Fran Rathbone

Retired sociology teacher and lifelong socialist.

[Lindsey German @LindseyAGerman]

Gramsci’s Marxism, part 2: Coercion and consent https://t.co/Bxiwv74cwO

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

[Fran Rathbone @FRathbone]

@GrahamH36921247 @DailyMail @ZientekMary You made me laugh there. Serves him right!

[Fran Rathbone @FRathbone]

@TomLondon6 @aljhlester Agree 100%.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Members of Labour Friends of Israel, before that grotesque organisation hid their names.

[Fran Rathbone @FRathbone]

@bertrumtamblyn @JuliaHB1 You're not your!

[Nina @ShakeLS]

Prince Philip and Penny Romsey were living like a married couple at Wood Farm for over 20 years, Charles was neglecting his sons nonstop for years after Diana's death, and Prince Andrew was bringing the biggest pedophile on earth at palaces along with trafficking victims but hey the Queen's biggest worry was Harry marrying Meghan. I mean. The fact all the RRs are coming out telling people that the Queen and almost every senior member in that cruel cruel family didn't want Meghan just proves that they didn't really welcome her with open arms? I mean. They come out exactly as Diana called them a cruel mean family who treated an outsider horribly.

[Fran Rathbone @FRathbone]

@GrahamH36921247 @ExNewsHD Yep, exactly what I thought.

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

Planning for your deåth feels weird and morbid.

​But you know what's actually morbid?
​Leaving your family to play detective while they're grieving.

​If you died tomorrow, could your family actually ACCESS anything?

​Here's the checklist nobody wants to make, but every1 needs:

[Nicole Nichelle @alamanecer]

Oh my God FINALLY an excuse to post one of the most INSANE Mikhail Baryshnikov performances from Don Quixote…

Baryshnikov never relied on a body double OR a butt double either, Sir Chalamet… ballet is not 4 the weak!! ☕️�

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Here comes Trump seeking to prevent millions from voting in the mid terms

Every trick in the book

[Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3]

"Starmer, Mahmood, and McSweeney are testing to destruction the idea that stealing the far right's clothes will win the far right votes. They are about to be disappointed."

https://t.co/TCXxIfcRPu

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

Trump sued in the Supreme Court to take food away from millions of veterans.

While wrapping himself in the flag and calling himself a Patriot.

“How the f*** does that compute?” @jonstewart

Simple: IT DOESN’T.

Patriots fight FOR our veterans, not against them.

[Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @Msdesignerlady]

Pay attention to this part. 🎯🎯🎯

[Jason Reid @JasonReidx]

She was bloody BRILLIANT! 💚

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

🚨On Black Sunday, Aug 31, 2025, the Trump administration tried to deport unaccompanied children to Guatemala, defying a judge—echoing March 15’s “Black Saturday” and a broader pattern of judicial defiance.
https://t.co/4SRFqzF7iH

[Fran Rathbone @FRathbone]

@smc429 As my late father would say "dim as a baa lambs dad".

[✭ 🅑🅤🅑🅑🅐 ✭ @BubbatheOG]

Racism is expensive and regrettably, you can’t fix stupid. #RuralAmerika #resentment #Hate

[Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3]

"Being the object of Rachel Reeves's criticism is like getting gummed by a toothless sheep. "

https://t.co/evldhnh42c

[Nadeem Ahmed @Muqadaam]

"This issue is not going away - and we are not going anywhere."

Retweet if you stand with Corbyn