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[Sheldonian @TheIceMelts]

@mehdirhasan Can't take any pride in that? Was a display of total cowardice, the worst performance of any team i can remember at this level (after we scored). Laughably embarrassing.

[Sheldonian @TheIceMelts]

@FBAwayDays Total cowardice. Achingly familiar, but this time worse. The worst semi final performance (post us scoring) that I can remember from any team at this level.

[Sheldonian @TheIceMelts]

@FabrizioRomano Same old cowardice, a hauntingly familiar tale. But this was the worst of the lot. Embarrassing.

[Sheldonian @TheIceMelts]

@JackReeveTNC Hard to love that display of innate English cowardice. Was eerily familiar to previous capitulations except worse. Argies could/should have scored 6 in the 20 minute period after we took the lead. The game was not like that before we scored or after they took the lead. Cowards.

[Sheldonian @TheIceMelts]

@CraigMurrayOrg The innate English cowardice returned with a vengeance. Post goal, probably the most embarrassing performance I've ever seen at that level at that stage of a tournament. Argies should have scored 6 in a 20 minute period.

[Sheldonian @TheIceMelts]

@dimitrilascaris Germany has no right to exist.

[Sheldonian @TheIceMelts]

@DavidHundeyin The best player at the WC so far wears a French shirt but is from Hammersmith, West London.

[Liberation News Network @l_n_n_26]

There will be an attempt to recharacterise Starmer as a "decent
man" who was just not cut out for politics. This has already been tried by that tedious old establishment hack Andrew Marr in the abysmal New Statesman. No one will be fooled by this. Starmer is a man powered by a ruthless but empty careerism. He desperately wanted to get to the top but was afflicted by having the character traits of a middle manager who was only going to be a middle manager. His career as a prosecutor was defined by delivering cover ups (Saville) and stitch ups (Asaange) at the behest of the men above him in the chain of command. When he was (nominally at least) in the top job he proved incapable to an extreme degree. Most of his own former staff describe him as a void who evaded conflict as well as being pathologically lazy. He couldn't even chair committee meetings properly. This is a man who is a pure creation of the British state machine. A rubber stamp in human form. A pathetic, order taking, servile grovelling sack of suet who is the epitome of the man who wasn't there.

[Liberation News Network @l_n_n_26]

My assessment of Keir Starmer and his miserable career.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Some guy broke into my house and set up residence in the study room. He says his grandparents used to live in this house and now he won't leave.

My family and I tried to kick him out but he got very violent. He brings in his friends and they help beat us up if we ever try to make him leave.

They keep saying I hate the guy because of his religion. I don't even care about his religion, I just don't like sharing my house with some random outsider who broke in here out of nowhere and took my stuff.

"The poor guy just wants one room to call his own," his friends say in his defense. "You and your family have all the surrounding rooms in the house, and yet you have a problem with the guy having sovereignty over ONE room? That's kind of bigoted and evil."

He keeps throwing stuff at me and my family if we get too close to his door, saying we make him feel afraid. His friends say it's understandable because his room is surrounded by enemies who hate him just for existing, but we don't hate him for existing, we hate him because he forcibly inserted himself into our home and keeps throwing stuff at us.

And what's weird is whenever I explain my situation to normal people they completely understand where I'm coming from and agree the guy is being a dick, but if I talk to the police or the local paper they always side with the guy. Almost everyone in town hates this guy now because of how he's been acting, but everyone in power does everything they can to protect him. It's like there's a total disconnect between the authorities and the will of the public on this particular issue.

It's having a nastier and nastier effect on the community at large all across town. The police have been showing up to arrest anyone who says they think the guy's being an asshole. The paper keeps printing these obnoxious lies telling everyone that me and my family are the real criminals and the guy is actually sweet and awesome. It's really unfair.

Things have been so tense and hostile ever since this guy showed up. I honestly think it would be better if he'd never moved in here at all, but whenever I say that his friends claim I'm saying the guy should be exterminated and try to get me in trouble.

It's a real mess, man.

That guy sucks.

[Sheldonian @TheIceMelts]

@GeorgeSzamuely Wasnt that fine really. Patchy at best and raised higher by more talented people and was lucky to be around people more talented than him. Now just a tragic embarrassment, at best.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

BREAKING: Justice Jeremy Johnson has ruled that the Filton 4 will be sentenced as terrorists – even though two juries refused to convict them of violence charges over their efforts to disable an Israeli factory in the UK making killer drones for use in Gaza. They were found guilty of a minor charge of criminal damage.

Judge Johnson kept the jury in the dark of his plans to sentence the four as terrorists. This is the first time in British legal history that anyone has been sentenced as a terrorist for damaging property. It's a very dark moment in an increasingly authoritarian Britain.

