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Labour is taking the Pip β and disabled people have had enough | Cherylee Houston
27.05.2025 05:32 β π 124 π 35 π¬ 6 π 6All the people complaining that the police have said the Liverpool driver was white British are the same people who made it necessary for the police to say he was white British.
27.05.2025 06:46 β π 5190 π 1008 π¬ 86 π 38Decent politicians need to push back against Farage's comments on Lucy Connelly.
"millions of mothers after Southport feeling exactly the same way"?
No.
Millions did NOT feel the need to call for mass murder of asylum seekers & we simply cannot allow the idea to be normalised.
Your occasional reminder that in two years' time, Nigel Farage will be taking his gold plated Β£73,000 annual EU pension.
02.06.2025 06:20 β π 2194 π 995 π¬ 139 π 23
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Most people I know are appalled.
When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter βstory selectionβ and βother types of output, such as dramaβ, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left?
All the shifts are in just one direction.
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
Ed Davey with wife Emily on TV this morning talking about caregivers and caring for their son. The humanity pouring out of them (and particularly him with her) was a lovely and rarely seen thing in politicians. Hope more of this can be seen, not just windsurfing and log flumes.
10.06.2025 10:07 β π 10 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
βIf you become disabled before next April, you'll get Β£13.85 a day to pay for someone to help. If you become disabled on May 1, you'll get Β£7.14 a day. What was insufficient will become farcicalβ
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Trump NEARLY CRASHES at Meeting as EXPLOSIONS HIT https://twp.ai/4ipuWF
31.07.2025 11:05 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0British electricity mix at 11am on 31st Jul 2025
π₯Gas 18.0% Biomass 11.3%
Wind 15.8% Solar 18.7% Hydro 0.7%
βοΈNuclear 13.5%
β‘οΈImports 21.9% Other 0.0%
πͺ«Storage 0.0%
πGeneration 30GW
Carbon intensity 151 gCO2e/kWh
vs target of annual average 50-100 gCO2e/kWh by 2030
New from me: LinkedIn quietly removed references to deadnaming and misgendering from its hateful content policy this week. The company says it's underlying rules have not changed but advocates say it's part of a trend to loosen rules meant to protect vulnerable users.
30.07.2025 19:05 β π 847 π 376 π¬ 17 π 56Everyone who throws a trans person under the bus to βget along with/appeaseβ fascism is quietly dooming every other marginalized or repressed group to the same fate.
31.07.2025 11:05 β π 532 π 222 π¬ 4 π 4
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Truth Social post from @realDonaldTrump on July 30 2025 Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh' Canada!!!
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Trump: βVery hard for us to make a trade dealβ with Canada
U.S. faces import taxes tomorrow of 35% on goods from #Canada allegedly due to PM Mark Carney's Palestine state announcement
Financial markets will of course expect Trump to chicken out after today's trade negotiations #TACO
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Political cartoon. President Trump is pictured with a packet of papers attached to him that reads βThe Epstein Files.β He repeatedly tries to shake the papers from his body by waving it around in the air, stomping on it, or pushing it into the trash can, but it remains stuck.
30.07.2025 14:49 β π 616 π 147 π¬ 28 π 9
It does seem to be an odd fixation, doesn't it? I do not understand why this has to be the defining feature of a person, wherein all other attributes become secondary, or so it seems when in discussion or debate. Read more in my essay:
open.substack.com/pub/pittpeop...
β In #LordsQs from 2.30pm:
π₯ developing nuclear energy generation
π₯ Independent Commission into Adult Social Care
π₯ givinostat for boys living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy
π₯ βpull factorsβ for migrants entering UK illegally
πΊ Watch online www.parliament.uk/business/new...
Next, the #HouseOfLords debates the Universal Credit Bill, including a 'motion to regret' the bill.
β‘ Find out more www.parliament.uk/business/new...
From 3.15pm, members debate a 'motion to regret' and a motion to decline to approve regulations regarding the foreign ownership of UK press.
π Learn more lordslibrary.parliament.uk/regulations-...
Graphic with image of Lords chamber
π #HouseOfLords from 2.30pm includes:
π₯ adult social care
π₯ migrants entering UK illegally
π₯ foreign ownership of UK press
π₯ Universal Credit Bill
β‘οΈ See full schedule and watch online
www.parliament.uk/business/new...
Wrexham councillor, angry at the government cutting disability benefits from the most vulnerable to fund huge growth in spending on arms, resigns from #Labour and joins #TUSC.
tusc.org.uk/21510/31-03-...
If you want to help build a new working class party, get in touch (details in profile).
Twenty-five leading trade unionists, now supported by over 1100 activists, are calling for a new working-class party.
βThe Establishment has its parties β itβs time the working class had one of its own. "
Please sign and share widely:
www.change.org/TradeUnions-...
This will be the direction of travel as #Labour involves more private finance in the NHS
www.thisismoney.co.uk/.../US-inves....
We urgently need a new party rooted in the organised working class to combat privatisation - if you agree, sign here www.change.org/TradeUnions-LaunchANewParty
Me: I'm completely out of ideas for song lyrics.
Also me: I'm angry about so many things right now.
Me again: Duh!
Ossoff: Did anyone really think the sexual predator president who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was going to release the Epstein files?
12.07.2025 21:20 β π 46842 π 12543 π¬ 1148 π 943Coming in locked and loaded.π₯π
13.07.2025 17:12 β π 19 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1π¨PLEASE REPOSTπ¨
I'm returning to DC, Wed. 7/30 to hand deliver healthcare stories to Congress.
YOUR VOICES are CRUCIAL to help.
PLEASE DO THE FOLLOWING:
1) DM YOUR story about: Medicaid/ACA/Medicare or SNAP
&
2) Please INCLUDE your NAME & STATE
ALL STATES WELCOME.
Thank you & NEVER GIVE UP!ππ
Francesca Albanese sanctions βcreate chilling effectβ on UN experts, warn rapporteurs - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/Francesca-albanese-sanctions-create-chilling-effect-warn-rapporteurs
11.07.2025 12:43 β π 157 π 76 π¬ 14 π 10
