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Ive had this debate so many times - £60k is a lie! For the time we had no option but to claim benefits, me and my two children survived off less than £18k a year, paying £9,600 of that to my private landlord each year.
Benefit claimants live in state-managed poverty - which directly limits how possible even getting into work with young families is.
After all, you try having a 1k childcare payment upfront on that income with no prior salary - or even managing those costs on a single salary.
The wealthiest are fleecing us, and then blaming us for the impacts of that fleecing, both on our incomes and our opportunities.
This is CLASS WAR
Oliver@OWS1892
Tax-dodging billionaire: "poor people are the problem."
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Day 3 of Bolivia's general strike demanding the resignation of neoliberal President Rodrigo Paz.
All major highways blocked by protesters. An indigenous long march is heading to the capital, as it passes through each town and village more people join.
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I got my hands on 65 hours worth of live broadcast news coverage and special reports on the MOVE bombing which occurred 41 years ago today. I produced this piece using that archival footage.
On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police dropped a C4 explosive on the home of the @themoveorganization family at 62nd and Osage Avenue, after 500 police fired over 10,000 rounds into the home. City officials allowed the fire to burn, killing 11 people including five children, and destroying 61 homes.
Eyewitness and forensic evidence indicates that several MOVE children attempted to flee the burning home through the rear but were either shot back inside or their bullet-ridden bodies were thrown back into fire by police waiting in the alleyway.
In 2021, it was revealed UPenn and Princeton had stolen the remains of several of the children and not only conducted experiments on them but also wheeled them out on gurneys at fundraising events.
John Africa's head has never been returned and saw marks on his neck indicate foul play during an unauthorized autopsy.
No one has ever been held accountable for any of it.
In 2023, @mikeafricajr bought the house back which was originally owned by his aunt Louise James, but was seized by the City through eminent domain after the bombing and turned into a police substation. He is barred from turning the home into a memorial until he pays off the $400K mortgage, support link below.
Today we remember:
Rhonda Africa
Theresa Africa
Frank Africa
Raymond Africa
Conrad Africa
John Africa
Tree Africa (14)
Delisha Africa (13)
Netta Africa (12)
Phil Africa (12)
Tomaso Africa (9)
Ramona Africa (survivor)
Birdie Africa (survivor)
Support @moveactivistarchive
linktr.ee/themoveactivis…
Archival material accessed through Temple University's Digital Collections
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let’s not try to rewrite history 😭#OpenTheSchools
qwiz@qwizzz
im convinced modular synth was a psyop to take out a large percentage of music making males
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Watching journalists explain why the bond markets should effectively decide who runs the country. Sounds like: we don't need elections. Just ask the traders.
Don't let them sell you this nonsense. It's the establishment's favourite trick, outsource democratic decisions to unelected financial markets and pretend it's just how things work. It isn't.
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My God, I've woken to see that 34k people have signed! Not sure what to even say, but THANK YOU! Hopefully, Ipso will not ignore your voices.
@newscord_org
newscord.org/action/telegra…
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In 2 days, the King sits on a gold throne to read out Labour’s plans to strip under-22s of their disability benefits. 66,000 young people could lose £400/month. This is Keir Starmer’s toxic, cruel Labour party. Shame on you @Keir_Starmer @RoyalFamily
Dr_Rebecca@Dr_Bekka_UK
Keir Starmer slammed the Tories for cutting £20 week (£1000 a year) from Universal Credit, saying they were 'turning their back on the poorest' & driving families into hardship? Now in power, he's slashing £47/week (£2,444 year) from UC + more cuts incoming 🙃 @Keir_Starmer
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It's wild that I have to do this, but @HeidiBachram clipped 57 seconds of this video to misrepresent me. I use a quote from a conversation with Kurt Vonnegut and Susan Sontag, in which she discusses human behaviour after studying the Holocaust. In that context, I talk about human behaviour and how we can build community in the lead-up to the next general election. In this video, I actually say that reform voters are not devils. Yet due to NOT watching the full video, @RobertJenrick is saying I am comparing reform voters to nazis. Truth matters, folks, even on X.
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If someone dying after you tricked them into believing they were receiving medical care doesn't get you serious prison prison time, it damned well should.
Daily Mail@DailyMail
Hospital staff thought woman, 24, struggling to breathe was 'overreacting' and spent hour in corridor with oxygen mask 'not connected to anything' before she died, inquest hears trib.al/TTMZlWp
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The long-overdue change from First Past the Post to a Proportional Representation voting system simply has to be top of the agenda now.
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How is this not murder???“Pretending” to provide care so the patient unwittingly cooperates until she dies.
Had they told her they weren’t going to provide oxygen she could have asked to be transferred.
Instead they pretended to give her oxygen
Daily Mail@DailyMail
Hospital staff thought woman, 24, struggling to breathe was 'overreacting' and spent hour in corridor with oxygen mask 'not connected to anything' before she died, inquest hears trib.al/TTMZlWp
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Akira Kurosawa recounting the unforgettable experience of watching Solaris with Andrei Tarkovsky:
“Andrei Tarkovsky was sitting in the corner of the screening room watching Solaris with me, but he got up as soon as the film was over and looked at me with a shy smile. I said to him, ‘It’s very good. It’s a frightening movie.’ He seemed embarrassed but smiled happily. Then the two of us went to a film union restaurant and toasted with vodka. Tarkovsky, who does not usually drink, got completely drunk and cut off the speakers at the restaurant, then began singing the theme of Seven Samurai at the top of his voice. I joined in, eager to keep up. At that moment, I was very happy to be on Earth.”
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personally I think the smartest thing Labour can do now is to carry on their long-established and very successful policy of listening to the political editor of the Spectator
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Notice how the Green Party isn’t even on here, because their money is coming from ordinary members
Paul@AngloBrython
@KateWilton1 Labour got 4 million from a Cayman islands hedgefund not that long ago. The green party have taken money from multi millionaire Vivienne Westwood. Your point is irrelevant, they all take money from the very wealthiest
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Ed Davey: Greens are extreme populists & LibDems represent British values like decency
Like being PO minister & ignoring Alan Bates & then pocketing a huge amount of £ working for a law firm defending the PO against attempts by sub-postmasters to get justice? Decency like that?
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BREAKING NEWS
“Furious” Starmer was not told local elections had taken place yesterday.
The PM claims civil servants kept him in the dark until this morning.
He has ordered an enquiry into why the elections had gone ahead without his knowledge.
“I thought we’d cancelled them” he told Sky News.
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Today is David Graeber day:
“The Labour Party under Starmer will abandon its core idealism & principles and it won’t even gain tactical advantage. It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and no one will, in fact, vote for it.” (April 2020)
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Labour deletes smear against Green candidate after police involved...
thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026…
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Labour is sacking 60,000 staff, replacing doctors with PAs that have the equivalent of 'A' levels, and 'insourcing' care to private companies who get paid for using our facilities, all the while loading health trusts with more PFI debt. No, Labour is not 'fixing' the NHS
The Labour Party@UKLabour
Labour is fixing the NHS. Don't let any other party threaten that progress.
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