John E Jefferson
@johnejefferson.bsky.social
Left wing and progressive. Retire next year, so I hope to dedicate more time to pursuing a policy that puts the planet first always. I'm glad to see the back of X...
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Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666 times more than his workers in 2024 whilst workers languish in poverty.
That would not happen if workers voted on CEO pay.
Corporations are private fiefdoms.
Starbucks has a complex corporate structure and has long been known for profit shifting and tax dodges.
That would not happen if workers voted on CEO pay.
Corporations are private fiefdoms.
Starbucks has a complex corporate structure and has long been known for profit shifting and tax dodges.
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666 times more than his workers in 2024
CEO pay climbs ahead of Trump tax windfall for wealthy, says report
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666 times more than his workers in 2024 whilst workers languish in poverty.
That would not happen if workers voted on CEO pay.
Corporations are private fiefdoms.
Starbucks has a complex corporate structure and has long been known for profit shifting and tax dodges.
That would not happen if workers voted on CEO pay.
Corporations are private fiefdoms.
Starbucks has a complex corporate structure and has long been known for profit shifting and tax dodges.
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An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.
May 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.
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🚨THIS WEEKEND please join me & the British Heart Foundation in inspiring the nation to learn LIFE SAVING CPR❤️🙏
450,000 people have now engaged with the FREE online training course to learn CPR in JUST 15 MINUTES!
Let’s be ready to save a life👇
www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...
450,000 people have now engaged with the FREE online training course to learn CPR in JUST 15 MINUTES!
Let’s be ready to save a life👇
www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...
January 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🚨THIS WEEKEND please join me & the British Heart Foundation in inspiring the nation to learn LIFE SAVING CPR❤️🙏
450,000 people have now engaged with the FREE online training course to learn CPR in JUST 15 MINUTES!
Let’s be ready to save a life👇
www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...
450,000 people have now engaged with the FREE online training course to learn CPR in JUST 15 MINUTES!
Let’s be ready to save a life👇
www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...
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What a manipulative c*nt...
‘Homeless people given free lunch’ to attend Donald Trump Jr event in Greenland
‘Homeless people given free lunch’ to attend Donald Trump Jr event in Greenland
People in Maga hats at lunch with Trump Jr last week did not know him and were invited in off the street, hotel boss says
A group of Greenlanders who attended a lunch hosted by Donald Trump Jr wearing Make America Great Again caps were not dedicated…
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January 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
What a manipulative c*nt...
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Woman with ‘distorted notion of revenge’ sentenced for stabbing transgender woman
Woman with ‘distorted notion of revenge’ sentenced for stabbing transgender woman
Summer Betts-Ramsey and three others given youth detention for attack on victim who had misled one of the defendants over gender identity
A woman who carried out a transphobic stabbing attack motivated by a “distorted notion of revenge” has been…
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January 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Woman with ‘distorted notion of revenge’ sentenced for stabbing transgender woman
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CEO of watchdog accused of attempt to ‘sanitise’ review of Andrew Malkinson case
CEO of watchdog accused of attempt to ‘sanitise’ review of Andrew Malkinson case
Exclusive: sources claim CCRC head, Karen Kneller, fought suggestion problems behind handling of case were systemic
The chief executive of the miscarriage of justice watchdog has been accused of attempting to “sanitise” an independent review into her…
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
CEO of watchdog accused of attempt to ‘sanitise’ review of Andrew Malkinson case
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Thames Valley police chief suspended amid gross misconduct allegations
Thames Valley police chief suspended amid gross misconduct allegations
Police watchdog says suspension of Jason Hogg is ‘neutral act’ and should not be seen as indication of guilt
The head of Thames Valley police has been suspended with immediate effect amid allegations of gross misconduct.
Chief constable Jason Hogg is…
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January 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Thames Valley police chief suspended amid gross misconduct allegations
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David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78
David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78
Film-maker who specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works including Wild at Heart and Eraserhead
David Lynch, the maverick American director who sustained a successful mainstream career while…
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January 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78
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New portrait of Donald Trump released ahead of inauguration - and it has drawn comparisons to his mugshot
New portrait of Donald Trump released ahead of inauguration - and it has drawn comparisons to his mugshot
A new portrait of Donald Trump has been released ahead of his inauguration - with his expression and head angle appearing similar to the ones he gave in a police mugshot in 2023.
news.sky.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
New portrait of Donald Trump released ahead of inauguration - and it has drawn comparisons to his mugshot
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➡️ The British authorities' designation makes it illegal for anyone in the UK to offer funding to Blood and Honour, which takes its name from a Nazi slogan.
