Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE

Republicans are trying to get away with it.

Imagine the country is in a very bad state because of your policies and you have to convince yourself and your cult of this by creating a fake magazine….

In conclusion Trump is corrupt

Instead of promoting trade and helping American companies sell their goods Trump is playing mob boss to generate more wealth for himself

As I explore at length in the article below, "immigration" is not a "legitimate concern" that rises from the bottom to force the elite to crack down but a top-down construction to divert attention away from the many other real crisis people care about

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These are not separate phenomena. Twitter creates a powerful impression that you are seeing public opinion. Politicians and journos are all there. They used to be restrained a bit by lefties shouting at them, now they see an all-fascist fake public.

Wait are conservatives around the world literally just copying american republicans word for word?

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.

They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.

Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

She tells it like it is

'After the next election, the UK could very well have a far-right government, and hardly anyone is saying so.'

Crypto is not a socially useful industry. The most innocent side of it is a form of gambling. UK could make money by hosting and facilitating it, but it does so at the expense of global society and should no more do this than it should help illicit arms sales.

My 85 year-old mother regularly wanders around the West End post theatre.

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic Imagine the shock when he finds out Brexit is a primary factor in sky rocketing small boat crossings

“This is Brexit Britain. We voted to take back control of our borders,” says Nigel Farage

Imagine his shock when he finds out Brexit is a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings

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Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London

Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’ Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the ‘largest giveaways in UK history’

Right to Buy has been an absolute scam, with taxpayers paying the price. Time for govt to get a grip on the crisis once and for all - end Right to Buy now, and put in place rent controls to stop landlords ripping off renters.

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What is ‘Far-Right’? - 99% Why we need to be able to call it out now There is no simple, agreed definition of far-right, but we urgently need one: We know what ‘right-wing’ means – […]

As the article says, "There is a huge gulf between Nazism and what a moderate right-winger considers acceptable. Without a word for anything in that gulf, we have no way to describe the dangers"

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We need a definition of far-right which:

a) is fairly clear and easy to assess against
b) will catch far-right parties which are not full-blown fascists

Otherwise we will spend our time quibbling over words rather than calling them out.

I’m sorry but I really have to stand up for myself and independent media here. Everyone is crediting Ken Delanian for the Maxwell sex offender waiver story, but I was hours ahead of him. Hours. Independent media is important.

I don't know.

The history of far-right parties suggests that there are many who do not realise that they will become targets.

A post from the chairman of Reform, showing his attitude to human rights.

This week’s letter to 99% members focuses on the urgency of defining ‘far-right’ and calling it out.

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UK government has ‘got the balance right’ on tax, says Rachel Reeves Chancellor responds to calls for wealth tax on millionaire households

UK govt has ‘got the balance right’ on tax, says Rachel Reeves.

Not addressed Tory legacy.

Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.

Capital gains & dividends taxed at lower rates than wages, recipients don't pay NIC

Mansions and modest homes pay same council tax

Time for a Progressive Tax System? - 99% How you probably pay a higher rate of tax than the wealthiest in society We are often told that the UK tax system is progressive: the better you are doing […]

And capital is untaxed, which means that it is very easy for a multi billionaire to pay a lower rate of tax on their total economic income than almost everyone else.

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BREAKING: Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is imploring his party to fight back harder against President Trump, arguing that history will remember some for their “complicity” in “bending the knee” to him.

Who agrees?

Nigel Farage appearances on Sky News spark thousands of complaints It comes after Reform UK set up its own broadcast studio to pump out slick, TV-style videos online

Thousands of people have complained to Sky News about “excessive” coverage of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

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What is 'Far-Right'? Why we need to be able to call it out now There is no simple, agreed definition of far-right, but we urgently need one: We know what ‘right-wing’ means – and we have many examples of people we know are right-wing but who draw the line at extr...

"the stakes are high, and our media are, by-and-large, not calling out how high they are. By continuingly platforming Farage without calling out that his party is far-right, they are complicit in his rise." @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social
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AS A CALIFORNIAN BUT A US CITIZEN

I SEE DEMOCRACY AT STAKE

NOT A PERFECT SOLUTION BUT BETTER TO FIGHT

The replies to this post, even on here, even moreso on X, are so depressing to me. We live in a world where cities have never been safer and a minority of people are denying themselves a lot of delightful experiences because they’ve gone mad online.

Why are democrats waiting for Texas to gerrymander? Be bold. Go big. Go first. Play offense.

Or wait until Texas goes first and we don’t have enough time to get it done and only match them seat by seat so we don’t appear too aggressive.

One of these is the winning strategy.

UK growth since 1900

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The idea that taxing the wealthy would damage the economy and hurt the poorest also bears no relation to reality. We have all seen how poorly trickle-down has worked over the last 40 years both in generating growth and in sharing it fairly.

Here is the picture for growth.

Golden Delusions - 99% We conclude that even if we were still on the gold standard, the rhetoric about the dangers of debt sustainability would still be nonsense. And that rhetoric is the justification for some of the worst...

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In fact, our debt is not dangerously high, and it is not in danger of spiralling out of control, unless government policies are consistently so bad that our growth rate will be below our cost of borrowing (a cost which is under the government’s control).
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