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Yeah this is bonkers. Portland has problems. It's also a safe creative prosperous thriving community where elected officials are trying creative solutions. Giving equal credence to people calling it a hellscape is not factual or accurate.

Rachel Reeves set to blame Nigel Farage for tax rises in the Budget, saying he delivered Brexit with “easy sloganeering” and then walked away

It’s about time

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

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The fight over health care is incredibly important, but his shutdown battle is about more than just health care. President Trump has abused the living crap out of his power, and if we don't rein him in, our republic is at risk.

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

Well, there is a reason why we challenge your integrity lady....

Billboards are getting good

Still not going away...

When referring to people who are anti-Trump, don't fall into the trap of calling them "Antifa."

That is a loaded, mangled word. Call them what they are, "anti-fascists."

All of the Founding Fathers warned Americans that one day a tyrant would come who would try to make himself King.

They were wrong about a lot of things, like owning slaves, but they were right about this.

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

This is not what democracy looks like. Anyone who cares at all about the Constitution has to take a stand against this and against MAGA.

Donald Trump is bringing pain to his own people and trying to make a fool of the Dems. We’re gonna need more than a strongly worded letter to win this fight.

Yes it is

“We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops." - Governor JB Pritzker

As the political landscape evolves, @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social of @99organisation.bsky.social makes the case to establish a transparent definition of 'far-right', in order to strengthen democratic safeguards #ResilientDemocracy

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Labour have presided over a "doom loop of higher taxes, weaker borders and month after month of chaos" says Kemi Badenoch who was part of a government that raised taxes and immigration levels by record amounts, whilst changing leader no fewer than four times

Make no mistake.

The recent incursions in our skies are part of a pattern of growing threats.

It’s time to call it by its name.
This is hybrid warfare.

Europe must get the capacity to respond and protect our skies.

Work has begun.

→ link.europa.eu/4Fxrqr

The "line to take" for Badenoch's supporters seems to be "we've changed leaders too often in the past".

So which of those leaders should *not* have been removed?

Liz Truss? IDS? May, after those huge defeats? Johnson, despite lying to Parliament?

The problem isn't the firing. It's everything else

Helps to bear in mind that Sam Bidwell is 25 and has never done anything resembling a policy job.