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[Corbells Beard @richdoodledad]

@FaceLikeTheSun @MKBHD We literally have zero hope as a species if people continue believing in hereditary superstitions. There is no god, everything is natural, functional and explicable.

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Robert Jenrick: “Nigel Farage had the courage to put himself up for a by-election, which very few people do.”

Tim Stanley: “Well you didn’t.”

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Climate breakdown is a class issue.

As we face yet another heatwave, as always its the working class who bear the brunt of extreme weather.

[JonnyUtd @Fx1Jonny]

I’d rather have a country full of people like this gentleman.

Than thick uneducated 🛎️ ends like these 2 interrogating him.

Stayed calm and composed and let them expose themselves. Well played fella 👏👏

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

So Israel targeted and murdered a guy for organising screenings of the World Cup for displaced Palestinians in Gaza.
How is Israel still allowed to compete in the World Cup?

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 DISGUSTING: Director Steve Topple exposes a massive banking scandal.

He confirms the establishment has systematically debanked Muslim organizations and anti-Zionist Jewish activists for years.

The mainstream media completely ignores these blatant attacks.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Denmark has a new king, the King and Queen get approximately $500,000 from the Danish Government a year, and the whole family is worth $40m.

In the UK King Charles gets $180,000,000 a year and his family is worth $25bn.

We need to be more like Denmark.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: Before cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne gave £5m to @nigel_farage, he gave £1m to Boris Johnson. For what??

Today @nerve_news reveals new evidence that tracks Harborne's investments in defence firm QinetiQ...to key defence announcements from Boris Johnson.
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[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

There is only one solution to the current problems we all have.

Taking the power out of the thieving billionaires hands.

You can argue about how you want to do it, but if your solution isn't doing it, it isn't going to solve anything.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

THE JOURNALIST WHO BROKE CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA WAS THANKED WITH A £1 MILLION LEGAL BILL

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla exposed one of the biggest political scandals in modern British history. Cambridge Analytica. Brexit dark money. Possible Russian influence in UK democracy. The kind of journalism that wins Pulitzer nominations and keeps people in power very nervous.

So what happened next?

Arron Banks the man who made the biggest single political donation in UK history at around £9 million to Brexit campaigns, sued her personally. Not The @observer , which published her work for years. Not @TEDTalks, which hosted her talk. Her. Individually. A freelance journalist.

The suit was over one sentence in a 2019 TED Talk and a single tweet, in which she said Banks had lied about a secret relationship with the Russian government. Banks denied it. He had, however, admitted meeting Russian embassy officials multiple times more than he originally told a Parliamentary committee.

@guardian, her own publisher, declined to fund her defence.

She crowdfunded her legal costs from 29,000 members of the public.

She faced potential costs of up to £1 million. She eventually won on the main issues in the High Court in 2022, but lost on appeal on one narrow point.

She was ordered to pay Banks £35,000 in damages, issue an apology, and delete certain tweets. She was also hit with a costs order of over £1 million.

The woman who exposed how democracy gets bought had to beg the public for money to stay solvent while doing it.

Seventeen press freedom organisations called the case an attempt to intimidate and silence public interest journalism. The UK government eventually introduced anti-SLAPP legislation. Partly because of what happened to her.

In the UK, you can crowdfund a journalist's survival costs after she exposes the possible corruption of a referendum ..

.. Or you can fund the laws that protect journalists before they get financially destroyed.

We chose the first option.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Starmer’s goodbye gift to UK: a £44.7bn US pharma deal could be more lethal than Covid.

Pushes up the cost of NHS drugs, boosts US corporate profits.

Secret contract, no debate in parliament.

Must renegotiate, produce drugs at home wherever possible.
https://t.co/S1AgGND3wZ

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Severn Trent Water company doubles CEO reward plan to £3.1m.

Reward for what?
400m litres of water a day lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped into rivers for 200000 hrs
Customers fleeced
No new reservoir since 1989
£12bn paid in dividends

Must nationalise water.
https://t.co/yKVAg17tGp

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Spain, France, Switzerland and now Italy is kicking Palantir out.

Italy have rejected any new contracts and are reviewing the old ones.

Get Palantir OUT!

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Defra breached law, with Tory govt was in office, when it let farmers use bee-killing pesticide, watchdog says.

This is one outcome of capture of the state by corporations, and secrecy.

Govts pursue economic growth, not resilience, at almost any cost.
https://t.co/8OPus8CZME

[Roy Andrew @AndrewRoy70]

#gmb this morning . Four incredibly wealthy women casually chatting away at how best to cut benefits for people who have next to nothing.
What a country eh

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

The UK’s welfare bill is lower than it was 15 years ago as a proportion of national income.

But mainstream media keep pushing the idea that it needs to be slashed so we can spend more on “defence”.

When economist Jonathan Portes was asked on Sky News where the welfare bill could be cut – he called out the broadcaster for asking a "nonsense" question.

The idea that welfare spending is out of control “is just wrong," he said.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

When an MP can pocket more in a couple of hours of “work” than a nurse earns in an entire year - as Nigel Farage has done - something is deeply broken in our politics.

This has to stop. It’s time to ban ALL MPs’ second jobs.

From my speech in Parliament today.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

1) It’s *literally* your job to regulate this platform.

2) If you can’t, what does that mean? Tell us.

3) The Dept of Culture is not ‘your’ department, it’s ours. You’re its temporary custodian

5) But Facebook is ok? Really?