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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Looks & sounds like she is in addisted living; not prison. She's a co defendant in a case of around 1000 young girls being sexually trafficked.

Ghislaine Maxwell Walks Around Prison After Trump Signs Epstein Files Bill, See Video
Source: TMZ
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Ghislaine Maxwell Walks Around Prison After Trump Signs Epstein Files Bill, See Video - NewsBreak
Ghislaine Maxwell's keeping a low profile amid the furor surrounding the so-called "Epstein Files" ... going for a stroll around a prison yard the day afte
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November 23, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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If he makes an illegal order he needs to be arrested immediately and charged with treason according to the Constitution of the United States and it's citizens!
a poster that says " we the people " on it
ALT: a poster that says " we the people " on it
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November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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This is important:

"Precarious work is not a bridge to secure employment. That’s simply not true," Galič says. "A vast majority of workers I interviewed are caught going from one precarious job to another. A very small number get out but, even then, they feel their situation is fragile."
November 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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We live in a moment of digital feudalism where people work precarious jobs for low pay. But capitalism requires us to consume more. As a result people become buried in debt.
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Digital Feudalism
Over the past two decades, corporations and venture capitalists have adjusted business models to change the digital world. As a result, the global economy has undergone a massive shift, changing the w...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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I’d have thought nothing cuts more against our precious British values than selling out your country for Russian bribes…

And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say

…funny that.
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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"If a Reform UK ex MEP
can get 10 years prison
for taking Russian money
then can the same be done
to Kier Starmer and others
for taking Israeli money??"
via Neil Maggs
#SocialistSunday
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Anticipate huge rent hikes, in an era of critical housing shortages caused by a long history of government failures to build affordable housing and regulate the market's luxury shift. Just another profitable cart on the gravy train, so doubt change will be forthcoming.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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This would be terrorism.
Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro says CIA agents are planning to attack oil and electrical installations throughout the country.
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Goodness me, far right extremists being funded by the Kremlin! Who’da thunkit?! Well anyone monitoring the far right & politics in UK/Ireland.

The USSR bankrupted itself keeping up with the US on nuclear weapons. Putin has worked out it’s easier to buy our politicians. Reform + Tory* = Putin
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in jail for taking bribes as part of a pro-Russia influence campaign

Gill was paid thousands of pounds to give TV interviews in favour of a key Putin ally and to make speeches in European Parliament, where he was an MEP
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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But we don't need 'high earners'. Plus to have high earners you need well paid jobs. Much of that about?
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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If there’s one thing I know that’s undeniably true, a truth that’s simply indisputable, it’s that the ‘brightest and best’ are not, under any circumstances, making more than £125,140 a year
November 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Again, using salaries as the basis for citizenry or not is a ridiculous metric, given how little most of our public services - who need immigrants to survive - get paid
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Being a high earner doesn't always equate to being the brightest and the best, but Labour sees money as the be all and end all of someone's value to society
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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'You were not just born to center your entire existence on work and labor. ’
– Tricia Hersey

Today marks day 7 of 12 in the planned strike action by UCU members at Sheffield Hallam University.

Strike blog: Rest is Resistance

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Rest is Resistance
‘You were not just born to center your entire existence on work and labor. You were born to heal, to grow, to be of service to yourself and community, to practice, to experiment, to create, t…
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November 20, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Almost as if thats all neoliberalisation can do, manifest crisis after crisis for everything it touches.
64 of UK higher education institutions were predicted in May this year to be in deficit next year; now that figure is 114, a significant worsening of the situation, with liquidity problems also rising. 1/2
Many English universities to report deficits despite rise in tuition fees
Continued funding squeeze and volatile student enrolment will continue to hit finances, regulator warns
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November 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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'Nursing leaders told the Guardian the plans were “immoral” and treated highly skilled migrants as “political footballs”. They said a mass exodus of nurses would threaten patient safety'.

Combine this with the number of UK universities shrinking or closing their nursing programmes....
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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THE CALM OPERATIVE BLUEPRINT: 18 Laws for Keeping Your Head When the World Loses Its Mind
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THE CALM OPERATIVE BLUEPRINT: 18 Laws for Keeping Your Head When the World Loses Its Mind
Because when everyone else is breaking, calm becomes a weapon.
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October 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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UK graduates earn less not because universities fail, but due to stagnant wages, regional inequality, and cultural shifts in employer expectations. As has been noted in comments, the problem is structural - economic renewal and skills ecosystems should be the focus, not blaming higher education.
For decades, the deal for Britain’s brightest young minds was clear: study hard, go to university and high pay would be among the rewards. That contract has been steadily breaking down. Read more: bloom.bg/43F8of4

📷: Mike Kemp/In Pictures
November 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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"Multiple men have remained in senior roles at Oxford for months or years after allegations of sexual misconduct emerged against them, Bloomberg found in a nine-month investigation based on interviews with almost 50 people as well as documents and other records."
Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say
The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.
www.bloomberg.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Warwick University: Students watch on in horror as firefighters swarm hall | UK | News

https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/272608/

Horror footage shows a fire coming from a halls of residence at a major UK university. Emergency services…
Warwick University: Students watch on in horror as firefighters swarm hall | UK | News - United Kingdom News Beep
Horror footage shows a fire coming from a halls of residence at a major UK university. Emergency services were called to Arthur Vick 1 residence in Warwick
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November 20, 2025 at 1:18 AM