Amateur Opinion Haver

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[Michael Lavelle @mikelavelle93]

This may be the greatest 2 minutes and 44 seconds of television I’ve ever seen

[#TimeForRealChange @tfrc_unison]

*DEFEND LAMBETH UNISON!*

Rally | 12:35 | Outside conference hall.

Ruth Cashman and Simon Hannah were removed by UNISON officials this morning for 'undermining Standing Orders Committee' by printing out a motion and distributing it to delegates outside of conference. 1/2

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

Lenta has produced a tremendous guide to how Boris Yeltsin won Russia’s strangest presidential election, 30 years ago this summer.

Ahead of the campaign, his ratings stood at only 5%, with his Communist challenger well ahead. The newly minted Oligarchs were panicking and Yeltsin himself was so ill his team had to hide him from the public.

So how did he win?

[Amateur Opinion Haver @neilcaff]

@TomcatSpitfire1 @BROKENBRITAIN0 Dry your eyes mate

[Amateur Opinion Haver @neilcaff]

It's been a miserable decade, but the wailing and gnashing of teeth from fanatical zionists has been balm for the soul

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

What venomous ignorance. Over the years, Israel has agreed to every single proposal for a "state of Palestine" against its own security interests. For two decades, its southern citizens were forced in effect to live in shelters under bombardment by tens of thousands of missiles from Gaza, with Israel only going to war there when the onslaught became intolerable.

This smear that Israel is wantonly aggressive against a genocidal enemy intent on wiping it off the map reinforces deep fears that Vance is no defender of civilisation.

[Gilded notsure @gildednotsure]

Rare 9/11 skit with Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan.

[shoaib daniyal @ShoaibDaniyal]

See that man in the first frame blowing up buildings in Gaza?

His name is Eitan Gilboa, an IDF soldier accused of war crimes.

After Gaza, he came to India on holiday.

But Eitan made one mistake: he posted photos from Himachal on social media.

The Hind Rajab Foundation caught it immediately and passed it on to a young Indian lawyer. She identified where Eitan was holidaying, then filed complaints with the local police and the Indian government.

The Hind Rajab Foundation claims Eitan left India soon after.

Read @AnantGuptaAG's report about this remarkable case on @scroll_in.

Link in next tweet.

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

The night Trump was reelected, I posted: Can we now finally have a serious conversation about anti-fascist economics?

The post went viral. I gave a bunch of interviews and decided to write a book, Anti-fascist Economics.

Now comes the funny part. Before I even managed to get my book together, and I was pretty fast, German lefty scholars have published a book criticizing my anti-fascist economics. They apparently believed to know what I think before I had a chance to figure it out myself! Well, I guess that’s one interpretation of “serious conversation”.

The book will be out in October. It’s almost 400 pages. I could not extrapolate it from a few interviews. It was intense work of thinking and writing. I hope it will put the serious conversation we need on strong footing. Looking forward to the debates!

Links for preorders below.

[Radio War Nerd @RadioWarNerd]

Radio War Nerd EP #613 — UAE, US-Iran MOU & Emerging Post-War Order, feat. Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg + Cyrus on Lebanon

[Amateur Opinion Haver @neilcaff]

@Bigboytonolio @broderly Worse, he does it for free

[Robert Inlakesh @falasteen47]

BREAKING: Israel Has Just Inflicted A Khan Younis Beach Massacre

Dozens of casualties amongst civilians who were targeted on the beach.

The Israelis are frustrated with their failures in Lebanon & Iran, so they are taking it out on the people of Gaza.

[Manus Carlisle @manus_carlisle]

A dark moment that is likely to go down in EU history.

Centrists ally with the far-right to establish detention centres for migrant families, to chants of "Send them Back".

The Left replies "Shame on You".

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

There is now clear evidence that the Great Israeli Real Estate event had unlawful activity at it.

I've written to the Mayor of London to ask what he intends to do about it.

This needs to be escalated immediately.

[Moments of Brazilian Politics @MomentsofBrazi1]

Maradona > Messi

O maior da Argentina 🇦🇷

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

Despite spending time in Belgium and later France under quarantine and medical screening measures to ensure they had not contracted Ebola, not a single DR Congo supporter traveling from Kinshasa was granted a U.S. visa for the World Cup. Among them was Michel Nkuka Mboladinga, better known as “Lumumba,” an iconic Leopards supporter who became one of the most recognizable faces of AFCON 2025.

Since the start of this tournament, we have been witnessing clear bias against African countries embedded in visa and immigration systems.

[Amateur Opinion Haver @neilcaff]

Eating supersize portions of crow with every sentence he utters.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇺🇸 President Trump, reflecting on the U.S.-Iran war:

“You talk about regime change. I never cared about regime change. It [was] never a part. But I guess you have regime change because you know better than anybody, the first group, they're all dead… and we're now dealing with people that I think are very rational people. They were nice to deal with. They were strong people, smart people. I think actually they're smarter than the first and second group, but they're not radicalized and they're, you know, looking to help their country."

[Amateur Opinion Haver @neilcaff]

@briebriejoy @GabrielRockhill All fire and brimstone when he's talking about other lefts, weak and incrementalist when he's addressing one of the bosses parties.

[Actu Foot @ActuFoot_]

🚨 « CE N’EST PAS UNE COMPÉTITION ÉQUITABLE. » 😤

Mehdi Taremi 🇮🇷 et ses coéquipiers iraniens se disent ÉPUISÉS des voyages, des entrainements et des contrôles d’immigration et de transit qui DURENT 5 HEURES. 😩

[Amateur Opinion Haver @neilcaff]

@HollyBlomberg @ProfHall1955 @URealists @Thomas_Raymen @BritSocCrim On the final chapter now. Tremendous read

[Islam Bouafif 🇹🇳🇵🇸 @BouafifNour]

I know this might sound harsh, but that was genuinely one of the biggest managerial disasterclasses I've ever seen.

This man called up 4 wingers and 3 strikers, only to bench all of them and start the opening World Cup game with a 5-3-2 that he hadn't used even once during the friendlies. He benched all of his forwards and lined up with 5 defenders and 5 midfielders against Sweden.

It gets worse. He played a defensive full-back who is basically a hybrid CB profile like Kounde for example and he played him as a wing-back, used our backup left-back, who arguably didn't even deserve a call-up, as a left centre-back, and after going 2-0 down by halftime, he didn't make a single substitution until the 72nd minute.

And when the changes finally came, they somehow made even less sense.

He brought on a central midfielder to play wing-back, and a left winger to play on the right, and then took off both of his defensive midfielders for an attacking midfielder and a striker. We literally finished the game with a double pivot made up of two number 10s.

I'm serious when I say this is the kind of squad management you wouldn't even see in FIFA Career Mode.

We've faced teams like England, Belgium, France, and Spain at World Cups before. We've always been underdogs. Yet somehow, our biggest defeat in World Cup history came against Sweden.

That alone should tell you everything you need to know about how badly this game was handled.

I know most of you probably don't care about Tunisia's tactical disasters, but I just needed to get this off my chest.