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NonFungibleHumanBeing retweeted
We are facing a crisis of impunity. That's why we built The Rule of Law Project — to investigate unlawful conduct by federal officials, and work with state and local prosecutors to hold them to account.
Watch former DOJ prosecutor Mark Blumberg and human rights leader Brad Adams launch this critical accountability initiative on MSNOW with Nicolle Wallace.
Five government jobs. Eight employers. Nearly £350,000 in three years.
If the allegations are proven, this isn’t just an employment scandal. It’s a failure of oversight.
How does a system designed to monitor public money let this happen?
Who was checking?
#PublicSector
🚨JUST IN: Civil servant accused of fraudulently holding FIVE government jobs simultaneously
• A court has heard that civil servant Kashim Chowdhury, 55, allegedly held five government jobs at the same time through fraudulent means.
• All jobs paid him a full-time salary, each worth tens of thousands of pounds. Chowdhury earned nearly £350,000 from eight employers over a period of three years
• He achieved this by making false representations, false declarations, concerning his existing employment status and employment history.
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We were told Brexit was settled.
Now politicians are discussing closer ties with the EU again.
That doesn’t prove Brexit was wrong. But if it was such a clear success, why are we still trying to fix the relationship?
reuters.com/world/uk/burnham…
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Trump responsible for 42% of the unsustainable US government debt. He’s enriched himself, his family and friends.
This isn’t apocalyptic. It’s just math.
10-year treasury at 6%. $40 trillion in debt.
Do the math. That’s $2.4 trillion in annual interest payments.
Larger than the entire Social Security disbursement.
You cannot sustain that.
Here’s the solution: just going back to the Clinton tax rates and making a few adjustments, you could save $10 to $12 trillion in deficit spending over the next decade and get this thing under control.
No Republican is going to do that. Trump isn’t going to do that.
And when Trump leaves office, he will be personally responsible for 42% of all the national debt in American history.
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NonFungibleHumanBeing retweeted
Trump announces deal to import Russian diesel.
Yet he imposed tariffs on China and India for importing fuel from Russia.
3 weeks ago signed law threatening 500% tariffs on India and China.
Shows bankruptcy of Trump foreign, economic and other policies.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm1d…
NonFungibleHumanBeing retweeted
This isn’t a massive amount of oil. It’s 15 hours worth of monthly diesel supply. But this accomplishes three very ugly things:
1) Trump can threaten Ukraine if they bomb any more of Putin’s oil refineries.
2) This can be used as a pretext for why Trump insiders can do dirty business deals with Russia.
3) This can open the door for more sanctions relief for Putin.
‼️TRUMP: Oil deal with Russia. That is a big deal. That is massive amounts of oil coming into our country, and I wanna thank President Putin. We have massive amounts of oil being, coming into our country. So, thank you.
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TRUMP: And by the way, I think you heard about the oil deal with Russia. That is a big deal. That is massive amounts of oil coming into our country, and I wanna thank President Putin, to be honest with you. We have massive amounts of oil being, coming into our country, and it's diesel, which is what we want. So, thank you.
1-JOURNALIST: President Zelensky said you're weak because of it. He just criticized you.
TUMP: Who said that?
1-JOURNALIST: Zelensky, Ukrainian president, just said you're weak because of the deal with Russia.
TRUMP: Okay.
2- JOURNALIST: President, Zelensky said the diesel deal is a weak move by a strong partner that will only prolong the war.
TRUMP: By a strong what?
2-JOURNALIST: By a strong partner that will only prolong war.
TRUMP: Well, we are a strong partner.
2-JOURNALIST: Will this embolden Putin?
TRUMP: Well, no, we need oil for the world, and this is diesel, which is what we need, so we're very happy to get it. We're very happy to get it. Look, we need it. Oil prices are already dropping like a rock, so we're very happy to get it.
NonFungibleHumanBeing retweeted
Trump saves the day for Putin. Just as Ukraine was changing the direction of the war by inflicting real economic pain on Putin by hitting his oil refineries, Trump steps in and agrees to buy Russian diesel. Now Trump can say that Ukraine is bombing American interests and they better stop. Up until today, there was a real chance of an unspoken aerial cease fire if Russian could no longer tolerate the pain, but that has now disappeared
Trump agrees deal with Putin for Russia to release diesel on to global market ft.trib.al/qMaofOW
NonFungibleHumanBeing retweeted
Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax.
But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT.
That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing.
A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.
NonFungibleHumanBeing retweeted
Some wonderful news this morning. It has been confirmed that the required funding for the police investigation into the post office scandal has been given. Now for accountability.
True to your word @andyburnham
Very much appreciated.
NonFungibleHumanBeing retweeted
Paul Nowak is replacing Frances O’Grady, his predecessor at the TUC, who was appointed a Bank of England director in 2019 under a Tory government.
She in turn replaced Unison chief Dave Prentis, also appointed under a Tory govt. He replaced Brendan Barber (TUC), who replaced Bill Morris (TGWU), who replaced Gavin Laird (appointed under Thatcher) etc etc. This is not new!
NonFungibleHumanBeing retweeted
Our rough chart of the “bang for the buck” - GDP benefit per £ of tax cut.
NonFungibleHumanBeing retweeted
The specter of a Third World War haunted the East—
sometimes vanishing, only to reappear in the distance…
In short: You don’t need nuclear weapons to plunge the entire world into chaos. On one side, Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz. On the other, a bunch of ragtag fighters armed with rusty Soviet Kalashnikovs block the Bab-el-Mandeb bottleneck. And just like that—the stage is set for global chaos, a free-for-all where it’s every man for himself.
Oh, and we have to thank Trump for that—the greatest field marshal of all time.
NonFungibleHumanBeing retweeted
Bury 7-0 up against Wythenshawe in the FA Cup first round qualifier.
A sub plot - booing Darius Palma. Three years ago fans raised 7k for a shoulder operation, only for Palme to leave for a new team soon after.
‘We want our shoulder back’ sing the home fans. #facup
(Now 8-0)
NonFungibleHumanBeing retweeted
Woah! Watch every minute of this. AMAZING undercover reporting from inside Reform.
Huge kudos to new investigative kids on the block, @Verbatim_Media via @Channel4News.
youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?is=p1PO…
NonFungibleHumanBeing retweeted
Today's Times reports on my research on abuse of the EU settlement scheme & student loan system.
I have a longer article out, but a quick thread on some key things we found... 🧵
1) A fifth of all student loans are now going to non-UK nationals, with 1 in 20 to Romanians alone.
NonFungibleHumanBeing retweeted
We’re delighted to reveal our printed programme for 2026/27 designed by @proper_tees…This season will see the programme being printed in house which has helped to reduce the cost down to £2 but will still be packed with the very best content…We may be bias but its certainly another stunning cover from the Paul we must say…❤️
NonFungibleHumanBeing retweeted
China openly challenges Trump.
Trump: "We need two billion dollars a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz."
Chinese Foreign Minister: "The Strait was open before the war. The root of the problem lies in your illegal actions against Iran; you have created a global crisis out of nothing."
NonFungibleHumanBeing retweeted
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.