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Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

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Starmer’s barefaced hypocrisy on this enrages me. His own government has been blocking justice for the Al Fayed victims.

Write to your MP about this!
(You can Google “Bylines Al Fayed” if you want articles as references)

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Everyone needs to watch this. It’s not accidental. It’s deliberate.

The last line is chilling.

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Over 40,000 protestors killed in Iran reports suggest. Why is there no the same level of outrage about this as there is (and should be) over similar fatalities in Gaza? Is it just lack of access to media?

ALEX JEFFREY PRETTI. Gone, but never forgotten...

#RIP_Alex 💔

Needless to say that Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down as heroes here in Minnesota and nationally, their names synonymous with sacrifice and caring for vulnerable neighbors even at the risk of your own life. And hopefully no more innocent lives are lost.

How abolishing the wealth tax changed a country Sweden abolished its wealth tax. Tax became transactional, destroying the sense of a community building something together

“We built this society together – and then we stopped.” Miranda Sheild Johansson hears from pensioners reflecting on Sweden’s welfare state describe regret, complacency and a loss of collective purpose after tax cuts.

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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

“Who’s got profile and respect among northern voters and might be able to fight off Reform there? Andy? No! Not him! He’s more popular than Kier.” Said eight people on the NEC in one voice.

Seriously? Best team wins. So get the best team. And if one becomes a future leader, that’s success too.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

These words…

The ones at the end. Man, I hope so. I really truly hope so.

Why East Anglia voters are denied a say this year Local elections across East Anglia have been postponed amid devolution plans, reigniting debate over democracy and cost

Local elections in East Anglia are being postponed. Critics - mostly from political voices with something to gain or lose - call it undemocratic, but supporters ask whether spending hundreds of thousands on elections for councils that may last only a year is justified.

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Opinion | Trump Just Proved Carney’s Point

“Voters believe that politicians are corrupt. Trump proves them right by flaunting his own corruption; his success confirms their disgust with the system and the need for a champion who has mastered its rules”

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I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

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…if only to right the media imbalance which showed Renee Good’s homicide (as state lawyers now call it) over again but seem to happy to ignore 100,000s of people bringing their cities and towns to a standstill in op position to the actions of ICE.

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Pt1 dwells in fear - ‘cause meeting it with truth, both personal and political, is the only way through. Pt2 will look at how states institutionalised fear in the past and find seeds of hope in stories of those who chose something better.

The general strike in Minnesota may get a mention…

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This is pt1 of a 2-part essay from a parent, proud of who their child has become and afraid to of a world where they can be killed in the street. Not by random criminality. By the state.

It’s also about the way hate leaps across oceans, weaponised via social media by racists and misogynists.

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50 by 50 #10: the men who take you away – power, protest, parenting and the fear that haunts my dreams The first of two essays – one personal, one political – on ICE, Iran, recurring nightmares, family history lessons and releasing your child into a fractured world. Welcome to FEAR/HOPE, PART 1.

FEAR/HOPE

How do we turn one into the other? Feels so necessary right now.

Frear of authoritarianism, repression and violence, is real. Try to ignore it. Pretend horrors only happen in Iran, or maybe Minneapolis. But your nightmares know the the truth.

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Minnesota has filled a stadium.

So much love and respect for Minnesota

Incredible. The people of Minnesota are inspiring a nation.