baffling that the media isn’t making more of an issue out of how carney is gutting key federal agencies/depts and what that’s going to mean for gov capacity when we’re supposed to be more independent and capable.
food inspection, health canada, statscan, global affairs — all being cut, and more
The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.”
The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
I hope that Democrats realize what’s happening in Minnesota is also a dry run for what the regime has planned for the midterms.
Here is only at first paradoxical reaction I believe we will see more of - AfD member of the Bundestag Kay Gottschalk argues the US tariffs over Greendland call for more European sovereignty, a European military alliance, a German nuke and ends his video with the slogan "Long live Europe".
Palantir, which Wes Streeting is giving your health care records to, and which Labour has given a contract for military analytics to, is working with ICE in the United States to work out who to raid. www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.
Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.
Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
We underestimate how dangerous Starmer 's 'pragmatism' is for the country
. @vkreilinger.bsky.social: "Is the #EU24 the new EU?"
I have mixed feelings about the "solution" used yesterday to provide the 90 bn loan to Ukraine
On the one hand, this is the way that the European Council should have handled the Hungary-problem for long; much better than "bribing" them ...
Good piece on Miliband’s achievements here. The only point I would make is that decarbonising the grid is the easy part of achieving net zero. We’ll have to see what happens when people have to change their behaviour app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/71896/...
YouTube channels spreading fake, anti-Labour videos have amassed more than a billion views this year, as opportunists attempt to use AI-generated content to profit from political division in the UK
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Now with the same productivity as the US, “core EU” also has more leisure time, higher life expectancy, less inequality
No matter how you look at it, it is a clearly superior economic performance
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
A screenshot of a school announcement titled "Detentions" and dated "Dec 11 2025". The text reads: "Please make sure detentions are attended on the day they are set or they will be escalated. The criteria for attending Prom will be announced after Christmas but will include: attending detentions on the day set, attendance being over 95% and positive behaviour." The last part of the sentence, "attendance being over 95% and positive behaviour," is highlighted with a transparent red underline.
❌ Punitive Attendance Policies are unlawful discrimination.
👉 They breach the Equality Act ignore DfE guidance, and are a safeguarding & public health issue.
Schools should not punish children for illness especially during a flu surge.
What we received today 😓👇
Oh it seems I forgot to add 😂 to make sure everybody reads the irony
To the point the poor guy felt he had to rely on gifts.
This is what you don't hear every time this junktank appears on the BBC.
*Why not?*
Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com
Covid fraud under the Tories cost the taxpayer £10.9 billion
The counter-fraud and error measures during the pandemic under the Conservative Government were accused of being 'so lax they may as well have left the door wide open'
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
I'm not sure how much it is appreciated that there will be significant emigration coming. Those here on graduate visas coming to an end, the toughening up of skilled worker rules re. salaries/sponsorable roles and the 'earned settlement' changes to come. Lots of people are going to leave.
Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in 5 years, data reveals. Armed forces & settlers used bombs, dogs, poison & machinery to attack people & infrastructure. It's "an important part of a genocidal strategy" says Pedro Arrojo-Agudo
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Today’s Omnibus vote has rolled over an already perforated cordon sanitaire in the European Parliament. For the first time, the EPP sided with far-right groups on a file key to the Commission’s agenda. Make no mistake: this was no accident and it’s unclear whether the centrist coalition can recover🧵
It's not a grassroots working class movement.
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
It’s not going to be 🇪🇺. And it’s certainly not going to be 🇨🇳. Or 🇨🇦 or 🇬🇧 or 🇯🇵 or anyone else. It’s just going to be lots of needless destruction, on both the scientific and human levels.
Exclusive: Future of chronic disease journal in limbo after cuts at CDC | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Amazing how a few TikToks of e-bike thieves can create a completely false impression observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
No one, especially the bbc this morning, has mentioned how these contracts were set up by the tories.
Michael Gove personally intervened to ensure that a Conservative donor's firm was awarded a multimillion pound covid contract.
Private correspondence reveals that Ciga Healthcare’s Brexit-supporting owner had pushed Gove to “take control” of the process.
The contract was awarded just days later
