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'People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.' - R.V.
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'California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, and other Democratic governors have sharply criticized the move, describing it as an “alarming abuse of power”. Newsom has called on the administration to rescind the “unlawful” deployment.' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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“If Trump can incite disturbances in blue states before the midterm elections, he can assert emergency powers to impose federal control over the voting process, which is to say his control.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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'The LU leadership has no intention of leading a pay and jobs fight and is already preparing its cover. This is the same leadership that disgracefully quashed debate at conference around trans rights in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent regressive decision.' workersliberty.org/story/2025-0...

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'The PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Stalinoid party long strong in the fight for Kurdish rights in Turkey and in Syria) has announced its intention to dissolve itself and lay down arms, following a decision at its 12th Congress on 5-7 May.' workersliberty.org/story/2025-0...

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'Without significant changes in Labour policy, or industrial wins, it is almost certain a disaffiliation motion will return next year with a real chance of passing.' workersliberty.org/story/2025-0...

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Well, if he's good enough for Labour... '“We should ultimately be trying to convince him that the Democratic Party has more of the values that he agrees with,” Khanna said.' www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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"It's got this fascinating iconography of a little figure with a long cross - explicitly Christian - over the valknut design, which has pagan roots." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Gathering of fascists in Moscow, Elon Musk's father in attendance

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#bbclaurak says taxation is at sky high historic levels. For who? The recent history of Corporation Tax (main rate): 1982 52% 1983 50% 1984 45% 1985 40% 1990 35% 1997 33% 1998 31% 2007 30% 2010 28% 2011 26% 2012 24% 2013 23% 2014 21% 2016 20% 2017 19% 2023 25%

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"Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes - how governments respond could haunt them for years to come." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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"The UK’s strategic defence review risks normalising nuclear warfare. Don’t believe the PR hype: these weapons are immoral, irrational and catastrophic." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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'Germany is drawing up plans to rapidly expand its network of bomb-proof bunkers and shelters, the government’s most senior civilian protection official has said, warning the state needs to be prepared for an attack from Russia within the next four years.' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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'In a letter to Sir Mark Rowley, the Met commisioner, on behalf of Coskun, Lord Young of Acton, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, wrote: “We consider that the risk to Mr Coskun’s life was caused, in part, by the actions of your officers and the CPS.' www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...

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'While Democrats oppose the “BBB” because [of] its cuts to Medicaid... these traditional Republicans are queasy about the Liz Truss-style risks of a massive unfunded tax giveaway. Overnight, Musk has become their champion.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Labour returned Royal Bank of Scotland to full private ownership last weekend, leaving taxpayers £10.5bn out of pocket. The free market hates nationalisation unless bankers need it.

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Over and over again Trump tells us that he thinks the Nazis were the good guys in the story.

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US “democracy”, where billionaires openly brag about buying elections and demand obeisance from political leaders.

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Seriously? Are we really going to have a military parade? At the cost of millions of dollars? While cutting aid the nation's poor? My latest from The Baltimore Sun #Trump #TrumpParade #cartoon #satire

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'“As ICC judges, these four individuals have actively engaged in the ICC’s illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America or our close ally, Israel,” Rubio said.' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” Musk said in a post on X. He added: “Such ingratitude.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Give the Elgin marbles back to Greece and before you know it, we'll be giving the royal family back to the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg

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'Tunstall said there was very likely to be a link between the rise in multiple insecurities and the increase in voter dissatisfaction with mainstream politicians and support for populist parties such as Reform.' www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Cars are getting 1cm wider every two years. That may not sound much, but over time it adds up, and they're showing no signs of slowing down 😬 That's #carspreading. Our new campaign is calling on city leaders to make parking policies fairer by varying costs based on the size of a car. Why? 🧵1/8

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A billionaire who profits off the presidency is feuding with another billionaire who bought access to the government to line his own pockets. Neither should have ever been able to amass so much power. What we're witnessing is a failed experiment in billionaire governance.

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'Satire has died many times since Tom Lehrer declared it obsolete when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel peace prize in 1973. It died yet again in Hong Kong last week… and in the pages of the Morning Star.' workersliberty.org/story/2025-0...

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“If people are offered two conservative parties, they will choose a genuine one. If a progressive party is trying to use the vocabulary of isolationism or segregation or division, it’s the same... It is very, very silly—maybe mortally stupid.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...

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It's amazing how the same politicians can describe VAT on public school fees as an attack on aspirational parents and then argue that free school meals for poor kids are a waste of money

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'Amid signs that the plans have been kicked into the long grass, parliament’s public administration committee said it was launching an inquiry to push the government on what has happened to its ethics commitments.' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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When I called out UK complicity in the genocide in Gaza, Wes Streeting called it “cheap”. Now he calls it a “horror show” — as if Britain isn’t enabling Israeli genocide with arms and surveillance. A parlour game to him. A “cheap” performance while Palestinians are massacred.

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This cartoon from last November said it all. #musk #elonmusk #trump #cartoon #satire

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'Kit Malthouse, a Conservative MP, said: “We’re all, frankly, getting a bit fed up with the theatrics in this chamber. And, if I’m honest with the minister, it feels like the whole house is being played...' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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'His husband Tristan Kern de Gonzales said a man "started yelling violent homophobic slurs" then opened fire when they were visiting their former home, which was destroyed in a fire in January.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'President Donald Trump's administration announced on Monday that June will be recognized as Title IX Month — not Pride Month.' www.advocate.com/politics/tit...

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'The ship, which was launched in 2021 and named after the gay rights activist and Navy veteran, who was made to resign from the force because of his sexual orientation...' edition.cnn.com/2025/06/03/p...

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Remember when Britain had 3600 Sure Start centres and no baby banks?

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Michelle Mone got a new luxury yacht and private jet on the NHS. And most of us can't even get a GP appointment.

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'It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.' Great words for #PrideMonth – and every day after – from James Baldwin: a humanist, a Black American, a gay man, and one of the most incisive moral voices of the 20th century.

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