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Kate Carmody

@caitmaxine.bsky.social
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Organic farmer, cheese maker, entrepreneur, environmentalist, biomedical scientist and social activist.

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sasansandy.bsky.social @sasansandy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Excellent. Universal Basic Income would go a long way to addressing these issues.
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Number crunching: “the poorest in our society” From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do you know how much the pay of CEOs at major companies has skyrocketed since 1978? 50%? 100%? 500%? Try 1,316% Meanwhile, the typical workers’ compensation increased only 28%. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
thecanary.co
NFL player fined for wearing murdered Gaza child's name during game
NFL star Azeez Al-Shaair told ESPN he cares about "humanity" and wants Americans to understand their taxes help fund the war in Palestine
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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When we let fossil fuel companies influence policy, we weave failure into governance. The science-policy-action interface is not so much a gap as it is a wilful roadblock, built on inertia, status quo bias, cognitive dissonance and above all, greed.
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“When billionaires dictate what our rock artists can and cannot say in stadiums, then these are not stadiums. They are cemeteries where democracies sing their final song” georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/when-art-f...
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When Art Fails
Beware of people who tell you that art and politics should never mix: they have zero values and questionable morals and believe that a pretty picture or catchy tune can be judged in isolation, even th...
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Kate Carmody @caitmaxine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So true!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In 2024-25 HMRC failed to collect £59.2bn of tax; £500bn since 2010. £12.8bn lost through profit shifting by multinational corporations. Promoters of a business rates avoidance scheme boasted that they have deprived local councils of £500m. Billions can be raised by ending abuses.
leftfootforward.org
Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A lovely colleague saw this while on her holidays and thought of me - I love it. ‘same sh*t, different century’ says every feminist in a patriarchal world.
same sh*t, different century pin
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Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 14/09/2026
Amen.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Which side are you on? The side of abandoning Earth, and profiting from apocalypse? Or staying loyal to this planet and its people? This brilliant video from @naomiaklein.bsky.social asks the most consequential question in human history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...
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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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Euronews @euronews.com · 11/09/2026
Norway’s King has announced that the flag will be flown at half-mast from the Palace balcony on Friday and on the day of her funeral. #EuropeNews
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Norway's Princess Astrid dies two days after King Harald's funeral
Norway’s King has announced that the flag will be flown at half-mast from the Palace balcony on Friday and on the day of her funeral.
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Barry Heard @heardbarry956.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 7 - A song that uses modal interchange The Beatles - In My Life www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBcd...
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In My Life (Remastered 2009)
YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Finished reading ‘The Nerd Reich’ by @gilduran.com over the weekend. It’s a truly shocking exposé of just how far the fascist tech billionaires (yes, they all are) have advanced in their efforts to destroy democracy & create a new Tech Feudalism, with 99.9% of us serving as their serfs.
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Kate Carmody @caitmaxine.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The autumn harvest has begun. #Beal
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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns
A photo from the BBC of an older woman, with grey hair, being led away by police. A photograph of a line of men in black clothes and balaclavas blocking the port at Dover.
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ecologists denounce EU Commission plan to deregulate #GMO microorganisms. Proposal is “inspired by little scientific evidence, and with no consultation of ecology researchers” — Prof Katja Tielbörger mailchi.mp/gmwatch.org/...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is what happens when a planet is run as a market - greed, exploitation, environmental destruction, climate collapse, and, ultimately, entire nations in thrall to market ups and downs and effectively handing over the reins of government Pure insanity www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
‘There’s no plan’: as instability in global bond markets rises, what are the knock-on effects?
From mortgages to inflation, concerns about the public finances of major economies have wide-reaching consequences
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brenda-bailey-86.bsky.social @brenda-bailey-86.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A just transition to sustainable economies.
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
402-433 million cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers & farm workers & 11,000 deaths each year France, Germany & Italy now recognise Parkinson's as an occupational disease for farmers Still, pesticide use continues to grow year on year: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find
Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
UPDATE 🚨 🧵1️⃣ Via ~ Physicians for Human Rights Israel Dr. Abu Safiya: “Prison Guards Continue to Beat Me and Threaten Me to Keep Silent” Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Gaza Strip, who has been held by Israel without charge or trial since December 2024, reported in
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Collective memory is always short." 🧵1️⃣ 11 years ago, the lifeless body of Alan Kurdi, three years, became the symbol of the failure of European migration policies. Since 2025, over 25,000 migrants have lost their lives in the Mediterranean. Alan's story
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Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
RIP Wendell Berry.
Image shows a screenshot of a Poem by Wendell Berry

