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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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If we flew the American flag at half-mast for every murder of an American who deserved better, who deserved to be heard and respected and live in peace, we’d never raise the flag to its full height again.
September 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
If we flew the American flag at half-mast for every murder of an American who deserved better, who deserved to be heard and respected and live in peace, we’d never raise the flag to its full height again.
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Early Summer Rain, Arakawa (1932)
by Hasui Kawase
by Hasui Kawase
September 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Early Summer Rain, Arakawa (1932)
by Hasui Kawase
by Hasui Kawase
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Just to be clear: Brian Kilmeade *did not* endorse euthanizing homeless people. He advocated MURDERING over 700,000 of them.
And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.
And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.
September 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Just to be clear: Brian Kilmeade *did not* endorse euthanizing homeless people. He advocated MURDERING over 700,000 of them.
And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.
And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.
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Algebra of dictatorship.
Reform UK want a new dept for immigration staffed solely by people who agree with the party’s policies to leave the ECHR and implement mass deportations
How long before similar edicts apply to police, judges, academics?
Would the next road to Auschwitz go through Clacton?
Reform UK want a new dept for immigration staffed solely by people who agree with the party’s policies to leave the ECHR and implement mass deportations
How long before similar edicts apply to police, judges, academics?
Would the next road to Auschwitz go through Clacton?
Reform wants to scrap neutral civil service and hire anti-ECHR staff
Richard Tice, the party’s deputy leader, also floats the idea of US-style political appointments for judges
www.thetimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Algebra of dictatorship.
Reform UK want a new dept for immigration staffed solely by people who agree with the party’s policies to leave the ECHR and implement mass deportations
How long before similar edicts apply to police, judges, academics?
Would the next road to Auschwitz go through Clacton?
Reform UK want a new dept for immigration staffed solely by people who agree with the party’s policies to leave the ECHR and implement mass deportations
How long before similar edicts apply to police, judges, academics?
Would the next road to Auschwitz go through Clacton?
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People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
September 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
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Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt
September 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt
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Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
September 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
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Labour ‘dithering’ on child poverty as Education Secretary admits to being ashamed.
Govt finds money for corporate bailouts, subsidies, foreign wars and tax perks for corporations and the rich.
Child poverty is an unacceptable political choice. Blights lives.
Govt finds money for corporate bailouts, subsidies, foreign wars and tax perks for corporations and the rich.
Child poverty is an unacceptable political choice. Blights lives.
Labour ‘dithering’ on child poverty as Education Secretary admits to being ashamed
LABOUR was slammed for dithering on child poverty as Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson insisted today she was “ashamed” after 38 faith leaders demanded ministers scrap the two-child benefit cap.
morningstaronline.co.uk
September 2, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Labour ‘dithering’ on child poverty as Education Secretary admits to being ashamed.
Govt finds money for corporate bailouts, subsidies, foreign wars and tax perks for corporations and the rich.
Child poverty is an unacceptable political choice. Blights lives.
Govt finds money for corporate bailouts, subsidies, foreign wars and tax perks for corporations and the rich.
Child poverty is an unacceptable political choice. Blights lives.
BBC News - Margaret Atwood takes aim at Alberta's book ban with satirical short story
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Depressing.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Depressing.
Margaret Atwood takes aim at Alberta's book ban with satirical short story
Some school districts in the Canadian province of Alberta have banned Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale due to sexual content.
www.bbc.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
BBC News - Margaret Atwood takes aim at Alberta's book ban with satirical short story
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Depressing.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Depressing.
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I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
September 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
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Marcellina Oseghale Akpojotor, artist who combines tiny pieces of ankara fabric to create portraits of Nigerian women #WomensArt
September 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Marcellina Oseghale Akpojotor, artist who combines tiny pieces of ankara fabric to create portraits of Nigerian women #WomensArt
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Thames Water fined £104.5m for sewage dumping on 6 Aug 2024.
£18.2m for violating dividend payment rules on 19 Dec 2024.
TW to pay 20% (£24.5m) by 30 Sept 2025, the rest ... may be by 2030.
TW has 187 criminal convictions.
In a rentier economy corporations are indulged for criminal practices.
£18.2m for violating dividend payment rules on 19 Dec 2024.
TW to pay 20% (£24.5m) by 30 Sept 2025, the rest ... may be by 2030.
TW has 187 criminal convictions.
In a rentier economy corporations are indulged for criminal practices.
Thames Water agrees payment plan for £123m sewage and dividend fines
Ofwat gives struggling firm, which is trying to secure funding to avoid nationalisation, breathing space
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Thames Water fined £104.5m for sewage dumping on 6 Aug 2024.
£18.2m for violating dividend payment rules on 19 Dec 2024.
TW to pay 20% (£24.5m) by 30 Sept 2025, the rest ... may be by 2030.
TW has 187 criminal convictions.
In a rentier economy corporations are indulged for criminal practices.
£18.2m for violating dividend payment rules on 19 Dec 2024.
TW to pay 20% (£24.5m) by 30 Sept 2025, the rest ... may be by 2030.
TW has 187 criminal convictions.
In a rentier economy corporations are indulged for criminal practices.
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The Diary of Anne Frank is among the hundreds of books banned in Florida this year. When I was in school, it was required reading. (Guardian)
August 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The Diary of Anne Frank is among the hundreds of books banned in Florida this year. When I was in school, it was required reading. (Guardian)
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'I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned'
-Yayoi Kusama
#WomensArt #MondayMotivation
-Yayoi Kusama
#WomensArt #MondayMotivation
August 25, 2025 at 5:38 AM
'I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned'
-Yayoi Kusama
#WomensArt #MondayMotivation
-Yayoi Kusama
#WomensArt #MondayMotivation
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Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!
August 23, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How to sell shame
Serena Williams's confession is PR spin. There is no stigma—on the contrary, demand far outstrips supply. Despite the token caveat about her commercial ties, the article amplifies the marketing message under the guise of health reporting.
How to sell shame
Serena Williams's confession is PR spin. There is no stigma—on the contrary, demand far outstrips supply. Despite the token caveat about her commercial ties, the article amplifies the marketing message under the guise of health reporting.
Will Serena Williams's weight-loss admission help shed stigma of anti-obesity drugs?
Could her comments instil a new sense of confidence in those using the drugs and quieten the critics?
www.bbc.co.uk
August 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How to sell shame
Serena Williams's confession is PR spin. There is no stigma—on the contrary, demand far outstrips supply. Despite the token caveat about her commercial ties, the article amplifies the marketing message under the guise of health reporting.
How to sell shame
Serena Williams's confession is PR spin. There is no stigma—on the contrary, demand far outstrips supply. Despite the token caveat about her commercial ties, the article amplifies the marketing message under the guise of health reporting.