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Anti-austerity, anti-fascist. Mostly social science. Send me data.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 05/10/2025
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Lost Muttley my Westie broken @lordcollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
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Save NHS dentistry now!
I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
And this is the book the Times are reporting on.
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The Fraud
Using a cache of hitherto unseen documents and exclusive insider accounts, this sensational new book tells the story of how a shadowy group, Labour Together, came to the cusp of delivering Sir Keir St...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/09/2025
The UK doesn’t have First Amendment free speech protections, but the Brits don’t GAF‼️
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Highly sus Yankee behavior has freaked out sensible and cautious Finns… who now save 7.3% of their income! This is a nation that fears the future.
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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🇬🇱🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Petition: Higher tax on income of £400,000, and exit tax if they move to another country petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... Deadline 6 November
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Tax wealth, increase wages & benefits - economy boosted Give money to wealthy, disappears off-shore - economy fails "TUC hits back at banking boss who suggested public-sector pay should be curbed because the economy falling" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/its-...
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‘It’s time for a grown-up conversation about taxing wealth’
UNIONS called for a “grown-up conversation” about taxing wealth, banks and gambling companies today, after data showed Britain’s economy has flatlined.The TUC also hit back at a banking boss for sugge...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
We live in the age of Rancid Capitalism where you are charged more and more for services that don't work because the same people own them all and there is no choice. There is only one solution destroy the system and get rid of the parasites in charge.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
In 2003, anti-war activists broke into RAF Fairford to stop US bombers heading to Iraq. Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes. Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same. The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Sign the @divideclass open letter demanding action on education and inequality in Brighton & Hove: www.classdivide.co.uk/take-action-...
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Support our open letter on education inequity — Class Divide
Sign our open letter calling for urgent action to address education inequality in Brighton & Hove. Add your name and stand for change.
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Stop School Cuts @schoolcuts.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Today, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her funding plans for schools through to 2029.  And thanks to you -- we won back billions for schools.  There's a long way to go. But today, we're celebrating a win for schools.
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
In Manhattan, ICE officers were forced to flee inside 26 Federal Plaza
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2025
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect
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acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
#China’s share of USTs outstanding is at a 20y low, chart @MorganStanley
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Can anyone tell me what this article argues? I can't get round the paywall. www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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Why Gen X is the real loser generation
Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This was a conscious, deliberate project by Osborne and Cameron, not for any real reason but because it struck them as the type of things Tories should do. The political/media class jointly crushed and annihilated the anti-austerity movement that grew organically to resist it, working hand in hand.
Can't tell you how often I hear versions of what Vicky said here "I don't live now. I just survive"
-consistently since the pandemic phrase like "I just live to work and work to live" or "there's nothing left over for the fun stuff in life" & it's a key driver of national misery
Luke Tryl @LukeTryl•22h
Many we spoke to were deeply unhappy with the status quo, particularly the cost of living which they felt wasn't getting better. Vicky explained "The way we're living now, it's ridiculous. I'm getting up at my age still at half past four in the morni... Show more
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The most disillusioned are often those, who are keeping their head above water, they can (literally) keep the lights and heating on - but have to tell their kids to put treats back in the supermarket or can't go on a day trip.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Bank chiefs to Reeves: Ditch ring-fencing to boost UK economy. Speculative part of banking was ring-fenced from retail after the 2007-08 crash to contain crashes. Most post-crash reforms now reversed, govts push deregulation. Playing with fire. People will bear the cost of reckless practices.
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Bank chiefs to Reeves: Ditch ring-fencing to boost UK economy
The bosses of HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, NatWest Group and Santander UK have told the chancellor the moment has come to abolish bank ring-fencing in an explosive letter obtained by Sky News.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.
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Dame Rainbow Warrior @damerainbowwarrior.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The #dollars that flow abroad in trade do not disappear. They are used in cross-border trade or to purchase US financial assets such as UST, corporate #equities and #bonds and foreign direct investments, chart (pivotal) @NordeaMarkets
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Truly mad that this is not more widely understood. Inflation is not just about tariffs and interest rates. Climate change is also driving inflation - and it is not going away. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Tariffs will raise prices. But the climate crisis is the real inflation risk | Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli
As temperatures rise and countries back off their decarbonization efforts, we must confront a reality central banks can’t correct
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
And it shows...
