Right now, the average billionaire—there are about 790 of them or so in America—has an average federal tax rate of 8%.
No billionaire should be paying a lower tax rate than a teacher, a firefighter, an electrician, or a police officer.
The world will never know the actual number of Ukrainians killed by that single hit of the #Mariupol theater by #Russia. Russian soldiers are taking apart the debris and with it concealing the evidence of one of the biggest war crimes
These are disgraceful scenes of police brutality at a hugely sensitive funeral. No self respecting democracy could stand over this treatment of people.
Unacceptable and should be roundly condemned by international community. @dfatirl@irishmissionun
A brave woman in St. Petersburg was blasting audio recordings recounting details about Russian atrocities in Ukraine, surpassing even the German Nazis in WWII in their cruelty. The cops climbed her balcony and arrested her. She was fined 50,000 rubles.
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A guy I know, a driver, recently managed to enter Russian-occupied Mariupol.
He got back absolutely horrified. Says the city is absolutely ruined. Trash and the smell of dead bodies are everywhere except for a couple of cleaned up streets where Russians film their parades.
9 May in #Russia is about militarisation of society. children are dressed up as soldiers of an army that is no more. Future generations are poisoned by fake myths. And war is normalized in the collective conscious of millions
#Ukraine treats dead #Russia soldiers better than #Russia treats Ukrainian civilians. We pick up the bodies Russia leaves behind and store them for the families to have a chance to say goodbye. A right russian authorities have deprived. @AJEnglish reports
⚡️Zelensky says Russian missile hit a dormitory in Odesa.
“In Odesa, a 14-year-old boy was killed, a 17-year-old girl was injured. What is this? What for? How did these kids and this dormitory threaten Russia?” said Zelensky.
Video: State Emergency Service
Never mind the legalities of someone buying £46m of (unfit for purpose) PPE from China then selling it to the NHS for £122m - the morality of doing it when the world was on its knees is reprehensible. Add in that it was done by a Tory peer and we are in uncharted waters of sleaze
This is how an 11 year old boy sees the world after having been raped by #Russia soldier in front of his mother. I find it hard to read reports like this, even harder to tweet about them, and absolutely impossible to remain silent. The world must know the truth
⚡️Mariupol mayor: Russian military killed twice as many residents as Nazi Germany.
Vadym Boychenko said that in 2 years of Mariupol’s occupation during World War II, the Nazis killed 10,000 people. Russians have doubled the number of victims in 2 months of the Mariupol siege.
The makeshift hospital in the basements of #Azovstal. Wounded people, amputated limbs, the sick and the injured in anti sanitary conditions hanging on to life
Children in Azovstal basements haven’t seen the sun for 50 days. They are underfed. They have water only for one more week. Babies sleep in plastic bags instead of diapers. This is real. Happening now in #Ukraine because #Russia says NO to evacuation corridor.
So it seems Putin didn't attend Easter services. Instead, pre-recorded footage of him in an empty church (from 2021?) was added to the actual service, and this was then broadcast as if real. This doesn't feel like a dictator who's confident in his security, or his overall rule.
There are not enough GPs for patients.
GPs are consulting 2/3 X the safe limit of 25 patients/dr/day
75% of GPs have experienced ⬆️ abuse this past year
Now HALF plan to LEAVE the profession entirely
If we think it’s bad now, it’s about to get a whole lot worse
#GPCrisis
The only aim of Russian missile strikes on Odesa is terror. Russia must be designated a state sponsor of terrorism and treated accordingly. No business, no contacts, no cultural projects. We need a wall between civilization and barbarians striking peaceful cities with missiles.