"Unifier"🤔
PELOSI: “@RepJeffries doesn’t need me to whip votes. He’s going to win very conclusively.”
She calls him “eloquent” and “a unifier”
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🚨BREAKING
The Financial Times has just revealed that Thames Water’s US hedge fund creditors are close to agreeing a ‘last and final’ deal to take over the company.
A handover to US hedge funds. A continuation of the privatised chaos. And a huge reward for the people who have run our water into the ground.
The deal would see them allowed to pollute our rivers and seas without consequence - in exchange for an upfront payoff.
This deal is absolutely outrageous, in every regard.
112 MPs have already called for special administration of Thames Water.
A cross-party group of MPs - who scrutinise the Environment Department - have said that the creditors’ proposal should be rejected and Thames Water should be brought into special administration.
And the former Environment Secretary rejected a previous version of the creditors’ deal in June. This new version is not better in any way.
@andyburnham promised to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation. He promised public control of life’s essentials.
This really is the moment of truth for Andy Burnham. If he allows the water supply of 16 million people to be sold off to US hedge funds - how can we take him seriously about any of his promises?
NO DEAL to the Thames Water creditors. Special administration now.
Part of the team that ushered in Trump. Anyone surprised.
Yikes — ex Obama state dept official @JoelMartinRubin got booed at #CrookedCon for claiming @AbdulElSayed & @TroyJackson207 underperformed because they used the word “genocide”, and nobody really cared about Gaza 🤔
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Ben Kentish And Tom Swarbrick: Send Someone Else’s Sons
Ben Kentish and Tom Swarbrick seem awfully keen to send Britain’s sons and daughters to war. Funny how neither is volunteering. Patriotism is easy when someone else pays in blood. Less studio bravado, more personal sacrifice. If war is so noble, then lead by example.
Has Maddow had a Damascene conversion?
Jon Stewart: I get pessimistic when I see status quo leadership in place that has disappointed in the past. What will be different now?
What would you need to see from Democratic leadership to show they're moving with purpose and urgency?
Listen to Rachel Maddow's answer
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Someone needs to remind @AOC what happened to McCarthy.
“More than a million people signed a petition asking @HouseDemocrats to not elect @RepJeffries speaker— will that carry weight?”
@AOC reiterates that nobody is running against Jeffries, telling @JulianAndreone “it’s not a race right now” so 40+ Dems opposing is unlikely
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Burning everything to the ground, that's what 50 years of neoliberal politicians in Westminster gave us and continue.
Privatisation of British Library:
To be asset stripped, destroyed like water companies & Royal Mail:
BL management will close reading rooms, converting them into paid, private spaces operated by commercial company.
They propose outsourcing in-house security.
Stop this rip-off.
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It's always "let's wait and see" with the Dems.😔😔
“If Hakeem and Schumer is elected Speaker [and Majority Leader], don’t immediately pivot to: ‘Burn it all down, it’s all corrupt, we did all this work for nothing, F the system.’ Please DO NOT DO THAT.”
Jamaal Bowman urging people not despair and remain focused should Jeffries and Schumer be elected into leadership
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Now this is gaslighting extraordinaire.
Ahead of #COP31, I spoke to @BBCJustinR for the @BBCPanorama climate special.
The climate crisis is here. We are seeing its impact on communities here in Britain and across the world.
And at a time when some are trying to divide us, this is the moment to come together, not pull apart.
Because we know the solutions. We can break our dependence on fossil fuels, bring down bills and cut emissions.
But no country can do this alone. This is the time for multilateralism and collective action.
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