Kathy T
@ktrev.bsky.social
NO unsolicited DMs or you’ll be blocked. Mum, granny, writer, furious with the Torys, #FBPE, climate change is real and terrifying, #50sWoman. Peace, equality, love, creativity, fun. Woke.
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I don't want to hear "we can't afford it" one more time from Labour.
Not while they continue to reinforce their Brexit red lines.
The amount of money being left on the table by not seeking to rejoin the EU is eye-watering.
The tax lost to Brexit would have paid for everything Labour needed.
Not while they continue to reinforce their Brexit red lines.
The amount of money being left on the table by not seeking to rejoin the EU is eye-watering.
The tax lost to Brexit would have paid for everything Labour needed.
June 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I don't want to hear "we can't afford it" one more time from Labour.
Not while they continue to reinforce their Brexit red lines.
The amount of money being left on the table by not seeking to rejoin the EU is eye-watering.
The tax lost to Brexit would have paid for everything Labour needed.
Not while they continue to reinforce their Brexit red lines.
The amount of money being left on the table by not seeking to rejoin the EU is eye-watering.
The tax lost to Brexit would have paid for everything Labour needed.
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I don't want his apologies. I want him to remember he's the leader of Labour and not a Reform tribute act. on.ft.com/3Gnr8Hn
Starmer apologises for ‘island of strangers’ remark
Climbdown over comments that echoed language of Enoch Powell is latest reversal from PM
on.ft.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I don't want his apologies. I want him to remember he's the leader of Labour and not a Reform tribute act. on.ft.com/3Gnr8Hn
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✍️ Did Donald Trump steal the 2024 election?
A legal challenge in New York could reveal the truth behind allegations that last year’s election result was “consistent with vote manipulation”
A legal challenge in New York could reveal the truth behind allegations that last year’s election result was “consistent with vote manipulation”
Did Donald Trump steal the 2024 election?
A legal challenge in New York could reveal the truth behind allegations that last year’s election result was “consistent with vote manipulation”
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
✍️ Did Donald Trump steal the 2024 election?
A legal challenge in New York could reveal the truth behind allegations that last year’s election result was “consistent with vote manipulation”
A legal challenge in New York could reveal the truth behind allegations that last year’s election result was “consistent with vote manipulation”
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The latest data shows a 6,700 increase of mental health workers, which marks significant progress towards the government's target of 8,500.
We are also told the 10 Year Health Plan will have ambition plans to boost mental health support.
This will include
1) support services on the NHS app.
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We are also told the 10 Year Health Plan will have ambition plans to boost mental health support.
This will include
1) support services on the NHS app.
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Boost to mental health services from thousands of extra staff
Latest data shows 6,700 more mental health workers have been recruited towards government’s 8,500 target.
www.gov.uk
June 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The latest data shows a 6,700 increase of mental health workers, which marks significant progress towards the government's target of 8,500.
We are also told the 10 Year Health Plan will have ambition plans to boost mental health support.
This will include
1) support services on the NHS app.
1/2
We are also told the 10 Year Health Plan will have ambition plans to boost mental health support.
This will include
1) support services on the NHS app.
1/2
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The extraordinary moment at the NATO press conference when Trump admits he gave a foreign enemy (Iran) permission to attack a US military base.
“They said is one o’clock ok? I said it’s fine.”
He even says soldiers were still on site.
I’m not a constitutional lawyer, but that’s treason, right?
“They said is one o’clock ok? I said it’s fine.”
He even says soldiers were still on site.
I’m not a constitutional lawyer, but that’s treason, right?
June 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The extraordinary moment at the NATO press conference when Trump admits he gave a foreign enemy (Iran) permission to attack a US military base.
“They said is one o’clock ok? I said it’s fine.”
He even says soldiers were still on site.
I’m not a constitutional lawyer, but that’s treason, right?
“They said is one o’clock ok? I said it’s fine.”
He even says soldiers were still on site.
I’m not a constitutional lawyer, but that’s treason, right?
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A warning I think many need to listen to!
“Starmer won’t listen to the other MPs. He’s awful!”
“Starmer has listened to the other MPs. U turns are awful”
Farage and the Tories “I can’t believe how keen these fuckwits are to put us into power”
“Starmer has listened to the other MPs. U turns are awful”
Farage and the Tories “I can’t believe how keen these fuckwits are to put us into power”
June 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
A warning I think many need to listen to!
