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www.theguardian.com/politics/202... "Since" austerity, Guardian? Austerity never stopped, there's been no relief. This is just a continuation and intensification.

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NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: CHEERS WILDLY (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

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This. Plus, even if you were to go down a narrow economic returns route, and ignore human dignity, people spend disability benefits, thus boosting economic activity. Whereas tax breaks for the rich and for multinationals see those monies go offshore, or accumulated, not spent.

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At the heart of every attack on disability benefits is the myth disabled people “get perks”: a free car, loads of cash, a life off work. It misrepresents the reality of disability, whilst exploiting low wages and high living costs to make the public envy people in daily pain.

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If you want a clear illustration of the Government’s disregard for really engaging with disabled people, they have produced NO accessible versions of their plans today.

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Another dreadful mis-step (being charitable) by Labour. Read this thread below to see how badly awry their position is.

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Please @bbcradio4.bsky.social don’t parrot Tory rhetoric about their plan to set the country on “a new path” to tackle #climate change. That’s not what they’re doing. Badenoch is trashing the science & setting the country on a course to be poorer and more prone to climate disaster

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Every American skipping over this violation of the law, and assuming this happens to 'people who deserve it/are dodgy somehow,' should realize that there is jack-all stopping them from doing the same thing to you next, if you shrug off the rule of law for people on visas.

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“The significant rise in the number of people being diagnosed with a mental illness in recent years has been driven by real issues that affect us all, such as increases in poverty, housing and food insecurity, as well as loneliness and isolation. ” www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...

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Statistically most will be recognised as needing asylum and granted it. We continue to have an asylum system which defaults to disbelief, which leaves people seeking safety without protection, and a government which refuses to see those seeking asylum as people. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

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“It really is an essential lifeline. I don’t feel that I would be able to function without it.” I spoke to one PIP claimant about the importance of disability benefit - and looked at what's at stake when the government sets out its plans next week www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Could've avoided a "humiliating backtrack" if they had taken a second to think about the repercussions of cutting already hard to get PIP payments. Labour should never have been forced into a U turn, because they should never have proposed cuts in the first place. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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I'm so grumpy about the nonsense coming from govt about benefits this week. It's self-defeating and cruel, and I wrote a cross blogpost about it. @pollardtom.bsky.social @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social @helenbarnard.bsky.social

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This, from a DWP press release yesterday (gov.uk/government/n...), is outrageous In two short paragraphs it peddles multiple falsehoods about the current system that will be used to justify upcoming cuts & changes Here's what MPs & journalists should be challenging... 🧵

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The difference between today's Labour government's spending on dealing with poverty and the post-war Labour government's aspirations for all with the creation of the welfare state in 1948 In a nutshell, under neoliberalism, poverty is a feature not a bug www.bigissue.com/opinion/pove...

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This. Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human. That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted. And some unwise people clap and cheer.

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“we have to be able to commit war crimes to win wars” is the type of thing a 16-year-old dumbass says and — well, yeah, hegseth is basically a 16-year-old dumbass

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I dunno, man, I feel like if you can't run your business without breaking the law, your business shouldn't exist.

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Abolishing NHS England has nothing to do with democracy Wes Streeting isn't listening to the 87% who don't want NHS privatisation And he isn't listening to the evidence from his own review - Lord Darzi said the NHS is struggling due to AUSTERITY www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

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Have long inveighed against the top-down managerialist approach of NHSE, so I should be celebrating its demise. But when the future is even more centralised, under the whim of the Sec of State, and the Sec of State is who he is, then there are no grounds for optimism.

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The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

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“Those in the highest offices of government still see our existence as Disabled people as the problem they need to address, rather than the barriers we face.” www.opendemocracy.net/en/keir-star...

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Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer

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In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

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Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...

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Some of the absolute worst non-entity MPs, without an ounce of empathy or honesty between them, want to give us a lesson in morality www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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That must be one of the most Orwellian statements ever. It’s bad enough to cut people’s benefits. To pretend some kind of higher “moral” duty while you’re doing so is insulting and offensive

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Secession. What they're describing is secession. www.wired.com/story/startu...

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The Telegraph’s been reproducing versions of this same story for years. Wokeness and a ‘recipe for a crisis’ in membership. But National Trust member retention is higher than comparator organisations despite the cost of living crisis, and visitor numbers have been increasing.

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Morning! Happy Threads Day!

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Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

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All this bullshit immediately crumbles when it's presented to anyone who's not a sympathetic cohost on your podcast

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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