And that's why the US, despite having a 30 Trillion economy (30 times Taiwan's GDP), lacks Universal healthcare, lacks high-speed rail, lack properly paved roads, lacks Postal banking, lacks a large modern MRT (subway). Taiwan has all of these things. So, are Americans awake yet?

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

Super-rich donors are distorting UK politics. Why won’t Starmer fix it? The super rich are becoming increasingly influential in British politics. The PM has already set a limit on foreign donations, but it doesn’t go far enough. It’s time to take the final step

Rather than playing party politics, Starmer needs to put the integrity of British democracy first and use his Elections Bill as what it is: a once-in-a-generation opportunity to take big money out of our politics.

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#PoliticsLive #WATO

The significant year on year fall on boat arrivals is broadly unreported by BBC or other media. It has less to do with imminent government changes currently going through than a fall in "push factors" that is Europe-wide

This is a well-documented pattern in medical research and reflects systemic gender bias in pain assessment and treatment.👇

No modern dentistry or antibiotics? No thanks

#BBCPM

Were these Jewish people killed by what's called "friendly fire"?

Or does it mean that #Netanyahu is antisemitic?

It certainly proves that fascists and war criminals have no morality or conscience... even towards their own people.

#Iran #warcrimes #r4today #Israel #wato #bbcnews #c4news

Lord Frost on Politics Live

Factoid: Lord David Frost has never been elected to any public office. He was a career diplomat and civil servant before becoming a special adviser and later the UK's chief Brexit negotiator before being appointed as a life peer in 2020 by Boris Johnson.

#politicslive

The techno fascists at Palantir should be nowhere near the NHS.

"Our goal is: everyone who does not like America, does not like what we stand for, does not like the West, thinks we’re useful idiots, is going to be scared and uncomfortable." — Alex Karp, CEO Palantir Tech

#politicslive

Perhaps Reform could tell us what delivering Brexit "properly" might be, and why they never presented that little detail in 2016.

#R4Today

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A very stocky Exmoor Horn ram.

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

To cap off his first 100 days in office, Mayor Zohran Mamdani walked the full 6 miles home from New York City Hall last night — greeting New Yorkers along the way. 🍎

A few postcards my office has received in the last few weeks.

Even during our darkest moments, Minnesotans choose love as their guiding light. 💙

Huge crowd in Margate

Zack in front of a Vote Green sign on the beach

We organised an emergency rally with less than 24 hours notice in Margate tonight.

Hundreds and hundreds of people on the beach ready to vote for Rob Yates & the Green Party Thursday from 7am-10pm

It's so close between the Green Party & Reform - and we're taking them on!

Farage saying don't deny visas due to speech

Farage minion wanting to deny visas to whole countries based on speech of their government he disagrees with

Free speech news

Be careful what you wish for.

#R4Today

Good morning, and let's begin with a simple question.

What the hell is going on?

Just hear me out: maybe the problem with Vance is that he is just colossally stupid.

What a f*cking waste of lives and money. 😠

Hungary JD Vance accuses EU of ‘interference' as he visits Hungary to help Orbán win election 1h ago [Below, a photo of both politicians in front of their flags]

Thank you, @theguardian.com, this headline is gold dust. 🙌

Human chains have formed at power plants in Tabriz and Kermanshah following Trump’s threats and US–Israeli strikes on infrastructure.

A recurring theme w/ MAGA/radical right is *endlessly* accusing their enemies (falsely) of doing why they are *actually* doing

It’s Orban who spent fortune interfering in politics outside Hungary

Including paying Reform’s Matt Goodwin €10k a month democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

Trump can only be removed under the 25th Amendment with the actions of this Republican vice president, this Republican cabinet, and this Republican-controlled Congress.

So, if you're asking what Democrats are doing today, I'm not sure you understand how this all works.

More probably

Don't politicians get the same number of holidays as teachers eh Mr Dymond? #wato

It's good that #wato is having a look at American interference in the Hungarian election. Hopefully they'll do the same with our politics at some point.

#wato #bbcwato Isn't it about time we had a moral panic about the legacy media being abused to spread moral panics that threaten our civil liberties?