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I feel like I’m going mad. Absolute morons holding our politicians to account
January 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I feel like I’m going mad. Absolute morons holding our politicians to account
A meaningless answer from a meaningless person.
Asked Wes Streeting at the Fabians New Year conference how Labour deals with Trump and the rise of the right across the world
Streeting says: “It’s our responsibility to be the light on the hill for the progressive world.”
Streeting says: “It’s our responsibility to be the light on the hill for the progressive world.”
January 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A meaningless answer from a meaningless person.
I was hoping to be more upbeat and less angry/pessimistic this year but those Musk-buying-Liverpool rumours have firmly finished that off.
January 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I was hoping to be more upbeat and less angry/pessimistic this year but those Musk-buying-Liverpool rumours have firmly finished that off.
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It Looks Like a Bombed-out Scene: 20 Palestinian Cars
Torched by Masked Settlers in the Dead of Night
Had a lone resident of this quiet residential street in El Bireh not been awake, the fire could have reached the homes under which the cars were parked
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Torched by Masked Settlers in the Dead of Night
Had a lone resident of this quiet residential street in El Bireh not been awake, the fire could have reached the homes under which the cars were parked
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Like a bombed-out scene: 20 Palestinian cars torched by masked settlers in dead of night
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www.haaretz.com
December 8, 2024 at 10:21 PM
It Looks Like a Bombed-out Scene: 20 Palestinian Cars
Torched by Masked Settlers in the Dead of Night
Had a lone resident of this quiet residential street in El Bireh not been awake, the fire could have reached the homes under which the cars were parked
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Torched by Masked Settlers in the Dead of Night
Had a lone resident of this quiet residential street in El Bireh not been awake, the fire could have reached the homes under which the cars were parked
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Yuuurssss
Kneecap: Belfast rap group wins case against UK government
A funding award of £15,000 to the band was blocked by former Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Yuuurssss
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Didn’t we get enough of this from ministers in the last government, @uklabour.bsky.social? 😠 www.thenational.scot/news/2425055...
Labour's Wes Streeting takes £175k from donors linked to private health firms
LABOUR shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has continued to accept tens of thousands of pounds from donors with links to private healthcare while…
www.thenational.scot
November 29, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Didn’t we get enough of this from ministers in the last government, @uklabour.bsky.social? 😠 www.thenational.scot/news/2425055...
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This was inevitable based on where the Israeli government was going with regard to a free press (they don’t want one!) but still deeply deeply bad.
Israeli government imposes sanctions on Haaretz, cuts all ties and pulls advertising
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www.haaretz.com
November 25, 2024 at 9:31 PM
This was inevitable based on where the Israeli government was going with regard to a free press (they don’t want one!) but still deeply deeply bad.
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so cool that right as we’re flying past 1.5ºC of warming, we have three climate conferences in a row in authoritarian (at least quasi-)petrostates to ensure fuck all happens to change that
November 23, 2024 at 2:43 PM
so cool that right as we’re flying past 1.5ºC of warming, we have three climate conferences in a row in authoritarian (at least quasi-)petrostates to ensure fuck all happens to change that
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Corporate logic:
You pay us for our product.
But you don’t own that product, we do.
And when that product breaks you can’t fix it unless you pay us more money.
Right to repair laws will fix this scam.
You pay us for our product.
But you don’t own that product, we do.
And when that product breaks you can’t fix it unless you pay us more money.
Right to repair laws will fix this scam.
NEW: John Deere is costing American farmers $4.2 billion a year by restricting them from fixing their own tractors.
Apple, Amazon and major automakers use the same strategies on everything you own.
It's bad for you, but excellent for corporate profits.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=jaOS...
Apple, Amazon and major automakers use the same strategies on everything you own.
It's bad for you, but excellent for corporate profits.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=jaOS...
How John Deere Robs Farmers of $4 Billion a Year
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
m.youtube.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Corporate logic:
You pay us for our product.
But you don’t own that product, we do.
And when that product breaks you can’t fix it unless you pay us more money.
Right to repair laws will fix this scam.
You pay us for our product.
But you don’t own that product, we do.
And when that product breaks you can’t fix it unless you pay us more money.
Right to repair laws will fix this scam.
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Are people seriously going to disrupt London today to protest that rich landowners are going to have to pay IHT on inherited land worth more than £3 million at half the rate the rest of us do and get 10 years to pay it?
November 19, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Are people seriously going to disrupt London today to protest that rich landowners are going to have to pay IHT on inherited land worth more than £3 million at half the rate the rest of us do and get 10 years to pay it?
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the lib narrative that many republicans are worried about trump’s cabinet choices is so funny to me. they do not care as long as they can do tax cuts, deregulation, and other ghoulish right-wing stuff.
November 17, 2024 at 5:41 PM
the lib narrative that many republicans are worried about trump’s cabinet choices is so funny to me. they do not care as long as they can do tax cuts, deregulation, and other ghoulish right-wing stuff.
