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Why am I not the least bit surprised? Big corporations with an agenda embedding themselves in education is not new.
Why am I not the least bit surprised? Big corporations with an agenda embedding themselves in education is not new.
BP accused of ‘insidious’ influence on UK education through Science Museum links
Campaigners claim firm has bought sway over the teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths
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January 16, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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Why am I not the least bit surprised? Big corporations with an agenda embedding themselves in education is not new.
Why am I not the least bit surprised? Big corporations with an agenda embedding themselves in education is not new.
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the UK has clearly chosen to violate human rights
the UK has clearly chosen to violate human rights
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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January 7, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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the UK has clearly chosen to violate human rights
the UK has clearly chosen to violate human rights
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More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban.
Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.
“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
(Published July 2025)
Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.
“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
(Published July 2025)
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
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January 6, 2026 at 4:00 AM
More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban.
Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.
“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
(Published July 2025)
Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.
“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
(Published July 2025)
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What kind of world are leaving our children and grand children.
What kind of world are leaving our children and grand children.
Greta Thunberg came to stay – and my kid may have inadvertently helped her get arrested | Arwa Mahdawi
The activist had held a sign written with my daughter’s crayon. Try explaining that to a four-year-old
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January 6, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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What kind of world are leaving our children and grand children.
What kind of world are leaving our children and grand children.
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Canada needs to take see the invasion of Venezuela for what it is - a deliberate attack on the international rules based order. We have a bandit nation on our border and we need to be ready for whatever comes next.
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Venezuela - The Lesson for Canada
Make no mistake, the attack on Venezuela by the Trump regime is not about removing a rogue leader; it is a deliberate attack on international law.
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January 3, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Canada needs to take see the invasion of Venezuela for what it is - a deliberate attack on the international rules based order. We have a bandit nation on our border and we need to be ready for whatever comes next.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
charlieangus.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
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This is so depressing, Oh yeah by the way here's your Happy New Year eviction letter...
This is so depressing, Oh yeah by the way here's your Happy New Year eviction letter...
Growing numbers of over-60s facing homelessness, charities warn
Housing crisis reaches UK’s oldest generations as high private rents and lack of social housing hits pensioners
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January 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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This is so depressing, Oh yeah by the way here's your Happy New Year eviction letter...
This is so depressing, Oh yeah by the way here's your Happy New Year eviction letter...
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NEW: A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises.
An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”
These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:
An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”
These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
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December 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
NEW: A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises.
An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”
These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:
An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”
These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:
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Big Box plus big noise, equals Home Depot's shrinking testicular fortitude in the face of AmeriKKKan fascism
Big Box plus big noise, equals Home Depot's shrinking testicular fortitude in the face of AmeriKKKan fascism
Noise machines installed by LA Home Depot ‘torture’ for day laborers, advocates say
Advocates call for removal of machines and demand that company speak out against ICE raids in parking lots
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December 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Big Box plus big noise, equals Home Depot's shrinking testicular fortitude in the face of AmeriKKKan fascism
Big Box plus big noise, equals Home Depot's shrinking testicular fortitude in the face of AmeriKKKan fascism
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First Paramount / CBS and now TikTok.
Trump wants to hand over even more control of what you watch to his billionaire buddies.
Americans deserve to know if the President struck another backdoor deal for this billionaire takeover of TikTok.
Trump wants to hand over even more control of what you watch to his billionaire buddies.
Americans deserve to know if the President struck another backdoor deal for this billionaire takeover of TikTok.
December 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
First Paramount / CBS and now TikTok.
Trump wants to hand over even more control of what you watch to his billionaire buddies.
Americans deserve to know if the President struck another backdoor deal for this billionaire takeover of TikTok.
Trump wants to hand over even more control of what you watch to his billionaire buddies.
Americans deserve to know if the President struck another backdoor deal for this billionaire takeover of TikTok.
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Sick bastards gotta have it only their way
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday. n.pr/44xQKdD
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Sick bastards gotta have it only their way
Continue to avoid buying anything AmeriKKKan.
This CBC article reads like a tourism brochure for the US travel industry. Not one mention of the boycott.
The article says that if you travel to Montana you can buy one beer and get one free.
Frick...I value our sovereignty to a higher value than a free bottle of Coors.
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The article says that if you travel to Montana you can buy one beer and get one free.
Frick...I value our sovereignty to a higher value than a free bottle of Coors.
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Canadians travellers are resisting the U.S. Can ski vacations entice them back? | CBC News
American ski towns bracing for a steep decline in Canadian tourism are still hoping they can coax their northern neighbours back this holiday season. Ultimately, the decision to travel south might hin...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Continue to avoid buying anything AmeriKKKan.
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Are we really so callus as to forget what these brave women did for future generations.
Are we really so callus as to forget what these brave women did for future generations.
‘Pretty birds and silly moos’: the women behind the Sex Discrimination Act
In the 50 years since equal rights for women were enshrined in UK law, the campaigners have been reduced to caricatures, or forgotten. But their struggle is worth remembering
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December 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Are we really so callus as to forget what these brave women did for future generations.
Are we really so callus as to forget what these brave women did for future generations.
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The obscenity of obsessive wealth
The obscenity of obsessive wealth
A Dior calendar for $11K? Here’s how the humble advent calendar has gone bananas | CBC Radio
Today you can buy an advent calendar containing almost any product you can imagine, from Lego to whisky, ice cream to jewelry, sex toys to fishing lures.
