Evolving cynic

@novaramedia @AaronBastani Shoplifters welcomed

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced the location of the city’s first publicly owned supermarket, marking a step towards delivering on his pledge to bring down the cost of food. The city will spend $30m (£22.3m) on the store, which is due to open next year at a marketplace in East Harlem, Mamdani announced on Sunday during an address to mark his first 100 days in office. He wants to open five of the stores - one for each of the city’s boroughs - before the end of his first term in 2029. They will operate without paying rent or taxes and pass those savings onto shoppers. During his address, Mamdani rebutted neoliberal arguments about the effectiveness of publicly owned businesses. "Some will insist that city-owned businesses do not work, that government cannot keep up with corporations," he said. "My answer to them is simple: I look forward to the competition. May the most affordable grocery store win." Mamdani has been quick to deliver on several of his major campaign pledges – many of them aimed at bringing down the cost of living – since taking office on 1 January. He announced the introduction of a free childcare scheme, intervened on behalf of tenants living in poor conditions and secured millions of dollars of restitution for workers. Former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders made a surprise appearance at Mamdani’s address. "I know that the mayor has been criticised and some say this is a radical idea," he told the crowd. "I'll tell you what is a radical idea: Giving tax breaks to billionaires. Throwing people off health care. That's radical. What's radical is starting a terrible war. That's radical. But providing affordable food to working families? That's not radical, it's exactly the right thing to do."

“A group of men”have gang raped a woman in Epsom. She’s just a young woman leaving a nightclub alone at 2am which she should be able to do. Doesn’t matter what she wore, drank, said or did or what she ever did in the past. She bears no responsibility for the depravity of these vile men. I hope these men are caught swiftly and the worst the law has available in the way of punishment delivered to them. Descriptions don’t seem to be available. This was outside a church. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/1…

@francesbarber13 He wanted your money not your food

Yesterday tube, man begging for money, normal. But said he was starving & if anyone had ANY food he’d be grateful. I took out pristine not opened Pret A Manger falafel & hummus box. He shoved it back into my chest, said he was allergic to cucumber & called me disgusting. What to do 💁‍♀️

@Denise_fergus @LaffinLounge This is awful - I cannot comprehend how anyone can think it’s ok to desecrate a grave in this way. If this person drives 25 miles it’s deliberate and malicious. I hope the scum bag is locked up for a long time

Wow so the scumbag who has twice vandalised my son's headstone is now going down the route of mental health when he drives 25 mins 2 to 3 times a week to visit a grave close to were James is, he cannot be questioned All I want to know is were he has put the heads of the angels

@JohnFromCranber @realMaalouf There is no god / it’s all bull designed to control you

@realMaalouf Absolutely! As far as I am concerned, adult men marrying little girls is rape, and should be illegal everywhere in the world Find it IMPOSSIBLE to believe that God condones these kind of marriages Your thoughts?

A Pakistani imam in Italy gave a sermon on national TV defending the right of Muslim men to marry 9-year-old girls. The next day, PM Giorgia Meloni personally requested that he be deported. He had lived in Italy for 9 years! Do you agree with Giorgia’s decision?

@realMaalouf She’s got more back bone than the home office

This made me laugh - it’s so true

Name & shame him - someone knows who he is and where he lives

Explain this to me... If gender has nothing to do with genitalia, then how does removing genitalia affirm someone's gender?

@JohnWight1 @georgegalloway What the hell is wrong with you / it’s a murderous regime it kills athletes, young people, children, academics and basically anywho doesn’t want to live under the paedophilic mysoginist Islamist regime

If I were an Iranian right now, I would be immensely proud of my country. Iran faced down the most destructive, violent, and barbaric empire the world has ever known and emerged triumphant. From their perspective, this was a people's war, and the Iranian people have written a new page in the annals of history. Magna victoria.

@AndrewGold_ok The home office has banned a neuro diverse black man from coming here to contribute to the U.K. economy which now stands to lose over £30m. Yet they are happy to allow illegals in and to let them stay

Genuinely think this was a mistake, will just make people blame Jews. And he has apologised - and did genuinely have a mad head injury. Meanwhile people from regions where Jew hate is common are immigrating to the UK. What do you think?

@LeoKearse They be need to look at the reasons why - for example, is there a language barrier. Are the percentages of women attending ante natal appointments the same for black, white & asian women

Surely a more useful comparison would be to compare health outcomes for black women in Africa with black women in Britain. If black women in Britain fare better, then the problem isn't British healthcare.

@narindertweets @BhavaniVadde I really hope this man is caught

God, this is shocking. Sadly, this kind of vile racism has become so normalised that people have no fear. This poor woman must have been terrified. Bhavana thought he was asking for directions...Instead it was racist abuse.

@TheGriftReport @ammejo1 So they’re divisive when they’re flown locally but not when they’re flown from public buildings

Green Party activist Howard Beaumont has launched a petition demanding councils rip down ALL flags from Essex lampposts, including Union Jacks and St George’s crosses. He wants anyone who put the flags up to face criminal prosecution. Beaumont claims the flags are “divisive” and a safety hazard. Locals have been proudly flying them on busy roads and roundabouts. Another day in the increasingly unhinged Green Party.

@BhavaniVadde @metpoliceuk This dreadful. I have followed you. Please let us all know if he is prosecuted.

Still in disbelief that this happened to me in #Balham yesterday. I was walking alone with my ear pods in & stopped as I thought he was asking for directions. Instead it was racist abuse. Filmed a few seconds of it. Have reported to @metpoliceuk & am giving a statement next week

BREAKING: Mohseni Ejei, head of Iran’s judiciary, orders faster executions of detained protesters in Iran. No one in the media seems to care, please share if you do!

@NiqabNancy Yes

My coworker just offered to buy me a Starbucks coffee, despite knowing I am a Palestinian Muslim Am I overreacting for reporting him to HR?

@Martina They are all supporters of the murderous regime & have been told to build a human shield- it’s in no way spontaneous- note there are no men !!

This is some bravery from the Iranian people…

@waitrose you should reinstate the worker you sacked. I shop in your stores 3 or 4 times a week but will be going elsewhere in future if you don’t reinstate him

@SandyofSuffolk Those of us who work are expected to pay for everyone who doesn’t - a number of whom are so ash in hand

In all my 46 years of working, I never once heard anyone complain about old people getting a state pension. We just knew the older generation deserved looking after when they couldn't look after themselves after all their years of hard work.