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#HHS 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 #Trump's policies & Musk's #DOGE #Firings & the fallout; will be hungry, imperiled, possibly homeless, ill...
#Austerity #Trumpcession #USPol https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5228186-hhs-fires-entire-staff-of-program-that-helps-low-income-people-afford-heat-and-air-conditioning/
“Labour falls to DISTANT 3rd place in latest #Westminster #polling”
by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour
“If Starmer is trying to take the #UK into #fascism, we may have found the one thing he’s good at – 13 Cabinet ministers set to lose seats”
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/04/02/labour-falls-to-distant-3rd-place-in-latest-westminster-polling/
SKWAWKBOX · Labour falls to DISTANT 3rd place in latest Westminster pollingIf Starmer is trying to take the UK into fascism, we may have found the one thing he’s good at – 13 Cabinet ministers set to lose seats Background graphic: Stats4Lefties (X) The disastr…
Look, if they cut the prices and took a little bit less in profit, just think how many old people would survive the winter. Then you’d have a surplus of old people, and that can’t be good. Anyway you plebs would on spend it on beer and fags, much better in our shareholders and board members pockets. Remember it trickles down, can’t you feel it trickling down you as we speak #brexit #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #conservatives #rachelreeves #austerity #energy
"Little taxes for the Rich that they can easily afford, BIG CUTS to the Poors that they cannot afford"
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"I'm not going to apologise for viewing the Poor as feckless children, I am right."
Rachel "Love the Rich, Hate the Poor" Reeves trying to defend the indefensible
Sky NewsPolitics latest: Chancellor grilled over her spring statement - including 'tactless' comment by her top ministerChancellor Rachel Reeves is being grilled by the Treasury Committee about her spring statement. It comes after Sir Keir Starmer faced a PMQs overshadowed by rising household bills and Donald Trump's tariffs.
"Congratulations, boss, you've done it: You're bigger than covid.
The claim that they're "reciprocal tariffs" is "total nonsense."
Some data worth pondering as the conversation shifts to "reciprocal" tariffs."
-J Wolfers
Trump says
Paul, McConnell, & Collins are being “unbelievably disloyal” for introducing a bill to reverse his CAN tariffs.
America's trading partners charge relatively low tariff rates, on average.
Well 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 #brexit #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #conservatives #rachelreeves #austerity
Oh thank good for that, it’s about we stood up to him ….. oh fuck !! #brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #Gammons #conservatives #rachelreeves #austerity
Oh fuck off you gaslighting privileged Tory wanker....
![6h ago Starmer concedes cost of living crisis is ‘ongoing’ - but
09:32 insists ministers are 'bearing down’ on it
Bills increasing across the board for millions today - and speaking to our political
editor Beth Rigby, the prime minister admitted that *for most people, they would
say the cost of living crisis is ongoing and they feel the pressure financially”.
Sir Keir Starmer continued: “That's why it's so important that we make good on our
pledge that people would feel better off, and the national living wage going up.
today by an average of £1400 is going to affect millions of people.”
The PM also pointed to interest rates coming down, and wages rising more quickly
‘than prices.
"| acknowledge that with bills coming in, people see that rise and that is a
pressure,” the PM added. "So we're bearing down on this."
The Office for Budget Responsibility has said things will get harder for the public
before they get better, and the PM replied: "| am not going to stand here and say
people don't feel the impact of bills. OF course they do. | understand that.
"The question is, are we making them feel better off? And that's why the national
living wage [increase] today is so important.”](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/263/229/990/345/775/original/6724e5abb27c24aa.png "6h ago Starmer concedes cost of living crisis is ‘ongoing’ - but
09:32 insists ministers are 'bearing down’ on it
Bills increasing across the board for millions today - and speaking to our political
editor Beth Rigby, the prime minister admitted that *for most people, they would
say the cost of living crisis is ongoing and they feel the pressure financially”.
Sir Keir Starmer continued: “That's why it's so important that we make good on our
pledge that people would feel better off, and the national living wage going up.
today by an average of £1400 is going to affect millions of people.”
The PM also pointed to interest rates coming down, and wages rising more quickly
‘than prices.
