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Nationwide Building Society to hike CEO pay package by 43% to £7m. Interest on savings down. Workers won't get 43% pay rise No sector immune to fat-cattery. Govt says wage rises are inflationary but silence on exec pay, dividends, share buybacks.

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#booksky

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Young carer who unwittingly breached allowance rules forced to repay £2,145. Innocents suffer with cliff-edge benefits, complex rules and absence of Universal Basic Income. 144,000 UK carers repaying £250m. Soon Govt taking powers to remove money from claimants without court order.

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Oh no, being mega-rich is tough? Can’t trust anyone? Desperate people keep trying to scam you? Heartbreaking. Good news: #WealthTax is like detox, flushing out hoarded billions to reduce desperation. And #Limitarianism? Rehab for wealth addicts—so they don’t fall right back into #hoarding. Win-win.

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(Re-posting timed auto-deleted pinned post) The concerted attack on "DEI" = attempt to disappear the CONCEPT of racism Ergo: No person can be racist Ergo: No action/behavior can be racist Ergo: Actual racism is amplified with no accountability Ergo: White supremacist oligarchy Ominously, QED

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That army parade was straight outta Spinal Tap.

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Best image of the day:

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One minute you’re sound asleep, the next minute, your neighbour 3 miles away decided to breathe the wrong way, and suddenly you’re up, ready to fight. Come at me bro 🐾 #dogs #dogsofbluesky #masterbruno

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The main perpetrators of the "Labour antisemitism crisis" scam have been rewarded with peerages, gongs, lucrative jobs and endless media slots This continues even now that it has been thoroughly discredited #ItWasAScam

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""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..." www.wnep.com/article/news...

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If they can do that to a United States senator... think about how little they care about what they do to us.

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History will not be kind to Speaker Johnson. Nor should it be.

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Ever wonder what you would have done in Nazi Germany? You’re doing it right now.

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June 14 we have a simple message: No thrones. No crowns. No kings.

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The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20

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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch calls for end to windfall tax on oil/gas companies. They have been making record profits, fuelling inflation & poverty. Tory silence on tackling poverty, no remorse for two child benefit cap, austerity, privatisations, destroying the NHS and public services.

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In 1872 John Atkinson Grimshaw was commissioned by the House of Commons to paint three views of the Roundhay Estate (of which this is one) in consideration of the Leeds Corporation Improvement Bill that proposed to turn this former private estate into a public park.

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Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

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SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”

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Mark this for the history books: “We’re talking about the president exercising his authority, and the president is of course limited to his authority. That’s the difference between a constitutional government and King George,” said Judge Charles Breyer.

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The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

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Trump and the US National Park Service are trying to erase the transgender community from the history of the Stonewall Uprising. This cannot stand. Join me in fighting back by signing the petition below to voice your support for all members of the LGBTQ+ community and their contributions to history.

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Truth

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‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Millionaire-Owned Media Told You About Never Actually Happened. 9,500 millionaires reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06m millionaires. Fake stories create panics, want people/govts to be slaves of the rich. Tax the rich.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders is back and crazy as ever. Arkansas is: - #3 in violent crime - #5 in homicide - #2 in rape - #3 in aggravated assault Worse than California in every one. In fact you're TWICE as likely to be raped or murdered in Arkansas. #California #Arkansas #GavinNewsom #GOP #DNC #LA

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Rough sleeping to be decriminalised in England and Wales. 1824 law to be repealed. About time. Must attend to causes of homelessness - poverty, power of landlords, low benefits. Must provide public shelters for those on hard times, reintegrate people on hard times.

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