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138 NGO leaders tell Keir Starmer: "It is unacceptable that taxing extreme wealth was not looked at before cutting UK aid." www.bond.org.uk/press-releas...

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 19 hours ago • 395 comments

Why not just introduce a £2 million limit? It's simple: you get taxed at 100% if you've got more than £2 million, and we redistribute it where it's needed. You still have £2 million. And we solve poverty without needing a 2 child limit.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

We shouldn't cry over Trump weakening the CIA and FBI - but we must ask why As the FBI reportedly destroys the Jeffrey Epstein files and others, what is Donald Trump doing with the FBI and CIA - and why? www.thecanary.co/global/world...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

submitted 4 days ago • 539 comments

This used to be a newspaper. It used to be a voice that stood by the Conservative conception of national sovereignty, a moral understanding of the nation state, alliances of principle against tyranny, territorial integrity, the international order. Observe it succumb to cowardice & national decline

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

This is a poor headline from the BBC. The US aren't offering a "deal" - they want the minerals in return for support already given. It's straight up extortion.

submitted 7 days ago • 110 comments

Council Tax has become a starkly regressive tax. The poorest fifth of households now spend more than three times as much of their income on Council Tax as the richest. Here's what you need to know 👇

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Fantastic gig at Cecil Sharp House, @squeezyjohn.bsky.social @jonboden.bsky.social. Went home enriched and uplifted!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is what it looks like. It’s what the Maga right planned, what Project 2025 laid out

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Perhaps we do need to start anthropomorphising LLMs - not as reliable researchers or trusty assistants, but as familiar spirits or demons. They WILL lie and deceive, and twist your words, and seek to get you into trouble, while following the letter of their instructions.

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

Reminder: Farage has repeatedly defended Trump’s stance on Putin, blaming NATO and the West for “provoking” Russia. He called Putin a strong “operator” and claimed EU/NATO expansion “poked the Russian bear.” Like Trump, he downplays Russian aggression while shifting blame to the West. #ukpolitics

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

Never use AirBnB ever.

submitted 10 days ago • 84 comments

I wonder what's going on in our parallel universe where all of this never happened.

submitted 11 days ago • 76 comments

Elon Musk is requesting all the IRS data so he can see all the taxes everybody has paid. One of the first things the Nazis did was go through Social Security data and find everybody who had never worked. They then murdered every disabled person who hadn't.

submitted 10 days ago • 43 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 12 days ago • 3186 comments

Letter expressing widespread concern at the Royal Society’s inaction over Musk reported in the Mirror: www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Granting people refugee status but not allowing them citizenship. Come on Labour, make that make sense. Imagine doing this - harming people’s lives - to impress the bigot vote. But failing anyway. What a shameful abdication of responsibility and decency. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 75 comments

This is not only morally reprehensible, but a breach of the UN Refugee Convention. No refugee should be discriminated against on the basis of how they entered the country www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 94 comments

We didn't vote for Reform lite. We don't want Reform lite. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 140 comments

Spoke on BBC 5 Live this morning about Labour's policy of denying citizenship to refugees based on manner of entry. Long and short of it is that it will have no impact on channel crossings, it will violate international law, and it will leave people seeking safety in limbo and facing more fear.

submitted 16 days ago • 28 comments

BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

submitted 17 days ago • 256 comments

🚨Huge, dangerous developments getting little coverage. 1. DOJ has killed off its anti-corruption unit. It seized billions in assets from corrupt Russian oligarchs. 2. FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force has been disbanded. It fights foreign interference in US democracy. PUTIN WON THE US ELECTION

submitted 21 days ago • 35 comments

Oh for goodness sake, another horrible and incredibly short-sighted measure this government has planned. Where are their heads at???’

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

It’s impossible to convey how bad it is in US. No agency, or programme spared. Administration bulldozing the constitution. Congress supine. Courts too slow. Officials terrified, their life’s work trashed, careers ended, expertise gone. Damage around world. US reputation and partnerships destroyed.

submitted 22 days ago • 32 comments

When will Govt learn you can’t out-Reform Reform - you end up simply legitimising their toxic narrative. To see off populists, Labour needs to invest in public services & local communities, making a real difference to people’s lives - levy a wealth tax & use it to improve people’s lives now

submitted 23 days ago • 163 comments

NEW: WIRED has identified six young men, all between the ages of 19-24, who have negligible experience but are now playing critical roles in Elon Musk's takeover of the U.S. government. From @telliotter.bsky.social @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @timmarchman.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 25 days ago • 72 comments

Musk operatives, almost certainly private company employees, lock government workers out of key computer systems. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 27 days ago • 35 comments

Wow! 👇🏻🙄🤷 www.rawstory.com/red-flags-do...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

What do you call a government that starts to purge the bureaucracy, announces concentration camps, targets a minority for prosecution, frees violent extremists and defies the constitution, all in its first two weeks?

submitted 29 days ago • 37 comments

At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater need for citizen journalism. Support our crowdfunder here - or just read and share our articles!

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

What a powerful statement. Will anything happen now?

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

submitted 37 days ago • 2213 comments

You’re going to hear from people that Elon Musk did the Roman salute here and that’s true, he’s done it before. But that’s NOT exculpatory. The Roman salute was adopted by Mussolini and Italian fascists. It was then adopted by Hitler and the Nazis.

submitted 38 days ago • 133 comments

Donald Tusk, "I am aware this is a dream of mine" "That instead of Brexit, we will have a Breturn" "Perhaps I am labouring under an illusion. I'd rather be an optimist and harbour these dreams in m heart. Sometimes they come true in politics"

submitted 41 days ago • 23 comments

In this week's addition of @privateeyenews.bsky.social 'you can't just call everyone you disagree with a facist'

submitted 48 days ago • 206 comments

“Loved ones mourn Kelyan Bokassa, the 14-year-old boy killed on a London bus. And we all have some thinking to do” Important opinion piece by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

This is not what he said and they know it. Something very disturbing has happened to much of the British press and a fair amount of conservative politics. The extremist Musk tail wagging the formerly mainstream dog.

submitted 52 days ago • 180 comments

A reminder that if your company believes work can only be done in an office, only work in the office - don't take your laptop home with you, don't work outside of hours. Also join a union.

submitted 51 days ago • 4 comments

Please repost if you want Musk to get his fascist pro-Russian nose out of British politics.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

People have had enough of Elon Musk interfering with our country’s democracy when he clearly knows nothing about Britain. It’s time to summon the US ambassador to ask why an incoming US official is suggesting the UK government should be overthrown.

submitted 53 days ago • 51 comments

How hard would it have been for BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg to bring up this front page when Nigel Farage complained during his interview with her today that economically “we are getting poorer”

submitted 54 days ago • 113 comments