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Rick—The Political Gardener @politicalgardener.bsky.social · 5h

So that massive 360 cinema thing sphere, eyeball thing in Vegas is all hype and fuck all else?
youtu.be/JoruRS8jgPM

This a sign of things to come?

How Las Vegas Sphere Became a $2.3B Failure

YouTube video by The Business Circle

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Rick—The Political Gardener @politicalgardener.bsky.social · 6h

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social is correct.

Language is important.

It's not deportations.

It's kidnapping.

And if Farage gets his way, we will have to use the same language for him.
youtube.com/shorts/WNWGV...

Answer Stuns Crowd 🥶‼️

YouTube video by INFORMED WAY

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12h

Times Square, NYC. #NoKings

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

Tomorrow I'll be on Laura Kuenssberg.

Will I be able to say "I can announce the Green Party have just overtaken the Tories in members!"?

It's tantalisingly close to happening!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

Whoever came up with the idea of mocking this gratuitously cruel regime with cute, nonthreatening plastic frogs really hit a gold mine. The clever imagery has made it all the way across the Atlantic.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12h

Boston. Wow.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11h

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 1d

Rather awkward photo of the PM reemerging. Here’s also a link to Jewish Chronicle article in 2015. www.thejc.com/news/starmer...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10h

#A_NewHope ✊

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Rick—The Political Gardener @politicalgardener.bsky.social · 5d

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“Fiscal discipline” is code for protecting the donor class.

Fiscal Rules are thus
No Taxes on the rich
Low Interest Rates for the rich
Privatisation
Allowing price gouging
Permanent Austerity
Managed Decline

Neoliberals are the whip hand of the slave masters.

The Great Government Debt Scam

Turning Public Debt into Private 1% Wealth—Understanding how money works today.

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Rick—The Political Gardener @politicalgardener.bsky.social · 20h

I was speaking to a mate, discussing the AI bubble and how it is only really making money in the US Military and on the streets of Gaza with AI Drones.
Now it is on custom porn!

His reply.
"Sam altman - creep. Peter Thiel - creep. Elon musk - creep. Larry Ellison- creep"

Tell me he's wrong?

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Rick—The Political Gardener @politicalgardener.bsky.social · 10h

Please say it's true.... 😂

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 14h

How about Aston Villa F.C. refuse to play Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. on November 6th?
Would you in good conscience play against a team who have served in the IDF?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

We are not a monarchy. We are a constitutional democracy.

Let the world hear loud and clear today: America will never have a king.

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 11h

Holy fuck! No Kings protesters are marching through Center City in Philadelphia. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

Sanders: Today, October 18th 2025, there are more people out on the streets in more communities all over our country than we have ever seen in American history

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Rick—The Political Gardener @politicalgardener.bsky.social · 10h

Please let there be a God for @zackpolanski.bsky.social tomorrow andwalk onto the Tory Protector and Guardian of acceptable debates—LK, and announce that the Greens have overtaken the Tories!

Please let there be a God

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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago - no kings

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12h

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Rick—The Political Gardener @politicalgardener.bsky.social · 19h

Republicans want a small state

A small state they shall get.

Starting in the military with Mass Resignations.

youtu.be/PuBSSROX8Do

This shit show is only starting to get warmed up folks.

Grab the popcorn, buckle up Dorothy, for this US Inflation is gonna pop and blow us all up with it!

Military REVOLTS Against Hegseth And Trump

YouTube video by The Damage Report

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Rick—The Political Gardener @politicalgardener.bsky.social · 20h

First They Came For—they will only turn on Trump when MAGA sees he’s coming for them too. Black, Brown, White—don't matter.

It’s a war economy running on fake AI & fear.
When he can’t kill democracy at home, he’ll go to war abroad & they’ll cheer him until the world they fear owns them from within.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon.

Mark my words.

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Rick—The Political Gardener @politicalgardener.bsky.social · 20h

Enshittification is a word given to things that start life as great but once the Monopoly is in play the competition is controlled and Maximum Shareholder Value can rage away and price gouge us to the tune of 30% over the odds.

Again remind me what's so fucking great about capital—ism?