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@zackpolanski.bsky.socialReposted by @graceblakeley.substack.comThis is it!!!!
It's the difference between a narrow loss or a Green WIN. And that difference is you!!
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@zackpolanski.bsky.socialReposted by @graceblakeley.substack.comPreviously unseen lobbying shows the oil and gas industry is misleading government on North Sea drilling. For now, it looks like Burnham is listening to them. Only a Green win tomorrow will force them to listen to us. New analysis from Influence Map 👇
@graceblakeley.substack.comFrom the AI bust, a new set of Mega Big Tech companies will emerge – with even more power than they currently command.
These companies would not just control markets – they would control entire societies. They would be hegemonic. The ultimate capitalist planners.
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@zeteo.ukReposted by @graceblakeley.substack.com“From the AI bust, a new set of Mega Big Tech companies will emerge – with even more power than they currently command.”
@graceblakeley.substack.com on how an AI crash could strengthen Big Tech.
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@graceblakeley.substack.com"Trump is now losing support from two directions.
He is losing independent and moderate voters over his terrible handling of the economy; and he is losing much of his base over issues like corruption, corporate capture, and his assaults on civil liberties."
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@graceblakeley.substack.comI wrote a little about this in a recent piece on Burnham's decision to bring back right to buy - and how much it inflated the big developers' profits. Might be worth a longer read now the policy is definitely coming back
@graceblakeley.substack.comYour home is not going to increase in value at the same rate as your parents’. The housing bubble is over. The post-crisis era of very cheap debt is over. Inflation is back.
There will be no repeats of the extraordinary era between 1990-2020.
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@shazbot42.bsky.socialReposted by @graceblakeley.substack.comOne from last yr but still supa-relevant as our societal despair increases. Always good thought-food from @graceblakeley.substack.com
My fave quote from this article “Work No Longer Pays – but Wealth Does” a society will never flourish on those terms no matter how many migrants u blame.
@philfree.bsky.socialReposted by @graceblakeley.substack.com“Economic participation has become a trap, leaving people stuck between low pay, astronomical housing costs, collapsing public services, & the disappearance of meaningful social connection.”
Generation Despair - @graceblakeley.substack.com
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@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.socialReposted by @graceblakeley.substack.comJoin us tonight! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5g...
@dmehro.bsky.socialReposted by @graceblakeley.substack.comNEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings.
wired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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@zeteo.ukReposted by @graceblakeley.substack.com“Our social care system is completely broken and does need fundamental reform.”
Andy Burnham has called for NHS-style social care. @graceblakeley.substack.com argues that care workers, people receiving it and families must have a say in shaping it.
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@philfree.bsky.socialReposted by @graceblakeley.substack.com“These deaths are, of course, preventable. But preventing them takes political will & cash. The worst effects of climate breakdown are setting in just as the West decided to cut off aid to poor countries.”
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@davidgraeberinst.bsky.socialReposted by @graceblakeley.substack.com"Whilst this system is very much not working for the majority of people, for the small minority who govern this system, it absolutely is working.
So all of thethings that make us think of chaos and catastrophe and apocalypse are creating profits for those at the top."
@emanuelbrown.bsky.socialReposted by @graceblakeley.substack.comNot just the UK, sadly. This is a coup of western democracies by mentally ill tech billionaires with Bond Villian agendas.
@zeteo.ukReposted by @graceblakeley.substack.com“It’s not too late to kick Palantir out of our democracy.”
Tom Watson has joined Palantir as the US surveillance firm expands its reach across the British state.
@graceblakeley.substack.com investigates.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.socialReposted by @graceblakeley.substack.com"Why Is a Labour Lord Now Paid by Palantir – and What Does it Mean For Our Democracy?"
Ex-Labour deputy leader Tom Watson just got hired by a controversial US tech company seeking taxpayer-funded state contracts.
@graceblakeley.substack.com for Zeteo UK on the corrupting of our politics: