RT @Lesism
Any lingering flicker of doubt that the #BritishEmpire is well and truly gone must surely have come, this month, in the shadow of even darker times to come, when the people of the #UnitedKingdom cried out for a hero, and Tory consensus replied 'How about Grant Shapps?'
RT @Gohahwei1
In Quebec (Canada), 11 deputies refused to take the oath to Charles III https://twitter.com/Info53917080/status/1582989508814852096
RT @Cmacf76
We’ll be joining our friends @ScottishTrans @LGBTIScotland @LGBTYS @LGBTHealthy outside Parliament for a rally of support on the day of the Stage One vote of the GRA reform Bill. Come and join us. Details below. 👇🏻👇🏻
#comeoutfortransequality https://twitter.com/scottishtrans/status/1582738872127336449
Looks like the pound will recover against the dollar, then. Same hedge fine rhymes with bankers.
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RT @davetroy
2/the US debt ceiling, early next year. Republicans are threatening not to raise it; causing the US to default on its debt, which will have catastrophic effects on the dollar and make it more expensive for the US to borrow. They threatened this... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/18/gop-debt-ceiling-plan-financi…
https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1582821076425269249
The article is more coherent than the click bait title, but doesn’t offer anything other than stating the bleeding obvious. What to do, then? No idea.
Well, sweetheart, it didn’t fucking help, either.
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RT @TheAtlantic
“To believe that the country’s problems can be explained by a single act of stupidity, rather than by structural issues much harder to rectify,” writes @TomMcTague, “is, after all, comforting”: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/10/liz-truss-uk-britain-economy-brexit/671778/?taid=63502a4b0c97a30001e0b383&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true…
https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1582944737287458816
RT @JamaalBowmanNY
As Egypt hosts the world at #COP27 next month, some 60,000 Egyptian activists will be suffering in prison. We cannot be silent about this. Fighting the climate crisis can never be separated from struggles for human rights, justice, and democracy. #FreeAlaa
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/07/egypt-cop27-climate-prisoners-alaa
RT @zimpenfish
"Braverman says she quit after sending an official document from her personal email, a breach of ministerial rules"
Suddenly they're for following the ministerial rules? After the last few years of ripping them to shreds? What?
Later in the same article:
Today *unity* with the opportunists actually means subordinating the working class to their 'own' national bourgeoisie, and an alliance with the latter for the purpose of oppressing other nations and of fighting for dominant nation privileges; it means *splitting* the revolutionary proletariat of all countries.
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Nothing has changed, has it?
Video: Starmer on hook in Commons for breaking all his leadership campaign promises https://skwawkbox.org/2022/10/17/video-starmer-on-hook-in-commons-for-breaking-all-his-leadership-campaign-promises/ via @skwawkbox
RT @D_Raval
This is why I don't share petitions. They had their day back in the 17th century, they have no value in the 21st century (other than data capture for mailing lists etc). People create and share them because it's what they've always done. Time to think of alternatives. https://twitter.com/ShoaibMKhan/status/1582491370719092736
Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.