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Danny 🏴🚩

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Cockney living in Scotland. It's just nicer, yer ken geeza? "I came into this world with nothing and I'll leave with nothing but love - everything else is just borrowed" -Mike Skinner, The Streets

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Danny 🏴🚩 @superpylon.bsky.social · Nov 12

Same as it ever was. Railways, water, energy, education, security, postal service, healthcare, new innovations (see graphene) it doesn't matter what it is, they sell it off. They don't even fucking own it. Look up the colloquialism 'daylight robbery', for an example of Tory nastiness.

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Danny 🏴🚩 @superpylon.bsky.social · 26m

Usually I think bailiffs are scum but today I'm rooting for the bad guy.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 14h

PPE Medpro, the company linked to Michelle Mone, has not met the deadline to pay back almost £122 million to the UK Government 👇

Firm linked to Michelle Mone fails to pay back £122m by deadline

www.thenational.scot

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 1h

via Middle East Eye

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Danny 🏴🚩 @superpylon.bsky.social · 1h

Awww did words hurt your feelings? Poor little snowflake.

Danny 🏴🚩 @superpylon.bsky.social · 1h

News says Nestlé (spits on the floor) will sack 16k over the next two years. Then go on to counter that bad news by telling us how many millions it'll save the company.

HEY WE'RE MAKING PEOPLE UNEMPLOYED BUT DON'T WORRY ITS OK BECAUSE WE'LL MAKE MORE MONEY.

Is the news just for shareholders now?

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2h

Rachel Reeves should consider welfare cuts in budget, says right-wing IFS.

They want the govt to hurt the poor, old, sick, disabled; curtail redistribution which enables millions to survive.

Silence on corporate welfare, ending profiteering, tax abuse by corporations/rich.

It is class war.

Rachel Reeves should consider welfare cuts in budget, IFS says

Thinktank urges chancellor to take ‘bold’ action on benefits and pensions to placate jittery financial markets

www.theguardian.com

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Danny 🏴🚩 @superpylon.bsky.social · 3h

At the moment only one is saying that and Westminster is trying to destroy him, I'm just saying maybe pick your targets more thoughtfully as the guy seems to have a lot in common with the cause.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

UK banks oppose tax rise.

Falsely claim to be paying 46.4% tax rate.

The PwC generated number includes PAYE, employee national insurance which is paid by workers. VAT which is borne by customers.

it is extrapolated from a sample, can't be verified

Why do media reports not expose this sham claim?

Banks step up lobbying over threat of Reeves tax hikes

The gap between the tax burden on British banks and their international rivals is widening, even before the imposition of any further levies in next month's budget, according to a report seen by Sky N...

news.sky.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Private equity takeover of US hospitals led to rise in patient deaths.

Cuts to staffing/investment; high debt, profiteering; worse patient outcomes.

More deaths in nursing homes, increased post-operative complications

Why is UK Govt handing the NHS to PE? Why no investigation of the impact of PE?

Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study

Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 20h

This is the reality of increasingly authoritarian Starmer's Britain

Object to government policy and you can have your bank account shut down

Absolutely chilling

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

www.theguardian.com

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 21h

Solidarity with Zack. I can't imagine what it's like trying to have a difficult, nuanced, grown up conversation about an incredibly serious issue and while being constantly shouted at in that way. It's a nightmare just watching.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22h

Legalise *and* regulate drugs.

This morning on @jeremyvine.bsky.social:

youtu.be/kBjqQAFdBRQ?...

Should we legalise all drugs? feat. Zack Polanski & Carole Malone | Jeremy Vine

YouTube video by Jeremy, Storm & Vanessa On 5

youtu.be

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Danny 🏴🚩 @superpylon.bsky.social · 18h

Lol, you're repeating my words back to me like a little bitch. A true intellectual featherweight.

Danny 🏴🚩 @superpylon.bsky.social · 19h

Seems like we should want him to do well

bsky.app/profile/scot...

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 23h

EXCLUSIVE: Zack Polanski has backed Scottish and Welsh independence, The National can reveal

Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

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sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 19h

Its worth mentioning that a lot of the ISREALI BODIES are UNDER ISREALI TANKS inside the eastern flank of Gaza that they still refuse to vacate, to allow Hamas to retrieve their bodies and arrange for their transfer, without getting shot by the Genocidal Zionists

Something no one bothers to mention

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bkeithb @bkeithb.bsky.social · 19h

Israel has violated the Gaza ceasefire at least 36 times, according to reports from Palestinian human rights organizations.

