Exactly!

'It’s time for government to wake up and grasp what’s in front of its eyes: thousands of skilled and knowledgable workers – and a booming green energy industry just crying out for the government to tap into it.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/18/green-party-leader-climate-action-beat-reform?CMP=share_btn_url

DISGRACEFUL
'But the healthy food push was dropped after the Food and Drink Federation, which represents corporations including Nestlé, Mondelēz, Coca-Cola, Mars and Unilever repeatedly demanded the government ditch it.'

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/may/17/uk-government-drops-healthy-eating-push-after-lobbying-by-ultra-processed-food-firms?CMP=share_btn_url

Moody's downgraded the US Credit rating today. Now we shall see if the destruction of the dollar and the US economy is the goal for his "friends" or if he is truly screwing this up and is unable to do basic math.

Remember this is not for the good of the masses, it is to benefit billionaires, their corporations, and their shareholders. It will look like a perversion of what we know about "our" economic best interests.

Solving the problems that lead to fascism can be done. What is needed is obvious. What is lacking is any desire to upset those with high income and wealth, who are the true enablers of fascism. The problem is that there is no political party willing to say this, let alone do anything about it.'

'Start by massively redistributing income and wealth.
Nothing but that can work. Unless people have money to spend, opportunities will not exist in the places where they live.
Then improve the public services that people on lower incomes are most especially dependent upon.

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05/16/the-uk-has-a-left-behind-and-they-are-reshaping-politics/

'Why don't we stop stacking adversity in these children's paths?
Why don't we redistribute income and wealth?
Why don't we create social housing for people to live in with dignity?
Why can't we improve social, health, education and other services in these areas?'

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05/16/our-children-do-not-need-more-grit-they-need-a-governmment-that-understands-and-delivers-s/

The evils of #capitalism...

Looks like UPS and DHL have started collecting the Trump Tax. Walmart said it will do so later this month. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Consumers are getting hit by s...

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Via Max Berger:

It's totally unsustainable for Democrats to argue " #Trump is a dangerous authoritarian criminal who is openly disregarding the constitution and taking bribes--which is why it's idiotic to call for #impeachment."

You can say it's too soon, but it's what the constitution requires.

‪Axios:‬

SCOOP: Trump impeachment called "idiotic" and “horrible” in House Democratic meeting this morning

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/14/trump-impeachment-pelosi-thanedar-nadler

#FunFact: Democrats have overperformed by an avg. of 12 pts in Special Elections so far this year.

📣 There's over TWO DOZEN more coming up!

UP NEXT:

5/20: NY SD-22: Sam Sutton
6/03: SC HD-50: Keishan Scott
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Talks between #Ukraine and #Russia last less than 2 hours with no sign of progress

Ukrainian official: Russian demands were “non-starters and non-constructive conditions” that were “detached from reality and go far beyond anything that was previously discussed”

#UkraineWar

2nd-Place Runner in High School Race Rips #Maine #GOP Lawmaker for Attacking Trans Winner

Brett Wilkins, May 15, 2025

"A high school runner in Maine who finished second to a transgender competitor at a recent track meet said this week that a Republican state lawmaker's 'hateful' crusade targeting trans athletes—not the fact that she had to compete against one—dampened her sporting joy.

Anelise Feldman, a freshman at Yarmouth High School in southern Maine, finished second to Soren Stark-Chessa, a multisport standout at rival North Yarmouth Academy, at a May 2 intramural meet.

"' I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school's standards,' Feldman wrote in a letter to The Portland Press Herald published Wednesday. 'I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn't diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race.'

"Feldman's letter was prompted by State Rep. #LaurelLibby's (R-90) comments during a Fox News interview earlier this month in which the lawmaker, while not naming Stark-Chessa, referred to her accomplishments and accused transgender athletes of 'pushing many, many of our young women out of the way in their ascent to the podium.'

Feldman stressed: "I don't feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points."

" 'We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school,' she added. 'Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren's participation in the girls' track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.' "

https://www.commondreams.org/news/transgender-student-athletes-maine

#MaineResists #USPol #ProtectTransKids #TransgenderAthletes #TransRightsAreHumanRights

'It’s amazing to see a Labour Party with their biggest parliamentary majority in decades heading for electoral oblivion, and the majority of Labour’s 400+ MPs sitting there gormlessly as Starmer drives their party towards the cliff edge, instead of doing what’s necessary to stop him before it’s too late.'

https://anotherangryvoice.substack.com/p/starmers-catastrophic-reform-lite

Powerful, frightening stuff if you're an American. Not sure that I can pass on the Paywall bypass. If it won't work, I apologise, and recommend you find it elsewhere - maybe Timothy Snyder's Blog...

Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/yale-canada-fascism.html

'it felt like 62 million people voted to turn this country into some version of my deeply dysfunctional and awful family; to give the worst possible person the most power, the most advantages, the most support, and allow him to run roughshod over much worthier people.'

https://open.substack.com/pub/marytrump/p/now-is-our-time?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=diqr

Green Friends - pay attention. Defeating neoliberalism requires community cohesion. This is a brilliant first step.

Why do Reform want to increase UK energy prices? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05/15/why-do-reform-want-to-increase-uk-energy-prices/

UK Ambassador to the UN Barbara Woodward says, the Israeli government is starving the Palestinian people, and there is no food left in Gaza.

Children are dying, while Israel is killing aid workers.

When I grew up the term “Jewish genocide” was taught in Danish schools, to tell us that never again would the world stand idly by while people were exterminated.

Look at us now.

'The incalculable damage to this country is, in other words, the creation of neoliberal policy, which is what Starmer is all about.

Migration is all that has held a lot of the country together, despite rather than because of government action. Do away with inward migration, and things will fall apart.'

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05/13/starmer-is-swinging-his-wrecking-ball/

'We need to redistribute wealth in this country.
Then Labour could deliver the public services we need.
Then they could provide the employment we need.
And they would reduce inequality in this country.
Labour could even help people in need.

Instead, the callous individuals who head the government and who pretend to be Labour politicians are playing to the fascists whilst choosing to hurt hundreds of thousands of people.'

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05/12/labour-are-playing-to-the-fascists-whilst-hurting-hundreds-of-thousands-of-people/