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Labour has had FOUR times the private healthcare donations of every other party
Evidently, the private healthcare sector thinks Labour is the right horse to back for advancing its interests, namely NHS privatisation
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
He did it. He crashed the entire economy. In exactly 90 days.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Andy Burnham, "The country took a series of wrong turns in the 1980s" "It's left people in a situation where the essentials of life, water, homes, electricity, buses, rail, these are way expensive compared to everywhere else in Europe" "It's about fixing that and turning it around"
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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barney farmer @barneyfarmer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It’s just like Twitter in the early days, only everyone is middle-aged or just plain old, and exhausted.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
After all that effort to bring down used-car prices — and #CPI along with it. Auto insurance should be fun, too. 🤡 @steventdennis.bsky.social @cargurus.bsky.social www.cargurus.com/research/pri...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
It is pretty incredible that the unified view of almost the entire political class is “I’m afraid there’s just no other way to provide the public with drinking water except for thieves to steal money they should be using for infrastructure upgrades, while hosing half the country with human shit”.
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Moik @theothermike.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 20/03/2025
“Tax the wealth of the super rich more, public say - Tax Justice UK The 350 richest individuals and families in the UK hold combined wealth of £795 billion. “A sum larger than the annual GDP of Poland”” #TaxTheRich taxjustice.uk/blog/tax-the...
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Tax the wealth of the super rich more, public say - Tax Justice UK
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Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social a reminder. Because apparently you need it.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
All you need to know about Twitter
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David McNab @mcfab59.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
We love Gary - he cares about the right things - but his understanding of govt finance is woeful. Gary, mate, a state that freely issues its own currency cannot ever, ever, ever, go bankrupt in the currency it issues. Imagine how 💪🏻 Gary would be if he knew MMT? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAb_...
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How to stop the economy from collapsing
YouTube video by Garys Economics
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Europe Lacks 'Brains', Not Weapons www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL98...
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Europe Lacks 'Brains', Not Weapons | Yanis Varoufakis
YouTube video by Thinkers Forum
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Don’t worry Starmer fans, everything they’re doing is in your interests🙄 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns
Keir Starmer has been dealt a fresh blow to his living standards pledge in advance of the spring statement
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Goodbye Die Linke: In its quest to become a ‘normal’, ‘acceptable’ party, Die Linke has joined the warmongering radical centrists in their rearmament folly www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/03/22/g...
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Goodbye, LINKE! - Yanis Varoufakis
In its quest to become a ‘normal’, ‘acceptable’ party, Die Linke has joined the warmongering radical centrists in their rearmament folly This past week was one for the history books. The German parlia...
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Let's start a new political party. Call it the Notausterity Party. Commit Britain to doing only things that aren't austerity. That would be truly refreshing.
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David McNab @mcfab59.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
There are two very simple solutions to the perpetual ‘cost of borrowing’ meltdown: tell the BoE to drop interest rates to zero OR stop issuing bonds. High time the UK took Japan’s lead and put the financial markets back in the box Thatcher released them from. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Government borrowing higher than expected in February
The latest figures for the UK economy add pressure on Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of her Spring Statement next week.
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The Labour government will be spying on your bank account.
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What the Government won’t tell you about bank snooping plans
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
😢 Sea life along Norfolk coast under new threat from toxic plastic. A recent North Sea cargo collision released a devastating plastic spill. The RSPB reports it is threatening Norfolk’s fragile coastline wildlife at the start of nesting season. 🪺
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Sea life along Norfolk coast under new threat from toxic plastic
The recent North Sea cargo collision has unleashed a devastating plastic spill, threatening Norfolk’s fragile wildlife and coastline
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Rick Wolff on #DOGE closures. He nails it. It's class war. The right want to coerce working people to "do more with less." As Clara Mattei explains in the Capital Order, that's always been the essence of #austerity. www.podbean.com/ea/dir-udnkx...
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Federal Employees Fight Back
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the firing of government workers by Trump/Musk with an economic analysis showing it to be an attack on the U.S. working class followed...
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Jada Jones @jadajones57.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 08/03/2025
There is an alternative to Government welfare cuts - a 2% tax on wealth. There is no shortage of money here, we just need a fairer approach to tax - take more from the few not the many.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Congratulations to the senior Tories who, having been told this for a mere 60 years, and staunchly denied it throughout, have finally twigged that it might not be a brilliant idea to have a nuclear deterrent which can be switched off by another state. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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US support to maintain UK’s nuclear arsenal is in doubt, experts say
Malcolm Rifkind joins diplomats and analysts urging focus on European cooperation to replace Trident
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
@adamtooze.bsky.social Is this data relevant in 2025? In Crashed, you wrote that "the central axis of world finance was not Asian-American but Euro-American." Can we still claim anything similar?
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ianb @ianb3019.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
However much certain commentators want to bury Europe, in 2007, "the central axis of world finance was not Asian American but Euro-American." It may have changed. Prove it to me. Quote & graphic from Adam Tooze, Crashed, 2018.
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