Jen Shorten

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Adventures of a food obsessed traveler. Professional data nerd. All opinions are mental.

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Whenever you think Republicans aren't good at politics, keep in mind we've spent the two weeks since the Supreme Court gave the most corrupt, anti-rule of law president in American history an invitation to be a king discussing the difference between being 78 and 81.

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What a fantastic line-up! #LabourGovernment 🌹

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I have no faith in this coming to pass, but Tory ex-MPs should be completely rejected from light entertainment/reality shows, etc. No Strictly. No Jungle. No rehabilitation. None. They won't see real consequences for the death and suffering they've caused, so this should be the bare minimum.

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I know people like our quirky tradition of monster raving loons and joke candidates but I think it's time to move on from that stuff now and grow up a bit. But enough of Jacob Rees-Mogg ....

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"Voting doesn't change anything" "They're all the same" "I'm going to spoil my ballot"

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I see some good ideas being suggested, but here's my entry: he can now *commercially* pirate music, since to really be criminal rather than civil, needs to be commercial. So he could set up the White House's official pirate streaming service. And no one could do anything.

Okay, folks, who is putting together the list of the funniest crimes that Biden should be committing between now and election day to highlight the absurdity of today's immunity ruling? Not the stuff like assassinations. Just stuff to make a point.

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Brb declaring myself a corporation so I can have some rights

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The New York Times is now just the New York Post with a thesaurus.

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The Tory gambling scandal: A perfectly fitting end to an ethically negligent government iandunt.substack.com/p/gambling-s...

Gambling Scandal: The perfect end to a terrible governmentiandunt.substack.com This behaviour is not random. It is a result of poor leadership.

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Canadian province of Alberta quits coal power six years ahead of schedule Coal's share of the mix: 80% in March 2001 33.5% in 2019 0% now theprogressplaybook.com/2024/06/19/c...

Canadian province of Alberta quits coal power six years ahead of scheduletheprogressplaybook.com Coal's share of Alberta's electricity mix peaked at 80% in March 2001.

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Exclusive report: a series of errors by HMRC let Paul Baxendale-Walker, probably the UK's most notorious tax avoider, escape a £14m penalty. He's threatening to prosecute me for harassment, sue me for libel and sue me for £500,000 if I report this. Here’s our report: taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/19/b...

HMRC errors let a notorious tax avoider escape a £14m penaltytaxpolicy.org.uk Paul Baxendale-Walker is probably the UK’s most notorious tax avoidance scheme promoter. He’s the former barrister and solicitor who helped create the “loan schemes” that cost the country £billions…

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Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it's a choice of two slates of federal appointees who'll impact your life in a million ways. Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.

Under current law, you really couldn’t do much better than Biden’s FTC and NRLB. New Deal shit.

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Attention, fellow journalism nerds: You might already know that nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. What you didn't know (because it just went live) is that @propublica.bsky.social has a new database that lets you easily search these organizations’ finances:

Introducing ProPublica’s 527 Explorerwww.propublica.org Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organiz...

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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore will issue a mass pardon of more than 175,000 marijuana convictions Monday morning, one of the nation’s most sweeping acts of clemency involving a drug now in widespread recreational use.

Maryland governor to pardon 175,000 marijuana convictions in sweeping orderwww.washingtonpost.com The blanket pardon by Gov. Wes Moore will forgive decades of low-level marijuana possession charges for about 100,000 people.

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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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The possible next president, who among other things wants to strip the Federal Reserve of independence

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cool cool cool

Good lord t.co/XLHllzstNx

Rishi Sunak’s closest aide placed bet on election date days before announcementt.co Exclusive: £100 bet placed in Montgomeryshire – the constituency of Craig Williams – over July poll

Quite the harrowing read

Here in Boston the most famous pedophile cop was elected by BPD officers to lead their union even after he had been credibly accused of child rape. Look up Patrick Rose. Absolutely appalling injustice.

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Some sketchbook doodles and the cartoon they led to.

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An email from a reader helped a team of ProPublica reporters uncover secret tuition payments Harlan Crow made for a family member of Clarence Thomas. Now we’re looking for tips on the election, and you can help. www.propublica.org/article/read...

Reader Tips Propelled Our Supreme Court Reporting. Now Your Info Could Power Our 2024 Election Coverage.www.propublica.org An email from a reader helped a team of ProPublica reporters uncover secret tuition payments Harlan Crow made for a family member of Clarence Thomas. Now we’re looking for tips on the election, and yo...

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We are proud of our new partnership with the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice. They will support Bellingcat’s efforts to establish a presence in the United States to conduct ethical and transparent open-source research within the public interest. www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-p...

Bellingcat Partners with Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice - bellingcatwww.bellingcat.com Bellingcat is honoured to announce that we have partnered with Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice.

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RESULT: In yesterday's Dem primaries in New Mexico, progressives ousted 3 of the incumbent Dem lawmakers who had voted against a bill to mandate paid family and medical leave. The bill had failed by a single vote. (One of items I was watching: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...)

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But what good has Biden done?

Under Biden, the IRS has sought to slay turbotax once and for all. www.axios.com/2024/05/30/i...

IRS opening free online tax filing program to all 50 states for 2025 tax seasonwww.axios.com It could deal a massive blow to private tax filing services such as TurboTax.

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A record 3.1 million emergency food parcels have been handed out in just a year, according to Trussell trust Some 1,144,096 were for children and nearly two million for adults. The total is nearly double that of five years ago news.sky.com/story/record...

Record 3.1 million food bank parcels handed out in a year, says charitynews.sky.com The number of people of pension age picking up parcels also increased by 27% to 179,000, according to the trust, with older people who rent said to be particularly likely to need help.

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“But I have to stay on Twitter”

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Amazing how few university presidents would stand up to their boards to tell them to just wait until the end of the school year and the encampments would disperse

Cornell's encampment ends, voluntarily, after 2.5 weeks of being more or less left alone by uni admin. A marked contrast to Dartmouth, Columbia, etc. Too bad peaceful ends to peaceful encampments don't make national news. Grossly distorts public perception. cornellsun.com/2024/05/14/c...

Coalition for Mutual Liberation Voluntarily Ends Encampmentcornellsun.com To close out a two-and-a-half-week encampment, approximately 250 supporters surrounded the original

Brutal and 100% accurate