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[StraittyXL @StraittyXL]

@The_LCDC Drivers crash cars. On average 5 people die per day on UK roads. Pedestrian deaths are predominantly by drivers of motor vehicles. Cars should be banned then? Prove yourself wrong

[Larry & Paul @larryandpaul]

🛑 LATEST: Epstein Scandal Is “Finally Over.” Everyone Involved “Totally Innocent.”

👇🏻 Time to move on? Suck up this latest report from #BrokenNews and see.

[StraittyXL @StraittyXL]

@London_Cycling Make London shit again. A Driver

[Adam Tranter @adamtranter]

The Embankment cycleway (CS3) in London was purposefully built to be wider than was usual in order to future proof it.

Some said it would hardly be used.

Now there’s a decent case for widening it further.

[StraittyXL @StraittyXL]

@diam0ndeyesx £104.50 + £4 fees before getting to check out on Ticketmaster

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

It took me 30 seconds to find at least ten postings from Zelensky directly thanking the United States for their support. There are many more.

This is pure BS.

[StraittyXL @StraittyXL]

@LondonPortAuth Don't flush my waste? Bin it instead?

[StraittyXL @StraittyXL]

@TheABD 'Fury as gritters can't reach Midland beauty spot because of selfish drivers'

https://t.co/JVUPA7IY89

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

The huge carabiner hanging off the side of my bag is purely to scratch cars parked on the pavement that I am forced to squeeze by. If it takes paint or dents bodywork, then you haven't left enough space for wheelchairs or prams to get past, and you deserve what you fucking get.

[StraittyXL @StraittyXL]

@StephenNolan @Briansmyth99 @BBCSounds

[StraittyXL @StraittyXL]

@niroads

[StraittyXL @StraittyXL]

@Briansmyth99

[StraittyXL @StraittyXL]

@KellyBonner

[PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 @OnlinePalEng]

Activists in Belfast laid down thousands of shoes to remember Palestinian children who lost their lives in the Israeli genocide.

[StraittyXL @StraittyXL]

@kben_ears @BrentToderian @lbbdcouncil @LBofHavering @RedbridgeOnBike @RedbridgeLive @JonCruddas_1 Bloody cyclists!
https://t.co/QAim14XOND

[StraittyXL @StraittyXL]

@wfcouncil Idea: mobile traffic warden hotline to report driver's illegal parking & pavement parking & covering their number plates with red electrical tape like the driver of WF67 TNL so they could drive down Orford Rd after 10am on a Saturday @Labourstone

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Lord Eric Pickles at the Grenfell Inquiry "I have changed my schedule to fit this in, but I"m missing important lunches to do it."

He was head of fire safety when Grenfell burned, and he thinks he is too important to be bothered by an inquiry.

He should be before a judge.

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Justice for Grenfell. 72 people lost their lives in this preventable tragedy. Victims of corporate greed and institutional neglect.

[StraittyXL @StraittyXL]

Far right media such as @Daily_Express have been stoking division and radicalising British people for years. Us and Them. The Othering of minority groups. Thankfully, fewer and fewer read this media

[Daily Express @Daily_Express]

Thursday’s front page: United Britain stands firm against thugs https://t.co/mkS2b8TbYA #TomorrowsPapersToday