The electoral college is unnecessary for a democracy. In fact we're the only democracy that has one. No more insanity of gerrymandering. One vote per person. That's all. 👍👍👍

Large numbers of US forces have arrived by air all across Europe. Exactly the thing you would do if you were planning to invade Greenland and not lose your military bases.

This! Unable to outlive, outrun the truth there is only one way to stop the future ….

What a complete and utter farce Notwithstanding the fact that 15 percent is peanuts, and far below typical personal tax rates www.theguardian.com/business/202...

“While U.S. officials paused the technology partnership in December, …the British government has pressed ahead with Palantir’s £240 million award — with more deals set to come.”

Five years ago today, the United States Capitol was attacked in a violent insurrection incited by the President of the United States for one purpose: to overturn a free and fair election and cling to power in clear violation of the Constitution.

Follow Sarah. She's the best and the brightest, a meticulous, dogged scholar and great stout heart. And she's always five steps ahead of autocracy's game, has seen every move coming from the start.

On January 6th, 2021, when Trump incited an insurrection, America's corporate leaders rushed to distance themselves from him. Today, as Trump destroys our democracy at home and stages more coups abroad, they're sucking up to him to pad their own bottom lines. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC0v...

We need to know the names of everyone who stalled the Smith investigation....now!

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Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

This is absolutely rich! He pardoned the Honduran President who was convicted for these actual crimes and now arrests Maduro! Make it make sense! .... Prosecutors charge Maduro, along with his wife and son, with drug trafficking - POLITICO share.google/52D2zG7Ikuka...

50%~31% => 19% don’t know/don’t care. If you take them out of the calculation and count only those with an opinion (and much more likely to vote), that means a breakdown of: 62% to 38% in favour of rejoining the European Union. And this lead continues to grow slowly but steadily.

Who agrees? ✋

The 51st state. Trump demands that the UK allows American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into its supermarkets. UK already agreed to pay more for US drugs, reduced tax on private equity managers, considering cutting tax on tech companies. 'Tacking back control', someone said.

3 year average temp above 1.5C. 1.7C predicted for 2027. Risk assessors, insurers & scientists warn of imminent economic derailment & billions of deaths. Weird that The Guardian don’t mention any of this in their economic outlook for 2026.

“We won’t be able to fund the public services.....just by a wealth tax that affects the top 0.1% of the population"" Oh really? 50 UK families own 2/3rds of a trillion £ A one off windfall tax of 50 percent would raise more than £300 billion on these alone www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thank you majority: "According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy." You're right.

US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice. Trump doesn't honour agreements. It's about dominance. Demands that UK ends digital services tax on US tech companies and it's food safety rules which bar certain US agricultural products. Say NO to Trump slavery. Better off joining the EU

One of the reasons universal basic income is so important is how it can directly distribute a share of GDP growth instead of relying on jobs to do it. Another reason UBI is important is because it increases bargaining power for everyone, which in turn will empower unions and function as strike pay.

In 2026, the UK state pension age will rise to 67 from 66, fully implemented by 2028. Rich retire whenever they want. The poor die at work, receive low pension, have shorter life. Low wages = low private pension. Neoliberals want to cut state pension, inflict more misery on millions.

"After Paris, came down to 3C....after Cop26 in Glasgow in 2021...... to about 2.8C. Today, the forecast stands at about 2.5C, IF ALL EXISTING PROMISES ARE FULFILLED" These numbers might as well have been picked out of a hat www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Starmer has zero convincing arguments for a £1.6bn policy that wasn’t in the manifesto. But if you’re a billionaire Silicon Valley bro - as Blair’s financial patron, Larry Ellison is - building a centralised database has many enticing possibilities 2/ www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id...

Why is Keir Starmer so hellbent on digital ID? Two words: Tony Blair. At @thenerve_news we’ve tracked Blair’s influence - & his billionaire backer Larry Ellison - behind a policy that nobody asked for & almost nobody wants. 1/

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

Trump pointing to Xi Jinping’s “one vote” as a model of unity is an autocratic benchmark. Our Constitution deliberately rejects rule by decree. Democracy isn’t slow because it’s broken; it’s slow because power is shared. #holdfast

Terrifying.

Private hired guns The secretive Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received £640,000+ from fossil fuel companies & Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and 2005. The aim is to subvert public choices for the benefit of paymasters.

@kamalaharris.com Won Election Interferences Adam Zarnowski is the former CIA officer who said he did an NSA-authorized audit of the 2024 electi0n--and found that Kamala won 70% of the vote. www.youtube.com/live/xDIQ11z...

Zelenskyy refuses to cede land to Russia as he rallies European support

Sounds about right...

Ukraine will not accept any peace deal requiring territorial concessions, Syrskyi tells UK broadcaster kyivindependent.com/ukraine-will...

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

A clarifying moment has arrived for we Europeans. Hope our leaders heed it. The US is not the friend of western liberal democracy.

The Kremlin is praising the new US security strategy. Any questions?

Covid fraud under the Tories cost the UK taxpayer £10.9bn. VIP lanes and crony contracts. Lack of anti-fraud controls in Covid scheme. Money handed out for non-existent employees Newly formed companies got public money No competitive tenders Poor checks on quality. How much would be recovered?

Forthcoming: Seven hitherto unpublished papers by István Hont in "Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx: Culture, Needs, and Property Rights" (@universitypress.cambridge.org), ed. Lasse S. Andersen with Béla Kapoussy and Richard Whatmore @standrewsiih.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

#RichardCarlile was born #OnThisDay in 1790. Carlile published secularist works during an era of effective censorship. He was also the first to write and publish a birth control tract in English. He spent 6 years in prison for #blasphemy. Read more 👇 www.secularism.org.uk/richard-carl...

The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.

Trump is the KING of debt. Why does MAGA think otherwise?

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

Tech Fascists want their own cities and nations for a simple reason: They believe the USA will collapse in the 21st century (largely due to technology). Peter Thiel has repeatedly cited “The Sovereign Individual” as his inspiration. Here are the basics: www.thenerdreich.com/the-sovereig...

The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

UK energy bills to rise by £108 to pay for infrastructure upgrades. Since 2020 energy companies made £125bn profit. 6.1m live in fuel poverty. £4.43bn energy bills arrears. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty. Eliminate privatisation of profit. Use it to fund infrastructure. Nationalise.

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

Is it really just about $$ for the US admin now? 🔹The Russo-US 28 point peace plan had the US receiving 50% of profits from €100B in frozen Russian assets + €100B in EU funds 🔹The US is pressuring the EU to NOT loan those frozen assets to Ukraine to support its defence 🤔

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

Orwell read about it in Eugene Lyons's book Assignment in Utopia, which he reviewed.