Mrs Bongo

Stopfordian, Politics teacher, Feminist, Politically homeless, Mum to 3 +2🐩🐩 Life revolves around 🏞️🍷⚽Retweets not an endorsement.

[Mrs Bongo @BongosViews]

Proud to play my small classroom part in raising them from all across Greater Manchester and beyond 🙌

[Visit Manchester @visit_mcr]

Here's to strong women.
May we know them.
May we be them.
May we raise them.

#IWD2022

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

For months there have been conspiracy theories circulating on here about the arson attacks on Keir Starmer. Now the case is concluded, the truth can be revealed. They were sponsored by Russia to directly intimidate the British Prime Minister and his family.

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

Under 16s social media ban commands significant support from the public. From all of our conversations it’s seen as an area where people think individual parents can’t act alone and an area where they need government to help them take back control.

[The Sutton Trust @suttontrust]

🚨 Almost half of the GCSE attainment gap between poorer pupils and their better-off peers is “locked in” by the end of primary school.

Concerning findings from @EducEndowFoundn and @EduPolicyInst new research 🧵⬇️

https://t.co/eNsNLQSCiL

[Stop That Neuer @Goatkeeper1_]

The Curaçao goalscorer after the game tonight

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

The UK Court of Appeal has seriously overreached itself by basing its decision on the manifest untruth that “Palestine Action overtly promotes unlawful violence amounting to terrorism”.

Reading this, and squaring it against the evidence, the Supreme Court or failing that the European Court will overturn this ruling.

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

It looks as though Vladimir Putin may have ordered an arson attack against the British Prime Minister last year.

That is an incredibly serious escalation and shows why we must redouble our efforts with Ukraine and the rest of Europe to resist and deter Putin’s aggression.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

An insane stat

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

My ideal, predicted scenario. Parliamentary Standards Commissioner rules that Farage should have declared £5m. That triggers Electoral Commission to determine if Harborne was a permissible donor at the time. (I suspect not). They find he wasn't and open criminal investigation. Police/NCA get involved and discover numerous other "donations" laundered from around the world. Farage goes to prison.

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Parliament should reverse the decision to proscribe Palestine Action urgently before we see large numbers of elderly people in particular being dragged before our courts. Classifying protest through direct action as terrorism brings Parliament & our judicial system into disrepute

[𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙠𝙚 @Arealmfngl]

She got 3 university degrees, she’s a business woman and ceo, she got married in her 30s (to a man 5 years younger than her) and had kids in her mid 30s. her entire life is the result of feminism

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Aaaaaaand there it is…

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Claiming it is AI generated when the guy posted it himself, and the post had a URL that then said “deleted by the author” is next level stupid lol

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Greta Thunberg sends birthday wishes to Donald Trump: “My initial thought was to give you a one-way ticket to The Hague as a birthday gift, but that comment would probably go above your head. I will instead give you a can of alphabet soup; the sentences you poop out will be more coherent than anything you have ever said. Now you can finally take part in meaningful public discourse”

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

the world needs the strait of hormuz reopened. should have happened months ago, but today’s outcome is the best option available.

having said that, iran war has been a disaster. no agreement on nukes, ballistic missiles, support for proxies…and one of the world’s most brutal regimes remains in place…and is getting paid off.

biggest foreign policy failure of trump administration by a long margin.

[Pat Dennis @patdennis]

Are you telling me my tax dollars are being sent to rebuild all the shit that Pete Hegseth blew up also with my tax dollars

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Eric Trump got caught trying to rig fights at the UFC event tonight. The entire Trump family are scammers and con artists. Disgusting.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran says the US has agreed to pay $300 billion in reconstruction funds directly to Iran as part of the deal Pakistan announced, alongside the release of $24 billion in frozen funds with $12 billion released before negotiations even start, per Mehr News.

This directly contradicts Trump's & Vance's claim that no funds will be transferred to Iran at all.

If Trump denies this is true, there never was a deal. If Trump confirms, the US has fully capitulated to Iran's demands.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Mark Carney, "Together we - Canada, Ireland, and the EU - are one of the largest economic, cultural, technological, financial blocks in the world"

"But to what purpose? Well, we are and can be a force for good because we safeguard the values of human rights, of dignity and pluralism that are people hold dear"

"Just as Irish monks centuries ago preserved, copied and taught classical knowledge amid the Dark Ages. We must preserve and defend our values, our traditions, our interests. During this rupture"

"Building true sovereignty cannot be achieved in isolation. It requires diversification. It requires partnership"

"Coalitions that work issue by issue with partners that share enough common ground to act together"

"And that's why Canada was the first non European country to join the EU's Safe Defence Procurement Program"

"It's why we're championing efforts to build a bridge between the Trans Pacific Partnership and the European Union"

"Something that would create a trading bloc of one and a half billion people, a rules based trading block of one and a half billion people"

"With these shared values, we have developed a unique worldview, transatlantic worldview, if you will, rooted in a simple but profound conviction that we are stronger when we are connected, that our prosperity grows when it's shared, and that we are the stewards of our lands"

"Canada, Ireland and Europe can be pivotal, powerful and purposeful, a force for good."

"The EU maintains preferential access to over 80 partner countries, making it the top trading partner for 80 nations globally"

"Together, we are powerful because we have the capacity to act together"

"Combined, the population is more than twice that of the United States"

"We have a larger cultural export industry and a more diverse one, I might add, a similarly sized GDP, comparable R&D spend"

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

9 years ago today

NEVER forget

Remembering all those lost and impacted by Grenfell...

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Leading medical journal The Lancet publishes call to expel Israeli Medical Association over Gaza genocide
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Medical journal The Lancet has published a petition calling for the Israeli Medical Association to be boycotted and expelled from the World Medical Association over its failure to condemn what the petition describes as Israel's genocide against Palestinians and the collapse of Gaza's healthcare system.

The campaign, launched by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Healthcare Workers for Palestine, and Doctors for Gaza, has so far received support from more than 1,150 healthcare professionals and medical organizations. The call for expulsion is expected to be raised at the World Medical Association's general assembly in October.

The Israeli Medical Association opposed the move, arguing that its expulsion would not advance peace, healthcare, or human rights, and would instead create a precedent for using political pressure campaigns to isolate healthcare workers based on their nationality.