@iainmac57.bsky.social
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I think it is time to watch "1984" again...
December 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I think it is time to watch "1984" again...
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Every day that RFK Jr. remains HHS Secretary endangers the lives of millions. Enough is enough. Congress has the power stop him. We applaud @rephaleystevens.bsky.social for taking action, and we're calling on our other reps. to do the same!
Join us in the fight: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Join us in the fight: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
December 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Every day that RFK Jr. remains HHS Secretary endangers the lives of millions. Enough is enough. Congress has the power stop him. We applaud @rephaleystevens.bsky.social for taking action, and we're calling on our other reps. to do the same!
Join us in the fight: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Join us in the fight: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
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And here it is. Kushner is working with the Saudis to grab CNN and make them a propaganda channel for both them and tDumpster. If we do not start doing something now, we are going to belong to all the wrong people.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Jared Kushner is investor in Paramount’s hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros
Jared Kushner’s Affinity Capital, along with the sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi, have ‘agreed to forgo any governance rights – including board representation – associate...
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
And here it is. Kushner is working with the Saudis to grab CNN and make them a propaganda channel for both them and tDumpster. If we do not start doing something now, we are going to belong to all the wrong people.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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There is no question about it: Alito, Thomas, Roberts, and the three Trump Supreme Court appointees are all GOP partisan hacks.
Pass term limits. Expand the court. Enact an enforceable code of ethics.
We must keep pushing Democrats to enact court reform.
Pass term limits. Expand the court. Enact an enforceable code of ethics.
We must keep pushing Democrats to enact court reform.
How to Fix a Broken Supreme Court | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
There is no question about it: Alito, Thomas, Roberts, and the three Trump Supreme Court appointees are all GOP partisan hacks.
Pass term limits. Expand the court. Enact an enforceable code of ethics.
We must keep pushing Democrats to enact court reform.
Pass term limits. Expand the court. Enact an enforceable code of ethics.
We must keep pushing Democrats to enact court reform.
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Born 9 December 1950, musician/songwriter Joan Armatrading. I saw her at a gig at the Odeon New Street Birmingham in December 1976 and she was brilliant! 'Love and Affection' was in the chart at the time. #JoanArmatrading
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Born 9 December 1950, musician/songwriter Joan Armatrading. I saw her at a gig at the Odeon New Street Birmingham in December 1976 and she was brilliant! 'Love and Affection' was in the chart at the time. #JoanArmatrading
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The Trump administration has given free rein to some of the most polluting industries in the country. We created an interactive map showing 546 industrial sites across the US and Puerto Rico deemed eligible for exemptions from their Clean Air Act requirements. #DirtyDeeds (🧵)
December 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Trump administration has given free rein to some of the most polluting industries in the country. We created an interactive map showing 546 industrial sites across the US and Puerto Rico deemed eligible for exemptions from their Clean Air Act requirements. #DirtyDeeds (🧵)
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Studying the writings of Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism, reveals something important: that right-wing intellectual thought is little more than a series of dressed-up defenses of conventional social relations and traditional hierarchies.
Reading Edmund Burke Shows That Conservatism Is All About Defending Traditional Hierarchies
Studying the writings of Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism, reveals something important: that right-wing intellectual thought is little more than a series of dressed-up defenses of conventional social relations and traditional hierarchies.
jacobin.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Studying the writings of Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism, reveals something important: that right-wing intellectual thought is little more than a series of dressed-up defenses of conventional social relations and traditional hierarchies.
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Unsafe abortions are responsible for an estimated 13 to 40% of all maternal deaths in Nigeria, which has one of the highest maternal mortality rates from unsafe abortion in the world. These deaths have doubled in the last 10 years.
Ipas Tasks Journalists, Others On Awareness About Dangers Of Unsafe Abortion | Independent Newspaper Nigeria
Chibuzor Emejor Ipas Nigeria Health Foundation, has tasked journalists, civil society organisations and content creators to intensify awareness on the dangers associated with unsafe abortions among wo...
independent.ng
December 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Unsafe abortions are responsible for an estimated 13 to 40% of all maternal deaths in Nigeria, which has one of the highest maternal mortality rates from unsafe abortion in the world. These deaths have doubled in the last 10 years.
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anyone else feel like a lot of recent news stories were pushed to exhaust us so we'd be too tired to say much about the recent designations of civil rights groups as terrorist organizations and people being compiled into fbi watchlist groups for expressing anti-christian and pro-lgbt views?
December 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
anyone else feel like a lot of recent news stories were pushed to exhaust us so we'd be too tired to say much about the recent designations of civil rights groups as terrorist organizations and people being compiled into fbi watchlist groups for expressing anti-christian and pro-lgbt views?
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I feel this in my bones…
THE AMERICAN WORKER IS ALL OF US. Black, white, Latino, Asian, Native, immigrant, union or not. Not the “working class” stereotype.
We built this country. We keep it running. Stop dividing. Start recognizing.
I have a lot to say
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
THE AMERICAN WORKER IS ALL OF US. Black, white, Latino, Asian, Native, immigrant, union or not. Not the “working class” stereotype.
We built this country. We keep it running. Stop dividing. Start recognizing.
I have a lot to say
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
The American Worker
Is all of us
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I feel this in my bones…
THE AMERICAN WORKER IS ALL OF US. Black, white, Latino, Asian, Native, immigrant, union or not. Not the “working class” stereotype.
We built this country. We keep it running. Stop dividing. Start recognizing.
I have a lot to say
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
THE AMERICAN WORKER IS ALL OF US. Black, white, Latino, Asian, Native, immigrant, union or not. Not the “working class” stereotype.
We built this country. We keep it running. Stop dividing. Start recognizing.
I have a lot to say
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
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Look at this chart.
Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world?
Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people
Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world?
Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people
December 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Look at this chart.
Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world?
Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people
Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world?
Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people
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If your “representatives“ are refusing to represent you, do not vote for them.
December 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
If your “representatives“ are refusing to represent you, do not vote for them.
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December 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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American democracy seems to be falling into an ever greater crisis.
A lottocratic system, in which citizens are randomly selected to serve as legislators, could empower ordinary people and stem political dysfunction.
A lottocratic system, in which citizens are randomly selected to serve as legislators, could empower ordinary people and stem political dysfunction.
A Lottocratic Political System Would Empower Ordinary People
American democracy seems to be falling into an ever greater crisis. A lottocratic system, in which citizens are randomly selected to serve as legislators, could empower ordinary people and stem political dysfunction.
jacobin.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
American democracy seems to be falling into an ever greater crisis.
A lottocratic system, in which citizens are randomly selected to serve as legislators, could empower ordinary people and stem political dysfunction.
A lottocratic system, in which citizens are randomly selected to serve as legislators, could empower ordinary people and stem political dysfunction.
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In January, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services will roll out a pilot program that will use AI to review Medicare patients' requests for care.
Insurers will get rewarded when they deny care.
What could go wrong?
Insurers will get rewarded when they deny care.
What could go wrong?
December 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
In January, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services will roll out a pilot program that will use AI to review Medicare patients' requests for care.
Insurers will get rewarded when they deny care.
What could go wrong?
Insurers will get rewarded when they deny care.
What could go wrong?
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BREAKING: At one point, the Pentagon considered sending boat strike survivors to CECOT torture prison in El Salvador to avoid discovery in US courts. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
BREAKING: At one point, the Pentagon considered sending boat strike survivors to CECOT torture prison in El Salvador to avoid discovery in US courts. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
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Small farmers definitely won't get what they need from that bailout, it's not enough. They're still going to go bankrupt
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Small farmers definitely won't get what they need from that bailout, it's not enough. They're still going to go bankrupt
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An important opinion piece, because it lays out the facts.
www.mediaite.com/opinion/trum...
www.mediaite.com/opinion/trum...
December 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
An important opinion piece, because it lays out the facts.
www.mediaite.com/opinion/trum...
www.mediaite.com/opinion/trum...
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I don't understand why people think the Epstien files are going to change anything especially when it comes to trump. The guy just got convicted of 36 felonies and was immediately allowed to run for president.
I don't understand how anyone thinks he is going to go to prison or lose the presidency.
I don't understand how anyone thinks he is going to go to prison or lose the presidency.
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I don't understand why people think the Epstien files are going to change anything especially when it comes to trump. The guy just got convicted of 36 felonies and was immediately allowed to run for president.
I don't understand how anyone thinks he is going to go to prison or lose the presidency.
I don't understand how anyone thinks he is going to go to prison or lose the presidency.