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  1. > As the Trump regime shreds the social safety net while enacting trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthiest, anger has boiled over across the country.

    And with the midterms approaching, Republicans may be about to learn an unpleasant lesson: you can ban the teaching of history, but that won’t keep it from repeating.

    #andyborowitz #substack
    #trump #midterms #maga #margaretthatcher #democrats
    #polltax #protestors #republicans
    #southyorkshire #ukpol #uspol
    #conservativeparty #londonhistory
    #metamucilini #10downingstreet

    open.substack.com/pub/borowitz

  2. “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore”*…

    Wat Tyler’s death (left to right: Sir William Walworth, Mayor of London (wielding sword); Wat Tyler; King Richard II; and Sir John Cavendish, esquire to the king, bearing decorated sword (source)

    Your correspondent is headed into a melange of meetings (and their attendant travel), so (Roughly) Daily will be on pause for a few days. Regular service should resume on or around June 19. I’ll leave you with a (timely?) tale from the past…

    Steve” publishes a wonderful weekly newsletter, Dates With History. In a recent post he shares the story of Wat Tyler and the Peasants’ Revolt

    If you walked into Smithfield in the City of London in the small hours of the morning, you’d find the great Victorian iron-and-glass halls of the old meat market, traders hard at work while dazed club-goers spill out of nearby Fabric nightclub, uncertain for a moment what century they’re in.

    A few steps away stands St Bartholomew’s Hospital—Barts—the oldest hospital in London still on its original site, patching people up since 1123.

    On one of the blocked window bays of the hospital’s north wall, a memorial marks where the Scottish hero William Wallace was hanged, drawn and quartered in 1305, alongside remembrances of the Protestant martyrs burned here under Queen Mary between 1555 and 1558.

    A third plaque, on another blocked window bay, recalls an event 645 years ago next Monday—15 June 1381.

    That day, a man rode into Smithfield at the head of a rebel army and tilted the course of English history. The fact that he was dead before the day was out is beside the point.

    His name was Wat Tyler

    [Steve explains the origins and workings of the feudal system in England, the (extraordinary) impact of the Black Death, the Poll Tax, the subsequent rise of peasant resistance, the Revolt itself, Wat’s demise, and the immediate aftermath. He concludes…]

    … Wat Tyler enters the historical record on 7 June 1381 and exits eight days later, 15 June 1381, when he was executed. That’s his lot.

    The revolt failed.

    But the idea it carried—that labour had value, that taxation required some semblance of fairness, that the common man had rights—survived.

    The Peasants’ Revolt echoed what the barons had done at Runnymede in 1215—confront a king and extract written concessions from him. Tyler’s rebels knew their history. Had they succeeded, those sealed charters would have amounted to a Magna Carta for the poor.

    Over the three centuries that followed, the power of English rulers to do as they pleased eroded steadily. By 1689, the Bill of Rights made explicit what three hundred years had been quietly establishing—that rulers governed within limits they did not set themselves.

    Wat Tyler hadn’t written that principle. But he had fomented one of its earliest and most violent proofs of concept.

    There wouldn’t be another poll tax in England for six hundred years—until Margaret Thatcher introduced one in 1990 and was promptly removed from office.

    History, it turns out, has a long memory for bad ideas…

    (Trying to) hold power to account: “It’s 1381 and the peasants are revolting.”

    * “Howard Beale” (Peter Finch) in Paddy Chayefsky‘s and Sidney Lumet‘s Network

    ###

    As we ponder power, we might recall that it was on this date in 1939, at Hyde Park, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt hosted a luncheon for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England. Despite his mother’s horror, FDR wanted to show the King and Queen an old-fashioned, American style picnic– featuring that most proletariat of dishes, the hot dog. In the U.S. to raise support U.S. for Britain’s cause in World War II, the royal couple at least appeared to enjoy the meal.

    source

    source

    #culture #feudalism #FranklinDRoosevelt #history #hotDog #JohnOfGaunt #KingGeorgeVI #PeasantsRevolt #picnic #politics #pollTax #RichardII #WatTyler #WatTylersRebellion
  3. “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore”*…

    Wat Tyler’s death (left to right: Sir William Walworth, Mayor of London (wielding sword); Wat Tyler; King Richard II; and Sir John Cavendish, esquire to the king, bearing decorated sword (source)

    Your correspondent is headed into a melange of meetings (and their attendant travel), so (Roughly) Daily will be on pause for a few days. Regular service should resume on or around June 19. I’ll leave you with a (timely?) tale from the past…

    Steve” publishes a wonderful weekly newsletter, Dates With History. In a recent post he shares the story of Wat Tyler and the Peasants’ Revolt

    If you walked into Smithfield in the City of London in the small hours of the morning, you’d find the great Victorian iron-and-glass halls of the old meat market, traders hard at work while dazed club-goers spill out of nearby Fabric nightclub, uncertain for a moment what century they’re in.

