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Carol McAuley 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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Proud Scot. European. Music, books, quilting, history, politics, nature, science, sci-fi and fantasy, WOT, LOTR (in no particular order), she/her. No DMs please.
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It’s more than just bad priorities. It’s about lack of basic decency.
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You mean that in the nearly six months that Reform’s DOGE has existed they haven’t achieved anything beyond issuing multiple angry and confused press releases about things they had now real clue about?

I am shocked - who would have expected something attached to Farage wouldn’t deliver?
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I've been working with the team to save little Storm all week in the background.

Wasn't confident enough to share him until today.

What a little fighter he is ❀️
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Guess who Hegseth's Pentagon awards its biggest drone contract to....? Naturally one in which Don Trump Jr has a stake and sits on its board. Every goddam conflict of interest law is being vandalised daily by Trump's administration. www.ft.com/content/4ced...
Trump Jr-linked drone company wins Pentagon contract
Unusual Machines secures deal as US military accelerates domestic production of unmanned aircraft
www.ft.com
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"I don't think Reform have got any interest in what goes on around here. They're just a load of multimillionaires from England.
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They will tell you that the richest 1% pay 29% of tax.

But they won't tell you that they get 48% of the money.

Or that if they paid the same 47% tax as everyone else, they'd be paying 68% of the tax.

But I just have.
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Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
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And just as a reminder, I encourage readers to send me their own Barely/Bearly Newsworthy Stories for each week’s run down.

If you see anything you think is nonsense that shouldn’t even have made the news, or you pick up on something that you feel is newsworthy, but overlooked, please let me know.
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The point about Reform councils failing to cut costs is that they believed their own propaganda that councils were wasting millions on diversity officers, printing leaflets in Bengali and Polish, so all they needed to do was cut those.
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A reminder for UK residents
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Hope people are realizing that rigging the 2026 and 2028 elections have always been the plan.
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Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.
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Facts.

op: dejoncampbell (via IG)
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Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.
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With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.

Housing, food, healthcareβ€”it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
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The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
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