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I felt I really needed to write about Rowling's essay, not because it's new, but because it's so poisonous and ugly that it felt like sanitizing her not to acknowledge it on my trans news site.

Of all the bbc presenters, Webb’s politics are the easiest to read - because he puts them in newspapers and doesn’t even try to hide them in broadcasts His politics are also mind numbingly predictable

Mohammed Qomsan is a civil servant in #Gaza. He finally got accepted into a university scholarship program in Italy; this could be his chance to leave Gaza & start a new chapter in his life. He’s transparent & legit. Follow here: www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLA3L9GW/ repost Donate: chuffed.org/project/2087...

Crickets on the BBC

8 people lost an eye 2 had their faces shattered and needed extension reconstruction surgery 5 had limbs amputated 14 more had life changing injuries Imagine the outrage if ONE of these injuries happened to the French Police But they do this and not one charge against them

Oxfam report: The super-rich profit from the pollution driving climate breakdown, and then cash in again on the disasters it causes. No profit without accountability. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Farage tying himself in angry knots here ... as he refuses to answer the basic question: Is it racist to call Kemi Badenoch a "Nigerian scammer"?

🆘 Influencer Guy Christiansen has been said to be detained by Homeland Security at LAX 🆘 PLS. Investigate & make sure he is safe. He is a 🇺🇸 citizen & resident of Pittsburg PA @deluzio.house.gov @repsummerlee.bsky.social @fetterman.senate.gov @rokhanna.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @cnn.com

Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis. They profit from polluting industries, and through the ‘adaptation economy’. Super-rich buy govts, control means of production and think tanks. Victims pay higher prices for food, homes, relocations. Who governs?

Labour now briefing young people won't get the same minimum wage uplift. Even Starmer didn't break this pledge. Workers rights mean same rights, pay & conditions, same rate for the same job. What does this Labour government have against young people? inews.co.uk/news/politic...

#GMB on the banks: "£45.9bn profit in 2024. They've already generated £21.4bn in the first half of [this] year" "And on a personal level.. executive bankers are earning in 2 days what it takes a lot of people a year to [earn]"

@premnsikka.bsky.social Can you ask how Capita continues to operate government contracts @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social @sianberry.bsky.social

“the minister tried to shovel all of the blame onto Capita, ignoring the significant failure of governance by the Cabinet Office that allowed Capita to wreak havoc.”

An immediate reaction is to say the Albanese government has learned nothing from #robodebt. But perhaps they have learned only too well how to punch down on welfare recipients with onerous, cruel and illegal conditions. #poverty #inequality #RaiseTheRate #auspol

Zionists are definitely NOT racist @emilythornberry.bsky.social @mothinali.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social @laylamoran.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social @miketapp.bsky.social

Just listen to this. Then consider these polls: 76% of Jewish Israelis think there are no innocents in Gaza (Aug 2025) 82% support expelling Palestinians from Gaza (May 2025) 47% support killing all inhabitants of conquered enemy cities (May 2025)

Excellent to see research (as well as health and community) fully integrated into UCU's "Education. It's Ours" campaign.

This is not a "you didn't KNOW?" post because I truly envy and respect anyone unaware of Linehan's output BUT he's been EXTREMELY racist for years now. Attacking black actors on his wife's show Motherland as diversity hires; podcast screeds about muslims in Ireland; delighting in Palestinian deaths.

You don't need that Starbucks latte. 12,000 baristas have organized. They've spent years fighting for a fair first contract. They're demanding better pay, more hours, safe staffing and basic protections. Support the workers, not the corporation stonewalling them. Boycott Starbucks!

I think it doesn't reflect well on the BBC that one its leading presenters is allowed to write an 'analysis' for a highly partisan newspaper which includes lines like "Racial minorities, worshipped by white Democrats" www.dailymail.com/news/article...

