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White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration

The Whitehouse really appears to be going full Soviet. This is actually terrifying.

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How are Republicans not embarrassed...

Most twelve year old children speak with more coherence and sense than this rambling press conference.

If all else fails we can always put the enemy in it...

Channel your inner Brexit, that should do down the productivity.

Much of £10.9bn Covid scheme fraud 'beyond recovery', report says The response to the pandemic led to

The person who says Covid fraud money is probably beyond recovery is called "Mr Hayhoe" ... feels like a parody
#HeyHo

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Today I was deeply disappointed to discover that the King's head comms person, Tobyn Andreae, has the job title "Communications Secretary to the Royal Household", and not simply "King Comm"

It's like a child who's a fussy eater and the mum has to bring special snacks for the journey.

77% of Gen Z job seekers have brought a parent to an interview—they're even getting them to negotiate pay rises and take their hiring tests | Fortune Gen Z job seekers are pulling up an extra chair for their Gen X and boomer parents—not just for job interviews, but also to help write resumes, negotiate salaries, and solve workplace conflicts.

I simply don't believe this:

"77% of Gen Z have brought a parent to a job interview"

Can any Gen Z on BlueSky confirm/deny this is true (in their own experience)

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Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised' The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

Great advert for folding bikes. Maybe @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social or another brand needs a run a "The safest bike is the one next to you" campaign.

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Isn't this something the US is doing ....

"Dave, did you write the copy for the new parchment paper product"

"Yup"

"Did you get weird about birds again?"

"..."

Today, at the local time travel shop

"What do we want"

"No car boot sale"

"When do we want it"

"22nd September!"

When drawn this way, you can see clearly the huge loss of retail jobs in the past 7 years.

Retail has lost almost 400,000 jobs in the last decade. And business rates are at the centre of the problem.

Trump could rebrand it the "Department of Peow Peow Peow", and I still wouldn't be surprised.

Is the ant story just RFK responding to public concerns?

Despite my passport having nine months to run before expiry, I was blocked from flying to Sweden at the airport gate because my passport issue date is over 10 years ago. I guess another one of those sunny uplands of Brexit....

For anyone with an old passport, check the issue date

There needs to be a real conversation about service charges in London hospitality. Why are restaurants making customers directly pay staff through 12.5% service charges? Just pay your staff properly and adjust the price appropriately.

It's that time of year. Hope everyone got the grades they needed. #alevelresults

Kemi Badenoch suggests asylum seekers should be housed in 'camps' The Conservative Party leader appeared to suggest it would be less "hassle" if migrants were housed away from British communities.

Sounds like Kemi might be the next big name to defect to Reform...

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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says Josef Fritzl case made her ‘reject God’ Badenoch said the Fritzl case was like ‘someone blew out a candle’ when it came to her faith

The Kemi Badenoch narrative gets weirder and weirder.

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I think it's exactly that

Kemi Badenoch reveals how she told on exam cheat as teenager The Tory leader speaks about her background and values in an interview with the BBC's Amol Rajan.

I'm starting to think Kemi's PR team is actively trying to destroy her.

"Yes, Kemi, tell the one about how you grassed on your fellow student..."

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Magnificent.

#Euro25

It rhymes with the correct answer, that's got to be worth half-marks.

When you launch a political party and forget to hire anyone in PR...

Read the entire article and there's not one "tilting at windmills" pun. The state of journalism...

The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

Corruption at the heart of London's retail district?

A small number of businesses around Piccadilly Circus appear to be "phoenixing" - whereby every time it comes to pay taxes, the owners are replaced, depriving local and national government of millions.

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Much like the number of Pakistan run Indian restaurants