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0500: Sound the alarm.

0600: Recitation of the day’s mantra in the traditional spirited honking.

0700: Singing of “O Canada” and flyover in standard formation.

0800: Announcement of the flock’s minutes.

0830: Synchronized shitting and breakfast on the east bank of the retention pond.

1000: Gather outside the dog park fence for the “Taunting of the Mutts.”

1200: Preening and beautification.

1300: Loud meandering.

1430: Stop traffic. Honk.

1600: Group aerobics at the retention pond.

1800: Carnal activities.

1802: Bathing.

1807: Carnal activities.

1809: Unwind.

1900: Synchronized shitting and supper on the north bank of the retention pond.

2100: “O Canada” reprise and flyover in standard formation.

2200: Sleep / carnal activities.

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This is the first general election in which every Brit living overseas can vote, but many non-British workers living in the UK feel deliberately excluded

Combined Trussell Trust and Independent Food Aid Network data lays bare the breadth of food banks in the UK – themselves symptoms of a far deeper food poverty crisis

A lawyer with 25 years of experience in the criminal justice system critiques the "underwhelming" pledges made in party manifestos

“I don’t want to be working on something that can turn around and be used to slaughter innocent people.”

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Stephen Hawking’s greatest legacy – a simple little equation now 50 years old – revealed a shocking aspect of black holes

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Having a passion for mental effort – a trait that’s distinct from being intelligent – has some wide-ranging upsides

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This March, Andrew Marr told New Statesman readers there is a ‘battle for Keir Starmer’s soul’ as ‘two groups on the party’s right are vying to control its future’. Marr said these groups fighting to ‘control’ Starmer are the Tony Blair Institute and Labour Together. Labour members certainly weren’t told they were getting a vote-Starmer-get-Blair […]

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As the General Election approaches, political parties in the UK are clashing and competing in the attempt to win voters, leaving no stone unturned—including the use of digital technologies. Why You Should be Worried About Political Profiling Open Rights Group has long been monitoring the use of data analytics, commercial profiling and other digital tools […]

The Labour leader's refusal to commit to scrapping George Osborne's austerity-era policy risks committing hundreds of thousands more children into poverty

One of the positive contributions of MMT, especially from a European point of view, is that it makes it transparently clear why the euro-experiment has been such a monumental disaster. The neoliberal dream of having over-national currencies just doesn’t fit well with reality. When an economy is in a crisis, it must be possible for […]

Bruno Latour — a passage and an observation that only he could make: The French, it is well known, love revolutions, political, scientific or philosophical. There is nothing they like more than a radical upheaval of the past, an upheaval so complete that a new tabula rasa is levelled, on which a new history can […]

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First of all, what 23 year old buys a house? Maybe he’s got an inheritance? I would guess that very few 23 year olds are in this position. That’s not to say that there aren’t plenty of 33 year olds in that position but I have a sneaking suspicion this post isn’t on the up and up. Be that as it may, Surowecki is correct. Joe Biden doesn’t control interest rates and god knows, neither does Donald Trump. So this is stupid. But then there’s JD Vance’s grotesque answer to the problem. Deporting 20 million people (20 MILLION!!!!) is the most fascistic policy proposal we’ve seen since 1930s Germany. They were “deporting” the alleged cause of all their problems too. The sheer amount of pain, suffering and destruction involved in such a horrific policy is impossible to gauge but it’s going to be a nightmare. And as for the public picking up the tab for undocumented immigrants just wait until they see what inflation looks like without 20 million workers who are keeping this country running. Not to mention the vast cost incurred in rounding up such a vast number of people. It’s absurd. This is Nazi talk, nothing less.

The task force revealed its plans not in a communiqué to faculty and students — but instead in an Israeli newspaper article.

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. Old flames die hard

The biggest mistake the Dems ever made was letting the right own Epstein theories. pic.twitter.com/Z6TCcJAKTs — Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 17, 2024 This should be on tik-tok. (It may be for all I know but I do hope so…) There are a lot of young women who need to see it as well as plenty of decent young men who might be skeeved out by grandpa Trump macking on young women like this. It’s very creepy and he’s still doing it. This video (referenced briefly in that series above) is recent: You know what is creepy? Adjudicated Rapist Donald Trump sexually harassing a young woman at Turning Point pic.twitter.com/skEE0F6kQG — Barbara Sobel (BarbaraJ.Sobel on Threads) (@Momof4Cats4) June 15, 2024 With the way the Trump campaign and Rupert Murdoch are pushing doctored videos of Biden every day, I think it’s only fair to spread real videos of Donald Trump’s grotesque behavior. People may have accepted it to some degree but they certainly don’t want to be reminded of it. They should be. They have to be.