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Labour had 14 years to plan real welfare reform. Instead, we got cuts dressed as compassion, a rebellion from 108 MPs, and a policy that makes life harder for the people it claims to help. Here’s what they got wrong - and what real reform could have looked like.

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very stupid monsters

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"The vulnerable parcels of land include areas adjacent to Yosemite National Park, Mount Shasta, Big Sur and Lake Tahoe..." "The land sale proposal... detailed by Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee..." www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

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Ripping up the deal worked really well, right?

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"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history..." www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

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The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

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Stephen King knows horror better than anyone.

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This is the real rationing and “death panels.” ‘Merica.

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Just putting this out there in case anyone needs to know. Pssst, FEMA.

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Oligarch Overlords: I’m not going to give you enough hours to qualify you for health insurance, and if I do your coverage will suck. Also, Oligarch Overlords:

submitted 24 days ago • 101 comments

Our latest on the seasonal worker visa. What jumped out at me when reading this government-commissioned report is that farm-owners will quite openly say that they prefer migrant workers to accrue huge levels of debt, because this pushes them to work harder so that they can pay it off.

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@juhoorjala.bsky.social: "Uusi Kela-korvaus: 160 euroa Hinnankorotus uudistuksen jälkeen: 180 euroa Tämä toimii juuri niin kuin hallitus sen tarkoitti. Kyse ei ole hoitoonpääsystä vaan kokoomuslaisesta kaverikapitalimista ja verorahojen väärinkäytöstä." 1/ www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/va...

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How about rounding up the CEOs who are exploiting workers rather than the hardworking laborers producing their profits? Just an idea...

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This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

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if this passes, everything America supposedly stands for is done. There's a reason they did this in the dark and want it passed before the midterms. We either all stand up together or we hide in our individual attics. Big Blue States can spearhead a national strike. Any time now.

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Work requirements hurt poor people AND are a waste of money. Arkansas spent $26 million on administrative costs for work requirements — and saw no increase in employment. Georgia’s program cost $40 million in one year — 80% of that went to administrative and consulting costs.

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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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In other news, Dracula has been appointed as an advisor to the Blood Transfusion Service www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Wake-up call… Lincolnshire has suffered some of the worst flooding in its history in recent years Lincolnshire’s newly elected Reform council has abolished the flooding committee This is who they are Please wake up to this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Here are the 16 Dems. I don't know what to tell you, folks. It's bad. Alsobrooks Blunt Rochester Booker Cortez Masto Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Lujan Ossoff Padilla Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner

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Thames Water insists that the £3m it has dished out to top managers are not bonuses - which are currently illegal for the company - but rather 'retention payments'. So that's alright then?

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A brain-dead woman in Georgia has been kept on life support for over 90 days—against her and her family’s wishes—because she was pregnant. Please check out my latest post about the cruelty of Georgia’s abortion ban and the devastating impact it’s having: open.substack.com/pub/objectio...

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BREAKING: The politicians who take thousands of pounds in expenses and stuff their faces at a tax-payer subsidised canteen and get drunk at a tax-payer subsidised bar and enjoy a tax-payer subsidised second home want you to know it's wrong to take handouts from the state x

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The War on Terror, per Brown Uni, killed over 4 million & cost $8 trillion over 24 years. It ramped up Islamophobia & shredded civil liberties. And here we are today with a Republican president meeting a former Al Qaeda leader. If only some of us had been listened to in 2001.

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Labour are teaching us that if you have over 400 MPs and are in the first year of government, so no need for elections until 2029, you should definitely focus your policies on what a party with five MPs is calling for, rather than doing what's best for the country,

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This has to be sorted NOW Climate breakdown will only make the situation worse -much worse No soil, no food, no people www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The disrespect for Congress and the law is glaring - and for our nation a threat to our public safety.

submitted 49 days ago • 971 comments

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

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“Not a single party is standing up for working class people and Reform offers nothing but division. No plan for the NHS. No plan for transport. No answer to the cost of living crisis. If we want change, we need to come together and demand it.” drjogrady.bsky.social on BBC Question Time tonight.

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He's always thought exchanging money for goods or services is a "rip-off," which is why he refuses to pay his bills or pay contractors. But, of course, he always makes sure to get the goods before he refuses to pay. That's not something we can do with China.

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Exactly

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Labour likely to take a total drubbing in today’s election & it’s fully deserved. The lesson I fear they’ll fail to learn is: You cannot win on anti-migrant hatred. The right wing press will never tell their voters you have done enough. And meanwhile, of course, you lose all the rest of us #r4today

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Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal. Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration. See how this works?

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UK Election Officials Are Not Keeping Any Records of How Many Overseas Donors Are Bankrolling UK Politics Democracy campaigners are calling for urgent reform of UK electoral laws bylinetimes.com/2025/04/28/u...

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As reported by Byline Times last month bylinetimes.com/2025/03/20/n...

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(1/4) It was America and Britain that guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine and its borders in return for persuading them to give up their nuclear weapons.

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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