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What we see is all there is.
The algorithm is not our friend.

[stan @neonsaxon]

@tighabhinn What’s the problem? Chris Mason said his coverage was ‘carefully nuanced’ and ‘evidence based’ reporting. We
all saw that for ourselves, didn’t we?🤔

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

There’s a guy called Mohammad Sabir in here so there’s a small chance Elon Musk might tweet about this group of men but I doubt it.

[☠️Daddy Bones☠️ @UpBeatSkeletor]

Hannah Fry with a fluid dynamics trick to cool your car down in the summer heat 🔥

[Gerry Samuels @GerrySamuels12]

Lots of Boomers seem to be remembering the summer of 1976 with rose tinted spectacles, & think that they ‘just got in with it’

Let’s have a look at what the newspapers of the day had to say in 1976….

🧵

[stan @neonsaxon]

@newswatchbbc @ChrisMasonBBC @SamiraAhmedUK @BBCBreakfast @BBCiPlayer Yes.

[stan @neonsaxon]

@Top_ClassTutors @OperaSocialist That too, but withdrawing state support from wealthy pensioners allows taxpayer support to be targeted progressively. Also the demographics of the decades ahead will change the demands on the state & we need to think about what that means for working people of all ages.

[Full Fact @FullFact]

What progress has Sir Keir Starmer made in delivering the Labour manifesto’s ‘first steps for change’?

In the week he announced his resignation, here’s our Government Tracker’s verdict.
https://t.co/lTuDiefHf2

[stan @neonsaxon]

@LukeTryl Incumbent effects?

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“As soon as they have the right to make you swallow absurdities, they soon have the right to make you commit injustices.”

— Voltaire

[IslamophobiaUK @uk_islamophobia]

Two Muslim men pulled an elderly couple and their grandson from a burning house in Leeds last Friday.

You probably didn’t hear about it.

Mohsin Qayyum. 22.
Mohammed Yusuf Iqbal. 20.

Both from Bradford.

They drove past the garden. They saw the fire. They ran straight in.

Sheila Robinson, the grandmother who was trapped inside, posted on social media:

"My family and I will be forever grateful to these young men."

Her granddaughter Kayla wrote:

"Drove past the garden, seen it, and ran straight in and made sure everyone was okay without a second thought."

Everyone got out. The house can be replaced. The family is alive.

Every outlet that covered it called them heroes.

They deserved every word.

But not one headline told you they were Muslim men.

We have seen this before.

Two weeks ago, a teacher was stabbed in the neck protecting his pupils from a knife in his Manchester classroom.

Maysum Abdullah. 27. Science teacher.

LBC named him a hero. So did the Independent, the Manchester Evening News, the Mirror, the Sun.

He ran towards the blade.

A hero in every paper. A Muslim man in none of them.

This is the pattern.

When a Muslim name appears in a crime, the faith leads the headline.

When a Muslim name appears in a rescue, it vanishes from the page.

Now look at who that erasure clears the path for.

Bradford, the same district these men come from, is now led by Reform as its largest party.

One of their candidates, Daniel Devaney, topped the poll in his ward after writing on Facebook that Muslims were "pure scum" and that he wanted to "blast [them] off the face of the earth."

He was not deselected. He was not suspended. He was elected.

They are loud about our religion when they want to call it a threat.

They are silent when that same religion sends two young men running into a fire.

The book they want to criticise is the same book that commands us to save a life.

"Whoever saves one life, it is as if he had saved all of mankind."
— Qur'an 5:32

Qayyum and Iqbal lived that verse on a Friday in Leeds.

Abdullah lived it in a Manchester classroom.

And the headlines recorded the act, but erased the faith that drove it.

When we are the suspect, our religion is the whole story.

When we are the rescuer, it is not worth a line.

Their names are Maysum Abdullah, Mohsin Qayyum, and Mohammed Yusuf Iqbal.

Muslim men.

Say both.

Sources first comment.

Report: https://t.co/D9amGp2yxO
Keep us alive: https://t.co/Z8H0Flg44Y
Substack: https://t.co/9x6sqmwMge
IG: @islamophobiauk

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

“The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them”

- Erasmus

[John Sweeney @johnsweeneyroar]

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And that is not good.

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Pre-order it here: https://t.co/XEGmwK8j5n

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Trees. Trees. Trees. They matter. Plant them. Protect them.

[stan @neonsaxon]

@sales_belinda @BeccyCooper4Lab I mean, if people didn’t/don’t vote for Starmer, why does it matter if he’s unpopular 3 years ahead of a general election?

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

STARMER: At the G7 we pledged our unwavering support to Ukraine. They are increasingly able to push Russia back on the battlefield.

There are clear signs that, as Russia loses ground and their economy struggles, the mood in Moscow is turning against Putin’s war.

This is the moment to ramp up the pressure on Russian economy with more sanctions, and to provide Ukraine with more military support.

We are committed to driving this forward, and this should be the first item on the agenda at the NATO summit in a couple of weeks’ time.

[stan @neonsaxon]

@DPJHodges A large section did.

[stan @neonsaxon]

@gorbalsgoebbels @politixintheuk @K4Owen Almost like they hadn’t thought this whole thing through at all!

[Full Fact @FullFact]

The @Conservatives have reportedly said they plan to correct a claim about welfare spending in their Alternative King’s Speech, following our fact check and a @UKStatsAuth letter.

We welcome this - but this is a claim we’ve seen many times. (1/2)
https://t.co/rDJ1Gex5IA

[stan @neonsaxon]

@KarlTurnerMP @UKLabour Just like Starmer.

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

NEW ANALYSIS: UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time

What's that you say? Something something demand, something something ZEV mandate?

Take a look at the data:

https://t.co/PzrC4BUDGq