DerekGA
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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 EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
January 3, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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 EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
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Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world.
This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world.
This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
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Nobody could have predicted this.
January 4, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Nobody could have predicted this.
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*They could have “stayed in their lane.” But they couldn’t stand by and silently watch the destruction of Gaza*
by @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social
Israel/Palestine
www.currentaffairs.org/news/greta-t...
by @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social
Israel/Palestine
www.currentaffairs.org/news/greta-t...
Greta Thunberg and Ms. Rachel Offer Lessons In Solidarity
They could have “stayed in their lane.” But they couldn’t stand by and silently watch the destruction of Gaza.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
*They could have “stayed in their lane.” But they couldn’t stand by and silently watch the destruction of Gaza*
by @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social
Israel/Palestine
www.currentaffairs.org/news/greta-t...
by @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social
Israel/Palestine
www.currentaffairs.org/news/greta-t...
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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I have spent the most heartbreaking of mornings with the hauntingly beautiful poems of Mosab Abu Toha from his collection Forest of Noise.
Poems gathered from the chaos and rubble of war
#poetry
#poemoftheday
Poems gathered from the chaos and rubble of war
#poetry
#poemoftheday
December 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I have spent the most heartbreaking of mornings with the hauntingly beautiful poems of Mosab Abu Toha from his collection Forest of Noise.
Poems gathered from the chaos and rubble of war
#poetry
#poemoftheday
Poems gathered from the chaos and rubble of war
#poetry
#poemoftheday
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“If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.” - Samuel Johnson
#RadioFreeAmerica
#RadioFreeAmerica
December 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.” - Samuel Johnson
#RadioFreeAmerica
#RadioFreeAmerica
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Wrapped in the Union Jack, Thatcher and the Tories sold off your water like junkies selling the TV. Now it’s owned abroad by Malaysians who don’t know Wessex exists. Absolute con.
December 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Wrapped in the Union Jack, Thatcher and the Tories sold off your water like junkies selling the TV. Now it’s owned abroad by Malaysians who don’t know Wessex exists. Absolute con.
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Typical FTSE 100 CEO collects average UK wage in TWO days. CEO collects 141 times average employee's earnings. Some collect 1,110 times more.
No link between CEO pay and performance - look at water, energy, banking, gambling sectors?
Govts preach pay restraint to workers. No curbs on exec pay.
No link between CEO pay and performance - look at water, energy, banking, gambling sectors?
Govts preach pay restraint to workers. No curbs on exec pay.
The bosses paid the average UK salary in just TWO days
The growing pay gap between what chief executives and their employees earn will reignite the debate around 'fat cat' pay as shareholder revolts against boardroom excess surge.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Typical FTSE 100 CEO collects average UK wage in TWO days. CEO collects 141 times average employee's earnings. Some collect 1,110 times more.
No link between CEO pay and performance - look at water, energy, banking, gambling sectors?
Govts preach pay restraint to workers. No curbs on exec pay.
No link between CEO pay and performance - look at water, energy, banking, gambling sectors?
Govts preach pay restraint to workers. No curbs on exec pay.
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Scientific method and The Peanuts 😉
December 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Scientific method and The Peanuts 😉
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The United Kingdom is breaking up and the rats are scurrying to salvage their gains before the ship finally sinks.
Since 2010 Westminster has gone through:
⚫️ 6 Prime Ministers
⚫️ 5 Deputy PM's
⚫️ 8 Chancellors
⚫️ 10 Health Secretaries
⚫️ 6 Secretaries of State ⚪️ for Scotland
Since 2010 Westminster has gone through:
⚫️ 6 Prime Ministers
⚫️ 5 Deputy PM's
⚫️ 8 Chancellors
⚫️ 10 Health Secretaries
⚫️ 6 Secretaries of State ⚪️ for Scotland
December 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The United Kingdom is breaking up and the rats are scurrying to salvage their gains before the ship finally sinks.
Since 2010 Westminster has gone through:
⚫️ 6 Prime Ministers
⚫️ 5 Deputy PM's
⚫️ 8 Chancellors
⚫️ 10 Health Secretaries
⚫️ 6 Secretaries of State ⚪️ for Scotland
Since 2010 Westminster has gone through:
⚫️ 6 Prime Ministers
⚫️ 5 Deputy PM's
⚫️ 8 Chancellors
⚫️ 10 Health Secretaries
⚫️ 6 Secretaries of State ⚪️ for Scotland
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Did you know Scottish generators pay the highest charges in Europe to connect to the grid, while English plants get subsidized? We are penalized for producing green energy. It is a rigged system designed to keep our energy cheap for London and expensive for us.
December 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Did you know Scottish generators pay the highest charges in Europe to connect to the grid, while English plants get subsidized? We are penalized for producing green energy. It is a rigged system designed to keep our energy cheap for London and expensive for us.
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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From FB.
This is Scotlands future to. Think carefully in '26', vote for SNP.
England please, this is ur future as well. Do you really want this?. 🤔
This is Scotlands future to. Think carefully in '26', vote for SNP.
England please, this is ur future as well. Do you really want this?. 🤔
December 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
From FB.
This is Scotlands future to. Think carefully in '26', vote for SNP.
England please, this is ur future as well. Do you really want this?. 🤔
This is Scotlands future to. Think carefully in '26', vote for SNP.
England please, this is ur future as well. Do you really want this?. 🤔
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Serious mortuary incidents such as cremating wrong body almost non-existent in Scotland but more common in NHS England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/28/s...
Serious mortuary incidents such as cremating wrong body almost non-existent in Scotland but more common in NHS England
Professor John Robertson OBA Still in the headlines for BBC Scotland: Scotland’s largest hospital has apologised after a bereaved family was given the wrong body for a cremation ceremony. Mor…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Serious mortuary incidents such as cremating wrong body almost non-existent in Scotland but more common in NHS England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/28/s...
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Israel has killed at least 706 family members of Palestinian journalists since the start of its genocidal war in Gaza in October 2023, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.
aje.io/pkapjm
aje.io/pkapjm
Israel kills over 700 relatives of Palestinian journalists in Gaza: Report
Palestinian Journalists Syndicate says Israel using collective punishment to crush reporting of genocidal war in Gaza.
aje.io
December 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Israel has killed at least 706 family members of Palestinian journalists since the start of its genocidal war in Gaza in October 2023, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.
aje.io/pkapjm
aje.io/pkapjm
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Happy #SocialistSunday to those who celebrate
December 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Happy #SocialistSunday to those who celebrate
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Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
December 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
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Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
December 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
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The biggest divide in America today is not between “right” and “left,” or between Republicans and Democrats.
It’s between democracy and oligarchy.
The old labels — “right” and “left” — prevent most people from noticing they’re getting the shaft.
Know the truth.
It’s between democracy and oligarchy.
The old labels — “right” and “left” — prevent most people from noticing they’re getting the shaft.
Know the truth.
December 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The biggest divide in America today is not between “right” and “left,” or between Republicans and Democrats.
It’s between democracy and oligarchy.
The old labels — “right” and “left” — prevent most people from noticing they’re getting the shaft.
Know the truth.
It’s between democracy and oligarchy.
The old labels — “right” and “left” — prevent most people from noticing they’re getting the shaft.
Know the truth.