Joe

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

Mamdani taxed the rich and suddenly libraries work, potholes get fixed, childcare exists, and workers get paid more.
That's why billionaires are losing it and want him gone!!!

[Sarah @kokeshimum]

10 fucking years since Brexit when Farage told us that Europeans were the reason for the state of country.
Today, after leaving the EU, this cunt is still here moaning that immigrants are the reason for the state of the country.
He’s a fucking fraud & a liar.
Never ever Reform

[Brendan May @bmay]

From the guy who was elected to the European Parliament and turned up to just 1 of 42 meetings of the committee to which he was appointed. He had the third worst attendance record out of 751 MEPs. Now he barely visits his constituency. No lectures on work productivity thanks.

[Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL]

"It's even worse than disrespectful"

Daniel Sturridge and Roy Keane react to Gabriel Martinelli's actions in the final minutes of Arsenal vs Liverpool.

[DaveOCKOP @DaveOCKOP]

Proud of Liverpool, particularly after that second half performance. We gave Arsenal way too much respect in the first half, they're not as good as they think they are. Disgraceful behavior by Martinelli. I wish we could play Arsenal a few more times this season to be honest.

[James Pearce @JamesPearceLFC]

Martinelli is a disgrace

[𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚 @beyoncegarden]

HE CHEWED HIM UP SO BAD HERE LMFAOOO😭😭😭

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

When Zack Polanski calmly called for the legalisation and regulation of drugs, to move distribution from criminal gangs to the state e.g. the NHS

Carole Malone shouted out a number of objections which were mostly based on half truths, outright lies, and misinformation

Here are some of the key points of clarification:

➡️ Portugal decriminalised drugs in 2001, there is no evidence that they plan to reverse this

➡️ Individuals caught with drugs are typically referred to a "Dissuasion Commission" composed of social workers, medical professionals, and legal experts, who may recommend treatment or impose fines, but not criminal penalties

➡️ Portugal's example is such a success that other countries are looking to replicate it e.g. Ireland

➡️ Malone was right to say that between 2000 and 2015 there was a 30x increase in hospitalizations associated with cannabis use. But this isn't viewed as a failure of the policy, it has led to evaluating and tweaking the policy for better outcomes

➡️ There is no evidence that decriminalising drugs in Portugal has led to an increase in the number of child deaths. Instead, the 2001 decriminalisation of drugs has led to a decrease in the number of drug related deaths. Before 2001 they had 131, and in 2008 they had 20

➡️ Portugal's drug death toll was among the lowest in the EU, at 3 per million, compared to the EU average of 17.3 per million

➡️ The Washington Post's July 2023 investigation into Portugal's drug decriminalization policy did not conclude that the approach has failed, but it highlighted emerging challenges e.g. the rise of drug use in tourist areas of Porto, or the underfunding of services to help those on drugs with sometimes year long waits to get help

➡️ The Washington Post credited the policy pointing out that deaths from drug use has dropped significantly, there's a huge drop in HIV transmission from drug use, and it has reduced the number of people jailed for drug-related offences

➡️ The King’s College London report Malone referred to does indeed refer to the dangers of drugs, but it refers to the dangers of illicit and illegal drugs in the UK, and not the impact of drugs in countries where drug use has been legalised, like in Portugal

➡️ Malone claimed that drug scams through airports are on the rise in countries where drug use is legal as people do not want to pay tax on their drug use. Trafficking drugs through any airport remains illegal. And in the case of Portugal, there has not been an increase in drugs taken through airports to avoid paying domestic drug taxes

Zack Polanski remained calm and composed throughout Carole Malone's repeated shouty interruptions. It's as if she was trying to cover up the poor use of information to get an ideological point across with the brashness

I would like to think that Carole Malone, like Zack Polanski, and most people would like to see drug use drop to improve people's lives in society. On that much we can probably agree.

But as this one exchange showed, you can either use data and facts to make your point, or you can shout over other people spewing misinformation. The latter may appear more sincere because of the expressed emotion, but it's really the former that will lead to and drive meaningful change

[JimmyTheGiant @jimthegiant]

The Britain they hate

[🔛🔝 @killingherass]

retweet if you actually just fucking hate AI

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Let's make hope normal again.

[Alf(ie) @alfie__03]

He doesn’t know ball but my god is he a good man

[Freddie @FreddieBailey96]

They literally just make stuff up.

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

Hey - Reform voters!

Last night your party voted against The Employment Rights Bill to ban fire & rehire and zero hours contracts.

They voted against you getting sick pay day one, and against you being protected against unfair dismissal from day one.

This what you want?

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

before and after learning the shooter was a cisgender white man

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

[Biggies Malls 2.0 @Biggies_MaIIs]

Apparently the #LFC shirt sales generated enough profit in the first 36 hours after kit launch to pay for both Wirtz AND Ekitike, including wages. WOW.

We’ve essentially signed two players for free, meaning that the entire Coutinho fee can go towards a new striker 👀

[Benjamin Ze’ev 📚🎻🏺 @ArchaeoBenjamin]

There is something incredibly telling about the power of transphobic rhetoric & media bias that the writer of this headline thought it relevant to mention the teenager being transgender, but *not* that they are a white supremacist who spent hours daily in online neo-Nazi groups.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

😎

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

😉