A photograph of Suleiman al-Obeid, former captain of the Pakestinian national football team, killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food.
I admire Mo Salah's restraint.
"Farewell". Really?
Suleiman al-Obeid was killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food in Gaza. Say it, you cowards.
09.08.2025 17:27 β π 871 π 370 π¬ 8 π 5
I guess we'll see how long the Constituition survives - will the Supreme Court gradually undermine it by action and inaction?
09.08.2025 18:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
'People are angry': Behind the wave of asylum hotel protests
The BBC visits sites of protests to hear the voices of those opposed to the hotels and others in support of asylum seekers.
If the BBC were professional journalists instead of Far Right Cheerleaders theyβd have checked Orla Minihaneβd busy timeline on X and seen her many far right wing posts, supporting Rupert Lowe-Life etc
And wouldnβt depict her as an average local Epping woman scared by migrants in the Bell hotel ππ€·πΌββοΈ
09.08.2025 15:50 β π 37 π 16 π¬ 4 π 0
Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper must really be proud of arresting an old woman - free speech at it's finest in Labour's Brexit Britain
09.08.2025 17:01 β π 204 π 90 π¬ 26 π 11
After seventeen years in retirement, I find sleep is good.
09.08.2025 18:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
More Clockwork Orange, surely.
It's coming for YOU!
09.08.2025 17:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
You thought they were going to arrest fauci but instead RFK became fauci.
This one ominously points out that the new platform has had gates foundation funding.
The MAHA tweet about the platform was deleted and now there is speculation about why.
Someone tweets that itβs a red flag RFK is pushing vaccines. And a reply says βRFK is fighting big pharma the way Donald is fighting pedophilia.β
RFK jr. announces the NIH is working on a βuniversal vaccineβ (actually a whole virus vaccine platform) that will be βsafe and effectiveβ. This is actuallyβ¦fine? Itβs being pitched as an alternative to the βdangerousβ mRNA platform, which is dumb.
But the response from his people isβ¦predictable.
09.08.2025 17:19 β π 776 π 60 π¬ 58 π 8
Trumpβs America
Making America Trash Again
09.08.2025 17:21 β π 25 π 15 π¬ 1 π 0
It looks like the answer is βyesβ. π€¦π»ββοΈ
09.08.2025 17:32 β π 197 π 54 π¬ 14 π 1
In a court of law 'support' for an organisation means financial or working to aid their operation.
Holding a sign is not support.
As the Government will find out when it takes all these people to court for 'supporting' Palestine Action.
09.08.2025 17:39 β π 68 π 9 π¬ 4 π 1
What constitution - isn't it already vanishing from US Government web sites?
09.08.2025 17:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Never go full Taliban
09.08.2025 12:37 β π 69 π 26 π¬ 9 π 1
If you'd rather we banned supplying Israel with weapons instead of banning Palestine Action.
Spread the message, and prove we do.
09.08.2025 17:41 β π 142 π 88 π¬ 2 π 2
Oh update this very minute:
"The Met has announced 365 arrests, with more still to come. This is the largest ever mass arrest by Met Police at one protest."
09.08.2025 17:45 β π 17 π 15 π¬ 4 π 3
Crowd in Parliament Square
Via Defend Our Juries:
There were approximately 1,000 people holding allegedly βterroristβ signs today in Parliament Square defending Palestine Action, substantially in excess of the original 600-700 estimate.
Of these the Met has so far arrested an estimated 200, a fifth of the total.
09.08.2025 17:44 β π 38 π 22 π¬ 11 π 2
I'm sure your public will remain faithful.
09.08.2025 17:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A post on X by the Met Police in London, accompanied by a photo of protestors on Parliament Sq. The post says:
Arrest update: Weβve now arrested 150 people in Parliament Square.
While many of those remaining in the Square are media and onlookers, there are still people holding placards supporting Palestine Action.
Officers are steadily working through the crowd making further arrests.
JFC. 150 arrested now.
In future, when people read how a genocide was allowed to happen in #Gaza, the history books will note that some did take a stand. They included college students, the elderly and the disabled.
Their government labelled them terrorist supporters & arrested them.
09.08.2025 14:10 β π 308 π 144 π¬ 7 π 23
Amongst those arrested in London for peacefully protesting the genocide in Gaza is this blind person in a wheelchair.
Staggeringly embarrassing and shaming for Starmer.
βShame on you!β being shouted by the crowd.
(π₯ Defend Our Juries)
09.08.2025 13:56 β π 362 π 225 π¬ 9 π 40
Pecksniff: The βUp Yours, Starmerβ party: three weeks old and already needs a relaunch
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
* No-name Corbyn party already attracting Galloway
* Farage the βradicalβ
* Loweβs migrant scare turns out to be charity rowers
* Davey shows an ankle to the EU
The acerbic Mr Pecksniff has penned another diary...
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
09.08.2025 16:21 β π 27 π 13 π¬ 4 π 1
The Great VAT Panic
Or how not to run a campaign
New post just out:
"The Great VAT Panic"
The claims made by the right-wing press about VAT on private school fees were wildly wrong.
Why? What are the lessons about about (how not to) run a lobbying campaign? And what can government learn?
(Β£/free)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
09.08.2025 08:02 β π 266 π 72 π¬ 20 π 13
Sky News, "It's just been arrests after arrests after arrests"
"People protesting in front of statues of Ghandi and Suffragettes.. I don't need to tell you the symbolism of what that means.. The police crowded around them and took them away"
09.08.2025 16:52 β π 114 π 64 π¬ 12 π 0
Uh-huh.
09.08.2025 13:35 β π 13 π 6 π¬ 7 π 0
I love these Police Body Cam TV Shows.
This suspect wasn't named but desribed as a "42 year old crybaby, a serial fraudster with a long history of violence, caught attempting to flee the country after beating an old man."
09.08.2025 13:32 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
BBC among media misreportimg/exaggerating scale of asylum protests
Median protest is a few dozen, below 100.
"Usually Several hundred at a time" is false.
- should say *occasionally*
< 1/10 protests have 200 people
"Sometimes thousands"
I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet
09.08.2025 08:02 β π 771 π 367 π¬ 45 π 57
Keir Starmer offers 'unwavering support' after Zelensky rejects Trump peace plan
Mr Zelensky angrily ruled out suggestions Ukraine and Russia could "swap" territory - and said any deal drawn up without Ukraine's input would be a non-starter
Keir Starmer offers 'unwavering support' after Zelensky angrily rejects Trump peace plan
President Zelensky ruled out suggestions Ukraine and Russia could "swap" territory - and said any deal drawn up without Ukraine's input would be a non-starter
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
09.08.2025 11:21 β π 385 π 107 π¬ 24 π 11
We need more outrage from leaders in all sectors!
08.08.2025 21:34 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Fraser Nelson tells us Farage is wrong. And a few other thinigs.
#r4today
09.08.2025 06:53 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
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