UK seeks smoother trade with EU but customs union is ‘red line’, Cooper says
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Home secretary rules out return to full union with bloc as Keir Starmer prepares for talks in Brussels this week
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250202121438/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/02/uk-trade-eu-customs-union-yvette-cooper-keir-starmer
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US egg prices expected to climb further as farmers strained by bird flu outbreak
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About 14.7 million egg-laying hens have been affected as wholesale price of eggs climbs as much as 40 cents a week
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250202121203/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/egg-prices-bird-flu
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/egg-prices-bird-flu
Wrecking ball: Trump’s war on ‘woke’ marks US society’s plunge into ‘dark times’
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/trump-woke-dei-culture-wars
Giant catapult sends satellites into space without rocket fuel
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US gas prices likely to go up with Trump tariffs on Canadian and Mexican oil
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Summary
Trump’s new tariffs on Canadian and Mexican oil are expected to raise U.S. gas prices.
Canadian oil imports face a 10% tariff, while Mexican oil is hit with 25%, increasing refining costs.
Analysts warn the tariffs will push fuel prices higher, with Midwest refineries particularly vulnerable due to reliance on Canadian crude.
East Coast drivers may also see cost hikes due to limited refining capacity.
Fuel traders expect the added costs to be passed on to consumers, contradicting Trump’s false promise to curb inflation.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/01/us-gas-prices-trump-tariffs
We still have three eggs up for auction.
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Let the bidding begin!
CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. (Including gender, transgender, pregnant person, LGBT, and more)
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https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction
TIL of the Business Plot, a conspiracy to overthrow the presidency of FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in 1933
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Elon Musk Takes Aim at Reddit
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, in protest over his alleged Nazi salute during an event for President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-reddit-x-links-nazi-salute-2024281
Why do some people in the USA assume all immigrants are illegal and should "go back to where they came from"? Shouldn't that logic apply to all non-Native Americans?
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Not everyone thinks this, but I know an extreme right-winger who thinks this. He is also a conspiracy theorist who thinks non-white people are out to get white people so, yeah, odd.
Not every immigrant is illegal or bad. I know a girl who didn’t speak English for 3 years when her family legally immigrated, so of course she’s been told this.
Pierre Poilievre Wants Radical Austerity for Canada
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https://jacobin.com/2025/02/poilievre-friedman-neoliberalism-canada-converatives/
Trump lays out blueprint to deport pro-Palestinian foreign nationals
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https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-lays-out-blueprint-deport-pro-palestinian-foreign-nationals
The Nest is Best
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This week on fix 'em Fridays: we got our first baby of the year!
The finder found a young screech owl on the ground with a dog in the yard. The dog stayed away from the baby but they were concerned about a possible wing injury.
It was brought to our center and an exam determined that there was nothing medically wrong with this baby: it could be returned to the nest! The nest is best!
As more babies are born through spring and summer, contact us if you aren’t sure what to do if you find a baby raptor on the ground or have questions.
This week’s young owl was taken to a tree near the nest and placed on a branch near where the owls were seen. The finders got to witness it climb, using talons and beak, back to its siblings and parents! Again, the nest is best!
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d664a8af-f262-4a24-8107-ac99d191b792.webp
Trump administration funding freeze blocked by federal judge
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Summary
A Rhode Island federal judge blocked the Trump’s funding freeze, ruling that the executive action likely violates the Constitution and congressional spending commitments.
The order, issued by Judge John McConnell Jr., prohibits pausing or terminating federal financial assistance to states during the temporary restraining order.
Despite the administration’s attempted rescission of a fund freezing memo, White House officials support the freeze, prompting legal challenges from 22 state attorneys general.
Judge McConnell warned that circumventing the injunction could lead to further legal action, highlighting risks to constitutional limits on executive power.
UK Poll:Belief that Britain was right to vote to leave The EU falls to new low.
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"Textbook red flags of forced labor:" Chinese workers in BYD Brazil factory signed contracts with abusive clauses, investigators say
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BYD contractor Jinjiang imposed restrictive labor conditions on Chinese workers
BYD denies knowledge of labor violations, claims unawareness until media reports
BYD and Jinjiang face charges for obstructing Brazilian labor investigation
The workers who traveled from China to northeast Brazil to build a new factory for electric car maker BYD earned roughly $70 per 10-hour shift, over twice the Chinese hourly minimum wage in many regions. For many, that made signing up an easy decision - but getting out would be much harder.
The Chinese workers hired by BYD contractor Jinjiang in Brazil had to hand over their passports to their new employer, let most of their wages be sent directly to China, and fork over an almost $900 deposit that they could only get back after six months’ work, according to a labor contract seen by Reuters.
The three-page document, signed by one of 163 workers who labor inspectors said were freed from “slavery-like conditions” last month, includes clauses that violate labor laws in both Brazil and China, according to Brazilian investigators and three Chinese labor law experts.
Other previously unreported clauses gave the firm the power to unilaterally extend the labor contract for six months and issue 200 yuan fines for conduct such as swearing, quarreling or walking around shirtless at the site or in their living quarters.
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Many of the clauses “are textbook ‘red flags’ of forced labor,” said Aaron Halegua, a lawyer and fellow at New York University Law School, who won compensation for Chinese workers who sued their employers for forced labor in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory.
He added that withholding workers’ passports or requiring any form of performance bond or security payment would not be permitted under Chinese laws and regulations.
Apple asks court to halt Google search monopoly case
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The bourgeoisie has class solidarity.
https://www.theverge.com/news/603998/apple-google-search-remedies-monopoly-trial-stay-request