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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 2d

Hear me out.... what if Andrew goes to the US and in some hearing while trying to give a clever bullshit (such as the "can't sweat" thing), he accidentally makes some revelation about Epstein that brings down Trump?

We're due a bit of luck, aren't we?

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2d

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 3d

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]

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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:

Hello there

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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].

DAD:

Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?

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NT EMPLOYEE:

Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!

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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?

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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:

Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!

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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:

Listen - that's their call

[Calls emanating from the landscape]:

tut-tut
woke-woke

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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:

They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.

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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!

[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].

[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke

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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:

Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.

[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:

tut-tut
woke-woke

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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?

NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…

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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].

NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…

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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:

Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?

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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...

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SATX Indivisible @satx-indivisible.bsky.social · 4d

Hold the line, Dems.

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 4d

Dear America. Please stop slandering our cities with racist lies. Thanks, the UK.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

Kat is being federally charged by the FBI for protesting at Broadview.

This is a flagrant political prosecution by the Trump administration, which is trying to prevent free speech and free association.

I am proud of Kat. Her movement is being targeted by the government. She needs your support.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 4d

There is something deeply DEEPLY wrong with the way the media report this stuff.

Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 5d

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 5d

So, fascists then, just stylistically British fascists.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d

Daisy Eastlake, "Do you think Trump should be emulated?"

Danny Kruger, "Yes"

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 5d

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 5d

Elon musk: ‘Civil war in Britain is inevitable. Just a question of when.’

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely. Benefits are spent quickly in the local economy and much of it ends up back with the govt as tax. That's all economic activity that counts as GDP. People on benefits do not put money in offshore tax havens.

And yet benefits are always discussed as if that money just disappears.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 5d

Reform are into Day Three of Racismsplaining. It's harder than it looks.
thecritic.co.uk/easy...

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Simple as possible - not simpler @ockamsrazor.bsky.social · 6d

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d

Mari Novik, FT, "When did you two first get to know each other?"

Nigel Farage "No"

Turning to Ellie-Ann Reynolds he says, "Let's keep our personal life out of this.. Sorry, got to have some fun doing it"

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 6d

If journalists would just do their job, which is to inform the public about basic facts and ask Farage repeatedly about this stuff until he gives them satisfactory answers, then no.

youtube.com/shorts/H-QkT...

Many MPs describe being overrun with work. Nigel Farage has found time for another 12 jobs.

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

youtube.com

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 6d

This is the most insane response to a normal post I've ever seen

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 7d

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 6d

We now bring you live footage from The Times offices...

Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 6d

I am tighter than a duck's arse and buy most of my furniture from Facebook marketplace.

But £600 for three chairs, assuming they're good quality, really isn't a lot of money.

Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 6d

It just needs some journalists willing and able to do their bloody job and he could be finished well before 2029.

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 6d

"I can't comment beyond that"

Yes of course you can. You could clearly state that any other elected representative of UKIP, the Brexit party or reform that is found to have been traitorous will face all due consequences. You could say that you are investigating the allegations.

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DanTechnik @dantechnik.bsky.social · 6d

He is vulnerable yes, he also doesn’t stand up to scrutiny very well at all. He starts clutching his pearls in a very matronly faux outrage way. He isn’t very good it’s just people rarely take him on .

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 6d

His entire political career is based on a false victimhood schtick, so he always does this "how dare you ask that question, totally unfair" act in interviews whenever he faces any critical or searching questioning. Which is actually not very often at all.

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 6d

Making party political capital out of horrific crime is the absolute lowest of the low. There's been quite a lot of it over over grooming gangs but using the victims as political pawns is the lowest we've seen yet.

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