Privatised water has failed us. I’m backing @labourlewis.bsky.social’s call to ensure Andy Burnham meets water campaigners who’ve fought for years to clean up our water -not just the water bosses who’ve profited from the system. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

TRUMP ON HIS POINTLESS WAR: “We’re making a lot of money. The defense companies are doing great.”🤔 Unreal. There you have it, folks.

*These* are the higher education stories that matter, not some half-assed report farted out by a group of faculty cranks at ivy and ivy-adjacent universities

As predicted, the words 'climate change' never left the lips of the new PM The greatest threat to UK economy and society, and the biggest danger humanity has ever faced is not even worth a mention You have one hell of a shock coming @andyburnham.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

NEW: Trump's firing of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission last night is the latest disturbing step in his crusade to make it harder to vote and consolidate control of elections. Don't look away from this creeping authoritarianism.

The US State Department is planning to hand $5m to Toby Young's Free Speech Union and $7m to some Jacob Rees-Mogg junk tank. You get the civil society you pay for. www.ft.com/content/1cb9...

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

Todd Blanche is violating federal law by covering up the Epstein files. Rather than confirming him as attorney general, the Senate ought to demand his prosecution.

"In the end, the far right believes that most humans are unworthy and incapable of self-rule, and so ought to be ruled by the worthy."

We watched Trump's dangerous and deranged speech so you don't have to. Here are the moments you need to know about:

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...

If only there was some way of knowing that Labour's inhumane "one in one out policy" would put trafficking and modern slavery victims at risk by cutting safeguards. Oh wait, sorry, yeah, it was obvious from the start to anyone with any awareness. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

All 3 men inside of the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo “‘reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van…They came in and started shooting from the sides.’” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

And DHS has been desperately trying to get these three witnesses to self deport. ICE has been using the “weaponized vehicle” excuse to murder people for a decade plus. It’s all coming out now with the microscope on them. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

I've seen on the streets how powerful even the idea of rent controls are that give people so much hope! Pleasure this morning to help launch a report by the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and the New Economics Foundation into making them a reality.

ITV agrees sale of media and entertainment business to Sky for up to £1.6bn, awaits regulatory approval. Bad idea to let conglomerates own multiple TV stations. Expect job cuts, more repeats, cancellation of shows, fewer independent progs. How long before free-to-air TV vanishes?

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Workers' share of the national income is at its lowest point in nearly eight decades. This chart explains one reason we got here — and how we can get out.

Nigel Farage to Sky News, "If you harass my family any more, there'll be serious consequences" Sky News, "Sky News has not contacted my Farage's family over the story"

“This is the last time you will see me. They brought me here to kill me. I don’t see myself surviving. This is the end.”

This is nonsense. The (tiny) tuition fee rise seen so far is massively offset by over a decade of real terms cuts. Adjusting for inflation tuition fees are lower now than a decade ago - when the teaching grant was much larger.

Remember that the tuition fee rise just about covers the simultaneous increase in employer national insurance contributions for universities, so cutting teaching grants on this basis means universities on life support being subject to a shake down and being expected to say thanks for the privilege.

This Week in Palestine: 1,000 Days of Genocide, as Israel Continues to Kill Kids Zeteo’s weekly round-up of the stories you may have missed out of occupied Gaza and the West Bank, as Israel continues its genocidal war and apartheid policies. Read now: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...

The governmnet should drop all charges against peaceful protest. Juries care about the future so continue to acquit, while the CPS continues to waste everyone’s time amd taxpayers’ money. juststopoil.org/2026/07/03/a...

Where is the outrage from those that think it’s the Welfare bill that’s the problem or those who want to spend more on war and think we have to cut something else to pay for it? Note: Palantir is just one of many corporations doing this

Donald Trump is the accidental hero of a real-life feelgood climate tale even as a creeping horror story plays alongside | Clear Air

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵, Dec. 9, 1864: On the march to Savannah, hundreds or thousands of African American families who had just escaped from slavery were left to drown by Sherman’s Army. This is referred to as the Massacre at Ebenezer Creek.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

How does Five Homes Farage possibly persuade ordinary people he is on their side? Imagine being rich enough to own 5 homes outright - 4 of them purchased since 2020. Imagine the sheer brass neck of not even declaring to parliament where the cash to buy 3 of them came from 😳

The US incarcerates more people than almost any country on Earth. Meanwhile, pharma executives, Wall Street bankers, and fossil fuel companies escape meaningful accountability for harms that have killed far more Americans than street crime ever has.

Its taking more than just money, its also stealing your foundational civil liberties and human rights putting them under the control of transnational oligarchs involved in heinous crimes against humanity.

UK households are sick of being a revenue stream for a handful of shareholders around the world Andy Burnham we'd like our assets back 💧⚡️📮🏥

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

If u want to know what the Tech Bros envision for the future, here is the kind of material they read: (1) The Sovereign Individual (preface by Peter Thiel); (2) The Network State: How to Start a New Country by Balaji Srinivasan blurbed by Marc Andreessen); (3) Patchwork by Curtis Yarvin/ Moldbug 1/

If these findings are accurate, they expose the staggering extent to which Palantir is taking from our country while giving back as little as possible www.opendemocracy.net/exclusive-ho...

"The Extreme Sentences Handed to Anti-ICE Protesters Should Terrify Us All" 30-100 years! Perhaps the most important and scary story you'll read all week:

Welcome to the police state where paedophilia is celebrated & moving a box of zones will get you a decades long sentence. theintercept.com/2026/06/23/p...

If you are worried about Benefit Fraud £0.5bn but not Government Corruption £219bn. Immigration £2bn but not Tax Havens £150bn. Junior Doctors pay rises £1.3bn but not Bankers tax cuts £7.3bn. You‘re buying their lies.😡

Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child says Andy Burnham has chance to ‘correct mistakes’ on refugees www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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