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www.fwi.co.uk/news/environ...
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âLucky escapeâ as government shelves COP30 methane pledge - Farmers Weekly
The government has quietly shelved proposals to announce a UK-specific pledge at the COP30 climate summit to cut methane emissions from livestock by 30%
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/environment/lucky-escape-as-government-shelves-cop30-methane-pledge
about 11 hours ago
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Damian Carrington
1 day ago
China is âreshaping the worldâs energy outlook, geopolitics and its capacity to limit the catastrophic effects of
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@economist.com
- "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than US makes from exporting fossil fuels' $
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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Chinaâs clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The worldâs biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/11/06/chinas-clean-energy-revolution-will-reshape-markets-and-politics
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Farming lobby groups from 12 countries â led by the NFU and Beef + Lamb New Zealand â are heading to COP30 to push the UN to rewrite how methane is measured (aka that GWP* business)
www.farmersguardian.com/news/4521064...
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Farming organisations demand UN fix inaccurate emissions accounting that overstates agriculture's climate impact
Farmers, processors and agricultural organisations from 11 nations have united to call for an overhaul of how emissions are calculated to ensure the industry is not misrepresented
https://www.farmersguardian.com/news/4521064/farming-organisations-demand-fix-inaccurate-emissions-accounting-overstates-agricultures-climate-impact
4 days ago
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this is a good and important campaign but it makes me think of the 'bean ballet' ad from mad men
www.youtube.com/shorts/3cR0N...
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Michael Grunwald
5 days ago
Dick Cheney got George W. Bush to break his promise to regulate carbon emissions, and began turning climate into a strictly partisan issue. He was always loyal to fossil fuels and thatâs a huge part of his legacy.
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however welcome this intervention is, wtf is his hair doing
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Boris Johnson tells Tories to stop âbashing green agendaâ or risk losing next election
Former PM says he has not seen party âsoaring in the polls as a result of saying what rubbish net zero isâ
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/30/boris-johnson-conservatives-green-politics-election
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this whistleblower memo should be front of mind when developing the UK's food strategy a key point đ food companies are ditching 'buy british' promise in favour of cheap, low-welfare meat
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Anil Dash
12 days ago
Itâs too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.
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'Amazon hides its water consumption' was one hypothetical headline the memo warned of always amusing when someone writes down the thing they don't want to happen nice work from
@lukewbarratt.bsky.social
@rosafurneaux.bsky.social
@source-material.org
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
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Leak reveals Amazon plan to keep water use of data centres secret
Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centresâ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.
https://www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-reveals-true-data-centres-water-usage-secret-plan/
13 days ago
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David Ho
14 days ago
We solved climate change! At least in the climate game, Daybreak. All it took was some climate reporters and scientists working together, an all-out effort to decarbonize the world and enhance natural carbon sinks, and COâ removal (CDR) and solar radiation modification (SRM) deployments. Easy. 1/2
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last year i chronicled how a beef industry exec and an industry-funded think tank turned the EU against lab-grown meat
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/07/30/c...
turns out it's the exact same guys who persuaded the EU parliament to ban phrases like 'veggie burger' and 'plant-based sausage'
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How a livestock industry lobbying campaign is turning Europe against lab-grown meat
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/07/30/cultivated-backlash-livestock-industry-lobbying-europe-lab-grown-meat/
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wild that the chocolate and the rubber industries are begging the EU to implement its long-delayed deforestation standards
www.ft.com/content/7593...
