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Are you done with voting for the "lesser evil" and never really feeling heard? Same... 😤 We've had enough. That's why we're demanding a proportional system where we can vote with our hearts - and not through gritted teeth.

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👋 Bye coal, hello wind! 🌲 Finland just closed another coal plant and is now nearly coal-free — four years ahead of schedule! How? Wind power stepped up. Since 2020, it’s more than doubled and now supplies 25% of Finland’s electricity. More in this piece by @rosiecofrost.bsky.social 👇

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Our biggest problem as a society is we've decided wealth is a proxy for intelligence -- when in reality, an overabundance of money causes your brain to cease functioning

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For just twice this amount, we could restore the 2021 child tax credit and drop child poverty by 40%. But instead, it's immigrant internment camps time.

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The S&P 500 has now lost 15% of its value under Trump, the most it has lost since the dot.com bubble burst under the last Republican genius-president George W Bush

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If Trump can claim a "national emergency" to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him? No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens. Fascism is here.

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In 1930, 6 months after the Smoot-Hawley tariffs were enacted by President Hoover, world trade decreased by SIXTY PERCENT (60%). Because of policies like the Smoot-Hawley tariffs contributing to the Great Depression in the 1930's, Hoover is considered one of our WORST president's. Sound familiar?

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“For too long this city has been let down,” Starmer said in 2022. “So, when Labour wins the next election, one of my first acts as prime minister will be to put the Hillsborough law on the statute book" That must be the full set of broken pledges now Despicable www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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When we rebuild, we must build universal basic income as the strong foundation under everything we build on top of it. Our original sin is privatization without compensation. We created poverty as we know it. We have to end it to end the fear of it, and stop relying on that fear to drive employment.

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We're screwed without universal basic income.

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Degrowth would lift the poorest out of poverty & redistribute billionaire wealth. Trump’s global crash will hit the poorest hardest & open up opportunities for billionaires to accumulate even more wealth. Trump isn’t a secret degrowth champion, he’s a psychopathic capitalist.

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We're just motoring in second gear here #NUFC

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Trump is an accelerationist. Rocketing the US towards anarcho-capitalism.

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This is an absolutely marvellous and inspiring book that everyone should read All scientists who have yet to stick their heads above the parapet should read it and act accordingly There are no grant-awarding bodies on a dead planet

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No change to the idiotic, poor-targetting, fiscal rules that Reeves and Starmer insist upon The problem with keeping right on 'til the end of the road is that you eventually fall off a cliff www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Markets Insight: Arguably the most unsettling aspect of Monday’s sell-off in Asia, analysts say, was the extent to which it was rational, rather than panic-stricken. www.ft.com/content/fffa...

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$6 Trillion in losses States side alone. Putin is laughing so hard he's giving himself a hernia #TrumpTariffs #HandsOff "Self-induced nuclear Winter" - CBS NY

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This is a good one: Only 2 more days stock market crash and Greenland is buying the U.S.

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One of the many artists interviewed in the NEW WomensArt book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' is LaToya M. Hobbs, US artist known for her large-scale portraits of Black women #WomensArt

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Reject grind culture. #RestIsResistance

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Expel the Israeli Ambassador.

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Caroline Lucas, "Why doesn't Reeves also change her self imposed fiscal rules that are causing so much damage" "Why doesn't she look at a wealth tax?" "The idea that we balance the books on the backs of the poor which is exactly what Rachel Reeves is doing"

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Good news. The last coal power plant in Finland has closed ahead of schedule! Coal has been replaced with wind power: wind capacity has more than doubled in Finland since 2020 & now accounts for 25% of the country’s electricity. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi... #greenenergy #climatechange

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BREAKING: The protest against Trump in Washington, D.C. has surged to over 100,000 attendees.

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"If the flooding in outback Australia were a country, it would be the world’s 31st largest" Truly mind-boggling, but just a glimpse of what will become commonplace in the decades to come as our once stable climate falls apart www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

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Sign: IN THESE DIFFICULT TIMES SOME CUTS MAY BE NECESSARY

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Yes, prices will skyrocket. Yes, business will go bankrupt. Yes, stocks will crash. Yes, unemployment will rise. But if we hold on, the tariffs will be worth it. If fully implemented we can finally achieve the true American dream: rich people not having to pay ANY taxes.

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Holy smokes! #HandsOff

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From tax loopholes to defunding the IRS: how America’s tax system is rigged in favor of the rich (and what we can do about it). https://youtu.be/wkiO0_uSJAk?si=nSy4Eh2aDSdfRkkc

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Dictators of all stripes hate solidarity. They’d prefer that we cower alone. They want us to feel powerless. This is why I encourage you to participate in the peaceful demonstrations planned for today across America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/april-5-hands-off-our-healthcare

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They’re eating the Dow, the people that came in, they’re eating the Nasdaq They’re eating the wealth of the people that live there.

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Globalisation was key to massively accelerating free market capitalism's destruction of the environment and exploding carbon emissions I look forward to its demise and the falling emissions that will hopefully result www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Great thread as always from JBM.

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Inevitable

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This is good but it's also why all unions should be pushing for universal basic income. If everyone had an unconditional $1500/mo floor under them, all unions would be more able to organize strikes, those strikes would not have duration constraints, and even general strikes would become possible.

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just one more recession bro i swear i can stop whenever trust me just let me have one more recession

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That point about Chinese sanctions is a huge one. This is a turning point in global politics as well as global trade and economics. And Trump has triggered that shift. #Newsnight

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