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“We kept dismissing Musk, the ne plus ultra of this trend, as a kook or a one-off. He wasn’t. He was emblematic of a bigger realignment in tech. And unless you were looking … as closely as I was, it was easy to be fooled by the hard-to-grasp and obscure labels these people attached to themselves.”
How the Media Missed the Rise of the New Tech Right
In 2022, I got a tip about Elon Musk, who even as recently as that was misunderstood—and underestimated—by the media: He had embarked on a mission to singlehandedly try to repopulate the Earth with hi...
www.theinformation.com
November 17, 2024 at 1:34 PM
“We kept dismissing Musk, the ne plus ultra of this trend, as a kook or a one-off. He wasn’t. He was emblematic of a bigger realignment in tech. And unless you were looking … as closely as I was, it was easy to be fooled by the hard-to-grasp and obscure labels these people attached to themselves.”
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Elect a fascist and the most despicable trash comes out of the woodwork to voluntarily enforce it, is the lesson here
November 16, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Elect a fascist and the most despicable trash comes out of the woodwork to voluntarily enforce it, is the lesson here
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Rodri is a unicorn isn’t he
November 16, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Rodri is a unicorn isn’t he
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Easy to become desensitised to the horrific realities of inequality when you work in / around it, but I read this story & it genuinely made me cry.
Hunger is a political choice.
Hunger is a political choice.
November 16, 2024 at 8:43 AM
Easy to become desensitised to the horrific realities of inequality when you work in / around it, but I read this story & it genuinely made me cry.
Hunger is a political choice.
Hunger is a political choice.
These will get a foothold in Reform before the next election.
Well Christ. So Sovereign Citizens are now a thing over here as well ?!
news.sky.com/story/meetin...
news.sky.com/story/meetin...
Meeting the deeply radical anti-tax group that is 'growing in popularity'
The Sovereign Project's members are unfailingly patient and polite in explaining their understanding of the world - but there is no doubt they hold a deeply radical view.
news.sky.com
November 15, 2024 at 1:05 PM
These will get a foothold in Reform before the next election.
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If the government is counting on growth to drive up living standards then it has a very long way to go before most people feel any benefit whatsoever.
But the US elections are a powerful reminder that the public are not willing to wait.
But the US elections are a powerful reminder that the public are not willing to wait.
November 15, 2024 at 9:32 AM
If the government is counting on growth to drive up living standards then it has a very long way to go before most people feel any benefit whatsoever.
But the US elections are a powerful reminder that the public are not willing to wait.
But the US elections are a powerful reminder that the public are not willing to wait.
You'll know this app is doing well when there is a scouse bluesky sharing promo codes and ordering takeaways and skips to people's houses.
November 15, 2024 at 9:36 AM
You'll know this app is doing well when there is a scouse bluesky sharing promo codes and ordering takeaways and skips to people's houses.
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"The founding editor of the Guido Fawkes gossip blog, Paul Staines, is stepping down. From now on, the anti-elite website will be run by a member of the House of Lords." 😂 ~AA
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/staines-remo...
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/staines-remo...
Staines removal
The founding editor of the Guido Fawkes gossip blog is stepping down. From now on, the anti-elite website will be run by a member of the House of Lords
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 1:36 PM
"The founding editor of the Guido Fawkes gossip blog, Paul Staines, is stepping down. From now on, the anti-elite website will be run by a member of the House of Lords." 😂 ~AA
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/staines-remo...
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/staines-remo...
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We could make a dent in England’s housing crisis tomorrow by repurposing empty homes
• +261,000 homes are 'long-term empty'
• When inc holiday & 2nd homes, 1 in every 25 homes in England are empty, +1 million.
Meanwhile, +150,000 children are forced to live in unsuitable temporary accommodation
• +261,000 homes are 'long-term empty'
• When inc holiday & 2nd homes, 1 in every 25 homes in England are empty, +1 million.
Meanwhile, +150,000 children are forced to live in unsuitable temporary accommodation
November 15, 2024 at 7:24 AM
We could make a dent in England’s housing crisis tomorrow by repurposing empty homes
• +261,000 homes are 'long-term empty'
• When inc holiday & 2nd homes, 1 in every 25 homes in England are empty, +1 million.
Meanwhile, +150,000 children are forced to live in unsuitable temporary accommodation
• +261,000 homes are 'long-term empty'
• When inc holiday & 2nd homes, 1 in every 25 homes in England are empty, +1 million.
Meanwhile, +150,000 children are forced to live in unsuitable temporary accommodation
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A very plausible outcome here is the they will actively humiliate Jones (and the rest of Trump's cabinet) using his own platform so badly that they will outright destroy First Amendment protections of journalists to shut them down
Breaking News: The Onion, the satirical publication, said it won a bankruptcy auction to buy Infowars, a website run by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:30 PM
A very plausible outcome here is the they will actively humiliate Jones (and the rest of Trump's cabinet) using his own platform so badly that they will outright destroy First Amendment protections of journalists to shut them down