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Jo @jopoole1964.bsky.social · 12m

"banks have been reporting strong profits, largely off the back of high interest rates, with bosses subsequently increasing banker bonus pots and handing billions of pounds to shareholders." #taxthem #costofgreedcrisis

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Jo @jopoole1964.bsky.social · 16m

The banks accepted the tax-payer bailouts, but are now lobbying hard not to contribute a fair share in return. What a surprise. #costofgreedcrisis

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"So Reform UK LTD are spending some of their cryptocurrency donations by sending out 15 million 8 page flyers to homes if you want them or not. It would be a shame if people who didn’t want them send them back making them pay for the postage?" via Mike F Shaw

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23h

How Noble Ed Sheeran and Metallica are... 🤮

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23h

Mick Lynch wants a progressive wealth tax, which is a Green Party Policy, with the richest paying the same as everyone else on PAYE, 47%. That would bring in hundred of billions, it is time for the richest to pay what everyone else has been paying their whole lives.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Trump's DHS raiding and trying to strip the citizenship of Ilhan Omar just weeks before the election is fascism, pure and simple If his thugs can do this to a member of Congress, they can do it to you too. I stand with @ilhanmn.bsky.social.

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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-atta... @albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social Today your Israeli mates killed Six-year-old Shahd Abdul-Razzaq an-Najjar she died early Saturday from wounds sustained when Israeli forces shot her inside her family’s tent west of Gaza City Sanction Israel!

israelpalestinenews.org

Israeli Attacks Kill Seven in Gaza Including Six-year-old Girl

Israeli airstrikes and gunfire across the Gaza Strip continued on Saturday, killing Palestinian civilians despite the “ceasefire” agreement.

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 14/10/2026

Can someone help us get this message to Andy Burnham? Labour voters want public ownership, not public control - it is time to deliver it

Graphic that says "Andy Burnham, Labour voters want you to deliver public ownership" and shows that 77% to 91% support public ownership of different public services

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Pretty extraordinary for the Jewish Chronicle to run an op ed & news story about Nigel Farage warning of antisemitism in the Greens without mentioning that he is the only serving major party leader to have been criticised by Jewish groups for using tropes linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Exclusive: Nigel Farage calls on Labour to rule out pacts with Green Party
After Polanksi’s party calls Zionism racist, former Labour minister says: I’m no fan of Reform leader but he’s right here

Labour must rule out electoral pacts with the Greens who have embraced antisemitic dogma
Reform UK’s leader says sectarian politics and importation of fundamentalism have no place in our democracy

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Reform UK has said that ‘there’s no room for racism’ in the party. Is that because it’s already chock-full of racism, from head to toe?

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Without Margaret Thatcher this would have been the UK.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"Kathy Burke has spoken out about how working-class people are treated in Britain, particularly those who are struggling financially, and she’s made it pretty clear what she thinks about the way some newspapers portray them." via British Comedy Classics #BlameMillionairesNotMigrants

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Jewish MP Gerald Kaufmann in Parliament in 2009. "My Grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her town, a German soldier shot her dead." "My Grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israel to murder Palestinian Grandmothers in Gaza."

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Jo @jopoole1964.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

RNLI are apparently "hard left Marxist who are intent on destroying everything that exists" according to the increasingly deranged Farage. What EVERYTHING that exists?? The guy is severely mentally unstable.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A reminder less than 4 years ago Flavio Bolsonaro's father tried to carry out a coup in Brazil. Flavio intends to release his father. Say no to Fascism, vote Lula.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/10/2026

One year ago today, the U.S. killed Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo, two Trinidadian men coming home after working on farms in Venezuela to provide for their families. They were both looking forward to being home. But, they never made it because of the Trump administration's illegal boat strikes.

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Families of two men killed in Trump’s military boat strikes sue US government

First-of-its kind suit filed by civil rights attorneys on behalf of families centers on 14 October strike in Caribbean Sea that killed six

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Jo @jopoole1964.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Experts"?? "Welfare Inqury"? Nah, just extremism & hate

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

On the birthday of Margaret Thatcher, let us take a moment to remember what a cruel, heartless piece of shit she was.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The objection to Zionism isn't an objection to 'national self-determination'. It's an objection to national self-determination - at the expense of another people. Palestinians have rights as much as anybody else.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In the last hour Israel have started dropping bombs on the few surviving buildings in Gaza, in their final steps to ethnically cleanse the whole of Gaza. All during a supposed Ceasefire.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.

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The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan

Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.

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Jo @jopoole1964.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Redistribution Redistribution Redistribution

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We’ll tell you what’s boring, Farage and the BBC… honking out Reform’s latest anti-asylum seeker bollox, as if it’s workable or wanted, and without any meaningful scrutiny. Yusuf on #r4today like a firehose of fascist idiocy, when this is the ugly truth behind their desperate outburst…

Mirror headline:

Nigel Farage's latest announcement comes as Reform UK continue to struggle with falling poll ratings (O Gary Oakley/PA Wire)
Nigel Farage hits panic button and vows to ban all asylum seekers for five years after Reform poll plunge

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Correctly blaming Putin & Farage for the demise of the UK in one day. G'wan lad.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I know that people that shout at the radio when it’s Justin Webb but him saying “there’s no evidence” of Russian interference in 2016 is so enraging. There were online ads. This is not in doubt. Even the Torygraph has reported it… www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2...

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Former Labour Deputy Leader Lord Thomas Watson, now Senior VP at Palantir UK, wrote to me defending their public contracts. Instead of trading letters, I’ve challenged him to an open, public debate. He can defend Palantir’s ethos; I’ll argue for public accountability. Will you accept, Tom?

Formal letter from Clive Lewis MP, Member of Parliament for Norwich South, to Lord Thomas Watson of Wyre Forest, Senior Vice President of Palantir Technologies UK Limited, dated 7 October 2026. In the letter, Lewis challenges Watson to a public debate regarding Palantir's role in government contracts and public institutions. Lewis rejects Watson's claim that criticisms malign software engineers, stressing that elected officials must scrutinize corporate power, democratic control, and public accountability. He proposes a debate with an impartial chair, equal time, and audience questions.

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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Number of times Nigel Farage lost Westminster elections before becoming an MP: 7 Number of times the BBC called for him to quit: zero.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK

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Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party

The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Spanish are chanting "Socialism or Barbarism". Which is pretty much the only choices available

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

At times like this, the mask really comes off the British media. There is no pretence - at all - about their impartiality or objectivity towards the Green Party. It is a blatant naked partisan cross-media assault against the Greens.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Protests that started in Spain and then spread to France and Brazil have now started in Belgium. People are sick of being told there is 'no money' by billionaires who are becoming trillionaires.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you think a distinct sub category of human exists because some medieval warlords agreed that the border of England should be on the River Tweed, you are, Im afraid, an absolute maniac bsky.app/profile/theh...

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"The United States are not the champions of freedom they pretend to be, but rather the main culprits of the oppression and misery of the world's peoples." - Che Guevara, UN, 1964.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mick Lynch "Zack Polanski isn't inciting hatred for Jews he believes he is an agent of peace and that Israel is carrying out Mass Murder in Gaza and the West Bank, and I believe that too." When Mick Lynch speaks sense, he speaks sense.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Elon Musk told us to mark this. But he accidentally deleted it. So just for him I have recovered it and posted it.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Jo @jopoole1964.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's simpler than that. They just have the power of critical thinking.

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Jo @jopoole1964.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So much positive coverage for hating poor people

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