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Companies slam new delay to EU deforestation law
Food and commodities groups say Brussels risks undermining its own green agenda
https://www.ft.com/content/75932ad6-6786-4cc3-997a-4835e4dfe8cb
19 days ago
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MAGA vs MAHA, or how the soda sector undermined one of the better things about RFK's health plan great work by
@fieldnotes.co
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Inside the Republican network behind big sodaâs bid to pit Maga against Maha
A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jrâs movement to change Americansâ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/19/inside-the-republican-network-behind-big-sodas-bid-to-pit-maga-against-maha
20 days ago
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Akshat Rathi
23 days ago
Extraordinary scenes unfolding at the global meeting to put a charge on shipping carbon emissions. "The United States is waging war against multilateralism, UN diplomacy and climate diplomacy, at this meeting now, inside the building and outside the building." đđ
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Singapore Proposes to Delay Key Vote on Shipping Carbon Charge
A plan to make the shipping industry pay for its carbon emissions was hanging in the balance on Friday after the US piled pressure on nations to scrap an initiative thatâs been years in the making.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-17/singapore-proposes-to-delay-key-vote-on-shipping-carbon-charge?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MDcwNDI0MywiZXhwIjoxNzYxMzA5MDQzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNDlRWTFHUFFRQVAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwQzg4NkY0NTI0NzY0RUE0OEY2QTk4RTk1NDc5RTI2NSJ9.JJ_uU0mc1ISZDGU1eh75Y3vVtemzttcwv4qFh8ynxEw
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lol imagine being told you're not allowed to say 'farmed with care'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Watchdog rules Red Tractor exaggerated its environmental standards
The Advertising Standards Authority agrees with River Action that the food safety bodyâs 2023 advert misled the public
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/15/watchdog-rules-red-tractor-exaggerated-environmental-standards
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Henry Mance
27 days ago
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
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you'd think that, just weeks before a global climate summit in the amazon, the UK government would want the public to understand what rainforest collapse would do to food prices... but no it's been spiked for being 'too negative'
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices
Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/no-10-blocks-report-on-impact-of-rainforest-collapse-on-food-prices-k6ms9sj9b?t=1760004250604
about 1 month ago
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five years after failing to get terms like 'plant-based burger' and 'veggie sausage' banned in europe, looks like the livestock lobby going to get its way
www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...
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Parliament pushes for âveggie burgerâ ban | Euractiv
Lawmakers back stricter labelling for meat alternatives
https://www.euractiv.com/news/parliament-pushes-for-veggie-burger-ban/
about 1 month ago
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v interesting that the boss of the world's biggest meat company JBS thinks ozempic could be fuelling the recent protein craze
www.ft.com/content/5fad...
about 1 month ago
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oh man the global plastics treaty is busted
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UN plastics treaty chair to step down with process in turmoil
Exclusive: Luis Vayas Valdivieso says he is quitting for personal and professional reasons after reports of pressure behind the scenes
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/07/un-plastics-treaty-chair-to-step-down-with-process-in-turmoil
about 1 month ago
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John Burn-Murdoch
about 2 months ago
Grimly crisp illustration of the mechanism whereby toxic and unrepresentative social media shapes mainstream coverage. Prominent journalist logs onto X, sees claim, assumes truth, repeats in national broadcast from trusted mainstream news org. Happens all day every day, just especially stark here.
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it's my understanding that these findings are causing some consternation at the reform conference
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2 months ago
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Katie Martin
2 months ago
Going for 'no' here
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farage is opening pandora's box by promising to get fracking. i've identified 34 reform target seats that would be impacted, and exclusive polling shows it's a divisive issue amongst 'reform-curious' voters â my latest for
@unearthednews.bsky.social
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/09/05/r...
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Reform target seats would be among those first to be fracked, analysis shows
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/09/05/reform-uk-fracking-map/
2 months ago
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the UK is on a dark path
www.spectator.co.uk/article/robe...
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Robert Jenrick: âAsylum seekers should be detained in campsâ
On a table in Robert Jenrickâs parliamentary office lies the first part of Ronald Huttonâs biography of Oliver Cromwell, a conventional MP who became radicalised by events and usurped a monarch. The s...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/robert-jenrick-asylum-seekers-should-be-detained-in-camps/
2 months ago
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quite funny that douglas carswell deleted this on the other site
4 months ago
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Energy and Policy Institute
4 months ago
The American Chemistry Council is supporting a new effort to weaponize AI to combat science it doesn't like, according to materials obtained by EPI. Story by
@dharna.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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Inside a plan to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants
Risk analyst Tony Coxâs work has been backed by the chemical lobby, and some health experts are alarmed
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jun/27/tony-cox-epidemiology-risk-assessment-chatgpt-ai
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Chartered Institute of Housing
5 months ago
đąGood news: The 200-year-old Vagrancy Act is finally to be repealed, meaning rough sleeping will no longer be treated as a crime in England & Wales. CIH have long called for an approach that tackles the root causes of homelessnessânot punishes people for it. This is a welcome & long overdue changeđ§”âŹïž
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Rough sleeping to be decriminalised after 200 years
The Government has confirmed it will repeal the outdated Vagrancy Act 1824 by Spring next year, to ensure rough sleeping is no longer a criminal offence.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/rough-sleeping-to-be-decriminalised-after-200-years
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water comanies are freaking out that they're about to have millions of tonnes of toxic sewage sludge with 'nowhere to go' my latest for
@unearthednews.bsky.social
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@ellieodonnell.bsky.social
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/06/09/s...
