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These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business. Costco Meijer Kroger Giant Grocery Ben & Jerry’s Ulta, Macy’s Old Navy Nordstrom’s TJ Maxx GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…) Dollar Tree Walgreens Wegmans

Thank the lord for Private Eye

Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏

So this is the Banks-Farage inauguration party…brought to you also by Steve Bannon & businessman Guo Wengui & the original bad boys of Brexit, Gunter Strategies

20mph speed limits in London has cut fatal & serious collisions by 25%. 🚲👨‍🦽‍➡️🚶❤️ And now car insurance companies are saying that it’s helping reduce the cost premiums because of fewer claims. 💷💷💷

and so the looting begins

We should be very cautious about taking seriously scaremongering data on "an exodus of millionaires" from wealth advisors, i.e. people who will profit significantly from heightened expectations of an exodus of millionaires www.thetimes.com/article/c63f...

German defence ministry is suspending its Twitter accounts. www.bmvg.de/de/presse/bm...

I know a lot of people are upset with him for a number of understandable reasons, but the simple fact is that history is—broadly speaking—going to remember him kindly. There is just no getting around that.

For me it was Jenrick’s “medieval culture”, and Badenoch’s defence of him, which did it, but basically I’m afraid to say this is right

Bezos: 🧎 Musk:🧎 Zuckerberg:🧎 Pathetic.

Imagine watching disaster movies like The Day After Tomorrow or 2012 and thinking that the apocalyptic weather scenes were the “unrealistic” part. Turns out those scenes were almost bang on. The unrealistic part was the humans working together to overcome the problem & save the world. Sigh.

Starmer: "I think only a few months ago it would have been unthinkable for the things that have been said about Jess Philips without all political parties and the leader of the opposition to call it out in terms...to condemn it..."

The Conservatives spent only a quarter of the money they allocated to levelling up. They were dedicated to the rhetoric, but not the reality.

Loomer Vs musk on H1B1 visas.

"Affordable housing starts dropped 88 per cent in the year to March, from 26,386 to 3,156, according to figures released last month — the lowest since records started in 2015." on.ft.com/3ZWKzN0

“The Guardian view on the House of Lords: ministers risk a hollow reform with a partisan approach. The House of Lords will rest more firmly than ever before on prime ministerial patronage. This is shameful, objectionable and sleazy” - Well said @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This. This. This. And that message carries across a huge range of circumstances.

(Alt)Yellowstone National Park leading the resistance?

Quite impressed by how badly Trump has fucked it before he even got to power.

Despite his election win Trump cannot and does not single-handedly control everything that happens in Washington. And a lot of Republicans really, really hate Spaceboy. Unsurprising Pelosi calls Trump "Musk's puppet president" but seems the sentiment is rife. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Now this is a petition !!

This should concern everyone. The Prime Minister urgently needs to close any loophole’s that might allow foreign billionaires like Elon Musk to bankroll British political parties

What a surprise… As water companies are set to hike our bills by 21% Annunziata Rees-Mogg comes out to bat for… Their shareholders.

Oh.

I’m old enough to remember Boris Johnson telling businesses Brexit paperwork could go in a bin. Now they need a warehouse to store it in

“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs, whatever.”

You get a lot of people making, fairly spurious, claims about how immigration is a "burden" on infrastructure, new homes etc. What those arguments always overlook, among other things, is that without migrants nobody has any infrastructure, new homes etc. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

🔴Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass? Media outlets condemn climate campaigners as “middle class” protesters causing “chaos” while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners @josiah.writes.news reports

Stodgy dullwit, David Frost, tells business owners that their struggles with the latest Brexit-red-tape-shitshow are the EU’s fault (rather than the woeful mess he cooked up with Johnson to get him into power). He just lies to their faces, saying this is why we left. New level of loathing unlocked.

Homeboy stopped the wrong lady (H/T @agirlhasnopres.bsky.social )

Britain's election laws are completely unfit for purpose. Not only could Reform's donors give unlimited amounts of money, there is pretty much no accounting for how it is spend outside of a general election This needs to change. Now. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...

*Really* enjoyed talking dark money and dirty politics to @sturdyalex.bsky.social and @pimlicat.bsky.social on @quietriotpod.bsky.social podcast! Check out the episode below!

An amazing 7882 people have now filled in Democracy for Sale's survey about money in politics. Can we make it 8,000?? democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard Thanks!

I used to represent unhoused persons as an attorney and I concur with this 100%

#PMQs feels as if Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer are each doing their best to boost Reform’s polling numbers. Neither party can out-Reform Reform. When they so scorched earth on each other over high immigration numbers there’s only one winner, and it’s Nigel Farage.

Keir Starmer's Government has just appointed Baroness Margaret Hodge as its new "Anti Corruption Champion". Hodge last week backed calls for Starmer to close the loophole allowing foreign billionaires like Elon Musk to bankroll British politicians bylinetimes.com/2024/12/06/k...