Linklog

2025-04-26

Trump lets the press know exactly what kind of questions he considers ‘good’: ‘He has certain expectations about what quality journalism looks like, and it involves asking him how awesome his awesomeness is’

ICE Can Now Enter Your Home Without a Warrant to Look for Migrants, DOJ Memo Says: ‘…anyone labeled an “Alien Enemy” is “not entitled to a hearing, appeal or judicial review.”’ - plus all police officers are basically immigration officers now.

2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process,’ Judge Suspects

2025-04-25

We Are at Peak ‘Yep’ and It’s Wonderful: Word.

Elon Musk and DOGE’s Savings May Be Erased by New Costs: Not only have they saved only a tiny fraction of what they promised but also there’s ‘a rough estimate that firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.’

Trump’s Crimea Proposal Would End a Decade of U.S. Resistance: Officially recognising Crimea as being Russian would break the principle ‘that no country can change the borders of another by force’.

Farage sparks furious backlash after claiming children with special educational needs are ‘over diagnosed’

2025-04-24

The Government Has Already Won the Meta Case: ‘Facebook is being watched, and it cannot be as cavalier about its efforts to monopolize markets.’

A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right: Lonely people, into nonsensical ‘race science’.

Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over: Who needs actual friends when you’ve got “the general idea of entertainment and learning about the world and discovering what’s going on”.

Lib Dems back ban on playing music and videos on public transport in England: A ban on playing things out loud, to be clear.

2025-04-23

RIP to the Google Privacy Sandbox: Third-party cookies will continue in Chrome.

Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China

2025-04-22

Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning

2025-04-21

There’s a Reason the World Is a Mess, and It’s Not Trump: Economic stagnation.

Doctor Who is the best show ever made. Here’s why.: ‘In a time when cruelty and fear dominate headlines, it’s worth celebrating a show that insists on the power of kindness, intellect, and hope.’

Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? : ‘The alternative model, by contrast, tells a child a very different story: that his A.D.H.D. symptoms exist on a continuum, one on which we all find ourselves; that he may be experiencing those symptoms as much because of where he is as because of who he is; and that next year, if things change in his surroundings, those symptoms might change as well.’

Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat: ‘The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother…’

Francis, the First Latin American Pope, Dies at 88

I’m delighted to see gen Z men flocking back to church – I just hope it’s for the right reasons: ‘…church attendance in England and Wales has actually increased by 50% over the past six years, and that young people aged between 18 and 24 are the second largest demographic in attendance.’

The Guardian view on City deregulation: a recipe for recklessness: ‘…the Treasury seems to have forgotten one of the major lessons of the 2008 financial crisis: when regulation is lax, risks accumulate’.

Parents must make tough choices on smartphones, says children’s commissioner for England: ‘As adults we are ourselves dopamine-addicted, stuck in a cycle of scrolling yet we still have no idea of what our children are seeing.’

Zelenskyy accuses Russia of violating Putin’s Easter ceasefire 2,000 times

NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to Brexit costs, report finds

This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare: The rich ones, at least, could worry about their mission to educate the masses over preserving the size of their endowment.