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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Collins Nails Jennings.......👏🏻
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
9 years after Grenfell fire killed 72 people, Police pass files to the Crown Prosecution Service for possible charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies. How many will be prosecuted? Years of litigation will follow. Justice delayed is justice denied.
bbc.co.uk
Met Police submits Grenfell Tower fire investigation files to CPS
The force is seeking charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies over the 2017 tower block fire.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.” — Dolly Parton
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
New York's economy grew by 4% in Q2 — more than any other state. Want to get your business off the ground? Hire only the best? There's one place to do it: New York. www.newsweek.com/new-york-lea...
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Map shows which state economies are growing and shrinking ahead of midterms
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Does Andy Burnham have no idea what to do? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09... Why is Andy Burnham only offering action after the next election, which he knows he will lose? Is it because he does not actually know what to do?
taxresearch.org.uk
Has Andy Burnham no idea what to do?
Andy Burnham indisputably proved that he has mastered the art of making a party conference speech yesterday. It has taken him a very long time to do so, but he’s got there. That was the good news of t...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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David BASTARDspan @davidbix.com · 29/09/2026
Since WWE's trying to exploit PAC's death, it's time to talk about this: Remember how PAC suddenly had visa issues when AEW started? That's because, when the AEW trademarks were filed, WWE called USCIS to claim he walked out on his visa. After leaving him alone for a year and giving him his release.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Workers really are getting less of the economy youtu.be/gJ8z1o6FBbs?... If you want to understand why people are so angry with an economy that has left them behind, just look at the data.
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Workers really are getting less of the economy
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Datacentre are being foisted on people living in low/medium income areas, not in wealthy areas. Resulting in excessive use of water, energy; pollution and environmental damage. Very few long-term jobs are generated. Watch the Minister's reply.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There is a lot of misinformation about the UK social security spending. The chart below shows Total UK social security spending as a percentage of GDP, 2013/14 to 2030/31 (spending & forecast) 55% goes to pensioners, the remainder covers everything else. lordslibrary.parliament.uk/welfare-refo...
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tax banks more, now! www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09... The City says higher taxes will drive banks away. That might be exactly what Britain needs.
taxresearch.org.uk
Tax banks more, now!
According to a report in the Financial Times this morning: Global banking executives have warned that they will divert investment away from the UK if taxes on the sector are raised, telling Andy Bur...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pay rent, eat or keep warm? Growing numbers face hard choices as housing benefit gap grows. No curbs on rents. Shortage of social housing. 2.8m council homes sold since the 1980s, not replaced. Low wages, 37.8% of Universal Credit claimants are in work. Poverty is a political choice.
theguardian.com
Pay rent, eat or keep warm? Growing numbers face hard choices as housing benefit gap grows
Wirral mother among renters turning to food banks as gap between a two-bed and housing benefit hits £158 a month – rising to as much as £324 in London
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Amazon rigged billions in ad pricing, lawsuit from states and US watchdog alleges. Likely netted the company $20bn from advertising. Last year, it paid $2.5bn to settle allegations of enrolling consumers in its Prime subscription without their consent. What would the UK do?
bbc.co.uk
Amazon rigged billions in ad pricing, lawsuit from states and US watchdog alleges
Amazon responded to the lawsuit, arguing the US Federal Trade Commission "misunderstands" their ad market.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
AI could cause global economic downturn, says Bank of England Governor. AI stock overvalued Weak cyber defences Tech companies overvalued Shadow banks unregulated. Deregulation mania: Lower bank/insurance capital buffers Wealth concentrated in fewer hands. What could go wrong?
bbc.co.uk
AI could cause global economic downturn, Andrew Bailey warns G20
The governor of the Bank of England warned of AI's “volatility” caused by energy shocks from the US-Iran war.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Farewell Sir Keir Starmer MP www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09... Not just the worst Labour Prime Minister (yet), but also its worst leader, making Ramsay MacDonald look like a lifelong party loyalist.
taxresearch.org.uk
Farewell Sir Keir Starmer MP
Sir Keir Starmer is to leave the House of Commons, resigning on the first day after the summer recess and opening the possibility of a very difficult by-election for Labour in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency, where the Greens have a very strong level of support, and Andrew Feinstein...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/09/2026
Summer’s winding down, but the fun is still in session. From backpack decorating to back-to-school celebrations, kick off the new school year with these free activities across the city.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Robert Jenrick wants millions off benefits – but where are the jobs? youtu.be/BNIaPD07vTo?... Nothing makes sense about what Reform are saying - not least because there are no jobs for the people they're victimising to go to.
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Robert Jenrick wants millions off benefits – but where are the jobs?
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN VIEWS @rockymountviews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Something very wrong with a society that has billions of dollars to build data centers, but won't properly fund public schools.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
UK govt to pay KPMG and EY up to £456mn to train civil servants. Continuation of policy started by Thatcher; opened the door to privatisation, PFI, outsourcing, deregulation, consultancy cult. Firms mired in scandals get govt contracts, inside access to ministers, policy makers. archive.ph/hTdhS
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UK government to pay KPMG and EY up to £456mn to train civil servants
Deal marks largest contract awarded to Big Four firms in at least a decade
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Reform wants to remove benefits from 3 million people and force them into work. But there are no jobs. There are already 2.5 people for every vacancy, and they are saying nothing about how they will create work for all these people. Nothing they say adds up. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08...
taxresearch.org.uk
Reform wants people off benefits. But where are the jobs?
