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Reform in Redditch are claiming that they have saved the taxpayer almost £46,000 by having one fewer cabinet member than the previous administration on Worcestershire County Council. An official council spokesperson tells me: "There were 10 Cabinet members previously...and 10 Cabinet members now."

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"The government just needs to stop being so timid," he said. "He" being a professor of law, setting out a way of returning water utilities to public ownership at minimal cost. Well, Prime Minister...? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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🚨 ICYMI: Third Whistleblower Dies Of Natural Causes. 👇🏻 Please watch, like, then share this #BrokenNews report. youtu.be/t1bS6mTYF8E?...

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Anyone else hearing too much “recycle and reuse” and not enough “56 companies cause over 50%” of plastic pollution?

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‘It’s outrageous,’ says mother of UK Israel protest accused as he faces 21 months in jail before trial William Plastow’s mother believes it is the longest anyone will have been held awaiting trial on protest-related charges www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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British photographer shot with rubber bullet in LA There was something hard sticking out of the back of my leg and my leg was getting wet from blood," he told the BBC. He is now recovering at Long Beach Memorial Medical Centre following emergency surgery to remove the bullet from his leg

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"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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🚨FOSSIL FUEL LOBBYISTS 🚨 HAVE DEEPLY CAPTURED UK GOVT WATCH: how the FF industry uses Carbon Capture to much more effectively capture politicians than capture emissions ❓ Worried about this - you should be - write to your MP 👉 scrapcc.org/WRITE-TO-YOU... See full film👇

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❓❓ Will #RachelReeves pledge more money for carbon capture on Wednesday? ⚠️ Looks likely - bad news for the #climate from a climate inept Chancellor 1️⃣ Watch the video below to see WHY this happening (spoiler:lobbying) 2️⃣ Read SubStack with how £100bn's more could be spent scrapcc.org/400BN-CCS-SST

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Monte Mader @montemader.bsky.social

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Greta Thunberg has been kidnapped by Israeli forces

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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.

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The National Guard has arrived in Los Angeles, but they were not requested by California. Both Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass made it clear that the state did not authorize or want federal troops deployed.

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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

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Perfection.......

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Where Did Everyone’s Money Go? (Hint: We Know) At the very end of the 1970s the US economy changed. An economic ideology called "neoliberalism" took hold. That was the idea that markets are a better way to decide things, not voters. The idea that "taxes on the rich hurt the economy" was blasted…

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Trump announces travel ban on Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. There also will be heightened restrictions on visitors from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. Why - just racism?

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President’s Policy Bill Could Add $2.4 Trillion to US debt www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... Is that the biggest bung to the rich in history?

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Poilievre is fulla shit. Canada doesnt have a debt problem.

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16 more shows in Canada this year.

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This is the most important thread in politics right now. On the UK Labour is trying to get votes from Farage by bashing immigrants and people on benefits and keeping taxes low on the rich. What's happening is their own voters are disgusted and leaving.

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Divide and conquer

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My thoughts on Labour so far. From Call Jonathan Pie series 2 - available on BBC Sounds and other podcast platforms.

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Please watch all of this people 🙏🏼

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Trump wants to use tax as a weapon in international trade wars. That could backfire horribly for him. youtu.be/8sL9hJwJ7Ho?...

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Friends, please keep in mind to share non-paywalled articles. Thanks.

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It was important for me to visit the Ukraine Pavilion at the #Expo2025 in Osaka 🇯🇵 ! The pavillon is designed as a store where nothing can be bought. At a time when Ukraine is fighting to defend itself, it showcases values that are “Not For Sale.” 🇺🇦🇱🇺 @defense.gouv.lu @megaluxembourg.bsky.social

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Stunning details now emerging: this was an operation planned a year and a half in advance, involved smuggling drones into Russia, placing them in containers on top of trucks, arranging for them all to open simultaneously and to strike.

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🚨🚨In an undeservedly underreported story, it appears that the #Georgian ruling party is going off the rocks on its #authoritarian crackdown on dissenting opinions by commencing to detain opposition leaders. 🧵 kyivindependent.com/he-was-kidna...

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When King Charles takes the throne in the Canadian parliament today — the first time a British monarch will open proceedings since 1977 — it will be a “big symbolic move to come to the defense of Canada,” Dasha Burns says on today’s #playbookpod. Listen to the ep now: pod.link/1169056746

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