Paul Dunleavy
@pjhd.bsky.social
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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That final point is absolutely crucial.
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
That final point is absolutely crucial.
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British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
October 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
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Do read all of this.
🔴NEW🔴
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...
bylinetimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Do read all of this.
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President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE
YouTube video by WION
www.youtube.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
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UK media should be all over this but will they be?
Reform UK, formerly Brexit Party & UKIP have always been mouthpieces for the Kremlin. It’s just this one was paid & found out
Nathan Gill admitted 8 counts of bribery between 2018 & 2019. Tasked to make specific statements in return for money
Reform UK, formerly Brexit Party & UKIP have always been mouthpieces for the Kremlin. It’s just this one was paid & found out
Nathan Gill admitted 8 counts of bribery between 2018 & 2019. Tasked to make specific statements in return for money
Former Brexit Party MEP admits accepting bribes to shill for Russia
Nathan Gill admitted eight counts of bribery between 2018 and 2019. He said he was tasked to make specific statements in return for money. #EuropeNews
www.euronews.com
September 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
UK media should be all over this but will they be?
Reform UK, formerly Brexit Party & UKIP have always been mouthpieces for the Kremlin. It’s just this one was paid & found out
Nathan Gill admitted 8 counts of bribery between 2018 & 2019. Tasked to make specific statements in return for money
Reform UK, formerly Brexit Party & UKIP have always been mouthpieces for the Kremlin. It’s just this one was paid & found out
Nathan Gill admitted 8 counts of bribery between 2018 & 2019. Tasked to make specific statements in return for money
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“It’s time to resist the right’s narrative of immigration as aberration. Nations thrive on it – and they always have done”
Gaia Vince historically fact checks the far right grievance peddlers who blame immigrants for our national decline when in truth it’s those immigrants that’s hold it together.
Gaia Vince historically fact checks the far right grievance peddlers who blame immigrants for our national decline when in truth it’s those immigrants that’s hold it together.
“The dense interconnectedness of the human family… means that in terms of our biology, there are no different races. We can all claim ancestry from across the world. Nevertheless, our politics is obsessed with distinctions based on national identity…” Gaia’s article more relevant than ever:
Something I wrote a year ago that’s infuriatingly relevant
September 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“It’s time to resist the right’s narrative of immigration as aberration. Nations thrive on it – and they always have done”
Gaia Vince historically fact checks the far right grievance peddlers who blame immigrants for our national decline when in truth it’s those immigrants that’s hold it together.
Gaia Vince historically fact checks the far right grievance peddlers who blame immigrants for our national decline when in truth it’s those immigrants that’s hold it together.
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Today's musings...
"Yes, now we’ve apparently entered the cosplay phase of nationalism, we’ve got people hoisting Union Jacks up flagpoles like they’ve just liberated Normandy - except it’s happening on a dual carriageway on the way to A534 to Crewe."
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"Yes, now we’ve apparently entered the cosplay phase of nationalism, we’ve got people hoisting Union Jacks up flagpoles like they’ve just liberated Normandy - except it’s happening on a dual carriageway on the way to A534 to Crewe."
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August 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Today's musings...
"Yes, now we’ve apparently entered the cosplay phase of nationalism, we’ve got people hoisting Union Jacks up flagpoles like they’ve just liberated Normandy - except it’s happening on a dual carriageway on the way to A534 to Crewe."
Subscribe and read below.
"Yes, now we’ve apparently entered the cosplay phase of nationalism, we’ve got people hoisting Union Jacks up flagpoles like they’ve just liberated Normandy - except it’s happening on a dual carriageway on the way to A534 to Crewe."
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There’s your subsidy scandal for you - a pile of desperate right wing nonsense. The cynical side of this is it’s an attempt to portray the Green economy and the whole move to net zero, as something that costs us money, relies on subsidies.
August 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
There’s your subsidy scandal for you - a pile of desperate right wing nonsense. The cynical side of this is it’s an attempt to portray the Green economy and the whole move to net zero, as something that costs us money, relies on subsidies.
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This is a smear from a right wing newspaper owned by a tax exile based in Bermuda. We need to reform our media ownership laws to prevent this kind of pernicious influence on our national conversation - British people are being manipulated by rich foreigners with fake news.
