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On #SocialistSunday I think about what it means to be a socialist. It means equality, peace, taxes paying for essential services, but more than anything else it means workings and achieving collectively. Keep talking about the NHS, fighting racism, Palestine, and to bring down the cost of living

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@elemjay.bsky.social My latest blog: The Birth Of A Legend, Decline Of An Empire thephilosophicalmuse.blog/2025/02/20/t...

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"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals." - Albert Einstein Happy #SocialistSunday. Like, share, follow and return ✊🏻

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Major escalatory milestone in the West Bank: Israel deploys tanks for the first time in over 20 years. A unit of Israeli tanks has been centered in Jenin camp, the occupied West Bank.

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#SocialistSunday

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Happening now: Israeli tanks have entered the northern West Bank after 40,000 Palestinians were expelled from three refugee camps in the Jenin & Tulkarm areas. There's a real and present danger that these camps will be erased. This genocide must be stopped. By us all. Now!

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Spotted in the Yes Angus hub 😄👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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REMEMBER: Next Friday, February 28. NOT 1 PENNY SPENT. We can do this. I'm IN, are you? 👋💙

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Mick Lynch wants a progressive wealth tax with the richest paying the same as everyone else on PAYE, 47%. That would bring in hundred of billions, it is time for the richest to pay what everyone else has been paying their whole lives.

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And who they didn't like

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The UK needs to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union. Always talking about a lack of money, it will give £42bn in tax, and a lack of growth it will give £250bn a year of that. It is stupidity not to do it.

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Something like this is always worth a few seconds of people’s time to give it a share and hopefully it’s seen by those in need of a warm meal. Remember it’s really hard times for most now and this can really brighten someone’s day up 🙏💚

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The gap in life expectancy between Britain's poorest and richest areas is now 26 years. That's class politics.

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This is how the next global catastrophe will probably start…👇 Are you paying ATTENTION, yet?!

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I some times meet people who know of my interest in UBI (Universal Basic Income) & ask for a quick take on it. I now usually direct them to www.scottsantens.com, because this site does a great job of covering all the bases. You might be surprised at how much sense it makes.

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🧵 When I said my government would leave no stone unturned to find the solutions to secure Grangemouth’s future, I meant it. I’ve just set out some measures to Parliament seeking to protect workers and secure Grangemouth’s future. Here’s a thread 👇 1/8

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I think Canada and Greenland are mere distractions. Trump is trying to make the UK the 51st state. What the hell is the FBI doing getting involved in the Southport killer case?

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Roses are red, Violets are blue, If Palestine is free, We all will be too.

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I know how annoying people find language policing but please do think if you mean it before using slurs around learning disability for those very clever fools who are steering our world into great danger.

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Why are some people too dumb to understand that billionaires buy farms because they never have to pay tax, and that if you don't tax it, farmland will keep increasing in price and only be owned by billionaires. It's not difficult.

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Privatisation just adds a profit tax to public services.

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I have to say that video of the chap being eaten by a whale has to be the best video of the week. Imagine him in the pub next week: - so how did your holiday go? - I got swallowed whole by a whale - pull the other one - no, really, here’s a vid my dad took - and of the whale spitting me out again!

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Labour since 1994. #RedTories #ScottishIndependenceASAP

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This was apparently censored in the US — wonder where his son got all this info .. Via Anonymous on X :

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We've written legal letters to the MoD and Suffolk County Council this week, demanding answers over the deployment of US #nuclear weapons to Britain. #EndNukeSecrecy You can read more about our challenge here: cnduk.org/cnd-legal-le...

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If this were Just Stop Oil, there'd have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much. The real #TwoTierPolicing www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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All this money that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are saving from 'fraud'. Who are they going to spend it on?

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The ordinarily cautious and conservative ABA is blowing the whistle: The break-the-glass moment has arrived. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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If the farmers get the same punishment as Just Stop Oil, that's about 6000 years for them. Of course there will be nothing.

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50 Shades of Grey is only "romantic" because he's a bilionaire. If he lived in a trailer park it would be an episode of Criminal Minds.

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Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out. Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation. Say equity, which a just society should pursue. Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

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Think about it

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Zarah Sultana's got 314 Reposts for this. Do you think that's enough? Many more than that are adding the #SocialistSunday hashtag today. If you haven't reposted this yet, please do it now. Repost all Zarah's posts on @bsky.app. She's at least as good as Jeremy Corbyn. Repost until your fingers bleed

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Happy #SocialistSunday! To connect with fellow socialists and lefties, reply to this post, re-post & follow each other from replies. Let’s help each other fight for our causes ❤️ I follow back. #palestine #socialism #socialist #revleft #libsoc #ancom #ecosocialist #NHS

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