    A few steps away stands St Bartholomew’s Hospital—Barts—the oldest hospital in London still on its original site, patching people up since 1123.

    On one of the blocked window bays of the hospital’s north wall, a memorial marks where the Scottish hero William Wallace was hanged, drawn and quartered in 1305, alongside remembrances of the Protestant martyrs burned here under Queen Mary between 1555 and 1558.

    A third plaque, on another blocked window bay, recalls an event 645 years ago next Monday—15 June 1381.

    That day, a man rode into Smithfield at the head of a rebel army and tilted the course of English history. The fact that he was dead before the day was out is beside the point.

    His name was Wat Tyler

    [Steve explains the origins and workings of the feudal system in England, the (extraordinary) impact of the Black Death, the Poll Tax, the subsequent rise of peasant resistance, the Revolt itself, Wat’s demise, and the immediate aftermath. He concludes…]

    … Wat Tyler enters the historical record on 7 June 1381 and exits eight days later, 15 June 1381, when he was executed. That’s his lot.

    The revolt failed.

    But the idea it carried—that labour had value, that taxation required some semblance of fairness, that the common man had rights—survived.

    The Peasants’ Revolt echoed what the barons had done at Runnymede in 1215—confront a king and extract written concessions from him. Tyler’s rebels knew their history. Had they succeeded, those sealed charters would have amounted to a Magna Carta for the poor.

    Over the three centuries that followed, the power of English rulers to do as they pleased eroded steadily. By 1689, the Bill of Rights made explicit what three hundred years had been quietly establishing—that rulers governed within limits they did not set themselves.

    Wat Tyler hadn’t written that principle. But he had fomented one of its earliest and most violent proofs of concept.

    There wouldn’t be another poll tax in England for six hundred years—until Margaret Thatcher introduced one in 1990 and was promptly removed from office.

    History, it turns out, has a long memory for bad ideas…

    (Trying to) hold power to account: “It’s 1381 and the peasants are revolting.”

    * “Howard Beale” (Peter Finch) in Paddy Chayefsky‘s and Sidney Lumet‘s Network

    ###

    As we ponder power, we might recall that it was on this date in 1939, at Hyde Park, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt hosted a luncheon for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England. Despite his mother’s horror, FDR wanted to show the King and Queen an old-fashioned, American style picnic– featuring that most proletariat of dishes, the hot dog. In the U.S. to raise support U.S. for Britain’s cause in World War II, the royal couple at least appeared to enjoy the meal.

    source

    source

    #culture #feudalism #FranklinDRoosevelt #history #hotDog #JohnOfGaunt #KingGeorgeVI #PeasantsRevolt #picnic #politics #pollTax #RichardII #WatTyler #WatTylersRebellion
  4. "It's very interesting that a party that courted Chinese voters for so long with 'low tax' promises, now wants to reintroduce something close to the 19th-century poll tax levied on the Chinese."

    #TzeMingMok, 2026

    rnz.co.nz/news/chinese/594302/

    Isn't it just. ACT were still courting the Asian immigrant vote with their endorsements in the 2025 local body elections. Now they seen to be turning on them, to compete with Winston First for the anti-immigrant vote.

    (1/?)

    #tax #PollTax #ACT #NZPolitics

  5. "It's very interesting that a party that courted Chinese voters for so long with 'low tax' promises, now wants to reintroduce something close to the 19th-century poll tax levied on the Chinese."

    #TzeMingMok, 2026

    rnz.co.nz/news/chinese/594302/

    Isn't it just. ACT were still courting the Asian immigrant vote with their endorsements in the 2025 local body elections. Now they seen to be turning on them, to compete with Winston First for the anti-immigrant vote.

    (1/?)

    #tax #PollTax #ACT #NZPolitics

  6. This entire SAVE con is a Poll Tax. Poll Taxes were abolished by the 24th amendment.

    However, in order to be able to vote if the SAVE act passes, you will need to spend hundreds of dollars and possibly months of time.

    The Republicans are working to instate an illegal election policy change, in the same year as an election, as close to the election as possible. The change targets voters who don’t vote for Trump. Yes it will be overturned eventually by the Supremes, but not in time for 2026 elections

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax

    #SAVEAct #PollTax #24thAmendment #24th #Constitution #USConstitution #election #elections #vote #voting #votingrights #votingrightsact #disenfranchisement

  7. This entire SAVE con is a Poll Tax. Poll Taxes were abolished by the 24th amendment.

    However, in order to be able to vote if the SAVE act passes, you will need to spend hundreds of dollars and possibly months of time.

