Richard Pierce
@tettig.bsky.social
He/him. Novelist, poet, Spoken Word artist, painter, champion of new music. Debut novel DEAD MEN nominated for Guardian First Book Award. #StandUpToRacism. European. #RejoinEU. www.tettig.com. Don't DM me unless you know me.
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Richard Pierce
@tettig.bsky.social
· Sep 29
This stays pinned until we have overcome racism. #StandUpToRacism
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“It is now beyond doubt, however; that this assisted by the White House in its efforts to destroy Ukraine and that the United States has declared war on Europe under its appalling president”… and who does the US support in Europe? The AFD in Germany and Reform UK here.
Such grim betrayal.
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Such grim betrayal.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
“It is now beyond doubt, however; that this assisted by the White House in its efforts to destroy Ukraine and that the United States has declared war on Europe under its appalling president”… and who does the US support in Europe? The AFD in Germany and Reform UK here.
Such grim betrayal.
(iPaper)
Such grim betrayal.
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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Over this weekend, we have pushed the @calaisappeal.bsky.social fundraiser to almost £10k!! 🥹🥹
Let’s give it a really big push this week🙏
I feel sure we can raise more than the far right did to send over their thugs to harass people ❤️💪
www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Let’s give it a really big push this week🙏
I feel sure we can raise more than the far right did to send over their thugs to harass people ❤️💪
www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Over this weekend, we have pushed the @calaisappeal.bsky.social fundraiser to almost £10k!! 🥹🥹
Let’s give it a really big push this week🙏
I feel sure we can raise more than the far right did to send over their thugs to harass people ❤️💪
www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Let’s give it a really big push this week🙏
I feel sure we can raise more than the far right did to send over their thugs to harass people ❤️💪
www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
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New analysis shows:
That there are now more people alive in the UK that voted Remain in 2016 than those who voted Leave in 2016.
The "will of the people" expressed by direct vote in 2016... has changed.
That there are now more people alive in the UK that voted Remain in 2016 than those who voted Leave in 2016.
The "will of the people" expressed by direct vote in 2016... has changed.
The majority opposed to Brexit has reached eight million
Ministers need courage to keep it that way
kellnerp.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
New analysis shows:
That there are now more people alive in the UK that voted Remain in 2016 than those who voted Leave in 2016.
The "will of the people" expressed by direct vote in 2016... has changed.
That there are now more people alive in the UK that voted Remain in 2016 than those who voted Leave in 2016.
The "will of the people" expressed by direct vote in 2016... has changed.
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We have decided to switch Ashes allegiances. As a team who will always support the underdog, we recognise the dire position England are now in, having gone 17 winless games in Australia since 2011. It has become like San Marino vs. Brazil in football. England need our support.
December 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
We have decided to switch Ashes allegiances. As a team who will always support the underdog, we recognise the dire position England are now in, having gone 17 winless games in Australia since 2011. It has become like San Marino vs. Brazil in football. England need our support.
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Oh, look, just like Nixon’s enemies list from his "Political Enemies Project." They're lack of original ideas is astounding. I guess they're coming for all of us now.
December 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Oh, look, just like Nixon’s enemies list from his "Political Enemies Project." They're lack of original ideas is astounding. I guess they're coming for all of us now.
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UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation.
In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills.
Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors.
No end to nightmare without public ownership.
In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills.
Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors.
No end to nightmare without public ownership.
UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation
Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation.
In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills.
Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors.
No end to nightmare without public ownership.
In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills.
Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors.
No end to nightmare without public ownership.
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Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯
December 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯
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Starmer’s Brexit stance convinces nobody. * A majority now prefer parties outside the Lab–Con duopoly. * Badenoch declares welfare “unchristian” * Farage denies wanting a merger with the Tories.
Read Pecksniff’s acerbic analysis of this week’s politics ⤵️
Read Pecksniff’s acerbic analysis of this week’s politics ⤵️
Pecksniff : ‘Why is this bastard lying to me?’ The question on everybody’s lips this week
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Starmer’s Brexit stance convinces nobody. * A majority now prefer parties outside the Lab–Con duopoly. * Badenoch declares welfare “unchristian” * Farage denies wanting a merger with the Tories.
