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Mary Corcoran

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Economic Migrant from beyond the pale. ‘Elitist’: I function from the neck up. Book reader (& writer). The day job is Criminologist, but I’m really a student of justice. An ‘elitist’ is anyone who can function from the neck up, according to populists.

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WAR CRIME BY THE US.

An unarmed Iranian ship was takIng part in an Indian naval exercise, alongside the US.

The US withdrew and torpedoed the Iranian ship.

THEN the US refused to rescue the sailors, letting them drown.

This is treachery, cowardice, cruelty and a war crime of the highest order.

05.03.2026 19:38 — 👍 1657    🔁 929    💬 125    📌 85

Show us the way, Dear Leader.

06.03.2026 07:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Grifters. Consciences for sale.

06.03.2026 07:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Or hospitals...WHO has confirmed that Israeli/US bombing of Teheran has attack 13 hospitals. No word on how many patients, nurses, doctors or orderlies were killed.
This is exactly like Gaza...where schools and hospitals were targeted.

05.03.2026 23:48 — 👍 145    🔁 28    💬 9    📌 3

It’s not a surprise.Social scientists/gerontologists have long known this. Austerity & declining living standards, childhood & early adult deprivation are causal. Hugely skewed by social class/ethnicity (although that’s narrowing). Another indicator of socially murderous economics. Who thought?

06.03.2026 07:25 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

From raining airborne hell on Gaza to Iran, ICE to ‘third country’ rendition, two-child cap to slashing overseas aid, austerity to criminalisation - the sum of politics is organised sadism.

06.03.2026 07:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A table of the amount of money awarded in contracts to companies:

THE GEO GROUP, INC.	$5,370,665,928
MVM, INC.	$2,068,344,189
CORECIVIC, INC.	$2,028,372,809
B.I. INCORPORATED	$1,672,887,893
INSERSO CORPORATION	$1,484,191,479
AKIMA INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION LLC	$1,241,684,376
AKIMA GLOBAL SERVICES, LLC	$1,045,991,175
PARAGON PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LLC	$1,044,183,289
STEAMPUNK, INC.	$819,579,403
WIDEPOINT INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS CORP	$691,184,173
PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.	$659,800,540
DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP	$610,394,065
CACI, INC. – FEDERAL	$591,706,852
G4S SECURE SOLUTIONS (USA) INC.	$556,405,484
CACI NSS, LLC	$421,025,885
MANAGEMENT & TRAINING CORPORATION	$420,212,896
CLASSIC AIR CHARTER INC.	$379,336,739
ITC FEDERAL, LLC	$347,138,958

A table of the amount of money awarded in contracts to companies: THE GEO GROUP, INC. $5,370,665,928 MVM, INC. $2,068,344,189 CORECIVIC, INC. $2,028,372,809 B.I. INCORPORATED $1,672,887,893 INSERSO CORPORATION $1,484,191,479 AKIMA INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION LLC $1,241,684,376 AKIMA GLOBAL SERVICES, LLC $1,045,991,175 PARAGON PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LLC $1,044,183,289 STEAMPUNK, INC. $819,579,403 WIDEPOINT INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS CORP $691,184,173 PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. $659,800,540 DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP $610,394,065 CACI, INC. – FEDERAL $591,706,852 G4S SECURE SOLUTIONS (USA) INC. $556,405,484 CACI NSS, LLC $421,025,885 MANAGEMENT & TRAINING CORPORATION $420,212,896 CLASSIC AIR CHARTER INC. $379,336,739 ITC FEDERAL, LLC $347,138,958

In this, we got the names of the top 20 contracts awarded to ICE.

THE FIRST ONE IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST PRISON COMPANIES IN THE COUNTRY.

05.03.2026 21:02 — 👍 60    🔁 36    💬 4    📌 11

So, @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social BBC news can do evidence-based reporting and analysis for international reporting. Maybe foreign correspondents can replace the chattering divas fronting BBC’s home news and political coverage.

