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@hireco.bsky.social
Just a ghost, trapped in a monkey, hurtling through the universe on a rock. Like everybody else.
Expect plenty of stuff around the big underrepresented issues, such as inequality, climate change and other systemic problems…and a fair bit of culture babble
Expect plenty of stuff around the big underrepresented issues, such as inequality, climate change and other systemic problems…and a fair bit of culture babble
They warned us, “If you tax private schools it’ll mean more students entering the state system, costing the taxpayers more!”
The ‘they’ in this scenario are wealthy people.
Be wary of negative reactions to policies that hurt the wealthy.
Especially around tax, climate change, and regulation.
The ‘they’ in this scenario are wealthy people.
Be wary of negative reactions to policies that hurt the wealthy.
Especially around tax, climate change, and regulation.
No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
They warned us, “If you tax private schools it’ll mean more students entering the state system, costing the taxpayers more!”
The ‘they’ in this scenario are wealthy people.
Be wary of negative reactions to policies that hurt the wealthy.
Especially around tax, climate change, and regulation.
The ‘they’ in this scenario are wealthy people.
Be wary of negative reactions to policies that hurt the wealthy.
Especially around tax, climate change, and regulation.
Just ensuring the government actually collected the taxes that are owed would bank enough money to close the poverty gap.
Just shutting down tax evasion would bank the US a trillion dollars.
Sociology professor, Matthew Desmond, on economic justice…
Just shutting down tax evasion would bank the US a trillion dollars.
Sociology professor, Matthew Desmond, on economic justice…
Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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March 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Just ensuring the government actually collected the taxes that are owed would bank enough money to close the poverty gap.
Just shutting down tax evasion would bank the US a trillion dollars.
Sociology professor, Matthew Desmond, on economic justice…
Just shutting down tax evasion would bank the US a trillion dollars.
Sociology professor, Matthew Desmond, on economic justice…
“Instead of fixing the problem, they’re blaming migrants and benefits claimants when the real issue is inequality and corrupted politicians“
- @graceblakeley.bsky.social
This 1000 times.
This is the real problem with our stagnant economy.
- @graceblakeley.bsky.social
This 1000 times.
This is the real problem with our stagnant economy.
February 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“Instead of fixing the problem, they’re blaming migrants and benefits claimants when the real issue is inequality and corrupted politicians“
- @graceblakeley.bsky.social
This 1000 times.
This is the real problem with our stagnant economy.
- @graceblakeley.bsky.social
This 1000 times.
This is the real problem with our stagnant economy.
Thank you @nickmckim.bsky.social. Perfectly put.
There are many millions of us (rational people) thinking exactly the same way.
Trump is capitalism in human form. He’s overseeing a plutocracy and is a disaster for humanity.
There are many millions of us (rational people) thinking exactly the same way.
Trump is capitalism in human form. He’s overseeing a plutocracy and is a disaster for humanity.
Nick McKim speaks the truth!
Trump belongs behind bars not in the Oval Office!!
Video in 2 parts. 1/2
Trump belongs behind bars not in the Oval Office!!
Video in 2 parts. 1/2
February 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Thank you @nickmckim.bsky.social. Perfectly put.
There are many millions of us (rational people) thinking exactly the same way.
Trump is capitalism in human form. He’s overseeing a plutocracy and is a disaster for humanity.
There are many millions of us (rational people) thinking exactly the same way.
Trump is capitalism in human form. He’s overseeing a plutocracy and is a disaster for humanity.
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I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016!
(fagpacket maths follows)
on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
(fagpacket maths follows)
on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
January 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016!
(fagpacket maths follows)
on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
(fagpacket maths follows)
on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
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Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.
January 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.
What is hypernormalisation? What is Corporatism?
The billionaires are controlling the information we take in.
America has become a plutocracy and the billionaires are positioning themselves to keep it that way.
Building a community is the only way out of this.
Found out more here 👇🏻
The billionaires are controlling the information we take in.
America has become a plutocracy and the billionaires are positioning themselves to keep it that way.
Building a community is the only way out of this.
