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The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

From News Thump : apparently they have all started lurching to the far right 😂

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

Euronews: Climate change threatens to cover this ancient African city with sand www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

POLITICO Europe: Zelenskyy offers to resign in exchange for peace, NATO www.politico.eu/article/volo...

POLITICO Europe: Merz’s conservatives win German election, according to exit poll www.politico.eu/article/germ...

A record low of 17 percent of Germans said they are satisfied with Olaf Scholz’s government, according to a survey for public broadcaster ARD. That’s a drop of 26 percentage points compared with 2021. Follow more via our live blog 👉 www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Germany’s centre-right wins elections

🚨 BREAKING: Friedrich Merz’s conservative alliance has won Germany’s national parliamentary election, according to exit polls, as the far-right recorded its highest ever showing.

inews: The truth hurts, Nigel, but Donald Trump is no friend of yours inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

Well done Anti-vaxxers - you arseprats. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump gets middling grades on Americans' top issues, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds reut.rs/3Qu6uqq

We don’t just need to defeat Trump, we need to defeat Trumpism and everything he has corrupted. @heathmayo.bsky.social discusses this and more on the LP Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Gi...

"Farage is a highly skilled populist. A well-established technique to set one group against another is to blame an ‘elite.’ It’s a term endlessly elastic, as far as Mr Farage is concerned." #Holyrood #Democracy #Scotland

✊ Kicking the Trump habit will take determined resistance When people get intoxicated by lies, boasts and wild ideas it can only end badly – the earlier their dealer gets dumped the less the pain By Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social

🤩 TOMORROW 🤩 💚 Caroline Lucas in conversation 💚 🌱 She will be chatting to us about her experience in the Green Party, being at the forefront of climate change politics & also signing copies of her book ‘Another England’ ✍️ Details👇

Rally for Ukraine in Oxford today. ✊🏼

UK plan would subject EU students to international tuition fees, an NHS surcharge & benefits bar ☹️ A European diplomatic source said the mooted UK compromise was a “helpful starting point for negotiations but, of course, not the result we’d like to see in the end”. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

If “What’s Good for Growth Is Good for Britain”, then “the government needs to be bold in the upcoming renegotiation” of Britain’s relationship with the EU, argues Mike Clancy (@mikeclancy1), the General Secretary of Prospect trade union: www.progressivebritain.org/whats-good-f...

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"A Canada-Scotland partnership would not be about nostalgia – it would be about redefining the Commonwealth as a modern force in world affairs." #Canada🇨🇦 #Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

DeSmog : Who is Importing Donald Trump’s Anti-Climate Agenda to Germany? www.desmog.com/2025/02/21/w...

Stephen Fry, "I'm deeply worried about the darkening shadow that's going over the world, the shadow of fascism" Laura Kuenssberg, "You would use that word?" Stephen Fry, "Absolutely. It's a cult of power. And power only speaks to power"

Thousands of people marched in DC in solidarity with Ukraine and against impunity by oligarchs like Trump and Putin. They gathered outside the Russian embassy. #3E #EndOligarchy #EndImpunity #USprotests #DCprotests #StandWithUkraine

DeSmog : LEAKED: Oil Execs and Trump Allies Attend Jordan Peterson’s ARC Conference www.desmog.com/2025/02/16/l...

Ars Technica: In war against DEI in science, researchers see collateral damage arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Forbes: Elon Musk Boosts Germany’s Far-Right AfD Party Again Ahead Of Sunday’s Election www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

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I’m not surprised but also you should know better than to mess with Dolly.

We want our star back! #rejoinEU #FBPE 🇪🇺

Hiding in plain sight Mussayev’s claims are not first time a former senior KGB intelligence officer has publicly claimed they were aware of Donald Trump’s recruitment to the KGB, but it is the first time that Trump’s alleged Russian codename, ‘Krasnov’, has been identified @bylinetimes.bsky.social

The Independent: Musk’s team is laying off staff at the agency that investigated Tesla crashes www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Nigel Farage & Liz Truss happy at an event too fascistic even for the political heir to the Le Pens… www.bbc.com/news/article...

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

Fantastic news. More countries should do the same.

The United States appears to be in violation of the Budapest Memorandum which disarmed Ukraine of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. The agreement signed by the US in 1994 specifically prohibits economic coercion against Ukraine.

There it is! 🎯

"Hundreds, if not thousands of people" have gathered in London to voice their support for Ukraine. #3E #EndOligarchy #EndImpunity #UKprotests #StandWithUkraine

Person who performed Nazi salutes in front of right-wing supporters supports German extremists led by granddaughter of Hitler's finance minister, granddaughter of a prominent Nazi judge and person who called the Holocaust memorial in Berlin a monument of shame and was fined for using a Nazi slogan.

youtu.be/zlYgZYeDIQI?...

Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

bylinetimes.com/2025/02/22/k...

TIME: Far-Right AfD Rises in Germany, Boosted by Trump Backing time.com/7260499/alic...

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"America’s growing darkness: a timely warning to the UK Living amidst chaos in the US, I fear a creeping regime reminiscent of 1930s Germany. Project 2025 echoes a history threatening democracy"