A woman on CNN is saying the anti-Vietnam protests were different from the situation now, which is “very polarizing.”

People always do this — make it seem like past activists were somehow uncontroversial.

It’s nonsense. Activism by its nature is antagonistic to the status quo.

3.4tonnes of rotten carcasses and cheese dripping with blood in black sacks and duct tape seized at Dover last weekend👇

Well yes, when you dither about checks for 3yrs and since yesterday still wave it through with a wink wink, nudge nudge, crooks know where to send dodgy stuff

‘Lockdowns’ reduced intimate partner violence. It also made many disadvantaged people better-off than they’d ever been.

The outcome of a greater share of our common-wealth going to more people. And why privilege demanded lockdowns end. /1

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-u…

There is some discussion about whether websites and apps (like Meta) should be permitted to charge a fee to people who wont consent to being tracked online and off.
This discussion is a nonsense: tracking-based ads are dangerous for publishers, and very dangerous to democracy.

Beware of capitulation to evil masquerading as maturity. There’s a lot of that going around right now

Rishi Sunak An utter tragedy UK. figures this week show under The Conservatives:

- Knife crime in U.K. UP EIGHTY ONE PER CENT in 8 years.
- The worst unsolved crime solved rates in decades.

- 1.9 MILLION on mental health NHS waiting lists #knifecrime #HainaultAttack

If you study American history you’ll find it’s as American as apple pie.

'Facebook and Instagram will get EU investigations into potential infringements [on]... a range of issues including Meta's handling of ads, especially political ads, to examine suspected breaches of the Digital Services Act'
politico.eu/article/facebo…

So what happens when it hits 62C?

It's coming as certainly as 2+2=4.

Trump says he wants to let states “monitor women's pregnancies so they can know if they've gotten an abortion”

BREAKING: We challenged Chancellor Jeremy Hunt for taking tens of thousands of pounds from climate deniers and overseeing disastrous fossil fuel projects like #Rosebank oil field.

#stoppollutingpolitics #innovationzero
#oilymoneyout

Barrels Of Radioactive Waste Turn Up Off The Coast Of California.

There is a notorious graveyard of discarded barrels off the coast of Los Angeles.

#nuclear #nuclear energy

twistedsifter.com/2024/04/barrel…

OMG, now we know why they close on Sundays?

kinda wild how quickly the complaints went from 'student protesters are harassing zionist students' to 'student protesters refuse to harass zionists adults who are hanging around campus for some reason'

New EU asylum laws due to be finally adopted by EU Council on May 14th

Today's PC culture of fear of offending people wouldn't let a 38 year old Seinfeld date a 17 year old girl.

Ferrari never knowingly spoils an anti-labour story with the truth. #LBC

Batteries smash more records as they shift solar to evening peak in one of world’s biggest grids. reneweconomy.com.au/batteries-smas…