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kendoran.bsky.social
Formerly Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but moved on and now working for the U.N. at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning
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Truth, right here…👇

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

A play in two acts.

One cheer - many more if Mone gets nicked.

Reddit is flooded with small businesses owners getting crushed by tariffs — devastated by the thought of raising prices, firing workers, or closing up shop entirely.

Trump’s own voters are turning on him.

Fantastic graphic from the WSJ. Trump just increased the price of a iPhone by nearly 60 percent. Obviously completely unsustainable so won’t be sustained. An American Liz Truss moment

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

I believe him. 🤔☮️💙🌊🐕‍🦺

Stock market’s crashing, retirement savings are disappearing… and he’s out golfing.

Breaking: Whirlpool announces they are laying off 651 American workers in Iowa, citing the economic conditions under Trump.

This is what happens when people speak up.

We talk about this on-air a lot. What company is going to spend the $$ to bring production home — knowing that trade policy and tariffs could *reverse* just as the plant is ready to open? @firstadopter.bsky.social @conorsen.bsky.social

Tory MP Esther McVey, caught on a hot mic, advocating a full pact with Reform UK, starting with Runcorn by-election. Via Telegraph.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

What's absolutely wild about this is the way they've manufactured a global financial crisis for no reason at all. This isn't 2007-08, where it was a bubble bursting. This is taking a relatively thriving economy and deliberately destroying it in the first three months of your presidency.

Paul Nowak General Secretary @tuc.org.uk 👏

Tough language from JPMorgan tonight: “.. we view the full implementation of these policies as a substantial macro economic shock not currently incorporated in our forecasts. .. these policies, if sustained, would likely push the US and global economy into recession this year.”

Matt Hancock used his personal email account to help a 'VIP' supplier win a £25 million PPE Covid contract The company, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of completely unusable PPE, later went bust, owing taxpayers millions bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...

I laugh at his pain because I have empathy for other people.

We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham