Brian Burton #FBPE
@bodgerb.bsky.social
76 years old Socialist ex Labour
I left when Sir became leader, what socialist would accept a knighthood?
39 years in the NHS
We need to get rid of:-
The monarchy (organised crime)
The church (brain washing)
The military (futile)
I left when Sir became leader, what socialist would accept a knighthood?
39 years in the NHS
We need to get rid of:-
The monarchy (organised crime)
The church (brain washing)
The military (futile)
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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The 51st state.
Trump demands that the UK allows American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into its supermarkets.
UK already agreed to pay more for US drugs, reduced tax on private equity managers, considering cutting tax on tech companies.
'Tacking back control', someone said.
Trump demands that the UK allows American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into its supermarkets.
UK already agreed to pay more for US drugs, reduced tax on private equity managers, considering cutting tax on tech companies.
'Tacking back control', someone said.
Chlorinated chicken row as US seeks leverage over stalled UK tech pact
Britain is facing renewed pressure from the White House to allow American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into UK supermarkets.
www.farminguk.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The 51st state.
Trump demands that the UK allows American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into its supermarkets.
UK already agreed to pay more for US drugs, reduced tax on private equity managers, considering cutting tax on tech companies.
'Tacking back control', someone said.
Trump demands that the UK allows American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into its supermarkets.
UK already agreed to pay more for US drugs, reduced tax on private equity managers, considering cutting tax on tech companies.
'Tacking back control', someone said.
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Millions of workers are toiling away from their families over the holidays. So thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Pay all workers a living wage.
December 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Millions of workers are toiling away from their families over the holidays. So thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Pay all workers a living wage.
Reposted by Brian Burton #FBPE
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Daily consumers of bottled water ingest over 90,000 more microplastic particles than people who drink tap water.
There are no warnings on bottles.
Either companies do not test their products, or conceal the harms to boost profits and exec pay.
What do regulators do?
There are no warnings on bottles.
Either companies do not test their products, or conceal the harms to boost profits and exec pay.
What do regulators do?
Bottled water drinkers ingest 90,000 more microplastic particles each year
New review finds people who drink tap water ingest only about 4,000 microplastic particles a year
www.independent.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Daily consumers of bottled water ingest over 90,000 more microplastic particles than people who drink tap water.
There are no warnings on bottles.
Either companies do not test their products, or conceal the harms to boost profits and exec pay.
What do regulators do?
There are no warnings on bottles.
Either companies do not test their products, or conceal the harms to boost profits and exec pay.
What do regulators do?
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How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
December 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
Reposted by Brian Burton #FBPE
Martin Luther King Jr. mobilized the nation against racial injustice by making sure almost everyone in the United States saw its horrors — on the nightly news, watching peaceful Black people getting clubbed and arrested for exercising their rights. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Sunday thought: The reckoning
Friends,
open.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Martin Luther King Jr. mobilized the nation against racial injustice by making sure almost everyone in the United States saw its horrors — on the nightly news, watching peaceful Black people getting clubbed and arrested for exercising their rights. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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"Gary Lineker has joined the Green Party and says he will encourage his millions of fans to vote for Zack Polanski and make him Prime Minister"
via The Lamented
via The Lamented
December 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"Gary Lineker has joined the Green Party and says he will encourage his millions of fans to vote for Zack Polanski and make him Prime Minister"
via The Lamented
via The Lamented
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Reposted by Brian Burton #FBPE
Even on a cold winter night Denmark has 100% coverage of electricity by wind energy.
4GW of offshore wind projects are in the making in the coming few years.
1GW in a year.
Denmark plans to be a net exporter of green energy in the form of electricity, hydrogen and electro fuels in 2030
4GW of offshore wind projects are in the making in the coming few years.
1GW in a year.
Denmark plans to be a net exporter of green energy in the form of electricity, hydrogen and electro fuels in 2030
December 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Even on a cold winter night Denmark has 100% coverage of electricity by wind energy.
4GW of offshore wind projects are in the making in the coming few years.
1GW in a year.
Denmark plans to be a net exporter of green energy in the form of electricity, hydrogen and electro fuels in 2030
4GW of offshore wind projects are in the making in the coming few years.
1GW in a year.
Denmark plans to be a net exporter of green energy in the form of electricity, hydrogen and electro fuels in 2030
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Bernie Sanders is calling for a temporary pause on AI data center construction nationwide.
He says a pause would "give democracy a chance to catch up" with the rapid build-out.
He's concerned about potential AI-driven job losses and the tech's effect on human relationships.
He says a pause would "give democracy a chance to catch up" with the rapid build-out.
He's concerned about potential AI-driven job losses and the tech's effect on human relationships.
Bernie Sanders wants to temporarily halt AI data center construction nationwide
"This moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up with the transformative changes that we are witnessing," Sanders said.
www.yahoo.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Bernie Sanders is calling for a temporary pause on AI data center construction nationwide.
He says a pause would "give democracy a chance to catch up" with the rapid build-out.
He's concerned about potential AI-driven job losses and the tech's effect on human relationships.
