Federal minimum wage was $2.30 per hour in 1976. 50 years later mimimum wage is $7.30 per hour. Minimum wage has gone up $5 in 50 years. No wonder Americans are struggling. VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS IN 2026!

Do you know how much the typical worker would be making today if their wages had grown as much as CEO pay? This graph holds the shocking answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lPPsrAMtTI

But it's not "a cheap stunt." Farage won't have flown economy, or alone and if there was "an aid boat" that will have cost money too. It's expensive flying to the Maldives. Where did he stay? How long is he staying? How much did it cost? Who picked up the tab? www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Jill in the village shop is angry: “Had that Fergie in here yesterday begging for a job,”she says. “Told her Dean & Simple Sally work here. Suggested she might try joining a provincial theatre tour of ‘The Vagina Monologues’ or make some toe sucking videos on that OnlyFannies’ 😬

Quite the scenes on Good Morning Britain as Ed Balls tells Kemi Badenoch her student loan interest plan will only help the richest ex-students. After she insists he's wrong, GMB bring on Martin Lewis to back up Balls' argument and tell her the plan makes no sense.

Reform accused of ‘direct attack on settled families’ with new migration plan www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Good to see Phil Noble getting proper credit for his masterpiece

Nigel Farage accused of ‘Maga stunts’ for saying he was denied access to Chagos Islands Reform UK leader flew to the Maldives for a day despite not having permit to visit nearby archipelago

Farage under fire for blocked Chagos Islands ‘stunt’

● Typical cost of a Business Class flight to Maldives is £3,100 - £3,200+ return ● 2 of those minimum so £6,400+ ● Accommodation minimum of £250-£350 per night. Farage demands finer things in life though so can exceed £1,000 ● Gross household average salary Gorton & Denton £653 per week

Iceland is preparing to bring forward its referendum on joining the European Union to August. "Escalating threats from 🇺🇸, among them a joke by [🇺🇸ambassador] Billy Long that 🇮🇸 would become the 52nd state, have increased the urgency."

Kemi Badenoch getting irritated and talking over Martin Lewis as he calmly tries to explain why her student debt plans will only help the richest graduates

Immigration debate 'fact-free zone' as Reform UK warns of 'invasion' The survey of 1,000 people by Survation shows 53% of people believe the number of people arriving in the UK over the last year is higher than recent years - despite a fall

"David Davis has called on the home secretary to urgently introduce a grace period to allow hundreds of Britons to continue to travel on their 2nd passport while their British passport is processed." That's David Davis core Brexiter. Who caused this catastrophe www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

UPDATE — after officials said it was just a rumor in the face of massive backlash, WILSON COUNTY’s mayor confirms ICE is considering a 16000 person “MEGA CENTER” in Lebanon, TN 🤔 County Mayor Randall Hutto opposes it. tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/22/w...

First Olympics that I rooted against the Americans in every event. Turned off the TV every time they started to raise that flag or play with us anthem. Sad that my own country disgusts me right now but it is what it is. I'm not even going to bother with the '28 Games. What a disaster that will be.

John Oliver made an extremely solid case for leaving Twitter tonight. I wonder if anyone of note still there will finally realize it’s time.

Nothing says ‘moron’ quite like Jenrick (who is morally bankrupt), suggesting the UK is going bankrupt… 48 HOURS AFTER THE LARGEST BUDGET SURPLUS IN HISTORY!!!!

“I’m going to tell Kashyap to grab one of those Olympic hockey gold medals for me.” — Senile Satan

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting. She had some things she needed to get off her chest

⚡️Zelensky says Putin has “already started World War Three,” calls for stronger pressure on Russia.

Yusuf: “We will secure our borders, leave the ECHR, and deport those here illegally. My message to the British people is simple: I will secure our borders and make you feel safe.” There is nothing safe about these vicious inadequates turning racism into policy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“A giant banner bearing Trump’s portrait has been erected at the US DoJ in Washington. The US President’s appetite for self-promotion knows no bounds. But this is the first time the face of a convicted felon has adorned a building devoted to the administration of the law.” archive.ph/2026.02.23-0...

RFK Jr explains why he’s a fraud.

Dear me. Fasting for Ramadan, as a devout muslim, seems to be making Yusuf very tetchy. It’s all such utter bollox. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It is well documented how Barnet’s Conservative council with Thomas as a key figure engaged in the mass-outsourcing of front-line services to the private sector. Investigating the mysterious Mr Thomas

'Manchester and its residents have been galvanised against Reform’s politics of division, pitting neighbour against neighbour'

People in Clacton are calling Nigel Farage: Nigel Mirage.

‘Nasty and violent’ Reform councillor jailed

What art, what a canvas.

Reform candidate Matthew Goodwin's horror views - Muslim 'ban' to deportation horror

According to the New Yorker, Donald Trump and his family profited off the presidency by an estimated $4 billion in 2025 — mostly through shady crypto deals. That amounts to $456,621 per hour. But how are you doing?

The moment you realize a rapist won’t take no for an answer.

@Telegraph views ex-prof Goodwin through a very soft lens. He & they (conveniently) forget he began his activist journey as a founder of ‘The Full Brexit’, a para-Trotskyite group promising a Brexit-enabled permanent revolution in the UK.

I’d rather watch a toilet flush than hear a single bullshit lie the orange felon spreads. Tuesday won’t be a State of the Union, it will be the propaganda wordsalad hour of a rambling idiotic trashy tyrannical immoral sadistic criminal.

The detailed and informative replies to the quoted post show how this site can be very good for discussing news events. No site is perfect, but Bluesky has many merits. And this sort of engagement is better than I had with 1/4 million followers on Twitter.

ICYMI — The FBI director flew there on the taxpayer dime on a private jet to do this… Kash in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

This was just posted by @sundersays.bsky.social in another context, but.. my goodness. It just took 5/6 years from here to ‘Earned Settlement’ from Labour, which will put care workers and some NHS staff on a 15 years path to settlement. And note the word ‘contribution’

Yeah, I think about this. A lot. "When I was on location in Germany, I asked people how they live with the history, how they carry it. And the answer was always the same: substack.com/@heatherdela...

I just want to live in a country where the leader can’t enrich themselves with our tax dollars, the government does what the people want, and the wealthy have to follow the laws. You know, like a democracy.

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"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Political people love to debate who the worst modern PM in modern times was but it's unquestionably Cameron. 10 years ago this week he gambled the prosperity and fragile unity of the UK on a referendum on an issue that most people didn't even understand to placate back benchers and fucked us all.

“I’m just saying … bsky.app/profile/ronf...