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Michael Gove used to ban teachers from their profession for life for drug use. He got caught taking cocaine and a few years later he's getting a peerage? It's as clear as day that drug laws are just there to punish the working class.

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1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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List of UK politicians/political figures who have declared support for Trump: • Boris Johnson • Liz Truss • Suella Braverman • Andrea Jenkyns • Jacob Rees-Mogg • Nigel Farage • Lord Frost • John Hayes • Robert Jenrick • Sammy Wilson • Ian Paisley • Jake Berry • Kwasi Kwarteng • Tim Montgomerie

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Genuinely interested as to whether this war crime is getting any coverage in the US or whether it is now not possible to call out this outrage? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Russia 0% Don’t really have to critique the Mango Mussolini at this point. Norfolk Island subject to tariffs due to a spelling error UK calculation inconveniently shows minus 9% so over ridden with 10% Massive stock market falls Anyone in the US got buyers remorse yet?????

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A short list of American companies that transfer price profit out of the UK in order to benefit via lower taxed jurisdictions. A start list for tariffs and taxation, as it were feel free to add; Alphabet Apple Amazon Meta Microsoft Oracle Tesla Coke Pepsi McDonald’s KFC

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250,000 more people, including 50,000 more children, will be pushed into relative poverty by benefit cuts, DWP says Rather than a few millionaires asked to pay a bit more. Why? So disappointed that the Labour government is continuing the Tory schtick of blaming the weakest and the poorest

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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

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Beautiful summary from Private Eye in the UK.

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Todays musing; What is the Labour Party for if it removes payments from the disabled and doesn’t tax the rich?

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Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

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As we wake up to the news of another 200 Palestinians (minimum) killed by Israeli air strikes in a clear end to the ceasefire… Take note of this statement via The Guardian:

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If Trump is so excellent at negotiating peace, how come we hear absolutely nothing about him removing war funding from Netanyahu? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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If only….. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Seniors came to JD Vance's event to demand the Trump Administration stop cutting Social Security. JD's response: "Don't you all have jobs?"

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Beginning to regret deleting my Twitter account. Would have liked to tweet this Though I assume that one of his delightful cronies will be watching Bluesky and can pass this on. If it talks like a fascist and seig heils like a fascist it’s probably a fascist www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...

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SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1927...

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Is it me or doesn’t that make him the ideal spiritual advisor to the bad orange man. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Am proud to be a “radical left lunatic”

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This is not normal. He is head of state. Canada is a sovereign nation.

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“What anyone would do” - what an absolute bellend www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The counterpoint to “drill baby drill” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Word of the day is ‘whiffling’ (17th century): fickle, inconstant, and making it up as you go along.

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Was wondering if the reason the MAGA people don’t like vaccines is that they intrinsically contradict their worldview. They are a scientific reality of a good that only works when socialised. You cannot cut the cost of a vaccine programme and look after yourself.. www.lemonde.fr/en/health/ar...

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These just get better and better

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Blood on your hands you odious orange moron www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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At what point does this bullshit get called out? 0.2% of Fentanyl traffics via Canada. The trade deficit isn’t $200bn it’s about $70bn on goods (with most of that being Heavy Crude oil). Services trade in the US’s favour Stop lying you Orange buffoon. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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At some point I wonder if one of the Senior Democrats is actually going to state that Trump is as crazy as a box of frogs and that anything he says needs to be viewed from a “how will he make money out of this” viewpoint?

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How will he survive? Best start looking at own brand baked beans and shoping at Lidl www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Absolutely shameful, utterly unforgivable www.reuters.com/world/us-cut...

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“We Finns know Russia. Russia shares a land border with 14 countries. Only one of them has constantly remained an independent democracy through the Second World War and the Cold War, and that's Finland” Elina Valtonen Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland

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Keir Starmer, how much more obvious does it need to get? These people are not our allies, and should not be trusted. We urgently need to disentangle our military and security systems from the US. www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

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The new deputy director of the FBI is Dan Bongino, a pro-Trump podcaster, former police officer and Secret Service agent who has accused the FBI of staging the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Going to be some fascinating team meetings……..

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Middle East crisis live: Israel accused of using ‘food as weapon of war’ in aid blockade on Gaza

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There was only one alpha-male in that Oval Office… And he wasn’t wearing a suit. …nor was he wearing eyeliner or fake tan.

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Yup.

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They are arguing, endlessly, that illegally inciting acts of terror online is ‘free speech’ while silencing dissent, targeting journalists & telling an invaded ally what he is & is not allowed to say during a live television broadcast are all fine.

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So, I is it safe to assume that this is one rapist, sex trafficking immigrant that you won’t be deporting Mr Trump? www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

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I take it all back - they are not trying to enact ‘The Handmaids Tale’ they are aping ‘Mein Kampf’ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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It will probably come as no surprise to anyone to learn that DOGE has deleted the top five highest savings claims on its “wall of receipts” leaderboard after various news outlets pointed out multiple errors in its calculations newrepublic.com/post/191973/...

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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

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It is more than time for this to happen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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