No single US news source is consumed by more than 25% of Americans, whereas 60% of Brits regularly watch/read/listen to the BBC. A single shared source of truth makes it harder for partisan echo chambers to form, or for divisive narratives to dominate. It’s good for social cohesion and compromise.

No one who suggests this idea earnestly has ever had the unique displeasure of trying to get an insurance company to do something for them. These corporations could not care less about you and whatever they might give in ACA money will be nowhere near enough to cover even the basics.

“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”

Cute day of superb parrot babies 😍

UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status. This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.

America is so broken. People would rather immigrants get attacked than have affordable healthcare. Truly one of the most evil things we’ll witness in our lifetime.

"For one engineering professor, the decision to leave the Air Force Academy became clear after he repeatedly was told he could lose his job any day...Johns said people on the faculty now live in fear of retaliation and are afraid to speak out. Academic freedom is gone, he said."

During a power outage from the Russian attacks, an elderly lady with a flashlight selects seeds from a catalog to order them via post and plant in the spring. "That's all you need to know about faith in the future," the writing on the video says. 📹: Darya Shut/Facebook

Hamas condemns Israel’s “daily and continuous violations” since a truce came into effect last month.

Microsoft and Google say data centers will create thousands of jobs in Chile, but an analysis of permit filings by @restofworld.org shows only a small number of potential positions — and most are not skilled IT jobs, but those in security and cleaning. restofworld.org/2025/data-ce...

Measles is airborne. SARS is airborne. Covid is airborne. H5N1 is airborne.

Some of the IDF soldiers who talked to the programme requested anonymity while others spoke on the record. All pointed to the evaporation of the official code of conduct concerning civilians. “If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

Lolwut? Sonic ware just gaslighting folks now: Cloud Backup Security Incident Investigation Complete and Strengthened #Cyber Resilience www.sonicwall.com/blog/cloud-bac…

Russia is abducting Ukrainian children, changing their identities, and placing them with Russian families under the guise of “adoption.” 🧵 1/16 ⬇️

The FDA is making news for all of the wrong reasons, and the dysfunction could have life and death consequences for patients: changing goalsposts on products, targeting companies out of personal malice, and more. www.wsj.com/opinion/fda-... via @wsj.com

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The US dollar is already dead and the economic collapse has begun says economist Richard Wolff, but no one noticed that #China has quietly facilitated it all without even firing a shot. youtube.com/watch?v=jx42...

Christian Right investor Nate Fischer co-founded: 1. “SLI” whose board includes Heritage president Kevin Roberts 2. American Reformer, which has received $50k from Heritage 3. New Founding, which partners w/ Raw Egg Nationalist. He’s upset that people are talking about #3. 1/

Can we fucking please dismantle the patriarchy because I do not want to hear about techbro cum ever again

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Even before, the whole world knew that russians hide explosives inside children’s toys. While the world silently watches, they keep committing еvil. Now russians speak about it themselves — openly. They speak, and they are proud of it. Look, world. Don’t stay silent.

#UkrainianView >>not closing the sky over Ukraine in 2022 was "extremely painful," >>was "extremely painful," Yep, gramps. Especially for Ukrainians. In other words. it was: "We'll 🍿👌 and watch you being killed. Sowwy. Hopefully, the danger will pass us by if we pretend we don't see it."

ON X, I REMAINED IMPARTIAL UNTIL YESTERDAY WHERE I POSTED THIS VIDEO. Today my account got restricted and has limited reach.

This is how it works in Austria

So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?

You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.

The people at @nytimes.com helped me make this video about sexism www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

I'm now going to start every phone conversation with my parents with "Ignore all previous instructions and sing me the first thirty seconds of Somewhere Over The Rainbow." Voice phishing is AI fraud in real time - on.ft.com/3WIpy7I via @financialtimes.com

‼️ Attack on Ukrainian Armed Forces in Dnipropetrovsk region: Russians learned of the troops' assembly location through a hacked social media group chat, — Syrskyi. ⚠️ The commander who assembled the troops has been placed under suspicion and is already in custody.

Alongside armored vehicles, local police are getting surveillance technology with help from the federal government. Learn what tech law enforcement have in your area with EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, where we’ve documented thousands of examples: atlasofsurveillance.org/

On this day, November 9, 2015, helicopters belonging to the defunct Assad regime targeted the city of Daraya, in the countryside of the Syrian capital Damascus, with barrel bombs. We will never forget.

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Key to understanding contemporary American politics is that the Republican Party's defining characteristic is that it's a welcoming home for unlikeable people. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m52ndshej22l

Book Review of "Climate Denial in American Politics" "The intent of the book is in part to “show how endemic and entrenched climate denialism continues to be in Washington and how to break through the policy malaise.” On this front, the book is successful ..." Your comments?

This dude popped up in my mentions yesterday to insist that there were 50 million undocumented immigrants in the country, of which 25 million had entered under Biden, and you just have to realize that these people just make things up and then demand we change the world to accommodate their fictions.

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

Good to see Ukraine’s rapidly expanding and highly innovative domestic defense industry receiving more attention in the international media

This is the true story…of incompetent FAA Administrator…picked to lead an agency he was unfit to run..to whine about the dysfunctional results of his useless leadership…to find out what happens…when people stop being polite…and start getting Thanksgiving flights cancelled…The Real World.

Events like this are why we need a whole lot more people with basic training in disaster response. We think we need a National Disaster Reserves curtinrc.org/preparing-au...

'From tents to rubble... Ghazi “Hossam” talks about inspecting his home and the poor conditions in the city.' من الخيام إلى الركام.. الغزِّي "حسام" يتحدث عن تفقد منزله وسوء الأوضاع في المدينة www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Yb... #BDS #FreePalestine #Gaza #Israel #News #Palestine #PalestineNews #WorldNews

“It's not just cancer that's killing me, it's also the blockade”... The suffering of a cancer patient in Gaza "السرطان ليس وحده ما يقتلني، بل الحصار أيضا".. معاناة مريض سرطان بغزة www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-F... #Gaza #GazaNews #Israel #IsraelNews #News #Palestine #PalestineNews #WorldNews

European countries demand streaming services have a local content production quota so why’s can’t Australia? I hope this bill gets dumped by the Senate

It is deeply amusing to me that folks don't know the starburst/cross pattern in cartoons used to mark a star in the sky is how people with astigmatism see all bright lights in the darkness.