Why does the American tax system favor the wealthy? And how did it get this way? I chatted with Jon Stewart about this back in 2012. Sadly it's only gotten worse since then. We must keep up the fight to fix the system.

Happy Easter Folks! 'Tis the season of Spring, New Beginnings and Hope. The perfect time to launch the #NationalEmergencyBriefing screenings. As @chrisgpackham.bsky.social says, "there are plenty of solutions out there", so let's make them happen. @nebriefing.bsky.social @charliejgardner.bsky.social

What the hell?! How and why are the US Christian Right and Anti-Abortion Lobbyists being allowed to reshape #OurNHS?! @nhsmillion.bsky.social @nhsactivistrn.bsky.social @keepournhspublic.bsky.social @everydoctor.org.uk @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @greenhamwomen.bsky.social @scientistsforxr.earth

I work in London and commute from Cambridge. When David Howarth was Lib Dem MP for Cambridge, I used to regularly encounter him coming home from parliament late at night on the train, economy class, then getting on his bicycle. Loved that.

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Dan Rather represents an era when journalism wasn't as polarized into political groups. I miss those days. 😭

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” -MLK

Iran has been preparing for this eventuality for a long time. Their bunkers are well-built. That’s one of the reasons we’ve always tried to avoid the military option, and it’s the main reason Hegseth telling Trump how easy this would be was so egregious.

😱 Combine this with 'CEO of Palantir Says AI Will Seize Power Away From College-Educated Women' + the roll back on women's and children's rights and the rise of fascism, racism, inequality and the power of the broligarchy, the Zionists and the Epstein class and the world suddenly becomes very scary.

#LeaveItInTheGround! #NoNewFossilFuels! No more oil wars. #ClimateEmergency @scientistsforxr.earth @juststopoil.bsky.social @nebriefing.bsky.social @greenpartyhan.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @extinctionrebellion.uk @xrlondon.bsky.social @stwc.bsky.social @stopecocide.bsky.social

'Already extortionate water bills in England & Wales went up by an average 5% this week, while sewage continues to be pumped into our rivers. Most people see that privatised water companies are taking us for a ride and want them renationalised, a longstanding Green party policy'.

Know and share the facts, the truth, the science. They matter. They save lives. #ListenToTheScientists 🕊⚖💚🌍💚⚖🕊 @scientistsforxr.earth @scientistrebellion.bsky.social @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @larchmaxey.bsky.social @charliejgardner.bsky.social @extinctionrebellion.uk @nebriefing.bsky.social

On this last day of March and in the months ahead, may we all stay focused on #Love, the greatest of all that we have in common and all that connects us. #LoveIsAction💗 #LoveIsTheAnswer💖 And as this placard from the @togetheralliance.bsky.social march on Saturday, reminds us: #LoveIsTheThing. 💝🌈🌍🕊⚖💖

As someone who depended on #FreeSchoolMeals and lived with the poverty, hand-me-downs and othering, etc., that came with it, I wholeheartedly back the call for #FreeSchoolMealsForALL, no exceptions. #EndHunger #EndPoverty #EndInequality @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com

It's despicable enough that thousands of children have been kidnapped and separated from their families and held in cage-like dormitories, without ICE doing this to them too! Raiding their dormitories and confiscating their letters is a new low. @propublica.org @amnesty.org @muellershewrote.com

Further expansion in Lebanon means only one thing: illegal annexation and theft of Lebanese lands by Israel. Does Israel care? Not when it has occupied, ethnic cleansed and stolen almost the whole of Palestine, with the blessings, funding, arms and support of the world's Zionism supporting leaders.

😱🤯😡 What the hell is this?! 'The WRAP' is like some medieval form of torture upgraded into modern times, to be even more torturous and for use on civilians, by state sanctioned, publicly funded, criminals, terrorists and kidnappers. #DefundICE #JusticeNOW! www.instagram.com/reel/DVNB-bL...

I've found that's the case with about 10% of disabled toilets in the UK. It's also a major problem now for anyone who needs help and has a different-sex carer.

...for resources when they use those options. But many trans folks *are themselves disabled*- including in ways invisible to busybody bathroom police.

#PIP #TimmsReview

The Climate Movement Rejects the Far Right AND people the world over are uniting and rising, realising that other than those directly profiting from the rise of fascism, racism, nationalism and the hate incitement being fuelled by the far right, #WeAreOne all endangered, robbed & exploited by them.

#SocialJusticeIsClimateJustice 🕊⚖🌍⚖🕊 It gave me #Hope to see half a million people, from all walks of life and a multitude of causes, from @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social to @stwc.bsky.social to @keepournhspublic.bsky.social to @xruk-actions.bsky.social, united for #Peace, #Palestine & #Planet. 🕊⚖🇵🇸🌍🇵🇸⚖🕊

In Iran, the attack on an elementary school cannot be dismissed as a consequence of war; it was illegal, and inhuman that children died | Lynda Tavakoli @centralbylines.co.uk

I cannot recommend this conversation between @pkrugman.bsky.social and @volts.wtf enough. Every point was a banger, and DR’s final exhortation that young people go into clean energy rather than finance actually made me tear up a little. So good. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Very well attended today's march in Central London. Film by Zoe Broughton @camerazoe

At 9 the only shelter Nabil and his little brothers should be building is a fun one, like a den, or a tree house. It's heartbreaking to see Palestinian children targeted, bombed, orphaned, starved, displaced and left to find whatever shelter, food, water & comfort they can in the midst of #Genocide.

