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harryprayiv<a href="https://progressivecafe.social/@TonyStark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@TonyStark</a> Some of us pointed out that we never even had a choice in a place with election laws so corrupt that the “left” loves <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genocide</a>.Not only do they love genocide, they have armies of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PartisanHacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanHacks</a> making impassioned pleas in support of a corporatist warmonger platform.Dems refused to support leftist ideas like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonviolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonviolence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policedemilitarization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#policedemilitarization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/singlepayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#singlepayer</a> or not using tax revenue to fund <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/warcrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#warcrimes</a>LESSER EVIL for the 35th election in a row!

Andii BowsherInteresting confirmation of what we'd been suspecting. "Austerity, they found, is the key variable: without it, less-educated people are no more likely to vote for rightwing demagogues than highly educated people are. In other words, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are busily handing their core constituencies to Nigel Farage." <a href="https://www.monbiot.com/2025/04/14/the-urge-to-destroy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.monbiot.com/2025/04/14/the-urge-to-destroy/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inequality</a>

Pablo Martini (Geezer)“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”In 2013, peers warned that sweeping benefit changes – from Universal Credit to PIP – would do the exact opposite of what the government claimed.Lower work incentives, harsher sanctions, increased homelessness, and brutal treatment of disabled people were all predicted… and have come to pass.Now, with Labour in power, the same machinery of misery is being switched on again. It's time to speak out.Read the evidence, remember the history, and decide where you stand: <a href="https://voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=97783" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=97783</a><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/UniversalCredit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UniversalCredit</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PIP</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DWP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DWP</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SocialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialJustice</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DisabilityRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DisabilityRights</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BenefitCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BenefitCuts</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tories</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/StatutoryInstruments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StatutoryInstruments</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/VoxPolitical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoxPolitical</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"$150 billion: that’s the grand total of savings Elon Musk revealed last Thursday that he and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team are expecting to make after months of ruthless and often mindless cuts from a government the billionaire Trump megadonor claimed was riddled with fraud, waste, and graft.To call this a monumentally unimpressive number doesn’t do it justice. Musk’s “savings” here — which are already error-ridden and inflated in the first place, created by totaling up spending that never actually existed or that was, alternately, either already cut or never actually was — represent just 15 percent of the trillion dollars he originally promised he would slash. It’s a mere one-fiftieth of what the federal government spent just last year alone, would shave off only one-tenth of one year’s worth of the average federal deficit over the past decade, and is a whopping less than half a percent of the overall $36.21 trillion of US national debt.In fact, government spending so far under Donald Trump has actually gone up compared to the last two years under Joe Biden. Three months of Musk feeding the US government through a woodchipper has done less than nothing about the ostensible problem it was meant to solve."<a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/04/musk-doge-savings-austerity-spending" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jacobin.com/2025/04/musk-doge-savings-austerity-spending</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a>

TC Won't Give In To Lies👀This should be a bigger storyFifteen years of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> and benefit cuts is leaving children underdeveloped.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EndAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EndAusterity</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/apr/17/a-third-of-uk-school-staff-report-physical-underdevelopment-in-poor-students" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/apr/17/a-third-of-uk-school-staff-report-physical-underdevelopment-in-poor-students</a>

John<a href="https://archive.ph/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/business/economy/federal-workers-trump-network-unions.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/business/economy/federal-workers-trump-network-unions.html</a>Over 1000 lawyers, in 42 states, trained to do <a href="https://union.place/tags/ProBono" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProBono</a> work for federal employees being attacked by <a href="https://union.place/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a>. “We are still operating as though there is a <a href="https://union.place/tags/RuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RuleOfLaw</a>” <a href="https://union.place/tags/RiseUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RiseUp</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/AFLCIO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AFLCIO</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unions</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exploitation</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClassWar</a>

TJ1001Well this has come as a shock ….  <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brexit</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/bbc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bbc</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/keirstarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#keirstarmer</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labourparty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labourparty</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RejoinEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RejoinEU</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservatives</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/toryscum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#toryscum</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Gammons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gammons</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ToryCorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryCorruption</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/farage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#farage</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/nigelfarage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nigelfarage</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ReformUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReformUK</a>

Kim PeralesThe State Dept is overhauling the govt’s diplomatic footprint: 10 embassies & 17 consulates would be shuttered, including Eritrea, Luxembourg, S Sudan & Malta -all folded into embassies in nearby countries.Proposed consulate closures: France: Lyon, Rennes, Bordeaux, Strasbourg & Marseille, Germany: Düsseldorf & Leipzig +SC: Edinburgh, IT: Florence, & in CAN: Montreal & Halifax: downsized.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Betrayal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Betrayal</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Retreat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Retreat</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Isolation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Isolation</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Treason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Treason</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resist</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/April19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#April19</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://punchbowl.news/article/foreign-policy/state-major-overhaul/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://punchbowl.news/article/foreign-policy/state-major-overhaul/</a>

Indy Richard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿14 years of Tory cuts and austerity and now Labour are in power it is more of the same. It simply doesn't work. Cuts do not generate growth. If people have less money in their pockets, they spend less, businesses suffer, jobs are lost and the tax take decreases. This doesn't feel like rocket science so why does it feel so difficult for government? <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Cuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cuts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Tory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"It’s a myth to think of the US as uniquely free from monetary and fiscal constraints. The US has special powers to issue debt and find willing purchasers, of course, but freedom to issue debt is not the same as freedom to spend. In 1978, the world’s central banks were prepared to abandon their dollar reserves if the US continued to pursue an inflationary politics, as it did under Carter. So in the supply-side view, the US as dollar hegemon is quite limited in the kinds of spending it can support. Off the table is anything that’s too redistributive or liberating—welfare, or investment in free education and health care—because these empower labor and the poor.By contrast, spending on defense, police, and prisons was fine, as were so-called tax cuts, which are really tax expenditures. The supply siders proposed a budget that was extremely generous in subsidizing financial wealth holders—creating these government-subsidized markets for capital gains—and extremely austere in subsidizing wages or spending on the poor. I think this captures the real motives behind the business revolt of the 1970s. Despite appearances, supply siders weren’t screaming for less government; they were screaming for government to subsidize capital income on a new basis. Hence this shift from industrial profits to capital gains."<a href="https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/against-the-people/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/against-the-people/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalEconomy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MonetaryPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MonetaryPolicy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Dollar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dollar</a>

