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Just to spell this out: you, too, are not breaking the law. Versions of this could happen to any of us.

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🚨BREAKING: New 'Emergency Board’ Puts Pressure on Thames Water and Government Amid Court Chaos @josiah.writes.news reports on how activists are tapping into public anger over ‘fundamentally broken’ water industry bylinetimes.com/2025/03/11/n...

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

You know what, Canada? Turn off the electricity, all of it. And leave it off until that orange fucker is impeached. #YesWeCanada 🇨🇦

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Nearly there with our @bylinetimes.bsky.social front page. MOB RULE: Has Trump Overplayed His Hand? Subscribe by midnight tonight to get it delivered to your inbox and door 👉subscribe.bylinetimes.com

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

This is why there is no economic or moral justification for the existence of billionaires. Why would anyone need or get to accummulate that much money? For what purpose? Except to take it out of circulation leading to the immiseration of millions of people.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

This is based on the belief that private companies can do better than government. But many of them are subsidized by taxpayers, many of them go bankrupt, many of them make harmful decisions, many of them only care about their shareholders and not the commonwealth.

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Andrew Neil has finally acknowledged that Trump is a threat to democracy. But the warning signs were there from the start. Why did it take so long for parts of the media to admit what was clear all the time? a letter to the editor asks.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

On the week that Trump said that Russia's increased bombing of Ukraine are 'what anyone would do,' John Heywood takes a look at what constitutes genocide, and how this is represented in the Russia-Ukraine war.

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Gen Z don’t want dictators. They want functioning democracy. A recent poll was widely misinterpreted, fuelling unnecessary generational panic. Our research tells a very different story | Prof Bobby Duffy & Dr Paolo Morini @eastangliabylines.co.uk

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

On the 5th anniversary of covid, here's a throwback to #BBCQT "I work for the NHS as a cleaner. My mum works as an ICU nurse, she's my inspiration" "And all throughout covid she was holding up ipads while people died in front of her and her colleagues, and they deal with that trauma every day"

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If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

submitted 38 days ago • 129 comments

Special weekend shoutout to six top class political (US & UK) accounts: @darlingm777.bsky.social @maxbrockbank.com @neverevertory.bsky.social @patrickhanrahan.bsky.social @sydesjokes.bsky.social @warrenoates1.bsky.social I want all my 81K+ friends to follow Follow & repost! Share far & wide!

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Almost one in five people receiving Universal Credit and disability benefits used a food bank in the last month Hunger and hardship are already at record levels. Welfare and disability benefit cuts risk pushing even more people to the doors of food banks. @trusselluk.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

As long ago as 2016 Andrew Neil was earning well over half a million a year as a political commentator. And he's just admitted the most basic "orange man bad" commentator on twitter has a better read on the US President....

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

"In 2025 in Afghanistan, a cat may look at a king, but a woman may not.” A powerful line from Sarah Walker's report on the silent vigils calling attention to brutal restrictions faced by Afghan women. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

There’s nothing wrong with Billionaires having billions. There is something inherently wrong with billionaires cutting your benefits, and help to the poor through USAID, and running around with a chainsaw giggling. You can have power or billions. But we refuse to be an oligarchy

submitted 9 days ago • 1215 comments

“Israel wants to expel all of us … but that’s impossible. None of us will leave … dying here would be better.” Israel denies carrying out the 1948 Nakba of Palestinians, even as it calls for carrying out a second Nakba today ⤵️

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

the wheels are falling off folks, buckle up.

submitted 11 days ago • 43 comments

Key point on the German elections today: how many parties beat the 5% threshold. That will decide what kind of coalition is possible given no one will work with the AFD.

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

“No Australian should have to check their bank balance to see if they can afford to see a doctor. That is not who we are, that is not the future we want." This could be an election winning statement! #auspol #NotDutton #NotLNP www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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"It is cruel & disrespectful to hundreds of thousands of veterans who are wearing their second uniform in the civil service to be forced to justify their job duties to this out-of-touch, privileged, unelected billionaire” news.sky.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments

Boris Johnson avoided promoting a compromise peace in Ukraine after Russia invaded three years ago. Now, Labour continues to help prolong the conflict to secure British interests. 👇 www.declassifieduk.org/lets-just-fi...

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

War, what is it good for? Well, British aid is being used to open up Ukraine’s wrecked economy to foreign investors and enhance trade with the UK. 👇 www.declassifieduk.org/uk-sees-priv...

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

The UK's anti-protest laws pre-legitimise far right authoritarianism. Labour must repeal them now. My column today. www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

submitted 17 days ago • 82 comments

Reform have declared war on net zero… Here’s how out of step they are with the public...

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

🔴‘Don’t Buy a Swasticar’: Tesla Hit by UK Boycott Campaign Over Elon Musk’s Far-Right Support Electric vehicle producer Tesla has been targeted by activists due to its far-right owner’s interference in British politics bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

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I’ve long believed that the American media would be more clear-eyed about the return and actions of wanna-be dictator Donald Trump and the coup by Musk if it was happening overseas in a foreign country. Here's the story the US should be writing this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

Despite facing declining poll numbers and growing constituent unrest, Trump is now publicly urging Elon Musk to intensify his efforts.

submitted 17 days ago • 581 comments

Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/eco...

submitted 20 days ago • 95 comments

Chicago! #TeslaTakedown

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

This is why @404media.co deserves all the flowers they've been getting. They report on dirt, things actually happen

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Ziff Davis, owner of sites including IGN and CNET, quietly removed DEI language from its website. 🔗 www.404media.co/ziff-davis-d...

submitted 19 days ago • 21 comments

❗️Disgruntled staff at the Guardian have compiled an “exhaustive spreadsheet” of the paper “amplifying unchallenged Israeli propaganda…or treating clearly false statements by Israeli spokespeople as credible”. www.declassifieduk.org/battle-for-the-truth-pro-israel-bias-inside-uk-newsrooms-revealed/

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

Watch our co-director Laura Pidcock on Keir Starmer's ban on Gaza war victims coming to the UK youtube.com/watch?v=-fXB...

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Government's failure to take control of Thames Water means almost £1billion of customers' money will be squandered - How is this good for anyone but financial parasites and predators? www.windrushwasp.org/single-post/...

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

Pittsburgh! #TeslaTakedown 💪

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Musk Vance Trump free speech absolutism - and the terrifying defence of Putin Full video: youtu.be/V4bZ6YzyzmQ?... @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social @bylinetv.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Georgia protests still ongoing, new chant: “Hellfire to the oligarchy !” (📷@protest_24) #3E #EndOligarchy #GeorgiaProtests

submitted 20 days ago • 49 comments

Massive shoutout to @neverevertory.bsky.social!! (US & UK posts) Please make sure you are following them & repost! Share far and wide!!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

PLEASE: for the love of everything holy... support independent journalism. As an independent journalist, I support BYLINE TIMES. They are fearless, and hold feet to the flames.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Strikes by federal govt workers in the US are illegal. But in 1970, over 200,000 postal workers across the country defied the government, the National Guard, the U.S. Army and even their own union and walked out and won. Learn more in our latest podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podca...

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

ICYMI: I talked to federal employees across eight agencies about the internal chaos they're experiencing because of Trump/Musk and how they feel going forward in their jobs. A clear theme? They are scared -- and also pissed and digging in for a fight. "Fuck that." www.huffpost.com/entry/federa...

submitted 35 days ago • 32 comments

Polls tell us what's happening now so they are useful (Thatcher was very unpopular, the main parties are currently struggling). They don't tell you who will win an election in four years time.

submitted 36 days ago • 15 comments