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Oct 25 12 tweets 6 min read
On February 20, 1939, a Nazi rally took place at Madison Square Garden, organized by the German American Bund. More than 20,000 people attended, with thousands protesting outside

They viewed George Washington as "America's first fascist" hence the banner

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TIL Isadore Greenbaum, a 26-year-old Jewish plumber from Brooklyn got into the audience of the Madison Square Gardens Nazi Rally.
When the leader was delivering his speech, Isadore rushed the stage with a cry of "Down with Hitler!"
He got a beating from the security & a £25 fine Image
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Oct 1 6 tweets 2 min read
Thread of Dominic Grieve's assessment of Robert Jenrick's argument about immigration and the ECHR

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Thread of Dominic Grieve's assessment of Robert Jenrick's argument about immigration and the ECHR

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May 20, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Hello Scottish people who follow me 👋

I've never been to Aberdeen, but my friend (who lives in Glasgow) was racially abused there last night 🤬
so I would like to know if this is standard random everywhere ignorant racism,

or something that is commonplace for Aberdeen?

TIA🙏 sadly can get odd ignorant racists everywhere,
but sometimes they cluster eg Luton
where white folk are submissive to Inherited Privilege

so non-white & non-English-mothertongue speakers are below them in the hierarchy, as innately less worthy than even the lowest white person ImageImage
May 20, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Image At that point Boris Johnson had at least 4 children

it was during the period of time when British current events entertainment was fawning on Shit Midas

May 19, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
Happy 75th Birthday Grace Jones you absolute icon

#HeresGrace #HeresGrace
May 18, 2023 7 tweets 4 min read
I stand with Carole Cadwalladr and a free press

#iStandWithCarole

crowdjustice.com/case/support-m… See the Banks bovver boys are out in force after Carole Cadwalladr & anyone who supports her

good of them to identify themselves for timeline cleansing purposes

#iStandWithCarole
May 11, 2023 8 tweets 6 min read
this was Brexit Alex Phillips' gang, @campbellclaret was right to cast this up on her given she's a Faragist
even if she's right to say she wasn't in with Johnson's Vote Leave £350M for the NHS lot

pack of lies

#Newsnight Alex Phillips was a Brexit Party MEP for half a year in 2019 but before that she worked for disgraced data mining and campaigns consultancy Cambridge Analytica during a controversial Kenyan presidential election (in 2017)

#Newsnight

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May 10, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
I see Piers Morgan is going for the "I was an incompetent editor who didn't know what was happening" defence at the Daily Mirror over the turn of the century,

rather than admitting complicity with his journalists hacking phones & harassing Prince Harry well, I mean, I see from the news & the BBC interview that he's trying to shirk responsibility for the tabloid attack on Harry on his watch

Can't see his reaction on Twitter as like so many people I'm blocked by Piers Morgan for calling him out

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May 10, 2023 6 tweets 5 min read
Today is Truth Tellers - the 1st Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism
set up by @TinaBrownLM in memory of her late husband, a manc lad who made it in NY & who many consider to be the best editor of the post-war period

#SirHarrySummit
You can hear Tina Brown talking about the inaugural Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism "Championing the work of today’s most dogged and diverse truth tellers"
on #R4Today



#SirHarrySummit #TruthTellers
May 10, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Nice ride through Cannon Hill Park today, always nice to see the Swans becalmed (and the ducklings) ImageImage TIL there are massive fish in the swan boat lake ImageImageImage
May 9, 2023 5 tweets 4 min read
how did Azerbaijan get melodic rapping Hobbits to represent them on #Eurovision?

#Eurovision2023
#EurovisionSemi1 Merry! Pippin! 😱
The Balrog is behind you!!

#Azerbaijan #Eurovision2023
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Jun 29, 2022 4 tweets 4 min read
Inquiry opened by the Committee of Privileges into whether Boris Johnson misled the House of Commons over #Partygate

committees.parliament.uk/work/6812/bori… Image Open call from the Privileges Committee for evidence (including from anonymous sources) by Friday 29 July 2022

#Partygate #LiarJohnson

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Jun 29, 2022 5 tweets 3 min read
Feeling quite sorry for the Kenyan guy who didn't get the joke and is now catching a lot of occasionally quite nasty corrective flak which is swamping my mentions. People do love to correct others, and nobody just likes what's already been said about it

Jun 26, 2022 13 tweets 3 min read
Lots of women have had helpful abortions that changed their lives for the better by giving them control
#HerBodyHerChoice

I have had:
1 miscarriage after not knowing I was pregnant,
1 contraceptive failure termination in a bad time & place,
+ 1 full term pregnancy Due to my mental health instability until midlife, I would not have been a good parent to either of the first potential people I made, but by the last one, I was so ready & we're doing well.

Obviously as ~1/5 of conceptions end in miscarriage naturally there may have been others
Jun 26, 2022 11 tweets 9 min read
Here's anti-racism activist Jane Elliott explaining in 2017 (?) why White Republicans wanted Roe Vs Wade overturned ASAP
"The Birth Dearth"

#RoeVWade #RoeVsWade that GOP #BirthDearth 💩 is chilling

#RoeVsWade #RoeVWade
#ThisIsAmerica
Jun 25, 2022 17 tweets 6 min read
😲 Wow Blackbird 😍

#Macca #Glastonbury Macca singing in the dead of night...
Jun 25, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
Olivia Rodrigo and Billy Eilish giving the finger to all the Supreme Court Judges and then singing "Fuck You Very Much" to 10K+ people all is just a very special moment, Glastonbury 😲❤️♀️💪

#FuckYouSCOTUS #Glastonbury2022
#RoeVsWade Image And Greta Thunberg at Glastonbury speaks for the planet
& Nature
& those displaced by the Climate Crisis
& the young people who will inherit the mess that the rich countries & people of the world have created
the systems that allow it

we have been lied to
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Jun 25, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Glastonbury proving once more that it is the cultural smorgasbord of Britain.
It's ok to like Crowded House *and* Idles, you know?
And everything in between & over the other side.
Music is love & life & hope & joy & rage & comfort & more
Thank you Michael & Emily ❤️ @glastonbury In other news 😭

Jun 24, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read