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[Senior Lieutenant Zandi Sussex @ZandiSussex]

When will British people realise that the monarchy was never designed to serve ordinary people? 🤷🏽‍♀️ The entire institution is based on the idea that one person is somehow superior to everyone else because of an accident of birth. The heirs are raised from day one to look down on the plebs and George is no different.

[Laz @sangsangboyl]

@lydia83891831

[Laz @sangsangboyl]

@King0243_PJC @Vanessapaterso6 By the way he never apologised to her but to the husband instead.

[Laz @sangsangboyl]

@ZandiSussex

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The first official portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama together has been unveiled and it's absolutely stunning.

Look closely at the tiny components of this piece...

"Tradition is not untouchable. We can own it, we can shape it, we can move it the way we need," Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby told Harper's Bazaar.

The artwork is one of 28 pieces that have been commissioned for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, which opens later this week on Juneteenth.

Harper's explained that Akunyili Crosby’s masterpieces are "technically complex" and while they are designed to "resemble conventional figurative paintings at a distance" they are actually "composed of dense layers of embedded images, in something like a visual archive."

If you look, you should be able to spot a volume of the Harvard Law Review that was published while Barack Obama was the journal's first Black President. You'll also spot Stevie Wonder's "Talking Book," which was the first album that the former First Lady ever owned.

“Yes, he was the President. But she is incredible," said Akunyili Crosby.

“Nostalgia for the past is always a dicey thing. But that does not mean it wasn’t important for me to kind of touch upon the feelings we all had—and the hope," the artist added.

Now, more than ever, we miss the days when we had a dignified, compassionate, intelligent First Couple.

What can you spot in the portrait?

Please like and share if you love this artwork!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby — a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist — to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and we’re thrilled that it will be on display in the Hope and Change lobby at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Amazing scholar
Amazing mother
Amazing FLOTUS
Amazing class

AMAZING WOMAN

Who agrees? Who disagrees? And why?

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Michelle Obama!

[Laz @sangsangboyl]

@H_M_Today 😀😀🤭

[Laz @sangsangboyl]

@meyoudontsee21 😀 Mrs Bouquet, lady of the house...😂😂

[Laz @sangsangboyl]

@RootedwAiysha What's the meaning of "privacy" to you?

[Laz @sangsangboyl]

@katebattrick 😀it's Bouquet...not Bucket.🤭

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

I don't want to be rude - that's a lie, I do actually:

Anyone cancelling their Saturday night plans to go on GB News is a loser.

It's not a news channel.

It's a poisonous right-wing propaganda machine.

No-one should give it credibility by appearing, Saturday night or not.

[The Notorious JTB @then0toriousjtb]

The British tabloids and the derangers keep making the same mistake. They think everyone lives inside the royal bubble. Most of my audience doesn’t. They see the obsession with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex for exactly what it looks like: a business model built on outrage, clicks, and recycled narratives and I’m exposing their insanity.

[Laz @sangsangboyl]

@Rimmesfk 🤭🤭🤭

[Nelly @ValleyGirl629]

Archie Manners basically:

Your Meghan obsession is not a Meghan problem—That’s a YOU problem! 🤭🤭

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

The Daily Mail has published a retraction after falsely claiming that a Palestinian Green party councillor had praised Hamas for its actions on 7 October, 2023.

The retraction comes after Birmingham councillor Kamel Hawwash, who was elected in May, slammed the claim as "false”, and pointed out that it was based on the wording of a headline in a Lebanese news outlet, which he had no involvement in.

“Suggesting that these words were my own is a gross misrepresentation," he told ITV News Central earlier this week.

Expressing support for Hamas in the UK is a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

The 8 June story about Hawwash was based on a news segment he appeared on titled “10 days since Al-Aqsa Flood: Courage in the face of aggression”.In the segment, he discussed events in Gaza on 17 October 2023 amid genocidal violence by Israel.

“We have been asked to clarify that the title wording was the broadcaster’s, not his, and that he unequivocally condemns all attacks on civilians,” the Daily Mail said in its clarifications and corrections section, adding that it had deleted the false story.

Green party leader Zack Polanski highlighted the retraction on social media.

“Daily Mail posts lies about the Greens that are spread far and wide,” he wrote. “I wish half the number of people saw their apologies.”

[Laz @sangsangboyl]

@DailyMail

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“The Belfast Riots Are an Anti-Migrant Pogrom - and the British Media Has Serious Questions to Answer”

Read @owenjonesjourno’s first column for Zeteo UK. https://t.co/2nxVdn0Hvy

[Laz @sangsangboyl]

@DrewLaneShow