Read Pecksniff’s acerbic analysis of this week’s politics ⤵️
Read Pecksniff’s acerbic analysis of this week’s politics ⤵️
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They are LIARS and they have serious problems with numbers. ‼️💯‼️
December 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
They are LIARS and they have serious problems with numbers. ‼️💯‼️
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Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
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There isn’t much for our Supreme Court to hear, the Constitution is already clear. And just to be absolutely clear: the Supreme Court does not have the power to overrule or rewrite our Constitution.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
There isn’t much for our Supreme Court to hear, the Constitution is already clear. And just to be absolutely clear: the Supreme Court does not have the power to overrule or rewrite our Constitution.
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thank you to everyone finding this essay in a brand new magazine - one that is trying to do something different in this time of media consolidation...
"And what about all those books with checklists on how to spot your country sliding into fascism? Why did so many of the people who read them—and even some of the people who wrote them—falter when a genocide was unfolding on their screens..." - @naomiaklein.bsky.social h/t @annfriedman.bsky.social
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:04 AM
thank you to everyone finding this essay in a brand new magazine - one that is trying to do something different in this time of media consolidation...
Time for a boycott of the FIFA World Cup by teams and fans.
December 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Time for a boycott of the FIFA World Cup by teams and fans.
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🟢🟡 Time to put the negativity behind us.
🗣️ Andy Delf
▪️Good leadership shown by Attanasio & Ressler
▪️Maybe we'll also see contrition from others?
▪️Time to look forward with positivity
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/12/06/t...
#ncfc
🗣️ Andy Delf
▪️Good leadership shown by Attanasio & Ressler
▪️Maybe we'll also see contrition from others?
▪️Time to look forward with positivity
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/12/06/t...
#ncfc
December 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
🟢🟡 Time to put the negativity behind us.
🗣️ Andy Delf
▪️Good leadership shown by Attanasio & Ressler
▪️Maybe we'll also see contrition from others?
▪️Time to look forward with positivity
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/12/06/t...
#ncfc
🗣️ Andy Delf
▪️Good leadership shown by Attanasio & Ressler
▪️Maybe we'll also see contrition from others?
▪️Time to look forward with positivity
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/12/06/t...
#ncfc
#NewMusicFriday on www.radiostradbroke.co.uk at 10:00 UK time on 05Dec25. 3 hours of banging tunes live, which then repeats at 22:00 UK time. Listen.
Radio Stradbroke
The Website of Stradbroke Village Radio Station.
www.radiostradbroke.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
#NewMusicFriday on www.radiostradbroke.co.uk at 10:00 UK time on 05Dec25. 3 hours of banging tunes live, which then repeats at 22:00 UK time. Listen.
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Wie man immer so denkt, dass die eigenen Bedürfnisse gar nicht so wichtig sind. Dass man funktionieren muss, für andere. Bis zu dem einen Tag. An dem nichts mehr geht.
Hineinhören.
Hinschauen.
Aufpassen.
Auf dich.
Wichtig.
Hineinhören.
Hinschauen.
Aufpassen.
Auf dich.
Wichtig.
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Wie man immer so denkt, dass die eigenen Bedürfnisse gar nicht so wichtig sind. Dass man funktionieren muss, für andere. Bis zu dem einen Tag. An dem nichts mehr geht.
Hineinhören.
Hinschauen.
Aufpassen.
Auf dich.
Wichtig.
Hineinhören.
Hinschauen.
Aufpassen.
Auf dich.
Wichtig.
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The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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"Keir Starmer did not create this problem — the damage done by the Conservatives cannot be overstated — but it is making matters worse."
Fantastic column by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the malaise in our politics and the road that we're on without a major change in approach:
Fantastic column by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the malaise in our politics and the road that we're on without a major change in approach:
Labour is slow-marching working people to populism
Insurgent parties to left and right peddle nonsense economics but enjoy dramatically rising support
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"Keir Starmer did not create this problem — the damage done by the Conservatives cannot be overstated — but it is making matters worse."
Fantastic column by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the malaise in our politics and the road that we're on without a major change in approach:
Fantastic column by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the malaise in our politics and the road that we're on without a major change in approach: