Phyl Scorfield 💙

Northern Nana, Socialist, Serial FE user, 💙bookaholic 🥀#Corbyn NO DM’s PLEASE. I DO NOT REPLY AND I WILL BLOCK

[Phyl Scorfield 💙 @FIareNetworkFN]

@HeldinEU I just heard about your loss. I’m am very sorry to hear about it xxx

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

They want you furious at migrants, trans people, students and protesters so you never look upward at the profiteers, propagandists and politicians emptying your pockets. The culture war is camouflage for class war.

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

Interesting that you didn't ask yourself that when you were busily smearing Corbyn and the left with 'antisemitism', @DAaronovitch.
#ItWasAScam

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's so creepy how evangelical Christians fetishize Jews and Israel. They treat the modern state of Israel like a magical fantasy land and talk about Jewish people like fairy folk, because those words happen to appear in some ancient book of made-up stories.

They regard today's genocidal apartheid colonialists in the state of Israel as biblical Israelites, and think some dentist in New York City is the same sort of person as the fictional characters they read about in the book of Exodus. It's like if someone took over New Zealand and named it "Middle Earth" and started calling all the Kiwis "hobbits", and then all the Tolkien nerds started oohing and ahhing about it and planning expensive trips to go see the land where Gandalf and Frodo once walked, and started organizing lobby groups and voting blocks to promote the foreign policy interests of "Gondor" (formerly Wellington).

And the modern state of Israel is built around facilitating this exact type of fetishization. They resurrected a dead language that hadn't been spoken conversationally anywhere on earth for centuries and changed the name of their currency from the lira to the "shekel" in order to facilitate this Bible-LARPing and build on the illusion that their brand new ethnostate is the same as the nation that Jews and Christians have been reading about in their ancient scriptures. All to ensure that a western political support base will push western governments to pour modern war machinery into propping up this ridiculous apartheid state with the nonstop violence required for its perpetuation.

It's so fucking insane. "Ooh, we've got to send bombs and attack helicopters to the magical Jew kingdom so that the magical Jesus prophecy can come true and make us all go to Eternal Paradise!" Fucking freaks. Stop doing this.

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

'No major reservoirs have been completed in England since 1992.' The water industry needs to be nationalised now and with zero compensation. https://t.co/YcyM9eI01x

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Rich people cannot simply leave the country to avoid tax.

All their money is tied up in assets and businesses which they will keep or sell to another rich person.

They cannot avoid tax, but they MUST spread the lie that they can.

Don't spread their lies for them.

[Barbara @BarbaraSutton15]

Why would the Prime Minister choose to give his statement on Social Care from a Jewish Care facility & have Yvette Cooper introduce antisemitism during it-this constant Zionist inclusion is nauseating

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The final secret of empire is this:

it does not need to make most people cruel.

It only needs to make cruelty feel unrelated to their lives.

That is enough.

If the prison is somewhere else,
if the camp is somewhere else,
if the drone strike is somewhere else,
if the sanctioned child is somewhere else,
if the poisoned water is somewhere else,

then the conscience can keep functioning as interior decoration.

That is what America has mastered.

Not simply violence.

The privatization of innocence inside violence.

Each citizen gets to say: "I did not do it."

Each institution gets to say: "We followed procedure."

Each leader gets to say: "Regrettable but necessary."

Each journalist gets to say: "The situation is complicated."

And somewhere beneath all that distributed evasion, entire peoples are erased.

That is why the empire still stands.

Not because it is righteous.

Because it has turned moral fragmentation into a governing technology.

And until that fragmentation is broken, the machine will keep eating both its own people and the world.

[E.V. Leon @AuthorEvleon]

The UK has a significant Jewish community, but describing it as having a “major Jewish population” is an unusual choice of words given Jews make up around 0.4% of the population.

Equally, criticism of a foreign government or a political ideology is not, in itself, antisemitism. Those are not the same thing.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

I will just say the UK does not need more Income Tax.

