I purposely call his facebook videos tik tok and he gets mad lol
I saw a TikTok video the other day with Shir Hever, a political economist born in the illegal zionist entity. In his view the zionist project is effectively over as “any regime that commits genocide also commits suicide”. He claims that every sector of the entity’s economy is collapsing due to the genocide: tourism has disappeared, academic exchange with the rest of the world is ending and investment in the high tech sector is drying up fast. The settlers themselves are moving their money out of the entity as well with zionist pension funds increasingly preferring investments abroad over domestic. Settlers are also leaving the entity like never before. Up to half a million settlers has left since the Al-Aqsa Flood and it is especially the highly educated with resources and prospects abroad who are leaving. It has become very hard to get a doctor’s appointment due to the number of doctors leaving. Even the regime itself has no clear idea of how many are leaving, as the people at the central bureau of statistics who were supposed to do the calculations has also left. According to Hever the zionist project has come to an end and the current system of injustice is coming apart. To him, emulating South Africa’s transition away from apartheid is the only way forward of “Israelis” are to have a future in Palestine.
their name is wilson wilson which is absolutely beautiful in my opinion they are filing the complaint just against one transphobic woman who did a harrassment campaign against them… not libs of tiktok which was disappointing to see but im not sure how this all works
I happened to have a slightly higher res version in my gallery, without the tiktok watermark, so here you go
This seems suspect. The woman in question is a tiktok ‘influencer’ who has the most amazing things hapoen to her - always wiithout evidence. I think it’s just as likely that she’s lying to get views and subscribers,
Ginunita ng mga Pilipinong migrante ang Pandaigdigang Araw ng Paggawa noong May 1 sa iba’t ibang bansa, sa pangunguna ng mga pambansang demokratikong organisasyon. Sa Hong Kong, nagprotesta ang balangay ng Migrante sa tapat ng upisina ng Philippine Consulate General upang ipanawagan ang nakabubuhay na sa sahod sa Pilipinas at sa teritoryo. Sa US, lumahok sa protesta para sa araw ng paggawa ang mga progresibong grupo sa kani-kanilang mga komunidad sa Tacoma, Seattle, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco at Portland. Sa Chicago, lumahok sa walkout ang mga Filipino-American na estudyante ng University of Illinois, Chicago sa pamumuno ng Anakbayan bilang paggunita sa araw ng mga manggagawa at pagkundena sa marahas pagdetine at deportasyon sa mga imigrante sa US. Nanawagan din sila na kilalanin ang pamantasan bilang sanctuary campus. Sa Tacoma, nagbigay-pugay ang mga lumahok sa pagkilos kay Kai Sorem, myembro ng Anakbayan at isa sa Toboso 19. Lumahok din sa lokal na paggunita sa araw ng mga manggagawa ang mga myembro ng Migrante sa South Korea noong Abril 26. Bitbit nila ang panawagan sa hustisya para sa Taboso 19. Naglunsad din ang grupo ng online na talakayan hinggil sa kasaysayan at halaga ng Mayo uno. Lumahok din sa pagdiriwang ang mga myembro ng Migrante sa Tokyo, Japan; sa Rotterdam, Netherlands; sa London; sa Paris, France; sa Montreal, Canada; sa Rome, Italy at sa Hamburg, Berlin. The post Mayo 1, ginunita ng mga Pilipinong migrante sa iba’t ibang bansa appeared first on PRWC | Philippine Revolution Web Central. From PRWC | Philippine Revolution Web Central via This RSS Feed.
Wake up and immediately witness man made horrors within my comprehension. I saw a video on TikTok of Palestinians gathered inside of an apartment, that reminded me of the Come and See Church/Hall scene.
