Pride was born as a riot, and has always been an act of defiance. During my life, I survived an internment camp. I came out at 68. I've watched rights get won and now watch them being rolled back. Yet I'm still here, still proud, and still holding Brad's hand. They have never been able to extinguish us or our joy. And they won't start now. Happy Pride, friends. Let's make this the loudest, proudest one yet. 🌈 ✨️

Its no surprise that Wes Streeting appointed someone with a range of private healthcare investments & directorships to head up Department of Health and Social Care in April 2025;

while, as required she resigned from these roles & declared her interests, the fact that someone embedded in the private health sector was appointed to such a role will confirm the view that Streeting's interest was to shift the balance in the NHS further towards private provision.

#NHS #health #WesStreeting
h/t FT

Malicious compliance

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2104922/malicious-compliance

Working hard? Nigel Farage registered ‘absent’ from the last 77 votes in Parliament.
UK MP basic salary is £98,599 plus expenses, including second home. Since becoming MP Farage has collected £2m from other jobs.
AND There are questions about his many undeclared ‘gifts’.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/where-is-nigel-farage-voting-record-parliament-2026-406632/ #nigelfarage #ukpolitics #ReformUK

Feel like you're working harder, yet struggling more than ever?

Here's why: Labor's share of the U.S.’s economic output (e.g. wages) decreased to 53.8% in the third quarter of 2025, its lowest level since the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) started recording this data in 1947.

Meanwhile, share captured by corporate profits rose to its highest level since 1950.

Hourly wages have increased 3% since the end of 2019, while corporate profits have risen 50%.

According to the Economic Policy Institute, worker productivity has increased 90% since 1979, while wages have only grown 33%. If wages rose at the same rate as productivity, we'd all be making an additional $16/hour.

https://fortune.com/2026/01/13/us-workers-smallest-labor-share-gdp-on-record/

#classWar #poverty #wages #oligarchs

Bundists always rejected all forms of ethno-nationalism. As Jews, they had lived in the violence and oppression that always attended every ethno-nationalist program. They never imagined that Israel would escape this fate. As the Bundist leader Henryk Erlich wrote in 1933: "We are not a chosen people. Our nationalism is just as ugly, just as harmful as the nationalisms of all the other nations."

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RT: @implausibleblog Zack Polanski criticises Tony Blair for dismissing Net Zero, talking down clean energy, on one of the hottest days of the year so far

RT: @bradfordgreens 💬 "If you compare the scrutiny I receive compared to what Reform receives, it's incredibly disproportionate"

📰 Media on Farage £5 million: '........🤫'

📰 Media when @ZackPolanski fails to close the door behind him: '🤬🤬🤬'

@Nigel_Purchase@mstdn.social
While at uni, his shady behaviour attracted a couple of investigative journalists from the student rag.
Zuccerberg initially refused to talk to them insisting they sign NDAs. When they refused, he took to hacking into the student rag terminals to see what was going to be published about the fact he'd been stealing data to use as content for his website.

He clearly wasn't too good at covering his tracks. And the multiple hacks traced back to him were why he "dropped out" of Harvard.

“In Orwell's 1946 essay on politics and language he showed how a captured mind stops generating sentences and starts assembling them from prefab parts. The phrases come pre-stacked - you reach for the slogan before you reach for the thought. He'd seen it on his own side, among people fighting for things he himself actually believed in. People fall for a "good" cause at the same rate they fall for a "bad" one. The test: can you state your own position in plain words you built yourself, right now, without any of the movement's stock phrases? If you can't, you may not actually hold the position. It may be holding you.”

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/be-thou-not-pilled/

ACTION: Call your financial manager about SpaceX IPO ASAP

Background: SpaceX has filed to go public at a grossly overvalued $1.8 Trillion. The fundamentals in no way justify inclusion in index funds, BUT NASDAQ rules were CHANGED so that it will be included. As a result 401Ks and IRAs will AUTOMATICALLY buy the stock, giving this worthless company your money. It is the greatest grift of all time.

To Do: Contact your financial firm immediately. More below...

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#SpaceX #SpaceXIPO

RT: @TheGreenParty "I think it's pretty grotesque to see him selling the future of our children and grandchildren down the river" - Zack Polanski discusses Tony Blair's latest intervention on Sky News

Rising rents, cost of further education, the climate crisis.

There's lots for young people to worry about.

Yet they have a plan & the determination to end Rip off Britain.

Join us: http://join.greenparty.org.uk

RT: @bradfordgreens 💰 Find out exactly who funds Reform (spoiler: it's the super-rich) and who their biggest donor is.

And who funds the Green Party (spoiler: it's our members & supporters) 👨‍👩‍👦 in our fact file.

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In anticipation of June beginning Pride Month:

The three genders (nonbuynary)

Wikipedia, and the entire Wikimedia movement, has been a democratic, anti-authoritarian experiment since the day of its inception.

It's a project that matters, something I've been proud to have made a career of.

I spent my 20 years at the Wikimedia Foundation trying to further that experiment on a professional basis, and I have never been prouder of my former colleagues at WMF than I have been these past few months as we've been making @wwu a reality.

You should organize your workplace too.

Dear Labour, stop letting Nigel Farage set the agenda on immigration
https://www.opendemocracy.net/labour-immigration-copy-reform-uk-agenda-nigel-farage-kier-starmer-andy-burnham-shabana-mahmood/
As Andy Burnham eyes No 10, he must not try to out-Reform Reform, but take action on Labour’s economic renewal

Hot diggity dog.

The briefing concludes that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with [International Human Rights Law]. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems, including where such systems are identified as exacerbating existing inequalities or creating new forms of discrimination.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/