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Orient supporter since 1957. Season card holder. West Stand.

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The Speaker of the house has excellent comic timing.

Starmer at PMQs: "We will continue to go after the fraudsters, the grifters and the con artists, no matter who they are or where we find them!"
Mr Speaker: "Nigel Farage!"

09.07.2025 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 474    πŸ” 176    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 22

As a Jew I am far, FAR more alarmed by our institutions equating me and other Jews with the IDF, who are responsible for the murder of over 80,000 Palestinians, by dint of framing any critique against the IDF as β€˜antisemitism.’

Linking all Jews to the IDF is *actual* fucking antisemitism.

29.06.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3216    πŸ” 904    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 36
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Kevin Maguire: If you lift kids out of poverty, their lives will benefit. If you employ more teachers you improve education. If you employ more doctors & nurses you improve the NHS. But if you build a few more submarines are we really any safer? #GMB

03.06.2025 05:52 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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This sums the whole situation up quite nicely.

03.05.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3235    πŸ” 882    πŸ’¬ 142    πŸ“Œ 96

Just watched the Home Counties private schoolboy Nigel Farage telling northern voters how he understands steelworkers because he used to work in the β€œmetals business” himself. He was, ahem, a commodities trader at the London Metal Exchange in the City.

15.04.2025 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2266    πŸ” 783    πŸ’¬ 124    πŸ“Œ 45
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Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums The order says that

While so many continue to pretend that it’s not fascism that we’re seeing in the US, here’s Trump continuing his policies of Gleichschaltung. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

28.03.2025 07:47 β€” πŸ‘ 376    πŸ” 164    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 10

This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.

18.03.2025 06:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3524    πŸ” 1158    πŸ’¬ 127    πŸ“Œ 53

Corbyn's posited corporation tax level was 35%. Seems like a lot I know, after all he was a dangerous extremist, but we could try it? Wait, did I say "Corbyn"? I meant Thatcher. Thatcher's lowest corporation tax level was 35%. Corbyn posited 29%. Silly me!

03.02.2025 09:07 β€” πŸ‘ 432    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3
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One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy.

β€œIt made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”

01.03.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 33982    πŸ” 7340    πŸ’¬ 1077    πŸ“Œ 717

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

28.02.2025 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 9824    πŸ” 3973    πŸ’¬ 158    πŸ“Œ 93
Donald Trump shares bizarre AI-generated video of 'Trump Gaza'
YouTube video by Guardian News Donald Trump shares bizarre AI-generated video of 'Trump Gaza'

Just watched the Trump Gaza video and whoever wrote a couple weeks ago about generative AI being the new aesthetics of fascism could not have asked for a better case in point

26.02.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 979    πŸ” 252    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 24
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JD Vance champions tech imperialism in Europe The European Union needs to defend its sovereignty and end its dependence on US tech monopolies

It suddenly occurs to me that when people like Vance talk about β€œfree speech” (which makes no sense in the context of what Trump/Musk are actually doing), what they actually *mean* is β€œfree data” as in β€œfree flow of all your personal & health data into US β€œAI””. www.disconnect.blog/p/jd-vance-c...

22.02.2025 09:29 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
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Can Trumpism be defeated? Absolutely. Here’s how | Bernie Sanders What we are fighting for is not β€˜utopian’ or unachievable. Trumpism can and must be defeated

It falls to the left to see off the far right oligarchy. 'twas forever thus.

19.02.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The two new players did really well.Willliams’ long throws were a revelation and much better than TJ’s. Reg’s passing from central defence was excellent.

12.02.2025 08:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mansfield are saying that the match against Orient is available for streaming abroad but there’s nothing on the Orient website. Why?

10.02.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A very large crowd of demonstators at a political protest at against the AFD in Berlin

A very large crowd of demonstators at a political protest at against the AFD in Berlin

The text on the front banners say 'We are the Firewall'. Massive demo in Berlin today against right-wing extremism.

02.02.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4751    πŸ” 1109    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 63
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An astonishing transformation

29.01.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not getting too excited yet. We’ve still got Stockport, Birmingham, Bolton and Wrexham to play. If we can take points off them, I’ll think about promotion.

29.01.2025 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Check the date on this shocking story.

And then ask yourself why Nigel Farage and Elon Musk haven’t been tweeting about these people.

You know why. They know why. We all know why.

29.01.2025 05:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2814    πŸ” 635    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 17

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