Good luck to all the @greenparty.org.uk candidates running today. Solidarity from Australia 💚

Interesting. I've wondered for a while if we're seeing a shift in party structure in the UK. Whether it is a shift away from 2-party politics or a shift to a politics of a new 2 parties is tbd (electoral systems affect how many parties can compete)

Anyone interested in Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), this is for you

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Israeli officials are "using the word 'cleanse' to describe what they’re doing" in Lebanon. "They’re just bulldozing homes.”

Last week, we told you to listen to Chevron’s earnings call. Here’s what it showed: 🔴 Oil prices rise → people pay more for gas. 🔴 Oil prices rise → Chevron makes more money for wealthy shareholders, and does more stock buybacks, making themselves even richer. Same event. Opposite outcomes.

REMINDER: Memphis is the nation's largest city where the majority population is Black.

Farage's Reform intend to make the UK even more of a US lapdog than it already is: an aim which can hardly be called patriotic

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The corporate takeover of American politics was rapid and ruthless. In the 1970s, I watched as thousands of corporate lobbyists descended on Washington. Fast forward to today, and lobbying has become a multi-billion dollar industry. It all began with the Powell Memo.

We could easily feed, house and provide healthcare to everyone many times over. Overpopulation arguments ignore the elephant in the room, which is the unequal distribution and consumption of resources. The earth can support billions, but it cannot support billionaires.

“This poll represents a seismic shift in the way Australians think about the United States,” said Dr Emma Shortis, Director of The Australia Institute’s International & Security Affairs Program. “We need to break up with Trump.” Read more: https://theaus.in/4f6KFea

Zionist Israel is using an illegal 'yellow line' - which keeps moving - to stop Palestinians from getting to their own land By @wordsbyhg.bsky.social

"a new study from the Boston University Global Development Policy Center shows an ambiguous to negative relationship between IMF programs and capital formation." @gdp-center.bsky.social project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...

ICE is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to buy and convert warehouses into immigrant detention camps, endangering our neighbors and loved ones by putting them in an already deadly system. Communities across the country are pushing back and successfully stopping these plans in their cities.

Big day of local elections in the UK. Will be watching closely. More important than usual - a referendum on Starmer/Labour; possible gains for the Greens; a measure of how well/poorly the far-right Reform are doing... Lots to look out for.

Disciplinary welfare systems are cruel by design, and deadly at worst. Basic Income now.

In today's episode of 'Ceasefire' Watch...

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😂 Well shit, why not?

How lies persist This phenomenon relies on the “illusory truth effect”, identified by psychologists in 1977, where repetition increases the subjective sense of truth regardless of evidence. The nuclear threat was repeated across government and media channels until familiarity was perceived as fact.

Six month ago I would not have had "Former central banker becomes de facto leader of the free world" on my Bingo card but here we are - it's been that kinda year.

This is how to stand up for your citizens.

In news that will surprise no one, Reform UK are the typical malignant bunch of a-holes that a few very rich folk would like to see in government

Despite the so-called “ceasefires” in Gaza and Lebanon, the Israeli military is killing people every day through airstrikes, white phosphorus and artillery attacks.

More grifting from the Grifter-in-Chief

A really good insight into the why-the-fks of Trump's Iran war. I would add a bit more about it giving Trump opportunity to remove non-loyalists from the military leadership (see comments for my piece that covers that), but other than that this is great

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Billionaires don’t just hoard wealth. They also want to shape the story of how society should change. We’re revisiting our conversation with @anandwrites.bsky.social on elite philanthropy, inequality, and why generosity is not economic justice. 🎧Listen: buff.ly/vN0sdp0

I'm sure there's nothing to see here. Nothing dodgy at all...

Hmmm. There’s a strain of Fundamentalist Christian Right that rejects all aspects of Darwinian thought except Social Darwinism.

"Companies like OpenAI and Palantir don't just want to be monopolies. They want to become extensions of the state itself - with all the political power that entails." substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Voting Rights Act is the product of the literal blood, sweat, and tears of activists from the Civil Rights Movement, and allowed Black Americans and other people of color to have the representation we deserve.

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Is it just me or all the fake/p0rn-bot accounts becoming more left-wing and supportive of the Democrats? 😂

There have been at least 780 reports of ICE staff using physical force or chemical agents against people in their custody during the first year of the Trump administration. The way ICE treats the people they detain is outrageous, inhumane, and increasingly deadly.

From a fellow Cassandra

Read both me and @clareheathmcivor.bsky.social on what the new US Ambassador means for Aus. Clare’s expertise is crucial and they are very different perspectives. #Auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/our-new-us...

They don't mean time travel--they mean rejuvenation, or just life extension. I said the same thing in my TEDx talk, but as I pointed out this will be limited to the very rich--and with a few exceptions, that'll mean today's creeps and assholes will be around a century or more after we've died.

Daily reminder that behind Trump's fascism is neoliberalism - this stuff is just old "Washington Consensus" crap

If Jeff Bezos dropped a $20 bill while walking the #MetGala red carpet, he may as well leave it... One way we push back on this extreme inequality: properly #TaxTheRich so we can invest in public goods and programs that benefit everyone.

This is NOT the way

The far right isn’t going away. So how can we defeat it? Read @trillingual.bsky.social piece on the lessons history has already taught us. Read more: zeteo.com/p/how-to-bea...

When you hear them talk about "meritocracy", remember these words by David Graeber.

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I know we live in scandal overload, but this deserves more shouting and ruckus. Especially since the CPAC types like to make all their "America first" noises and accuse the left of being pure Soros puppetry (and yeah, now we know that too is so DARVO).