I could probably tolerate Windows 11 if: the start menu search didn’t search the web and just searched my system. the widget panel wasn’t just a wrapper for their shitty news aggregator that seems to only gather celebrity news If I have windows pro, I don’t want notifications to use Edge or see TikTok, Amazon, Candycrush, etc. in the start menu (I know they aren’t downloaded but what “pro” wants any of that shit)
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Photo illustration: The Intercept / Screenshots: Clavicular Braden Peters, better known online as Clavicular, did not become famous by offering young men discipline in any ordinary sense. He became famous by selling them “ascension”: the promise that a better face, leaner body, harsher jaw, and ruthless optimization could buy them power in a world they believe has already priced them out. In April, that sermon hit a grisly wall (or, more accurately, a floor) when Peters was hospitalized after a suspected overdose during a livestream in Miami. Bloody and bruised, he later described the hospitalization as “brutal.” In the aftermath, Clavicular’s online presence has unraveled. YouTube recently removed his channels for repeated policy violations, including linking to prohibited sites and attempting to evade a previous ban. Despite being pushed off major platforms, he doubled down, staging a stunt trip late last month with a group of young women to Little Saint James, the private island once owned by Jeffrey Epstein. Now, that same pattern of boundary-pushing has bled into the courts: Clavicular is facing a civil lawsuit in Florida from Aleksandra Mendoza, who alleges battery, fraud, and emotional distress, including claims that he injected her with a non-FDA-approved substance during a livestream and engaged in nonconsensual sex. Still, the streamer seems to make news almost daily, most recently for reportedly entering into a club venture in Miami with a man with ties to the Israeli mob. None of this ongoing ordeal is some tragic footnote to the Clavicular brand. It has been him reaching his final form, stripped of filters: a young man preaching mastery through chemical self-invention, then collapsing live on camera, only to be slapped with subpoenas. The New Prophet of Male Despair Clavicular’s movement lives in the vocabulary of “looksmaxxing,” “hardmaxxing,” and “ascending,” a lexicon born in incel-adjacent internet forums and now being pushed into the mainstream by TikTok, Kick, and algorithmic outrage. Looksmaxxing culture didn’t emerge from nowhere; it grew out of the fringe online forums where users reduce attraction to “power, status, and looks,” obsessively rate faces, and turn self-improvement into an unyielding, almost clinical hierarchy of attractiveness. His popularity stems from selling what he claims is the answer to a worldview born from the insular hodgepodge of pickup artists, anti-women forums, and involuntary celibacy groups — and he’s dragged it into the spotlight. [ Related Trump Helps Alleged Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate Cross Border Into U.S.](https://theintercept.com/2025/02/27/trump-andrew-tate-sex-trafficking/) He has promoted steroid use, “bone smashing,” injecting peptides, and even using methamphetamine as part of a savage self-improvement regimen aimed mostly at young men. He has also drifted openly around Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes, and the broader online right while insisting politics are for “jesters” (an insult in the looksmaxxing community). That juke is its own tell, because when a teenager builds an audience on hierarchy, humiliation, sexual scarcity, and racialized beauty standards, he is doing politics whether he says so or not. Clavicular did not invent male despair, but he has certainly monetized it to his own great success. It’s not unheard of for a young man to throw himself into the gym, practice self-discipline, embark on a rigid diet, and curate a public-facing persona. I’ve imbibed on bodybuilding culture in my own life. But Clavicular’s worldview is fueled by more than simple vanity. It is blackpill nihilism in gym clothes. The “blackpill” tells young men that the social order is fixed, intimacy is a commodified market, and the only thing left is to become more physically dominant than the next guy or accept your permanent irrelevance. In that mental framework, body maintenance becomes class warfare of the face. It is triage in a mating economy. Clavicular did not invent male despair, but he has certainly monetized it to his own great success. Blackpilled There is a reason this message is resonating. Clavicular’s runway to launch is an America where young men are more atomized and are worse off than their forefathers. Young American men are lonely, socially frayed, and increasingly detached from the kinds of institutions that once gave people identity outside romance and work. Gallup found that 25 percent of U.S. men ages 15 to 34 said they felt lonely “a lot” of the previous day, a higher number than young women and second in the world among our peer countries. The 2023 surgeon general’s advisory on social connection warned the country’s broader epidemic of isolation is not merely personal but structural. [ Related Right-Wing YouTuber Behind Viral Minnesota Fraud Video Has Long Anti-Immigrant History](https://theintercept.com/2025/12/31/nick-shirley-videos-minnesota-somali-day-cares-fraud-claims/) Gone too is the era where men could feel like they were contributing to the community and world around them. A farmer could see his food nourishing his neighbors, a cobbler’s work lived on the feet of his peers, and a doctor literally saved the lives of his local village. These are now nothing more than oral legends passed down from baby-boomer and Gen X parents of the way it used to be. But it is also revisionist history. This is the part too many elders refuse to admit: A lot of men were raised to expect an unearned inheritance. It was an entitlement gained at the exclusion of everyone else. They were assured that stable work, baseline social respect, and starting a family would follow if they merely stayed on the tracks as a heterosexual, yet basic, white man. But the tracks have buckled. Economist Raj Chetty’s work on mobility found that 90 percent of children born in 1940 earned more than their parents; for children born in the 1980s, that figure had fallen to around half. Meanwhile, wage growth for the top has badly outpaced the bottom 90 percent over the long arc of modern American inequality. That does not excuse reactionary politics, but it does explain why so many young men