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So tell me, America - how is your not-quite-250-year-old experiment with democracy progressing? π±
If you're too tired (or scared) to continue your resistance to steam-rollering autocracy, then read this.
And understand.
You have options, and accessing them may be much easier than you thought...
If we start having the hard conversations, knocking doors...
If we step outside our party lines.
That's how they did it. That's how we do it too. I know so many of you are tired. I am too...
Students in Belgrade are dancing in the streets because they didn't give up on each other.
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If you have voted absentee, please verify that your ballot has been been not only received but also accepted by your clerk. Thousands of ballots are not being accepted for simple reasons like people didnβt sign their name as required or the signature didnβt match that on file. Check yours today!
Early voting has started in 47 states and D.C., so if you don't live in Mississippi, New Hampshire, or Alabama, you should be able to vote now, or fill out your mail in ballot and take it to the nearest drop box, without waiting another week.
Yes it took them 4 years and 8 months, but properly constituted Commissions of Inquiry can't make snap judgements.
But at least the official finding confirms what we already knew: Putin is a war criminal, and just as bad as those Nazis who were executed for crimes against Russian humanity
It only took them 4 years and 8 months. A UN Commission of Inquiry says Russiaβs systematic attacks on Ukraineβs energy infrastructure constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, concluding they were intended to deprive civilians of essential services and cause suffering. #Ukraine
I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.
Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro.
It's a loss for Trump.
For Musk.
For Milei.
For Netanyahu.
For Farage.
For Meta and Zuckerberg.
For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters.
And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.
"Legal migrant numbers are at a historic low and small boat crossings have halved, yet that didnβt stop anger at asylum seekers spilling on to the streets.
"There is no level of migration low enough to satisfy some people. There is, however, a level of migration low enough to make us all poorer."
Half a million West Bank invaders, nearly all white Jewish, are entitled to vote in tomorrow's election, while the 3.5 million Palestinians residents there, nearly all Arab, are not. This is exactly, definitionally, apartheid.
Maybe @royalmcpoyle.bsky.social finds repetition annoying.
Maybe this is more palatable:
"The President of the United States commits treason. But that's not all!! He also rapes. He is the full villain package."
π¨Ex-GOP political strategist Steve Schmidt has called for the βimmediate removalβ of Donald Trumpβs son-in-law from βevery diplomatic assignmentβ following an explosive report alleging that Jared Kushner secretly had access to roughly $1.75 billion in Gulf money while serving in the White House.
US executives quit as Trump turns control over massive Alaska energy project to Putin underlings. The former chief executive of a $25bn US gas export venture says Russian energy giant Novatek was given control of the project by Trump, triggering a mass resignation of company leadership
Another work crisis saved!
Same bloody problem.
Thank your team for going above and beyond (again) to save the business bacon.
You need to ask yourself: why does this keep happening?
Heroics shouldnβt be the business plan.
The Ripple Effect IV:
theleaderwhisperer.substack.com/p/the-ripple...
If every decision of real consequence in your business still comes back to you, then you, my lovely, may have inadvertently become the bottleneck to growth.
Part 2 of The Ripple Effect: The Founder Bottleneck Is Not Always Where You Think.
Sure - you solve the problem (again)
But your team learns that difficult decisions still belong to you.
One rescue becomes a pattern - and creates a business that waits to be rescued because your team think you can't delegate authority π
The Ripple Effect Pt I: Growth Starts at the Centre.
A reminder that the Kennedy Center isnβt just a performing arts center, itβs a memorial to President John F. Kennedy and only an evil vindictive vile weak depraved narcissistic pathetic subhuman would spend every waking day trying to deface it and completely destroy it out of spite and jealousy.
He's not got any idea what he's even voting on. He has to be told how to vote. He's incapacitated. He's incapable of representing the people of Kentucky who are currently being taxed without representation.
βThe bride said βwhatβs so wrong with accepting a gracious bribe, I mean gift, from Putin, I mean a friend of familyββ.
Donald Trump Jr is βfrigging loadedβ so why was part of his wedding paid for by a Russian Oligarch?
The United States doesn't have a Democratic-condoned voter fraud problem. That is a lie.
But the United States *definitely* has a Republican-coordinated voter suppresision problem. That is the reality.
And only the latter has any effect on our elections.
Womenβs freedoms can feel ordinary, but none came without a fight.
To learn, work, earn, choose, say no & build lives of our own.
We honour those who fought before us by protecting these freedoms for every woman. None of us is truly free until all of us are freeπ
#SheShed#WomenSupportingWomen
βΌοΈπ¨ Breaking News π¨βΌοΈ The Speaker has cancelled votes and is sending us home. And there is really only one reasonβimpeachment of Pete Hegseth. Hereβs whatβs going on β¬οΈ
I've just got my AI research assistant to do the calculations for me.
20 million people sending one heavier weight A4 sized letter (100g plus) would cost Reform c. Β£72Mβ¦
I might send them a collection of pretty sea glass, which I think would be very appropriate ππ΄ββ οΈ
Unfortunately, this doesn't work if you're outside the UK, I checked π₯Ί
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This is a big deal and it deserves a lot more attention. A federal whistleblower is sounding the alarm about a nationwide DHS operation called the βUnlawful Voter Initiative.β
According to the disclosure, hundreds of employees at U.S. Citizenship and
How low are the far right prepared to go in the UK?
How about harassing and abusing Royal National Lifeboat Institution members and volunteers because they will not let migrants drown in the waters between England and France.
Stand with me and sign this open letter of thanks to the RNLI
Scary stuff to see in my beloved Scotland - the last thing we need as a small nation with an aging population is far right arseholes stoking division and fear of the immigrants who we quite frankly need to maintain not only our economy and health and social care systems, but also our communities π€¬
1/ A far right operator is raising money from American donors right now to fund armed street patrols hunting migrants in Scotland. He already ran nearly this exact playbook once before under a different name, and that one ended in bankruptcy and disgrace. #DV1#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory#USDemocracy
The Iran war is making everything more expensive for us, but some companies are cashing in. Don't think that's right? Sign the petition now demanding they are taxed more on their record profits to help us all with the cost of living. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ra...