    The Republicans are working to instate an illegal election policy change, in the same year as an election, as close to the election as possible. The change targets voters who don’t vote for Trump. Yes it will be overturned eventually by the Supremes, but not in time for 2026 elections

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax

    #SAVEAct #PollTax #24thAmendment #24th #Constitution #USConstitution #election #elections #vote #voting #votingrights #votingrightsact #disenfranchisement

  8. #VotingRights #PollTax
    Senate Democrats defeat amendment from Sen. Jon Husted to require photo ID to vote share.google/Ad12hhgdYAkXdZSCB

  9. #VotingRights #PollTax
    Senate Democrats defeat amendment from Sen. Jon Husted to require photo ID to vote share.google/Ad12hhgdYAkXdZSCB

  10. NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==

    URGENT: The #MAGA #GOP -led Senate is debating the #SAVEAmericaAct, a #VoteSuppression & #PollTax bill that will strip #votingrights from millions. Tell your senator NO Save America Act! NO abolishing #filibuster! CALL (202) 224-3121Marc Elias of Democracy Docket offers an in-depth, up-to-the-minute look at the dangerous #SAVEAct.youtu.be/ecmky5jtYiI?si=B_xP5l mastodon.social/@VerdantSquare

  11. tiktok.com/t/ZP8xSdnYN/

    Under SAVE Act, the standard driver’s license you can use open bank account, buy a car, cash check, or pass federal background check would not be sufficient to register or vote

    You need Voter ID (Poll Tax) exercise your constitutional rights to vote

    #SaveAct #PollTax #VoterID #ConstitutionalRights #Vote

  12. NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==

    URGENT UPDATE: The #MAGA #GOP -led House passed the #SAVEAmericaAct, a #VoteSuppression & #PollTax bill that will strip #votingrights from millions. That bill is being debated on the #USSenate floor NOW. Red alert - call your senators and demand: NO Save America Act! NO abolishing #filibuster! CALL (202) 224-3121https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElkexfuP3Tw#activism #congress #USSenate mastodon.social/@VerdantSquare

  13. NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==

    URGENT UPDATE: The #MAGA #GOP -led House passed the #SAVEAmericaAct, a #VoteSuppression & #PollTax bill that will strip #votingrights from millions. That bill is being debated on the #USSenate floor NOW. Red alert - call your senators and demand: NO Save America Act! NO abolishing #filibuster! CALL (202) 224-3121https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElkexfuP3Tw#activism #congress #USSenate mastodon.social/@VerdantSquare

  14. Having to purchase a passport or buy a copy of your birth certificate to vote is a poll tax and is unconstitutional (24th Amendment).

    Republicans hate democracy.

    #Republicans #fascist #democracy #usa #vote #polltax #constitution #illegal

  15. Having to purchase a passport or buy a copy of your birth certificate to vote is a poll tax and is unconstitutional (24th Amendment).

    Republicans hate democracy.

    #Republicans #fascist #democracy #usa #vote #polltax #constitution #illegal

  16. NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==

    THIS IS URGENT: The #MAGA #GOP -led House passed the #SAVEAmericaAct, a #VoteSuppression & #PollTax bill that will strip #votingrights from millions. Red alert - call your senators and demand: NO Save America Act! NO abolishing #filibuster! CALL (202) 224-3121#activism #congress #USSenate #SaveAmericaAct #SAVEAct #activist #GetBusy #vsn #actionalert #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft mastodon.social/@VerdantSquare

  17. NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==

    THIS IS URGENT: The #MAGA #GOP -led House passed the #SAVEAmericaAct, a #VoteSuppression & #PollTax bill that will strip #votingrights from millions. Red alert - call your senators and demand: NO Save America Act! NO abolishing #filibuster! CALL (202) 224-3121#activism #congress #USSenate #SaveAmericaAct #SAVEAct #activist #GetBusy #vsn #actionalert #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft mastodon.social/@VerdantSquare

  18. NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==

    THIS IS URGENT: The #MAGA #GOP -led House passed the #SAVEAmericaAct, a #VoteSuppression & #PollTax bill that will strip #votingrights from millions. Red alert - call your senators and demand: NO Save America Act! NO abolishing #filibuster! CALL (202) 224-3121#activism #congress #USSenate #SaveAmericaAct #SAVEAct #activist #GetBusy #vsn #actionalert #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft mastodon.social/@VerdantSquare

  19. Ugh. More venal #GQP / #TrumpVirus effort to eliminate #democracy - by (re) imposing poll taxes to #SAVE election rigging and prevent free, fair elections.

    > CNBC host called out on live TV for giving away the game on GOP’s SAVE Act

    alternet.org/save-act-26751058)

    #corruption #24thAmendment #PollTax #Elections #dictatorship