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Jim Pearson

@pearson26.bsky.social
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Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, retired, socialist.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
“Who’s Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be” 9/21/21 1/ time.com/6092844/pete...
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Who’s Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be
Author Max Chafkin argues that Thiel may be the most powerful person in Silicon Valley—and perhaps the world.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 25/03/2025
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
'Amateur hour': Flabbergasted experts react as Pete Hegseth shares war plans with reporter www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...
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'Amateur hour': Flabbergasted experts react as Pete Hegseth shares war plans with reporter
A bombshell report in The Atlantic revealed that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared classified information in a Signal chat that included a reporter among its membership. It's something that off...
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Jim Pearson @pearson26.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"With crushing inevitability, after the Daily Mail piece, the health secretary, Wes Streeting. told GB News the story showed why the welfare system needed reform" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Motability: is it true that the disability scheme is taking UK taxpayers for a ride?
Understanding the rightwing backlash over the government scheme helping people with serious disabilities get a car
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Jim Pearson @pearson26.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"Donald Trump’s second term has so far been a case study in how systems built for those whose rights have been diluted or taken away eventually devour those who were assumed to be safe from such violations." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump’s imperial plan is now eroding the rights of people who thought they were safe | Nesrine Malik
His targeting of foreigners with residencies or work visas was inevitable: to achieve his aims, more and more people must be disenfranchised, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I've highlighted this incase a number of Scottish Labour supporters need it underlined in crayon. Scottish produced energy will be used mainly to benefit England. #AreYouYesYet
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West England Bylines @westenglandbylines.co.uk · 24/03/2025
Labour could raise an immediate £40 billion by simply imposing a 1 per cent wealth tax on the people worth in excess of £10 million
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Charles Barr @charlesbarr.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Scotland cannot be independent because BREXIT was such a mess. This is one argument I have received for staying in the union. A government not elected by Scotland messed up something Scotland voted against but was forced on us. Is not a reason for us to do our own thing.
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Can’t make this up.
A tweet from "Covie" (@covie_93) that reads:
"Speaker Mike Johnson from the great state of 'Louisnana' wants to get rid of the Department of Education."

Below the tweet is an image of a large blue curtain featuring an emblem with a pelican and the words "SUPREME COURT" and "CONFIDENCE." The word "LOUISNANA" is prominently misspelled instead of "LOUISIANA." The mistake is highlighted with a red circle. In the foreground, three judges in black robes are seated at a table.
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Jim Pearson @pearson26.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"average age of the children pronounced dead at Nasser hospital after this week’s new wave of attacks was between 6 & 8years old & about 35% of all casualties were under 14, said Morgan McMonagle, an Irish vascular surgeon volunteering with the NGO Medical Aid." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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‘There was just wave after wave’: Gaza doctors recount horror of the last week
About a third of all casualties admitted to Nasser hospital were under 14, as Israeli airstrikes broke fragile ceasefire
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Jim Pearson @pearson26.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
No more than I'd expect from Starmer🤦🏻‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Starmer is warned against ‘appeasing’ Trump with tax cut for US tech firms
Labour MP and Lib Dem leader express concern social media companies could be let off hook just as benefits are cut
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Straightforwardly BNP-level rhetoric on "remigration" in the Telegraph (endorsed, as @rolandmcs.bsky.social points out, by Daniel Hannan).
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
“The world has changed” says Chancellor on #bbclaurak. Yes it has - so why stick to outdated counterproductive austerity agenda & arbitrary fiscal rules? You can’t cut your way to growth. Taxes on extreme wealth of super rich would be fairer & more effective than more cuts @patmillsuk.bsky.social
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Fair question.
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The US is scheduled to co-host the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics in 2028.
Why would thousands of international athletes and millions of fans from around the world come to a country where tourists, asylum seekers, and visa holders are being disappeared to foreign prisons?
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Rachel Reeves is falling apart in front of our eyes, as she crashes and burns live on TV Labour's plan to undo austerity was to repeat the word 'growth' over and over. Now that's failed, Reeves is having to defend the chaos. She's doing a terrible job of it. www.thecanary.co/long-read/20...
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Rachel Reeves is falling apart in front of our eyes, as she crashes and burns live on TV
Rachel Reeves is falling apart in front of our eyes, as she crashes and burns live on TV from Canary on 23 March 2025
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Does this make me a terrorist?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
So tax breaks for tech bosses and welfare cuts for the disabled
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 23/03/2025
If you ever wondered how the KGB manipulated foreigners and got them to repeat Soviet propaganda, spend some time listening to Steve Witkoff talk about his wonderful conversations with Vladimir Putin.
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Economic numpty Reeves still spouting the BS. If you are going to fix #BrokenBritain you need to invest in the country and avoid cuts. For example, Labour could create many thousands of jobs in a shift to a green economy. But instead we get the oligarch's AI BS. #LearnMMT
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Rachel Reeves to cut 10,000 civil service jobs in effort to lower government costs
UK chancellor ‘not satisfied’ with the current numbers, but promises the economy and living standards will improve
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Jim Pearson @pearson26.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
🤮🤮🤮 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Keir Starmer says he ‘likes and respects’ Donald Trump
PM agrees with US president that Europe must bear greater burden for its collective self-defence
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Jim Pearson @pearson26.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
My (highly) personal opinion. Too many UK firms run by accountants from public schools. Lack of investment in technology and training.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
This. Is. Very. Good.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
It doesn't matter if it is Rwanda, or Balkans, it doesn't matter if it is classed as offshoring or outsourcing and it doesn't matter if it is Tories or Labour doing it, shipping people who were seeking safety to a random third country is inhumane, and potentially illegal. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Government considering sending failed asylum seekers to Balkans
Home Office officials have discussed proposals to set up overseas "return hubs"
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Xavier transitioned and became Vivian Jenna Wilson. She is alive and well and lives in Japan. No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
If benefits cuts are pushed through there is no reason for any Minister, MP, member to remain in a shell of a Labour party totally lacking in empathy, care, justice, fairness "Labour ministers could resign over benefits cuts as tensions grow" inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Labour ministers could resign over benefits cuts as tensions grow
A minister told The i Paper that expected spending cuts at next week's Spring Statement will only make anger within the front bench worse
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Truer words were never spoken.
