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The obvious question is why aren't state pensions big enough to cover winter fuel bills in the first place, making winter fuel payments entirely unnecessary

submitted 28 days ago • 23 comments

No-one wants to lose their livelihood. But fishing contributes less than £1bn to UK Gross Value Added, and supports fewer than 7,000 full-time jobs as fishermen. For comparison, that's about the same size as UK's tattooist market (7k jobs), and much smaller than horse racing (£4bn GVA, 70k+ jobs)

submitted 30 days ago • 22 comments

“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands

submitted 33 days ago • 2451 comments

“You linked winter fuel payments eligibility to pension credit which we know is a flawed system. You’re sitting here saying we know there’s a flawed means test in pension credit so why the hell did you link winter fuel payments to a flawed means test?” @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com

submitted 35 days ago • 25 comments

Thames Water’s CEO defends £195,000 bonus just three months into the job. Shameless. The cult of bonuses is nothing to do with performance. It is for boosting profits by fleecing customers. Nothing will change until water is nationalised and customers vote on exec pay.

submitted 35 days ago • 22 comments

DeLAURO: Are you planning to break the law by impounding appropriated funds? RFK Jr: If you appropriate the funds, I'm going to spend them D: We have! You're cutting the NIH by $18b. Congress appropriated those funds. How can you justify cutting billions from the biomedical research budget?

submitted 35 days ago • 742 comments

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submitted 36 days ago • 549 comments

Just FYI because evidently Fox or OAN or whatever is pushing the lie that America accepted the Statue of Liberty and that’s equivalent to the plane. Congress VOTED to approve receiving the statue. So congress should vote on the jet

submitted 36 days ago • 2246 comments

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

submitted 38 days ago • 2243 comments

DOGE initially promised to save taxpayers $2 trillion. Now it admits it's only delivered $160B in cuts. And even those minimal savings are nearly wiped out by the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts: $135B. We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.

submitted 45 days ago • 267 comments

I'm sorry I know there's a lot going on but how are we not screaming about Ron DeSantis stealing $10 million from Medicaid and the money ending up with pro-DeSantis superPACs, funneled through a charity run by his wife? HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS? www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

submitted 56 days ago • 192 comments

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

submitted 59 days ago • 394 comments

Right wing populist politics has been so damaging and so brain-achingly tedious this last decade. Look at where we are as a result. Far poorer, weaker, more divided, isolated from the EU and trying not to piss off an egomaniacal lunatic in the White House. Sovereignty at its most vulnerable.

submitted 62 days ago • 64 comments

Absolutely. Without the BBC Farage would have remained a nobody.

submitted 64 days ago • 16 comments

submitted 64 days ago • 618 comments

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.

submitted 65 days ago • 584 comments

This is how tariffs work. ..and now I want Crab Rangoon.

submitted 66 days ago • 164 comments

Savings accounts, pensions, working class 401ks, all of these have been decimated by Trump. He is building policy off the crackpot ideas of one disgraced economist, Peter Navarro, and we are all paying the price. Watch @therickwilson.bsky.social here: t.co/CfwAJVZWOt

submitted 66 days ago • 113 comments

Yesterday Mark Carney was told, “Mr Carney, there’s a genocide in Palestine”. “I’m aware,” Carney told the protester, “That’s why we have an arms embargo.” This has really, really upset Benjamin Netanyahu, so don't RT unless you hate him.

submitted 67 days ago • 26 comments

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

submitted 67 days ago • 1636 comments

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

submitted 68 days ago • 1525 comments

In any normal administration, the Director of National Intelligence committing voter fraud would lead to an immediate resignation and criminal investigation.