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“What is striking about this moment is just how unserious the people in charge are” — Obama

More than 50,000 people in Europe died this summer from heat, a record high amount, a new study finds.

Dolly Parton was an environmentalist. She compared our daily mistreatment of the environment as “being ugly to your mama”.

This is searing stuff from Sadiq Khan, and his arguments for the UK to rejoin the EU are as clear and comprehensive as it gets.

Sky News legend Jon Craig points out that Nigel Farage is the first by-election winner not to turn up for the count since IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in 1981. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...

Farage has already cancelled an appearance in Clacton. Starting as he means to go on.

Pretend you’re a data centre by drinking 68 glasses of water whenever someone asks you to spell GLOBAL CLIMATE CRISIS.

📌 ICYMI — Two Years On, the World Witnesses Human Safari in Kherson — @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social A viral video of a drone attacking a vegetable seller at Kherson farmers' market has brought Russia's deliberate targeting of civilians, which Byline first revealed two years ago, to global…

Lockdowns showed that states can pour massive resources into making the politically impossible happen quickly, the public will accept huge changes if they understand why they're needed, and that we should listen to scientists. Something to remember when it comes to action on climate change.

One day you or I may need to cross a border in desperation like this and, if and when we do, every one of us would hope to be treated, and indeed discussed, with more dignity and respect than these people, rather than dehumanised and hated for our misfortune.

This has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Just sitting on the pavement and clapping is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement & clapping. Andy Burnham can stop this. But he isn't. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com

The result in the UK is a country that now keeps hundreds of political prisoners, a country in which you can get six months in jail for marching slowly down the street. Protest here is acceptable as long as it’s useless. Let the people have their say, but only if we can’t hear them.

At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nigel Farage: the controversies A chronology of claims, contradictions and crookedness.

Trump is: -Starting wars/committing war crimes -Unleashing ICE & National Guard on US cities -Insider trading with friends & family -Alienating allies -In the Epstein files -Selling pardons & trying to pay J6ers -Destroying US institutions, their people & trust in them The GOP: LET’S GET FAUCI!!!

Anthropic shredding millions of rare books should be a crime. It’s also a perfect encapsulation of what utter shit generative AI is and how it fundamentally makes the world worse.

Finding this quite hard to stomach from a country that is bombing the shit out of other countries…

Well that was a very concise argument for America's cultural irrelevance.

What time does the football finish? #thefootball

Lots of people commenting on how unsporting Argentina’s players are, but let’s be fair and remember that they are also very racist.

Inequality is at the root of most of our social ills. It could be fixed with a wealth tax. And Gabriel Zucman has a cunning plan | Stephen McNair

As a charity, our volunteers at Llanymynech Canal Wharf visitor centre work hard to inform visitors about the Montgomery Canal. Due to the lack of water in the canal they can't run boat trips, so your visit would really help support them. Diolch yn fawr iawn. #UKCanals

Count Binface has a donation webpage at ko-fi 👇 ko-fi.com/countbinface

I have donated to Count Binface. I think this is the first time I have donated to a political candidate. Ko-fi.com/home/coffees...

Worth a read. BBC News - Met investigate donation to Jenrick's Tory leadership campaign www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Palestinians brace as Israeli settler figures in coalition seek to cement West Bank gains before election

Breaking News: President Trump called the head of FIFA days before the suspension of Folarin Balogun, the U.S.’s top goal scorer in the World Cup, was reversed. trib.al/x9mGfAs

How are things in Belfast? Are the people with Legitimate Concerns about paedophilia attacking unionist politicians’ homes in response to the Donaldson verdict? They aren’t? How strange. Their Concerns seemed so Legitimate when they were burning foreigners out of their homes a few weeks back.

Reminder that at one point when Zuckerberg was trying to break into China he asked Xi to name his child and Xi was “for the love of God, have some self-respect you weirdo”

The Court of Appeal judgement on Palestine Action is frankly bonkers. It says PA is not "a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open." Right: the arson, bombings, slashings etc were all planned in open meetings in Parliament Square 🙄🧵

Brexit: "the economy is significantly smaller than it would otherwise have been, trade has suffered, business investment and productivity growth have stalled, and families are on average thousands of pounds a year worse" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In Samuel L Jackson's voice "Lets tax these motherfucking trillionaires."

Finding terrorism only at the point of sentencing seems like a grotesque perversion of our justice system. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This would be conveniently placed if the goal was for each worker to come urinate on Mr. Trump's name. No confirmation yet whether or not this is the plan.

Reform UK’s #Makerfield candidate Rob Kenyon calls Ant Middleton his hero. It’s hardly surprising Middleton was convicted for assault of a female police officer and criticised for his sexist treatment of people. Farage has a problem with women, Middleton does, Kenyon does.

Very chilling. Especially the way in which it was done. Aligning activism with terror is high on my list of reasons why I detest Starmer's Labour www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

found a little buddy and brought her to a nice flower shrub, but why are her wings so mangled? :( #invertebrate

Reform don’t do the job. Rob Kenyon, #Makerfield Reform UK candidate was elected a Wigan councillor a month ago. He’s not attended a single meeting or done a single piece of work on it. Nigel Farage was elected MP for Clacton. He’s spent 2 years anywhere but Clacton.

This is concerning: Reform UK bans promotion of LGBTQ and Pride events at Essex libraries

Registration photographs of prisoners of Auschwitz. Watch a short video of the exhibition in Block 8 that is dedicated to the fate of prisoners of the camp: https://youtube.com/shorts/j7opGrLt0b8 --- Photo: instagram.com/pablitoactor

Reform UK wants to shut this down. If it did so, it would throw a million people out of work. Why? because it is beholden to the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...