DJ BAKSO “The Midlands' Finest”™️

Multigenre DJ and Creative mixing Bashment, Dancehall, R&B, Afrobeats, Soca, Pop & Many More.🚶🏾‍♂️ Be patient with me, I’m a work in progress…

[Acyn @Acyn]

Obama: In forming our union, the founders felt terribly short of the declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property. But in drafting a constitution and a bill of rights, they did have the foresight, the genius, to provide us with a framework that allows each generation to make our union more perfect.

And over more than two centuries, through petitions and protests, marches and strikes, moral appeals from the pulpit and conversations at the family dinner table, men and women from all walks of life, of every color, every faith, every region took up the cause of democracy and made it their own until we the people came to include not just some of us, but all of us

[Acyn @Acyn]

Warnock: We are witnessing this large redistribution of wealth. I love it when folks on the right talk about redistribution of wealth. They're not against it. The issue is which direction? They are moving the money from the bottom to the top. This is Robin Hood in reverse. This is what Dr. King calls socialism for the rich.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Angela Davis and Kwame Ture on Capitalism, 1973.

[DJ BAKSO “The Midlands' Finest”™️ @DJBakso]

RT @BTnewsroom: At Saturday’s Haiti vs. Scotland World game, BT asked Providence’s Haitian community about their thoughts on how Trump’s im…

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

This is what terrorism now looks like in the UK.

Yesterday, the Court of Appeal accepted the Government's appeal and ruled that the Home Secretary's proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was lawful.

Amnesty International is deeply disappointed by this decision.

Treating direct action as terrorism is a dangerous misuse of counter-terrorism powers and has led to thousands of arrests of entirely peaceful protesters - something that will long be remembered as a deeply shameful chapter in our history.

The fight is far from over. We will continue to challenge the government's efforts to crack down on our right to protest and hold power to account.

[Shockat Adam MP @ShockatAdam]

This is a dark day for justice.

When governments use counter-terrorism powers against protest movements, every democratic right becomes more fragile.

This is bigger than just one group. It marks a turning point towards narrower civil liberties, expanding state power and a shrinking space for dissent.

I voted against the proscription last year, and I will continue to defend the right to protest. And demand an end to Britain's shameful complicity in genocide.

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

📱There's no such thing as a social media ban for under-16s

It means we will ALL face a “papers, please” demand to get online.

Holding platforms to account and giving parents the tools they need are the answer for child safety - not government-issued bans and digital ID checks for all.

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

🪪"You will now need to show your papers just to go onto a social media site."

A social media ban will "incur an enormous privacy intrusion for the British public."

@silkiecarlo reacts to Starmer's social media ban announcement, on BBC News⤵️

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Today, my wife & I joined Donald Trump’s hit list. He has directed his Department of Justice to investigate us. They have not found a crime - they are simply trying to find one.

He isn't coming after me because of mean tweets, but because I am considering running for President.

He hates that I consistently call him out. He is simply the most corrupt President in American history.

We have nothing to hide. 

Mr. President, come after me. I am not going anywhere. 

The country is watching.

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

BREAKING: Stanford University graduates staged a walkout during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote address at commencement Sunday.

The walkout was organized by Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid as a protest against Google’s contracts with the IDF, Dept. of Homeland Security, and ICE.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Tessa Thompson: As a Black American, there is a kind of bone-tired exhaustion in fighting the battles that we have fought so many times before, and insisting time and time again, generation after generation, that people have the right to exist even if they speak out against the state.

[Congressman Robert Garcia @RepRobertGarcia]

Really powerful visit at the Trump-Epstein Reading Room in D.C. this week. Talking to survivors and seeing all the documents printed out reminds us what this fight is all about.

We won’t stop advocating for the release of all the files and justice for survivors.

[Cllr Martin Abrams @Martin_Abrams]

Let's be honest. There is a political hierarchy of racism in this country where shocking attacks on one Community get widespread condemnation and COBRA meetings whilst violent programs and attacks on other communities get next to no response. Shocking

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Passer by pleads with police to let a woman go free “she’s frail... can you let her go?... just from holding up a placard!” outside Woolwich Crown Court as hundreds join protest against sentencing of Filton 4 as terrorists despite not being charged or convicted as terrorists.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Londoners are rightfully concerned that an event promoting land confiscation & destruction of homes is due to take place - so I put this question directly to the Mayor today. 

I welcome his strong condemnation. But condemnation is not enough, this event must be cancelled.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

The many takes flying around about John Healey, resignation gossip and national security spending miss a fundamental point.

In Finland, where people have a strong social safety net and a real sense of shared national purpose, around 80% say they would be prepared to defend their country. In the UK, that figure is closer to 30%.

That should tell us something.

Until we change the financial architecture of our economy and bring the essentials of life out of the grip of corporate extraction and into public ownership, we will always be told to choose between bombs and butter.

But the reality is we need both.

Modern hybrid warfare means every public service is part of our national resilience. Energy, water, housing, health, transport, food security and social care are not separate from defence. They are defence.

If we want people to defend the country, we have to build a country people believe is worth defending. A thriving state. A fair economy. A society where everyone feels they have a stake.

I spoke about this on Peston on Monday night.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

Kanya King CBE was told Black music had no market.

She founded MOBO. 30 years later, Black music is 80% of Britain’s recorded music revenue. £24.5 billion.

She was told she was unrealistic. She built a 30-year cultural revolution. She didn’t argue. She just built. My tribute👇🏾

[Dr Ellie Chowns MP @EllieChowns]

The UK govt's piecemeal sanctions and "guidance" regarding illegal settlements in Palestine are simply not enough.

We need genuine action in the face of repeated war crimes and abuses by the Israeli govt - sanctions on senior Israeli govt officials & a ban on settlement trade.