‘Outdated and ever less fit for purpose’: five takeaways from the carer’s allowance report
25.11.2025 22:05 — 👍 25 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1@atom29.bsky.social
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‘Outdated and ever less fit for purpose’: five takeaways from the carer’s allowance report
25.11.2025 22:05 — 👍 25 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
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International airlines are canceling flights to Venezuela after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration warned pilots about security risks and increased military activity.
24.11.2025 01:00 — 👍 116 🔁 62 💬 11 📌 6Yet another unique way to stimulate cellular immunity against cancer.
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
From Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Color Sundays Vol. 1: Gag Strips Mickey polishing a table with Pluto's help. Mickey: I'll shine this table so much that if a fly lands on it, he'll slip an' break his neck
23.11.2025 12:13 — 👍 1804 🔁 198 💬 35 📌 8⚡️Rubio tells senators 28-point Ukraine peace deal is not a U.S. plan.
Speaking at the Halifax International Security Forum, U.S. senators critical of the 28-point peace plan said that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told them that the current proposal does not amount to the actual U.S. plan.
According to "Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar,... the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.” time.com/7336204/meta...
23.11.2025 01:48 — 👍 157 🔁 71 💬 8 📌 13„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
Share TF OUT OF THIS!#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
22.11.2025 06:46 — 👍 6936 🔁 4730 💬 315 📌 365I will not be buying any World Cup tickets or merchandise due to FIFA’s collaboration with the Trump regime.
Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.
Poland has ordered Russia to close its consulate in Gdańsk in response to last week's sabotage of a rail line by agents working for Moscow.
The decision means that all of Russia's consulates in Poland have now been closed down, with only the embassy in Warsaw remaining.
Tells you all you really need to know.
19.11.2025 12:51 — 👍 88 🔁 23 💬 4 📌 0The new speaker of parliament has banned the sale of alcohol in parliamentary buildings.
He said that politicians need to "set an example", especially as they discuss a law potentially introducing tougher restrictions on the sale of alcohol in shops.
"He doesn't have the power of argument, so just uses abuse."
19.11.2025 15:40 — 👍 294 🔁 109 💬 23 📌 3"All traces lead to Russia" being behind the explosion that damaged a train track in Poland, says the defence minister.
"This is part of the war they are waging against NATO, against Europe – a hybrid war, to sow unrest, sow fear, to weaken the West."
Russian law enforcers are kidnapping civilians in the occupied territories of 🇺🇦 ,trying them on charges of espionage and treason-at least 190 such sentences have been imposed over the past 3yrs
◾️From July to September 2025,courts in Russian-occupied territories imposed such sentences every 3days
It’s still a conspiracy theory, but these latest revelations, coupled with the deletion of surveillance footage and the rest of it, make Epstein’s death look more suspicious than ever.
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Didier Reynders (Mouvement Réformateur), a former Belgian minister and European Commissioner, has officially been charged with money laundering
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"Mohamed and Salah Al Fayed are dead. Survivors are aware that many others who enabled the abuse are not.
Harrods — the centre of the exploitation network — is still trading."
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Great quick read from Robert Reich
Trump is a monster. He is an aspiring dictator who wants to wield the same power as a Stalin or Hitler, and he wants to be remembered through statues, stadiums and ballrooms.
He should be remembered as both a liar and traitor
'Sequencing Hitler’s DNA shines new light on his psyche. This technique is becoming ever more sophisticated and is delivering information once thought unknowable' | ✍️ The Times View
14.11.2025 08:44 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 4About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.
13.11.2025 13:15 — 👍 11910 🔁 4692 💬 787 📌 363"Trump, at least, seems very much to believe there are still more damaging revelations to come. He wouldn’t have cranked up the pressure on Boebert and company yesterday if he thought the stuff we’d already seen was the worst of it." www.thebulwark.com/p/hes-acting...
14.11.2025 01:00 — 👍 778 🔁 232 💬 34 📌 9The Trump World View
From the new Private Eye, out now.
"The Kyiv dam must be destroyed, the city must be flooded, Kharkiv must be destroyed, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy - wiped off the face of the earth, like Dnipro& other cities."
Russian propagandist Solovyev calls for the Ukrainian capital to be flooded
And yet, Russia keeps saying it wants peace.