"The Most Racist Election in Israel’s History" If Netanyahu stays, Israel will become a pariah state – so the Israeli establishment is doing everything it can to ensure that he loses. But a Gadi Eisenkot victory won’t help Palestinians either, writes Peter Oborne for Zeteo UK:

“While each of us (voted Brexit) for different reasons, we all believed that the UK could do a better job of running its own affairs than *unelected officials* in Brussels could." Ben Houchen... November 2020 Six years later 👇👇👇

Ali Fortescue to Ellie Chowns on the group Greens4Palestine: "This group obviously has a big influence over your partys direction... do you think they should be kicked out of the party?" Can you imagine a journalist asking, should Labour Friends of Israel be kicked out of Labour? Of course you cant

It fits the Guard Our Pedophile party mantra...Kevin Landher

Israel's atrocities have race & ethnicity at their core OK so Zionism is definitely NOT racist @laylamoran.bsky.social @marina-purkiss.bsky.social @emilythornberry.bsky.social @sophyridge.bsky.social @miketapp.bsky.social @catneilan.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social

Either the EU comes out with their own report that evidences the UN one is wrong, or they accept the findings and back UN action. No more sitting on the fence (supporting Israel's war crimes).

If you don't raise this as point of order @ PMQs then youre failing us Just talk over people Dont be silenced @joepowell.bsky.social @richardburgon.bsky.social @sianberry.bsky.social @laylamoran.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social @zarahsultana.bsky.social @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social

UN report: "The Israeli authorities and forces have committed the crimes against humanity of extermination, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence in the West Bank, as well as persecution based on intersecting discriminatory grounds, with nationality, race and ethnicity at its core."

"The report found Israeli authorities and forces had continued to 'commit genocidal acts' even after the so-called ceasefire in Gaza, 'with the intent to destroy the Palestinian people'." No surprise that this got hardly any mainstream coverage. #GazaGenocide www.nine.com.au/world-news/m...

The blistering @franceskalbs.bsky.social UN report you won't see much in the media. Captured media/journalists complicit in Gaza genocide Story by Aleta Moriarty #ABC #BBC #CNN #NYT #Murdoch #Israel michaelwest.com.au/un-puts-medi...

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

There's a probability RFK is wrong @rbreich.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social @espiers.bsky.social @carlquintanilla.bsky.social @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social @paleofuture.bsky.social

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

Scandinavian countries arresting Netanyahu Andy Burnham and Labour: 'Yes, but marmalade is gonna be cheaper' Every little helps Tesco's vast profits @sdoughtymp.bsky.social @markjsewards.bsky.social @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social

Ronaldo Salgado, son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was tragically shot and killed by ICE in Houston, Texas earlier this year, made a surprise appearance at the Ready. Go. Vote. Rally. Ronaldo, thank you for using your voice to encourage our communities to get out to vote 🗳️

CEO of scandal-ridden Deloitte gets 45% pay rise to £7.1m, 1,360 jobs cut. CEO pay = 93 times median employee pay. Firm doesn't pay employer NIC on profits shared by partners, worth £150,000 for £1m profit shared. £899m shared. 108 govt contracts in 2026, worth £650m. Friends in high places.

I honestly don't understand why this keeps happening. Normal working people are being fleeced by corporate greed in every conceivable way, and successive governments keep tinkering around the edges with this trivial nonsense. I mean, gherkins and marmalade? Seriously?

Jon Kay to Jonathan Reynolds: "You're planning to remove import taxes from products like chocolate, gherkins, marmalade. Your own figures say that will save the average household 40p a week. At a time when [bills] are going up, do you really think people are going to notice 40p a week?"

Wow — salt slurpers. 237 million years ago, an armoured amphibian was living in the sea, apparently drinking seawater. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Assange on Lula

A slowly-dying Far Right party.

Imagine a world where we are no longer dependent on oil and nuclear energy. It's coming and it's better and that's why the vested interests are doing everything in their power to stop it