IMO, a very good move by Talarico to make the Texas Senate race about Elon Musk.
Democrat James Talarico targets Elon Musk at rally: ‘Texas is not for sale’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/23/democrat-james-talarico-targets-elon-musk-at-rally-texas-is-not-for-sale
Nice to see the wealthy showing their support for the UK by moving their residence TO Britain
Wait, what? He's coming specifically to be able to make enormous political donations.
FFS. These are not the billionaires we need.
#TaxTheRich #EndPoliticalDonations
Revealed: billionaire Reform donor was in business with foundation linked to Iranian regime
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/22/reform-farage-donor-business-ties-iran-ayatollahs
Not to be outdone, Tories proudly claim they care more about businesses than people.
Alternate headline:
"Chancellor vows to continue lower tax rate for the wealthy than for workers."
So, the UK will continue to charge lower CGT rates because we can't possibly ask the wealthy to pay the same rate as workers.
And that's just gains. It doesn't touch the piles of hidden wealth. SMH
#TaxTheRich
Chancellor rejects calls to raise Capital Gains Tax in Budget - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c50me4w4x1vyo
Oh boo hoo.
After years and years of tax piled on working families, it's past time corporations finally pay more tax.
#TaxTheRich
Banks say Healey is planning Budget tax raid on their profits - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c32l4k2xdvrzo
Zero surprise here
#VoteReformGetATrump
Reform UK councillors and candidates filmed making racist and extreme comments
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/14/reform-uk-councillors-and-candidates-filmed-making-racist-and-extreme-comments
Finally, a tech leader says the obvious.
We need product safety regulation on #AI (and on all tech, IMO)
#RegulateAI #RegulateSocialMedia
BBC News - AI is less regulated than milk, says Microsoft president
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6rmy7zmvx3lo
👀 🔥🔥🔥
Andy Burnham says it is clear Russia interfered in Brexit referendum
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/11/andy-burnham-russia-interfered-brexit-vote
Surprise, a tax-dodging billionaire lied. 😂😂😂
FFS, governments and people need to quit being scared of these losers and #TaxTheRich
‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oct/07/billionaire-quit-uk-wealth-tax-resident-monaco-super-rich-exodus
🔥🔥 MUST READ 🔥🔥
Seven brave women come forward to unmask rightwing agitators as having a common background - domestic abusers.
These people are not protectors, they are legitimising their abusive behaviour and thirst for power over others.
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/06/uk-domestic-abuse-survivors-ex-partners-behind-far-right-street-patrols
Leave it to #SNL to nail the insanity of #AI techbros
Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on AI’s Threat to Humanity - SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nvne3LzBls
Stunning that #BBCNews can report on the high cost of UK electricity but fail to mention the for-profit model that keeps prices higher than the rest of Europe ...while under investing.
I like #Burnham 's approach to nationalising utilities. But please, just say #PrivatisationHasFailed
Andy Burnham to unveil public body to invest in electricity grid - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqn4k9nypxjro
If the "best thing we can offer young people is a job", why are so many governments chasing an #AI bubble that is particularly effective at destroying entry level jobs?
Asking for every young person unable to find a job.
Best thing we can offer young people is a job, not benefits, says chancellor - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3x2zw18ge59o
Interesting read about the layers of legal and norm violations needed to fulfill Trump's claims about "taking Venezuelan oil"
#ThisIsAmericaNow
The truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘biggest oil deal in world history’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/26/donald-trump-oil-deal-with-venezuela
Remember when that other nation-state hacked into multiple government and corporate sites? And whistleblowers came forward saying it was a threat to civilisation? And yet the government kept giving it money and favourable laws - rather than contain and limit it?
The post is about #AI
#RegulateAINow
BBC News - OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw62jje658dlo
#Netanyahu deploys the classic schoolyard rhetorical defense of "Am Not"
Netanyahu calls Israel’s war in Gaza ‘opposite of genocide’ in UN speech
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/24/netanyahu-un-speech-mahmoud-abbas
In today's #NotSanewashedNews
This! 👇
This is what every story on #AI and the rise of the rightwing should be including.
Brilliant move by #Burnham
The UK is a decade late to this battle - yet is still one of the first countries to do anything.
Disinformation purveyors have turned the world upside down for a decade. Time to resist.
UK to fight Russian disinformation and push new global AI standards, Burnham says - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6rerlq99w30o
😂😂😂
In the end, this entire #Greenland deal is two more US bases and modernising the one existing base - a right the US has had since 1951.
In fact, the US had seven bases in 1952.
That Trump, sure is some negotiator. 😂😂😂. /s
What a buffoon, blowhard and conman.
#ThisIsAmericaNow
BBC News - US to build two military bases in Greenland under new deal with Denmark - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dr74g32g8go
It's OK people. Techbro assures us we are safe from #AI for at least FIVE years. 😂
/s
Nvidia boss says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/21/nvidia-boss-jensen-huang-dismisses-warnings-ai-destroys-world-anthropic