Mags
@mags234.bsky.social
Wannabe runner. Following politics of the USA, UK and Finland. Currently living in Finland.
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"Amazing result for Plaid Cymru, so here's a guest from Reform anyway..."
October 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
"Amazing result for Plaid Cymru, so here's a guest from Reform anyway..."
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Walking away with $20 billion of US taxpayer money so Scott Bessent’s Wall Street cronies don’t lose their investments in Argentina.
October 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Walking away with $20 billion of US taxpayer money so Scott Bessent’s Wall Street cronies don’t lose their investments in Argentina.
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Hallitus tulouttaa Valtion eläkerahastosta lisärahaa budjettiin mm. rikkaiden veroaleihin.
Siirto maksaa n. 40 milj. € vuodessa menetettyinä sijoitustuottoina.
Hallitus kasvattaa vuotuista tuloutusta 66 miljoonaa euroa ja esittää miljardin euron kertasiirtoa 2027.
GRRR
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Siirto maksaa n. 40 milj. € vuodessa menetettyinä sijoitustuottoina.
Hallitus kasvattaa vuotuista tuloutusta 66 miljoonaa euroa ja esittää miljardin euron kertasiirtoa 2027.
GRRR
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Velkaantuminen | Laskelma: Hallituksen ”pikavippi” Valtion eläkerahastosta maksaa noin 40 miljoonaa euroa vuodessa
Hallitus tulouttaa Valtion eläkerahastosta lisärahaa valtion budjettiin esimerkiksi suurten veronkevennysten rahoittamiseksi.
www.hs.fi
September 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Hallitus tulouttaa Valtion eläkerahastosta lisärahaa budjettiin mm. rikkaiden veroaleihin.
Siirto maksaa n. 40 milj. € vuodessa menetettyinä sijoitustuottoina.
Hallitus kasvattaa vuotuista tuloutusta 66 miljoonaa euroa ja esittää miljardin euron kertasiirtoa 2027.
GRRR
www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...
Siirto maksaa n. 40 milj. € vuodessa menetettyinä sijoitustuottoina.
Hallitus kasvattaa vuotuista tuloutusta 66 miljoonaa euroa ja esittää miljardin euron kertasiirtoa 2027.
GRRR
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Trump denies cancer care to 9/11 heroes.
The Trump administration cut the WTC Health Program by 20%, leaving cancer patients without treatment authorization.
My latest: Objection: Breaking the Promise to Survivors
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The Trump administration cut the WTC Health Program by 20%, leaving cancer patients without treatment authorization.
My latest: Objection: Breaking the Promise to Survivors
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Objection: Breaking the Promise to Survivors
How Trump's cuts to the World Trade Center Health Program abandon 9/11 heroes in their fight against cancer
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September 12, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Trump denies cancer care to 9/11 heroes.
The Trump administration cut the WTC Health Program by 20%, leaving cancer patients without treatment authorization.
My latest: Objection: Breaking the Promise to Survivors
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
The Trump administration cut the WTC Health Program by 20%, leaving cancer patients without treatment authorization.
My latest: Objection: Breaking the Promise to Survivors
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
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🔴 NEW Substack 🔴
The Labour government's low pay advisor – a Tory peer paid £530 a day – runs an elite networking forum.
Just to compound the irony, she's also the head of a reactionary-populist project bankrolled by GB News owner Paul Marshall 👇
The Labour government's low pay advisor – a Tory peer paid £530 a day – runs an elite networking forum.
Just to compound the irony, she's also the head of a reactionary-populist project bankrolled by GB News owner Paul Marshall 👇
Government low pay advisor runs elite networking forum
... she also heads a reactionary group bankrolled by Paul Marshall.
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August 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🔴 NEW Substack 🔴
The Labour government's low pay advisor – a Tory peer paid £530 a day – runs an elite networking forum.
Just to compound the irony, she's also the head of a reactionary-populist project bankrolled by GB News owner Paul Marshall 👇
The Labour government's low pay advisor – a Tory peer paid £530 a day – runs an elite networking forum.