Just 50 years of geopolitical stability? Should have the courage of his convictions and go for 100

UK people, the Bylines Network is looking for an engagement and growth lead. This isn't a voluntary position but pays £6,000 for April to September. I do EDI at the Network so can confirm that this really is open to anybody with the right skillset. bylinesnetwork.co.uk/about-us/rec...

#TogetherAlliance Against Fascism. Health allowing I'll be there, with the support of 3 of my friends. Looking forward to marching with friends & comrades from @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social, @inclusionlondon.bsky.social, @xrglobal.bsky.social, @scientistsforxr.earth @xrlondon.bsky.social etc. 🕊⚖🌍⚖🕊

Is it any wonder people feel the system is rigged?

#NationalEmergencyBriefing Take action on the Climate and Nature Emergency Help spread the word please. 🙏 💗🌍💗🌎💗🌏💗 www.nebriefing.org/get-involved

Saudi Arabia reportedly wants Trump to launch a ground invasion of Iran. Remember: Trump's family has deep business ties to Saudi Arabia, including new luxury properties in Riyadh and Jeddah. Trump cannot be trusted to put protecting American lives over lining his own pockets.

People can't regulate themselves. This is called corruption not regulation.

Don't let hard won workers' rights and workplace safety for the many, the working classes, be rolled back, for the sake of even more profits for the billionaire class. #Resist #FightBack The votes, protections, rights, etc that we have, all came through our unified resistance. #ResistanceWorks

🌍 CECN Wednesday Webinar NOW Nick Oldridge National Emergency Briefing Weds 25 March 7–8pm Film Screening Guide tinyurl.com/FILM-SCREENI... Film launch 7th April Join @nickoldridge.bsky.social on Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... ID: 898 4968 2415 | CODE: 808472 @climatejusticeuk.bsky.social

It's too late for all those already killed, but it's not too late to #ActNow, to #ActNowForFuture, to #Resist, #RebelForLife and #UniteForPeace. #UniteForJustice #ResistanceWorks #StopArmingIsrael #DivestFromDeath #KillTheArmsTradeNotPeople #FreePalestine @pscupdates.bsky.social @stwc.bsky.social

It's a dirty war, a lethal war and it's a war being waged against us all. "Those who love peace must learn to organise as effectively as those who love war." - Martin Luther King Jnr Problem is: most people don't realise the 1% are at war with us all, that millions are not dying but being killed.

Social media overtakes newsbrands as primary news source for UK MPs And Guardian overtakes Times to be most-read newspaper brand among MPs pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

A war of aggression on one is a war of aggression on all. Israel and the US and their warmongering, Zionism supporting allies in UK, Europe, Australia, India and the world are the enemy of all people and our planet. #UniteForJustice #UniteForPeace #UniteForLife 🕊⚖🌍⚖🕊 @globaljusticenow.bsky.social

@europeanpowell.bsky.social helps us #FollowTheMoney corrupting and controlling politicians and politics and destroying our people, peace and planet for profits for the few. Get money and corruption and the warmongers out of politics! #SystemChangeNotClimateChange 🕊⚖🌍⚖🕊 @moneyrebellion.bsky.social

War is terror! Ask any terrified, traumatised, orphaned, maimed child, person or community in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Congo Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Yemen & in every refugee camp, etc. #KillTheArmsTradeNotPeople #EndTerrorism #StopAllWars #FreePalestineFromZionistOccupation @stwc.bsky.social

🚨#SaveJustice⚖ Defend our right to trial by jury. Defend our juries. Join the #RESISTANCE! ✊✊🏻✊✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #Resist #Rebel #UniteForJustice! @defendourjuries.bsky.social @libertyhq.bsky.social @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @eji.org @climatejusticeuk.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social

Watching both sides of this war blatantly manipulate the US stock market is maddening.

🟨 Print Edition — Farage’s Staggering Side Hustles Nigel Farage has spent more than 1,113 hours – or 140 working days – on his various other jobs since being elected to Parliament in July 2024. https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/84/farages-staggering-side-hustles

Are you guys aware that ICE is funded through September 2029? That’s why a partial government shut down won’t affect them and why they’ll now be doing domestic terrorism at airports. None of this stuff is legitimate. It’s all illegal and unconstitutional. Don’t ever get confused about it.

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2026 ICE custody deaths are already on track to break last year’s 20-year record high & it’s only March. Trump’s ICE is well out of control. #DonaldTrump