feel they were promised adulthood and handed precarity. Misogyny is foundational to the entire right-wing project. The modern far right, which has stepped in to fill the space the erosion of our institutions and social fabric have left behind, understands something even modern liberals tend to flatten: Misogyny is not a secondary issue. It is foundational to the entire right-wing project. Researchers have described misogyny as a gateway into far-right radicalization, and scholars who research white nationalism have shown how “Great Replacement” ideology is soaked in reproductive anxiety — the fantasy that white decline is caused not just by immigration but by women refusing their assigned breeding role. In these circles, women are not citizens. They are demographic assets and currency. But as civil rights, reproductive rights, and immigration have expanded opportunities, life isn’t so easy for the static white-bread young men of America. They now have to bring more to the table. [ Related “Me Too” Comes Back to Congress](https://theintercept.com/2026/04/24/congress-me-too-swalwell-democrats-midterms/) It is why in Clavicular’s talk of “ascension” doesn’t just coincide with a rise in personal male beauty, but in parallel with right-wing mansophere attacks on what has been the perceived robbery of white male entitlements. It’s no shock that much of Clavicular’s vocabulary aims to diminish women, whom he publicly humiliates on his stream and reduces into self-serving chasers of status, making claims of centuries-old patriarchal domination as a societal good. It’s an ethos that punches back at the external reality of his impressionable fanbase. That is why Clavicular matters beyond his own cartoonish excess. He is not just some young misanthrope with a camera and a syringe. He is a clean vessel for a much older grievance: that sweeping social change has stripped certain men, especially but not exclusively cis white men, of an unearned ease their fathers and grandfathers treated as normal. The Disappearing Man The real theft here is spiritual. In a quixotic quest for authenticity, young men are instead being sold a playbook that they must collapse themselves into tiny, fixed archetypes: warrior, king, alpha, mogger, Chad. Missing is heroism — not performative strength, but the harder labor of standing against cruelty. In Clavicular’s lane, and under the auspices of social media attention, the commandment is simpler still: become beautiful or become nothing. Conspicuously absent from that script are virtues like wisdom, tenderness, stewardship, restraint, humor, and even morality. Missing, too, is heroism — not performative strength, but the harder labor of standing against cruelty, telling the truth under pressure, protecting the vulnerable, and trying to tilt the world a few degrees toward justice. That is why the blackpill philosophy, and broader manosphere, is antithetical to perhaps the most important tenet of true growth: courage. It is surrender disguised as realism. It tells men to stop imagining themselves as builders of community tasked with fighting unjust systems, and instead obsess over their social ranking. It is a feudal vision of manhood with the body as castle, the whole world as an ever-present threat, and other men as rivals. That is the real cowardice of imagination at the center of Clavicular’s rise. Not that he tells young men to exercise, clean up, or care how they present themselves. Fine. Groom yourself. Build your body. Take some responsibility. But do not confuse optimization with grit. And do not mistake a man begging his followers to buy into his despair for a leader of men. The post Clavicular and the Right-Wing Project to Radicalize Young Men appeared first on The Intercept. From The Intercept via This RSS Feed.
Travelling across the country in recent week to meet Green councillors, candidates, and campaigners before May’s elections in past weeks, one consistent theme has stood out — hard work pays. I’ve been hearing repeatedly from ordinary people and those associated with the party that elected Greens are becoming well-known in their consistencies for their hard work. This stands in contrast to the Faragists’ and Tories’ vision of an ever-grimmer, for-profit wage-slavery in ‘alarm-clock Britain’ (to borrow Nick Clegg’s phrase). In reality, it’s the Greens who are making themselves known for hard work—and without shortcuts. Sorting out Solihull Take Solihull Greens’ Deputy Leader and councillor Sesh Seshabhatter, twice-elected (soon, perhaps, three-times) in a council where Greens form the main opposition party in a Tory bastion. During his campaign trail, Seshabhatter won recognition and (as he reckons) quite possibly a vote from an otherwise unsympathetic voter. This follows Seshabhatter handling a straightforward task long left unattended by the Tories. That task? Fixing a collapsed fence separating their garden from a public footpath. As it backs onto the path, it’s council domain. But Tories, as their track record tells us, don’t believe in fixing things. And it’s hardly a surprise, right? Why trust the party that normalised the absurd and dangerous belief that “There is no such thing as society” to make our society better? We can’t expect the new Con-form party to be any different, since Nigel Farage idolises Thatcher and has embraced former Tory ministers who spent over a decade breaking Britain. Now they whinge endlessly about how bad their erstwhile party is. Serving the South of Scotland Or take my recent experience in the rural border region, South of Scotland, which accounts for 30% of Scotland’s new electoral map. The Greens’ forerunner in the area, Laura Moodie told the Canary that when she chaps on doors of previous Tory or Labour voters: I’ll always say: “what has your Tory or Labour MSP done for you?” And, almost always, they have nothing. … Other parties are just there to block. In the last parliament, the Tories had more MSPs than Greens have ever had in the history of the Scottish parliament. Yet I could spend ten minutes on every doorstep talking about the things that Greens have achieved: Whether that’s under-22s free bus travel, or ending peak fares on railways, or nature restoration projects. Critiquing the campaign messaging of Labour and the Tories, Moodie seems both parties as pitching themselves to voters as ‘not the [X,Y,Z] party.’ In contrast, Greens have been grafting, securing funding for playparks, transport, and rural community services. Neil Mackinnon is a case in point. So Greens aren’t just campaigning on a ‘Stop Reform’ platform, Moodie says. They’re pointing to actual, tangible, material achievements and saying: vote for this. Perks of positivity This mirrors my first-hand experience covering the historic Gorton and Denton by-election. In the end, the Greens stopped Reform from winning, while delivering a huge blow to Labour’s public image as an unshakeable mainstay in British politics. That wasn’t all. Greens connected with people on doorsteps. Their people-firstvision won over thousands, addressing the immediate needs of ordinary folk. These include capped rents, lower bills, better and cheaper public transport, cleaner streets, and nicer public spaces. Reform’s campaign by contrast was about how wickedly evil and “mad” Polanski’s Green Party is. And Labour? They literally copied Reform’s attack-lines, word for word. While the Greens didn’t muddle their words in condemning Reform’s divisively hateful campaigning, they put forward a positive vision whose actualisation depends on more than cheap words. This accounts for the sweeping success (4,400 margin) of Hannah the Plumber, who whilst training to be a plasterer and working won a very high-profile election. Lessons from power Green co-deputy leader Rachel Millward set out this line of thought from her experience co-leading a district council in Sussex recently on BBC Question Time: We have been able to make a difference for our communities and for nature. And I know I can tell you that what you get when you vote Green are local, very, very hard-working councillors who are absolutely committed to two vested interests: people and planet. Millward continued, saying: … Greens have delivered where they’re leading councils across the country. There’s a huge push to deliver as much affordable and social housing as possible … investment in local business, brilliant local procurement strategies … doubled council tax on second and empty homes so we can give more people council tax relief. But Millward and the Greens are not naïve about the limits to council power. She says that “we bang our heads against the brick wall of government legislation” and talks, rightly, about how structural issues, such as property markets, need to change. What’s great is that being in those council positions and running those councils helps us understand what needs to change. … It [property development] begins and ends with profit. Later, pointing to Zia Yusuf who sat next to her on the panel, she scoffed at him talking about social care given that Lancaster’s Reform councillors have been threatening to close a care home to make savings. She rightly underscored their lies and broken promises: Time and time again you come in, you take power, you can’t find any savings and you put the council tax up. … There were 57 Reform councillors took over Kent. There are only 48 left. They drop like flies because they’re not local, they’re not working hard, and they don’t care about their local community. Mothin’s your man For another example of this in action, look no further than the Greens’ other co-deputy leader, Gipton and Harehills councillor Mothin Ali. Mothin hit the national scene as a calming influence during a local riot in 2024, sparked when social services forcefully separated four Romani children from their families. Mothin was filmed tearing wheelie bins away from young, angry would-be bin-fire makers and was named “hero councillor” by the Independent at the time. Among Leeds residents, Mothin is widely recognised as a friendly, locally-rooted gardening enthusiast. Others, however — funded by vested and Zionist interests — slander him as a dangerous Islamist. Having met him, I found this idea beyond absurd. But don’t just take my word for it; have it from Gipton resident Farhan Khan. Khan’s known Mothin for two years, since his first campaign in Gipton, when he voted for him. Believe me, he’s such a wonderful councillor […] Whenever I need him, if I text him for any help, he just provides it. In Gipton and Harehills, all of my friends just see: he’s ok, he’s a good person. He listens to you, corresponding with you, and is in touch with the Council […] He just works on your behalf. Mothin goes the mile Like many Greens across the country, known for litter-picking actions and food-bank deliveries, Mothin has led regular community clean-ups across his ward. Even Labour is copying this idea. But for Khan, Mothin’s unwavering, caring work ethic was captured by one particular incident. It involved trying to get through to one resident who was apparently hostile to Khan and their neighbours, with some plausibly racist under (or over) tones. When Mothin heard these concerns, and that this might be a more contentious house to visit, he insisted on speaking to her anyway. He went knowing that it would be a hard conversation to have. And, soon enough, he got right to the bottom of her anger. What surfaced was utter neglect by the Labour-run council, pressuring this resident to leave her home after decades and a faltering support system locally. This had originally led to arguments between the neighbours, Khan says. But in the end, Mothin was able to signpost the woman to support services, and cut through her initial hostile stance. Khan was amazed by Mothin’s social magic: My personal experience is really good with the Greens. … With Labour, the independents, they promise this, this, this — but it’s all just drama, nothing else. I’m with the Greens. I’m with Mothin. Choosing councillors who care With two days to go before britons cast their vote, Britain faces some difficult choices. We can continue down the well-trodden, five-decades-tested Thatcherite path — a society that, apparently doesn’t meaningfully exist, let alone care. Or we can choose community-focused care that is responsive to the needs of residents. We can try local councillors, actively embedded in their communities — like Sesh, Neil, Rachel, or Mothin — whose agility and compassion gives local people real confidence. What the Greens show us is that politicians, whether local or national, can make real changes — even where ‘brick walls’ are involved, like Millward says. Mothin’s example clearly shows how neglect in our underfunded, poorly-managed and often complacent local governance is pitting neighbours against each other. But we know from actually-elected Greens that this is not inevitable. It can be changed. Having a councillor or MP who has the power to challenge that system and get to the heart of the local issues is significant. That power, ultimately, resides in your ballot paper and pen. Choose wisely. Additional reporting by Maddie Wheeldon Featured image via the Canary By Cameron Baillie From Canary via This RSS Feed.
