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Scuba instructor. Retired university lecturer. Artist. Reader. Pro democracy. Definitely not right wing! Married to my wife

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So republican shut down is the issue!

05.11.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good

05.11.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the kind of thing which makes me think better things are possible.

05.11.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10896    πŸ” 1907    πŸ’¬ 276    πŸ“Œ 80

Tonight I miss my dad

05.11.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We didn't start the fire...

05.11.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can’t believe they called prop 50 the moment polls closed. That tells you something. Most of these races were called within 45 minutes. It’s a BLOWOUT, y’all. THAT is what we call a MANDATE.

05.11.2025 04:12 β€” πŸ‘ 26394    πŸ” 4626    πŸ’¬ 430    πŸ“Œ 143

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

05.11.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 61817    πŸ” 11174    πŸ’¬ 1201    πŸ“Œ 522

Why does the richest country on earth need to give ANYONE food stamps? Surely a real living wage would do that

04.11.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Honestly, I don't think Trump's incomprehension of political asylum has anything to do with his serious personality-disorder-related psychiatric afflictions and his seeming dementia, which both raise 25th Amendment questions. I do, however, think it reflects his utter stupidity ….

04.11.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4330    πŸ” 867    πŸ’¬ 215    πŸ“Œ 29

Laura Loomer is now officially part of the Pentagon press corps.

We live in Idiocracy.

04.11.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 15478    πŸ” 3200    πŸ’¬ 667    πŸ“Œ 213
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Jane Fonda’s PSA with Jasmine on why you need to clap back on TX gerrymandering!

On Tuesday November 4th, Vote Yes on Prop 50 California!

03.11.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 712    πŸ” 306    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 16

Nigel Farage currently railing against Parliament being full of "professional politicians".

He founded UKIP in 1993 and was first elected as an MEP in 1999, twenty-six years ago. Less than 5% of current MPs (31 to be precise) have a longer career in politics than Farage. ~AA

03.11.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1430    πŸ” 501    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 15

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

03.11.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 20738    πŸ” 7829    πŸ’¬ 646    πŸ“Œ 422
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Hey PA!
It’s critical for the sake of protecting your freedom that you vote yes to retain these Supreme Court Justices!
The wealthy are trying to buy & control your courts.
Reject dark money and vote YES to retain:
βœ”οΈChristine Donohue
βœ”οΈKevin Dougherty
βœ”οΈDavid Wecht
#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue

03.11.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 636    πŸ” 390    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 21
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Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy

YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.

Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people

...to β€œraise aspiration” and β€œboost business"

It's Β£10ph FFS!

Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger

DO YOU SEE IT NOW?

Spread far & wide.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

03.11.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1613    πŸ” 940    πŸ’¬ 122    πŸ“Œ 51
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Who would have guessed

03.11.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1346    πŸ” 306    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 24
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Turkey moves to criminalize LGBTQ+ expression, same-sex relations, and gender-affirming care, according to a leaked draft law #NOH8

03.11.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 6
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Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia.

This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.

How are Reform getting away with this?

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

03.11.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2363    πŸ” 1046    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 36

Time to sue?

03.11.2025 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🀷🏼

03.11.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 20001    πŸ” 7029    πŸ’¬ 955    πŸ“Œ 350

So Donnie... You don't know who you pardoned.... AUTOPEN?

03.11.2025 10:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Come on Keir Starmer - be brave and be bold to stop Nigel Farage' "The whole world isn’t going down the right-wing plug hole and Starmer, if he opened his eyes, would find Β­inspiration to confront and beat Farage’s divisive, fear-based politics with fairness and dec...

β€œThe whole world isn’t going down the right-wing plug hole and Starmer, if he opened his eyes, would find Β­inspiration to confront and beat Farage’s divisive, fear-based politics with fairness and decency in Britain"

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

03.11.2025 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 749    πŸ” 197    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 8

I don't resent poor people who use food stamps to buy another soft drink.

I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.

02.11.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 27459    πŸ” 7027    πŸ’¬ 538    πŸ“Œ 262
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At some point we might have to consider the fact that he might be mentally unstable.

02.11.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 20687    πŸ” 4995    πŸ’¬ 3593    πŸ“Œ 903

An iphone isn't basic and android is cheaper but I have no problem with anyone owning a phone they like

02.11.2025 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As Rachel Reeves considers both her position & doubling council tax, The Times thinks people earning Β£100,000 deserve a tax break because higher tax 'deters the ambition of people who could otherwise help drive the economy', suggesting people deliberately refuse to earn more to avoid paying tax...

02.11.2025 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0

Labour repair the damage done by the tories who sold all the stock to private company . Labour bought them back and now reinvest in the homes of military families .

Better with Labour πŸ‘

02.11.2025 08:06 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Popok: The blue states and cities effectively brought the cases. The red states are suffering, and their AGs are sitting on the sidelines. There’s no red state that brought a case. Think about that: not one red state attorney general brought a case to help prevent starvation and suffering. None.

31.10.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 11146    πŸ” 4837    πŸ’¬ 527    πŸ“Œ 341
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

01.11.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 34946    πŸ” 4163    πŸ’¬ 1001    πŸ“Œ 368

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