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$1.5 BILLION. Let me say it again - a $1.5 BILLION BET. Bigger than any futures purchases made at the time. 5 minutes before Trump's post. Who was it? Trump? A family member? A White House staffer? This is corruption. Mind blowing corruption.

I just spent £61 in @NewLook and was told I had to give my email address to get a receipt. That is completely false and totally unlawful. A receipt is a legal requirement when a customer asks for one and it cannot be made conditional on handing over personal data. UK GDPR is very clear that consent has to be freely given and necessary for the service. An email is not needed to print a receipt. What makes this worse is their target demographic is younger people who often do not know their rights. The girls (all of them) behind the till lied straight to my face, then got shitty when I challenged them. When she realised I was a nasty mean old bird, she finally printed mine, and everyone else in the queue suddenly asked for printed receipts too. That tells you everything. Customers do not want this. I will be reporting it, because this kind of data-grabbing is out of control and companies like New Look know exactly what they are doing. It is shocking behaviour.

@SpencerHakimian Facts > opinions

“Tourism is way up.” - Trump Why lie about the most easily disprovable data points?

@Telegraph @BjornLomborg Lomborg really is a broken record – same tune on repeat for 20 years…

✍️ "Investing in climate tech research and getting rid of targets will free up money for rearmament," writes @BjornLomborg telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/0…

In a huge U-turn, Meta is to get rid of factcheckers, reduce content moderation & recommend more political content. This signals a company with no fixed principles or values, that just sways according to the political climate. This will surely have far-reaching repercussions…

@JaredRyanSears @kaitlancollins This pattern of policies/action that Jared describes is–as he says–part of a well established playbook that’s been used in many countries. I can’t recommend highly enough this interview of Ezra Klein’s with the authors of How Democracy Dies on this topic open.spotify.com/episode/3HbRyk…

@kaitlancollins -Painting the media as untrustworthy. -Censoring history and limiting what can be taught in schools. -Banning books and attacking libraries. This is how fascist movements begin.

As someone who loved going to the library growing up, it’s so disappointing to see what’s happening in my hometown, where the library’s director was fired for simply fulfilling an open records request. Libraries should be havens for curious kids to learn, not political battlegrounds. al.com/news/2024/03/l…

@Robert_E_Kelly This video clip made so many people around the world laugh so much. The way you styled it out was impressive! But I felt so sorry for your wife—that terrible moment of realisation that the kids had got into your study, & her panicked response to get them out!

BBC Dad content Today is the 7th anniversary of the BBC Dad blooper. So here it is again, with some recent family pictures in the thread below. 1

@DrSimEvans @threadreaderapp unroll please

MEGA FACTCHECK EVs are “likely crucial” for tackling transport CO2, says the IPCC – and sales are rocketing But EVs still face relentless hostile media coverage So, I spent the past few months debunking 21 (!) of the most common EV myths Here it is 🧵 carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21-m…

@maitlis Emily, I can assure you it’s not the wine, though reading these revelations makes me need to open a bottle…!

I keep reading and rereading this to make sure it’s not the wine ….

It was always farcical to appoint the CEO of an oil company to be the head of #COP28—now we learn they’ve been using COP28 to drum up oil deals, in a serious breach of UN rules. #ClimateCrisis COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Excellent thread on the OBR’s significantly reduced forecast for #EV sales in the UK. TLDR: the March 2023 forecast was probably over optimistic, and the Nov 2023 forecast is probably overly conservative.

@bencoates1 @threadreaderapp unroll please

What does Geert Wilders actually want, in policy terms? A 🧵.

An informative thread summarising Geert Wilders’ policy proposals makes for disturbing reading: what a dark, hateful, climate-destabilised world these far-right politicians want to create. May my children never live to see their dystopian vision become a reality…

@HeleneBismarck British, unless I’m talking to French people (saying I’m Scottish guarantees a much warmer reaction)! We moved from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 during my childhood so I have some Englishness despite having no English blood. I like that Britishness is an amalgam of—and shaped by—our 4 countries!

@saschaosullivan I hope your response was suitably robust with some choice words that Australians use so well!

Today a man on the tube! Yelled (yelled!!) at me for taking up space with this angel!! Angel I tell you. They should be so lucky to be allowed near her

@LiamABlack Sadly this is pretty accurate…

Hey @UKEnterprise, your website has a problem processing online payments. I’ve tried repeatedly on multiple platforms only to receive error messages. It’s a waste of my time & forces me to select the more expensive option of paying on arrival. This isn’t ok—get the basics right!

@AvaSantina He just gets ever more odious and twisted as he gets older. What happens to people for them to get like this???

Laurence Fox just did a whole speech on GB News on why men apparently won’t shag me ?

4/ The Tory government has repeatedly been criticised by its own Climate Change Committee for its lack of ambition & execution. These latest indefensible U-turns cement its status of the most regressive government for decades, failing to provide badly needed leadership #r4today

3/ Both decisions by Sunak lock 🇬🇧 into a high carbon future that the IPCC, UN & IEA have clearly stated is incompatible with achieving the Paris Accord goals. Just as Cameron did with his “cut the green crap” move, slashing home insulation & onshore renewables. #r4today

1/ Sunak delays petrol car ban in major green policy U-turn, to “ease the burden” on consumers. This excuse is simply bogus: A)The ban was only on new cars, not those sold before 2030 B) People who buy brand new cars aren’t the poorest #r4today bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…