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âNo Plan Bâ: Water companies fear pollution crackdown will stop them spreading sewage sludge on farmland
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/06/09/sewage-sludge-water-pollution-rules/
5 months ago
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Paul Behrens
5 months ago
This is incredibly unfair: high-income nations with large dairy sectors are looking to adopt a "no additional warming" target, avoiding the methane cuts needed to meet international targets and pledges. We have written an open letter to the NZ PM and I spoke to the FTđđ§”
www.ft.com/content/2ea6...
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Scientists accuse New Zealand and Ireland of trying to cover up livestock emissions
âAccounting trickâ to support methane-emitting sectors undermines fight against climate change, say researchers
https://www.ft.com/content/2ea6a69d-765e-48d5-b2f2-50dce8427862
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Emma Howard
5 months ago
Three years after our investigation into Total's huge carbon offsetting project in the Congo, the oil giant is abandoning it -
@reporterre.net
reports. It's reportedly stopped funding the project & pulled staff out the country. It planted 12.5% of the intended trees.
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TotalEnergies abandonne en catimini un projet de compensation carbone au Congo
AprĂšs l'avoir lancĂ© en grande pompe, TotalEnergies abandonne en silence un projet de plantation de forĂȘt pour compenser ses Ă©missions en RĂ©publique du Congo. 12 % des arbres promis y ont Ă©tĂ© plantĂ©s, ...
https://reporterre.net/TotalEnergies-abandonne-en-catimini-un-projet-de-compensation-carbone-au-Congo
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what a stat new data centre = the emissions of an airport
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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Data centre blitz threatens Labourâs net zero hopes
Northumberland project to generate as much carbon dioxide as Birmingham Airport
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/05/27/data-centre-blitz-threatens-labours-net-zero-hopes/
5 months ago
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top notch supply chain investigating by
@hazelhealy.bsky.social
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@desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/r...
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Revealed: UK Supermarket Seabass Linked to Devastating Overfishing in Senegal
Waitrose, Co-op, Lidl, Asda and Aldi among retailers selling fish fed on west African catch
https://www.desmog.com/2025/05/22/revealed-uk-supermarket-seabass-linked-to-devastating-overfishing-in-senegal/
6 months ago
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buried in this
@economist.com
story: shale gas giant harold hamm (a big player in trumpworld) held a summit with oil execs to make sure the ai boom is powered by fossil fuels cc
@ketanjoshi.co
@dougparr.bsky.social
www.economist.com/business/202...
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Richa Syal
6 months ago
Whatâs the point of banning greenwashing if big brands can just carry on? Our latest investigation has found major brands have continued to promote green claims, months or even years after they were ruled âmisleadingâ by the UK ad watchdog:
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/05/14/m...
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Revealed: Companies repeat misleading green claims despite UK ad bans
Major brands, including car manufacturers, an airline, and a bottled water company have apparently continued to promote environmental claims after they were ruled âmisleadingâ in a crackdown on greenw...
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/05/14/misleading-green-claims-uk-ad-bans/
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this whole story is embarassing, but esp because the journo (called james crisp lol) calls picnic food 'british tapas'
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
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British picnics at risk from EU net zero rules
Suppliers of al fresco favourites could face red tape, fines and prison under Brusselsâ bid to protect worldâs forests
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/10/british-picnics-risk-eu-net-zero-rules/
6 months ago
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Joe Sandler Clarke
7 months ago
New from me and
@ellieodonnell.bsky.social
Historic landfills pose a looming environmental threat We found over 2,600 sites with potentially hazardous waste close to watercourses across England And over 100 sites that have flooded since 2000
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/04/26/h...
