Little bigman.

Don't believe everything you think.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Greens win in Dover.

Spectacular! 💚😍

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

There will be no normalization in the Strait of Hormuz unless the Gaza Holocaust comes to a complete end and Iran's rights are fully acknowledged.

https://t.co/CZHDAouHPu

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You want to know what actual free speech looks like in the American context?

Edward Snowden told the truth about what the government was doing to its own citizens.

He is in exile.

Chelsea Manning told the truth about what the military was doing in Iraq, including footage of a helicopter crew killing journalists and laughing.

She was imprisoned.

Julian Assange published documents showing the gap between what Western governments said and what they did.

He spent years in an embassy and then a prison, and the country that lectures the world about press freedom led the effort to destroy him.

Meanwhile the people who lied about weapons of mass destruction and launched a war that killed hundreds of thousands:

They are on the speaking circuit.

They are on television as analysts.

They have libraries named after them.

This is not a paradox. This is the system working correctly.

Free speech, in the empire's operating definition, means you can say anything that doesn't threaten the machine.

The moment the speech has real consequences for real power:

You discover exactly how free it is.

[Mahmoud Al-Qudsi @mqudsi]

omg that's war criminal Adi Karni, by coincidence I was just looking him up yesterday. He filmed himself saying "bye bye mosque" while blowing up a masjid in Gaza and @ireallyhateyou posted a thread of him traveling the world after killing kids in Gaza ⬇

[Mikey 💚 @MikeyFromMidgar]

Asda has taken my last remaining money for an order due yesterday evening that never arrived. I have been left with no food and no funds to buy groceries. Next payday isn’t until 7th September. I need Asda to take ownership of their mistake and to resolve this urgently.

My support ticket number is 06513955. The Asda app is stuck on 'order prepared'. I also need an urgent call back from a supervisor/manager to process an immediate refund. Asda says on its app it only takes payment when the order is delivered, that is not the case. They always take payment the moment after I place an order. The funds have left my bank account.

I’ve tried calling their helpline, who initially said it was late but still on its way. Then when it didn’t I called the second time they told me they’ve been having “technical issues”. That the order will be cancelled but he was really vague and evasive when I asked when I’d get a refund.

I’ve raised a refund request & been emailing Asda customer services but nothing is happening. My bank can’t start chargeback process for 6 days and even that can take up to 12 weeks for a refund #Asda

Asda standard refunds take up to 14 *working days* and don’t usually clear on a weekend.

Stores are very quick to take a customers money but always dither and make it difficult for customers that ask for refunds. I’ve never had this before in all the years I’ve shopped with Asda never once had an entire order not arrive.

@asda @AsdaServiceTeam

[Little bigman. @IaiD52]

@SenRandPaul Utter shite.

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

Simon Sebag Montefiore is an enthusiastic proponent of the 'antisemitism crisis' fraud that was deployed to politically assassinate Corbyn and the anti-genocide left.
And that's the end of that.
#ItWasAScam

[Pamphlets @PamphletsY]

🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING — This Isn’t Cuba.

This Is Poverty In Ultra-Capitalist California.

[Little bigman. @IaiD52]

@reggiebblue They are not crazy psychotics. The USA is the problem.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is just pure unadulterated propaganda by the BBC.

And it takes literally 2 seconds to debunk: go on Xiaohongshu (or any other Chinese social networks), type a keyword related to the mudslide (I typed "泥石流", "mudslide") and you'll see thousands of posts with footage about it - including from state media (the first post in my screenshot is from People's Daily)🤷

Even crazier - which shows the extent to which the BBC thinks its audience are complete idiots - their lead example of footage that supposedly isn't being shown in China is… footage that comes from China!

This is how they open their article:

"The dramatic footage was almost impossible to miss. A torrent of water tearing through Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal and Tibet, sweeping away all in its path as hundreds of people fled for their lives.
The scenes, captured by CCTV cameras, quickly spread on social media and onto screens around the world.
Except here, in China."

We've all seen this footage, which is Chinese CCTV footage, released first in China, and extremely widely spread on Chinese social media (it's in the 3rd post on my Xiaohongshu screenshot below 👇).

It's literally insane: they think you're stupid enough not to notice that they're using Chinese footage as their lead example to claim China isn't showing footage 🤦

This also all points to a deeper issue: China does have a completely different and largely insulated media ecosystem with little overlap with Western media, and extremely little reach in the West.

Which means it's trivially easy for outlets like the BBC to make false claims about what's happening in China that:
a) their readers will never check: it's actually difficult to for foreigners to access Chinese social networks, if only for the language barrier.
b) won't be challenged by the other side: Chinese media has so little reach in the West that there's essentially no one to push back. It's like lying about someone who isn't in the room.

That's the irony when you read about "Chinese propaganda": the bigger issue is that it actually doesn't really exist - at least not in a material way - and therefore falsehoods about China can be written with an impunity that they could never get away with if they were writing about, say, France or Germany.

As I keep repeating, this is actually mostly bad for the West because - given the importance of China in the world today - this is a country you simply cannot afford to misunderstand. Bad journalism about China is a strategic liability.

So, in a somewhat ironic way, if there were one genuine "China threat" worth worrying about, it's this: that China is not great at communicating about itself with the outside world and Western publics are left with garbage BBC articles to understand it.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is what me and my family put up with almost every day and yet some liberals like @shannonrwatts were mocking me for raising the issue of Islamophobia earlier.

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

The media is ignoring the fact that both Israeli and international Doctors are reporting that Israel is illegally organ harvesting from Palestinians.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

The United Nations REALLY wants you to forget that it invited Ghislaine Maxwell to speak as an "expert" on numerous occasions.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

The world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates: https://t.co/3clxDDZCym

Read that again.

Time for the people that are fueling this crisis to pay for the damage they're causing.

#ActOnClimate

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.
Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.
Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.
Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.
Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.
Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.

[Margaret Kimberley @freedomrideblog]

The U.S. stepped in to protect a white supremacist at a European university.

[creative scorpio @vinivinidogo]

With all of this on tape..so you know they DGAF about getting caught

Any lawsuits will be paid by taxpayers & not the cops

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

One day our political and media class might have the guts and principles to summon up as much anger, outrage, and obsessive coverage about things like this as they do over the comments of a Twitch streamer.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

There are like five new headlines of Israelis doing the most vile shit around the world every single day

This is what happens when you give Jewish supremacists total impunity for decades

The whole world is at risk for this little colony