Thousands of legal professionals complained about Johnson's clear abuses of legal procedures to help the government's case for proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Johnson has now proved this was always a show trial.

I explain how he rigged the two trials here: https://t.co/fXTkUAmIvh

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

When Obama bombed Libya, the justification was "humanitarian intervention." "Protection of civilians." "Responsibility to protect." The language of international law and moral obligation.

Libya was subsequently destroyed. It has open slave markets today. The humanitarian outcome was catastrophic.

But the language was immaculate. The syntax was perfect. The suits were pressed and the speeches were moving and the Nobel Peace Prize sat on the shelf while the drones flew.

Trump bombs things and says it's about the oil.

In terms of honesty, pure, raw, unmediated honesty about what American power actually does, Trump is more accurate than any of his predecessors.

This is not a defense of Trump.

This is an indictment of everyone who made the polished version seem acceptable.

The lie was always more dangerous than the liar currently in office.

Because the lie had good manners.

[Ajamu Baraka @ajamubaraka]

Boycott the games!! Make FIFA and their U.S. corporate sponsors pay the price for attempting to normalize U.S. warmongering, genocide and repression. The next step for the international community is to demand accountability & end impunity for U.S. criminality.

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

African leaders are scared to speak truth to power.

I am not.

All African teams, players, and officials must WITHDRAW from the 2026 World Cup unless FIFA and the United States immediately apologize to our brother and referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan — denied entry despite valid visa and diplomatic passport.

1966 African boycott reminder — Africa has withdrawn before for dignity. Time to do it again?

FIFA turned this into their own show of shame: Infantino’s empty “everyone is welcome” promises in Nairobi while they play politics, shrug their shoulders, and abandon African talent at the border. Selective rules. Hypocrisy on full display. Rigged games for the Global South.

This humiliation of African excellence cannot stand. No respect for our people? No participation.

Enough of the double standards and fake inclusion.

RT if you stand with Artan and African dignity. Comment your support below. Follow for unfiltered resistance. Turn on notifications 🔔

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

Key sentence here is the last one

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

Today, June 4th — the date the West uses every year to commemorate the Tiananmen event, as if they actually cared about China.

Student leader Chai Ling exposed the real agenda in her emotional late-May 1989 interview. The 23-year-old psychology student and de facto commander-in-chief admitted the movement’s true hope was bloodshed: “What we are actually hoping for is bloodshed — the moment when the government has no choice but to butcher the people. Only when the square is awash with blood will the people of China truly unite.”

She spoke of her own plans to survive while urging students to stay and wait for the bloodbath. This wasn’t organic student idealism. It was the climax of a hijacked movement.

What began with legitimate frustrations over corruption and inflation was rapidly turned into one of the first major Western colour revolution attempts in Beijing. External forces — funding, NGOs, strategists on the ground, and media orchestration — pushed English banners for Western cameras, radical escalation, and deliberate chaos to force a violent crackdown. Classic playbook.

These operations specifically prey on young, emotional, idealistic students — naive, never held real jobs, fed Hollywood fantasies of the West, and easy to brainwash with slogans of “democracy” and “freedom.” They become useful idiots, turned against their own country while the organizers keep exit plans ready. Many later reflected: “I was young and foolish.” https://t.co/WhiHHOZege The same pattern repeated in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, Hong Kong, and beyond.

Gene Sharp — the American architect of the “non-violent” colour revolution manuals — was physically in Beijing in 1989, boots on the ground for the prototype. https://t.co/505bPwZBlF
Foreign actors escalated tensions.
Violence erupted outside the square: rioters burning unarmed soldiers alive, attacks on troops. Half the deaths were soldiers. Yet the dominant Western narrative still pushes the “massacre on the square” myth. Not a single person died on the square itself during the final clearance. https://t.co/0nMB9x7QSs
The Chinese government knew very well who was behind it. They refused to become another failed state or vassal. They chose sovereignty, stability, and development.
The results speak louder than any propaganda: historic poverty reduction, national rise, and protection of its people rather than sacrificing them for someone else’s script. https://t.co/snsTz638h7
Every June 4th brings the same selective Western outrage and hypocrisy — pretending to care about Chinese lives while ignoring their own bloody interventions abroad and the regrets of those manipulated elsewhere.

Legitimate grievances get hijacked.
Youthful idealism is powerful fuel — and dangerously exploitable when outsiders brainwash kids into destroying their own future.

China learned the lesson early.

Stability won.

China thrived.

[JohnSalmondOz @OzSalmond]

@RnaudBertrand Europe, no longer able to roam the globe raping, tearing limb-from-limb, torturing, enforcing opium addiction, slaughtering and robbing, is going out of its tiny mind