Guy Mitchell

Guy Mitchell

@guymitchell.bsky.social

Retired. Happily married. Three grown-up Children. Two Grandchildren. Secular Humanist. Democratic Socialist. Animal lover. Bibliomaniac. DON'T DO MONEY, DODGY WEBSITES, OR ONLY FANS

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Trump says he shot a stunning 70 at age 80 and won two championships—at his own golf club. When CNN asked Jamal Simmons to react, he burst out laughing: “I’m trying to compose myself.” Then he explained why the spectacle was anything but funny. #DonaldTrump #CNN #TrumpGolf

wp.meTrump Claimed an Astonishing Golf Victory at 80—Then a CNN Analyst Burst Out Laughing on Live TelevisionDonald Trump says he just accomplished something most golfers could only dream about. At 80 years old, the president claimed he shot a two-under-par round of 70 to win not one but two championships…

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"How retired teachers, nurses and vicars became Britain’s newest terror suspects" Because you don't want to go after real terrorists. They might hurt you.

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This is what I think of when people complain that climate activists are 'disruptive'

Climate News@climatenews.bsky.social

Within the next 2 decades half the entire world’s infrastructure will be located in places where we can no longer survive. Half the global human population will need to migrate in the next 20 years just to survive.

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social

The penny drops. Climate change will break our economies. Fragment our societies. Undermine our governance. And erode our security. "Ecosystem services" are our life support processes. Destroying them destroys the foundations of human civilisation.

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Reminder that ICE whistleblowers have been warning for months that the agency's Trump-era hiring surge has led to dangerous recruits being given alarming levels of power. Watch.

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Pizza Hut started to go downhill when it got rid of buffets. You can expect it to get a whole lot worse now that a private equity firm is buying it. It’s not just Pizza Hut. Here’s what you need to know about the industry ruining all your favorite things.

youtube.comThis One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert ReichPrivate equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n

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Trump’s family is selling commemorative coins through the Trump Organization ahead of the UFC fight Trump is hosting on the White House lawn. The most expensive coin costs nearly $12,000. The grift never ends.

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It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing. Please sit down before reading this week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comHorrific, unregulated, and very profitable. The companies making cash from England’s children in care | George MonbiotCouncils are sending vulnerable kids to homes ran by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vultures, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Amazon AMD Axon Boeing Dell Microsoft Nvidia Palantir Just a few of the major corporations and government contractors Trump has bought stock in lately. Many of his trades directly coincided with regulatory decisions his administration made that affected their profits.

forbes.comHere Are Donald Trump’s 10 Best Stock Trades Of 2026The president took millions from Big Tech to get re-elected, then bent AI regulation in their favor while reaping the proceeds personally.

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The administration plans to use claims that "China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.” The premise, it almost goes without saying, is a total lie. trib.al/dD7xx4n

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North Carolina fascists have introduced a bill to encourage deadly force against any woman having an abortion, which would include those who use IUDs or birth control pills as they are "abortifacients" according to the fascists. While the bill won't pass, the sheer gall is the point.

ibtimes.co.ukNC Republicans Propose Letting Anyone Use Deadly Force Against Women Who Have Abortions Under New BillA North Carolina bill proposes classifying abortion as first-degree murder, allowing deadly force to prevent it. Critics argue it could lead to lethal vigilante actions against women and medical staff...

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You wanna build a data center? Fine Power it with your own solar/wind Cool it with seawater filtered through your own desalination plant You will be required to fund and build the complete infrastructure needed for the product that makes you billions of dollars and fucks the surrounding communities🖕

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Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.

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In just months, Zohran Mamdani has shown what politics looks like when leaders actually try governing for ordinary people instead of donors and cable news panels. Affordable housing, childcare, transit, workers’ dignity and immigrant protection are not “radical” ideas.

theguardian.comHere’s a list of things Zohran Mamdani has done in just four months | First Dog on the MoonNote to politicians: you can just do stuff regular people actually need and want and it’s OK

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On this day in 1881, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 30 Jan 1942, she was deported to Theresienstadt Ghetto and on the 28 Apr 1942 to Zamošč Ghetto which was liquidated in Nov 1942. She perished in the Shoah. Her name was Gizela Schmolkaová

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Today I traveled to Selma with my colleagues in Congress to take a stand against the radical right-wing plot to suppress Black political representation and dismantle our democracy by gutting the Voting Rights Act. We’ve made too much progress in this country to go backwards. We won’t be silenced.

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Nothing like doubling down on an appalling statement by a president. Congratulations to the 77M fucking idiots who elected this fuckwit. Hope bankruptcy is chasing you.

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Hegseth is asking for a record $1.5 trillion defense budget. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering right now.