Lawyers & accountants push back against at UK anti-money laundering reforms. Lawyers/Accountants are central illicit financial flows, regulated by ineffective trade associations. We have the farce of 23 AML regulators. Independent regulation long overdue. archive.ph/R50mZ

Brazil forest loss linked to coffee hit 737,000 hectares between 2002 and 2023, report says reut.rs/4hnqAzf

www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/wher... This is a 'fun' one isn't it? I think it's FOI season again too.

Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ted finally deleted this lie over 24 hours later. Only the 900th time he has posted a fake right-wing internet lie. You would think a US Senator would take a few minutes to make sure these things are legit, but we are talking about Ted Cruz.

All this stuff, aside from being ugly as hell, once more proposes the UK as a country which doesn’t pay its debts. It’s unserious.

Please stop sharing this pic - this is an AI image. Quite apart from anything else, the ballroom is to the east, not the west. The real renderings are quite ugly enough to make your point without spreading misinformation (real renderings here www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...)

Labour is trapping itself in a new lie. Saying that the costs of Brexit are the fault of how it was implemented implies that you can implement it in a way that undoes them. Labour's red lines on the Customs Union and Single Market mean we have to live with almost all of those costs.

For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type. By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.

This fascinating show offers visitors a deeper sense of Le Guin’s maps as world-making and storytelling devices.

In todays 'people doing mental things'Big Dogs Backward ultra is on - and the British and Womens world records are gone. Backyards are a simple concept: every hour you have to run one lap of a 4.1 mile course. No more. No less. It ends when there are no more runners. They're now up to 90 laps

In a battle between large Chinese and European companies, governments are opting to put both of these ahead of smaller traders and consumers. For Temu and Shein will find ways around restrictions, as large companies do. Challengers won't.

Won't be a great look for a government that supposedly supports open trade to follow the EU and US in ending de minimis exemptions, bad news for consumers and small businesses in particular, but protecting incumbents is a large part of today's economic policy www.ft.com/content/f432...

The mirage of safety: Dubai, Reform UK, and the false promise of order Dubai’s promise of safety and order, like that of Reform UK, rests on an illusion and comes at a cost to those without power By Mike Chitty @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

UN says aid entering Gaza still falling short of requirements as Israel continues to block aid, close border crossings.

I watched this years ago. A totally fascinating documentary. What I remember the most from it is Hitler’s obsession with building grand monuments.

Imagine if people thought a life was worth the same amount regardless of the borders it lives in.

PR Hype. Water firms in England could face harsher sewage fines. Firms still pay dividends, mega exec pay Fines have been virtually abolished. Amounts handed back to firms for environmental improvements. They displace investment, improve balance sheet. Must remove the profit motive. Nationalise.

💔 Gaza’s children are not numbers in a poll. They are real. ✊ Public opinion is changing — but my child needs help today. 👉 Please, help me cover the cost of his treatment. 🔁 Share this post, raise awareness, and if you’re able — donate. 👇👇👇 chuffed.org/project/1399...

Bank of England chief warns of ‘worrying echoes’ of 2008 financial crash. Dash to the next crash: Post-2008 crash laws mostly repealed. No regulation of shadow banking More deregulation. Bankers collect rewards for speculation, people fund bailouts.

Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says. Adds that the rise of parties like Nigel Farage’s Reform party is “completely terrifying”. Yet no end to real wage/benefit cuts; no curbs on profiteering; little redistribution.

Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

It doesn't matter how despicable a person is, mocking their innate physical appearance is always wrong. Not because it's cruel to them, but because it perpetuates the harmful idea that innate physical appearance has anything to do with one's character / beliefs / actions.

One benchmark of a democracy is whether it is willing to hold those who have served at the very highest levels to account. Can you imagine the United States ever doing something like this?

Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

Thought for the day: Currently '#AI' is like the old joke 'helping old ladies cross the road when they don't really want to cross the road'

@mrjamesob.bsky.social if only there had been a plan for pandemic preparation 🤔 Boris Johnson scrapped a team of senior ministers charged with preparing the country for a pandemic six months before the outbreak of coronavirus in the UK. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202... @lbc.co.uk 👇

Robert Peston, "Where are you on the banning of Maccabi fans?" Zack Polanski, "I'm Jewish, I take antisemitism really seriously" "I don't think banning Maccabi fans is antisemitic at all"

Sanae Takaichi elected Japan’s new prime minister — the first woman in the country’s history to hold the post

www.bbc.com/news/article... Netanyahu won’t stop until he drives every Palestinian out of Gaza, the West Bank and the Golan Heights

Reform UK's Lee Moffitt, Councillor for Wigan Central promised to lower HMOs in the area. His lettings business Lobster Lettings deals in HMOs and he's just put another on the market... www.onthemarket.com/details/7987... He seems to own houses under one company and let them out under the other.

I didn't know about this (horrific) story: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mar... may have been the basis for the plot driver for Idiocracy? #sciencefiction

4m people in England & Wales spend more on essentials than they earn. 580,000 have £50 left at the end of the month. Result of low wages/benefits, austerity, unchecked profiteering. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Poverty is a political choice.

Going on my holidays. Thought I would get some more money for it. Swapped £300 for £3,000 counterfeit online. Guess what didn't come? And it's not like I can go to the police and compain.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Happily, I have inoculated myself by watching a great deal of Scooby-Doo. I even know Shaggy's actual first name.

This episode of @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social on the Federalist papers is really interesting. It has reinforced me in becoming more interested in civic virtue, definitely a more conservative turn in my thought as a result from these recent years. leftofphilosophy.buzzsprout.com/1413505/epis...

The Land of Sweet Forever by Harper Lee review – newly discovered stories from an American great

Fair play for an actual honest headline by the editor of City AM. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Peston tells Lam that she said something that he "genuinely didn't understand". "But who are these people who came legally who should leave?" This does not look like faux naivety. He should know the answer! She misleads in her answer to him. So he gives a misleading summary of her policy on air.

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

The Bear wants the scissors to silence. But until we stop pretending cuts are neutral and investment is wasteful, that snip-snip-snip will never stop.

Just because the AWS block is a lot bigger and sturdier doesn't mean it's not also a single point of failure

Inside how OpenAI’s legal battle with Elon Musk has caught company critics in the crossfire, according to sources, legal experts, and the nonprofits themselves. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I think we can lay the groundwork to win this. @hammerandhope.bsky.social ran an interview with the folks who won Build Public Renewables in New York, lessons there worth checking out hammerandhope.org/article/clim...

We are pushing for participatory budgeting in Portland, OR. Collecting signatures now for a 2026 ballot measure. If it passes, it would set aside 2% of the city's general fund for PB, open to all residents including youth and noncitizens.

Polish painter Nespoon creates street art with lace patterns #WomensArt

Nothing to see here, just defeated Tory London Mayoral candidate Susan Hall retweeting a post with 4 women Labour MPs' photos and the caption "Emily Pankhurst must be turning in her grave". *Emmeline 🤡

Also, that backing track being built around Sly Stone's Underdog is perfection youtu.be/YBL9K4Ml0JU?...