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Full explainer here, with interactive charts for the bored, and footnotes for the truly committed:
buff.ly/AUgCtc9
buff.ly/AUgCtc9
Are UK workers over-taxed? The answer in three infographics
Explore OECD data on wage taxes: how UK workers rank internationally, how the tax wedge has shifted since 1979, and why many still feel over-taxed.
buff.ly
June 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Full explainer here, with interactive charts for the bored, and footnotes for the truly committed:
buff.ly/AUgCtc9
buff.ly/AUgCtc9
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🚨🚨 Late at night, the European Union’s leadership excitedly revealed a new plan to combat the hell-raising American president’s #tradewar: Take him on at his own wild game. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...
EU leaders try to out-bully Trump, floating world trade club without US
Ursula von der Leyen suggests EU could join forces with the Asian-Pacific trade bloc as Europe tries to up its game.
www.politico.eu
June 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🚨🚨 Late at night, the European Union’s leadership excitedly revealed a new plan to combat the hell-raising American president’s #tradewar: Take him on at his own wild game. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...
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Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
June 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.
Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
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Pam Bondi is denying she knows ICE agents wore masks during raids despite copious video evidence.
If she truly didn't know, she should be fired for incompetence. If she does know (she absolutely does) then she should be fired for ordering or allowing it on her watch.
If she truly didn't know, she should be fired for incompetence. If she does know (she absolutely does) then she should be fired for ordering or allowing it on her watch.
June 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Pam Bondi is denying she knows ICE agents wore masks during raids despite copious video evidence.
If she truly didn't know, she should be fired for incompetence. If she does know (she absolutely does) then she should be fired for ordering or allowing it on her watch.
If she truly didn't know, she should be fired for incompetence. If she does know (she absolutely does) then she should be fired for ordering or allowing it on her watch.
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Why do UK media outlets- in particular the Times, Mail and Telegraph - let Trump get away with appalling loutish behaviour which they’d condemn in anyone else? Like trying to get a journalist sacked for writing the truth or calling them scum or dropping the F-bomb in public
June 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Why do UK media outlets- in particular the Times, Mail and Telegraph - let Trump get away with appalling loutish behaviour which they’d condemn in anyone else? Like trying to get a journalist sacked for writing the truth or calling them scum or dropping the F-bomb in public
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This is a level of control freakery to which even the Blair government didn’t aspire. And it’s clearly terrible for good governance – connection is vital, and this severs that at all but ministerial levels.
‘The No10 communications team has banned any official from speaking at events that include question and answer sessions, or where the media are expected to be in attendance’. Ridiculous. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gove...
The government should not ban public servants from speaking in public | Institute for Government
New guidance will damage the quality of government and public discourse.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
June 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
This is a level of control freakery to which even the Blair government didn’t aspire. And it’s clearly terrible for good governance – connection is vital, and this severs that at all but ministerial levels.
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Watching Truth Social posts by Trump every hour, each more insane & unhinged than the previous one as he circles the drain of a malignant narcissist’s descent into dementia, makes it that much more ridiculous that media just spent a month on Biden while pretending Trump is sane.
June 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Watching Truth Social posts by Trump every hour, each more insane & unhinged than the previous one as he circles the drain of a malignant narcissist’s descent into dementia, makes it that much more ridiculous that media just spent a month on Biden while pretending Trump is sane.
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I see no real difference between ICE and the early SA/SS in Nazi Germany. A secret police force implementing the mass incarceration of social and political “enemies” in centers and camps. Maybe only a matter of time before they get confident enough in their power to impose actual genocide.
June 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I see no real difference between ICE and the early SA/SS in Nazi Germany. A secret police force implementing the mass incarceration of social and political “enemies” in centers and camps. Maybe only a matter of time before they get confident enough in their power to impose actual genocide.
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A U.S. citizen on their way to work abducted by ICE then locked in a basement, with federal government employees refusing to consider indisputable proof of citizenship.
Congress endorses it. SCOTUS keeps thwarting judges from even slowing it.
What more is there to say? We live under fascism now.
Congress endorses it. SCOTUS keeps thwarting judges from even slowing it.
What more is there to say? We live under fascism now.
I spoke to employers who were seeking to help employees abducted by ICE - including one boss seeking freedom for a U.S. citizen staffer who was arrested in the space between their uber and the front door of their workplace.
Their boss had their U.S. passport in hand, pleading for their release.
Their boss had their U.S. passport in hand, pleading for their release.
June 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A U.S. citizen on their way to work abducted by ICE then locked in a basement, with federal government employees refusing to consider indisputable proof of citizenship.
Congress endorses it. SCOTUS keeps thwarting judges from even slowing it.
What more is there to say? We live under fascism now.
Congress endorses it. SCOTUS keeps thwarting judges from even slowing it.
What more is there to say? We live under fascism now.
