'“Real change only happens if you vote for it.”
That’s what Reform said when they were asking residents to vote for Christopher Perera ...
... who, according to the local council leader, hasn’t responded to residents or council correspondence since June ..."
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Write to your MP TODAY. Join @chrishinchliff.bsky.social.bsky.social and demand that proposed England water bill hikes are blocked.
💩They made the mess - why should we pay to clear it up?
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Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org@nyc.streetsblog.org
🗳️ 📆 Vote early to lock in your vote... to make sure nothing stops you in case life goes haywire on election day AND...
❗ THIS from @neillaferty.bsky.social ⤵️
The Reform UK economic plan in full
Pure anti-Robin Hood
pro discredited trickle down economics
while removing all regulations
ensuring they'll be lots more
Hillsborough, Grenfell, Post Office Horizon, Covid PPE fraud, etc etc scandals
meme via News Thump
Some Lula supporters apparently shouted his name out their window when it was announced he won and a cop pointed his gun at him and they took what is possibly the greatest image of a cop ever taken, like genuinely this would go hard as a cover for a Rage album its so poetic.
‘Too big to not fail’: Google outage exposes UK reliance on a handful of cloud providers.
Reliance on few foreign companies reduces economic resilience, makes govts powerless.
China/India building alternatives. UK/EU need to do the same.
Fiscal rules prevent public investment
Three-quarters of the responses to the 2023 UK govt consultation on the tobacco and vapes bill were machine-generated.
90,835 of the 118,756 responses were by bots.
Corporations have a new tool for subverting polices and public opinion; to increase profits, spread addiction, health hazards.
Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski has endorsed Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for governor of Alaska, crossing party lines just one week before the midterms.
She urged Republicans, independents, and Democrats to consider the Democratic ticket: “Alaska needs leaders who will put our state first.”
Grand jury declines to indict Patriot as Trump’s DOJ attempted to seek vengeance against her for doing the right thing. 🇺🇸
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Well, well, well...
80% of "donations" to Nigel Farage’s party are from donors or companies based overseas.
This is not normal.
And the public deserves to know what these super-rich donors want back in return.
“As I reported hours ago, Flávio Bolsonaro has arrived safely in United States.
The mastermind behind this operation is U.S. Secretary of State @SecRubio .
From the United States, free and safe, Flávio will lead the opposition against Lula.” - Simon Levy … WTF???? 1/
From the slaveholding South to Jim Crow, Reagan’s billionaire revolution, and Trump’s police state, the same dangerous pattern keeps repeating. Is fascism conservatism’s ultimate destination?
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NEW AD: “Marsha Blackburn voted to block the release of the Epstein files… she always finds a way to protect billionaires and f*ck us over.”
(From The Progress Fund)
Instead of #TaxTheRich
to put right the massive income disparity
worsened by Thatcherism, privatisation & austerity
Reform UK want to cut taxes for the super-rich
a major plank of trickle-down economics
a theory discredited decades ago ...
meme via Anti Fascist League
🚨 Iowa Senate candidate Josh Turek says farmers whose families have owned their land for over 100 YEARS are warning they could lose everything due to skyrocketing diesel and fertilizer costs amid the Iran war.
“This isn't going to work. I'm gonna end up in foreclosure.”
Thames Water has gone bust
So it's normal (and appropriate) for shareholders to get ZERO compensation
And a huge chunk of its debt can be written off as part of the special administration process
@andyburnham.bsky.social you have 2 DAYS to stop the bailout
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Under our Constitution, the president doesn't get to decide who wins elections. The voters do.
Let's make a blue wave too big for Trump to rig.
#FlipCongressBlue
FLASHBACK — Republican Paul Weyrich (co-founder of the Heritage Foundation & ALEC): “I don’t want everybody to vote… our leverage in elections goes up as the voting populace goes down.”
They’ve been saying it out loud for years.
Please vote. 🗳️ 🇺🇸
Canada has the critical minerals the world needs.
We’re matching Ontario’s $1 billion investment to build road infrastructure to reach the Ring of Fire. To unlock our critical minerals supply chain. To create up to 70,000 jobs.