Alfred Wickens
@wickens.bsky.social
Emigre from Twitter. Brexit was always going to be a disaster. Joined Bluesky 8/10/23.
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I still can't believe that the man who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy; who explained to camera how hard his cognitive screening test for Alzheimers was; who encouraged the assassination of his own vice president is still legally at liberty, let alone being president of the United States.
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I still can't believe that the man who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy; who explained to camera how hard his cognitive screening test for Alzheimers was; who encouraged the assassination of his own vice president is still legally at liberty, let alone being president of the United States.
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Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3,200 workers in order to “right-size” its business.
The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.
It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.
Textbook corporate greed.
The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.
It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.
Textbook corporate greed.
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3,200 workers in order to “right-size” its business.
The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.
It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.
Textbook corporate greed.
The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.
It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.
Textbook corporate greed.
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Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"
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💥💥Moscow region reporting “active air defense”
We call it Monday🇺🇦
We call it Monday🇺🇦
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
💥💥Moscow region reporting “active air defense”
We call it Monday🇺🇦
We call it Monday🇺🇦
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Dividends are taxed at marginal rates of 8.75%, 33.75%, and 39.35%, no national insurance is levied.
Wages taxed at 20%-45% +NIC.
Aligning taxation of dividends with wages could raise £6bn a year. Even higher if national insurance is also charged.
Wages taxed at 20%-45% +NIC.
Aligning taxation of dividends with wages could raise £6bn a year. Even higher if national insurance is also charged.
This is how Rachel Reeves could deliver a progressive budget
The chancellor has an opportunity to boost the public purpose and deliver redistribution
leftfootforward.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Dividends are taxed at marginal rates of 8.75%, 33.75%, and 39.35%, no national insurance is levied.
Wages taxed at 20%-45% +NIC.
Aligning taxation of dividends with wages could raise £6bn a year. Even higher if national insurance is also charged.
Wages taxed at 20%-45% +NIC.
Aligning taxation of dividends with wages could raise £6bn a year. Even higher if national insurance is also charged.
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Firm tied to Kristi Noem secretly got money from $220 million DHS ad contracts
On the second day of the government shutdown, Kristi Noem arrived at Mount Rushmore to shoot a wasteful $220 million TV vanity ad for which she financially benefitted
www.capjournal.com/news/firm-ti...
On the second day of the government shutdown, Kristi Noem arrived at Mount Rushmore to shoot a wasteful $220 million TV vanity ad for which she financially benefitted
www.capjournal.com/news/firm-ti...
Firm tied to Kristi Noem secretly got money from $220 million DHS ad contracts
On Oct. 2, the second day of the government shutdown, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived at Mount Rushmore to shoot a television ad. Sitting on horseback in chaps and
www.capjournal.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Firm tied to Kristi Noem secretly got money from $220 million DHS ad contracts
On the second day of the government shutdown, Kristi Noem arrived at Mount Rushmore to shoot a wasteful $220 million TV vanity ad for which she financially benefitted
www.capjournal.com/news/firm-ti...
On the second day of the government shutdown, Kristi Noem arrived at Mount Rushmore to shoot a wasteful $220 million TV vanity ad for which she financially benefitted
www.capjournal.com/news/firm-ti...
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At the Vatican, I joined a Ukrainian delegation working to return tens of thousands of Ukrainian children taken from their families by Russian forces. I joined these brave parents and children to meet with Pope Leo XIV about efforts to bring these kids home.
November 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
At the Vatican, I joined a Ukrainian delegation working to return tens of thousands of Ukrainian children taken from their families by Russian forces. I joined these brave parents and children to meet with Pope Leo XIV about efforts to bring these kids home.
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Anyone who claims Ru seeks compromise when it pursues diplomacy is either uninformed/naive about Ru or simply pro-Russian. It's that stark.
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Anyone who claims Ru seeks compromise when it pursues diplomacy is either uninformed/naive about Ru or simply pro-Russian. It's that stark.
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THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND HIS REGIME ARE TRAITORS TO THE UNITED STATES AND OUR ALLIES.