Toni AittoniemiSuomen julkinen velka 1980 - 2025Finnish public <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/debt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#debt</a> 1980 to 2025Kokoomus is the center-right neoliberal party, who always put on <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> and say they’re doing it to ”get rid of the problem of debt”I bet this story is the same everywhere else: If you look at what they did when they were in power, they almost single-handedly created the problem to begin with.The most fluent liars of them all are the smiley-faced center <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/neoliberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#right</a>. 👿

TJ1001The EU, China, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Vietnam and others, all hit back or at least done something. I defy you to find any semblance of meaning in this from Starmer. Any iota of an inkling of a plan. One sentence or even two words strung together that aren’t complete and utter political speak bullshit. The man utters a thousands words and never do they mean anything. Absolutely full of shit and I voted for him for context   <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brexit</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/bbc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bbc</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/keirstarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#keirstarmer</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labourparty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labourparty</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RejoinEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RejoinEU</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservatives</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/rachelreeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rachelreeves</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/tradewar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tradewar</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trade</a>

Geriatric Gardener“DWP benefits being cut are the thin end of the wedge. It’s Labour’s ideology which is terrifying”by Rachel Curtis in The Canary <a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/@thecanaryuk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@thecanaryuk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@UKLabour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@UKLabour</a>“There are reams of evidence showing how disabled people have died in the most appalling conditions following inhumane treatment from the DWP. [..]. The horror of what is coming is unimaginable”<a href="https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025/04/07/dwp-benefits-cuts-universal-crddit/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025/04/07/dwp-benefits-cuts-universal-crddit/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Press</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BenefitsHarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BenefitsHarmer</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DWP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DWP</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disability</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ToryContinuityParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToryContinuityParty</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Hypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hypocrisy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cuts</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nazi</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Germany</a>

Rupert BrackenburyI get the need to increase <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#defense</a> spending, but on the back of current <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> it sure feels like were trading a functioning <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/healthsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthsystem</a> for a javelin missile <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/nzpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nzpol</a>

Kim Perales“Rep Issa just asked Republican leaders on their conference call if they could get a briefing from the admin on the Trump tariffs. The Hill has been largely left in the dark on what the admin is trying to accomplish. GOP lawmakers have been left trying to make sense of the mishmash of a message coming from various corners of the admin.” -J ShermanA positive sign, even MAGA Congressman Issa is concerned about Trump’s <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a>.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Recession</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Stagflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stagflation</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a>

Kim Perales“The Senate Budget resolution sets up the toxic combo ofTax cuts tilted to the wealthy 🚨+Cuts to programs helping people afford food and health care +Massive, regressive tariffs =Transfer of wealth from low- and middle-income families to the wealthy” -B DukeThe majority of Americans are harmed by this draconian budget. The resolution now goes to the House. <a href="https://toad.social/tags/April5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#April5</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resist</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Recession</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Stagflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stagflation</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Resolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resolution</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/republican-agendas-triple-threat-to-low-and-moderate-income-family-well-being" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/republican-agendas-triple-threat-to-low-and-moderate-income-family-well-being</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈"By destroying our country like Trump is destroying his, we can get a good deal" said the naïve Quisling <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKUSTradeDeal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKUSTradeDeal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a>

Kim PeralesThe early CXL of an Amazon Web Svcs contract means: a slew of NOAA websites are slated to go dark at midnight. This mainly would affect NOAA's research division, & will make numerous websites & data sets inaccessible to the public.It's another example -admin: taking data offline across the govt.The COMM Dept is requiring <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> -to🚨 cut its IT budget by 50% across the board.There's a light at the end of the tunnel, but...<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resist</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/04/noaa-research-websites-go-dark-saturday-night" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.axios.com/2025/04/04/noaa-research-websites-go-dark-saturday-night</a>

Kim Perales<a href="https://toad.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HHS</a> has fired every single worker in its program that helps low-income Americans pay their energy bills.All of the staff who worked on Social Svcs Blk Grants *help states & territories pay for social svcs that protect ppl, incl children, from neglect & abuse, were let go."So low-income Americans, that may be a lot of us, after <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>'s policies & Musk's <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firings</a> & the fallout; will be hungry, imperiled, possibly homeless, ill...<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trumpcession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trumpcession</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5228186-hhs-fires-entire-staff-of-program-that-helps-low-income-people-afford-heat-and-air-conditioning/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5228186-hhs-fires-entire-staff-of-program-that-helps-low-income-people-afford-heat-and-air-conditioning/</a>

TJ1001Well played Starmer - Rolled over like a puppy. On the plus side, giant tech companies pay fuck all tax, so a lower rate of fuck all is still fuck all. Imagine cutting disability benefits at the same time as giving the most profitable companies that ever existed tax breaks - what a time to be alive   <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brexit</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/bbc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bbc</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/keirstarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#keirstarmer</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labourparty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labourparty</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RejoinEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RejoinEU</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservatives</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/rachelreeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rachelreeves</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a>

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