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@TimSheehyMT Dude, you’re a cunt.

Capitol Police were attempting to remove an unhinged protestor from the Armed Services hearing. He was fighting back. I decided to help out and deescalate the situation. This gentleman came to the Capitol looking for a confrontation, and he got one. I hope he gets the help he needs without causing further violence.

@mhdksafa 🇵🇸

@EuropeanUnity1 @garywilson2013 I’m not on these people’s side AT ALL, but if this really is an old photo it should be taken down as it’s technically misinformation, and posting such plays right into their hands.

Today Stephen Yaxley-Lennon & his band of thugs will attempt to #UniteTheKingdom by urinating all over it

Britain has a long and proud tradition of protest. Why is this government trashing it?

@peterkyle @howardlutnick I think it’s incredibly disingenuous of you to go on TV and say that free speech is “alive and well” while people are being arrested for speaking out in defense of Palestine. You clearly take the public for fools if you think we can’t see the double standards being applied here.

Earlier this week I jetted off to the US to talk about the tech partnership and trade ahead of the State Visit. It was a pleasure to meet @howardlutnick and I'm looking forward to welcoming him to the UK.

@Shell I hope this will include cleaning up the mess they have left in the Nigeria Delta? @Shell, your foot-dragging, blame deflection and reluctance to clean up after yourselves has been shameful.

Shell invests in Bonga North deep-water project off the coast of Nigeria More: go.shell.com/4gD4GXq

David Lammy's apology for nominating Jeremy Corbyn for leader, not only shows how scared the Starmer led Labour leadership still is of the man, but the utter hypocrisy of claiming they're anti racists, still using antisemitism for personal gain. #ItWasAScam Dave. #DamoRants

David Lammy : “I’m very comfortable with the support we give to Israel” David Lammy represents the British people. I’m a British person. I’m not comfortable with the support we give to Israel. Are you?

@mhdksafa Yes.

The only BBC News coverage of Trans Pride in London is this one line in the middle of this glowing writeup of a fascist demo in London and this is pretty bad actually.

A few years ago I was in one of those ramshackle hair salons in South London having my hair braided. The salon was run by a fabulous woman of African heritage & to pay the high rent, she rented out corners of the shop to people who provided other services including nails, false eye lashes, eyebrow threading etc. I didn't always appreciate the place as it was noisy & untidy. But there was always something equally enjoyable about the experience; the gossip, the unsolicited advice about improving my appearance or relationship, the craziness, the music, the people trying to sell you pretend Gucci bags, & the children running around if you went at the weekend. It was a place of escape & one where I felt safe. I happened to be there one day when immigration enforcement turned up. Everyone froze, including me, as the operation is one of true terror; it could easily have been an armed robbery such was the menacing command to stay where we were. I noticed a customer returning from the bathroom make down a side corridor which I knew led to a back exit; I've seen the movies & thought I didn't fancy her chances as they'd have had that covered. They hadn't & I never saw her again. The immigration officers went straight for the nail person who was of Vietnamese heritage. She had all the right papers. They then turned to the African heritage staff who were all British citizens. The owner was made to go to her flat above the business to retrieve evidence of her British status. None of us customers were questioned. One burly red-faced officer said something that sounded like false intelligence, but I can't be sure. I watched on curiously but angry, promising myself that I'd only intervene if necessary. Immigration enforcement came & immigration enforcement left after about an hour of questioning & checking. When they'd driven off, the only white member of staff, doing the eye lashes, looked ashen! I looked quizzically at her. She was unsure of her immigration status as her father had told her he'd sorted it but she was unsure. She was Albanian. She was the only person working in the place not to be questioned which was not lost on any of us including white customers waiting for nails and eye lashes. The workers all laughed, & it was business as usual but not for the owner who said that that was the third time & she was fed up of it. She felt targeted & harassed. She wanted to close shop. She did though I don't know if this was the reason. In the next few weeks, the Home Office will mount similar operations across countless businesses. There are issues in some of these industries, sure. I've long worried about some of the women in the nail shops. I also know that a large number of them have regularised their stay in the UK & if they started off as trafficked victims, have managed to escape this evil & live their lives on their own terms. This is not an easy feat but it happens. Others won't be so lucky. But the exercise afoot is not concerned with whether people have been trafficked, or of their working conditions. What will happen is that British people, settled people, people with leave to remain, mainly Black & Brown people, will be harassed & terrorised in front of petrified & suspicious customers, thereby causing much harm to legitimate businesses. And like the #HostileEnvironment, the exercise will impact more on people legitimately in the UK, like the experiences of the #Windrush victims, than it will to curb illegal migration as the National Audit Office reported of said policy. This will be all the more the case that the operation was announced ahead of time.

I just signed a petition: No prison for protest. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-p…

The Greens won 7% of the popular vote, almost 2 million people voting for them. Translating to 4 MPs elected. The BBC are blanking them. So the media campaign for the status quo begins.

Palestinians in Gaza are reporting that last night was one of the worst since the beginning of the genocide. Reminder; just because coverage has dropped in the mainstream media does NOT mean things have eased up. The genocide continues unabated and with international complicity.

Frustrating watching the discussion on housing and not hearing anything about the need to change the private development model which has resulted in unaffordable housing, as well as the escalation of house prices because of the global elite buying up property and leaving it empty #politicslive

🚨BREAKING Antiracists celebrate the defeat of the Tories after 14 years of misery, racism and hateful politics But Reform polling at 13 seats shows the urgency of building a mass antiracist movement to take on racism and fight the far right and the fascist threat Join Stand Up to Racism today: standuptoracism.org.uk/join/

16 trans kid dead as a direct result of routes to transition being turned off due to unfounded Gender Critical fear-mongering. Which you support. That death toll is going to rise on your watch Wes if you introduce Cass - which Badenoch has admitted was a fit-up. Condemned internationally. Are you going to save their lives? #PostOffice2

Disgraceful reporting from @BBCNews’s Vicky Young. Jeremy Corbyn was not suspended for antisemitism. This is a lie. The motion to deselect Corbyn as a Labour candidate did not mention antisemitism once. He was expelled from Labour for standing as an independent candidate.

Trucks carrying medical supplies denied entry into the #Gaza by the Israeli authorities on July 3 due to ongoing fighting in the south. We have been unable to bring any medical supplies since the end of April. Hospitals continue to grapple with acute shortages of supplies.

Fuck Labour for denying Faiza Shaheen that seat man. Pricks.