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August 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This is a smear from a right wing newspaper owned by a tax exile based in Bermuda. We need to reform our media ownership laws to prevent this kind of pernicious influence on our national conversation - British people are being manipulated by rich foreigners with fake news.
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This 👇
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
August 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
This 👇
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Good AI - for once
August 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Good AI - for once
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While we’re still figuring out life on Earth, Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles away, cruising on 69KB, an 8-track, and 1977s Fortran like it’s nothing.
August 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
While we’re still figuring out life on Earth, Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles away, cruising on 69KB, an 8-track, and 1977s Fortran like it’s nothing.
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School design teacher here. After years of binning kids projects that they couldn't be bothered to take home, I changed all of the dimensions of the specifications so that they'd fit perfectly into my log burner. School bins empty, my heating bills low. Win, win.
August 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
School design teacher here. After years of binning kids projects that they couldn't be bothered to take home, I changed all of the dimensions of the specifications so that they'd fit perfectly into my log burner. School bins empty, my heating bills low. Win, win.
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There are millions of families in our country in poverty, that can't feed their children.
We can't allow that and allow rich people not to pay a fair amount of tax.
We can't allow that and allow rich people not to pay a fair amount of tax.
August 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
There are millions of families in our country in poverty, that can't feed their children.
We can't allow that and allow rich people not to pay a fair amount of tax.
We can't allow that and allow rich people not to pay a fair amount of tax.
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If Trump thinks the exchange of a few bits of Russian and Ukrainian territory plus a ceasefire will constitute peace, he’s wrong; Putin will just start up his attacks again when he chooses. There has to be a binding agreement which Russia won’t break. Not much sign of that.
August 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
If Trump thinks the exchange of a few bits of Russian and Ukrainian territory plus a ceasefire will constitute peace, he’s wrong; Putin will just start up his attacks again when he chooses. There has to be a binding agreement which Russia won’t break. Not much sign of that.
There was a time when the BBC was a trusted accurate source.
BBC among media misreportimg/exaggerating scale of asylum protests
Median protest is a few dozen, below 100.
"Usually Several hundred at a time" is false.
- should say *occasionally*
< 1/10 protests have 200 people
"Sometimes thousands"
I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet
Median protest is a few dozen, below 100.
"Usually Several hundred at a time" is false.
- should say *occasionally*
< 1/10 protests have 200 people
"Sometimes thousands"
I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet
August 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
There was a time when the BBC was a trusted accurate source.
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Thanks AI, this historical timeline is incredibly useful and will really help my students...😑
August 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Thanks AI, this historical timeline is incredibly useful and will really help my students...😑
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Inexcusable.
PS: You may have read this story already. The BBC ran a version of it yesterday
We shared our FOI docs with their reporter and press office.
Their response? To publish the story - our story - without even notifying us.
A £6bn public broadcaster selling out a tiny investigative newsletter. Nice. 😔
We shared our FOI docs with their reporter and press office.
Their response? To publish the story - our story - without even notifying us.
A £6bn public broadcaster selling out a tiny investigative newsletter. Nice. 😔
August 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Inexcusable.
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Our vertiginous descent into flat out National Front-style racism* seems pretty much complete
*headline not poster of course
*headline not poster of course
THE TIMES: 1 in 8 of all prisoners were born overseas #TomorrowsPapersToday
August 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Our vertiginous descent into flat out National Front-style racism* seems pretty much complete
*headline not poster of course
*headline not poster of course
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This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
July 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
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ausmashmash
Ashley
Photographer East Coast of Australia
"Here's a little #wildlifewednesday moment for you, filmed only an hour ago, as this gorgeous humpback descends into the water right on sunset, ready for the night to take over"
Ashley
Photographer East Coast of Australia
"Here's a little #wildlifewednesday moment for you, filmed only an hour ago, as this gorgeous humpback descends into the water right on sunset, ready for the night to take over"
July 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
ausmashmash
Ashley
Photographer East Coast of Australia
"Here's a little #wildlifewednesday moment for you, filmed only an hour ago, as this gorgeous humpback descends into the water right on sunset, ready for the night to take over"
Ashley
Photographer East Coast of Australia
"Here's a little #wildlifewednesday moment for you, filmed only an hour ago, as this gorgeous humpback descends into the water right on sunset, ready for the night to take over"