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“The landlord put it up, yet the tenants have Green posters in the window. It’s a sign of the state of politics now – Labour prioritises landlords and Greens prioritise tenants.
“Labour know this election is now Reform versus Green but of course they don’t want to lose too badly and they’re fighting for every vote, even if that means Reform win.”
Excl: Labour And Greens Clash Over Posters Amid By Election Tensions | HuffPost UK Politics

Exclusive: Labour And Greens Locked In Poster Battle As By-Election Tensions Soar
The left-wing rivals in Gorton and Denton are upping their game as polling day approaches.

The Spectator has 113K subscribers, a record, print is its fastest-growing type of subscription, and it is offering its subscription service to external clients (Freddie Sayers/The Spectator)
https://spectator.com/article/the-spectators-record-subscriber-numbers/

The Spectator’s record subscriber numbers
Something remarkable is happening at the world’s oldest weekly magazine. After years of relatively flat subscriber numbers, The Spectator has surged past its Covid-era peak and now has more paying subscribers than at any point in its 198-year history. Today’s ABC circulation figures show that, while most of our competitors have been on a downward trajectory

After reading the article from The Ditch in relation to the Greens’ Galway West by-election candidate Niall Murphy and due to my own loose affiliation through a Vote Left Transfer Left campaign that he is also involved in, I felt a statement must be made.
The Ditch have highlighted the shares he purchased in his employer, Cisco, a company that is directly partnered with the Israeli government and assists Israeli military operations in Gaza.
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As Donald Trump increasingly uses the U.S. military to carry out his agenda through brute force,
organizations that provide counseling services for U.S. servicemembers are reporting growing numbers of calls.
These calls have further spiked in response to Trump’s war on Iran, one of the most unpopular in U.S. history.
The United States has carried out the war through intense attacks on densely populated civilian areas,
the impact of which was clearly shown in the bombi…

Trump’s extreme use of military is stirring a crisis of conscience among troops
US soldiers have a rich history of questioning the wars they’re told to wage abroad.

#PhantastikPrompts 18.03.
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Gleicher Tipp wie für viele Lebenslagen. Ordentliche Kommunikation über Bedürfnisse, No-Gos, Grenzen und Consent.
Ich finde es nervig, wenn ich ein WIP poste mit der Ansage "das habe ich gerade eben geschrieben" und ein halbes unsolicited Lektorat in die Kommentare gewo…

"Boundaries Scotland foolishly attempted to leave “Leith” out of the name of the constituency, and if there’s one thing you don’t do to the people of “Govan, if it had a coastline” it’s dare to suggest they are, in fact, just part of Edinburgh. Even though they are. Anyway, it’s in the name, so it’s only Ballot Box Scotland in the firing line for being cheeky about people having notions."

SP26: Edinburgh and Lothians East Region Preview
Radical changes have come to the Capital and its environs, setting up some potentially intriguing constituency contests for the Lib Dems and Greens.

Mehr oder weniger umsonst nach Westberlin gefahren. 🙄 wenigstens keine Visakontrolle an der Grenze gehabt. #dankeWende

THE Scottish Greens have launched a Holyrood bid to ban the US military from Prestwick Airport and other publicly owned airports across Scotland.
Ban US military from Scottish government airports, urge Greens | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/articl…

On Wednesday night, the Senate rejected a pair of resolutions that would have blocked the sale of bombs and bulldozers to Israel.
Although the "Joint Resolutions of Disapproval", which were introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) failed to pass,
a record number of Senators backed the effort.
40 Senators backed a resolution would have blocked the sale of $295 million in D9R and D9T Caterpillar bulldozers to Israel
and 36 members voted for a resolution that w…

In historic Senate vote, over 75% of Democrats vote to block arms sales to Israel
In a historic vote, 75% of Senate Democrats backed an effort to block weapons to Israel. The resolutions failed, but the vote was the latest sign of Democrats’ growing consensus against aid to Israel, as support for the country hits an all-time low.

The United States will essentially have no laws on the books that enforce how efficient America’s passenger cars and trucks should be.
That’s the practical result of the Trump administration’s yearlong parade of regulatory rollbacks,
capped on Thursday by its killing of the “endangerment finding,”
the scientific determination that required the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases because of the threat to human health.
“The U.S. no longer has em…

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
The E.P.A.’s killing of the “endangerment finding” caps a year of deregulation that is likely to make cars thirstier for gas and less competitive globally, experts say.