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🇱🇧 pickwick 🇱🇧 retweeted
Replying to @jessicaelgot
Hi Jessica, I’m a tech reporter who’s been covering this issue. I think you’re unfortunately quite unaware of how different a service like Apple Pay is vs the facial scans that are being proposed. I suggest chatting w people who know about this topic if ur going to be covering!
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We've got the fash at the door and Jessica doesn't seem to be able to see the danger of giving the govt this level of intrusion into our private lives. This is bad enough with authoritarian Blairites in power, just think what a Farage being pushed right by Lowe could do with it
Replying to @jessicaelgot
You’re going to see an incredible amount of fake outrage about facial scans by people who merrily have their faces scanned 20 times a day to use Apple Pay.
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It literally is illiberal and considering there is a very realistic chance of Reform winning next GE, it's a disgrace that likes of Elgot are trying to justify this authoritarian crap.
You’re going to see a lot in your X timeline about how the social media ban is unworkable and illiberal - and it will be one the most obvious examples of how social media skews debate. But it will be one of the most popular things the government is doing theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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Suddenly Al Carns is EVERYWHERE. He intends to run for leader i.e. to be PM LISTEN to him. The man is a TORY This from Wikipedia "Carns left the Royal Marines in 2024 so that he could stand as a candidate in the general election. He had previously supported and voted for the Conservative Party, and surprised his colleagues when he intended to stand as a Labour Party candidate"
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Israeli doctors took active part in the genocide! Israeli doctors strongly encouraged the bombing & destruction of Gaza's hospitals & mass killing of thousands of patients! Israeli doctors tortured Palestinian hostages at Sde Teiman, sent interns to experiment on them, operated on them without anesthesia, denied them medicines & treatment! If you weren't outraged by any of this, you betray the Hippocratic oath & don't deserve to be a doctor in the first place!
1/5 An open letter to @TheLancet from an Iranian-Jewish cardiologist. Today, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals published a campaign to suspend the Israeli Medical Association from the World Medical Association — the body founded after WWII to ensure physicians would never again be weaponized by political ideology. I'm a cardiologist. I'm an Iranian Jew who grew up under a regime where medicine was subjugated to the state. What The Lancet just did is a disgrace to my profession. Here's what they published — and what they deliberately left out.
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Replying to @ShadowofEzra
I fact checked this and it’s true. 😳
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A heartbroken elderly Albanian man says Jared Kushner has taken everything he spent a lifetime building, including his land, his home, and the future he hoped to leave behind for his children. He says he returned home one day only to find his property sealed off behind barbed wire, with men in black uniforms standing guard and refusing to let him step inside the house he once called his own. In a single moment, he says, the life he had worked for was gone. “It was the end of the world. The end of the world.” “I felt imprisoned.” “They took my freedom.” “They took my livelihood.” “They took my land.”
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A BBC correspondents stands in front of a residential building in Beirut destroyed by Israeli strikes. “The Israeli military describes this is a precise attack… what they said was a control and command centre used by Hezbollah…” The BBC is complicit.
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🇱🇧 pickwick 🇱🇧 retweeted
I asked Wilf just earlier this week if he calls out guests for lying on his show. Here’s one right here:
'We live in a country that if you are non-white, you are treated less harshly by the justice system' Former Conservative home secretary and now Reform MP, Suella Braverman, explains why her party wants to get rid of the Equality Act. trib.al/U5dGXlB
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“We have liaised with [the host of the illegal land sale convention] and [a hardline zionist pressure group] and have deployed officers to [bludgeon anyone who has a problem with war crimes]"
Replying to @metpoliceuk
Commander Adam Slonecki, who is in charge of policing London today, said: “We have liaised with the venue and the Community Security Trust and have deployed officers to prevent serious disruption and to deal with any offences, using the full range of powers available to us including imposing conditions under the Public Order Act. “We are mindful that Jewish communities are experiencing heightened fear and concern following two-and-a-half years of sustained protest and, in recent months, a series of arsons and other attacks. “There is a distinction between protesting in central London and protesting in the heart of communities where the potential to cause serious disruption and intimidation is greater and our policing plan reflects that."
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If you made a dollar a sec you’d have $1 million in 12 days, you’d have $1 billion in 32yrs & $1 trillion in 31,710yrs or 5X longer than human civilization. New rightwing thing is acting like there’s an incremental difference between 5X longer than human civilization and 12 days
Multimillionaire paid by multibillionaires very angry at trillionaire
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If Britain is going to jail people for their “terrorism connections”, let’s definitely not include Al Qaeda.
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Popular with reactionary Centrist Zone 2 arseholes from begging bowl media outlets, which bore on about their "courage" and "independence", who hate Social Media because it exposed them personally to opinions that disagree with and do not respect them. And it is unworkable.
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Prior to this war, US Navy spy planes use to fly over the strait of Hormuz on a daily basis. Now that Trump has obliterated Iran's air defense systems, navy, army, air force... the P-8 stays like 150 miles away. Strange !
✈️ US Navy's P-8A Poseidon just patrolled around USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea. ✈️ The usual P-8 is patrolling Hormuz strait ✈️ IRGC UAV active over Sistan & Balochistan province.
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This is a very simple bit of political calculus: the establishment have their man in Farage as they had their man in Boris. Restore splitting the Reform vote risks putting Burnham into No. 10. They don't care about the racism.
Because Restore are just a little TEENY TINY bit more racist than Reform's racism - which is the "allowed" version.
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Look, sometimes it takes sophisticated argument to highlight the regressive authoritarian features of the neoliberal-fascist nexus; sometimes politicians just say "cut welfare, buy GUNS"
Exclusive:   Britain must not be “squeamish” about reducing the welfare bill to fund additional spending on defence, Andy Burnham has said.   The mayor of Greater Manchester said that the government must “listen to” the concerns raised by John Healey, who resigned as defence secretary after accusing the prime minister of jeopardising the security of the nation.   In an interview with The Times he said that “the world has changed” and it is “obvious” that the government is going to have to adjust assumptions about defence spending in response.   He said that rather than implementing “crude cuts” to the welfare budget he favours a “preventative” approach that will provide the support people need to get back into work.   He unveiled plans for a 10-year public investment plan which will require all government procurement to include commitments to spending on apprenticeships and work placements for young people.   “I am not squeamish about saying that the plan would be to reduce the welfare bill. Not at all.   "But it is not the traditional Westminster way of just crude cuts, short-term crude cuts that then create a backlash and create more political turbulence.   "It is actually going to do things that will actually reduce the benefits bill, which is moving towards a more preventative state that makes the right investments to support people into work.”   thetimes.com/article/1f3d91c…
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The actual security and quality of life of people on these islands would be infintely better if 90% of the political class were removed from having any role in public life. And preferably from living here. Especially the plants from the Tory officer class and the spooks.
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Who is this helpless-president routine meant for? The Iranians don’t believe the US president is incapable of curbing Washington’s dog, no one with a brain believes it. Apparently Ravid’s readers & some MAGA dead-enders still believe, because it partly absolves Trump/USA.
🚨President Trump told me: "Why did Bibi have to do a fucking attack? I was so pissee off. I let him know. He has no fucking judgement. I let him know that"
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They might do it. They might not, it really depends how bullish they feel and who might have a quiet word in Farage's ear about this being bad for business. But I'm convinced that the only people who will kill capitalism are the capitalists. Only question is if they kill us too.
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The cruelty of this plan is self-apparent, but it's also something that is impossible on a practical level unless you're completely fine with blowing up the economy and causing a massive homelessness crisis overnight.
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