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Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

submitted 1 day ago • 930 comments

Tory legacy. 1.15m people over the age of 60 waited more than 12 hours in A&E depts in England hospitals last year. Risk of 12 hour wait increased with the age of the patient. Lives endangered whilst Tories handed tax cuts to corporations/rich. Democide is a political choice.

submitted 19 hours ago • 18 comments

@labourlewis.bsky.social Are there other labour MPs speaking sense to Keir Starmer other than you? Someone needs to be really clear with him that if we wanted to vote for a RW populist party, we'd have voted reform. We didn't. We want more fairness,less division, more net zero and more EU links🙏🙏🙏

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

As Trump shows, haters like Reform are never satisfied. Scapegoat can be refugees… disabled… women… trans folk… prisoners - cruel treatment is never enough. It’s not a search for a policy that’s “right” or that “works”. It’s responding to an insatiable need to hurt others.

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#FastFashion "With the market flooded with unsaleable used clothing, it’s inevitable that scrap holds minimal value." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Vast numbers of pheasants are released for shooting in Ireland too. Each one survives by constantly devouring native wildlife alive. They artificially boost fox/mink populations, impacting vanishing native ground-nesting birds. They help spread Lyme disease to people, etc. This madness MUST end.

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

This is how autocracy takes hold - little by little, with minorities, the poorest, most vulnerable and those who fight back targetted first Eventually, they will come for you or a loved one www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

From @tortoisemedia.bsky.social, an absolutely damning graph about how disabled people are suffering in the UK

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

🚨Over 1,000 have signed our Letter on #DisabilityBenefits cuts! "Decades of research tells us poverty does not motivate — it crushes hope and erodes both physical and mental health." Together, we’re building pressure — in Parliament, in the press, and beyond. Pls sign+share✍️ tinyurl.com/2tvfvzft

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔 Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked… 🧵1/22 (1/1)

submitted 23 days ago • 46 comments

Please take a moment to sign this petition: ‘Protect Disabled people who cannot work from planned cuts to benefits’. Thank you so much: tinyurl.com/5erjajtv #WelfareNotWarfare

submitted 27 days ago • 8 comments

Keir Starmer is furious the OBR didn’t “price in” his fantasy that slashing #DisabilityBenefits will magically push people into work. But they went with evidence. Claimants, researchers, clinicians all know the likelier outcomes: collapse, crisis, and harm. #WelfareNotWorkfare

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

People with severe mental illness are twice as likely to be cut off by utility companies; over half in arrears have a mental health condition. Poverty interacting with overwhelm is lethal. We are not the worried well. #DisabilityBenefits cuts kill. tinyurl.com/bdest9wz

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

BREAKING 🚨 Can you guess which 5 MPs have taken the highest total donations from people+companies linked to the private health sector between 2023-2025? 1. Wes Streeting - £179,575 2. Yvette Cooper - £165,439 3. Shabana Mahmood - £136,168 4. Tom Tugendhat - £106,297 5. Rachel Reeves - £94,043 ...

submitted 43 days ago • 46 comments

Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian director of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been arrested by the Israeli army after masked settlers attacked him and his house - part of escalating violence that could be a response to film's international recognition www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Someone in a response to me earlier referred to themselves as 'just' a carer. There is no such thing as 'just' a carer 💜x

submitted 47 days ago • 7 comments

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

submitted 49 days ago • 190 comments

Disgusting and disgraceful, but nothing less than I would expect from these entitled crooks www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely shocking to see a Labour secretary of state stand at the despatch box and proudly announce slashing support for some of those who need it most - including removing the UC health top-up for young people, as if young disabled people don't exist?! #DisabilityBenefits

submitted 49 days ago • 37 comments

The 4 points in one PIP component rule is a calculated tactic to reduce mental health and neurodivergent claimants. I see so many with high needs who don’t hit 4 in one area—so they get nothing. This must be challenged under the Equality Act, and it absolutely will be.

submitted 49 days ago • 4 comments

At the heart of every attack on disability benefits is the myth disabled people “get perks”: a free car, loads of cash, a life off work. It misrepresents the reality of disability, whilst exploiting low wages and high living costs to make the public envy people in daily pain.

submitted 49 days ago • 68 comments

Where's the evidence that mental health is being "overdiagnosed"?

submitted 50 days ago • 60 comments

Transnational companies like Starbucks, Google, Microsoft, eBay, Amazon and others use complex corporate structures to shift profit, avoid taxes. Apple has parked billions of its global profits in Jersey, has no physical presence. UK does little to challenge. Instead, people are bashed.

submitted 49 days ago • 11 comments

Love to everyone terrified by today’s benefits announcements—claimants, carers, allies. There’s no making this OK. But know this: it won’t end up as Labour postures. The disabled community will carry on fighting back—lobbying, resisting and mutual aid. Stay safe today please💜

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

Keir Starmer to drive through welfare cuts for UK’s most severely disabled people, more than 600,000 benefit claimants could lose out on an average of £675 a month. Awful, inhumane. No cuts to corporate welfare, won't tax the rich. People sacrificed to gods of neoliberalism.

submitted 50 days ago • 60 comments

Cutting the #PIP thresholds won’t REDUCE disability, it will INCREASE it. Why? ❌ People will lose essential care, mobility aids & support. ❌ Poverty, stress & untreated conditions will worsen health. ❌ Many who can work with support will be pushed out. This is NOT REFORM -it is social vandalism.

submitted 52 days ago • 6 comments