Just to compound the irony, she's also the head of a reactionary-populist project bankrolled by GB News owner Paul Marshall 👇
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"Before January 2025 there had been no—zero, zilch—interest in killing off USAID. It wasn't something Trump ran on. It wasn't envisioned in Project 2025. It was only once Elon Musk decided that USAID was evil that destroying the agency became a policy goal for the Republican party."
The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People
What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?
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August 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
"Before January 2025 there had been no—zero, zilch—interest in killing off USAID. It wasn't something Trump ran on. It wasn't envisioned in Project 2025. It was only once Elon Musk decided that USAID was evil that destroying the agency became a policy goal for the Republican party."
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They ask why Black people can’t get ahead, meanwhile several times in American history Black communities were massacred for being prosperous.
July 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
They ask why Black people can’t get ahead, meanwhile several times in American history Black communities were massacred for being prosperous.
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Suomen #luottoluokitus putosi. Ei ihme, kun kevään kehysriihessä Orpon hallitus törsäsi yli 2 mrd e veronkevennyksiin suurituloisille ja yrityksille. Luottoluokittajat näkevät tietenkin tämän heikentävän julkista taloutta, vaikka Etla/VM keksi taikaseinän. 🫤
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Fitch pudotti Suomen luottoluokitusta
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July 26, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Suomen #luottoluokitus putosi. Ei ihme, kun kevään kehysriihessä Orpon hallitus törsäsi yli 2 mrd e veronkevennyksiin suurituloisille ja yrityksille. Luottoluokittajat näkevät tietenkin tämän heikentävän julkista taloutta, vaikka Etla/VM keksi taikaseinän. 🫤
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Brilliant investigation into the ways the water companies are outwitting government - bring water into public ownership now👇
‘Outwitted’: have water companies managed to sidestep Labour’s bonus ban?
Concerns loophole in 2025 act allows payouts at firms that repeatedly pollute England’s waterways with sewage
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Brilliant investigation into the ways the water companies are outwitting government - bring water into public ownership now👇
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Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business
At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth
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July 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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🔴 New research reveals the best attack lines to use against Reform
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New research reveals the best attack lines to use against Reform
How to stop Farage...
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July 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🔴 New research reveals the best attack lines to use against Reform
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BREAKING: A water company with “money issues” just DOUBLED its CEO’s pay to £1.6 million.
While sewage spills into rivers and pipes leak across the UK, Keith Haslett gets a RAISE of nearly £900k.
How is this not a SCANDAL?
While sewage spills into rivers and pipes leak across the UK, Keith Haslett gets a RAISE of nearly £900k.
How is this not a SCANDAL?
July 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
BREAKING: A water company with “money issues” just DOUBLED its CEO’s pay to £1.6 million.
While sewage spills into rivers and pipes leak across the UK, Keith Haslett gets a RAISE of nearly £900k.
How is this not a SCANDAL?
While sewage spills into rivers and pipes leak across the UK, Keith Haslett gets a RAISE of nearly £900k.
How is this not a SCANDAL?
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Varatuomari Meri on siitä kummallinen tapaus, että hän ehdottaa vähän väliä toimia, jotka ovat Suomessa laittomia!
Persuministerien Rantanen & Meri rasismi näkyy käytännössä: hallitus jättää Suomen pois EU:n uudesta pakolaisohjelmasta, menetys ainakin 2-4 miljoonaa.
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Persuministerien Rantanen & Meri rasismi näkyy käytännössä: hallitus jättää Suomen pois EU:n uudesta pakolaisohjelmasta, menetys ainakin 2-4 miljoonaa.
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Hallitus jättää Suomen pois EU:n uudesta pakolaisohjelmasta – tukiraha vähenee 2-4 miljoonalla
Petteri Orpon (kok. ) hallitus on linjannut, että Suomi ei osallistu pakolaisten uudelleensijoittamista ja humanitaarista maahanpääsyä koskevaan EU-ohjelmaan. Valtioneuvoston raha-asiainvaliokunta pu...
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July 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Varatuomari Meri on siitä kummallinen tapaus, että hän ehdottaa vähän väliä toimia, jotka ovat Suomessa laittomia!