Wes Streeting’s Labour Party knows an election shock is on the way, at the hands of Redbridge Independents. Local election candidates for the group told us more. Streeting and Labour face growing challenge in Redbridge In the 2024 election, independents became the main opposition to Labour in both Ilford South and Streeting’s constituency of Ilford North (where he very nearly lost). A by-election loss to independent Noor Jahan Begum in 2025 showed the momentum against Labour had only continued. Labour’s despicable support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza played a role in Redbridge’s discontent. But Labour’s failures and lack of transparency locally have also had a big impact. So Redbridge Independents are running candidates across the London borough. We spoke to Redbridge Independents leader Vaseem Ahmed, who is standing in the Barkingside ward. And we spoke to Marwan Elfallah, a candidate in Valentines ward. Ahmed told us Streeting seems so worried about the challenge in Redbridge that he’s “fully fronting” the local Labour campaign. That’s hardly surprising considering that, as Elfallah explained, the council today works effectively “like a circus” that fawns over Streeting. But as Elfallah said: The doors that I knock, the majority want Labour out. He added: We are local people that will work our absolute socks off if we do take over. Ahmed backed this up, saying: We just want to offer people a real alternative. This is about hope versus austerity. And it’s about how can we create a scenario where people in the east end of London have hope again, not just for themselves, but their kids and their kids Redbridge Independents have the endorsement of Your Party. And you can see the full Redbridge Independents manifesto here, including its commitments on transparency, alleviating poverty, and dealing with the cost of living crisis locally. Vaseem Ahmed speaks to the Canary We asked Ahmed: why do you think you’ve been gaining support locally? I think it’s because we’re a grassroots organisation which has been in and around the community for the last couple of years. So we launched the party around March 2024, prior to which there was a community organisation called RCAG which launched off the back of the genocide in Gaza. And that organisation selected Leanne Mohamad for that general election in July 2024, and also supported Noor Jahan [Begum] in the general election in 2024 as well in Ilford South. So between them, they got 25,000 votes. And actually, I think that gave people a lot of belief and confidence that there is an alternative to the traditional mainstream parties. And then that came to the fore last March, when we won that by-election [in Mayfield ward] by a big distance, where we got 42% versus Labour’s 26. And I think that sent shockwaves through Redbridge, and definitely to Labour as well, that we’re a real threat to them. Is Wes Streeting worried, considering that Leanne Mohamad almost unseated him? Yeah, I think he is worried on two fronts. One is that, obviously, that was really close, and I was at the count, and you could see – I think somebody overheard him saying, ‘wow, just got through by the skin of my teeth’. Then subsequently, with all these WhatsApp leaks with him and [Peter] Mandelson, I think he said in that as well, ‘that was one of our safest seats in Redbridge-Mayfield in the by-election year, which we lost, and now me and [Ilford South MP] Jas Athwal will be toast at the next general election’, which was kind of foreboding and perhaps a prediction. Our job is to make that prediction come true And then, obviously, he is really concerned because, if you look at what’s happening right now in Redbridge, he’s fully fronting their campaign. He keeps coming out and sending letters to residents, and on social media, making videos and TikToks and all sorts, really directly aimed at us, the independents. Which is a badge of honor for us, really. To be honest, it’s given us free publicity, which we’re happy with. And also, it’s re-emphasising the fact that we’re their main competition in Redbridge for these elections. So he understands the threat… I think it’s time for him to be a bit humble. So if people in Redbridge are looking at alternatives, then it’s time to maybe self-reflect and say, ‘well, hold on, why are people looking at alternatives? What have Labour done to help people in their day-to-day lives in Redbridge, and what haven’t they done?’ They’ve failed on adult social care, they’ve failed on SEND [Special Educational Needs and Disabilities], they’ve overspent the budget by a long distance. Then there’s what’s happening internationally with Gaza, then Iran. So many people see that and think ‘this government doesn’t represent me anymore. Then locally, there are lots of controversies as well. Lack of honesty, integrity, accountability – Jas Athwal with the BBC investigation into his lack of licences, having himself introduced a scheme which says we’re coming after you rogue landlords and then not having licensed his own properties… He didn’t receive any punishment, as far as we’re concerned, as far as we know. He continues to refuse to say that he did anything wrong, he just fired his agent, blamed the whole thing on his agent. So those sort of things are things that people are fed up with – one rule for the elite and one rule for us ordinary people who are struggling to get by every day… So yeah, that kind of sense of entitlement and that sense of superiority, that ‘this is our patch, who are you to come and threaten us in our patch’. If residents think that you’re not representing us, then we’re going to look for an alternative. Many of us in the past, I’m sure, have had links with the Labour Party. But we just don’t feel they represent ordinary people anymore. What issues will independent councillors be prioritising after the election? One of our key