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Strategist, mathematician, author of 99% (FT Best Books of 2019) and founder of the 99% Organisation. Join us here: 99-percent.org

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 35m
Can we reverse the power shift that began four decades ago? This is the biggest question lurking behind the midterm campaigns. Some thoughts. ⬇️ robertreich.substack.com/p/the-cent…
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Alanwino @alanwino.bsky.social · 6h
This is horrifying and unconscionably cruel. Words fail me. What has the US become?
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 7h
Make sure your Labour MP reads this one!
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s not nearly as advanced as they want you to think….
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 17h
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 13h
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 6h
Also if you are using X you are normalizing Grok output.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 9h
England's water infrastructure at breaking point. Large part of water network installed 130-150 years ago. Thames Water infrastructure has average age of 79 years; industry average 56 yrs. 40% of TW assets are 100+ yrs old. Must end privatisation, remove profit motive.
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MP says London water network is 'at breaking point' with two incidents in a week
London MP Paul Kohler said the two incidents highlighted the poor state of the region's water infrastructure
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 7h
Make sure your Labour MP reads this one!
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The 99% Organisation @99organisation.bsky.social · 7h
This week’s letter focusses on the Labour Party Conference. What the key speeches said. And, more importantly, what they could and should have said. sh1.sendinblue.com/mk/sc/f4KisR...
Andy Burnham in front of a message reading "Hope again."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I continue to warn against complacence. It’s still vitally important that we vote and remain vigilant against Trump’s interference in our elections. But with a little more than four weeks to go before the midterms, I’m breathing a wee bit easier. Here's why...
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Sunday thought: What’s Up With Kansas?
The power of kitchen-table economics
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
1/ Burnham’s Conference Speech: Positive signs for progressive politics, but the work isn’t done. 🧵 It’s been a tumultuous summer with a new PM. Continuing themes set out over the summer, Andy Burnham told Labour conference the country has been on the wrong path for 40 years.
A screenshot of a news headline from The Guardian. The top category text in red reads "Andy Burnham". The headline reads, "‘He feels more relatable’: Burnham’s conference speech wins praise from drifting Labour voters". Subheading: "The UK prime minister has earned his party a rehearing but the battle of public opinion is not yet won". Byline: Luke Tryl, published Saturday, 3 October 2026.
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Vince Gomez @vincegomez.com · 04/10/2026
A household uses pounds. The government issues them. It can't run out of pounds. It can run out of nurses, builders and engineers, and spending past what they can supply brings inflation. That's the real limit.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Indeed Dump on the poor and vulnerable Improve the lives of the rich www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I'm a classic old school Conservative, says Kemi Badenoch
The Tory leader seeks to echo Margaret Thatcher as she sets out her guiding political principles.
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Vince Gomez @vincegomez.com · 04/10/2026
Elliott's column, well worth a read: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rightwing economic myths could derail Burnham’s project – to destroy them, look to Keynes | Larry Elliott
Borrowing can be good, there is no such thing as the ‘nation’s credit card’, and, yes, you can buck the markets – as previous governments have shown, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
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Vince Gomez @vincegomez.com · 04/10/2026
Elliott ends on Keynes. So do the films: "Anything we can actually do we can afford." The question is never "can we afford it?" It's "do we have the people and resources to do it?"
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Vince Gomez @vincegomez.com · 04/10/2026
"There is no such thing as the nation's credit card." – Larry Elliott in the Guardian last week. Here's the mechanism behind that, from the Acts, the Treasury's accounts and the Bank of England, in a 12-minute film 🧵 vincegomez.com/how-money-wo...
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Is the Government Like a Household?
The whole cycle — the vote, the issue, the tax, the gilt — and why the answer matters.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026
Reform UK’s ‘Small Boat Watch’ app is in flagrant violation of both Google Play and the Apple Store’s rules. Send an email to the Apple’s Head of the UK App Store and the General Manager of Games on Google Play to demand that this app is removed immediately.
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Tell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Prime Minister Andy Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials 👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials
The key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead.
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🦋 C.G., PhD 🐸 (🪖"Prima" AKA "Battle" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
WE will not be silenced! ✊🏾 👭 #IAmJaneDoe #Pinks 🌸
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And that is not *just* unfair. It is dangerous. Extreme wealth vs the 99% - 99% share.google/8aamEkk7OjSV...
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Extreme wealth vs the 99% - 99%
How a small number of the extremely wealthy have declared class war on the rest of us, and what we must do to stop them In almost every country, 2025 […]
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m not violent but seeing this makes me feel I’d happily pin him to the wall and smack him one if he didn’t apologize.. My dearly departed dad had dementia.. other elderly family members also, it’s not something anyone should ever mock It causes so much pain to everyone involved there’s no excuse
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
SENATOR SLOTKIN: If you hear in the next 34 days that there is a new security threat that you’ve never heard of, that somehow requires federal law enforcement or the military and not local police, an alarm bell should go off in your brain. Do not let him get away with that
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes. And our politicians have allowed themselves to be constrained by our institutions. If we want sane policy-making, that must change now. 99-percent.org/ending-treas...
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Ending Treasury-Induced Decline - 99%
We can’t afford another Budget that fails to move the needle on the cost-of-living crisis. So what should we do? Summary of the event On Tuesday 15 September, Clive Lewis, […]
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes, there is a tremendous amount of leakage to be addressed before he even *thinks* about taking more from the vulnerable. 99-percent.org/a-blueprint-...
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A Blueprint for Economic Renewal - 99%
Can Labour still keep its promise of renewal and, if so, how? This is an approximate transcript of the presentation which launched our new report, A Blueprint for Economic Renewal, […]
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
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Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 2015, when I started writing 99%, my friends thought that my concern over the US and the UK ceasing to be civilised, prosperous western nations was unfounded. Now it looks obvious. 99-percent.org/the-book/
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The Book - 99%
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Clémence Guetté @clemenceguette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bonne nouvelle. Les syndicats de salariés rejoignent la mobilisation de la jeunesse. Le 6 octobre peut être l'occasion d'une grande mobilisation de masse. Le gouvernement doit entendre l'appel des lycéens et répondre à leurs revendications : une vie digne pour toutes et tous.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Graham gets it #wealthtax #fairtaxation
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Alan Gallery @alangallery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In the 70s, the boss's salary was not a staggering multiple of a basic employee's wage and the top income tax rate was 70%.
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Their behaviour certainly suggests that! Even if they deny it.
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Very good idea. Young people especially should boycott.
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Alan Gallery @alangallery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Time for all pensioners and their families to boycott Iceland because their boss hates pensioners. Protect pensions and the triple lock for all future pensioners who rely on the state pension.
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Poor Sir Simon. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 'remarkable national recovery' he refers to is a myth. The 1980s was when our national decline started. I wonder where he gets his information? 99-percent.org/back-to-the-...
A post suggesting that the 1980s saw a national recovery from the previous period -- entirely inconsistent with the facts.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
via Campbell Finnie
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Laurence Bowden @lawbow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bottom line is, we went from a manufacturing economy to a service industry economy. Thatcher & the grey suits behind her made the rich richer & most of the rest poorer/homeless. The foundations of the mess we are in now were laid then. Young Farage saw what he could become & UKIP/Brexit was outcome
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 01/10/2026
A £276 increase in bills in January would be the final straw for millions across the country. The Prime Minister must turn words into actions and stop bills going up on his watch.
Green graphic image with Hannah Spencer's photo quoting her: 'The Prime Minister must commit to stopping bills rising'. Full quote reads:

