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Sir Ian Mckellen delivers a 400 year old Shakespeare pro immigrant monologue. It will probably fly over reform heads though.. youtube.com/shorts/uec_u1M… via @YouTube

Since water privatisation, the shareholders have invested LESS THAN NOTHING of their own money in the companies 👇👇👇 @UniofGreenwich research shows why we need PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/4716…

@EuropeanPowell @andrewfeinstein @MiniJet10 Clearly a danger to others, assessment/section both.

@andrewfeinstein @MiniJet10 x.com/europeanpowell…

Not even apartheid South Africa codified executions for only one ‘race group’. Israel is now the most racist state the world has ever known. Shame on every government, every company, every individual who offer it support.

ICE guards are betting on which detainee will kill themselves next. The AP just exposed the savage conditions of a detention camp in El Paso. The Associated Press got inside Camp East Montana. What they found should be on the front page of every newspaper in this country until it closes. About 3,000 people packed in per day. Loud, unsanitary quarters crawling with insects. Food so scarce that detainees steal from each other just to eat. Disease spreading through filthy rooms, showers, and restrooms that go uncleaned. People losing weight. People unable to see a doctor. People losing their minds. Staff made nearly one 911 call per day in the camp's first five months. One call captures a man sobbing after being assaulted by another detainee. Another has a doctor describing a man banging his head against a wall while expressing suicidal thoughts. A nurse calls about a pregnant woman in severe pain with coronavirus. Detainees suffering seizures, some resulting in serious head trauma. Ages ranged from a 19-year-old who fell from a bunk to a 79-year-old who couldn't breathe. And then there's the detail that should haunt this administration for the rest of its existence. Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager from Columbia, Missouri, who spent weeks in the camp before being deported to the Netherlands, told the AP he overheard a security guard talking about a betting pool among the staff. They were wagering on which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had put $500 in. The total pot rode on the outcome. Ramsingh said the talk was particularly devastating because he had contemplated suicide himself. Guards are gambling on the deaths of people in their custody. People who are hungry. People who are sick. People who are begging for help through 911 calls that come in every single day. And the staff turned it into a game. This is not some rogue facility. This is the system working exactly as this administration designed it. Overcrowded by policy. Underfed by neglect. Understaffed by choice. They built a place where human beings deteriorate and then the people paid to watch over them place bets on who breaks first. The AP has the data. The recordings. The interviews. The court filings. This is documented. This is real. This is happening right now in El Paso, Texas, in the United States of America. Share this. Do not let them bury it under another news cycle.

@jonnyceepembs @BBCWalesNews Polanski is a Jew..

@BBCWalesNews I think the stench of Jew-hatred would repel any other party from working with them.

Greens say they could be 'kingmakers' after Senedd election bbc.in/4tdZLlP

‘Is there anyone else you know who has had a 28.9% pay rose in the last 3 years,’ asks Nick Robinson disbelievingly of an NHS doctor. Last year, Robinson’s BBC pay rose by at least £135k

Dear @WesStreeting, You never answered the question: When NHS services are privatised, what is the benefit to patients and their communities? Surely it must mean safer care and a better deal for the taxpayer, right? I’m sure you won’t mind sharing your evidence. #SOSNHS

Labour MP Karl Turner told me this morning: “I would say to Starmer: ‘Don’t protect McSwindle! You can’t confirm what he’s saying!’ Let’s get to the real issue: the whole world is at war because we’ve got a mad bastard in the White House indiscriminately bombing countries.”

Reform whistleblower describes ‘expensive, flawed and unprofessional’ vetting process nation.cymru/news/reform-wh…

We all witnessed when Israel shred the UN Charter at the UN in 2024 after we documented and reported on hundreds of war crimes in Gaza, Lebanon and seven other countries. Their representative even called me a terrorist for reporting Israel violations of international law at the UN. Today, Israel seeks UN help accusing Iran of committing war crimes by launching missiles with cluster munitions at Israel. I'm often said that international law designed to protect civilians, medical personnel, journalists, prisoners of wars, and to maintain world peace. This’s not the failure of the law. The law stands and its principles remain clear. The failure is our collective will to uphold it. And to put a punishment for those who violate the international law. The international law stands and its principles remain clear. The failure is our collective will to uphold it. Israel must understand that they can’t turn on and off international law whenever they want.

🚨: The James Webb Space Telescope confirms that there is something fundamentally wrong with our understanding of the universe, and reveals that there is an unknown physics.