Robert Jenrick MP, the former Tory who now skulks beside Nigel Farage on the Reform bench in Parliament, thinks Britain has what he calls a welfare problem. In itself, that is not a term I recognise. ...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
JP Morgan CEO warns UK chancellor not to hike taxes on banks, could raise £19bn. Says it would lose jobs From an industry that has closed bank branches, profiteered, taken bailouts, sold dud financial products, engaged in frauds, facilitated illicit financial flows. People must prevail over banks
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JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon warns UK chancellor not to hike taxes on banks
Billionaire CEO of world’s biggest bank says any windfall tax on sector’s bumper profits could harm jobs in City
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Here’s the bad news: Trump's 2-3 week war is now in week 26. The good news is the war has gone on so long, Trump has won it 45 times already.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
interesting to learn nancy mace had the first line of mrs. dalloway tattooed on her. the first line, of course, sets up the scene of mrs. dalloway buying flowers for her dinner party, where she would wrestle with her homosexual memories of, and desires for, her friend sally.
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JPSea ..✳️🈶 @jpsea83.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝑫𝒆 𝑵𝒊𝒓𝒐..(ᵃᶜᵗᵒʳ ᵈⁱʳᵉᶜᵗᵒʳ ᵖʳᵒᵈᵘᶜᵉʳ) #Botd (August 17, 1943 New York City) #FilmSky 🎟📽
With Francis Ford Coppola on set of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒅𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝐈𝐈..playing Vito Corleone..𝑫𝒆 𝑵𝒊𝒕𝒐'𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒆..Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), Mean Streets (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1983), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Brazil (1985), The Mission (1986), Midnight Run (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995), Heat (1995), Meet the Parents (2000), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), The Irishman (2019), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)…Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle..a b/w profile style shot, sporting a mohawk..Out and about in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, November 1977. (Photo by Vinnie Zuffante)
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 17/08/2026
We apologize for yesterday’s service problems. Bluesky experienced a DDoS attack—a flood of junk traffic meant to knock servers offline—over a period of 24 hours. We have upgraded our defenses in response, and we continue to monitor the situation. Follow @status.bsky.app for any updates.
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sbht.bsky.social @sbht.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Commission an immediate public inquiry to ensure we never see a tragic death like Dr Arday's again. goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
goodlawproject.org
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Govt says England water companies flouting environmental rules face fines of up to £500,000. It is propaganda. Why a cap? Fines are proposed, maybe deferred/waived. Some sewage dumping permitted. Company licence to operate not cancelled for illegal conduct No fines on execs for illegal conduct.
gov.uk
New penalties introduced in crackdown on water companies
Half a million-pound financial penalties introduced in latest crackdown on polluting water companies
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE is not about immigration. ICE is not about the southern border. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets. It cannot be reformed. It cannot be retrained. ICE must be abolished.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
UK income tax personal allowance frozen at £12,570 since 2021. If increased in line with inflation, it would be £16,048 for 2026/27. As a result, in 2026/27 someone earning £17,000 will pay additional £696 in income tax and £278 in national insurance. All because govts appease the rich.
leftfootforward.org
We need to abolish state-sanctioned poverty
No one is ever born poor. They are condemned to poverty by societal policies which prevent millions from realising their full physical, mental, and intellectual capacities potentialities.
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Tonight’s outdoor White House UFC fight on Trump’s 80th birthday could be plagued by torrential rain, 30mph winds, F-list celebrities, and clouds of mosquitos. YOU LOVE TO SEE IT.
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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All Elite Wrestling @allelitewrestling.com · 06/05/2026
AEW mourns the loss of Ted Turner and sends our condolences. A pioneer of TV and founder of TBS & TNT, Turner championed pro wrestling on his networks since the 1970's. AEW proudly continues that tradition, and we dedicate Wednesday Night Dynamite tonight on TBS to his memory.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 06/05/2026
rip ted turner, he taught me it was ok to watch the shawshank redemption every rainy saturday afternoon
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Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Ted Turner lived long enough to witness the complete befouling of a significant part of his life’s work (CNN, cable news, arguably cable television altogether) but somehow Turner Classic Movies endures and that’s pretty awesome.
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 06/05/2026
Ted Turner, founder of Turner Classic Movies (1938-2026) 🤍
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maffew going to MAGFest @maffewgregg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
R.I.P. Ted Turner Thanks for Nitro
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🦇Bram Stoker’s Grantula🦇 @grantthethief.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Look, Ted Turner was an enemy of Vince McMahon. That’s worth something in my book.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Trump is sleeping through his wife's speech. If they actually had a real relationship at this point, it would be a night in the doghouse for Donny-boy
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 25/04/2026
I’m very much of a mind that I want all ”smart” things gone from my home. Give me a dumb tv. A stupid speaker and idiot watch.
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lindarchenault.bsky.social @lindarchenault.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Isn’t he breaking the law that he signed in Nov 25 by not releasing the Epstein files? When we break laws, we’re arrested. So….
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The administration that ended DEI became the best argument for needing it.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 25/04/2026
Jared Kushner conducting Middle East diplomacy while simultaneously cultivating Middle East sovereign funds for a private firm isn’t just a “conflict of interest.” it’s the ethical equivalent of setting fire to the idea of public service.
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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