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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 13h

“Now is our moment in time to fight for the change that we want to see, and fight for the future that we know we deserve," Pearson tells Rolling Stone.

More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi @ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social · 18h

I too know the real Handsworth, and it is a great, vibrant place

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h

I know the real Handsworth – it’s a far better place than Robert Jenrick’s toxic vision of Britain | Nazia Parveen

The shadow justice secretary complained of a lack of integration in an area that has shown, time and time again, that it is for everyone, says Nazia Parveen, an assistant managing editor at the Guardian

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Duncan Lamont @duncanlamont2.bsky.social · 18h

🫣 Profits are for wimps. Revenues are for losers. Ideas sell, not fundamentals

Over half the Nasdaq market is loss making. About 1-in-8 companies have no revenues

There are a lot more in these camps than in the past

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JamesSmithRF @jamessmithrf.bsky.social · 18h

Genuine sympathy with Office for National Statistics on this. What's happened here is a bog-standard HMRC recording error on VAT which the ONS have been commendably open about. On substance, it doesn't change the outlook much as low VAT receipts always looked erratic.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 20h

ONS revises down government borrowing estimates after data error on.ft.com/4h1HLGG

ONS revises down government borrowing estimates after data error

Office for National Statistics says there was an error in VAT receipts used to calculate the figures

on.ft.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 18h

Plans to weaken protections for England's national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

- Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

@campaign4parks.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi @ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social · 18h

The worst atrocity that I have been witness to in a lifetime of atrocities

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 1d

“‘Anything we can actually do, we can afford.’ Taxation controls the distribution of wealth. At bottom, however, state spending never rests on private profit. This means that an impoverished public good such as the present higher-education system reflects an impoverished public imagination.”

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

moneyontheleft.org

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d

A pro-Palestinian protester reads a poem while he was being arrested from a 9-year-old child that was murdered in Gaza

(Global Sumud Flotilla Commentary)

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Oliver Markus Malloy @malloy.rocks · 1d

Snipers on the roof, pointing their guns at peaceful protesters.

Welcome to Nazi America.

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Oliver Markus Malloy @malloy.rocks · 4d

ICE stormtroopers terrorize Mexican family with baby.

The same terrorists who tried to overthrow democracy on January 6th now wear uniforms and are state-sanctioned to terrorize you.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 1d

The threat is quite real, & fortunately, Canadian leaders are aware of it.

"Can Canada Survive Donald Trump? Under assault from an increasingly aggressive & authoritarian United States, the country's future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Can Canada Survive Donald Trump?

Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.

www.bloomberg.com

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MOJO Magazine @mojomagazine.bsky.social · 1d

In memory of Ginger Baker, who passed away on this day in 2019 MOJO revisits a classic interview with Cream’s legendarily combative drummer.

Ginger Baker Interviewed: "I laugh at death..."

www.mojo4music.com

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 1d

Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief, Wael al-Dahdouh, was told live on air that his wife, son, daughter and grandson had been killed in an Israeli-designated safe zone. He speaks to @imaanirfan.bsky.social.

Gazan reporters are paying a heavy price

Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief on losing his family, and why Israel is targeting journalists

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 1d

from elbows up to warm embrace. it’s a betrayal of he told canadians to expect from him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 1d

The West may now be finally waking up to the full enormity of the horrors Israel has inflicted in Gaza. It is time we started listening to Palestinian voices, while there are still Palestinians left alive to speak truth to power.

A graveyard of liberal illusions

The West may now be finally waking up to the full enormity of the horrors Israel has inflicted in Gaza. It needs also to wake up to the evils it has nurtured not just for the last two years, but for o...

canadiandimension.com

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Sarah Khan @sarahkhan.bsky.social · 1d

This Saturday in Berlin 🇵🇸

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon @jlmelenchon.bsky.social · 1d

Et hop, le RN plus hypocrite que jamais.

Demain, Le Pen Bardella décident de ne pas permettre à la motion de destitution de Macron d'être soumise aux vote de l'Assemblée nationale...

Ça fait partie de son accord avec les macronistes pour les postes à l’Assemblée ?

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 1d

Tens of thousands of students across Montreal universities and CÉGEPs staged a one-day strike for Palestine today, based on authorization votes taken in general assemblies and online referenda. 1/

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 1d

#ICYMI "The Federal Government Is Gone”: Under Trump, the Fight Against Extremist Violence Is Left Up to the States" www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“The Federal Government Is Gone”: Under Trump, the Fight Against Extremist Violence Is Left Up to the States

As the White House redirects counterterrorism personnel and funds toward mass deportations, a state-level scramble is on to preserve efforts once supported by Washington. The result is a patchwork app...

www.propublica.org

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 1d

If current trends continue as projected, the United States could be on the brink of a decade+ marked by escalating extremist violence, echoing the turbulence and ideological militancy that gripped much of the world during the 1970s.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp."

Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 4d

The recent rise of “shadow federalism” — groups of states replacing federal agencies abdicated or destroyed by Trump — combined with the president’s military targeting of those states makes an American schism a medium-term possibility for which we should plan

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: United States may split into warring federal entities. Let’s side with the better one

Recent developments contain the seeds of a United States divided into two competing federalisms – and even a potential civil war

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

“Bluesky claims to want decentralization and composable moderation, but they still enjoy abusing the power of arbitrary banishment.” - Link

Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

plus.flux.community

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