planks is the cost of living crisis. How do we handle that, when people have to make the choice of heating or eating? And how do we help our residents manage that scenario? And how do we support them as a local government with a budget? And secondly, I think it’s also about openness and transparency in local government. So at the moment, there doesn’t seem to be a voice of ordinary residents represented, whether that’s at council meetings or with a development. In my own ward in Barkingside, there’s a development happening which backs onto people’s gardens. It’s like the oldest sports ground in Redbridge. And it would just be a nightmare in terms of traffic, and then having high-rise buildings within that as well, right bang in the middle of a residential area, backing onto people’s gardens. I think 3,000 local residents signed a petition, and yet it’s still got its way through. And now I think they’re taking legal action. It’s cliquey too. The way [Labour leaders] choose their candidates seems to be top-down – people who toe the party line, who don’t really have an opinion on things and just follow whatever the leadership say. So it’s just about real representation. When we selected our candidates, we did a proper, thorough, transparent process. We opened it up, let people apply in two stages. And it was just people rooted in the community, people who’ve got really good experience, whether they’ve run a food bank, or whether they’ve been helping out at a local place of worship, whether it’s people who’ve got experience in housing, education, finance, transformation. So if we ever got the opportunity to play a role in running the local government, we could hit the ground running. A big frustration that a lot of people have is that it’s a government that doesn’t really listen to residents, doesn’t really take their views into account. Big decisions are made to them, rather than with them. So our job would be to turn that around, and help them to feel that they have a local voice. What do you think polls are missing in Redbridge? We’re standing in around 15 wards out of the 22. 42 candidates. I’m a candidate in Barkingside, which is Ilford North – Wes’s area. I’ve been canvassing here since last August, and the feedback I’ve had from residents has been very positive. A lot of them are struggling and they need help. And they’re not being heard. So wards in Ilford North are under threat. If you think about it, back to that July 2024 general election, all of that was Ilford North, where Leanne got a lot of her support. We could potentially be a threat all over Ilford North and South. When I went to sleep after that night in Mayfield [at the 2025 by-election], we had no clue that Noor Jahan had done so well, that we had done so well. And to have won by that margin was a genuinely amazing, amazing result and experience here. If that would repeat itself across a lot of these wards, then there is a genuine chance of winning a significant number of seats. But we’re just working as hard as we possibly can on the ground. Like I said, we’ve been canvassing a lot of us since last summer. I speak to thousands of residents, trying to understand the issues that they face day to day, and how we can help. Fingers crossed that on the 8th of May, all of that hard work comes to fruition. Is there anything else you’d like to add? We were buoyed by the fact that five independent MPs got in last time [in the 2024 general election], Leanne came a close second, we won that by-election [in 2025]. So that gives confidence to the community that there is an alternative – it doesn’t have to be the mainstream parties. And the beauty of us is we don’t have to answer to anyone in Westminster. We do our own thing, we focus on Redbridge, we do what we can for the best of the residents of Redbridge. And that’s a nice position to be in, and a nice freedom to have, and it means we can be flexible as well. It means we can be honest, obviously within the bounds of decency. We just want to offer people a real alternative. This is about hope versus austerity. And it’s about how can we create a scenario where people in the east end of London have hope again, not just for themselves, but their kids and their kids – because everyone knows the cost of living, the affordability of buying a house. If we can play a part in giving hope to people in Redbridge, then for me, that’s a massive win. Marwan Elfallah speaks to the Canary We asked: what made you put yourself forward as a candidate? It all started a couple of years ago, when we were protesting outside Wes Streeting’s office. And that’s where the movement sort of began. It was just something so obvious as calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, which he refused to do. And it was just the Labour Party at that point was no longer a party I felt I could support or trust, and I actually felt at that point it was time to work against it. We started looking deeply into the Labour Party locally, and started realising it’s just not right. Everything that they’re doing seems to be wrong. Questions weren’t being answered properly, lots of cover-up over issues, and you could see that the Labour Party on a whole was just not being run properly, from the top to the bottom, and that included Redbridge Council. At that point, we were a group of us, and it was just like, ‘yeah, we’ve got to really make a stand, whether it’s locally or nationally’, and we weren’t going to stop. And obviously, as time went on, the Labour government got worse. Wes Streeting, the Jas Athwal scandal as well. So I couldn’t just stand and watch. That’s why I took part in this, and then put myself forward as a candidate. Why should progressive voters back Redbridge Independents? The Greens are not a dominant force in our area. They’re not knocking on doors. We really care about our area, and we’ve been working on this