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IT’S HAPPENING! Labour MPs have launched a major rebellion to stop Keir Starmer’s welfare bill Write to your MP NOW and ask them to vote against the planned cuts. You can use this handy link from @trusselluk.bsky.social action.trussell.org.uk/your-mp-must...

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£600 million less funding means 12,400 fewer staff, bigger classes and stretched SEND support. Vote now in our consultation. 👉 NEUActivate.com. Let your colleagues know you’ve voted and encourage them to do the same. #FundFairPay #SaveOurSchools

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Keir Starmer must end the injustice of indefinite sentences today There are thousands of people in prison in Britain with no release date, serving sentences that were abolished in 2012 www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...

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The Labour government has rejected Big Issue founder Lord John Bird's bid to introduce child poverty targets to the new children's bill www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

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A federal judge has indefinitely blocked the Trump administration from cutting off Harvard's ability to host international students. More details: cnn.it/4jX66gv

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I'll say it over and over. I do not believe in gate keeping. I do not believe in pulling up the ladder. I believe in kicking the wall down like the Kool-Aid man, and making room as I go for those who come next. Just because it was hard for me, doesn't mean it has to be hard for anyone else.

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UK benefits system could collapse if disability benefits not cut, Liz Kendall says. Rubbish. In Sept 2024, a Minister said economy would crash if winter fuel payment not cut ... now! Inflicting cruelty/poverty won't rebuild society. Govts find money for wars, corporate welfare. Tax the rich.

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28-year-old Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo, who has no known criminal record, was accused by Texas police of being in a Venezuelan gang because they found a photo of him posing with another man with tattoos, his lawyers say. From ProPublica partner @texastribune.org:

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“There is a vast chasm between the concept of freedom inscribed on paper and the reality of freedom in our lives.” Revisit Jelani Cobb‘s piece, from 2020, on Juneteenth and the meaning of freedom.

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Girl who skipped dinner so parents could eat - the true reality of UK child poverty. Human suffering is hidden by numbers. 16m Britons live in poverty. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. 50 families have more wealth than 34m people. Poverty is a political choice.

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If you’re undocumented, don’t march tomorrow. Stay home. Let the rest of us get this one. Solidarity ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼

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NOW 326 DAYS since our nuclear test veterans - national heroes - requested a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss how he will honour the commitment Labour made to them in opposition. How much longer must they wait?

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A man impersonating a police officer assassinated a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz said on Saturday, and killed the lawmaker’s husband. The assailant also shot and injured another Democratic lawmaker and his wife, officials said. nyti.ms/4jRTrvw

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MPs and peers urge govt to investigate how a US private equity company is funding £500m takeover of the Telegraph. Concerns about "Chinese state influence”. Why not the same concerns about the ownership of water, steel, auto, airports, banks, real estate?

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Cruelty is the point, and chaos is the blueprint.

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The CDC is rehiring more than 400 people who had received layoff notices. Around half of those employees are in the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD and Tuberculosis Prevention. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Labour to end 200 years of injustice by ripping up 'shameful' rough sleeping law Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said Government is 'drawing a line under nearly two centuries of injustice' by abolishing the Vagrancy Act 👏 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

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JUST IN: Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe has been shot in Bogota, police say

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NOW 319 DAYS since our nuclear test veterans - national heroes - requested a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss how he will honour the commitment Labour made to them in opposition. How much longer must they wait Prime Minister? Most are in their eighties and in chronic ill health

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Breaking news: In a rematch of their 2023 U.S. Open final, Coco Gauff beat top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka to win the French Open. She is its first American champion since Serena Williams in 2015.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in U.S. custody after being illegally deported and will now face federal human trafficking charges in Tennessee.

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Calls to “Free Marcelo” are echoing beyond the high school campus of a Massachusetts town where a standout student was arrested by ICE over the weekend.

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UK Govt AI copyright plan suffers fourth House of Lords defeat, 242 to 116 votes. Copyright holders must be able to see when their work has been used and by whom. Tech firms need to be licensed to use the work and pay. Govt disagrees. I voted against the govt.

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Still No Idea Painting by Barrie J Davies, Mixed media on Canvas, 51cm x 41cm, Unframed and ready to hang. #funny #art #barriejdavies www.barriejdavies.info/products/sti...

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Govt confirms criminals control England water industry. "Since the privatisation of water and sewerage companies in 1989, all ten Water and Sewerage companies which discharge into English waters have been convicted of criminal offences". Still allowed to fleece people, no end to criminality.

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Since 2020 the UK's 20 biggest energy companies made operating profit of £514,038,259,000. Profiteering pushes millions into poverty. Hikes govt's energy bill, pushes up taxes. It makes steel, shipbuilding, engineering and other energy intensive industries difficult. OFGEM doesn't protect people

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518 employers named for not paying £7.4m in minimum wage to 60,000 workers. Wage theft list includes BA, Capita, Halfords, Lidl, Pizza Express, Prezzo, TUI. None forgot to pay megabucks to execs but condemned workers to misery. We need regulation and enforcement because of corporate malpractices.

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Harvard president receives standing ovation during commencement.

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Almost complete silence on the Liverpool attacker from the Right Wing Media (which is about 90% of it). If it had been someone who wasn't White they would be screaming about it 24/7.

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474% increase in complaints about substandard social housing in England since 2019/20. Despite the Grenfell fire substandard living conditions remain. New slums being built with planning deregulation and conversation of offices/warehouses into homes. People deserve dignity and security.

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HMRC admits not collecting £40bn tax last yr. Others say over £100bn. Big accounting/law firms, banks mastermind tax dodges. Rarely prosecuted. No big accounting firm prosecuted; get govt contracts. Fewer than FIVE criminal cases brought in 2023-2024, 16 in 2018-2019. Govts chase little people.

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