UK freezes assets of extreme-right group for alleged terrorism
The British authorities' designation makes it illegal for anyone in the UK to offer funding to Blood and Honour, which takes its name from a Nazi slogan.
www.euronews.com
January 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
➡️ The British authorities' designation makes it illegal for anyone in the UK to offer funding to Blood and Honour, which takes its name from a Nazi slogan.
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It’s worth remembering what the bloviating blonde buffoon said on investigating historic child abuse…
January 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
It’s worth remembering what the bloviating blonde buffoon said on investigating historic child abuse…
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“The Government should make building hundreds of thousands of council homes its defining purpose. No other policy, achievable within a Parliament, would have greater social and economic benefits”
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Nearly two-thirds of working private renters in England struggle to pay rent
Exclusive: Shelter poll shows housing crisis is causing hardship even for those with jobs
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December 28, 2024 at 9:45 PM
“The Government should make building hundreds of thousands of council homes its defining purpose. No other policy, achievable within a Parliament, would have greater social and economic benefits”
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Agree or disagree?
December 28, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Agree or disagree?
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'I saw everything was destroyed': Memories still incredibly raw 20 years after Boxing Day tsunami
'I saw everything was destroyed': Memories still incredibly raw 20 years after Boxing Day tsunami
On this day 20 years ago, the world looked aghast as the deadliest tsunami in history ripped across the Indian Ocean. It took just seconds for the Earth's crust to be pulled apart and the devastation it left behind was almost unfathomable.
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December 26, 2024 at 2:58 PM
'I saw everything was destroyed': Memories still incredibly raw 20 years after Boxing Day tsunami
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Only about 300 to 400 people a year give a kidney to someone they never met. It's an act of generosity so unusual, a neuroscientist studies the people who do this.
Giving a kidney to a stranger? Researchers call it 'extraordinary altruism'
Only about 300 to 400 people a year give a kidney to someone they never met. It's an act of generosity so unusual, a neuroscientist studies the people who do this.
www.npr.org
December 26, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Only about 300 to 400 people a year give a kidney to someone they never met. It's an act of generosity so unusual, a neuroscientist studies the people who do this.
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Trump tells 37 people on death row with commuted sentences to ‘go to hell’
Trump tells 37 people on death row with commuted sentences to ‘go to hell’
On Truth Social, president-elect also lashes out at Chinese troops in Panama Canal and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau
Donald Trump has told 37 people on death row who had their sentences commuted by Joe Biden to “go to hell” in a lacerating Christmas Day…
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December 26, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Trump tells 37 people on death row with commuted sentences to ‘go to hell’
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“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009.
Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas to Bombing It
Hamas wants to destroy Israel, right? But as Mehdi Hasan shows in a new video on blowback, Israeli officials admit they helped start the group.
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December 26, 2024 at 6:49 PM
“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009.
Five Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli strike on van in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Five Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli strike on van in Gaza
Men were asleep in marked press vehicle, say witnesses, as renewed hostage negotiations reach impasse
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Five Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli strike on van in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
War crimes just carry on....
December 26, 2024 at 6:47 PM
War crimes just carry on....
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“New age guru” to some, center-left crank to others—former presidential candidate Marrianne Williamson has thrown her name into the hat for the next Democratic National Committee chair.
Marianne Williamson Launches Unexpected Bid to Take Over DNC
The self-help guru and two-time failed presidential candidate says she can transform the Democratic Party.
newrepublic.com
December 26, 2024 at 6:30 PM
“New age guru” to some, center-left crank to others—former presidential candidate Marrianne Williamson has thrown her name into the hat for the next Democratic National Committee chair.
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Ben Jennings on Elon Musk and Nigel Farage’s Mar-a-Lago meeting – cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ben Jennings on Elon Musk and Nigel Farage’s Mar-a-Lago meeting – cartoon
The pair met at Donald Trump’s Florida home – fuelling speculation that the tech billionaire could bankroll Reform
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December 18, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Ben Jennings on Elon Musk and Nigel Farage’s Mar-a-Lago meeting – cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
At least Dick Turpin wore a mask...
Thames Water to get green light to hike bills by more than a third by 2030
Thames Water to get green light to hike bills by more than a third by 2030
Exclusive: long-awaited decision by water regulator Ofwat falls short of utility’s requested 59% rise
Troubled Thames Water will be allowed to increase customer bills by just over a third by 2030 after a decision by the industry regulator, the Guardian…
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:17 PM
At least Dick Turpin wore a mask...