The highest rate is 47%.

Of the richest 1% only 22% pay Income Tax.

It is 24% Capital Gains Tax, Landlords deducting Mortgage payment and Landlord Empires and other assets based in Tax Havens.

Tax them.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Palantir was sold to the NHS for £330m on the promise that it would magically reduce hospital stays by 15%.

It has been found to have no impact at all.

Get Palantir out.

[DaddyNeedsCoffee 🇺🇦 🚴‍♂️ 🎨 🇪🇺 @DaddyCoffee73]

Why on earth would a @BBC presenter interrupt an interview with the leader of a major political party to read out a private text message from a Reform MP on a completely unrelated topic? @Ofcom, can we look into this? I suspect bribery. They have form.

[Paul Schleifer @PaulSchleifer]

"Claims that wildfires can be prevented simply by forest thinning or raking up debris are not only inaccurate, but they are also part of a broader pattern of disinformation in response to climate-fueled extreme weather. That disinformation deflects from what experts say is the biggest driver of worsening fires: the rapidly warming climate."

Forestry isn't the problem.

Physics is.

And physics doesn't vote Republican.

(Or Reform.)

https://t.co/uOOmB7NfCM

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

There are so many ways the UK has been actively complicit in Israel's mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza.

But the least explicable is the Home Office's continuing block on women and children in Gaza, living in horrendous conditions, being able to reunite with family members already in the UK.

The government has been denying such claims – accepted in the case of other countries under established family reunion procedures – even of small children. Why? Because, says the Home Office, they pose a security risk.

The Home Office justifies its position on the grounds these children come from a “territory where terrorists operate” – even though some are children of a parent granted leave to remain in the UK precisely because the Home Office accepted they were being persecuted by Hamas.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Every few years they give you a new enemy.

In the nineties it was welfare queens and crack addicts and super-predators.

In the 2000s it was Islamic terrorism and you were told to be afraid of your neighbor on the airplane and to accept surveillance as safety.

In the 2010s it was immigrants, caravans, invasions at the border.

In the 2020s it was the other political party, upgraded to existential threat, fascists, communists, destroyers of democracy, depending on which channel you watched.

Notice what is never the enemy.

The hedge fund manager who bought your neighborhood and raised your rent 40 percent is never the enemy.

The pharmaceutical executive who priced insulin at a level that makes rationing a survival strategy for American diabetics is never the enemy.

The defense contractor CEO who has budgeted for cost overruns as a profit mechanism and built political protection into every congressional district where a factory or base exists is never the enemy.

The private equity firm that bought the hospital, extracted its capital, laid off the nurses, and left the community without emergency services is never the enemy.

They are never on the screen.

They are never the face you're shown when you're told to be angry.

They are never the subject of the prime time segment.

They are the people who own the screen.

The enemy is always someone who looks like the person next to you.

Always someone who can be found in your neighborhood, your workplace, your family dinner.

Never someone who can be found on the Forbes list, the Davos guest list, the Epstein flight manifest.

This is not accidental.

This is the product.

This is what the media is for.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

An Israeli 🇮🇱 air strike on Deir Al Balah, central Gaza 🇵🇸 tonight

Don’t let anyone call it a ‘ceasefire’

It’s a genocide

Every world ‘leader’ can see

But only of they choose to look.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

I would suggest that cynically indulging the bullshit and horrible behaviour of bad faith, very right wing crackpots is *precisely* how we wound up in this abysmal situation in the first place

[The National @ScotNational]

The SNP have critiqued Andy Burnham's pledge to end homelessness, claiming the move is hypocritical while 'the Labour Party has driven more than 33,000 Scottish households into hardship' 👇 https://t.co/MoRIA1YuRE

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

The ICJ has ruled that Israel must cease its occupation of the West Bank immediately, dismantle all settlements & withdraw their troops.

And whats the UK doing about it? Telling the UN its alarmed & appalled by the situation there, all the while supporting & arming Israel