "edit the Human Rights Act out of existence" will be born most heavily by them.

It's funny, because, if he had his way and was in charge of things, he'd be controlling the judges like he were a fucking puppeteer.

Heseltine at the Tory conf:

"Fascists of the 30s are back... Trump's language coincides with words here... The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem. We must make clear we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Farage... We don't need Trump's mouthpiece anywhere near No. 10.”