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December 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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The obscenity of obsessive wealth
The obscenity of obsessive wealth
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As always, a well balanced and with great perspective opinion piece on current issues by George Monbiot.
As always, a well balanced and with great perspective opinion piece on current issues by George Monbiot.
The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot
These are the facts: plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapse, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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December 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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As always, a well balanced and with great perspective opinion piece on current issues by George Monbiot.
As always, a well balanced and with great perspective opinion piece on current issues by George Monbiot.
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New court documents reveal a list of nearly 200 words or phrases the Trump administration told Head Start programs it does not want to see in their funding requests. n.pr/497P6C4
Head Start centers told to avoid 'disability,' 'women' and more in funding requests
New court documents reveal a list of nearly 200 words or phrases the Trump administration told Head Start programs it does not want to see in their funding requests.
n.pr
December 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
New court documents reveal a list of nearly 200 words or phrases the Trump administration told Head Start programs it does not want to see in their funding requests. n.pr/497P6C4
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PM Carney subsidizes Big Oil to pump carbon to increase production.
He walks back greenwashing rules allowing Big Oil to lie.
He cuts a deal on planet killing methane.
Now his team is walking.
The CEO isn't smartest guy in the room when it comes to a burning planet.
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He walks back greenwashing rules allowing Big Oil to lie.
He cuts a deal on planet killing methane.
Now his team is walking.
The CEO isn't smartest guy in the room when it comes to a burning planet.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Climate change advisers quit over Carney government’s energy deal with Alberta
Two departing members of Canada's Net-Zero Advisory Body say the Carney government is shredding any hope the country will meet its climate goals.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
PM Carney subsidizes Big Oil to pump carbon to increase production.
He walks back greenwashing rules allowing Big Oil to lie.
He cuts a deal on planet killing methane.
Now his team is walking.
The CEO isn't smartest guy in the room when it comes to a burning planet.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
He walks back greenwashing rules allowing Big Oil to lie.
He cuts a deal on planet killing methane.
Now his team is walking.
The CEO isn't smartest guy in the room when it comes to a burning planet.
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Thank you Ms. Mahdawi. Clear precise and to the point. If you can't buy food, pay the rent, or afford the simple basics, how well the economy is doing, doesn't mean shit to a tree.
Can you be on a six-figure income and still be considered poor? | Arwa Mahdawi
Can you be on a six-figure income and still be considered poor? | Arwa Mahdawi
A viral essay has caused outrage in the US with its argument that the poverty line for a family of four is now $136,500. But is this so wrong, asks Arwa Mahdawi
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December 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Thank you Ms. Mahdawi. Clear precise and to the point. If you can't buy food, pay the rent, or afford the simple basics, how well the economy is doing, doesn't mean shit to a tree.
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Soon there will be so much sand to bury our heads in.
Soon there will be so much sand to bury our heads in.
‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow Cop30
Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet
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December 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Soon there will be so much sand to bury our heads in.
Soon there will be so much sand to bury our heads in.
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Workers of the world unite
Workers of the world unite
‘It would take 11 seconds to hit the ground’: the roughneck daredevils who built the Empire State Building
They wrestled steel beams, hung off giant hooks and tossed red hot rivets – all while ‘strolling on the thin edge of nothingness’. Now the 3,000 unsung heroes who raised the famous skyscraper are fina...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Workers of the world unite
Workers of the world unite
yes yes and yes, stop click baiting us with overly misleading headlines.
Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. The open-compound word, which beat out “biohack” and “aura farming,” goes back at least to 2002. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
yes yes and yes, stop click baiting us with overly misleading headlines.
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Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. He’s unqualified for this job. I think he is the least qualified Secretary of Defense in the history of our country by far. & this President thinks he can bully & intimidate people? He’s not gonna stop me from speaking out & holding him accountable”
November 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. He’s unqualified for this job. I think he is the least qualified Secretary of Defense in the history of our country by far. & this President thinks he can bully & intimidate people? He’s not gonna stop me from speaking out & holding him accountable”
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25 years ago we were saying very similar things even the "rhetoric recruitment, retention, and burnout"; the more it changes the more it stays the same. When will public education become a real priority and when will we actually respect and care for teachers.
25 years ago we were saying very similar things even the "rhetoric recruitment, retention, and burnout"; the more it changes the more it stays the same. When will public education become a real priority and when will we actually respect and care for teachers.
Schools urged to trial four-day week to ease pressure on teachers in England and Wales
Advocacy group tells education secretary ‘working smarter’ can protect staff wellbeing and help students
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December 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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25 years ago we were saying very similar things even the "rhetoric recruitment, retention, and burnout"; the more it changes the more it stays the same. When will public education become a real priority and when will we actually respect and care for teachers.
25 years ago we were saying very similar things even the "rhetoric recruitment, retention, and burnout"; the more it changes the more it stays the same. When will public education become a real priority and when will we actually respect and care for teachers.
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No Lies Detected, Ms. Welch......
November 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
No Lies Detected, Ms. Welch......
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Just imagine Mike Johnson’s face when we get this done.
Tell Congress to force a vote on extending ACA tax credits!
Tell Congress to force a vote on extending ACA tax credits!
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
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November 30, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Just imagine Mike Johnson’s face when we get this done.
Tell Congress to force a vote on extending ACA tax credits!
Tell Congress to force a vote on extending ACA tax credits!