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Cool. Now you are richer than even Mansa Musa ever was, world hunger, vaccine research, plus research into all forms of cancer and degenerative illnesses as well as solving the looming climate crisis should be pocket change. Tick tock @elonmusk there's nothing to stop you now.
Well, I suppose that's one way to avoid admitting climate change is happening & the USA should actually be doing something about it.
Tump administration to remove 900 deep sea monitoring instruments that would have studied the collapsing Atlantic current share.google/1S9vULhEFnLFg99…
Absolutely PHENOMENAL storm just passing over Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Biblical rain, night to day lightning and thunder so loud it's like it's trying to shatter the earth below! #Storm #Nuneaton #Warwickshire
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For I was hungry, and you voted against the school lunch program that provided me my only meal of the day, I was thirsty and you voted against clean water legislation, a stranger and you voted to lock me in a cage at an I.C.E. concentration camp at the border.
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At midnight, the regime raided 18‑year‑old Melika Azizi’s home and dragged her to Lakan Prison in Rasht. She’s been beaten, cut off from her family, and sentenced to death. In court she looked the judge in the eye and shouted: “You’ve spilled the blood of so many young people, how can I stay silent? It doesn’t matter to me, kill me too.” This is a teenager whose “crime” was courage. We can’t let them execute her in silence. #MelikaAzizi #StopExecutionsInIran
This is a nightmare situation. We do not want to be beholden to software like Palantir, we will never have privacy again. Has no one in power ever actually read Lord of the Rings?! Palantir are *categorically* not a force for good...
Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by US analytics software company Palantir.
A coalition of human rights, health and patient organisations, and unions sent out the plea to NHS trusts by email
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The piece is here.
Please read. Please share and if you want us to be able to continue our work on this vital topic, please follow @thenerve_news & consider becoming a paid subscriber.
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
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The murder of VA intensive care nurse Alexander Pretti is the third shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis this month. NO MORE.
All federal agents — ICE and Border Patrol — must be withdrawn immediately from Minneapolis and other cities. NOW.
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We can all see with our own eyes what ICE is doing to our neighbors.
It’s time for the Senate to step up and do the right thing. Stop this violence.
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BREAKING: The family of Alex Pretti releases a powerful statement about his senseless murder at the hands of Trump's masked fascist goons.
Please share this far and wide...
"We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital," the family said in a statement provided to CNN.
"Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman."
"The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed."
"Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."
It is our responsibility as Americans to get the truth out there. Petti was not attempting to harm anyone. He was swarmed, beaten, and disarmed by vicious federal agents who were looking for someone to hurt. Once they had removed his gun — which he had a legal permit to carry — they executed him in cold blood by firing numerous bullets into him. Then, the Trump administration proceeded to immediately falsely smear him as a "terrorist" who wanted to carry out a mass shooting against law enforcement. They're utterly shameless.
“He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” said Pretti's father Alex. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests.”
Rest in power Alex. The rest of us will carry on the fight.
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The people of Philadelphia are out marching against ICE and this Administration! People have had enough and day by day the resistance grows!
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ICE is sending masked men to snatch up little kids. One of them was just five years old.
Cruel doesn't even begin to describe it.
ICE must stop terrorizing our communities now.
ICE agents in Minnesota detained at least four children from the same school district, including a 5-year-old, deepening skepticism about the Trump administration’s claims of targeting violent criminals. wapo.st/3Ny2xmD
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This is one hell of a march.
'ICE out of Minnesota'
#ICEOUT #MinnesotaStrike
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This is fucking stunning. It was minus 12 degrees in Minneapolis. If you don't think that our nation is rising up against Trump after coming to the horrifying realization that a REAL FUCKING NAZI REGIME has taken control of the US government, then you're not paying attention. 👇
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Elong Muᛋᛋk tried his hardest to silence all posts about the general strike. Hundreds of these posts been throttled. They’re scared to death of this. Tweet your own posts please about this. Share tweets about this. Don’t let them silence this huge event. Something is happening.
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Downtown Minneapolis right now.
It’s -10° and the streets are on FIRE🔥.
When people march in this cold, it’s not a protest.
It’s a message.
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Carole Cadwalladr, "My ongoing frustration with Nigel Farage he is seen as this English figure, wears tweed, goes to the pub, we see him through this lens"
"He has received almost no journalistic scrutiny throughout his entire career till very recently"
"He's not that cuddle cosy golf club English pub figure"
"He is in a relationship with the US far right and with the European pro-Kremlin far right"
"What happened in Brexit, we saw that money that force that influence, those networks coming together"
"It was the first real political campaign in the UK run through these online platforms"
"They ran a mock, blasted through electoral law, data law, and we're living with the consequences of that"
"Our constitution changes, the shape of Europe changed, our national security changed"
"And here is Nigel Farage in this pole position now, to potentially take power and we're not understanding the consequences of that"
"If you look at what Trump is doing in the US, the way he had a plan of what to do in office"
"Farage is now working with the same people"
"There is going to be an all out assault in the same way on the rule of law and our institutions"
Zack Polanski, "It's already happening"
Carole Cadwalladr, "The stakes of that are unfelt by most people, it's an abstract"
"We have to see what is happening in America and learn those lessons"