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Follow the Money EU @ftm.eu · 3h

Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks.

Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...

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Savantfoxt @savantfoxt.bsky.social · 6m

In the 1960's public services were well funded, the top tax rates were 97.5% for individuals and 45% for corporations. Now it's 45% and 25% respectively and public services are crumbling. Who is 'we' exactly?

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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 3h

My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.

How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere

A state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just one tiny problem - there's no actual road.

martinrobbins.substack.com

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 48m

Never has the been a better time in US history to be in jail for violent right wing extremists, an embezzlers, sex offenders, fraudsters, or money launderers.. because thanks to a felon as President there’s a good chance you’ll be pardoned

As long as your MAGA, and voted the right way❗️🙄

'I don't know who he is,' says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon

The president pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the co-founder of the world's largest crypto exchange, in October.

www.bbc.com

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 43m

Something no one should be proud of. Skilled migrants now shy away from UK and USA. There’s a lot of other stable, welcoming countries with better life quality and/or higher earning potential they can go to.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 11h

It’s not a mistake when you have no process.

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Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 10h

The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted over a year.

White America fails to appreciate this.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 22h

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.

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Savantfoxt @savantfoxt.bsky.social · 23h

Racists like Esther McVey are the reason we have Diversity & Inclusion positions and policies. Until she, her party and right wing voters in general stop being racist the positions and policies will continue to be necessary.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care

Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a name for this.

C O R R U P T I O N

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

Wealth taxes are back on the agenda. Data from two centuries proves: without taxation of wealth capitalism will always concentrate wealth at the top.

eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/eco...

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

"More than 440 City companies have moved almost £1tn — or roughly 10% of the entire UK banking system — to financial hubs across the EU because of Brexit."
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache

Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

www.theguardian.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Want to see a microcosm of America? Immigrants won the World Series for the Dodgers and immigrants will be unwelcome and hunted at the victory parade.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

NHS dentists crisis sees surge in GoFundMe appeals from desperate people in pain

The British Dental Association brands it ‘Victorian’ that Brits having to beg for charity to pay for essential dentistry which should be available on the NHS

www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...

Huge surge in GoFundMe appeals as Brits desperate for proper dental care

The British Dental Association brands it ‘Victorian’ that Brits having to beg for charity to pay for essential dentistry which should be available on the NHS

www.mirror.co.uk

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jjinthemiddle.bsky.social @jjinthemiddle.bsky.social · 1d

This is how we do it…

ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back newrepublic.com/article/2023... via @newrepublic.com

ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back

Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.

newrepublic.com

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d

🚨Matt Waltz, Ambassador to the UN, is called OUT during a General Assembly by Cuba’s Foreign Minister! 🚨 Sound ⬆️. 1/2

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 2d

This is awesome

Neoliner Origin, the worlds largest cargo sailing ship, has made its maiden voyage across the Atlantic

From Saint Nazaire 🇫🇷 to Baltimore 🇺🇸 via Saint-Pierre et Miquelon 🇵🇲 and Halifax 🇨🇦

Cutting carbon emissions by around 80%

The roll-on/roll-off ship will make a monthly crossing

Aerial photo of the 2 mast Neoliner Origin sailing ship on very calm waters

Map the the sailing route across the atlantic from Saint Nazaire to Baltimore

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 2d

A sensible autocrat never lets this be seen. Ever. And above all, *never* when about to immiserate one in nine of your population.

It’s not just bad politics (and already picked up as such), it makes people have to see - and that’s not something you want them to do.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d

Per Danny Kemp via press pool

Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL

“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 3d

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

Lady in scarf, "We are the only country in the G7, apart from Italy, that doesn't charge an exit tax" #BBCQT

"The CEO of Revolut bank - net worth £11 billion- who has decided to take his money to the UAE"

"He's not taxed on the money he's made, but a cleaner is taxed on her minimum wage"

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 3d

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...