"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

Quotes and replies off, of course, but it seems Labour want us to play a game of "how many times do the same people appear in different photos?"

I’m a Scottish Green but was out camping in Gorton and Denton today listen to Zack elect Hannah and bring back hope!

Been out camping in Gorton & Denton today,its vital we stop the advance of Reform, so happy to have taken a couple off days off camping for Alexander J Armitage to campaign here #VoteGreen in Gorton and Denton and Vote Green in Shetland in May!

That's hysterical

Labour aggressively put up a sign next to Green office in Gorton and Denton, Greens trolled back pointing out a vote for Labour is wasted and could let Reform in. Vote Green to vote for hope and stop the fash posh boy! From a friend/constituent in Gorton and Denton

This is a dead giveaway for Labour. A *landlord* puts up a sign supporting Labour. Labour is the LANDLORDS party. No wonder he wants to stop the Green Party, the Greens are the party that will cut rents.

Bannergate latest, in Gorton & Denton.

I am so glad a politician is saying it out loud that you don't need to just agree with the supreme court and go "well that is that then".

It’s the Government’s duty to protect all communities - including trans people. They’re failing to do that. Trans people deserve safety and dignity. www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...

Greggs is a capitalist company. Sell the people what they want, and make money. I thought the Speccy *liked* capitalism?

On top of this, it really risks tipping Reform into a US oriented, Christian nationalist, socially conservative party in a way that is uncomfortable for a lot of UK voters. The question is if those voters notice or care.

You can be sure there was plenty of muttering about it being an 'expensive white elephant' and a 'vanity project'.

and we all know what else can cause a septum to collapse, don't we kids?

If the Green Party are viewed as the main competitor to Labour OR Reform OR the Tories, in any seat, we are the favourites. This is why Labour understand that Gorton & Denton as an existential threat, and doing all they can to prevent us from winning.

I don't use Facebook but I've been trying to gauge the mood ahead of the Gorton and Denton by-election and JESUS CHRIST Facebook is an utter cesspit of misogyny, racism, stupidity and people (mostly white men) repeating lies as fact (because they heard it and immediately believe it).

Euro Car Parks fined £473,000 for ignoring UK regulator. Despite reminders failed to hand over information to a regulator. Execs sought a high court injunction to stop the company being named. £12m operating profit in 2024, £3.1m CEO pay. Fines will be passed to customers. Why no fines on execs?

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Ask them which groups they'd like to see discriminated against in the workplace and who should be treated unfairly when buying goods and services.

"My family." By a 5-year-old imprisoned in a Texas concentration camp.

“More than 60 days … going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems the water is what makes people sick here.” - 12 year-old imprisoned for 60+ days in Texas concentration camp

“I feel so much sadness and depression of not being able to leave, its really sad to hear that peoples cases are being denied and getting send back to their countrys.” -14 year-old imprisoned for 20 days in Texas concentration camp

Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.

Drove through Burnage today, part of the Gorton and Denton constituency. Placard count: Green 17, Labour 1. No others. This is a solid Labour part of the constituency so not reflective of the overall picture but I think there's a huge swing to Green from Labour in this part. Not scientific though...

What an awful set of arrogant, elitist, establishment, posh arseholes the racist ReformUK glitterati are! A good hiding is heading their way in Gorton and Denton very soon!

"I saw a cigarette ad with the health warning: 'Tobacco smoke contains carbon monoxide.' The same magazine had several car ads, not one of which warned that exhaust contains much more carbon monoxide. People can't smoke. Cars can."

The 'Local candidate for Wirral West' (GE2019) speaks. Definitely not bitter, at all, about a successful and hard-working young woman poised to become an MP. 'Career politician' is wonderful projection. The idea that Hannah joined the party, or got elected in Hale, with this as the plan?! 🤣🤣🤣

She gets to “Sorry, I’m an idiot, I fucked up” eventually but my lord the throat-clearing www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...

"Reform want to end the Equality act to 'get rid of the “pernicious, divisive notion of protected characteristics'" What's what? The anti-trans opportunist brigade never meant to stop at trans people and intend to eat all your faces? Who could have guessed!

TBF, "It's a close race" is correct. With Labour out of the running.

My favourite thing is when Americans comment on GPEW social media, confident that they understand everything and are in a position to share their wisdom. 🤦😂

Tomorrow night's #Railnatter is a biggie - given the criticality of the Gorton and Denton by-election, we'll be diving into one of the big issues that matters for local folk: TRANSPORT, and how far off good it is on this side of Manchester. Watch LIVE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAIk...

The open racism you guys have emboldened, megyn

The same people who refuse to accept that @greenpartyhan.bsky.social is a plumber 🤔

(in case your memory needs jogging about the school where Braverman was the founding chair of governors www.independent.co.uk/news/educati...)

Of *course* Suella Braverman is Reform's new education spox.

The only question worth asking at these incredibly flash Reform press conferences that take place every week now, is who is paying for all of this and what do they want in return bsky.app/profile/pete...

Well that's alright then, Captain Dumb Dumb didn't know about it. www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/cele...

This is just incredible investigative work. Absolutely amazing work www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

DNA testing for potential to develop health conditions is sinister. It's an attempt to quantify the risk for individual patients. But health advice is the same whatever your risk so knowing risk is no use to doctors or patients. One industry that relies on understanding risk though is insurance.

I always tell people one fact when ADHD and the NHS is mentioned: there is *one* ADHD specialist in all of Greater Manchester. I was able to get appointments with him because I was diagnosed overseas, and I stopped going because he was often up to an hour late.

"Fake plumber" 🙄

Another day where the labour council tell us where their loyalty lies #socialcleansing

It’s a beautiful thing to see Vote Green posters popping up on people’s windows *outside* Gorton and Denton. Because yes, we do have local elections in May (ours were not cancelled/un-cancelled)

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

every time someone says something like "there weren't trans people when I was a kid" or some shit about trans people being a new thing because WOKE all I can think is "motherfucker Dog Day Afternoon was made in 1975"

Gorton and Denton by-election shouldn't be featured by multiple layers of Russian influence, should it. Your vote should be about your local concerns, so that discounts Reform and Labour, leaving Hannah Spencer as the only legit choice. The rest are irrelevant or coerced. Vote Green

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

The people dissecting Matt Goodwin's motivations for challenging Hannah Spencer to a head to head debate spend their evenings trying to figure out how their Roomba strategises.

Hannah Spencer: "And it’s what you look like, isn’t it? It’s whether or not you fit into this box of what an immigrant is. Whether you’re born here or not, I think you’re British." I’m a white immigrant. I’m alright. But I worry about my Muslim neighbours, and Carlos who runs the Chinese chippie.