🔴 BREAKING: EU provisionally approves €90bn Ukraine loan as 🇭🇺 Hungary drops opposition
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Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

Why are UK electricity prices linked to gas – and what does it mean for bills? Government has shaken up the way electricity is priced as British costs are among the highest in the world

Why are UK electricity prices linked to gas – and what does it mean for bills?

every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"

A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.

I just finished writing my reflections on tonight's big win in Virginia. I've been fighting this fight for ten years, including three cases in SCOTUS. Tonight we won a big one at the ballot box.

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With Orban gone the EU has now approved the 90 billion Euro loan to Ukraine and another package of sanctions on Russia. V good news.

I study racist politicians from the Jim Crow era and this is on par with anything that John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo, or Cotton Ed Smith ever said in public

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

You gotta give to the GOP.

They trained their voters to hate “libs” so much they would gratefully accept every manner of corruption, lawlessness, cruelty, ineptitude, and criminality, and cheer it on, so long as it is their team doing it.

30 people made the decision to award the Palantir contract.

@unison.org.uk represent 1.3m people and the BMA all doctors.

It's time the Labour government cleared up Tory mess and remove Palantir from NHS.

Palantir’s deranged manifesto shows why it should be nowhere near our public services.

This is not a normal company, it's Trump's favourite tech firm and a danger to our NHS.

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

I would love to see Starmer and the rest of Labour read this and still argue that Palantir is safe for the UK to work with. They are acting like it's the old world, not the new.

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Successive governments have failed to learn lessons of Grenfell Tragedy The conditions that facilitated the tragedy remain unchecked

Corporate capture of the state.

The Post Office with help from Fujitsu, accountants, lawyers illegally convicted postmasters for fraud.

£1.5bn+ compensation paid from public purse. Perpetrators paid ZERO.

No one charged/prosecuted for lying in courts. Fujitsu gets govt contracts.

Who governs?

One could liken this to Kissinger's "madman" theory of statecraft, except with an actual madman.

I cannot understand how anyone in the UK can see the total shit show that Trump has turned the US into and thinks 'I'd like some of that'.

That made me laugh 😀

Labour warned against ‘ill-thought-out’ welfare cuts to boost defence budget The suggestion has been branded ‘extremely concerning’

Wes Streeting supports welfare cuts to fund defence.

He lets private equity make billions from outsourcing NHS, social care.

Silence on corporate welfare spending.

Since 2010 HMRC failed to collect £500bn in taxes. Capital gains and dividends taxed at lower rates than wages.

Bank bosses called to meeting with Reeves over impact of Iran war on UK economy HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds, NatWest and Santander will this week discuss with chancellor how to limit effects of conflict

UK Chancellor to bank CEOs to discuss how to limit the economic impact of the Iran war.

Why bank bosses only? Shows where power is

Would they urge
Lower profit margins at banks
Tax on windfall profits
No mortgage default repossessions
No subsidies for banks
Regulation of shadow banks

Thought not.

Is Making Tax Digital going to destroy the UK tax system? Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683), the Comptroller-General of Finances under Louis XIV of France, is widely credited with saying: “The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain t...

Is Making Tax Digital going to destroy the UK tax system? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04... An inept tax system could create a massive tax backlash

Financial speculation is imposing a heavy price in this war I note this chart of the oil price over the last year.  It comes from the invaluable Trading Economics website. It is correct to Last Friday afternoon. The tumbling price over the last week or so ref...

Financial speculation is imposing a heavy price in this war www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04... How can we end the financial speculation which is exploiting war at cost to society?

Central bank bosses enlist for war game to gauge threat of Lehman-style bust Finance chiefs to join exercise in Washington designed to assess how they would handle collapse of significant bank

Central banks meet to gauge threat of Lehman-style bust.

Tests incomplete - shadow banks, including hedge funds & private equity are unregulated.

UK Govt deregulating retail banks.

Major banks will be bailed out by the public purse. No incentive to behave responsibly.

Sunday School: JOIN VENTURE - The path back to EU membership Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou discuss the UK's back to full EU membership, after a new Report by Best for Britain found it is the smart option for the government in every way - economic, security,…

"Trump has made Brits feel more European" - thanks, Krasnov! The case to rejoin, full-throatedly, the European Union. 👇🏽🎧

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🇺🇸World Cup trains greed: FIFA’s angry but is that rich from them?

🇸🇦End of Saudi Arabia’s unprofitable, vanity sports spending? Can LIV survive without PIF?

🇷🇺 Russia aquatics ban ends

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Why is the Pope the only world leader standing up to Trump? YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

Why is the Pope the only world leader standing up to Trump? youtu.be/u3fbSH9hPrs?...

Keir Starmer must be sacked for employing Mandelson because he thought he was in with Trump, say people who have a ten year history of writing opinions on why Trump is great and we should bend the knee to his every whim.

THE PRIME MINISTERS SHOCKING & SHAMEFUL IMMIGRATION PLAN AND WHY WE MUST OPPOSE IT YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

THE GOVERNMENT WON’T ACHIEVE DECENCY OVER DIVISION BY TRYING TO BE REFORM LITE.

Contact your MP now and ask them to oppose the Prime Minister’s shocking and shameful immigration plan
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“At 250 feet tall, Trump's arch would be the biggest such structure in the world. Asked last fall what this modern-day arch was meant to commemorate, Trump pointed to himself and replied, “Me.””

If Democrats aren’t booking the demolition crews now, what are they even doing.