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
UK Tourist Returns Home from US in Chains Like ‘Hannibal Lecter’. I'm not planning to visit the US (or Belarus, or North Korea). But if I were I'd be cancelling the trip immediately. www.thedailybeast.com/uk-tourist-b...
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U.K. Tourist Returns Home in Chains Like ‘Hannibal Lecter’
Becky Burke was released in chains and handcuffs after spending 19 days in an ICE detention facility
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Jim Pearson @pearson26.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
"Her attempts to attract attention come tinged with desperation, as when she made the Truss-ish declaration to one rightwing audience that the survival of “our country and all of western civilisation” depends on the revival of the Conservative party." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Kemi Badenoch is failing to hit the spot at PMQs – and everywhere else | Andrew Rawnsley
The Conservative leader isn’t convincing fellow Tories that she possesses a viable route map to recovery
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Jim Pearson @pearson26.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"No matter that Israel’s genocidaires have killed about 50,000 Palestinians. He wants the seafront property free of charge, its surviving owners evicted, so he can build a luxury resort. “Welcome to the Rafah Riviera, the Trump Organisation’s Nakba-on-the-Med" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Donald Trump’s imperial presidency is a throwback to a greedier, pernicious age | Simon Tisdall
His attempts to bully and exploit the weak hark back to an era when the US emulated the worst aspects of the British empire
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Andrius Kubilius, the European Commissioner for Defence Industry and Space: “There are 450 million Europeans. We should not be crying out for 340 million Americans to defend us against 140 million Russians, who are not even able to defeat 38 million Ukrainians.
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Jim Pearson @pearson26.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“They’re sticking to their fiscal rules because they want to avoid a reputation for tax and spend. But now they’re pursuing un-Labour measures. And they’ll be judged on it.” 🤦🏻‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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How did it come to this? Labour’s journey from landslide victory to ‘deep unhappiness’
Rachel Reeves’s speech next week is being crafted as a ‘re-education’ on Labour’s achievements amid gloominess and sinking poll ratings
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Jim Pearson @pearson26.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Abso fuckin' lutely👍
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 22/03/2025
If folk are wondering about whether to visit America this year, we'd like to remind you Scotland is open for business! And the same goes for our American pals needing a break from the madness...you'll be very welcome! #VisitScotland #HasteYeBack
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
You would think a airport the size of Heathrow would get it's power from multiple sources or have a backup generator incase of power failure. What kind of backwards country would do such a thing? Imagine the BBC reaction if this happened in Scotland...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“While drug shortages have become a problem globally in recent years, the UK is facing “a worsening situation” compared with the rest of Europe because of Brexit” Excellent work, Brexiters. Absolutely nailing our sovereign right to be self-harmingly idiotic. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says
Nuffield Trust says supply chains have shifted, with medicines for epilepsy and cystic fibrosis among those now scarce
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...
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America Chose the Monster
We all make mistakes.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Heathrow hotels quadruple prices as flight cancelled. Stranded passengers at Sofitel hotel near the airport asked to pay £700 a night for a standard room. Holiday Inn quadrupled prices. Capitalists have no ethics/compassion. No regulator would investigate. Boycott price gougers. archive.ph/tOFkD
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Heathrow hotels quadruple prices as stranded passengers drive demand
Customers with few alternatives complain of ‘price gouging’ after flights cancelled
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Jim Pearson @pearson26.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"modern sporting mega event requires really only making sense politically for corrupt and autocratic regimes that wish to make a certain statement to the wider world. It’s why they’re having the next summer Olympics in the US" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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So it’s victory for Kirsty Coventry in the IOC elections. Who says cards with a rigged deck isn’t an Olympic sport? | Marina Hyde
The Zimbabwean has global sport’s top job but Britain’s Sebastian Coe was snubbed, and with good reason: he might have changed things, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Jim Pearson @pearson26.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"Trump and other businesses may attack DEI, but they cannot dictate where we spend our hard-earned dollars. Our actions will speak for us even as they try to silence us." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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In these dark times, Americans must harness the power of the civil rights movement again | Al Sharpton
We have power as individuals and communities to boycott companies that don’t respect us and support those who stand with us, says Al Sharpton
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Jim Pearson @pearson26.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Republicans, Tories etc., stoke culture wars in order to camouflage their real purpose. Underfunded education and billionaire-owned media helps them along🤦🏻‍♂️
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Are you smarter than a 5th grader
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Jim Pearson @pearson26.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“In US & Israel, when a strong rightwing leader wins an election, the leftist Deep State weaponizes the justice system to thwart the people’s will,” Netanyahu tweeted on Wednesday. “They won’t win in either place! We stand strong together.” Birds of a feather🤦🏻‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump is abandoning democracy and freedom. That creates an opening for Europe – and Britain | Jonathan Freedland
Whether it’s sweeping up disgruntled US scientists or rejoining the EU, a bold Starmer must capitalise on Trump’s extremism, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 21/03/2025
if, ten years ago, your entire understanding of politics was that the right wing wanted to destroy everything because they were evil, you had a more accurate and more predictive analysis than functionally the entire American media and political apparatus
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Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Pam Bondi saying the days of criminals facing no consequences are over whilst working for a 34 time felon who faced no consequences is a bit on the nose.
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