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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 5h

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Mariah 🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋 @mariahbrown.bsky.social · 1d

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11h

Genuinely least self-aware motherfucker in Washington.

RFK Jr. explains why socializing with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't such a big deal for him:
...I ran into everybody in NY. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew
-- O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house."

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 7h

Former Mossad Officer Avner Avraham says Israel will engineer false flag attacks to disrupt the ceasefire in Gaza, and that the ultimate goal is ethnic cleansing regardless of any agreement

Avner Avraham has also served in the IDF's 'Nahal', and he has received two awards in the US.

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BetterThanDystopia @betterthandystopia.bsky.social · 3h

Farage was in danger of becoming irrelevant before Brexit, then again, afterwards. He invents faux outrage simply to remain in the public eye, grift, and ensure grievance politics damage this country beyond repair. He can then claim to be the knight in shining, and charge to its rescue.

a cartoon of a man with the words he 's basically an idiot

ALT: a cartoon of a man with the words he 's basically an idiot

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

NBC just gutted the very teams that gave marginalized voices a seat at the table—then called it “restructuring.”

The cuts:

📌NBC BLK (Black community coverage)

📌NBC Latino (Latino community coverage)

📌NBC Asian America (Asian American community coverage)

📌NBC Out (LGBTQ+ community coverage)

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 13h

FYI congress just got another week of vacation!

Maybe this will encourage more people to run… get paid to never go to work

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 5h

Israel National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir:

"Since we've taken delivery of the hostages, let's return to the war and open the gates of hell upon Gaza."

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Victoria Derbyshire, "One of your policies that wouldn't hit most people is a wealth tax, 1% on those with £10m+"

Zack Polanski, "Patriotic Millionaires say between £15-25 billion a year"

Zack Polanski, "This isn't about creating public investment it's about reducing inequality"

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 3h

Serious Question:

Why are our media desperate to put Putin’s man into No 10?

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 3h

Interesting post from a Kent cllr on *that* expletive-laden Reform meltdown

KCC leader: "We are the shop window in KCC. Nigel knows that. He is super aware that we are the flagship council"

Kent's constitution says: "The role of the Council is to improve the quality of life of the people of Kent."

Rich LehmannSwale Political Forum
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A video was leaked over the weekend showing some acrimony in the Reform ranks.
The articles accompanying this have mainly focussed on the swearing and arguing, but one section which stood out for me was KCC leader Linden was talking about council tax...
"if we can avoid putting up council tax by the full 5%, that is going to be the best thing that we can do to show that Reform can actually run something as big as Kent County Council" ... "Because, let's not forget, we are the shop window in KCC. Nigel knows that. He is super aware that we are the flagship council."
This is important as section 2a of KCC's constitution states that "The role of the Council is to improve the quality of life of the people of Kent."
To me, Linden's comments sound a lot like she's suggesting the primary reason not to put council tax up by 5% is not because it would be the best thing for the people of Kent, but because it would be good for Reform, and it would make Nigel happy.
NO PARTY, Tories included, wanted to put up council tax by the maximum amount for any of the past four years, but it was widely accepted that it was what needed to happen to minimise the harm of the cuts.
Reform have recently admitted that there's almost nothing left to cut, so by trying to put council tax up by less than 5%, they are just forcing themselves to add millions of pounds worth of additional cuts if they are unable to meet the deficit (which is tens of millions of pounds) through improving efficiency.
In practical terms (and these are ballpark figures), if Reform put council tax up by 4.7% instead of 5%, they'd need to find another £2.4 million of cuts for the sake of saving people living in Band C houses (the most commonband in Swale) 37p a month.
This is not how politics should be done.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 4h

#BREAKING | Three explosions were heard east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 6h

ICYMI via the Greens on Sunday:

"The Green Party of England and Wales' membership has surged past the Conservative Party, making the Greens the third largest party in the UK

"In just over two hours, the Green Party saw 1,000 new members join on Sunday morning" around Polanski's Laura K interview.

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BetterThanDystopia @betterthandystopia.bsky.social · 4h

www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

Richard Murphy: What will it mean for Scotland when the Trump bubble bursts?

DONALD Trump’s bubble is going to burst. I am not just referring to issues in the financial markets, although they are dangerously inflated and…

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10h

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 1d

Would it surprise you to learn Farage’s partner is at the centre of a criminal probe in Belgium over alleged fraud involving EU funds at a Eurosceptic think tank she ran❓

The one who “brought” his £885K house in #Clacton without the income to fund it, possibly enabling Farage to avoid £44K in tax
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Image is from X with pic of Farage and partner with details as per my post source is Sunday Times

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 7h

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 14h

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

www.huffpost.com

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BetterThanDystopia @betterthandystopia.bsky.social · 14h

Don't be fooled by their size. Dutch intelligence is actually, one of THE best in the world. Countries need to take seriously, their warning, and size up their intelligence sharing with the US

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18h

Tell me again, Donald, about the "Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax."

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...