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I know we say “Everything is bigger in Texas,” but this is, in fact, bigger than Texas. This is nothing but a power grab, and it will ultimately impact all of us.
04.08.2025 01:47 — 👍 3110 🔁 692 💬 56 📌 15I know we say “Everything is bigger in Texas,” but this is, in fact, bigger than Texas. This is nothing but a power grab, and it will ultimately impact all of us.
04.08.2025 01:50 — 👍 6446 🔁 1754 💬 124 📌 53
Well, this was a nice turn of events for a Monday morning!
Saw some new subscribers signing up with the @theguardian.com website as the source.
Had to go on their site to try and find out why!
And found this on the Politics Live section….👇🏼😊
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Here is a very handy collage for posterity, for history books and for indictments.
The People who DESTROYED America.
The Killers of the Constitution.
The Gang of Miscreants.
All the pundits who criticized Biden for his preemptive pardons should be ashamed of themselves. He knew exactly who Trump is
02.08.2025 20:13 — 👍 6912 🔁 1854 💬 394 📌 103JUST IN: Crowd LOUDLY BOOS Trump at WWE SummerSlam
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It’s been obvious for some time that Musk’s platform is deliberately & dangerously hideous. There is nothing to stop politicians, up to & including the government, removing themselves from it entirely. Their every utterance would still be reported, regardless of how it entered the public space.
03.08.2025 10:08 — 👍 1103 🔁 250 💬 54 📌 7I also wonder when it becomes feasible that anyone still there is complicit in and/or comfortable with the racist bile that subsumes the site.
03.08.2025 10:10 — 👍 521 🔁 65 💬 53 📌 5Wow.
01.08.2025 17:17 — 👍 319 🔁 86 💬 38 📌 6I do wonder whether a point will come when ‘dealing’ with Trump will be rendered an irrefutable & catastrophic mistake & the Mark Carney approach will be utterly vindicated. (Don’t @ me if you think it *already* looks like a catastrophic mistake. I used ‘irrefutable’ for a reason!)
01.08.2025 18:27 — 👍 631 🔁 109 💬 60 📌 8
Why a potential fast track to the civil service fast stream should be exclusively open to working class students… tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
01.08.2025 16:09 — 👍 94 🔁 14 💬 11 📌 0How on earth is it August already?
01.08.2025 07:17 — 👍 826 🔁 36 💬 126 📌 6
Did @balconyshirts.co.uk close down the facial recognition technology debate for ever with his ‘sinister future government’ zinger?
Weight loss jabs: the ‘deserving & undeserving’ users.
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
It’s surely also well past time that President Trump was awarded the Booker Prize, half a a dozen Oscars, the Acacia Road Primary School Award for Exemplary Orangeness, the Nobel Prize for Physics, BAGA gymnastics award grade 5 (niche) & at least 3 Cycling Proficiency Bades (possibly even nicher).
31.07.2025 17:36 — 👍 604 🔁 67 💬 111 📌 3Thank you!
It’s here👇🏼
bsky.app/profile/monk...
Today is #NationalInternDay! Big shoutout to our summer interns in DC and TX-30 for holding it down this summer.
31.07.2025 21:38 — 👍 1042 🔁 105 💬 27 📌 1
Starmer’s ‘threat’ to recognise the state of Palestine; ‘influencers’ in Downing Street & everywhere else; the value of a degree…
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
Republicans in Texas just rolled out their proposed Congressional map that cut 5 Democratic seats out of thin air.
Let’s be clear: these maps are not about representation, it’s a power grab to silence voters and suppress votes.
(1/2)
They know their policies are unpopular, and they are afraid of losing. So what do they try to do? Cheat.
If your big idea is “cheat harder,” maybe it’s time to rethink your politics.
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Medicare & Medicaid turn 60 today.
Instead of protecting the care that so many Americans rely on, Trump’s Big Ugly law rips health care away from 15 MILLION people.
The same folks screaming “America First” stay busy putting Americans dead last.
A spear of of orange light cutting through the skies above Brentford…
I think an actual superhero might be leaving/visiting my manor…
30.07.2025 20:13 — 👍 251 🔁 4 💬 32 📌 0
I’m a bit late to the party, but I have no doubt the Motability furore ain’t going anywhere…🫣
So here’s a handy FAQ🧵debunking the myths and headlines
You've probably seen the outrage:
"Free cars!"
"Scroungers!"
"Gaming the system!"
But what’s actually true?
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A recent parliamentary report highlighted that disabled adults:
🚗are less likely to have access to a car
💰are more likely to struggle financially
🚊face many barriers to accessing public transport
Motability helps level the playing field a little bit
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‘Friends, this is how democracy dies.’
30.07.2025 12:56 — 👍 415 🔁 123 💬 24 📌 0
This wasn't a piece I ever hoped to write...
And I can already envisage the followers who will give me shit for this despite years of support and solidarity, but I can only be honest with how I feel
Link to read below...
My thoughts here...
open.substack.com/pub/marinapu...
Trump’s EPA just announced they want to erase the science that says climate change is real so they can pollute more and dodge accountability.
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You can’t deregulate climate change. Trump can try to sweep it under the rug, but millions of Americans will be left to deal with the hurricanes, floods, and heat waves that come with it. (2/2)
29.07.2025 23:42 — 👍 895 🔁 152 💬 37 📌 3
As elements of the political & media establishments edge ever closer to openly craving more race riots, we look back at the Southport murders & ask whether social media bans & reversing the mass closures of community spaces might lessen the chances of them getting their wish.
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