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[melindatimetraveller 💡 @mindyrewob]

What I learned by doing an MSc (Neuroscience & Education): We need Research Leads in Schools https://t.co/9wqtwnsiTA

[melindatimetraveller 💡 @mindyrewob]

@tes @AQA Marking for AQA has been getting worse for years. I have long suspected that this is because they want to move to using AI…

[Deans for Impact (DFI) @deansforimpact]

Decades of research suggest that learning styles are a myth. Our updated Science of Learning report breaks down the #cogsci behind how students learn and dispels common myths that get in the way. https://t.co/U501E4ydeN

[melindatimetraveller 💡 @mindyrewob]

@Be_like_legend Every single one of them

[UKSwifts @swifts_uk]

Please retweet and spread the word!
What to do when you find a grounded swift 👇

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next.

Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades.

George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks.

The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order.

No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide.

A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute.

The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.

The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Neil McCoy-Ward @NeilMcCoyWard]

🚨 BRACE YOURSELF! The Great Shutdown has officially begun...

What they don’t want you to see is happening RIGHT NOW...

[CA Vivek Khatri @CaVivekkhatri]

🚨 BREAKING:

Iran didn't respond to US bombs with missiles.

They responded with GAME THEORY.

And in doing so, they may have just fired the most dangerous shot at the US dollar in 52 years.

Here's the move most people completely missed: 🧵

(Read this slowly. Share it widely.)

[Judge Roy Ferguson @JudgeFergusonTX]

Today is the 5th anniversary of the release of the infamous #Lawyercat video, which I posted roughly thirty minutes after the start of the second impeachment trial. Who would have thought it would have such a lasting impact on the world! Happy Lawyercat Day for all who celebrate!

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While his client, Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit

Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @allthecitizens & @Change.
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[melindatimetraveller 💡 @mindyrewob]

@OKWildlifeDept @OKWildlifeDept What have you done? He’s holding the bear!

[THE NERVE @thenerve_news]

NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations

Peter Thiel's surveillance co. has deals with government bodies totalling at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

By @carolecadwalla @charlienotold + Max Colbert 🔗⏬

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

The 2nd amendment fetishists who brought you Kyle Rittenhouse and January 6th think Alex Pretti's legal gun was the problem? Are you f**king kidding?

[THE NERVE @thenerve_news]

And read the transcript here
🙏
https://t.co/ZgD2a8fBDY

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Link: https://t.co/PsDUvdXamr

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Thread: Trump's Greenland Bully Tactics? Let's Call This Out Point by Point  
(1/10) Trump just threatened tariffs on 8 NATO allies (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Finland) unless they hand over Greenland. 10% starting Feb 1, jumping to 25% in June.
This isn't negotiation, it's straight-up economic blackmail against friends and allies.
Trump is insane and must be impeached before this gets out of control.
Greenland isn't Trump's playground.
#NoToGreenlandBully #StandWithAllies

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

I want to thank all my followers for your continued support. What you have all done has considerably expanded my reach in raising awareness of the free zones phenomenon, so little reported in the MSM.
I primarily use X, Bluesky, and Substack to post threads and in-depth articles on the deregulated free zones scattered across England, Scotland, and Wales, rolled out by both the Tories and Labour in the post-Brexit era.

All my work is thoroughly researched, drawing from UK Government sources, public domain information, and key books that explore this under-the-radar area of corporate capture of the commons.
The deeper I dig, the more it feels like I’m mapping a new kind of corporate political territory, one that’s rapidly expanding behind the headlines.

In 2025, I published several articles on free zones for The Canary, which shared my concern about the lack of MSM coverage.
I continued speaking at public events about the dangers these zones pose, while taking calls with the FT, people in and around Parliament, and fellow campaigners—all volunteers pushing for transparency from councils and government on aspects of free zones that deserve real scrutiny and opposition.
A book on Breakdown and Collapse is due out this year, with contributions from several authors. I was invited to write an essay on UK free zones, and the editors are now finalising the texts. This will be my first book-form publication on the topic.

As many of you know, I’ve been covering the proposed Forest City 1 in Suffolk, a Charter/Free City project backed by the Free Speech Union, CAPX, the Adam Smith Institute, Patrik Schumacher of Zaha Hadid Architects, and others (including endorsements crossing party lines, such as from Dame Patricia Hewitt, former Labour MP/Secretary of State for Trade and Industry).
I’ll be providing regular updates on this right-wing libertarian project, the first of several coming to the UK. Forest City 1 relies on deregulated SEZ status in Suffolk, complete with 10-year tax breaks, 25-year licenses, and £160 million in state aid.
Thank you all so much for your support.
Best wishes for 2026!
David Powell

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster.

Peter Thiel is now the third wheel in the US-UK ‘special relationship’.

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