“Andy Burnham keeps talking about giving families breathing space. But actions speak louder than words and bills are still going up on his watch when people can’t afford it.  

A £276 increase in January would be the final straw for many people in the constituency I represent and for millions across the country.

The Prime Minister must commit now to stopping bills going up in January, starting with moving more costs off energy bills, properly funding a national home insulation scheme, clamping down on rampant profiteering by energy companies, and rapidly scaling up cheaper, cleaner energy.”
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes, absolutely. "This inequity is not just unfair; it is actively harmful. It harms the rest of the population, it harms the planet and it harms democracy." 99-percent.org/extreme-weal...
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Extreme wealth vs the 99% - 99%
How a small number of the extremely wealthy have declared class war on the rest of us, and what we must do to stop them In almost every country, 2025 […]
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools.
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes. And our politicians have allowed themselves to be constrained by our institutions. If we want sane policy-making, that must change now. 99-percent.org/ending-treas...
99-percent.org
Ending Treasury-Induced Decline - 99%
We can’t afford another Budget that fails to move the needle on the cost-of-living crisis. So what should we do? Summary of the event On Tuesday 15 September, Clive Lewis, […]
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Forget Milk Snatcher, Margaret Thatcher literally sold orphans for profits. She is the Child Snatcher. The forced privatisation of Children Home's is Margaret Thatcher's most evil legacy. Even though she has so, so many.
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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Larry Elliott is as eloquent and coherent as ever. The Chancellor needs him...not just us as an economist, but also as a communicator. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rightwing economic myths could derail Burnham’s project – to destroy them, look to Keynes | Larry Elliott
Borrowing can be good, there is no such thing as the ‘nation’s credit card’, and, yes, you can buck the markets – as previous governments have shown, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
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Amias Channer @amias.net · 02/10/2026
pensions are the invisible hand funding the predatory investment structures behind mining , oil/gas and weapons that are driving climate change. trying to get your pension funds invested ethically is very difficult despite them being the most solidly reliable performers.
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It is still possible for him to deliver. But it will need more rewiring than he has so far said he aims to do. 99-percent.org/a-blueprint-...
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A Blueprint for Economic Renewal - 99%
Can Labour still keep its promise of renewal and, if so, how? This is an approximate transcript of the presentation which launched our new report, A Blueprint for Economic Renewal, […]
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Shut up, man. Say "thank you" to someone who took time to explain a term to you about which you plainly had no idea, instead of continuing to argue from a position of utter ignorance. It is so fkn exhausting. Like a forever remedial class with an infinite number of disruptive teenagers.
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@X - Account and name stolen by Elon Musk @justis4u.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meanwhile #Scotland shows that a #pedophile is accountable no matter how famous he/she is!
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