Insiders say Britain is 'unsalvageable'. Why wouldn't Scots flee the wreckage? #IndependenceIsVital www.thenational.scot/politics/260...

Watch out music types. Took me 30 secs to create this banger suno.com/s/p7WHh5fqQj...

Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031

Father of accused Apalachee High School shooter to be sentenced in July

As other cities follow NYC’s example by taxing the rich and funding social programs, Mamdani argues that it will become clear that socialism “can flourish anywhere.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

AI is prone to hallucination, so why are bots suddenly useful enough to get real work done? Christopher Mims shares three reasons AI is more reliable than ever.

Monday’s Mandelson showdown could be Starmer’s last stand | John Crace

Zack Polanski on BBC Southeast, "Rent controls would put £18 billion of purchasing power into communities than going to private landlords" "We live in the sixth wealthiest country in the world there is no need for councils to be strapped for cash"

The comedian on hecklers, the death of panel shows – and finding hope in Zack Polanski trib.al/QCtY5Kw

Get your Green future at Polanski Stores! 🛒 ✅️ Tax the super-rich ✅️ Lower bills ✅️ Sewage-free rivers ✅️ Real climate action The Green Party are selling a future for people and planet. Buy yours today - #VoteGreen

How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds Historian @quinnslobodian.com tells Byline Times how governments have subordinated the future of political economy to the direction and desires of Silicon Valley. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

⚡️ Roads to Ukraine and artillery positions are being built in the border region of Belarus. We believe that Russia will once again try to drag Belarus into its war, - Zelensky

Given how much NCP charged for shit car parks there must have been huge amounts of cash siphoned off the books, surely? Ah, yes. There was. While ‘private equity’ spivs saddled it with massive debts. #VultureCapitalism apple.news/AGrfvQ7m9SnS...

Native Americans respond to Washington Commanders' new polarizing logo apple.news/AUTvSJDmcRXe...

Millionaire migrant expats love to blame other migrants for the UK's problems never the £billions in tax avoidance & evasion by millionaires like themselves

Official records reveal ICE hired a former sheriff's deputy accused of making an illegal arrest based on false evidence. The deputy, Andrew Penland, resigned in disgrace before being hired by ICE.

good call on adding "Denial-of-service: no" to robots.txt

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Jackie Baillie left red-faced after blazing attack on SNP backfires spectacularly 🤡🤣🤣 Baillie really should retire from politics and spend more time with her intellectual equals — pot plants… www.thenational.scot/news/2603056...

Labour are denying Wales our fair share of rail funding 😤 A Plaid Cymru government won't stand by and let Westminster underfund us - we'll stand up for Wales and push for full rail devolution to better connect our communities. Vote Plaid Cymru on 7 May. ❤️🗳️

SECOND THOUGHT OF THE DAY… What would happen if a trans person engages in sexual activity with a cis person, after disclosing they were trans... Only for the cis person afterwards to claim that they did not. Your word against theirs. You don’t need to be Einstein to see what our courts would find.

A wee note for Keir Starmer:- Sir Walter Scott wrote the famous line, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, / When first we practice to deceive!". It appeared in his 1808 epic poem, Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. The quote implies that lies and dishonesty create complicated, uncontrollable problems.

What a petty, spiteful sack of putrid shit Trump is. Why is this demented rapist and child molester still President? apple.news/A0oZM5tdLRii...

Labour blasted as leaflet falsely claims Scottish NHS 'no longer free' Although its probably just letting you know what will happen with Labour in power in Westminster… www.thenational.scot/news/2603211...

Aliya Rahman, a disabled Minneapolis resident who was violently arrested and detained by ICE officers in January, explains why she's filing a federal tort claim against the Department of Homeland Security.

"The demand is simple and two-fold. Repeal the McCarran-Walter INA, in its entirety, with all its riders and expansions. Repeal the Homeland Security Act, abolishing ICE and DHS and separating its other agencies into appropriate departments." www.liberalcurrents.com/reopen-the-g...

Colorado lawmakers passed a bill that raises the number of hours an agricultural worker must put in to qualify for overtime. The measure helps farms and ranches, but opponents say the benefits come at the expense of workers.

‘Every space I occupy, someone’s trying to push me out of it’

Trump had several gripes while speaking at his No Tax on Tips event in Las Vegas Thursday evening. Yet in an incredible mental lapse, one of Trump’s points of frustration was about who the president was in 2025. trib.al/qBikhl3

Iran's foreign minister has said the Strait of Hormuz is "declared completely open" for the "remaining period of the ceasefire."

Images appearing to show members of An Garda Síochána being turned away from restaurants and cafés during the recent fuel price protests, alongside detailed accounts of this happening, have appeared on social media recently. jrnl.ie/7012692

The Mississippi Department of Corrections gave Management and Training Corporation $7.4 million in taxpayer funds to help staff three Mississippi prisons. State Auditor Shad White alleges MTC didn't provide what it was contracted to do and has issued civil demands to claw back the money.

Wondered why @scottishgreens.org weren’t bothering with my constituency (no leaflets, not even one) — they’re not standing. Can loan Swinney #1 vote with a clear conscience. Not sure how smart completely ignoring a Constituency is given English Greens are storming whatever they can… and winning.🤷‍♂️

Get rekt, bitch. No sympathies here 🖕

So Caitlyn Jenner just lost her female gender marker on her passport and she's still propping Donald Trump up. She needs to be shunned for the rest of her life.

This you Caitlyn?

Long time Trump supporter and trans woman Caitlyn Jenner has lost her “F” marker on her U.S. passport and has appealed for help to President Trump. She voted for Trump in 2016 and 2024.

Well beyond time for Scots to stop paying the licence fee. We get fuck all from the BBC but contempt. Broadcasters question 'borderline contemptuous' BBC interview with John Swinney www.thenational.scot/news/2602974...

Trump, 79, Posts Deranged New Jesus Picture After Furious Backlash - The Daily Beast

We’re supposed to believe neither Starmer nor anyone in his Cabinet was alerted to the fact that Mandelson failed security clearance. For the role of Ambassador to the USA. What utter bollocks.

iPhone users in Russia are being warned that Telega, an unofficial Telegram client, “contains malicious code,” the Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti reported, citing readers. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth mistakenly presented the made-up scripture as genuine Bible verse - and he's being trolled for quoting the gospel of Quentin Tarantino.

A 10-day ceasefire deal struck between Lebanon and Israel has taken effect today, sending displaced residents streaming south towards their homes, even as the Lebanese army warned of "a number of violations" by Israeli forces in the area jrnl.ie/7015416

Epstein Victim Makes Bombshell Claim About Melania Speech apple.news/AE3HuewJPQaa...

Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day

John Gibbons on carbon tax: It may be unpopular, but we need it to avoid a far more expensive future - the government was wrong to cave in after protests. jrnl.ie/7014904

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump's mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced. n.pr/4cfHuz7

Is the Pope American?

Eric Trump shouldn’t be visiting China with his dad apple.news/AXOgoGtTeSxu...

Donald Trump's drunkard woman abusing defence secretary quotes fake Pulp Fiction Bible verse For the love of imaginary deities — WTF are this shower still doing in power: www.thenational.scot/news/2602711...