David Paine

We are all from Africa.

[Helen the Zen (reboot) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🍉 @glaisian]

Protester Terrorist

[David Paine @plums69]

I will really miss you, David Hockney.

Why am I writing this here?

Not just the beautiful paintings, but your actual voice. How you spoke about the art, life itself.

A hero for me; a true educator.

💔

[David Paine @plums69]

What's it like being a teenage boy?

#Feminism helped me to become (hopefully) a better man. But this won't be for everyone.

Highly recommended viewing.

#masculinity

Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men: https://t.co/AWxzYnJ4Ct via @bbciplayer

[David Paine @plums69]

@BRYANCRAWF78247 @BirdPicture Wake up at 4am and tell us if that's still the case. 'Mine' are still singing away now.

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

Reading books is dangerous because books slow the mind down enough to notice how unnatural modern society actually is.

[David Paine @plums69]

@OlenaRohoza Hats off to you. I can hear Gil Scott Heron delivering this, 'Whitey on the Moon'-style.

[David Paine @plums69]

Good rant.

Poor America.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸🧐“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.

A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.

A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’

When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?

Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.

Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

[David Paine @plums69]

Oh, beloved Ghana, this makes me so sad.

Love to allies everywhere - and that means all sisters and brothers.

#AfricaForward
#LGBTQ

@hrw

https://t.co/XcbfpwDimP

[David Paine @plums69]

@paulmasonnews We're doomed: idiots voted in by idiots (and enabled by non-voting idiots - nearly 60% of Kirklees electorate).

[David Paine @plums69]

@SophieP25397 Not sure what, exactly, they're going to be 'reforming' here.

[David Paine @plums69]

@Gus57uk @SophieP25397 Always. 💯

[David Paine @plums69]

@linfitlass @SophieP25397 Like some people I spoke to during that referendum: didn't understand it, but 'let's just have a change'.

Democracy is truly wasted on some.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

Renowned Director Ken Loach Delivers Powerful Words at Cannes on Israel's Genocide in Gaza

"The worst thing is not the violence of the bad, it is the silence of the good.

[David Paine @plums69]

Oh dear. Remind me again, just what is it these local councillors are Reforming?

Clueless.

#Kirklees

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

🚨 SHOCKING — These are the exact same Reform activists who flood X every day screaming, lecturing, and telling everyone how Britain should be run…

Yet 24 hours after getting elected in Kirklees, they stand up in full council and admit:

“I don’t understand the Constitution…
I don’t understand standing orders…
I don’t understand what an amendment is.”

Then they whine it’s “not democratic” they might vote on things they don’t understand

This is the terrifying danger of populist rage politics: loud online warriors with ZERO clue how to actually govern.

Handing real power to people who don’t even know where to start is how countries collapse.
Watch this embarrassment 👇👇👇👇CC: @LesTrumpeter

[David Paine @plums69]

Someone's listening (and/or fighting for their own survival).

But what about action on oil companies' profiteering? No, of course not.

#costoflivingcrisis
#Iranwar
#KeirStarmer

https://t.co/EjpEkqx8Ng

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

This vicar doesn't hold back on Tommy Robinson.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Immigration makes Britain brilliant.

[David Paine @plums69]

@afneil This one!

[David Paine @plums69]

@AndyBurnhamGM @afneil Terrific thighs.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Corbyn was an MP for 32 years until he was elected Labour leader in 2015.

Number of accusations in the media of antisemitism from 1983-2015 = 0

Number of accusations in the media of antisemitism from 2015-19 = 11,251

Media Lens on how the establishment is revisiting its smear campaign, this time against the Greens, to stop a leftwinger from reaching power: https://t.co/GeO2h68KoY