🦔 Oracle laid off between 20,000 and 30,000 employees Tuesday morning, roughly 18% of its global workforce, via a single email sent at 6am EST with no prior warning. System access was revoked almost immediately after. The cuts are expected to free up $8-10 billion in cash flow. Oracle's stock has lost more than half its value since September 2025 and the company now carries over $124 billion in debt, up from $89 billion a year ago, with free cash flow running negative $10 billion last quarter. My Take Oracle posted a 95% jump in net income last quarter and still eliminated 18% of its workforce by email before most people finished their morning coffee. This is not a company in distress in the traditional sense. It's a company that made an enormous debt-funded bet on AI infrastructure and is now converting its workforce into cash flow to service that debt. We've covered Oracle's AI gamble for months. The $300 billion OpenAI deal through Stargate, $50 billion in capital expenditure this fiscal year, over $124 billion in total debt. Multiple US banks have pulled back from financing Oracle-linked data center projects. Bondholders have sued Oracle claiming it concealed how much additional debt the OpenAI deal would require. The credit default swap spread hit a three-year high earlier this year, meaning debt investors are genuinely nervous about getting paid back. The workers who got that 6am email built the products Oracle has monetized for decades. The bet that eliminated their jobs was made by people who were already paid regardless of how it turns out. That is the part of the AI infrastructure race that doesn't show up in the capex announcements. Hedgie🤗

@WillHayCardiff “Moved away from those standards”. They were never there in the first place..

Another Reform candidate for the Senedd has stepped down. This is the third one in a week since the lists were announced. Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg candidate Owain Clatworthy said: "As a Christian, my faith guides my principles: honesty, accountability and doing what is right even when it is difficult. I cannot continue to support a party that has moved away from those standards."

BREAKING: Iran says it will bomb Palantir, Oracle, and other major Western firms, declaring them “legitimate targets.”

@mikekatz Hi Mike, awaiting your apology for and/or removal of this defamatory post before pursuing further action.

@Sam_Arkim @timreay @paulpowlesland @lfg_uk I was alluding to the effect of short term policy making, as opposed to other countries such as China who make five year development plans, they have just started on their 15th five year plan. Only thing I assume about the UK Government is that they’re completely corrupt.

@maxblunt @timreay @paulpowlesland @lfg_uk Always a favourite. We assume the intention is to build something rather than enrich someone. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

The British Government looked at this and thought no, we should build a £100m bat tunnel instead.

@Woke_warrior69 @PolitlcsUK He is the establishment you big dollem

@PolitlcsUK You can see why Reform will be the next government. Nigel is clearly a man on a mission, a man of the people and anti establishment. 👍😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🤜💥

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage is asked if Reform UK is becoming "a party of the old" as youth support falls to 8% vs 51% for the Green Party "Polanski is tapping into a university student, half-indoctrinated youth who find Marxism very appealing"

Slavery was legal. People who freed slaves were criminals. Segregation was legal. People who stood up for equality were criminals. I heard this story once about a teacher who took a fish out of its bowl and left a classroom of children as it flopped around.. telling them that if anyone left their seat, they would be expelled. All of the children sat and watched as this fish flopped gasping for air, not wanting to get up in order to avoid getting in trouble. Finally, a girl sprang up from her seat and ran to the fish, placing it back in the bowl. Ultimately, she was the only one who refused to watch the fish die. When the teacher returned he told the class that this was a lesson. That the fear of getting in trouble should never stop you from doing what's right. That sometimes.. you may have to oppose authority and group think, simply because it's the right thing to do. Never use legality as a guide to morality.

A US delegation member poisoned a Nigerian president elect. A Nigerian businessman won the presidential election by the largest margin in the country’s history in 1993. The military annulled the results and threw him in prison. He spent 4 years in a cell refusing to renounce his mandate. On July 7 1998 the military announced he would be released that same day. A senior US diplomat arrived to meet him at 3pm. She poured him a cup of tea. He started coughing. Collapsed to the floor. Was dead by 3:40pm. The policeman whose job was to taste every drink before it reached the prisoner said he was sent out of the room before the tea was served. It was the first time in two years a foreigner had given him food or drink without it being tasted first. Official cause of death: heart failure. No charges. No investigation. No answers. The diplomat who poured the tea later became National Security Adviser to Barack Obama. 💀🇳🇬