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Food voucher support scheme opens for the summer If you or someone you know is struggling to pay the bills, help could be available from the Household Support Fund (HSF) through Kent County Council (KCC).

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Labour homelessness minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent, The i Paper can reveal trib.al/E59gUNW

Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on.

It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.

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We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

This is what they said before the Iraq invasion, and they were lying then too.

For almost my life, crackdowns on criminals and migrants have been one of only a few moving parts of the system, the thing that stands in for actually improving people’s lives. It’s what we do *instead of* politics.

Gaza Starvation Photos Tell a Thousand Lies Hamas propaganda exploits seriously ill children, and Western media go along.

The editors who published this should go straight to The Hague. I mean literally, according to the terms of international law such as it exists.

Whatever you want to ‘get done’ while conceding the enemy’s hatred, will be done according to the enemy’s hatred. You are seeing right now what three decades of conceding Republican arguments on immigration have led to. They did not simply turn a switch. The apparatus had been built for them.

An aerial view of Gaza City taken from a Jordanian military aircraft by photojournalist Heidi Levine in July 2025. Massive destruction is visible, as are IDP tents.

An aerial photo taken from a drone photographer in 2019 showing Gaza City's Old Town facing east, providing a view similar to the aerial photo taken in July 2025.

For another comparison, there's also an aerial view from a similar perspective, though at lower altitude since it's from a drone photographer, here on Facebook from 2019: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

The drone photo is closer to 31.5057, 34.4619 whereas the plane photo is closer to the coast.

Just tweeting it out...

Wild, that it’s taken five years for literally one guy who isn’t even primarily a columnist to say what was obviously true all along

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Any discussion of how ‘the left’ should relate to Labour that does not explicitly acknowledge the extent of factional sabotage in 2017 - which is now public record - is either pointless or fraudulent

"He went out to get flour for his family, was shot in the stomach and then a tank ran over him"

Humza Yousaf describes how his father-in-laws's cousin was killed in Gaza.

We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below. Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York Times reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, who is about 18 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition. We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems. This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation. Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza, bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war.

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Trump and Clinton named. Here’s who else is allegedly in Epstein’s birthday book Messages from Epstein’s acquaintances were reportedly grouped into categories that included: ‘Friends,’ ‘Business,’ ‘Brooklyn,’ and ‘Family’

'The note from British politician Mandelson referred to Epstein as “my best pal,” and included pictures of a tropical island and whiskey, according to the Journal.'
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this is what beit hanoun looked like (from arabi21.com/story/155862...)

This framing is so interesting to me because Labour literally called me a "flea" that they were happy to "shake off" despite the fact that I was very involved in the party. But I am apparently still supposed to vote for them even after they told me not to do so. Is my vote important or not?

There's a realistic chance we get to a position where Wikipedia is blocked while official government accounts are posting on a site that created MechaHitler AI

No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say

Think of all those pro-Israel pundits you saw on your television screens this past year trying to sociopathically justify the mass starvation of Gaza by robotically claiming Hamas steals the aid. They were all lying. Shamelessly. Even the Israeli military confirms it now.

Given ‘There is No Alternative’ has been common sense my whole life, Jezza breaking out of the ‘sealed tomb’ TWICE is incredibly life-giving!

The revenge of the left A Corbyn-Sultana party, perhaps in alliance with the Greens, will shatter this government.

I’d add: the *whole point* of McSweeney’s long project since its secret 2018 media launch was: it was smart and good to break the long left-liberal coalition, and instead build a crushing, dominant electoral bloc of the Labour right unifying liberals, Reasonable Tories and retired racist cranks.

Brexit trade meetings remain a state secret Secrecy maintained over the extent to which Britain is willing to abandon environmental and consumer protections to secure trade deals after Brexit.

This is a huge and highly consequential story in @theecologist.org‬
We have no idea what is being traded away to secure deals with other countries, and it turns out we are not allowed to know.
So much for democracy.
theecologist.org/2025/jul/23/...

dylan saba @shaabiranks Follow The US defunded the primary UN organization feeding the people of Gaza in Jan 2024 and no one batted an eye. They did it to help Israel use aid as a weapon of war. Now as the predicted famine arrives in full everyone is throwing their alibis together and it makes me fucking sick 15:44 • 25/07/2025 • 18K Views 17269 0 649 N26 企 Most relevant replies v dylan saba @shaabiranks •15m They did it all in plain sight on the basis that everyone would either be racist or stupid enough not to notice (or care) 9 ... dylan saba @shaabiran..•30/10/2024 It's been 10 months since the US decided to starve the entire population of Gaza based on "confessions" derived from the torture of several UN employees x.com/

This is it: the UN relief agency doesn’t just accidentally get declared a terrorist outfit on spurious grounds, and aid distribution doesn’t unintentionally turn into the opening sequence from Saving Private Ryan. Hundreds of people from multiple countries need harsh jail sentences for this.

There's no mutual split here, just the Labour leadership seeing a button marked "expel all your leftists, so they form another party" and have been frantically pressing it ever since.

UK ban on Palestine Action at odds with international law, says UN rights chief Volker Türk says the Home Office proscription restricts right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly

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