Andos

Manchester born and bred, MUFC fan, football, music and suchlike. And other stuff.

[Espresso Lucid @EspressoLucid]

Ann Widdecombe was murdered three weeks ago and it's already been memory-holed. This should've shaken Britain to its very core. It should be on the front page of every newspaper across the country. Instead, it's back to business as usual. "Nothing to see here. Carry on."

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Donald Trump has earned more money in his first and second year, in his second term as president, than in the previous 60 years of his life, per Bloomberg.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2026: $719 billion

Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2026: $255 billion

Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2026: $212 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25
2026: $7.25

Obscene. We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Basically we've got two choices: we either aggressively denormalize Israel or we watch our society become more and more Israeli.

We either collectively reject Israel, or we watch western militaries fuse inseparably with the IDF.

We either turn support for Israel into political campaign poison, or we watch politicians obliterate our right to criticize Israel while backing increasingly evil Israeli military agendas.

We either ferociously oppose our government's involvement in middle eastern wars, or we watch Israeli leaders grow more and more ecstatic as more and more western blood and treasure flows into the war machine.

We either normalize viewing Israel as a freakish abomination, or we sit passively watching authoritarian Zionist operations like Palantir get inseparably interwoven into every level of western power institutions.

We either stand together to oppose Israel for the racist apartheid state that it is, or we watch our Muslim neighbors suffer increasing discrimination and abuse at home while our governments help massacre our Muslim brothers and sisters using high-tech war machinery abroad.

The west's growing collective rejection of Israel is the growth of the western conscience. The burgeoning pro-Palestine movement. The disgust with the Iran war. Young people's cultural cringe around all things Israeli. The increasingly unapologetic eye-rolling every time "antisemitism" is used as an excuse to shut down criticism of Israel. These are signs that we are growing morally healthier.

That's a good thing. The more we unite around a red hot "NO" to Israel and Zionism, the harder it will be for those in power to normalize the increasing Israelification of our society.

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

In Thatchers own words “privatisation of the energy industry will make us the envy of Europe” Thanks Margaret, you made a few people very rich and the rest of us much poorer.

[AEVØN ™⚡ @fwaevon]

The "Middle Class" didn't disappear, it was deliberately dismantled. In 1978, CEO pay was 30x the average worker. Today it's 351x. They didn't get 351x smarter or work 351x harder. They just rewrote the rules so all the productivity gains go to the top while you get a pizza party.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5M, check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs — because you've got mail.

Today, we sent notification letters to property owners, letting them know that our new pied-à-terre tax is coming soon.

The best city in the world deserves the best parks, libraries, and schools in the world. That's only possible when we all pay our fair share.

[Harrison H. Smith ✞ @HarrisonHSmith]

I love how everyone is appalled at the very concept of arresting the President of Israel, like we didn’t black-bag the President of Venezuela earlier this year.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

This beautiful young woman is Vicki Williams, a history teacher from Pembrokeshire, Wales.

On February 5, a 15 year old student walked into her empty classroom and asked her to check his homework.

He then closed the door.

He walked up to her, pulled a knife out of his bag and stabbed her in the head. This was a sustained attack that only stopped when another teacher intervened.

Vicki was rushed to hospital and thankfully survived.

The boy was prosecuted and in court said that Vicki had tried to grab the knife from his bag and he “accidentally assaulted her”.

The prosecution said that he had sought out a lone teacher who he could attack.

Yesterday, he boy was found not guilty attempted murder. He was found guilty of wounding with intent.

He will be sentenced on September 3 but will probably get a few months at a juvenile facility. I doubt that this will change his behaviour.

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

Ann Widdecombe was hit 21 times in the head with a hammer in an attack caught on camera, according to prosecutors. A barbaric attack. One of the worst cases of violence against a politician in living memory.

This info makes police initial statements absolutely incomprehensible.

[Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sargon_of_Akkad]

The information we are receiving about Ann Widdecombe's murderer is being strangle well-curated. Normally, social media accounts would be found and videos/posts would proliferate. We would learn about the people they were connected to through interests. Nothing this time. Odd.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Tomorrow, the new Prime Minister should do something very simple: end all arms sales to Israel.

[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

Sadiq Khan was President of the Fabian Society. Keir Starmer is still a member.

Andy Burnham has written for them.

Never heard of the Fabian Society? That's exactly how they like it.

Here's what they say on their OWN website. “Every Labour prime minister has been a Fabian.” Their words. Not mine.

Blair. Brown. Corbyn. Starmer. Now Burnham. More than half the current Cabinet. 141 sitting MPs, a number they boast about themselves. Starmer even wrote their 2021 pamphlet, The Road Ahead, his whole governing blueprint, handed to him by them.

Their coat of arms is a WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING. They chose that themselves.

Their method has a name too. Permeation. Change so slow and so quiet you never notice it happening. Until one day you look up and the country looks nothing like the one you grew up in.

They don't stand for election. They don't appear on any ballot you've ever seen. They write the policy before the minister reads it. Then they hand it to whoever's face is at the front.

The face changes. The machine never does.

Now watch what just happened this week.

Starmer, on his way out the door, handed Sadiq Khan a permanent seat in the House of Lords. For life. No vote. No election. Khan ran this organisation as its President. He's still one of their vice presidents today. Now he gets to shape your laws forever.

There is NO LAW stopping a Lord becoming Prime Minister. Alec Douglas-Home did it in 1963. Khan could hand back the peerage tomorrow, win a by-election, and go for the top job.

Starmer thought he was being clever. He handed his most dangerous rival a platform and a route to Number 10.

When Starmer tried to block Burnham's path, 8 votes to 1, Khan publicly backed Burnham. One of them fighting the other. Both of them Fabians. Whoever won, the machine won.

Then there's Burnham himself. He ran for leader twice. Lost both times. The public never once chose him for anything bigger than Manchester. Seat in June. Downing Street by July.

Not elected. INSTALLED.

Blair then Corbyn then Starmer then suddenly Farage when Reform surged. Four men. Four directions. He turned to face every one the moment it started winning.

That's not conviction. That's a WEATHER VANE with a salary.

He's the face on the front.

Behind him sits the real machine. The Fabian Society, writing the ideas. The permanent civil service, unelected, unmovable, running the country long after the face at the front has gone. Officials who were here before Starmer, before the Tories, and will be here long after Reform has had its turn.

They don't stand for election. You can't vote them out. You never voted them in.

The Fabians shape the thinking. The civil service holds the levers. Burnham just reads the lines.

142 years. Same organisation. Same civil service. Same machine.

Different face and not one person in this country ever voted for any of it.

[Garland Nixon @TheGarlandNixon]

So.. now that Americans are living in their cars and the billionaire oligarchs are sailing 500 ft yachts.. Blame communism, China, and Putin. But definitely NOT Congress, Wall Street, or their corporate puppet masters.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Sergey Brin is worth $276 billion.

He could save healthcare for 3 million people.

Instead, he’s spending $82 million against California’s 5% billionaire wealth tax.

He’d rather see low-income Americans die & suffer than pay his fair share of taxes.

That is a moral obscenity.

[Matt Davey @MatttDavey]

It's all gone eerily quiet about Ann Widdicombe's death.

I think the silence is telling.

Something feels off.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Thames Water claims it is going bankrupt, again, with £20bn in debts. So it needs bailing out, again, so it can hike its bills by 40% in April, again.

Don't, let them go bankrupt. As soon as they do it all becomes Government property with no debts.

Nationalisation for free.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

We live in 2 Americas:

In 1 America, the 8 wealthiest men, all Big Tech Oligarchs, are now worth over $2.5 trillion & have never had it so good.

In the other America, according to a new poll, 66% of our population cannot afford groceries.

We can do better. We must do better.

[Andos @andosrowsk]

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