\"| acknowledge that with bills coming in, people see that rise and that is a
pressure,” the PM added. \"So we're bearing down on this.\"
The Office for Budget Responsibility has said things will get harder for the public
before they get better, and the PM replied: \"| am not going to stand here and say
people don't feel the impact of bills. OF course they do. | understand that.
\"The question is, are we making them feel better off? And that's why the national
living wage [increase] today is so important.”")
"The suffering will continue until you are all dead. I'm all though, Jack..."
The Guardian · Millions of Britons brace for across-the-board bill rises in ‘awful April’
Has anyone ever thought of an idea, where a number countries - prob ones that neighbour each other, all band together and use that, err what name would it be? - for now let’s call it a union. Use that union to create a strong trading bloc that could get better desks from the US and China. While at the same time trading with each other easily and without boarders and yet each country keeping its individual identity!!!! #brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #Gammons #conservatives #rachelreeves #austerity
“Shockat Adam didn’t just beat Jon Ashworth. He’s become a real progressive leader, too”
by Ed Sykes in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour
“Shockat Adam isn’t just the optometrist who helped to free Leicester from Jon Ashworth. He’s also been a consistent opponent of Israeli war crimes and prime minister Keir Starmer’s elitist government”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/31/shockat-adam-profile/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg
Canary · Shockat Adam didn't just beat Jon Ashworth. He's become a real progressive leader, too.Shockat Adam didn't just beat Jon Ashworth. He's become a real progressive leader, too. from Canary on 31 March 2025
“Starmer’s plan for unemployed people into army for Ukraine resurrects US plan that killed 3x more soldiers”
by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour
“US Vietnam-war ‘Project 100,000’ saw huge casualty rates among soldiers drafted from unemployed”
SKWAWKBOX · Starmer’s plan for unemployed people into army for Ukraine resurrects US plan that killed 3x more soldiersUS Vietnam-war ‘Project 100,000’ saw huge casualty rates among soldiers drafted from unemployed Keir Starmer’s plan to put unemployed people in the army to increase numbers that c…
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from running for public office for five years
Nigel Farage ….. #brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #Gammons #conservatives #rachelreeves #austerity #ReformUK #farage #nigelfarage #marinelepen #lepenn
"The problem, indeed, is a more general one. No populism, right or left, has so far produced a powerful remedy for the ills it denounces. Programmatically, the contemporary opponents of neoliberalism are still for the most part whistling in the dark. How is inequality to be tackled – not just tinkered with – in a serious fashion, without immediately bringing on a capital strike? What measures might be envisaged for meeting the enemy blow for blow on that contested terrain, and emerging victorious? What sort of reconstruction, by now inevitably a radical one, of actually existing liberal democracy would be required to put an end to the oligarchies it has spawned? How is the deep state, organised in every Western country for imperial war – clandestine or overt – to be dismantled? What reconversion of the economy to combat climate change, without impoverishing already poor societies in other continents, is imagined? That so many arrows remain missing in the quiver of serious opposition to the status quo is not, of course, just the fault of today’s populisms. It reflects the intellectual contraction of the left in its long years of retreat since the 1970s, and the sterility in that time of what were once original strands of thought at the edges of the mainstream. Remedial proposals can be cited, varying from country to country: Medicare for all in the US, guaranteed citizen incomes in Italy, public investment banks in Britain, Tobin taxes in France and the like. But so far as any general, interlocking alternative to the status quo is concerned, the cupboard is still bare. (...) Politically speaking, neoliberalism has been in no great danger from either."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/perry-anderson/regime-change-in-the-west
London Review of Books · Perry Anderson · Regime Change in the West?Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures –...
"Heart pounding, he called his father -shocked -Trump's admin would take such action.
“ .. ‘Dad, they're trying to bankrupt me.”
The Trump admin's cuts impact small farmers in WV where Trump won 70% of votes. #Trump cut $500M program for food banks to buy local produce. Fed funds
comprise ~1/3 of states' annual spending.
Mountaineer Food Bank was ending Yates' butter contract, due to the fed govt's funding cuts.
#Trumpcession #Austerity #Fascism #Resist #DOGE #USPol https://www.reuters.com/world/us/federal-funding-cuts-ripple-through-heart-trump-country-2025-03-29/
