Maria Tang
@thinkingmoog.bsky.social
EuroBrit living in France since 1990 Higher Ed., BritLit
#FBPE #eelv #lesecologistes 🦋🌻
#FBPE #eelv #lesecologistes 🦋🌻
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Michelle Obama: “Don't even look at me about running, because you all are lying.
“You're not ready for a woman. So don't waste my time. We got a lot of growing up to do.”
“You're not ready for a woman. So don't waste my time. We got a lot of growing up to do.”
November 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Michelle Obama: “Don't even look at me about running, because you all are lying.
“You're not ready for a woman. So don't waste my time. We got a lot of growing up to do.”
“You're not ready for a woman. So don't waste my time. We got a lot of growing up to do.”
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Alan Rusbridger, "The BBC is headless, it's been decapitated"
"We're 3.5 years off from a general election where a populist right government could get in"
"We're 3.5 years off from a general election where a populist right government could get in"
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Alan Rusbridger, "The BBC is headless, it's been decapitated"
"We're 3.5 years off from a general election where a populist right government could get in"
"We're 3.5 years off from a general election where a populist right government could get in"
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Honestly, I did NOT have "punching the air and going HELL YES to Chris Patten" on my bingo card today. But what he says is SO rarely said and needed saying SO badly!
"How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"
"How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Honestly, I did NOT have "punching the air and going HELL YES to Chris Patten" on my bingo card today. But what he says is SO rarely said and needed saying SO badly!
"How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"
"How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"
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Inégalités salariales : à partir de 11 h 31, lundi, les femmes travaillent « gratuitement »
Inégalités salariales : à partir de 11 h 31, lundi, les femmes travaillent « gratuitement »
La lettre d’information féministe « Les Glorieuses » a calculé ce moment précis à l’aide des données fournies par l’Insee, selon lesquelles les femmes gagnent en moyenne 14,2 % de moins que les hommes.
www.lemonde.fr
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Inégalités salariales : à partir de 11 h 31, lundi, les femmes travaillent « gratuitement »
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Trevor Philips, "You don't want a rise in income tax?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Trevor Philips, "You don't want a rise in income tax?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
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Il est né en Ouganda, il est musulman, il est écologiste et authentiquement de gauche.
Et à 34 ans, Zohran Mamdani a défait le vieil establishment démocrate pour devenir le nouveau maire de New York.
Le rêve américain est finalement toujours vivant.
(1/2)
Et à 34 ans, Zohran Mamdani a défait le vieil establishment démocrate pour devenir le nouveau maire de New York.
Le rêve américain est finalement toujours vivant.
(1/2)
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Il est né en Ouganda, il est musulman, il est écologiste et authentiquement de gauche.
Et à 34 ans, Zohran Mamdani a défait le vieil establishment démocrate pour devenir le nouveau maire de New York.
Le rêve américain est finalement toujours vivant.
(1/2)
Et à 34 ans, Zohran Mamdani a défait le vieil establishment démocrate pour devenir le nouveau maire de New York.
Le rêve américain est finalement toujours vivant.
(1/2)
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🇪🇺 Il y a 75 ans aujourd'hui, la Convention européenne des droits de l'homme était signée.
Aujourd'hui, nos droits fondamentaux et nos libertés individuelles sont attaqués en France et partout en Europe.
Restons mobilisé·es chaque jour pour les protéger et engagé·es pour en conquérir de nouveaux.
Aujourd'hui, nos droits fondamentaux et nos libertés individuelles sont attaqués en France et partout en Europe.
Restons mobilisé·es chaque jour pour les protéger et engagé·es pour en conquérir de nouveaux.
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🇪🇺 Il y a 75 ans aujourd'hui, la Convention européenne des droits de l'homme était signée.
Aujourd'hui, nos droits fondamentaux et nos libertés individuelles sont attaqués en France et partout en Europe.
Restons mobilisé·es chaque jour pour les protéger et engagé·es pour en conquérir de nouveaux.
Aujourd'hui, nos droits fondamentaux et nos libertés individuelles sont attaqués en France et partout en Europe.
Restons mobilisé·es chaque jour pour les protéger et engagé·es pour en conquérir de nouveaux.
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Comme chaque hiver, double vaccination : les campagnes sont ouvertes ! Si malheureusement la grippe n'est pas remboursée (hors publics spécifiques, un peu + de 20€ quand même) le covid est pris en charge à 100%, alors sur celui-ci il ne faut pas hésiter. Faisables en pharmacie.
November 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Comme chaque hiver, double vaccination : les campagnes sont ouvertes ! Si malheureusement la grippe n'est pas remboursée (hors publics spécifiques, un peu + de 20€ quand même) le covid est pris en charge à 100%, alors sur celui-ci il ne faut pas hésiter. Faisables en pharmacie.