Persuministerien Rantanen & Meri rasismi näkyy käytännössä: hallitus jättää Suomen pois EU:n uudesta pakolaisohjelmasta, menetys ainakin 2-4 miljoonaa.
demokraatti.fi/hallitus-jat...
Persuministerien Rantanen & Meri rasismi näkyy käytännössä: hallitus jättää Suomen pois EU:n uudesta pakolaisohjelmasta, menetys ainakin 2-4 miljoonaa.
demokraatti.fi/hallitus-jat...
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UK govt admits that England's water industry is controlled by criminals.
All water companies have criminal convictions. Their licence to operate not cancelled.
Still allowed to fleece captive customers, dump sewage in rivers, create health hazards, extract cash, enrich shareholders.
All water companies have criminal convictions. Their licence to operate not cancelled.
Still allowed to fleece captive customers, dump sewage in rivers, create health hazards, extract cash, enrich shareholders.
Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament
Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.
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July 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
UK govt admits that England's water industry is controlled by criminals.
All water companies have criminal convictions. Their licence to operate not cancelled.
Still allowed to fleece captive customers, dump sewage in rivers, create health hazards, extract cash, enrich shareholders.
All water companies have criminal convictions. Their licence to operate not cancelled.
Still allowed to fleece captive customers, dump sewage in rivers, create health hazards, extract cash, enrich shareholders.
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And for the life of me, I can't convince my mom, aunt & uncle and siblings of this 👇👇👇 no matter how hard I try.
July 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
And for the life of me, I can't convince my mom, aunt & uncle and siblings of this 👇👇👇 no matter how hard I try.
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About 75% of the clean energy manufacturing investments announced since President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act have been in Republican districts. But those projects could be at risk under the latest version of President Trump’s tax bill
Biden’s climate law boosted red states. Their lawmakers are now gutting it.
The former president bet that the economic benefits of his policies would protect them over time. Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress have upended that wager.
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July 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
About 75% of the clean energy manufacturing investments announced since President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act have been in Republican districts. But those projects could be at risk under the latest version of President Trump’s tax bill
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In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.
NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
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June 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.
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Lisa Murkowski cuts a last minute deal solely to benefit Alaska, exempting it from some of the more odious parts of the bill to secure her vote and sell out the rest of the US. Yeah this stuff sucks and hurts a lot of people, but I got Alaskans exempted so the hell with you.
June 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Lisa Murkowski cuts a last minute deal solely to benefit Alaska, exempting it from some of the more odious parts of the bill to secure her vote and sell out the rest of the US. Yeah this stuff sucks and hurts a lot of people, but I got Alaskans exempted so the hell with you.
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Good thing to keep mind as the red states ramp up rhetoric is that all of them depend on federal handouts. They are already dependent on socialism to survive and have been for YEARS
The states at the bottom are the only ones paying more than they take. theyre blue too!
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The states at the bottom are the only ones paying more than they take. theyre blue too!
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June 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Good thing to keep mind as the red states ramp up rhetoric is that all of them depend on federal handouts. They are already dependent on socialism to survive and have been for YEARS
The states at the bottom are the only ones paying more than they take. theyre blue too!
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The states at the bottom are the only ones paying more than they take. theyre blue too!
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Labour had 14 years to plan real welfare reform.
Instead, we got cuts dressed as compassion, a rebellion from 108 MPs, and a policy that makes life harder for the people it claims to help.
Here’s what they got wrong - and what real reform could have looked like.
Instead, we got cuts dressed as compassion, a rebellion from 108 MPs, and a policy that makes life harder for the people it claims to help.
Here’s what they got wrong - and what real reform could have looked like.
June 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Labour had 14 years to plan real welfare reform.
Instead, we got cuts dressed as compassion, a rebellion from 108 MPs, and a policy that makes life harder for the people it claims to help.
Here’s what they got wrong - and what real reform could have looked like.
Instead, we got cuts dressed as compassion, a rebellion from 108 MPs, and a policy that makes life harder for the people it claims to help.
Here’s what they got wrong - and what real reform could have looked like.
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very stupid monsters
June 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
very stupid monsters