for a long period of time. I think their focus is on other areas. When I’m on the doorstep, I’m not feeling that everybody’s wanting to go Green. There is some sympathy towards the Greens, because Zack Polanski’s done an excellent job on a national level. But I think on a local basis, Redbridge Independents is the only real party that can do anything to challenge Labour. What are the key issues people have been raising on the doorstep? Quite a lot of issues. Crime in the area, there’s a lot of issues regarding crime. As soon as you walk out of Ilford Station, there’s issues with drugs, there’s issues with antisocial behaviour. We’ve also had the town centre, which has shops closing down, businesses not being able to survive. People are upset. School places is another one in my particular ward, where we’ve got an issue where we’ve almost got a few roads that are in no man’s land. They can’t get into two of the local schools, so they’ll be sent further away. So there’s an issue there with catchment areas, obviously not the easiest one to solve. But it’s obviously something that we would look into, long-term. People have mixed views on the lido. The £4m project was meant to be in Valentine’s Park… And it now turns out the council don’t actually have enough money to go ahead with it. So a lot of people are upset that they’ve spent money to start it off, planning, etc, tidying up the park, doing everything, and now they’ve pulled back and said they can’t. Cost of living, council tax going up, that’s obviously an issue that hurts a lot of people. And also, people want honesty. The whole Jas Athwal scandal. We don’t know if he’s been fined, if he’s been prosecuted for being a rogue landlord. I personally have actually taken on the council on that. I’ve written, asking for Freedom of Information Act requests. The council have basically come back and said that he’s pretty much a private individual, and they don’t want to release the information. Another campaigner has gone further and gone to the Information Commissioner Officer, and they’ve told the council that they must release the details on what’s happened, and the council is now appealing that. So for some obscure reason, the council does not want to say what’s happened to him. And a council that’s meant to be politically neutral, that’s not the way to run things, especially if the Information Commissioner Officer rules that they should release the information. Are there still some people willing to say they’re supporting Labour? Very, very few people support Labour. The doors that I knock, the majority want Labour out. In a lot of cases, when we explain who we are, what we’ve been doing, that we are local people, we do care about the area – I personally have lived in Redbridge 20 years, 16 years in the Valentines ward, my kids go to schools here, I’m a football coach at Frenford, heavily involved in the community – they do start sympathising with us and say, ‘that’s what we would like’. There are the occasional person that does want Labour, but it’s few and far between. Met the odd Reform supporter, and a lot of the time, it’s just dissatisfaction with Labour. I’ve met Reform supporters that said ‘I’m not really sure. Do I go with you, or do I go with Reform?’ So it’s not necessarily right-wing, left-wing, it’s just dissatisfaction. I’ve even met a Tory supporter who is just so upset with the council and with Labour in general, and she said she could lend us her vote as well. If people are on the fence, what would you tell them? Whether it’s a Labour supporter, a Conservative supporter, Reform supporter, one thing that we are going to do is we will work hard for the community. We’re not there serving a national party. We are looking after the community. We’re all invested in the community, whether it is that we’ve got kids here, whether we work here, whether we just want a nice place to live. So I think that’s the thing that I say to the people, ‘we are invested in the community’. And if they trust us, they’ve really got nothing to lose, because the way Labour are running things isn’t well. And either we take over, which is the absolute dream for us, and we start implementing what we want to do and work hard, or at least we become the opposition, or a really strong voice. Because just now, on the council 53 out of the 63 are Labour. There’s no democracy. You go to the council meetings. Opposition members are told, basically, to sit down and not really question. It’s almost like a circus when you go there. Noor Jahan delivered a speech, questioning ‘is the Health Secretary really doing that well for local services?’ etc, because the council wanted to put a motion forward on how wonderful Wes Streeting is and how wonderful Labour are. She told them that that wasn’t the case, and we’ve got problems with corridor care, we have a lot of development going on but there’s no GP surgery places. It was almost like she was booed for basically speaking her mind. And then Wes Streeting apparently appeared at the council meeting. It wasn’t announced, but then he’s sitting there, and it’s all like ‘let’s all praise Wes’. So, we’ve got that issue as well, where there is a serious lack of accountability. No matter who you support, you cannot find that as being healthy for Redbridge. We need people that will actually scrutinise, people that will ask questions. Okay, so the $4m for the lido is a good example. Yeah, it might be a nice idea, but do we really have the money for it? Is it a priority? We are local people that will work our absolute socks off if we do take over. And if we don’t take over, and we’re a credible opposition, we will scrutinise Labour or whoever it is in power, on absolutely everything. And if we’re forced into an alliance, we’ll work for the interests of Redbridge. Featured image via Redbridge Independents By Ed Sykes From Canary via This RSS Feed.
