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Brit. Trans. Reluctantly political. Widow. 71yo (2024) Background - probate/exor (asst manager high street bank), subpostmistress/shop owner, bus driver, independent living, mobile librarian, counsellor Unwanted DM means instant block.
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Get rid of the electoral college and replace it with a simple one dollar one vote system.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

submitted 8 hours ago • 2396 comments

It is absolutely intolerable that the Labour Government has another committed transphobe as their preferred candidate as new head of the EHRC. I rather doubt that the Women's and Equalities Committee has even been consulted.

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

I agree more violence is coming. But I hate the racist undertones of how it’s talked about— implying that poor people will be driven to violent outbursts by tropical heat disregulating their emotions. Global heating is a result of violent capitalist inequalities; that then causes more violence.

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

WARNING to REFORM VOTERS, from BLACK PEOPLE: You know Brexit made us poorer, after Farage spent 27yrs saying it'd make us richer. So if you STILL vote Reform, you can't pretend it's for economic reasons. It's just racism. We will treat you accordingly.

submitted 10 hours ago • 19 comments

Agreed

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

“As President Donald Trump moves to slash the size of the federal workforce, his administration unveiled a plan to ensure that any new hires are ‘patriotic Americans’ who vow to advance the president’s policy priorities.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

UNBOUND AUTHORS: We’ve prepared a letter you can send to administrators to demand things like expedited rights reversion, no AI use, return of electronic files (cover art, typesetting, etc) and the option to get any remaining copies of your books. DM me and I will send the template over

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

🔥 Well said these MPs. This government now appears to be deliberately misleading the house on their position on Israel & Gaza. Everyone write to your MPs and ask where their voice is.

submitted 17 hours ago • 25 comments

Last night, President Trump signed a proclamation banning citizens from over a dozen countries from traveling to the U.S. This order builds on the first Trump administration's Muslim ban, once again targeting people for their nationality and religion.

submitted 12 hours ago • 13 comments

The future is shit shaped. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

😅😅😅

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Reform UK chair Zia Yusuf appears to refer to Sarah Pochin’s PMQ yesterday as “dumb”

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

This is completely absurd. "Those seeking a job in the federal government will now have to write an essay in support of President Donald Trump's executive orders, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management." www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

1. An international humanitarian organization, Human Rights Watch, has issued a scathing report on transgender healthcare bans in the United States. They detail loss of care, people forced to move, and more. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

The UK under Labour is turning into a horrendous malevolent bigoted anti-LGBTQ authoritarian regime. Labour were far from perfect,but it's current iteration under Starmer has turned it into a repressive anti-LGBTQ and xenophobic/racist regime that's mimicking US theocratic/racist culture wars hate 😔

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration over the unlawful detention of immigrants at Guantánamo Bay.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Crackpot Supreme Court ruling continues to cause havoc.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Russian drones in Kharkiv skies right now ‼️

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

ICE dressed up like utility workers who offer "free estimates" if invited inside. Neighbor recorded the ICE goons and intervened, just before a young boy let them into his home. Tucson Electric Power was not told ICE agents would be impersonating their utility workers as part of the ICE raid.

submitted 2 days ago • 458 comments

Trans people in Wes Streeting's constituency: 909 Wes Streeting's majority in his constituency: 528 (Sources www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/TS0... and www.bbc.co.uk/news/electio...).

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government. But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes. Where is the outrage over that?

submitted 1 day ago • 900 comments

No one consents to being disabled. We don’t choose it. It chooses us. We aren’t asked how we feel about it. Whether we can afford it or if we have family to care for us. It just happens. It’s not a moral failing, you can’t “try harder” your way out of it. Disability justice benefits everyone

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This is quite lovely. Well worth six minutes of your time.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The economic experts are biased. The Congressional Budget Office is biased. The judges are biased—including the ones Trump appointed. It's amazing how every single institution dedicated to uncovering and disseminating accurate information is so hopelessly biased.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

I asked the Minister if he understands that, through his decisions, he is personally complicit in genocide. He had no answer.

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

Trump administration investigates University of Wyoming over transgender sorority sister wyofile.com/trump-ad... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I think if the government tried to legislate away the contempt power in Canada courts would say it's an unwritten constitutional principle, because they can't function without it. For what it's worth, I would agree.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments