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Adé Adeyemo 4d ago

We need to know the truth about Solihull Council's finances.

The Conservatives needed a £48 million lifeline to keep the council afloat. Now, they are having to pay back nearly £4 million a year of your money, while council tax goes up by 5% and your services are not improving.

The Conservatives say they aren't cutting services, but we've already seen charges for green waste collections, dimming of street lights, selling off public land and paying some council staff to quit early.

The Conservatives are trying to keep the scale of the financial challenges facing the council and what it means for you under wraps. There needs to be transparency about the seriousness of the situation.

We need to know how they plan to turn this ship around.

This financial crisis didn't happen overnight. 14 years of Tory leadership led us to this mess. Do you trust them to get us out of it?

#solihull #solihullcouncil #counciltax #efs #libdems #demandbetter

Ms. Que Banh May 16

I have sent this email to the medical clinic & CCed news media too. I am direct as fuck.

#Covid #MasksArmy #MasksAreCommunityCare #MaskUpSaveLives #CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafety #DemandBetter #FireBonnieHenry #BCpoli #PeopleWithDisabilities #DisabledLivesMatter #BCHealth #PublicHealth #BCMedical #PatientRights #Eugenics #AgoraHealth

Julian D 🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE #RejoinEU May 16

@lyndamerry484
Sure, 11% of Labour voters are “Reform-curious” — but 29% would consider voting Green and 41% say they’d back the Lib Dems. That’s the real danger if Labour keeps playing it safe and copying Tory-lite policies.

Holding Labour to account doesn’t help Reform — pretending Labour’s perfect might.

#HoldLabourToAccount #DemandBetter #ProgressiveAlliance #NoToReformUK

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/06/labour-local-communities-nigel-farage

The lesson for Labour? Until it can improve local lives and stop fearing Farage, more losses are coming

Rapid, highly visible action in communities and a forthright attack on the new right – that is what’s needed now, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian

Antoinette Pitt Mar 26

When a possible candidate to lead your land keeps grovelling to the aggressor gagging to bully and annex its mates in servitude. #whovian #wecanbebetter #demandbetter

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Antoinette Pitt Mar 16

An informative and importantly, easy to follow, explanation of the Campaign finance deal. And (at 8.40) why using your preferential vote at this election is sooo important. #prioritisedontcompromise #DemandBetter youtu.be/0kfFtLfcMxo?...

Challenging the Campaign Finan...

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Antoinette Pitt Feb 21

Well that's striking at the heart of Aussies! Its sanctioned pillaging. Corporations think they can keep fleecing us. Our Major parties are standing by and letting it happen. Make them accountable for selling us out. Use your power of preferential voting. #prioritisedontcompromise #DemandBetter

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m7o3mimorqbe7nyzd5sacj4c/post/3linywxhvb22g

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Antoinette Pitt Feb 21

I mean, Who else is going to reduce the kill count of Australian women? Or pave a way to a safe livable future and climate resilience? Or recognise maintenance steps wont turn the tide on homelessness? What we are doing isn't working. Time to try something new! #DemandBetter

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4ogjufwmet4cvsfrahe2vozj/post/3lingn4hitc2e

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Dr. Baba Kofi Weusijana Jan 20

@gp5.bsky.social Nope, we can choose to reduce rather than increase #nuclear power:
"Nuclear power increases its share in most 1.5°C pathways with no or limited overshoot by 2050, but in some pathways both the absolute capacity and share of power from nuclear generators decrease (Table 2.15)." #DemandBetter
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009157940.004

Mitigation Pathways Compatible with 1.5°C in the Context of Sustainable Development (Chapter 2) - Global Warming of 1.5°C

Global Warming of 1.5°C - June 2022

Cambridge Core

Labor Party (US)Dec 26, 2024

🚨 Smithfield Foods Caught Exploiting Children! 🚨

Minnesota investigators found children as young as 14 working hazardous jobs with dangerous chemicals at Smithfield Foods. The company is paying $2M, but this highlights a disturbing trend: child labor is making a comeback in America.

Corporations like Smithfield must be held accountable.

https://apnews.com/article/smithfield-meats-child-labor-37331398891881f762c49db751ef52de

#ChildLabor #CorporateAccountability #WorkersRights #ProtectKids #HumanRights #LaborJustice #SmithfieldFoods #DemandBetter

Smithfield agrees to pay $2 million to resolve child labor allegations at Minnesota meat plant

One of the nation’s largest meat processors has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve allegations of child labor violations at a plant in Minnesota. The state's labor department said Thursday that its investigation found that Smithfield Packaged Meats employed at least 11 children at its plant in St. James ages 14 to 17 from April 2021 through April 2023. It says they performed potentially dangerous work. Virginia-based Smithfield denies knowingly hiring anyone under age 18 to work at the St. James plant. It says it did not admit liability under the settlement.

AP News

MLTIVRS Jun 20, 2024

Jurassic Park: Blockbuster Scifi, Science Fail https://www.mltivrs.com/2024/06/20/jurassic-park-blockbuster-scifi-science-fail/ #JurassicPark #scifi #movies #DemandBetter

Jurassic Park: Blockbuster Scifi, Science Fail - Mltivrs

Jurassic Park may have been a blockbuster scifi movie, it was a science fail as a film. We deserve better science in our films.

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Ms. Que Banh May 16

I have sent this email to the medical clinic & CCed news media too. I am direct as fuck.

#Covid #MasksArmy #MasksAreCommunityCare #MaskUpSaveLives #CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafety #DemandBetter #FireBonnieHenry #BCpoli #PeopleWithDisabilities #DisabledLivesMatter #BCHealth #PublicHealth #BCMedical #PatientRights #Eugenics #AgoraHealth

Ms. Que Banh May 16

I want to remind everyone that you have every right to speak up & stand up against any #medical staff who is violating #HippocraticOath. It is our duty to speak up & stand up against any #eugenics enabling BS. Don't fucking keep complaining if you're unwilling to push back against eugenics enablers.

PUSH BACK. SPEAK OUT. WE NEED MORE #COURAGE & LESS #COWARDICE!

#PatientRights #PeopleWithDisabilities #BCpoli #FireBonnieHenry #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty

@PhoenixSerenity is this the first time you've done this? How did they respond?

Ms. Que Banh May 16

@sashin Yes. First time at this particular place. I don't know response yet since I just sent this less than an hour ago.

Pollinators May 16

@PhoenixSerenity Thank you. Your N95 message is true. Do no harm. #CovidIsNotOver, #LongCovid.

P_______X May 16

@PhoenixSerenity

"I'll still provide the N95 masks that you failed to wear for patient safety."

Great approach to spark conflict. Poor approach to achieve the stated goal.

Ms. Que Banh May 16

@P__X@mastodon.social Go fuck yourself anonymous antimasking plague spreader 🥊 #CovidSpreaderAlert

Fedi friends - Block the above named assjerk.

flere-imsaho 🇺🇦May 17

@P__X fuck off.

Ms. Que Banh May 17

@mawhrin @P__X@mastodon.social Block that jerkface.

P_______X May 17

@P__Mastodon.social, why would it spark conflict. People refusing to wear masks when having an airborne disease need to just keep quiet and follow these evidence based good practices.

P_______X May 17

@jorgeoliart my remark was in reference to the communication approach.

Evidence based good practices are much more nuanced and depend on the setting and the pathogen. For example OP should have donated face shields as well.

Ms. Que Banh May 17

@jorgeoliart @P__X@mastodon.social
That person is a douchey troll. Block them.

Fishercat May 17

@PhoenixSerenity Yes, you are. Go, you, and thank you for doing it.

Ms. Que Banh May 17

@Fishercat I'm relentless on this. I have to be 😷

Fishercat May 17

@PhoenixSerenity Fair. Huh. No. Not fair. Pretty shitty, actually. But I do understand, and wish it were different. I appreciate you.

Ms. Que Banh May 17

@Fishercat it's pretty fucking shitty