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Student, "How would you, if in power, create closer relationships with Europe?"
Zack Polanski, "In the long term we need to rejoin the European Union"
"So people your age, and students, can have the same experiences and freedoms that I had when I was a student"
Zack Polanski, "In the long term we need to rejoin the European Union"
"So people your age, and students, can have the same experiences and freedoms that I had when I was a student"
November 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Student, "How would you, if in power, create closer relationships with Europe?"
Zack Polanski, "In the long term we need to rejoin the European Union"
"So people your age, and students, can have the same experiences and freedoms that I had when I was a student"
Zack Polanski, "In the long term we need to rejoin the European Union"
"So people your age, and students, can have the same experiences and freedoms that I had when I was a student"
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Grijalva: I do think that Speaker Johnson misplayed his hand.
There are people all over this nation who were out there with signs that said, “Swear her in.” They wouldn’t have even known about me otherwise.
Thank you for highlighting how corrupt the system you’re protecting really is.
There are people all over this nation who were out there with signs that said, “Swear her in.” They wouldn’t have even known about me otherwise.
Thank you for highlighting how corrupt the system you’re protecting really is.
November 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Grijalva: I do think that Speaker Johnson misplayed his hand.
There are people all over this nation who were out there with signs that said, “Swear her in.” They wouldn’t have even known about me otherwise.
Thank you for highlighting how corrupt the system you’re protecting really is.
There are people all over this nation who were out there with signs that said, “Swear her in.” They wouldn’t have even known about me otherwise.
Thank you for highlighting how corrupt the system you’re protecting really is.
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YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
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The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia.
This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.
How are Reform getting away with this?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.
How are Reform getting away with this?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia.
This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.
How are Reform getting away with this?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.
How are Reform getting away with this?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Marx argued that capitalism suffers from a type of economic crisis that would have astonished people in earlier times: a crisis of over-production where more goods are produced than there is purchasing power to buy. Worth stopping to reflect on how inhuman this is.
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Marx argued that capitalism suffers from a type of economic crisis that would have astonished people in earlier times: a crisis of over-production where more goods are produced than there is purchasing power to buy. Worth stopping to reflect on how inhuman this is.
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Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It aids fascism.
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It aids fascism.
October 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It aids fascism.
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It aids fascism.
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This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
October 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM
This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.
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Talking to an official at the Department of Health once about whether people responsible through their behaviour for their health conditions should still get treatment (eg smokers for lung cancer). He said ‘The NHS believes in the right to redemption.’ I feel we could do with more of this now.
October 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Talking to an official at the Department of Health once about whether people responsible through their behaviour for their health conditions should still get treatment (eg smokers for lung cancer). He said ‘The NHS believes in the right to redemption.’ I feel we could do with more of this now.
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Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"
October 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"
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I am so tired of 24 hour news about small boats. I simply don’t care how many migrants arrive in the UK any more. No matter how many, they’ll never be as big a threat to British values, our way of life, or indeed women‘s safety, as the bigots who make yelling about migrants their entire personality.
October 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I am so tired of 24 hour news about small boats. I simply don’t care how many migrants arrive in the UK any more. No matter how many, they’ll never be as big a threat to British values, our way of life, or indeed women‘s safety, as the bigots who make yelling about migrants their entire personality.
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Zack Polanski on renationalising water companies,
"Shareholders can't say stock not worth anything then expect payment to renationalise"
"Shareholders can't say stock not worth anything then expect payment to renationalise"
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Zack Polanski on renationalising water companies,
"Shareholders can't say stock not worth anything then expect payment to renationalise"
"Shareholders can't say stock not worth anything then expect payment to renationalise"
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It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]
October 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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My petition should be soaring past the 10,000 mark.
Please help me share it as widely as possible.
What's at stake is an abnormal proliferation of tax havens and feudal enclaves
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Please help me share it as widely as possible.
What's at stake is an abnormal proliferation of tax havens and feudal enclaves
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts
To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money
petition.parliament.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
My petition should be soaring past the 10,000 mark.
Please help me share it as widely as possible.
What's at stake is an abnormal proliferation of tax havens and feudal enclaves
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Please help me share it as widely as possible.
What's at stake is an abnormal proliferation of tax havens and feudal enclaves
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Two big opposing rallies in Hungary today.
Orban’s pro-Russia one got fewer than 30k.
His rival Peter Magyar got more than 200K.
Orban’s pro-Russia one got fewer than 30k.
His rival Peter Magyar got more than 200K.
October 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Two big opposing rallies in Hungary today.
Orban’s pro-Russia one got fewer than 30k.
His rival Peter Magyar got more than 200K.
Orban’s pro-Russia one got fewer than 30k.
His rival Peter Magyar got more than 200K.