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Over 100 potentially toxic landfills have flooded since 2000
Scientists raise concerns about the risks posed by historic landfills as climate change increases flooding
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/04/26/historic-landfills-flooding/
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Elizabeth Kolbert
7 months ago
"The biggest consequence might be losing entire ecosystems before scientists have a chance to understand them."
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Trump Takes a Major Step Toward Seabed Mining in International Waters (Gift Article)
A new executive order pits the United States against the rest of the world over the question of who can exploit mineral resources in shared waters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/climate/trump-seabed-mining.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CE8.LOlm.NhOTZpDUiJ6l&smid=bs-share
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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...
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E.P.A. Set to Cancel Grants Aimed at Protecting Children From Toxic Chemicals
The cancellations, set to apply to pending and active grants, also affect research into âforever chemicalsâ contaminating the food supply.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/climate/epa-cuts-forever-chemicals-grants.html
7 months ago
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Unearthed
7 months ago
đ JBS, the worldâs biggest meat company, says itâs cleaning up its supply chain in the Amazon by the end of this year. đł We spoke to 30+ ranchers and industry leaders. The vast majority said JBS will miss its target: itâs âhumanly impossibleâ, said one.
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/04/17/j...
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JBS is likely to fail to deliver on its Amazon deforestation promise, ranchers say
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/04/17/jbs-amazon-deforestation-pledge-ranchers/
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tasty meat story by
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@theguardian.com
today
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
the PR firm it focuses on is irish agency Red Flag, who i've had a couple of run-ins with over the years...
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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/11/pr-campaign-may-fuelled-food-study-backlash-leaked-document-eat-lancet
7 months ago
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Luke Barratt
7 months ago
New from me: I've spent the last 6 months compiling a map of data centres, whose locations are generally secret, operated by Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Cross-referencing that map with areas of water scarcity shows many are in the world's driest areas.
www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
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Big Tech's data centres will take water from world's driest areas
Amazon, Microsoft and Google's data centres use vast amounts of water in some of the worldâs driest areas and they are building more.
https://www.source-material.org/amazon-microsoft-google-trump-data-centres-water-use/
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Tim Onion
7 months ago
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Trump Assures Wall Street Heâll Go Back To Just Fucking Over Poor People Soon
WASHINGTONâIn response to market panic about his new wide-ranging tariffs, President Donald Trump reportedly offered Wall Street assurance Friday that he would soon go back to just fucking over poor p...
https://theonion.com/trump-assures-wall-street-hell-go-back-to-just-fucking-over-poor-people-soon/
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didn't know i was going to appear in the new yorker this week but proud to represent all zachs in the war with our almost namesakes
www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...
7 months ago
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Robinson Meyer
7 months ago
At this moment, itâs simply reassuring to know that this set of discerning policy professionals has also reformed the countryâs medical research agenda, energy R&D portfolio, foreign aid and intelligence program, and military doctrine. We are in good hands.
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Don Moynihan
7 months ago
"A very large Italian man came up to me, tears in his eyes, and said 'Sir, we would love to have your beautiful beef. Our beef is weak, so weak.'"
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So many fascinating nuggets in this FT story, including how Farage predicts ditching net zero will be 'the next Brexit'
www.ft.com/content/ecb8...
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Reform UK figures plan Maga-style think-tank to build policy and attract US donors
Outfit seeks backing from âreligious conservativesâ
https://www.ft.com/content/ecb81e0e-11f6-469b-86ef-8e29996b9019
7 months ago
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"The company is run by Richard Smith, a businessman who owns 55 Tufton Street, a Westminster townhouse that is home to some of Britainâs most influential right-wing lobbying and research groups"
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...
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Major Reform U.K. Donor Sold Weapons Parts to Russian Supplier
The aerospace company H.R. Smith Group was an early backer of the party after Nigel Farage became leader. Reform has faced criticism over comments seen as supporting Moscow.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/world/europe/reform-uk-donor-farage-technology-russia-sanctions-india.html
8 months ago
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