SierraJuliet

A little louder for the people in the back 👏
Truth 👇

Finland 🇫🇮 has shown us how it's possible to end homelessness and save money at the same time! All that's needed is respect for our fellow human beings and an end to performative cruelty.
#EndHomelessnessNow 💙

Yes 👏

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’ Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’

Terrific report from my colleague @aishadown.bsky.social on the UK's "phantom" AI drive, including the proposed data centre in Lanarkshire

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz

THIS.

Hard to argue

Because concern over football is the most important issue right now. FFS

Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025, says CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists report says Israel also to blame for 81% of ‘intentionally targeted’ journalist killings * The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed in the course of their work in 2025, two-thirds of them by Israeli forces, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). It was the second consecutive year in which killings of members of the press reached unprecedented levels, and the second year running in which Israel was responsible for roughly two-thirds of the total, the New York-based independent organisation, which documents attacks on journalists worldwide, said in its annual report published on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025, says CPJ

The US Immigration Industrial Complex is a Threat to Everyone If President Dwight D. Eisenhower were alive today, he very well may warn of the ever-growing immigration industrial complex.

"US immigration enforcement has evolved into a rapidly growing multi-billion-dollar industry in which profitability increasingly dictates policy and enforcement priorities."

By: @tylermcbrien.com

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And that he was voted in twice.

February 2026: Maldives

#AnywhereButClacton

Here’s an ugly truth. When a President sends men and women to war, they have decided to spend American lives to buy things; to buy objectives, outcomes, results. This president will be willing to trade the currency of human life…for something as worthless as his ego. We will see that soon.

An important reminder

💯 yes, Substack is another billionaire bro play thing.

Please make him go away. Please make it stop. America, you put this post turtle up there, figure a way to get him and his sycophants down. Wow, he couldn’t be more globally destructive if he tried.

BREAKING: The "Financial Pearl Harbor" has arrived…👇

Following President Trump's threat to impose tariffs on French wine and his continued aggressive push for Greenland, the European Union has executed its most devastating economic counter-measure yet.

What do you think?! 🤔

Trump is a problem.

I've lost count of the number of times I've had to pull out this chart from the FT.

It's not really true to say young men are moving right in the developed world overall, let along within the UK.

Just like the mythical Reform surge with teenagers, it's a meme that just will not die.

Misinformation is a challenge teachers can’t face alone Teachers face the emergence of an online world in which notions of objective reality are under threat

✍️ In a new op-ed for Schools Week, Full Fact CEO Chris Morris argues teachers must be supported as defenders of evidence-based debate, not left to face misinformation alone.

The United States is ready to carry out low-yield nuclear tests to match alleged secret explosions by China and Russia, ending a decades-old moratorium, a senior official said Tuesday. 🔗 buff.ly/eeIoyuk

Farage is lying again.

Time to purge Google, Meta et al.

Unbelievably this wasn’t even raised on SkyNews just now during the interview with Reform's head of policy Zia Yusuf.

If UK news shows won’t call this boll**** out let’s do it ourselves

Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission 👏

Reform threatens to defund Welsh university after student society's debate ban The warning over funding came after the Bangor Debating & Political Society refused a request from Reform for Q and A wi

Straight out of the Trump handbook.

Reform UK is threatening to defund a Welsh university simply because a debating society turned them down.

Are they serious?

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/reform-uk-threatens-defund-welsh-33394278