A controversial rule enacted last year that denies federal Medicaid funding to abortion providers is likely to expire this summer, despite anti-abortion pressure on Republicans to renew it. via @stateline.org

Tesla reported an estimated US federal tax bill of $0 for almost every year over two decades, despite hundreds of billions in US revenues. A Reuters analysis examines how it's done reut.rs/48wd21x

15 minutes; no questions; government got the blame; my department to have 60% of us sacked. Apparently sacking us will lead to a ‘new, improved’ curriculum. No voluntary scheme, straight to selection and legal minimum redundancy payment.

Heathrow can raise ticket prices to help pay for third runway bid, regulator says ft.trib.al/6Wu7QpM

NEW: Iran plans blockade of American blockade of Iranian blockade www.duffelblog.com/iran-plans-b...

#UK #Politics #EHRC Mary-Ann Stephenson keeps on proving to the world that she is inherently biased and persists on continuing to collude with Sex Matters, How else would it be possible that the EHRC website AND Sec Matters website have the same update available ON THE DAY EHRC PUBLISHED IT.

Not just published on the same day but you can actually download the pdf from the Sex Matters website.

🤯🤯🤯 "Matthew Swindells, the trust’s chair from April 2022 to March 2026, not only previously worked with Palantir through the advisory firm Global Counsel but also chaired the company’s health advisory committee. "Swindells returned to advising Palantir after the FDP was procured."

NATO already has its own messenger - The European Commission plans to switch by end of year - Belgium recently launched "BEAM" for government use.

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC’s 'hyping' of immigration issues and platforming of right-wing figures is damaging democracy through fuelling a false concept of far-right populism, experts have said

REGISTER TO VOTE DEADLINE IS TODAY. You NEED to vote in the May local elections and TODAY is the deadline to register. It only takes 5 minutes. Do it here: registertovote.service.gov.uk

Israël, qui confirme que le soldat photographié frappant une statue de Jésus est Israélien, présente des excuses

“We need to clean up politics.” “I will restore standards in public life” “Nobody will be above the law in a Britain I lead.” Keir Starmer Jan 4, 2024 labour.org.uk/updates/pres...

🚨🚨Fascinating @politico.eu report on how Donald #Trump has become so politically toxic in Europe that even his closest ideological #far-right allies increasingly view him as a liability. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/trum...

BREAKING Bulgarian ex-president Rumen Radev, an EU critic who has called for renewing ties with Russia, has won a parliamentary majority that could put an end to the country's years of political uncertainty, according to near complete vote results on Monday

As any working UK university academic could have told you any time in the last 2 decades, the system is structurally screwed, and was doomed to implode from the day the fees-and-competition fix was in. post18.co.uk/blood-debt-t...

Remember how we said Starmer was always just a bonnet ornament, and that the actual story was “Morgan wanted it, as Peter’s payoff for services rendered”, which is also the same story as “Peter cleared himself as suitable for the job”.

Handy Guide: ✅ Free Speech: When GCs who had no relation to my University complained to try and get me kicked off my course ❌ Not Free Speech: Exercising one's right to peaceful protest against those advocating your exclusion from society – on the campus you have to live and work in

"Is it correct that Mandelson was announced in post by the govt before the vetting process was completed?" Douglas Alexander says yes its true & the govt could do it so they did. He then refuses to acknowledge that specifically was a mistake

"she should tell her story and make a difference" the difference :

Note to people who use Android phones: if you back up your phone photos to google cloud, and delete them from the cloud backup, it also deletes the original photos on your phone. Download them to your computer hard disk before you delete them from the google photos cloud.

For most of my medical career, pancreatic cancer had a 5 year survival of 5-10%. For the current US administration to cut funding for mRNA vaccine research is staggeringly stupid.

Sleepless night, but with a realisation. After today, im done with socials & walking away from trans stuff. Politically, we're toast and our legacy LGBT & Trans orgs are functionally & strategically inept. Im just gonna get on with things as best I can, and enjoy being me while I still can. 1/3

Louisa James: "As one MP put it to me.. the bad decision was appointing Mandelson, the rest is just details" Susanna Reid: "How on earth did the PM appoint someone who he'd already been told was a walking red flag.. and then claim, more than a year later, 'well no-one told me'"

We need to make it clear now that men (let's be honest, it will be men) wear these and violate the social contract at their own risk. You violate me in any way, I can't be held responsible for what happens to you next.