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. 
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water. 
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.
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The Secret Way the Rich are Getting Richer
The biggest untold story about how we pay for government involves a big switcheroo by America’s wealthy. Watch.
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DrMary @drshowup.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What Calvin said..
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
See also #PostOfficeScandal #ToryCovidCatastrophe etc etc ….
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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Great article by James Waterson on the story behind last Saturday's A66 crash in Middlesbrough. Courtesy of @northeastbylines.co.uk The A66 tragedy: breaking a cycle that began long before social media northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...
northeastbylines.co.uk
The A66 tragedy: breaking a cycle that began long before social media
Seven human beings went onto the A66 that night and none of them came home. That should be enough to make Teesside stop and think
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Harbour porpoises are in danger. Oil giant ExxonMobil wants to build a carbon capture site in the North Sea. They want to blast the ocean floor with sound cannons—for 3 months, nonstop. Let’s call on the German govt to say NO the plans! act.sumofus.org/go/761561?t=...
Harbour porpoise with upper body out of the water
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Kate Carmody @caitmaxine.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A high speed train from Dublin to Limerick could help develop Limerick as a counterbalance to an over crowded Dublin.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 21/08/2026
Teesside coast latest: whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on Residents of Redcar and Marske have reported an “infernal vibrating noise” over the past few days, emanating from the North Sea, and keeping them awake at night. So what’s happening? northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...
northeastbylines.co.uk
Teesside coast latest: whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on
Residents of Redcar and Marske have reported an “infernal vibrating noise” over the past few days, emanating from the North Sea, and keeping them awake at night. So what’s happening?
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Kate Carmody @caitmaxine.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#Beal
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The real choice before us is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works just for the rich. If the Democrat's mega-donor class chooses the latter, it may be acting in its narrow self-interest — but it will also be acting against the future of this nation.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Reform UK plans ban on all foreign nationals claiming benefits, including EU citizens legally settled in UK They can work, pay taxes but won't get most benefits. Expect other countries to retaliate. At home, will cut benefits to poor, disabled, old, children. Silence on corporate welfare.
independent.co.uk
Reform criticised for ‘cruel’ ban on all foreign nationals claiming benefits
Nigel Farage’s party says there would be only a small number of exceptions, including the War Widows Pension and Armed Forces compensation
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William Murphy @futuredude.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We are taught that punishment comes after a crime. Engels revealed something far more disturbing: in a class society, economic insecurity itself becomes a form of punishment. Poverty is not only suffered — it is used as a mechanism of discipline.
futuredude.substack.com
The Invisible Prison: Engels, Social Punishment, and the Hidden Machinery of Class Discipline
How Capitalism Transforms Economic Insecurity into a System of Control
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Kate Carmody @caitmaxine.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Dreadful news. 😥
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 09/08/2026
Thetford’s unrest did not appear from nowhere. A town shaped by poverty, isolation and a decade-long life-expectancy gap. And then - national headlines. Peter Thurlow reports.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Medieval mumbo-jumbo and simple hate lie behind the Thetford riots
A town that should be quiet has erupted and hit the national headlines – again. What’s behind it all?
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ElmsGlen @elmsglen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Yep.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 07/08/2026
Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 7, 2026 ~ The big lie. "Our ability to share knowledge and understand the situation we’re in has become utterly compromised, and deadly. If so many people weren’t dying and going to die, it would almost be impressive." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
currentaffairs.org
The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The GMO myth—cheaper food? Or deeper hunger, greater corporate power? #GMO crops & hi-tech intensive ag have been hyped as a solution to hunger in South Africa. But they've brought corporate enclosure, chemical dependency and tech dependence, says Mariam Mayet www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...
dailymaverick.co.za
The GMO myth — cheaper food, deeper hunger, greater corporate power
A challenge to the GMO narrative — corporate-controlled industrial farming fails to address the structural roots of South African hunger.…
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Quinn Leone @quinnleone.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Canada Begins Construction on Wall
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Who audits big companies for mega fees? On paper it is the big four accounting firms - Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC. But they use offshore networks. There people without proper control do audits remotely. For bigger profits. Offshoring of audits is not disclosed. archive.ph/MBclD
ft.com
Big Four’s use of offshore auditors sparks concern from UK accounting watchdog
Financial Reporting Council says it will monitor how the largest firms manage their overseas teams for the next year
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Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org · 02/08/2026
Basic income is a floor to stand on, but also a springboard, whether that's starting a business, making art, or caring for family, without having to prove your worth through production first.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Crumbling infrastructure & lack of water jeopardising govt plans for new homes. Privatisation of England's water prioritised shareholder returns. No new reservoirs, desalination plants, or national grid of water. Companies don't do national planning. Yet govts intoxicated with privatisation
theguardian.com
‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk
Council leaders say crumbling infrastructure and lack of water are jeopardising government’s plans for new homes
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Israel building new land barriers in Gaza and displacing families
Experts have told the BBC that the earthworks suggest Israel is planning for a long-term internal border.
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Where do social change movements fit into political organising? Let’s take a look 👀 open.substack.com/pub/harryecc...
open.substack.com
Social Change vs Political Change
Exploring the role of social movements in the wider political context
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Don Comer @doncomer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Karl Widerquist @karlwiderquist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This article is free to read or download UNTIL September 11, 2026. So don't delay, act now Michael W. Howard, “Basic income, reciprocity, and the power to exit,” World Development Perspectives, Volume 43, September 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
sciencedirect.com
Basic income, reciprocity, and the power to exit
This paper will address the following questions: 1) what kind of basic income would enable exit from paid employment? 2) Is such a basic income sustai…
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Kate Carmody @caitmaxine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
They are lovely and are fond of thistles. There seems to be an abundance of butterflies in the meadows this year.
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