"Palantir, the US AI surveillance and security firm with hundreds of millions of pounds in UK government contracts, poses 'a national security threat to the UK', according to two anonymous high-level sources working with the Ministry of Defence."
Your friendly reminder from Kevin Walling that every Democrat in the House voted for National Voter ID included in the Freedom to Vote Act. Not one Republican voted for it. The SAVE Act isn’t about Voter ID, it’s a voter suppression bill to help rig the midterms for Republicans.
Once again—New Mexico is leading the way by protecting free and fair elections! NM becomes the first state in the nation to ban armed federal agents at the ballot box. This is how you do it! 🗳️🇺🇸💪
Senator Jon Ossoff, "Last night The White House put a video on social media"
"That depicted this war as a video game"
"This White House treats war like a game"
"And it's a disgrace"
"And it speaks to the moral rot of Trump's administration"
The Strait of Hormuz crisis isn’t a surprise. Trump cut Middle East experts out, shrank the circle to loyalists, ignored warnings about Iran’s leverage, and now his team is spinning the disaster with talking points instead of admitting the failure.
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Senator Bernie Sanders, "I think that a lot of US Middle East policy is dictated by Israel"
"I think Rubio had it right, that it was Israel that wanted to go to war with Iran"
"Netanyahu has wanted to go to war with Iran for 40 years"
No amount of spin from Trump and his lackeys can cover up the fact that Americans shelled out an extra $1.5 BILLION for gas this past week because of his disastrous war with Iran.
The most disturbing thing is that the whole world already knew this outcome beforehand and yet the military leaders were eager to follow the attack orders of this deranged orange moron. US is not to be trusted by anyone.
10/ All of this was totally foreseeable. Frankly, it’s why previous presidents weren’t so stupid to start a war like this.
Trump has lost control of the war. His best course now is to cut his losses and end it. That’s the only way to prevent an even bigger disaster.
The “options should range in a straight line from
“Hell, no” to “Hell No” with a postscript of “Now fuck off then fuck off some more.”
Trump calls on China, France, UK and others to send ships to keep strait of Hormuz open
Dear Europe,
Please help me to unshit myself.
In return, I will harm your economy with tariffs, and insult your leaders, your cultures, and your military.
Kind regards,
A very stable genius
No deployment, period. This should be the turning point.
The UK should not support a war criminal unless they want the same label.
The UK government is refusing to comment on whether US bombers from RAF Fairford or Diego Garcia are being allowed to use cluster bombs.
Britain has signed an international treaty banning cluster munitions, whereas the US has not.
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Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
Jared Kushner holds no government position at all. He is not a Senate-confirmed political appointee & his "special peace envoy" job is completely fake. This is wildly illegal & unconstitutional nepotistic corruption. Stop normalizing it in the papers.
All of this is a long-winded way to say Lam is trying to stoke resentment against migrants based on nothing. Yes, migration can increase usage of the NHS, however, this is more than offset by the double taxation migrants pay with IHS and the proportion of NHS workforce they make up. 4/5
Katie Lam is being highly misleading. Here are just some things we do know:
✅ International Health Surcharge raised about £2.6 billion towards the NHS in the year 2024/25
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✅ Majority of migrants have to pay it.
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1/5
"The Israeli airstrike collapsed the two-storey building instantly, killing all eight members of the Hamdan family: grandparents Ahmad and Najib, their children, including Batoul, and grandchildren Fatima and Jihad – three generations wiped out in a moment." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
"Ministers have likely already left it too late to shake Palantir loose from government entirely. They have invited the viper into their nest, and they’re even paying it to be there.
"The choice now is whether to ignore the problem entirely, and just play nice, or whether to face reality."
The fact that their dangle was “we‘ll deliver the initial platform for ”free” in exchange of an unlimited licence to use the IP resulting from it SHOULD have been a great big bloody clue.
it is already perfectly clear they do not care, indeed seem to relish, their software being used for bad purposes, including lethal purposes, arrests of people who should not be arrested. This speaks as to the character of those leading the organisation delivering
This at a time when consecutive Governments have enlarged the reach of Palantir across Defence, Policing AND the NHS with its HIGHLY interoperable platforms.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
McIntosh (former Royal Marines Commando) said "The IDF... openly fire on civilians for fun" - how can anyone watch this and not think of Schindler's List?
Um….you mean like 🇺🇸 ICE that your regime promoted and shielded, Trump?
WASHINGTON-Before the U.S. went to war, Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told President Trump that an American attack could prompt Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz. Caine said in several briefings that U.S. officials had long believed Iran would deploy mines, drones and missiles to close the world's most vital shipping lane, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. Trump acknowledged the risk, these people said, but moved forward with the most consequential foreign-policy decision of his two presidencies. He told his team that Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait-and even if Iran tried, the U.S. military could handle it. Now, two weeks into the war, Iran's leaders have refused to back down, and the Strait of Hormuz has emerged as Tehran's most potent leverage point.
How Trump alone got the US - and the world - into a crisis in the Middle East. From the WSJ.
It's hard to tell which US adversary Trump is helping most of all.
Is it Putin's Russia, by giving it an oil-price bump and depriving Ukraine of interceptors?
Is it China, the main beneficiary of America's shattered credibility?
Or perhaps Iran, whose regime has shown it can withstand attack?
Then there are new channels like GB News. While BBC producers sit with stopwatches ensuring that political parties all get a fair say, GB News can do what it likes, thanks to the government's decision to shut down broadcast regulator Ofcom. That has allowed the channel to act as a daily booster for one political party. It is impossible to imagine that, had the Department of Culture and Ofcom not shut their doors in 2024, a "news" channel would have been allowed to have a political party leader as a regular host (indeed, had Labour not also abolished the Electoral Commission, it might have been interested in how a channel whose last set of accounts show it losing £33 million can afford to pay Farage more than £400,000 in less than two years).
Rob Hutton’s evisceration of DCMS was the funniest and angriest thing I’ve read in response to what has happened to UK broadcast media
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The report also says "On the flip side, degree-holders were three times as likely to vote for the Green party than those without qualifications", so does going to University override the supposed rightwing tendencies of those studying technical subjects?
I strongly doubt that controlling for children's party political preference at age 10 to 15 does away with the massive risk of selection bias in this study.
2/2
All students must study sciences either as triple science or combined science, so surely the students' exposure to both physical and life sciences is equal at 16... therefore the social interactions must be a stronger factor
Trump brings further massive shame on America, again supporting Russia in its illegal war on Ukraine.
I don’t know how Americans live with themselves…particularly the 70 million + who voted for him THREE TIMES, not to mention those who did not bother to go out and vote to stop him.