(there's no other way to put it)
(there's no other way to put it)
November 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND HIS REGIME ARE TRAITORS TO THE UNITED STATES AND OUR ALLIES.
(there's no other way to put it)
(there's no other way to put it)
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Keep in mind that this serial liar also promised a hundred times during the campaign that he would be able to end the war “in 24 hours” with “one phone call” to Putin because he has “a great relationship” with him, “knows just what to say to him,” & “it won’t even be that hard.”
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Keep in mind that this serial liar also promised a hundred times during the campaign that he would be able to end the war “in 24 hours” with “one phone call” to Putin because he has “a great relationship” with him, “knows just what to say to him,” & “it won’t even be that hard.”
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Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
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The media needs to stop calling it a peace plan. It's a Republican surrender plan for Europe. Why? Because Republicans have embraced fascist plutocracy and Europe isn't.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/e...
Trump’s signals to Zelensky and Europe: Accept this plan or you’re on your own | CNN
The 28-point plan hammered out by US and Russian envoys and put to Ukraine this week came with a deadline and an implicit threat: Sign up or face the risk of being abandoned.
www.cnn.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The media needs to stop calling it a peace plan. It's a Republican surrender plan for Europe. Why? Because Republicans have embraced fascist plutocracy and Europe isn't.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/e...
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Plenty to see here in this latest update from HCR…
November 23, 2025
“Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this ‘peace plan’ was written by Russians or Americans?” foreign affairs journalist Anne Applebaum asked ...
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Plenty to see here in this latest update from HCR…
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Morning from a country that refuses to fall.
Coffee, courage, and a stubborn light
That no darkness can swallow.
#ukraine #ukrainerussiawar #diary #ukrainetoday #ukrainegirl
Coffee, courage, and a stubborn light
That no darkness can swallow.
#ukraine #ukrainerussiawar #diary #ukrainetoday #ukrainegirl
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Morning from a country that refuses to fall.
Coffee, courage, and a stubborn light
That no darkness can swallow.
#ukraine #ukrainerussiawar #diary #ukrainetoday #ukrainegirl
Coffee, courage, and a stubborn light
That no darkness can swallow.
#ukraine #ukrainerussiawar #diary #ukrainetoday #ukrainegirl
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
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I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*.
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
On US TV shows and podcasts from 2009-18, Farage discussed supposed plots by bankers to create a global government, citing Goldman Sachs, the Bilderberg group and George Soros as threats to democracy. Included six guest slots with the disgraced far-right US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*.
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
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"US senator disappointed in Canada no longer treating them like a friendly neighbor"
My dude your country is the neighbor which keeps getting back with their abusive ex who just threatened to beat us up
Get your shit together and we can talk
My dude your country is the neighbor which keeps getting back with their abusive ex who just threatened to beat us up
Get your shit together and we can talk
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
"US senator disappointed in Canada no longer treating them like a friendly neighbor"
My dude your country is the neighbor which keeps getting back with their abusive ex who just threatened to beat us up
Get your shit together and we can talk
My dude your country is the neighbor which keeps getting back with their abusive ex who just threatened to beat us up
Get your shit together and we can talk
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#Canada PM Carney says world can move on without US, stresses new ties
www.straitstimes.com/world/canada...
www.straitstimes.com/world/canada...
Canada PM Carney says world can move on without US, stresses new ties
He emphasised that he won’t have his agenda dictated by US President Donald Trump. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
www.straitstimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
#Canada PM Carney says world can move on without US, stresses new ties
www.straitstimes.com/world/canada...
www.straitstimes.com/world/canada...
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Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:
a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:
a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:
a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:
a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
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In a massive backlash against MAGA fascism, Democrats have now swept school board elections in Pennsylvania, Texas and Ohio and defeating all terrorist Moms For Liberty candidates in the process. Much more of this please, we have a democracy to rescue. 💙👊
November 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
In a massive backlash against MAGA fascism, Democrats have now swept school board elections in Pennsylvania, Texas and Ohio and defeating all terrorist Moms For Liberty candidates in the process. Much more of this please, we have a democracy to rescue. 💙👊