These incursions include drone strikes, shelling, and attacks on civilians returning home — all while a truce was supposed to be in force.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 19h

All 45 bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel arrived with their hands and legs cuffed, CNN reports. They were transferred to Nasser Hospital tagged with numbers, not names, and have yet to be identified.

“Some are blindfolded, and there are signs of gunshot wounds in some cases, while others...

⭕️ Breaking: All 45 bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel arrived with their hands and legs cuffed, CNN reports. They were transferred to Nasser Hospital tagged with numbers, not names, and have yet to be identified.

“Some are blindfolded, and there are signs of gunshot wounds in some cases, while others have been run over by tanks,” Nasser Hospital officials told CNN

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Drop Site’s full post, linked below, details how Israel is violating the terms of the deal while falsely accusing Hamas of doing so

The bodies of 45 deceased Palestinians transferred from Israel to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis have not been identified, the hospital’s forensic department told CNN on Tuesday.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-gaza-ceasefire-deal-hostages-10-14-25?post-id=cmgr3l8su0000356oqp7oci4i

All of the bodies arrived at the facility with their hands and legs cuffed, the hospital said.
The remains were being held in refrigerators in Israel and came with numbers marking them, rather than names, according to the hospital.
"Some are blindfolded, and there are signs of gunshot wounds in some cases, while others have been run over by tanks," Nasser hospital said.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 19h

Modern capitalism has more in common with Feudalism and the oldstyle slave-system than most people realize.

From: davidgraeber.org/articles/tur...

"In the case of slave mode of production,
the exploiters directly own the primary
producers; in feudalism, both have complex
relations to the land, but the lords use direct
jural-political means to extract a surplus; in
capitalism, the exploiters own the means of
production and the primary producers are
thus reduced to selling their labor power.
The state, in each case, is essentially an
apparatus of coercion that backs up these
property rights by force."
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- David Graeber

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The General Goodsman @generalstoreman.bsky.social · 23h

they gave a nobel peace prize to a woman cheering this on

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 23h

A fifth strike peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/14/s...

Six killed in fifth US airstrike in the Caribbean as Trump doubles down on “narcoterrorist” narrative : Peoples Dispatch

Despite a declassified US intelligence report finding no link between Venezuela’s government and the Tren de Aragua gang, Trump’s campaign of airstrikes in the Caribbean has killed 27 people thus far

peoplesdispatch.org

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 1d

“I announced…I’m a journalist, I’m press.” The woman to my left hissed, “We don’t give a fuck,” and the other dug her nails into my scalp and pulled me by my hair across the port.”

U.S. allies abducting and torturing American journalists isn’t a problem to this administration.

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Danny 🏴🚩 @superpylon.bsky.social · 19h

*this administration* is doing a fuck ton of heavy lifting here. It's *every* administration since Israel's inception. Israel has killed US servicemen, sunk battleships, steamrolled activists and maybe even orchestrated terror events on US soil. For. Decades. Without US reprisal.

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Danny 🏴🚩 @superpylon.bsky.social · 19h

Does anyone else have massive fucking issues with video playback on this app, like the sound is a good 4-5 seconds out of sync? And if not how do I fix my problem? I'm sorry to ask, an internet search is not very helpful

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21h

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

What’s behind the Green surge?

The party has gained more than 30,000 members since Zack Polanski was elected leader

www.newstatesman.com

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Danny 🏴🚩 @superpylon.bsky.social · 19h

Are they really this thick or do they think we are? Hmmm, what could be attractive about a politician saying that for once they're not going to do us with no lube? In fact going further and saying those that deserve it are gonna get it! What a mystery 🤔

Danny 🏴🚩 @superpylon.bsky.social · 22h

Ho-lee-sheet. You've been publicly owned, may as well make it policy now.

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Craigie 🇵🇸 🚩☮️🔻Proudly Un-British @craigsmive.bsky.social · 1d

In an assembly of clowns Starmer emerges the biggest and saddest clown of them all.

The embarrassing term "special relationship" has always been a construct of the UK political and media class desperate to prop up Britain’s crumbling position on the world stage.

www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Trump humiliates Starmer and Blair in bad day for centrist dads

Donald Trump has yet again show Keir Starmer that there's nothing special about the 'special relationship' - never mind a 'Yo, Blair' moment

www.thecanary.co

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