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(VERY) Part time musician/composer. Left wing but not utopian, democratic (not the party, the ideal) and that in itself has left wing implications.
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He nails it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1137 comments

Elon Musk's pinned tweet right now.

submitted 6 hours ago • 231 comments

A glimpse of the abuse I face for challenging racism, xenophobia, and bigotry. This won’t silence me — I will always speak truth to power.

submitted 6 hours ago • 52 comments

Helpful explanations here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 21 hours ago • 67 comments

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submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Keir Starmer is on course to facilitate the far-right winning not only the next election but he is actively executing far-right policies from the neoliberal playbook. Thread www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

submitted 15 hours ago • 10 comments

The coup accelerates. Trump administration fires top US general and Navy chief in unprecedented purge of military leadership. A black men and a woman removed, replaced by cronies. Trump and his cronies will have their fingers on the nuclear button. What next?

submitted 14 hours ago • 42 comments

youtu.be/1kYIojG707w?...

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump is ending the national database of police misconduct

submitted 1 day ago • 243 comments

“The pass-through deduction is emblematic of the tax reform package as a whole: More tax cuts for the rich, masquerading as tax cuts for the little guy.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Layoffs and contract cancellations sweeping the Social Security Administration. I've been told that following data programs have been canceled: *National Beneficiary Survey (NBS): Provides SSA, Congress w/ info about factors that can help SSI/SSDI recipients find employment

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2344 comments

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"Impartiality cannot be used as a pompous name for indifference and an elegant name for ignorance." ~ Francesca Albanese. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVxv...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Okay, so, how do we stop this shit? Where's the fucking press to ask Republicans how they feel about this?

submitted 1 day ago • 125 comments

I LOVE that MAGA are losing their shit over mega-talented actress, Cynthia Eviro being cast as Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar.(You knew they would) 😁 www.gbnews.com/celebrity/cy...

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

This is long, detailed and beautiful: youtu.be/vPI0RmTKCYk?...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

open.substack.com/pub/european...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A new @reuters.com poll finds Americans have a dim view of many of the Trump administration's blizzard of executive actions, including the Jan. 6 pardons and his effort to limit birthright citizenship. But they *really* don't like the Gulf of America thing. www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...

submitted 25 days ago • 262 comments

The first reaction to this news should be concern about the future of voting by mail www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

It’s not just the Nazi salute that’s disturbing here. It’s the smirk and nod that follows, signalling to his audience that yeah, I just did a Nazi salute. They clearly believe they are untouchable.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Standing up to the authoritarian wave requires more than cheerleading for democracy; it demands making democratic societies more participatory, responsive, and adaptable at all levels, from local to national, in response to the societal shifts driven by the Internet over the past 15 years.

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Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series Doctor Who #WomensArt

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US National Security Adviser says Ukraine President "need to tone it down and take a hard look and sign that deal," What he means is - hand some of your country to Russia, 50% of your mineral wealth to Trump, starve your people. Gangster politics is no basis for lasting peace.

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

The slide toward authoritarianism could not be more overt. And yet so many remain silent.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

More evidence of harms inflicted by private equity on US healthcare. Usual pattern: profiteering, hiking debt, low investment, poor patient care and safety. Yet UK NHS being handed to private equity without any evidence, 30%-40% public money vanishes in profits. Money buys less.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

His response to this is unreal. First: he says that Republicans had the same complaints when Biden was in office, and Then: when the crowd rightfully booed that bullshit comparison, he **compares them to J6 rioters.**

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

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For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 2 days ago • 247 comments

It didn’t end well for the last king to try to rule America. Just sayin’.

submitted 2 days ago • 311 comments

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Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe was arrested during Tuesday night’s Huntington Beach City Council meeting after making comments against a MAGA plaque proposed for installation at the Central Library.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Defense Sec Hegseth ordered Pentagon to cut 8% from the defense budget in each of the next 5 years. Plan to redirect those fund to Trump programs including -ending DEI, border, immigrants etc www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

Watch as mega company PEEL Group are given astronomical sums of public money to enhance its competitiveness in the Liverpool SEZ and Freeport which is 45km in diameter. This is exactly what I have been warning about for years. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo... Thread

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

At the end of the day, it's very simple. Trump and his oligarch friends want to cut programs that working class people rely on, and give huge tax breaks to the very rich

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

🔴Revealed: The Tommy Robinson Supporters Network With Links to Neo-Nazi Groups and a Library of Terrorism Manuals A Byline Times investigation finds members have access to an online library of bomb-making manuals, and instructions for assembling home-made firearms bylinetimes.com/2025/02/18/r...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments