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Everyone is crying out for peace
None is crying out for justice
I said, "if the one is crying out for peace"
I said, "none is crying out for justice"

But ain't gonna be no peace
'Till men get the equal rights
Equal rights and justice ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿✊🏻👊🏻

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“Slash”!

[Methi 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 @MasalaFry69]

Statins lower cholesterol and COQ10 and in turn LDL.

Lowering Cholesterol, CoQ10 and LDL is causal of several chronic diseases including heart disease, strokes, diabetes, cancers, dementia, mitochondrial dysfunction & much more.

Never take them!!!

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means.

His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide.

Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers.

Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations.

Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered.

https://t.co/1Onlpx9Nkh

[Get up, stand up. Stand up for your rights. @SteveFForster]

Just use this…

https://t.co/UXgTwnBe6C

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

@InstituteGC This requires a considered response. I will set one out tomorrow.

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“However, partly because of the intellectual wasteland of the Corbyn years, it had no properly thought-through analysis of how the world was changing and what that meant for policy.”

If the 1st part is true (it’s not) then if the 2nd part is true (it is), this says a lot…

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

@InstituteGC This requires a considered response. I will set one out tomorrow.

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Was there a comp?

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

I am proud and humbled to have been selected as Labour’s candidate for Makerfield.

These proud working-class communities represent the very best values of our country and they deserve so much better. It would be my honour to work for them every day, if elected as their MP, to achieve that.

Many people here feel Westminster isn’t working for them and they are right. I am standing to change that and get the voice of these communities heard loud and clear.

I am glad that this by-election has finally put the places that make up the Makerfield constituency into the national spotlight. They have been neglected by national politics for too long. It is a good thing that all political parties are now on the hook to tell the voters here what they are going to do for them.

More than anything, people need life to be more affordable again. As Mayor, I have brought in changes which are helping, such as the £2 fare cap, free bus travel for our 16-18 year-olds and removing the 9.30am restriction from older and disabled people’s bus passes. But there is only so much I can do from Greater Manchester. If elected, I will have a relentless focus on reducing people’s everyday costs and bills and well as securing the investment these communities need.

I have been an elected representative in Greater Manchester for 25 years. Throughout that time, I have fought for the people of the North West of England on so many fronts. I am now ready to bring the whole weight of that experience to fighting for the communities of the Makerfield constituency and would be privileged to be given that opportunity.

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Bye, Nigel’s sock…

[🆃🆁🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁 @triggerno9]

@nw_nicholas @Nigel_Farage Well you've definitely fallen for him haven't you, you crazy, obsessed, stalking, sad, bellend.
Are you gonna keep this constant bullshit going all the time he's in power 😂🤣

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@earthygirl011 He can say lots of lovely things. It will mean 0.

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@Powell_Matthew Naw.

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Technicality, fae an English numpty heid. HH 🏆

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

So on Celtic v Hearts. Serious point. When Celtic's third goal goes in there are clearly 30 seconds of the match remaining. So the game has to restart. But it didn't. The game had to be abandoned because of the actions of the Celtic fans. Hearts players were assaulted. So in any normal circumstances surely that would mean the awarding of a 3-0 win to Hearts.

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Exactly this 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

[Debi Evans @DebiEvansMatron]

Can someone explain to me like I’m 5yrs old HOW @AndyBurnhamGM suddenly became SO POPULAR?

I’m thinking they WANT you to believe he is…. But….. in reality? It’s all #Hype #Spin

Or am I missing something?

#Fabian

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Planted.

[MikeD @mjdaly57]

What was Josh Simons doing exactly ‘working’ in Corbyn’s office so soon after Corbyn won the leadership? He was there six months and everyone else came to the conclusion that Simons had been working to a separate agenda. Soon after leaving, Simons accused just about everyone in the LOTO office of being anti-Semitic. And that was his modus operandi for the next four years, not only in his avowed ‘hate’ of Corbyn but in doing everything he could to destroy his leadership.

[MikeD @mjdaly57]

What was Josh Simons doing exactly ‘working’ in Corbyn’s office so soon after Corbyn won the leadership? He was there six months and everyone else came to the conclusion that Simons had been working to a separate agenda. Soon after leaving, Simons accused just about everyone in the LOTO office of being anti-Semitic. And that was his modus operandi for the next four years, not only in his avowed ‘hate’ of Corbyn but in doing everything he could to destroy his leadership.

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“Margarine”. Is that even a thing now?

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

@JohnPretty2o2o Very bad for you, and it's not just in chocolate, it's in a lot things, such as biscuits, noodles, margarine etc!
High saturated fat content, leading to increased cholesterol, the bad LDL type... not to mention it being a leading factor in deforestation and global warming!

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

This is the Labour MP “giving up” his seat for Andy Burnham.

Josh Simons is a member of the Israel APPG, which states that its purpose is “to unite parliamentarians…who are proud to be friends of Israel.”

Now, he wants to help topple Keir Starmer.

Here’s why:🧵

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Good old fashioned ‘leverage’?

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

The unanswered question is why Josh Simons threw himself on his sword and resigned his Makerfield seat for Andy Burnham? He ran Labour Together & along with Morgan McSweeny and Mandelson nurtured Starmer as Labour leader, and organised a savage campaign to remove Jeremy Corbyn.

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Or just been shown his Kitty Korral file…🔥🔥🔥

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

We don’t know what happened exactly.

But he has the look of someone who has just been told to fuck off.

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@owenjonesjourno Or just been shown his Kitty Korral file…🔥🔥🔥

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@raceyemu Bus head cunt so he is. Double decker.

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If Rayner is the answer, the question is warped.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

An unprincipled opportunist driven by personal ambition leaning left to secure advancement.

What could possibly go wrong?

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@implausibleblog @Heygabagaba1 I’m not sure that they are Met officers…