491 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. 30 days since the Taliban banned women from going to university.
This #EducationDay, amplify the voices of girls in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan - the ONLY country on earth where girls education is banned!
people NEED to get out of their small, close-minded towns & educate themselves beyond what they were taught growing up… it’s okay to have your own views and opinions. it’s okay to change.
BREAKING: Health workers are blocking Downing Street demanding:
❌📑 End licensing + subsidies for fossil fuels
❌💷 Close tax loopholes for oil and gas
@BorisJohnson @KwasiKwarteng stop ignoring the health community!
#ForHealthsSake
Shell just announced soaring profits: £7,300,000,000 in the last 3 months.
But the Tories let them pay *zero* tax on North Sea oil and gas production last year. In fact, the Treasury paid *them* £92,000,000.
Let's use a windfall tax on these companies to slash energy bills.
A non-verbal black teenager was arrested by the police and detained by the Home Office, who prepared his deportation to Nigeria.
But he’s a British citizen, who has never left Britain and was missing from a Kent hospital.
How is that anything but horrific racism?
So one of the claims Elon Musk makes again and again, in between breaks to post memes, is that he's a good guy because Tesla is so green. But, like most of his claims, he doesn’t back this up. Here's the truth (🧵!)
I don’t care if it’s ageism, nobody 70+ years old got any business making decisions for a world they won’t truly be affected by. If retirement age 62-65 everywhere else it need to apply to all government positions
Rishi Sunak & his wife are happy to pay more tax in the UK, but are furious with the person who leaked their previous tax arrangements and are determined to identify the culprit. They’re absolutely delighted to pay more tax in the UK though and think it’s a good idea of course.
The fact that in the last decade Martin Lewis has had to go from 'The guy who tells you who's doing two-for-one deals or how to get a good mortgage rate' to 'Here's what you can do to get emergency help to stop starving/freezing to death' speaks for itself.
my parents bought their house in 1976 for $58,000. in 2022 dollars, that would be $279,160.
their 2022 assessment valued the house at $2.09 million.
i don't think getting married at 34 instead of 24 is the reason my generation can't buy homes. thanks for coming to my ted talk.
all the "just take the bus" people are reminding me of how when I was in college, I was denied a job after the interviewer asked increasingly specific questions aimed at determining if I could work without relying on our local bus system