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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 6h

Or can just see that unfunded tax cuts are just so much BS

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 14h

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 12h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 12h

It wouldn’t save money, sadly. And, as populations age, it would get less and less affordable

The only solutions for higher pensions seem to be more means testing or higher retirement ages. Issues with both solutions …

Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 14h

No problem with that at all.

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 14h

A fine speech full of unfunded spending and tax giveaways, entirely devoid from reality

Badenoch is cooked, and if Jenrick is the best the Tories can do to replace her, the Tories are cooked too.

Which is a pity, as any right-thinking person needs the authoritarian right vote to be split...

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 14h

From the UK side, I know a lot of professional people who are coming back... some Americans are leaving, but lots of Europeans are returning.

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 14h

Wealth gaps between age groups have widened sharply in recent years.

The difference between those in their early 30s and early 60s has more than doubled in real terms since 2006-08, from £135,000 to £310,000.

Find out more about these trends in our latest report on wealth⬇️

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Chart showing median real family net wealth per adult, by five-year age group: GB
Most age groups saw their wealth rise in the latest period, but gains were far from equal. Those aged 50-54 recorded the largest increase – typical per adult family wealth rose by £35,000 between 2018-20 and 2020-22 – but people in their late 30s saw only a £9,000 rise. These larger gains for older groups have widened existing wealth gaps: the difference between those in their early 30s and early 60s has more than doubled in real terms since 2006-08, from £135,000 to £310,000.

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 14h

The answer to the first question is 'no' and that doesn't follow from what I wrote. If you try to tell me what I think again, I'll block you

The 2nd point is BS: NHS funding depends on current revenues: there is no 'entitlement' to a specific quality of care. You get what the country can afford

Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 14h

And indeed on workplace safety.

Eg. www.roedl.com/insights/chi...

Safety First – Occupational Safety in China

In the course of the dynamic economic environment, the People's Republic of China decided to adapt the Occupational Safety Law, which had been revised since 2002 and most recently in 2014.

www.roedl.com

Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 14h

The vast majority of pensioners aren't in poverty, and poverty rates are higher for other age cohorts

E.g. Figure 1 of this report
www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2...

UK Poverty 2025: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK

This report sets out the nature of poverty in the UK in the run-up to 2024's General Election. It also sets out the scale of action necessary for the Government to deliver the change it has promised.

www.jrf.org.uk

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 14h

Every word here is meaningless or BS.

1) The state pension is paid for from current revenues: people haven't 'paid for their pension' through NI
2) False. See link. Table 1.14 for example
3) False. Do the maths

www.oecd.org/content/dam/...

www.oecd.org

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 14h

I think you're missing the mandatory confiscation of assets of those deported, which will be auctioned to cover the costs of the deportation, with any surplus channelled to national projects that promote 'Britishness'

Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 14h

Might be good to start by acknowledging that Britain is amongst the best integrated of any multi-ethnic society, and that integration is getting better, not worse.

Also, if culture is the determinant, does that mean we will strip the citizenship of natives with racist and fascist ideas?

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 20h

This is sadly, entirely correct. We can see the consequences of this approach in the US right now

E.g.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court appears ready to side with Trump in bringing back “gay conversion therapy.”

This practice involves physically abusing teenagers to try to turn them heterosexual, including with electric shocks and chemically-induced nausea.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

"We haven’t come all this way, Katwala says, “just for Elon Musk, a man born into an apartheid state, who’s polarised America, to come and start a civil war here by breaking the law"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’

The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...

www.theguardian.com

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BlueSky749402754€£¥#?YUOFGHCEW493274 @mycatisfamous.bsky.social · 22h

Many children were ziptied, some as young as 3 years old. They were screaming, crying, & traumatized for life. Most were U.S. Citizens, many not even Latinos. There are also reports of unprovoked attacks, savage beatings, women being raped, & rampant child abuse during raids. This is not America.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

My own story on the raid is here:

What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism
www.economist.com/united-state...
From The Economist

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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 21h

*Fire alarm fire*... US state agents tying up and then segregating innocent US citizens by race... some of whom have now disappeared

Anyone think of any other historical precedent for this?

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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