What do these corporations all have in common? -Lockheed Martin -Palantir -Microsoft -Amazon -Comcast -Google -Apple -Meta -HP -Nvidia -T-Mobile They all have lucrative government contracts — and they're all donors to Trump's $400M ballroom.

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It's much better to need to help from the system. Than to abuse the system to extract billions that you don't need.

"The Lord is my light...." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Reform council planning ‘huge’ cuts in adult social care Kent County Council has estimated that 18,804 people could be impacted by the proposal Is this really what Kent voted for?

Ah privatisation. Such joy

At 10.30am on BBC Radio 4 it’s the Christmas edition of The Kitchen Cabinet. And a very jolly affair it is too. Do hope you can listen.

We are absolutely thrilled to be able to bring you this flight deck video! We joined Airlink for the flight to St Helena, one of the most remote islands in the world in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean known for its tough conditions and wind shear. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XlX...

Today on Volts: I've got a nerdy one for you! I talk with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about the epistemic crisis & its roots in social identity. He explains why factchecking & media literacy classes will never solve misinformation -- why something deeper & stronger is required.

🎄Sanctuary Our print edition editorial, without a paywall, to celebrate the season, with @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social, and the Dean of Southwark Cathedral on hope in dark times subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/81/e...

This is awful and she totally misses the point (deliberately)

"The narrative that Badenoch is trying to spin is nothing more than a comforting fiction that allows men in our own culture to avoid responsibility." "It is overwhelmingly perpetrated by men who are known to the victim - partners, ex-partners, husbands, boyfriends, colleagues, classmates."

Nailed it.

Gloves are off...

If your “special relationship” involves lawsuits, threats, and conditional investment, you might not be special, just… exposed. On Brexit, leverage, Trump tactics and learning the hard way that when you exit the tent, sometimes a bigger, bullier country will come urinate all over you.

“The Trump administration has clearly set out they want to interfere in our democracy, which includes undermining our national broadcaster. The prime minister needs to make clear this is unacceptable,” @eddavey.libdems.org.uk said. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

Today is the last day to get your orders with standard delivery in the UK before Christmas... UK Standard: 16th December Though there's still a little time if you're willing to pay a little extra. Last Orders for Standard Delivery across the UK is now! birdscanflystore.com

Given the BBC is publicly funded, this is Donald Trump suing you & me. It’s a pathetic cry-bully attack on journalism by a wannabe dictator & an attack on every British person. And our far right politicians & pundits are cheering him on, of course. #r4today

True patriotism is supporting foreign leaders in their attempts to extort $billions from us 🇬🇧

12 Labour announcements in the last few days. From crypto regulation through expanding colleges through to new study on inactivity in 16-24 year olds and record early years investment. Labour are focused on our young people 👏👏👏

Hair football shirt?

Hair football shirt

Reminds me somewhat of Chamberlain and his piece of paper.

Reform risk reviving Thatcher-style 'industrial destruction' in Wales, warns TUC www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

It's an impersonator, obvs 🙃

Three weeks without a Reform representative on Laura Kuenssberg! Anyone would think we were avoiding questions about election fraud, MEPs taking Russian bribes, me being a racist bully at school, Reform officials calling LBGT people nonces or my dodgy house purchase.

Justin: I fits so I sits.

"..the Lord said I was hungry and you told me I could make a meal for 30p, I was a stranger and you said 'fuck off back where you came from', I was sick and you said we should replace the NHS with private health insurance..."

All my admiration to the great @robinince.bsky.social, watching this guy quote James Baldwin and Audrey Lorde as he resigns from the BBC in solidarity with trans people makes me want to stand up and cheer

What a surprise – Reform councillor attends just one meeting and sends two emails in six months

NEW POST: The 1% club: @captaink77.bsky.social's analysis of Tribunal stats shows LAs won almost none of 25k SEND appeals in 2025, at an indefensible cost of over £200m. Plus, a shocking announcement from the DfE shows the truth of the “national SEND conversation” www.specialneedsjungle.com/l...

Last chance to submit your testimonies on SEND maladministration. Closes tomorrow. www.facebook.com/share/p/1AT...

OMG we only went and bloody won!! 🎉🎉 In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊

Wish more people called Reform out for what they are. They don’t stand for ordinary people,they divide and rule. Their anti-establishment shtick is a lie, you don’t get more establishment than recycled, failed Tories. Their policies exist to protect privilege and scapegoat those who can’t fight back

This whole article is important, but this, on the Pride in Place schemes, is especially resonant: "Money to spruce up rundown high streets is all very well, but it fails to deal with the issue of why those high streets are rundown in the first place."

And more to the point, he's a liar who thinks his audience won't care that he's lying, because he's feeding them what they want to hear now...

And why would that be? Maybe because Russia intends to continue the war again shortly after a "peace" agreement.

From telling a nine-year-old to 'go back to Africa' to his inflammatory Breaking Point poster, his cruelty has been consistent. A documented history of a man now seeking power. www.plagueisland.com/p/nigel-fara...

The Victorian & Edwardian stamp holders will each be on a chain (with added pearl) & contain a Victorian stamp & drawing of a wren. The articulated teapot will contain a crinoid fossil, Roman bead, tVictorian button, Thames foreshore garnet & a miniscule shell-tiny wearable cabinet of curiosity 🗝️:

Glacier decline is disrupting whole ecosystems – water, wildlife and human life, that it has supported for centuries. Climate Apocalypse www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What a ghastly line up.

#WindowsOnWednesday with a nice bit of pargetting, Needham Market

The sad thing is I am not remotely surprised. Zoom in.

Much of the £10.9bn UK Covid scheme fraud 'beyond recovery', report says. Lack of checks on Eat Out, Bounce back loans, furlough support & more. £13.6bn spent on 38bn PPE items, 11bn unused. £10bn loss from over-ordering, £324m fraud. Organized looting. Will anyone be held to account?

I just despair. Where's the humanity. Although it does make me even more likely to donate to charities .

I do wish this person would just naff off.

Indeed.

This man - who has freeloaded his way through his entire life, based on daft hair and mumbling incoherent but allegedly clever word salads - does not get to sit in judgement over disability and vulnerability. Ridiculous bag of custard

The “worldview that Epstein helped architect: the elevation of a self-defined cognitive aristocracy; scepticism toward democratic accountability; obsession with racial and gender hierarchy, and genetic “optimisation”; the legitimacy of population culling to root out inferior groups”