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Under its far-right president Javier Milei, Argentina is the sole country to vote against a UN resolution on ending gender violence. trib.al/8UTSjmz
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien’s request to Kamala Harris was to keep Yale law grad Lina Khan at the FTC because of Khan’s work on Amazon. Harris wouldn’t, so the Teamsters didn’t endorse. Abundance!
We just saw the failure of a Dem administration that listened to Yale Law grads over anybody else. There is a difference between the way the GOP sells the government to industry and thinking that people who work at corporations have insight worth listening to.
We have more food banks than McDonald’s in the UK - this is a bigger indictment and should be a national scandal and embarrassment. Why are UK editors giving inheritance tax atrnention via inches and ink
You have to be richer than almost everyone in the country to ever pay inheritance tax. Even if you own a farm. And if you do own a farm, and are rich enough to pay inheritance tax on it, you still get a massive discount. Why are we giving this protest airtime?
Wishing a speedy recovery to Celine Haidar, Lebanese women’s national team player, who was injured from a shrapnel of an Israeli airstrike on the Shiyah area, South Beirut today. Women’s football advocates, will you also turn a blind eye to this? @FIFAcom
the most engagement you've received on bIué$ky was for a sarcastic post suggesting that the term 'centrist melt' constitutes vile hate speech, and should be outlawed. none of the people who liked it thought you were joking.
“RFK Jr. is the poster boy for the new Trump administration, a rich man who never has had to worry about a thing in his life, putting the lives of ordinary Americans in jeopardy because he thinks he knows better than scientists” thenation.com/article/archiv…
It’s a great quote, but the piece as a whole jumps on this new bandwagon of blaming ‘groups’ in the Dem coalition for defeat, and implying they control everything, rather than the billionaire class and special interests which have far more control on the modern Democratic Party.
Could not agree more with @AJentleson here: “In politics, winning elections is the moral imperative. You go into this business to change people’s lives for the better. That means changing policy, and to change policy you have to win. Those who would rather lose elections so…
'Far-left weirdness' like: - Building council houses - Bringing water, energy, rail back into public ownership - Ending NHS privatisation and outsourcing - Investing in a green new deal - Introducing a wealth tax - Restoring union rights stolen by Thatcher... Won 12.88m votes.
Over the last decade, the centre-left has made the same glaring mistakes, over and over again, losing again and again. The exception is Starmer - he rejected most of the far-left weirdness and won big. Perhaps there’s a lesson in there.
This is where Starmer and the right have settled in the same place. It's exactly why we need to speak up for safe and legal routes where people have asylum claims processed fairly with dignity. Appeasing - not challenging - these narratives results in Farage & Trump.
In 2023 there were around 250 arrests and 120 convictions for people smuggling. Yet 32,000 have crossed the Channel this year. There are only 2 ways to stop the boats: mass deportations or open borders. “Smashing the gangs” is just a meaningless slogan.
How can anyone support this? How can anyone forgive the people who did this? One of the greatest crimes of our age. Carried out by Israel, backed by the West. A moral and legal abomination.
He’s won a war on desperate people and it’s totally in fitting with his entire career in public life
Hundreds more illegal migrants deported on biggest flights ever as Starmer gets 'war on gangs' win mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
The Western world supports this barbarity.
Keir Starmer and David Lammy are engaging in genocide denialism by refusing to recognise the genocide in Gaza, and genocide revisionism by undermining its legal definition. Great to talk with @BrawnJourno and be featured on the front page of @ScotNational to discuss this.
Another Israeli massacre of Palestinians sheltering in a school. Another war crime that will be denied by Biden officials.
We need to figure out why the Democrats failed, so we talked to Matt Yglesias, Rahm Emanuel, and Ezra Klein.
I mean at this stage everyone is voting for whoever it may be in Pennsylvania to beat this person because it genuinely must be a lesser evil
What’s actually consistent is UN’s rank, pervasive antisemitism. I reject this report in its entirety. I look forward to voting for @RepStefanik to continue a strong and unapologetic pro-Israel position.
Plenty of Jewish Israeli scholars of the Holocaust, like Omer Bartov and Amos Goldberg, say what's happening in Gaza is a genocide. To not just disagree with them but to claim what they're saying is "antisemitism", and to claim it as a non-Jew yourself, is pretty disgusting.
What’s actually consistent is UN’s rank, pervasive antisemitism. I reject this report in its entirety. I look forward to voting for @RepStefanik to continue a strong and unapologetic pro-Israel position.
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