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[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

30 years in prison for moving a box of pamphlets. 100 years for a former Marine. 450 years total for 8 activists.

This is what happens when protesting state policy gets you branded a domestic terrorist.

@LornaHosford reports on the chilling Prairieland sentences 👇

[90’s anime @90sPiictures]

Shinichirō Watanabe's Blade Runner Black Out 2022 is a must-watch for any cyberpunk fan

[The National @ScotNational]

EXCLUSIVE: A group of Scottish educators advocating for peace in Palestine have been forced to seek legal advice after a targeted campaign by pro-Israel lawyers

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

MEET THE BARRISTER THE POST OFFICE FEARS

Here's a name that deserves to trend more than half the people who actually do. Sam Stein KC.

While the @PostOffice was busy ruining ordinary people's lives over money that was never actually missing, Stein was in a courtroom taking it apart piece by piece.

He represents most of the subpostmasters at the Post Office Horizon Inquiry @PostOffInquiry, instructed by Howe and Co @HoweAndCo, on behalf of the people the Post Office tried to bury.

In 2021 he stood in the Court of Appeal representing a group of subpostmasters, instructed by Howe and Co @HoweAndCo, in the same case that finally cleared Jo Hamilton @JoHamil73963257 and dozens of others after years of wrongful convictions.

He told the judges the Post Office's refusal to investigate its own broken Horizon system, built by Fujitsu @fujitsu_uk, was the longest running affront to British justice in living memory. The judges agreed and quashed the convictions.

Then the public inquiry started and Stein really got going.

He told the inquiry the Post Office had turned itself into "the nation's most untrustworthy brand." A blunt summary, backed by 2.2 million pages of evidence.

He described former Post Office lawyer Mandy Talbot as "the Post Office's very own evil robot" after she was asked repeatedly who had directed a legal strategy built to silence a subpostmaster and kept saying she couldn't remember. Convenient amnesia. Goes around a lot in this organisation.

He summed up a whole phase of hearings by calling the parade of witnesses "a rogues' gallery." Executives who forgot everything except how to protect themselves.

Questioning executive Angela van den Bogerd about the Post Office's own helpline, he told her she had been "intimidating and bullying" toward subpostmistress Jennifer O'Dell, who kept calling to say she hadn't stolen a penny. She was telling the truth. Nobody listened for years.

In his closing submission for phase 2, he told the inquiry to work out whether the entire scandal was a "cock-up or cook-up." By phase 3 he had his answer. Cook-up, no doubt about it. He said the Post Office spent that entire phase dodging its own failures and instead "turned its tank turret gun on Fujitsu."

Subpostmasters called the organisation that prosecuted them "the abuser." Questioning former minister Pat McFadden about it, Stein got that word onto the official record, permanently.

In his final closing statement, Stein made the point that mattered most. This was never really a problem with a computer. It was a problem with people, and people paid the price. He said what actually drove the scandal was "cruelty, callousness and connivance," and that people are still living with the consequences.

He also named former CEO Paula Vennells, executive Angela van den Bogerd and in-house lawyer Jarnail Singh as part of a rogues' gallery remembered for lies and incompetence, and pointed out £37 million received by the Post Office is still unaccounted for. Nobody's chasing it.

Urgency always disappears when it's the institution's own money at stake.

He also said the external law firm Cartwright King failed subpostmasters, because by the time its lawyers were brought in, they had become company men.

Stein also pushed the inquiry to recommend actual restorative justice. Counselling for postmasters and their families. Bursaries for children whose education was wrecked. A permanent memorial. Reputations rebuilt in the small communities where they were destroyed.

Volume 1 of the final report landed in July 2025. The rest keeps slipping. Current estimate is September 2026, and even that looks optimistic. A criminal investigation into the Post Office is on hold waiting for it.

People keep dying while they wait to be believed.

The Post Office spent two decades hoping this would quietly disappear. Sam Stein KC made sure it never got the chance.

SOURCES @ComputerWeekly @lawsocgazette @BBCNews and many others.

[Muse @xmuse_]

This Roman bath still flows at 45°C 1,900 years later.

Built in the 2nd century AD on a natural hot spring, it kept going through Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman times.

Same spring the Romans used. Still running.

Ancient engineering that never quit.

Basilica Therma in Sarıkaya, Turkey

[The Toy Baller @BallerToy1327]

Who other captains should be on this meme?

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

The government has long believed the ICC would only act in “failed states” and is not able to indict UK nationals, declassified files show.

👉UK backs International Criminal Court since it can’t prosecute Britons
https://t.co/UXpNiTQWVC

[Manojlović Marko @Manojlovic03]

Pearl Jam – „Black“ (Live in Hyde Park, 2010)

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Two top Republicans, both originally pro-Trump, confirm the US attacked Spain using Morocco as a proxy.

US paid Morocco at least $40M two weeks before the Ceuta breach. People were reportedly lured into participating through social media, while the breach was amplified as a "migrant invasion" online by US, Israeli and Russian disinformation and disruption networks, and compromised media networks and politicians on right wing legacy media.

[The National @ScotNational]

A Scottish Labour MP has sparked confusion with a bizarre statement about Edinburgh’s city centre https://t.co/eoWN9wDeX3

[The National @ScotNational]

Runner Josh Kerr has hailed Scotland’s national anthem, saying that hearing Flower of Scotland after winning gold at the Commonwealth Games mile race felt 'just different' to hearing God Save the King when representing Team GB

[Undiscovered Scotland @UndisScot]

The view north towards North Uist over the island of Benbecula in the Western Isles. Once accessible only by tidal fords from North Uist and South Uist, Benbecula is now connected to its neighbouring islands by causeways. More pics and info: https://t.co/ewJRf3t2v2

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

He’s not Muslim. He’s Christian. He’s not brown. He’s white. He’s also pro-Israel.

He killed people. A mass shooter. Terrorist.

Why is this not going viral?

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

Japan is introducing cooling toilets and shorter working hours amid soaring heatwaves

Companies failing to protect workers will be penalized

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

Gary Linker
“It did not matter to me losing my job”

“What mattered to me was losing my dignity."

It's quite unbelievable that anyone should be worried about calling out a genocide.

[The National @ScotNational]

A former security officer for the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has been revealed as a gun-wielding 'fantasist' who was reported to counter-terrorism police over 'disturbing' videos https://t.co/U1iPaG4nIh

[Past Glasgow @PastGlasgow]

John Burnet's 1856 Elgin Place Congregational Church at the corner of Pitt St & Bath St, photographed on 25 Nov 2004.

It ceased to be used as a church in 1962 and a pipe organ built in 1903 by Henry Willis & Sons was removed to St Andrew's Cathedral in 1981.

📷 City Archives

[Manojlović Marko @Manojlovic03]

Pearl Jam – „Oceans” (1991)