Found out more here 👇🏻
The Conscious Citizens
A directory, newsletter, and online global community dedicated to building collective consciousness & community power.
www.theconsciouscitizens.org
January 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
What is hypernormalisation? What is Corporatism?
The billionaires are controlling the information we take in.
America has become a plutocracy and the billionaires are positioning themselves to keep it that way.
Building a community is the only way out of this.
Found out more here 👇🏻
The billionaires are controlling the information we take in.
America has become a plutocracy and the billionaires are positioning themselves to keep it that way.
Building a community is the only way out of this.
Found out more here 👇🏻
The billionaires are winning. They have us punching downwards rather than upwards. Towards dinghy’s not yachts.
Our political debate should centre around economic inequality, but instead it is being deliberately centred (by Musk, Trump, Farage and the Populists around the world) around immigration.
Our political debate should centre around economic inequality, but instead it is being deliberately centred (by Musk, Trump, Farage and the Populists around the world) around immigration.
'Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg are laughing at you' | James O'Brien on LBC
YouTube video by LBC
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January 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The billionaires are winning. They have us punching downwards rather than upwards. Towards dinghy’s not yachts.
Our political debate should centre around economic inequality, but instead it is being deliberately centred (by Musk, Trump, Farage and the Populists around the world) around immigration.
Our political debate should centre around economic inequality, but instead it is being deliberately centred (by Musk, Trump, Farage and the Populists around the world) around immigration.
There are various types of Oligarchy (as we can see from @jesscraven101.bsky.social great explanation👇🏻)
As America swore in their new billionaire president, surrounded by the world’s richest billionaires, declaring to “drill baby drill” for big oil firms, the US has descended into full Plutocracy 🥲
As America swore in their new billionaire president, surrounded by the world’s richest billionaires, declaring to “drill baby drill” for big oil firms, the US has descended into full Plutocracy 🥲
We’re living in a plutocracy. Here’s why it matters. 💰 #politics #news
YouTube video by Jessica Craven
youtube.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
There are various types of Oligarchy (as we can see from @jesscraven101.bsky.social great explanation👇🏻)
As America swore in their new billionaire president, surrounded by the world’s richest billionaires, declaring to “drill baby drill” for big oil firms, the US has descended into full Plutocracy 🥲
As America swore in their new billionaire president, surrounded by the world’s richest billionaires, declaring to “drill baby drill” for big oil firms, the US has descended into full Plutocracy 🥲
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These people, who have stolen an extra $2,000,000,000,000 last year, have convinced you that you have less money because of other poor people.
It's time to wake up. This is class warfare.
Your enemy is not coming by a small boat, they're coming by private jet.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...
It's time to wake up. This is class warfare.
Your enemy is not coming by a small boat, they're coming by private jet.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...
Wealth of world’s billionaires grew by $2tn in 2024, report finds
Rate of wealth growth last year was three times faster than 2023, Oxfam inequality research reveals
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
These people, who have stolen an extra $2,000,000,000,000 last year, have convinced you that you have less money because of other poor people.
It's time to wake up. This is class warfare.
Your enemy is not coming by a small boat, they're coming by private jet.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...
It's time to wake up. This is class warfare.
Your enemy is not coming by a small boat, they're coming by private jet.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...
So should he be locked up at night in a cage in order to keep the public safe, (uh, I’m pretty sure that’s ‘prison’ in a nutshell), or should he be allowed to become the most powerful person in the entire world?
Which is it?
He surely cannot be both of these things.
Which is it?
He surely cannot be both of these things.
January 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
So should he be locked up at night in a cage in order to keep the public safe, (uh, I’m pretty sure that’s ‘prison’ in a nutshell), or should he be allowed to become the most powerful person in the entire world?
Which is it?
He surely cannot be both of these things.
Which is it?
He surely cannot be both of these things.
Sick of the big systemic issues causing problems around our world? Want to actually do something about it? You can take real action, generating real impact.
Join Rutger Bergman. Join the charity foundation, Moral Ambition, and help make a better world.
Join Rutger Bergman. Join the charity foundation, Moral Ambition, and help make a better world.
What is moral ambition?
