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Thread of some pretty messed up trends that neoliberalism directly or indirectly cause or exacerbate. NL's love quantitative data, so...
Twenty years late and five times over budget.
And there are people who still think we could scale up nuclear power in time to be worth a damn.
HS2 trains could be serving London Euston by 2043, with trains running between Old Oak Common and Curzon Street from 2036. Meanwhile, tracklaying should start between the West London station and the Midlands from April 2030 says HS2 Ltd CEO Mark Wild
modernrailways.com/article/h…
And the Guardian are silent, among the rest of the media.
Mind putting a call in, Owen? Ask them why they’re ignoring it, maybe?
Keep in mind, everyone, that this represents the compromise.
This is the bare fucking minimum, and even this might not be enough.
If things get revolutionary, this will become the moderate position.
🇫🇷 FLASH - LFI a dévoilé le programme de Jean-Luc Mélenchon pour la présidentielle de 2027. Parmi les propositions :
- Autoriser jusqu’à 3 jours d’arrêt maladie autodéclaré, sans consulter de médecin.
- Accorder 7 jours de congé après le décès d’un ami.
- Porter le SMIC à 1.700€ net par mois, soit une hausse de 220€.
- Ramener l’âge de départ à la retraite de 64 à 60 ans, avec une retraite à taux plein après 40 années de cotisation.
- Réduire progressivement la durée du travail à 32 heures par semaine.
- Instaurer un service écologique obligatoire de 9 mois pour les moins de 25 ans, rémunéré au SMIC.
- Faire rembourser les soins à 100% par la Sécurité sociale.
- Prendre en charge les séances de psychothérapie des moins de 26 ans.
- Fixer un plafond de 12 millions d’euros pour les héritages.
- Augmenter les APL de 10% pour aider à payer les loyers.
- Bloquer les prix de certains produits essentiels afin de limiter les hausses excessives.
- Revaloriser les salaires des fonctionnaires.
- Garantir un revenu minimum aux jeunes grâce à une allocation.
- Proposer aux étudiants des repas à 1€.
- Limiter à 1 pour 20 l’écart entre les rémunérations au sein d’une même entreprise.
- Soumettre les aides publiques aux entreprises à des engagements sociaux et écologiques.
- Rétablir l’ISF afin d’accroître l’imposition des grandes fortunes.
- Mettre en place la taxe Zucman pour taxer davantage les milliardaires.
- Répartir l’impôt sur le revenu en 14 tranches pour augmenter la contribution des plus riches.
- Engager une sortie progressive du nucléaire.
- Atteindre une production d’électricité issue à 100% des énergies renouvelables d’ici 2060.
- Interdire les vols entre 23h et 6h.
- Suspendre les zones à faibles émissions (ZFE), qui restreignent la circulation des véhicules les plus polluants dans certaines villes.
- Passer de la Ve à la VIe République en donnant davantage de pouvoir aux citoyens.
- Supprimer le 49.3, qui permet au gouvernement de faire adopter un texte sans vote.
- Intensifier la lutte contre les discriminations, notamment au sein de la police.
- Reconnaître comme crime d’État le massacre des Algériens du 17 octobre 1961.
- Renégocier les traités européens et refuser l’application de certaines règles européennes jugées incompatibles avec le programme.
- Quitter progressivement le commandement militaire intégré de l’OTAN.
- Soutenir la création d’un État palestinien aux côtés d’Israël.
Ben King retweeted
Padme’s medical droid: She just lost the will to live.
Me (there for some reason): Wait, what? That’s not a thing.
Droid: Good catch—You’re right, my first diagnosis of “lost her will to live” was incorrect. She actually had a massive cerebral hemorrhage.
If there were a prominent MAGA activist with known ties to Russian politicians, who had directly received training and funding by Russia, and they helped lead riots in New York, what do you think US Liberals would say about that person?
In China today, you can’t say Mao was a dictator while Joshua Wong gets cast as a villain. It’s all upside down, I write: indexoncensorship.org/2026/1…
Spoiler: he actually over-performed with Jewish voters.
Did they have this shit scheduled and just forgot about it?
Abdul El-Sayed underperformed with Jewish voters. Here’s what he has to say about it. politi.co/4eMOLao
Ben King retweeted
Late stage capitalism:
A supermarket throws perfectly good food in the dumpster, pays its workers so little they can barely afford groceries, then asks customers to donate to the food bank at checkout.
And we're supposed to admire how fucking efficient this system is.
Ben King retweeted
The Labour right will always scratch one another's backs before they do anything else. They don't give a flying fuck what's in your best interests and never will nitter.cf/LucyGJWhite/status/211…
Palantir’s Tom Watson, ex-Labour MP, wrote to Yvette Cooper last month saying the controversial US company could help boost the UK’s tech sovereignty, letters show. Weeks later, sources say the UK is extending its NHS contract for two more years
bit.ly/4zrbMYF
If you like the idea of separation of powers, actually separate them.
Subsidiarity ftw.
In hindsight, I don’t think having every federal power split between three branches of government, located in the same city, and occupied by the same social circle, should ever have been taken seriously as a separation of powers.
How isn’t electing someone everyone hates NOT committing coalition suicide?
The dude has worse numbers than Trump.
By a ways.
Why is my For You tab full of LinkedIn posting today?
Lots of single sentence paragraphs stories about some shit some new hire did.
Many openly saying at the end that it’s fiction.
Who is this for?
The For You tab is now full of centrist tears and rationalisation.
Guys, your party won.
Why are you so salty, hmm?
Everybody hates them.
Democrats did well off the back of anger at the Iran War and Israel.
That means *in spite of* the leadership.


