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An absolute scorcher from @johnjcrace. Do read!
“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be Dan was very heaven! O wondrous day. One of which dreams are made. Especially if you’ve been taking large quantities of hallucinogenics.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be Dan was very heaven! O wondrous day. One of which dreams are made. Especially if you’ve been taking large quantities of hallucinogenics.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Daniel Hannan celebrates his chronicle of Brexit idiocy foretold | John Crace
Back in 2016, Dan prophesied about what the post-EU sunlit uplands would be like on this very day – no spoiler alert needed
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:45 AM
An absolute scorcher from @johnjcrace. Do read!
“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be Dan was very heaven! O wondrous day. One of which dreams are made. Especially if you’ve been taking large quantities of hallucinogenics.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be Dan was very heaven! O wondrous day. One of which dreams are made. Especially if you’ve been taking large quantities of hallucinogenics.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Friendly reminder that under Morgan McSweeney's direction, Labour have lost the public's support in record time yielding a 10pt lead to the party he claims he's trying to "head off".
By any metric his appointment in-Govt has been a total fucking disaster for Keir Starmer.
Why is he still there?
By any metric his appointment in-Govt has been a total fucking disaster for Keir Starmer.
Why is he still there?
June 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Friendly reminder that under Morgan McSweeney's direction, Labour have lost the public's support in record time yielding a 10pt lead to the party he claims he's trying to "head off".
By any metric his appointment in-Govt has been a total fucking disaster for Keir Starmer.
Why is he still there?
By any metric his appointment in-Govt has been a total fucking disaster for Keir Starmer.
Why is he still there?
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IF there was a god.. America is the very last place on earth he would bless,no offence,but you are absolutely nuts
June 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
IF there was a god.. America is the very last place on earth he would bless,no offence,but you are absolutely nuts
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I can imagine the testimony in traffic court:
Cop: He was threatening us.
Court: In what way?
Cop: He crossed the street at an angle.
Court: How was that threatening?
Cop: His skin was dark.
Court: Guilty.
Cop: He was threatening us.
Court: In what way?
Cop: He crossed the street at an angle.
Court: How was that threatening?
Cop: His skin was dark.
Court: Guilty.
The Lakeland Police in Florida have nothing better to do than tackle a young Black boy for jaywalking at a 45 degree angle.
It seems the police department in Lakeland has a lot of KKK members on their police force.
It seems the police department in Lakeland has a lot of KKK members on their police force.
June 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I can imagine the testimony in traffic court:
Cop: He was threatening us.
Court: In what way?
Cop: He crossed the street at an angle.
Court: How was that threatening?
Cop: His skin was dark.
Court: Guilty.
Cop: He was threatening us.
Court: In what way?
Cop: He crossed the street at an angle.
Court: How was that threatening?
Cop: His skin was dark.
Court: Guilty.
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Brexit was a disaster. Most people know it now.
We gave up frictionless trade, freedom of movement, and economic stability, all for lies sold by snake oil salesmen.
Leaving didn’t free us, it cost us. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.
We gave up frictionless trade, freedom of movement, and economic stability, all for lies sold by snake oil salesmen.
Leaving didn’t free us, it cost us. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.
June 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Brexit was a disaster. Most people know it now.
We gave up frictionless trade, freedom of movement, and economic stability, all for lies sold by snake oil salesmen.
Leaving didn’t free us, it cost us. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.
We gave up frictionless trade, freedom of movement, and economic stability, all for lies sold by snake oil salesmen.
Leaving didn’t free us, it cost us. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.
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For those with a hangover from yesterday's Hannan Day celebrations.
Good Morning.
Good Morning.
June 25, 2025 at 6:25 AM
For those with a hangover from yesterday's Hannan Day celebrations.
Good Morning.
Good Morning.
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UK - a founding member of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty - buys jets that can carry nuclear bombs. We buy the jets - estimated £60m each just to buy the basics - the USA provides the bombs and tells us what we can do with them bit.ly/3GdJPNF
UK to expand nuclear deterrent with jets carrying tactical weapons
Starmer announces Britain will purchase a new squadron of nuclear-capable fighters as Trump joins leaders at Nato summit in the Hague
bit.ly
June 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
UK - a founding member of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty - buys jets that can carry nuclear bombs. We buy the jets - estimated £60m each just to buy the basics - the USA provides the bombs and tells us what we can do with them bit.ly/3GdJPNF
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“In 2018, Elon Musk … paid no federal income taxes.”
In 2021, ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes,…
www.propublica.org
June 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
“In 2018, Elon Musk … paid no federal income taxes.”