They are designed to lure corporations with 10-year tax breaks and 25-year licenses, and many more deregulatory perks. Free zones are basically tax havens, they leech astronomical amounts of State aid (public money) for corporate welfare. open.substack.com/pub/european...

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Humans need connection and physical proximity. No amount of social media will compensate for loneliness and isolation - instead it will compound it.

Reset.

"So why did ICE detain her, & keep her locked up for so long...ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that'" Do NOT come to the US. #WC2026 #Olympics2028 #TartanArmy

80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein. 16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.

Farage - grifting multimillionaire and highest earning MP Tice - family money multimillionaire Yusuf - multimillionaire Jenrick - millionaire Zahawi - multimillionaire But they want to cut the National Minimum Wage down from £12.21 per hour. (It goes up 50p in April.) God, they’re hideous.

BREAKING: CNN uncovered multiple unredacted videos inside DOJ Epstein files, including footage where a girl says she is just 15 years old. These files sat in government custody for years.

Gibraltar to regain freedom of movement within days, in post-Brexit legal tidy-up What about the rest of us? @cluthaman.bsky.social @euromovescotland.bsky.social euobserver.com/203406/gibra...

Ethnic cleansing concerns in Gaza and West Bank amid intensified violence and forcible transfers by Israel – UN report

Interesting read.

Ever since I started partnering with Matter of Trust, I’ve been fascinated by this technology. Our bodies are fields that naturally produce things to help nature thrive.

If there is a term that is more chilling than “Orwellian,” it would apply here. Israel has been lying since day one. If you want direct teaching: “Deceiving others is strictly forbidden.” “The Holy One, blessed be He, hates a person which says one thing with his mouth and another in his heart.”

MILLIONS OF KIDS DEAD. The sheer scope of death & misery, the callousness of the evil behind this are so severe & so plainly out-in-the-open, it’s a severe indictment of our entire country that even THIS doesn’t make media / business / congress just stop and say “ok what the fuck are we doing here?”

Nearly 100k people have joined our call to get dangerous US spy tech firm out of our NHS. Palantir's founder has called for the NHS to be ripped up. Now his company has access to millions of patient records. Tell the government to end the contract! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

“… because the powerful believe there will be no consequences, and rely on the public believing that their impunity cannot be checked, we all (have to) go along with this systemic denial – the perpetrators, the public, and the survivors who must live with the truth.”

The burden should always have fallen on tech companies – not on the women harmed by their failures. But the harm doesn’t end here. We’re fighting back, and we want to hear your story. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6ed1549yvo

Somewhere, somehow, at a right-wing tabloid, the most deranged Meghan story of all time is being birthed

To recap in light of breaking news out of the UK: The French found a way to prosecute former presidents. The South Koreans did the same. Our British cousins now literally are prosecuting members of the Royal Family. But U.S. presidents remain above the law.

There is a group in Kent doing local papers in print as well as online. Looks quite interesting. www.brightsidepublishing.com/our-magazines/ A friend is involved in the Faversham launch

Thank you to our authors on BlueSky who have contributed to our anthology! @nazishmunch.bsky.social @abbk1.bsky.social @jodes.bsky.social @singingtotigers.bsky.social @lizottosson.bsky.social @nishxhegde.bsky.social #greenstories #postivefutures #greenepiphanies #shortstories #shortstoryanthology

much like her boyfriend éric zemmour using his friendship with her parents as a springboard to groom, molest, & brainwash her to be a nazi

A party led by millionaires, funded by Russians and billionaires thinks the UK can only be saved if they make the poorest workers poorer.

Karp is worth twelve billion dollars. His colleague Peter Thiel is worth over twice as much. They have surveillance contracts riddling the international public sphere. They are fascists and lunatics. This is all absolutely insane. But it's the reality our "leaders" insist on imposing on us.

🇵🇰 A building collapse caused by an explosion in Pakistan's southern megacity of Karachi killed at least 16 people on Thursday, including children, officials said. ➡️ u.afp.com/S6sE

California’s #beavers are making a comeback, and that’s good news for climate resilience, from flood control to #wildfire prevention. buff.ly/pO9IZVj 🧵 2/8

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Billionaire owner of Manchester United condemns immigrants – but he also sets an example of how to do it right | Nazish Saad

Why do the quote marks make it seem like people are being homophobic to the beavers?

"We look after each other and we work hard." Hannah Spencer providing the antidote to Reform's hate and division in the BBC Gorton and Denton by-election debate 💪

The full cost is currently estimated at around £14bn, based on the projects currently included in the TfW vision. It is estimated the impact will enable the creation of 12,000 jobs, see over 13 million more passenger journeys each year and have £6.3bn wider economic benefits. 3/3

Trump: It’s a hoax. We should move on. Trump’s DOJ: There’s nothing to investigate. The UN: The revelations suggest a global criminal enterprise…a number of the abuses meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

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I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.

I never stop thinking about this story. www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...

looks like Mamdani is gonna get his rent freeze this year after all. big news on the housing beat from @smaldo.bsky.social:

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

Canadian PM Mark Carney: “There are many strengths to this partnership that we have with the United States. “But it is a dependency, and it’s a dependency where we want to change in a positive way by building up our defence capacities here and our other partnerships abroad.”

Is the EU heading for a social dumping disaster? The proposed '28th Regime' would let companies choose EU-level rules over national labour & tax laws. Trade unions warn it could trigger a race to the bottom for workers’ rights. Innovation — or deregulation? Watch our new explainer video &find out👇

What is #lobbying — and why should you care? This new video series breaks down how power, influence, and politics really work behind the scenes. Watch the first episode with @marcellablues.bsky.social and follow along as we unpack lobbying and its impact on everyday life.

Some news about People Need Nature peopleneednature.org.uk

🚨 Breaking news in Epstein Case 🚨 The New Mexico Legislature has passed HR1 to convene a Truth Commission and investigate Epstein’s crimes in NM, including at Zorro Ranch—led by State Reps Andrea Romero and Marianna Anaya. Full explainer here: youtu.be/DnOTfR_msPw?...

Reminder- These nasty ass people aren't stepping down from positions because of associations with Epstein. They're quitting because they got outted in the files.

Those who want to rejoin the EU are now 26% ahead of those who want to keep Brexit. 💥💥💥 That includes: 86% of 18-25 year olds! 🇪🇺 60% of retired peole! 🇪🇺 The British public knows what it wants. So why won't Starmer's Labour give it to them ???

Maybe there's hope for the new generation after all.

The UK is going big on community-owned green energy with a £1 billion push! Think solar, wind, and even biomass—all controlled by the locals. It’s like energy democracy! 🌍💡 Check it out: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/02/15/in-the-uk-power-to-the-people-is-latest-clean-energy-trend/

‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility.