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In 2023-24 HMRC issued 456 penalties to wealthy individuals for £5.8m, 25 prosecuted.

Tax scams designed by accountants, lawyers; five prosecutions in 2023-2024.

Govt taking powers to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts; mainly poor, old, sick. Nothing equivalent on tax abuse industry.
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
leftfootforward.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Russia - The bullying masks the inferiority complex; the insistence on imperial glory conceals the fear that without it, the system will collapse.

An excellent article by @johnsipher.bsky.social on the weakness behind Russia's imperial pretensions.
tomorrowsaffairs.com/putins-lies-...
Putin’s Lies Hide Weakness
Russia has thrived on lies for centuries; its undoing will come when truth proves more powerful than the fictions it desperately spins
tomorrowsaffairs.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This!
Call me crazy, but my idea of making America great involves a lot fewer kidnappings and concentration camps.
July 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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This is hideous.
After a Treasury spokesperson says Rachel Reeves was upset at PMQs due to a personal matter, Kemi Badenoch's spokesman tells journalists that "something strange is going on" and insists the Chancellor immediately disclose what is happening in her personal life
July 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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NYTimes has a long history of holding conservatives—including its paid columnists, like Stephens here—to absolutely no standards whatsoever, but still worth noting the complete lack of ethics required to not mention how 99.99% of Iran's uranium stockpile was due to Trump withdrawing from JCPOA.
June 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism

“'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.'

*More of this, please*"
Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism
You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a rancid bigot.
www.publicnotice.co
June 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Almost like there's an agenda ...
When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left?
All the shifts are in just one direction.
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
bylinetimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Which one's a lesser evil?
June 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It's a Big and Beautiful FY and FAFO to every MAGAt!
So it’s not “Big & beautiful”?
June 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A pathological lying sack of manure!
June 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
How depraved a human being has got to be to say something like that in this context? 🤢
GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”
May 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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'‪UHC managers pressured nurses to have patients change their code status to *Do Not Resuscitate* even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.'

Healthcare should never be a for-profit business model

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers
A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents
www.theguardian.com
May 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Oil and gas companies have been found to underreport greenhouse gas emissions.

Researchers @kingsbschool.bsky.social have compared data observed from satellites and land, air and sea sensors, with emissions figures reported by companies themselves.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/oil-and...
Oil and gas companies found to underreport greenhouse gas emissions
Gas and oil producing companies are failing to report accurate figures for their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).
www.kcl.ac.uk
May 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Posting these again.

Left: COVID death rate from 5/1/21 - 3/5/23 by full series vaccination rate.

Right: COVID death rate from 5/1/21 - 3/5/23 by Trump 2020 vote %.

Mirror images.
acasignups.net/23/04/04/mar...
May 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Cast no shadow: how common are psychiatric conditions among people with intellectual disability? buff.ly/7RXgE8l

🧵 THREAD

#MentalHealth #Prevalence #IntellectualDisabilities #DiagnosticOvershadowing #Psychiatry #Australia
May 22, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Interesting idea ...
College degrees can be revoked. Your move harvard
May 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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UN secretary-general says Israel’s war on Gaza is intensifying ‘with atrocious levels of death and destruction’.
‘Killing for fun’: Israeli strikes kill 76, no aid yet for northern Gaza
UN secretary-general says Israel’s war on Gaza is intensifying ‘with atrocious levels of death and destruction’.
bit.ly
May 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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The only human job AI can replace is CEO.
May 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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She thinks the Library of Congress is like a local public library because it's got "Library" in the name and I can't emphasize enough that our country is being run by the stupidest people alive on the planet today.
Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why? 

Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
May 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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The Onion nailed this.

By the way, the oldest trainspotting log we have in preservation is from the 1860s and belonged to a 14-year-old girl. We've always been here.
May 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Absolutely!
The rule of law is all or nothing and must apply equally to everyone. If there's no rule of law for some people in America, then there's no rule of law for any of us.
May 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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PSA 👇
May 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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March 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Just saw “Andrew Tate is someone The Equalizer would drown in a toilet” and that’s ended me 😭
March 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?

They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.

That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.

The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
March 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM