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Alert India's biggest fake degree scandal in history has been uncovered.

According to officials, the number of fake certificates could exceed 1 million, and some of these individuals have even succeeded in securing jobs abroad.

Great to see Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys cash for access investigation in Westminster in Private Eye.

I reckon most hacks following PoliticsUK don’t realise it’s run by an ex Tory MP turned lobbyist and a Conservative staffer!

Our story here: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...

Heads above Water: Representing Fishers and Fishing Culture at University of Hull on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Heads above Water: Representing Fishers and Fishing Culture at University of Hull, listed on FindAPhD.com

Interested in fishing culture, and literature? Fancy doing a PhD? www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I think you mean “Pratt of the Caribbean”!

NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)

The unedifying sight of a human rights lawyer attacking human rights. Pathetic

Damage to the System Our new Main Justice podcast episode

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US plans to start checking all tourists' social media The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.

Jeez. All tourists - including those from Britain - will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country's border force

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The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth, report shows The wealth of the ultra-rich is undergoing a historic surge. This is the key takeaway of the third major report of the World Inequality Lab co-directed by French economist Thomas Piketty, which emphasizes how political choices can reverse these trends.

The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth, report shows

‘The patriarchy runs deep’: women still getting a raw deal in the workplace as equality remains a dream Women work longer and per hour earn a third of what men are paid, in figures that have changed little in 35 years, UN report shows

The persistence of gender inequality is one of the most pressing issues facing the world today

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This: The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.

"Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' itself is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas ... It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research and in our engagement with society."

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Arial-y good pun.

If you don't want all that AI garbage at the top of your google search results, you can stick -ai at the end of your search term and you'll get just the list of links to websites like in the good old days. Yesterday I learned. #GoogleAI #Google #AI #Google AI

The conflation of "foreign criminals" and "illegal migrants" is disgusting.

Vile when some people don't have a safe route to flee from the utter detestation & brutality of war.

It's all grim enough without the Labour Government pushing further misinformation.

Tesla Is Dead Last In Long-Term Reliability: Study Buying a used car might be cheaper than a new one, but it comes with risks. Some cars just aren’t as reliable as others, and once the new-car smell has worn o

Meanwhile, the latest great news just in...

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Anyone remember when Keir Starmer got free tickets to the footy and everyone kicked off?

Sign saying "free nobel peace prize with a order of shrimp tacos".

Shrimp....

Old Teslas Are Falling Apart On Consumer Reports' latest ranking of used car reliability, Tesla came in dead last with a rating not even half of the top placed brand.

Consumer Reports ranks Teslas as the least reliable used cars. "The best of the worst [ten] was Chevrolet at a score of 40. But Tesla makes that failing grade seem respectable with its absolute rock bottom rating of 31, trailing Jeep by just one point.” futurism.com/advanced-tra...

Dr. Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist, three-quarter length portrait. A formal black and white portrait of Dr. Lise Meitner, the pioneering Austrian physicist, seated in professional attire with a book in hand before a library bookshelf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner#/media/File:Lise_Meitner_NatGeo.jpg

The Mathilda Effect - The Missing Heroines of Science

By Martha Rossiter

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More about it:
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#books #womeninStem

Hegseth said US military should refuse ‘unlawful’ Trump orders in unearthed 2016 interview Defense secretary’s comments recirculating amid dispute over US strikes on alleged drug boats in Caribbean

Hegseth said US military should refuse ‘unlawful’ Trump orders in unearthed 2016 interview

Defense secretary’s comments recirculating amid dispute over US strikes on alleged drug boats in Caribbean

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Well that’s a surprise 😮

The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.

The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.

Federal judge orders release of Jeffrey Epstein grand jury records in Florida The big question is whether, as another judge suspected, this is just a DOJ distraction.

Federal Judge Orders Release of Jeffrey Epstein Grand Jury Records in Florida – Mother Jones share.google/wYLWnFTBZn5b...

Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall The war against Ukraine has hit ordinary Russians hard, and the deteriorating situation is likely to inflame tensions, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

I love the start to this, “People in Britain who think they are governed by fools should take a closer look at Russian and US presidents” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Emily Thornberry makes an incredibly patronising, smug video on Labour account on Instagram - even by her standards!

These Labour ministers with Reform- just can't seem to stop talking about the Green Party.

And it's just making membership rise & rise!

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🔥🔥🔥 DO NOT BE DISTRACTED & STAY LOUD!!
🔥🔥🔥 DONALD TRUMP IS GOING DOWN!!

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Kennedy Center Ticket Sales Drop 50% After Trump Takeover Subscriptions also fell by 36% in March and April compared to the same period in 2024, according to reports.

Your wish is Jimmy Kimmel’s command. www.thewrap.com/kennedy-cent...

It’s worth remembering that the phrase: ‘Release the Epstein Files’ actually means: ‘Stop hiding evidence to protect child rapists in powerful positions.’

Here’s a close up of Donald’s peace prize. Now on sale at the Trump Grift Shop!