He says a pause would "give democracy a chance to catch up" with the rapid build-out.
He's concerned about potential AI-driven job losses and the tech's effect on human relationships.
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Who saw that coming?
December 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Who saw that coming?
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Of all the famous figures on Paul McCartney's "Band on the Run" album cover, only boxer John Conteh and musician Paul McCartney himself are still alive. All the others have sadly passed away now. #PaulMcCartney #Bandontherun
December 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Of all the famous figures on Paul McCartney's "Band on the Run" album cover, only boxer John Conteh and musician Paul McCartney himself are still alive. All the others have sadly passed away now. #PaulMcCartney #Bandontherun
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That's Not Fair,But In Chumplandia
It Is A Reality......
It Is A Reality......
December 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
That's Not Fair,But In Chumplandia
It Is A Reality......
It Is A Reality......
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illustration by the Austrian artist Felicitas Kuhn (1926-2022)
December 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
illustration by the Austrian artist Felicitas Kuhn (1926-2022)
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Oh excellent news. Brexit sovereignty strikes again.
‘Global’ Little Britain gets to plead with foreign powers not to screw us over. And foreign powers say no.
We will be doing this shit for years. What an idiotically avoidable waste of our time and resources.
www.farminguk.com/news/chlorin...
‘Global’ Little Britain gets to plead with foreign powers not to screw us over. And foreign powers say no.
We will be doing this shit for years. What an idiotically avoidable waste of our time and resources.
www.farminguk.com/news/chlorin...
December 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Oh excellent news. Brexit sovereignty strikes again.
‘Global’ Little Britain gets to plead with foreign powers not to screw us over. And foreign powers say no.
We will be doing this shit for years. What an idiotically avoidable waste of our time and resources.
www.farminguk.com/news/chlorin...
‘Global’ Little Britain gets to plead with foreign powers not to screw us over. And foreign powers say no.
We will be doing this shit for years. What an idiotically avoidable waste of our time and resources.
www.farminguk.com/news/chlorin...
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Trump and everyone he's picked for his administration needs to see prison.
December 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Trump and everyone he's picked for his administration needs to see prison.
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AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt — Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt"
December 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt — Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt"
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Zelenskyy calls Russia’s claim of a strike on one of Putin’s residences a “complete fabrication,” a lie designed to sabotage diplomacy, justify more attacks on Kyiv, and excuse Moscow’s refusal to end the war. He warns the world must not stay silent as Russia tries to derail peace.
December 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Zelenskyy calls Russia’s claim of a strike on one of Putin’s residences a “complete fabrication,” a lie designed to sabotage diplomacy, justify more attacks on Kyiv, and excuse Moscow’s refusal to end the war. He warns the world must not stay silent as Russia tries to derail peace.
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Israeli channel i24 reports that Israeli troops are erasing evidence of their war crimes in Rafah and other Israel-controlled areas in the Gaza Strip before international journalists can get in.
Where is the outrage from international journalists?
Where is the outrage from international journalists?
December 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Israeli channel i24 reports that Israeli troops are erasing evidence of their war crimes in Rafah and other Israel-controlled areas in the Gaza Strip before international journalists can get in.
Where is the outrage from international journalists?
Where is the outrage from international journalists?
🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK just opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. Join me and sign the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics: 38d.gs/xvqe
Shady billionaires can quietly pour money into our elections, completely hidden from view.
Join me and add your name to the petition to stop this.
38d.gs
December 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK just opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. Join me and sign the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics: 38d.gs/xvqe
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, "And you are going to forbid that debate in this Parliament?"
"What is happening in Gaza is a genocide"
"Repeat after me, ladies and gentlemen, it is a genocide"
"What is happening in Gaza is a genocide"
"Repeat after me, ladies and gentlemen, it is a genocide"
December 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, "And you are going to forbid that debate in this Parliament?"
"What is happening in Gaza is a genocide"
"Repeat after me, ladies and gentlemen, it is a genocide"
"What is happening in Gaza is a genocide"
"Repeat after me, ladies and gentlemen, it is a genocide"
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England hospitals warned end-of-life care crisis threatening treatment.
Some patients are having to be given end-of-life care in A&E corridors.
Hospices struggling to find places for patients who need end-of-life care.
Hospices funded by charity. Lack of planning and investment inflicting misery.
Some patients are having to be given end-of-life care in A&E corridors.
Hospices struggling to find places for patients who need end-of-life care.
Hospices funded by charity. Lack of planning and investment inflicting misery.
Hospitals warned end-of-life care crisis threatening treatment
A rising number of patients in hospitals could affect the level of treatment carried out this winter, a group of regional NHS leaders have been told.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
England hospitals warned end-of-life care crisis threatening treatment.
Some patients are having to be given end-of-life care in A&E corridors.
Hospices struggling to find places for patients who need end-of-life care.
Hospices funded by charity. Lack of planning and investment inflicting misery.
Some patients are having to be given end-of-life care in A&E corridors.
Hospices struggling to find places for patients who need end-of-life care.
Hospices funded by charity. Lack of planning and investment inflicting misery.