Moral ambition is the desire to be one of the best, but measured by different standards of success – not motivated by big paychecks, fancy honorifics or a huge corner office, but pursuing a career ded...
www.moralambition.eu
January 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Sick of the big systemic issues causing problems around our world? Want to actually do something about it? You can take real action, generating real impact.
Join Rutger Bergman. Join the charity foundation, Moral Ambition, and help make a better world.
Join Rutger Bergman. Join the charity foundation, Moral Ambition, and help make a better world.
This is it folks.
Prepare for the next generation of social media, deliberately designed to be kept out of the hands of billionaire megalomaniacs.
You need this. I need this. We need this.
Prepare for the next generation of social media, deliberately designed to be kept out of the hands of billionaire megalomaniacs.
You need this. I need this. We need this.
Interesting new AT Protocol based non-profit with involvement from Nabiha Syed, Robin Berjon, Mark Surman, Mallory Knodel, Eli Pariser and others. #Fediverse
Free Our Feeds
Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.
freeourfeeds.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This is it folks.
Prepare for the next generation of social media, deliberately designed to be kept out of the hands of billionaire megalomaniacs.
You need this. I need this. We need this.
Prepare for the next generation of social media, deliberately designed to be kept out of the hands of billionaire megalomaniacs.
You need this. I need this. We need this.
The Age Of AI is currently on BBC Radio 4 this morning.
It’s very compelling.
Of course the doomageddon isn’t helped with the fact that the ‘Godfather of AI’, Geoffrey Hinton, sounds exactly like Adam Curtis.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
It’s very compelling.
Of course the doomageddon isn’t helped with the fact that the ‘Godfather of AI’, Geoffrey Hinton, sounds exactly like Adam Curtis.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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January 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The Age Of AI is currently on BBC Radio 4 this morning.
It’s very compelling.
Of course the doomageddon isn’t helped with the fact that the ‘Godfather of AI’, Geoffrey Hinton, sounds exactly like Adam Curtis.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
It’s very compelling.
Of course the doomageddon isn’t helped with the fact that the ‘Godfather of AI’, Geoffrey Hinton, sounds exactly like Adam Curtis.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
They’re not even in office yet and Trump is already invading Greenland, Musk is polling his followers about taking over the UK, Trump fancies Panama, wants to send troops into Mexico, whilst inexplicably renaming the Mexican Gulf as ‘the American Gulf’, and is considering merging Canada into the US.
I can't believe that Trump is essentially talking about invading Greenland and everyone is behaving like this is totally fucking normal
January 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
They’re not even in office yet and Trump is already invading Greenland, Musk is polling his followers about taking over the UK, Trump fancies Panama, wants to send troops into Mexico, whilst inexplicably renaming the Mexican Gulf as ‘the American Gulf’, and is considering merging Canada into the US.
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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
The typical Fortune 500 CEO had already made more money by January 2nd than the average US worker will make this entire year.
January 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Politicians are ‘idea salesmen’ or ‘narrative retailers’.
The left needs a powerful orator, an energetic, charismatic salesman, with a grip on language and a concise and clear pitch.
The right has that in Farage, or Trump.
It’s time for a new story (ideally about inequality and climate change)
The left needs a powerful orator, an energetic, charismatic salesman, with a grip on language and a concise and clear pitch.
The right has that in Farage, or Trump.
It’s time for a new story (ideally about inequality and climate change)
Latest from me: Happy New Year, sigh www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s new year resolution? It needs a better story. Here’s one Starmer could tell | John Harris
There’s a solid social-democratic narrative this government could use – if only its leaders would actually try, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Politicians are ‘idea salesmen’ or ‘narrative retailers’.
The left needs a powerful orator, an energetic, charismatic salesman, with a grip on language and a concise and clear pitch.
The right has that in Farage, or Trump.
It’s time for a new story (ideally about inequality and climate change)
The left needs a powerful orator, an energetic, charismatic salesman, with a grip on language and a concise and clear pitch.
The right has that in Farage, or Trump.
It’s time for a new story (ideally about inequality and climate change)
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The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
bylinetimes.com
January 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
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Once you have a billion dollars, what on earth would the next billion possibly add to your life?
January 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Once you have a billion dollars, what on earth would the next billion possibly add to your life?