05.03.2026 21:47 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

So, @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social BBC news can do evidence-based reporting and analysis for international reporting. Maybe foreign correspondents can replace the chattering divas fronting BBC’s home news and political coverage.

05.03.2026 21:47 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Thank you Robert.

05.03.2026 18:23 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

When you say ‘people’ don’t want, who do you mean? Millions of MAGA are cheering this; the broligarchy, defence industry, grifters, crypto, fossil fuel corporations, commodities speculators, zionists are poised to do well out of this war. Seems like a lotta ‘people’ love a war.

05.03.2026 18:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Countries like Costa Rica - smaller, big agri sectors, degraded biodiversity have much to teach Ireland. My understanding is that Irish farmers oppose reforestation. Will ‘stuffing their mouths with gold’ bring farmers on board? Ireland’s pro-beef & dairy agriculture & export policy needs change.

05.03.2026 14:48 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Countries like Costa Rica - smaller, big agri sectors, degraded biodiversity have much to teach Ireland. My understanding is that Irish farmers oppose reforestation. Will ‘stuffing their mouths with gold’ bring farmers on board? Ireland’s pro-beef & dairy agriculture & export policy needs change.

05.03.2026 14:48 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Delays may be necessary for checking flight security. Let those complaining about ‘shit shows’ go back to the terminus and offer places to people who want seats. That behaviour will be dangerous in flight.

05.03.2026 09:12 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Still better rates than student loan repayments 😉

05.03.2026 08:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What is the comparison. Are you of the view that U.K. should get stuck in alongside Trump’s luftwaffe?

05.03.2026 08:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Eh?

05.03.2026 08:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Starmer’s slow start in the war against Iran could leave UK playing catch-up Prime minister’s initial refusal to help US could constrain Britain’s ability to protect its nationals in the Gulf and reassure allies

@theguardian.com has decided to throw its lot on with the ‘Iran crisis is all Starmer’s doing’ nonsense. @jamesmeadway exhorts 🇬🇧 join USA & @dansabbagh.bsky.social desperately claims that PM should have read Trump/Hegseth’s minds & pre/evacuated Brits.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

05.03.2026 08:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Uncovered, their deference reveals disdain.

05.03.2026 08:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Eh?

05.03.2026 08:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

She won’t be. Kid glove treatment.

05.03.2026 08:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@carlabela1.bsky.social
you deleted your post. To respond: Charm is authentic not cosmetic, sincere not fake when it involves genuine openness & curiosity. These are first steps to cultivating relationships. Style is no substitute for substance. Farage lacks substance which style cannot mask.

04.03.2026 21:37 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Left MPs move to block drive to another Middle East war LEFT MPs moved today to block Britain from being dragged deeper into the escalating attack against Iran.Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tabled a Commons Bill to require MPs’ approval before allowin...

Left MPs move to block drive to another Middle East war
Corbyn tables Commons Bill requiring Parliament's approval before allowing foreign militaries to use British bases
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/left...

04.03.2026 21:20 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Weird that the Trumpet thinks that Starmer is not like Winston Churchill, missing the whole point that Starmer (like Churchill) gets the heebies regarding overt fascists, and realises that the UK would be better off not kneeling to such dictatorships.

04.03.2026 21:21 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Sounds like the Tories and PPE contracts during Covid.

04.03.2026 21:23 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

Journalism has become so downgraded, journos preoccupied with finding the gotcha in everything, that context or proportionality have been abandoned.

04.03.2026 14:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And Farage and Badenoch think UK should be slavishly supporting THIS?

04.03.2026 13:52 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Because!!!!! Keep up, friend.

04.03.2026 13:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Third rate orange ball bag is hardly Roosevelt!

03.03.2026 22:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Deeply disappointed in 2 of emailed publications I've subscribed to utterly condemning Starmer's actions re ME war and actually not telling the whole correct story of sequence of events. 2nd article accuses Starmer of specifically accusing Greens of extremism during Gorton and Denton, again, untrue.

03.03.2026 22:25 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0