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Mr Falange calls for a General Election (probably to save his Clacton face) & says, "You cannot make the ‘biggest changes’ in British politics in 40 years without a mandate from the British people."
Funny, I seem to remember them voting in a majority of Westminster reps under the vacuous slogan 'Change'
Now they'll get a bit of that, but only a bit.

A police department in Texas that arrested a local resident for complaining on social media about their city’s contaminated water supply
💥 has been ordered closed after failing to prove it provided any benefit to the community.
State officials stepped in to investigate after Jennifer Combs spent a night in jail in May
after a post appeared on her Facebook page suggesting people were hospitalized by bacteria in the water pipes of Trinidad,
a municipality in Henderson co…

Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply

That feeling when you’ve got twice the number of followers on the fediverse as the closed-source VC-funded European social network being peddled by the EU Commission has accounts.
Hey, @…, y’all are so incompetent you can’t even do evil right.
Muppets.
@…

Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ (@elena@aseachange.com)
[1 media attachment] Good morning Fedi friends. Is anybody curious about how the #WSocial experiment is going? You know, the private, for profit "European answer to X" endorsed by the European Commission, which is a fork of Bluesky and has quietly gone closed-source before its beta launch (à la #TruthSocial)? I've got numbers for you! Nearly two months in, W Social has almost the same number of accounts as #Eurosky... You know, the European fork of Bluesky that does NOT require government …

Damn! spent the whole evening reading articles and not editing photos (as planned) ...
Ah well - then I invite you to a walk we did recently on a sunny day along some nice blooming bushes.
#hiking #flowers #outdoors

A few highlights from the Turkish-Persian section of a random carpet symbolism book I skimmed while stopped at a random library in New Jersey a couple days ago

First came the blackmail and death threats to secure cooperation,
then came a series of tasks,
each more sinister than the last:
to inform on fellow activists,
to elicit personal information from protest-minded artists and
– eventually – to help with a plot to kidnap and murder a Kremlin enemy.
That is how Rita Flores,
a 29-year-old Russian artist, activist and former member of the Pussy Riot collective,
described her recruitment and three-yea…

‘My fear was too great’: the Pussy Riot member recruited by Russian spies to inform on fellow activists
Exclusive: In her first media interview since fleeing Russia, Rita Flores describes her three years of being run by the FSB

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#bookmarks

#lego

Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021
-- after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend.
The court filing is tied to a lawsuit filed against Capital One by one of Trump’s financial holding companies shortly after he was sworn into office a second time.
Trump alleges that Capital One illegally closed his accounts for political reasons, following …

Trump accounts at Capital One were closed in 2021 over money laundering concerns
Capital One closed President Donald Trump’s accounts in mid-2021 after flagging financial activity that resembled money laundering. The bank disclosed this in a court filing over the weekend. Trump has sued Capital One, alleging the closures were politically motivated following the Jan. 6 Capitol attacks. Capital One seeks to dismiss the lawsuit, stating the closures followed months of analysis by its anti-money laundering team. Trump has also sued JPMorgan Chase, claiming similar political m…

Roughly a quarter of legislators on Capitol Hill have traded individual stocks this term,
with some buying and selling millions of dollars in shares.
Since the start of this term in January 2025, members and their families have collectively traded $160 million to $664 million in individual stocks,
according to a New York Times analysis of data collected from members’ required financial filings by 2iQ Research, an analytics firm.
Members are required to disclose their…

The 5 Congress Members Whose Families Trade the Most Stocks
Some lawmakers and their families have traded millions of dollars worth of stocks since the start of this term.