In the end, it was not the noise, the narrative or the weight of the moment that decided the 2026 World Snooker Championship. It was an 85‑point break from a 22‑year‑old who had never won a match at the Crucible before this year. Wu Yize did not just win a world title; he arrived as a force the sport will have to reckon with for the next decade. Yize becomes the second‑youngest world champion in history, behind only Stephen Hendry. He’s also the second successive Chinese winner, following Zhao Xintong’s triumph last year. This was not a coronation; it was a full-on scrap. A final that went the full 35‑frame distance, only the fourth time that’s ever happened, and the first since 2002. But it was Shaun Murphy, 21 years removed from his own world title, who kept dragging the contest back to level terms. Yize v Murphy: A final that never settled Yize began Monday with a 10-7 lead after controlling the opening two sessions, but the afternoon was a reminder that Crucible finals rarely follow the script. Murphy punished every loose shot, reeling off the first five frames with breaks of 76, 52, 59 and 60 to flip the game on its head at 12-10. For a player with no previous Crucible pedigree, this was the moment where the pressure could have swallowed him. Instead, Yize steadied himself and produced arguably the most important mini‑session of the entire championship: three frames on the spin, conceding just six points and compiling breaks of 64 and 61. That surge restored his lead at 13-12 heading into the evening. He stretched it to 14-12, only for Murphy to haul him back again, and again. They were locked at 15-15, 16-16, 17-17, a final that refused to tilt decisively in either direction. @tntsports Wu Yize is not afraid of taking risks in this final! #snooker #WorldChampionship #WST ♬ original sound – TNT Sports The black that nearly cost him, and the response that won it The moment that could have haunted Yize came in frame 34, a black off its spot for the title. He missed it, Murphy cleared and the match went to a decider. Murphy had the first chance in the 35th frame. But when he faltered, Yize produced the kind of break that defines champions: controlled, attacking, unflustered. An 85 that closed the door on a match that had been open for four hours too long. The Crucible crowd, which Yize admitted he initially misread, thinking the “Wuuuuu” chants were boos, roared him home. Speaking through a translator, he said: At the beginning, I had a misunderstanding, but then the staff told me they were cheering me on. Murphy, to his credit, didn’t hide from the truth of the moment. “I hate being right,” he said, recalling a match earlier in the season where he’d predicted Yize would one day be world champion. It’s just a real shame it was today. I couldn’t have given it anymore. @stevebracknall 22 year old Wu Yize winning his first snooker world title. Steve #snooker #china #world #fyp ♬ original sound – Steve-Bracknall A champion built on risk, nerve and timing What stands out most about Yize’s run is not just the result, it’s the manner of it. His game was built on front‑foot snooker: aggressive shot‑making, fearless long‑potting, and a willingness to seize frames rather than wait for them to come to him. That style can unravel under pressure. Fortunately for him, it did not. He beat seasoned champions, handled momentum swings, and produced his best snooker when the match demanded it. That’s not youthful fearlessness; that’s competitive maturity. As always the context matters. Snooker has spent years searching for its next generational star, someone capable of bridging the gap between the fading era of O’Sullivan, Higgins and Williams. Whatever comes next, Yize’s win doesn’t guarantee he’ll be that figure, but it puts him firmly in the conversation. What does this means for snooker? A second consecutive Chinese world champion is not a footnote, it is a shift. The sport’s centre of gravity has been tilting east for years, but this is the clearest sign yet that the pipeline is not just producing talent, but producing winners. Yize’s victory will resonate far beyond Sheffield. It will accelerate investment, inspire juniors, and reshape the competitive landscape. Crucially, he does not look like a one‑off. His temperament, scoring power and ability to absorb pressure are traits that translate to long‑term success. A world championship final that delivered clarity No melodrama needed here, or an over‑inflated narrative, there is just a simple truth: the 2026 World Snooker Championship produced a worthy winner. Wu Yize did not sneak through the back door, he walked through the front, past a former world champion who refused to go away, and closed the match with the best break of his life. A new name is on the trophy and my guess is it will not be the last time you see it there. Featured image via Reuters By Faz Ali From Canary via This RSS Feed.
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https://krausefx.com/blog/announcing-inappbrowsercom-see-what-javascript-commands-get-executed-in-an-in-app-browser Kraus makes very clear that while Meta apps are also injecting javascript, that he only has evidence of TikTok doing “keylogging” type activities. Both Gizmodo and ProtonMail are wrong in that regard. It’s like nobody has real media literacy anymore, even media organizations.
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I have thoroughly enjoyed Lemmy and Beehaw over this weekend. I’m not expecting anything out of reddit. Reddit was my home for 12 years and I really feel like it boiled down to three really uses of my time: cultivated communities niche knowledge scrolling through all I have had a taste of being part of a community this weekend that reminds me of what reddit was like a decade ago. This really removed the sting of disconnecting all my apollo widgets and shortcuts. Lemmy, kbin, etc may lead to a new future for those of us looking for somewhere new. Niche knowledge? I think that’s one thing that just will be on reddit for the foreseeable future but as communities move and shift away, it’ll disperse across the internet. I do see myself still searching through reddit results via google when searching for a personalized review or specific information. But it will become a get-in, get-out process. Scrolling? Reddit leadership is so dumb. they’ve catered to this feature and this user base for all the marbles of their IPO. Scrolling is the least unique feature to reddit compared to other social media. And reddit’s scrolling was highly dependent on your feed and could sometimes not be that great. Scrolling can be replaced by anything from tiktok to instagram to other forums and new sites Even this weekend on Beehaw, I’ve seen reviews of fountain pens, a storm over Scotland, trailers for new games on the horizon and little bits of people’s lives shared and connected. If I can continue to have an experience like this? I won’t even miss reddit. It’s going to be an interesting new future
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YouTube shorts are my latest annoyance. They give you an x to hide it then says we’ll try again in 30 days. Shorts were a dumb idea on vine, a dumber idea on tiktok, and just about the dumbest idea on YouTube. If I wanted a sub-30 second clip I’d watch a gif.
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