Excuse me what

From Breakingviews - Breakingviews - US attends IMF meetings in a parallel reality reut.rs/4mMWIPO

like... it *is* a regular hand wave, I believe that. But it's also very funny that a couple seconds in he very clearly realises how bad a still of the open hand might look and closes his hand into a fist. No notes nazi tattoo man. Nailed it.

People could buy and pay off an EV by the time oil/gas prices return to pre-Iran war oil/gas prices. bsky.app/profile/just...

UK manufacturers divided on capacity to meet sovereign push, survey shows reut.rs/4tRTTyZ

People out there arguing coldly that it should be a crime to try to live as a trans person. These are dangerous fanatics, and they have the ear of at least 3 UK political parties, and most of the media.

Reform's latest anti-immigration policy document, which they blame on Boris Johnson (hence him and Kemi on it), features an AI generated image of a mass of brown men in front of the sea but don't call it a white supremacist party

Open All Hours (19th April 1981). Arkwright remembers Tommy Wilcox.

#52WeeksOfFavourites (16/26) #MusicChallenge Solo Songs Gary Numan - My Name Is Ruin youtu.be/lHomCiPFknY?...

The chief executive of the world’s biggest online dating company has set himself a delicate task: making Tinder less of a boys’ club ft.trib.al/N0Uc1Nl

US widens Hormuz blockade net as dark fleet hunted across Pacific splash247.com?p=237576

🧵 New course I’m teaching this fall: Football, Fußball, Fútbol: Modern European History through Soccer. 28 sessions, 4 books, 4 films. Here’s the full syllabus as a thread. Comments welcome.

#DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 19. From your favourite album. Depeche Mode - World In My Eyes youtu.be/nhZdL4JlnxI?si…

#readandplay (674) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Primal Scream - Come Together youtu.be/ZUjW82je_38?...

Trevor Phillips said on Sky News this morning that "everybody in the country who could read a newspaper" knew in advance of the Mandelson appointment that he was problematic is this the same Phillips who interviewed Mandelson on October 08 2023 and didn't ask any questions about Epstein friendship?

The Channel 4 dispatches documentary is still available. It features Andrea Williams, head of ‘Christian Concern’. There is some insane things in here, the brainwashing of children is particularly sinister youtu.be/2gqhlRdOxJg?...

The Telegraph did a wild puff piece for an anti-abortion org full of disinformation. I stayed up late bringing together info on the extremists they platformed and breaking down the disinformation 😴 please read and share to cut through some of the damaging propaganda substack.com/@gemmaclark1...

I see Mary-Ann Stephenson really is building a relationship with LGBT organisation, by having her Labour colleague* infiltrate Stonewall. (* Stephenson is a party political appointee, contrary to Paris Principles.)

#JackTheHouse #MusicChallenge Day 19. Faithless - We Come 1. youtu.be/65EfTFUFDwI?...

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Rowling's single mother charity gingerbread had to close its phone lines due to lack of funds the same week she announced her transphobic women's funds. Look at her priorities not her PR. How do people keep getting spellbound by her, it would be an insult to real wicca to call this witchcraft.

Péter Magyar, le tombeur de Viktor Orbán, est un ex-fan absolu du Premier ministre vaincu, dont il a défendu et partagé plus d'une idée, notamment sur l'immigration, la famille ou l'Ukraine…

🗓️ #OTD in 1943 – COPP men based in Malta are surprised when a group of US Scouts & Raiders arrive at their camp in Għajn Tuffieħa – until now, they had no idea the Americans are operating a similar beach reconnaissance, marking and pilotage unit. #NavalHistory 🧵 ▶️ buff.ly/QFIllCx

Every day when I go through the papers it's just story after story of cis men murdering and abusing cis women and then you turn the page and it's EVIL TRANNIES MUST BE STOPPED TO PROTECT WOMEN. There's never a headline about stopping cis men.