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robthomson2.bsky.social

Medically Retired Professional. Autoimmune Disease. Care deeply about social justice, open government, nature and disability rights. Love Trollope, Debussy, Islamic Art and Georgian Aesthetics. Don't blame me.

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New: Labour plans to cut disability benefits instead of imposing a wealth tax. Ben Jennings’ cartoon nails it. A government that fines disabled people while letting the rich park wherever they want—both literally and politically.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

I am disabled, I work two jobs, I volunteer, I still need social security - why does @teamlabouruk.bsky.social say I'm the problem? For those who can't work - should they just suffer and die @anassarwar.bsky.social? #TakingTheDis

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Successive governments have failed to protect basic rights for decades. Now, instead of tackling the root of soaring living costs, this govt is playing to the gallery - pitching cuts by framing people who are ill or disabled as a 'burden.' Shameful. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Whose GDP is it anyway? Economic growth is painted as a benefit for everyone, but is that really the case?

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Vladimir Putin suddenly finds himself with the same problem as Volodymyr Zelenskyy: How is he going to say "nyet" to Donald Trump without incurring the wrath of the highly unpredictable and impetuous US president?

submitted 12 hours ago • 50 comments

Disabled People Against Cuts vital solidarity and planning event this weekend. Please RT if possible. #Disability #DisabilityJustice

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

If you're angry about Labour's proposals to destroy disabled people's lives and want to do something about it, please consider coming to this meeting today. These are currently just proposals - there's a way to go yet before they can be implemented and DPAC will be fighting it every step of the way.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk obsessively about rooting out fraud at the Social Security Administration. The agency’s inspector general recently found that less than one per cent of benefits distributed between 2015 and 2022 were improper.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Spot the difference... Labour want to force people into work by cutting disability benefits, a decision experts say will push 700,000 disabled households into poverty. People voted for change, Keir, not more of the same Tory cruelty.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Greenland is holding a general election today, and President Trump’s interest in annexing or purchasing the island has shaped the campaign, forcing politicians to take a position on whether they support a split from Denmark.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Trump sees war zones like Gaza and Ukraine as business opportunities – while families like Tareq’s fight to survive the devastation | Ann Moody @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Our comment on Labour's appalling proposed disability benefit cuts 👇 “There's nothing left to cut, and that puts us in a very scary position when the government suggests funding should be further reduced. What level of poverty for us will be acceptable to them?"

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The thousands of volunteer editors who write, edit, and fact-check Wikipedia adhere remarkably well, over all, to one of its core values: the neutral point of view. But Elon Musk, like others on the right, insists the site is biased against conservatives.

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”. My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...