David Hann

[Animal Adoptions UK 🐕‍🦺🐈🐎❤️ @AdoptionsUk]

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#heatwave #dogs

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 1997, actor John C. McGinley’s son, Max, was born with Down syndrome. Shortly after, John's talent agent pulled him aside to deliver what was framed as practical advice: Do not talk about this publicly. Keep it quiet. People will stop hiring you.

For some, that might have sounded like reasonable career preservation. Protect the livelihood, avoid the spotlight, and pretend nothing had changed.

John’s response was immediate. He fired the agent.

Then, he did the exact opposite of what he had been told. He brought Max everywhere. Red carpets, talk shows, film sets, and public events. Wherever John went, Max was right beside him. At a time when society still largely preferred to keep individuals with developmental disabilities out of sight, John made a different choice. He made his son visible. Openly, proudly, and entirely without apology.

What began as a father's protective instinct grew into decades of fierce advocacy. John became one of the country's most recognizable voices for Down syndrome awareness. He spoke at global conferences, testified before Congress, and fought hard for employment law reforms that created real opportunities for people with disabilities to work, earn, and live independently.

During this journey, a reporter asked John a question that revealed far more about society's biases than it did about Max. The reporter asked if John ever wished his son were normal.

John didn't hesitate. He replied that Max was normal. The question wasn't. It was a blunt rejection of the idea that a person’s worth is measured by how well they fit into a narrow, conventional box.

Decades have passed since that conversation. Max is now 27 years old. He works, navigates his community, and lives an independent life filled with possibilities that the critics in 1997 never could have imagined for him.

Reflecting on their journey, John often says that Max never limited his life. He expanded it. Through his son, he learned what love, patience, and true commitment require.

The world signaled early on that it would have preferred Max to remain hidden in the shadows. John spent nearly three decades ensuring that the world looked Max right in the eye. Some fathers protect their children by shielding them from the world. Others protect them by refusing to let the world look away.

True inclusion begins when we stop treating differences as deficits. Max didn't need to change to fit into the world.

The world needed to change to make room for Max.

[Malala Yousafzai @Malala]

The EU has invited Taliban officials to Brussels to discuss a migration deal — and today I am shaken and deeply disturbed by this.

This is the same Taliban that banned girls from secondary schools and forced them into marriage. The same Taliban that, earlier this month, arrested dozens of women in Herat for how they were dressed. The same Taliban that detains, beats and executes women who dare to speak out or break their rules.

Through its system of gender apartheid, the Taliban have erased women and girls from public life. Europe must not legitimise a regime responsible for one of the worst human rights crises in the world.

Any engagement with the Taliban must begin and end with the rights of Afghan women and girls.

[Animal Adoptions UK 🐕‍🦺🐈🐎❤️ @AdoptionsUk]

Please retweet, no dog ever died from missing a walk. Keep you dogs at home in the cool today! 🐶
#dogs #Heatwave

[Trees for Streets @TreesforStreets]

With the hot weather set to continue this week, we are asking you to keep an eye on local street trees 🌳☀️

Not sure if the ground around your tree is dry? Give it a drink anyway - it's hard to overwater a tree!

Click here for more tree watering tips: https://t.co/LsDqJFLgv9

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

The right to trial by jury is an important factor in the delicate balance between the power of the state and the freedom of the individual. The further it’s restricted, the greater the imbalance - those are not my words, they are the words of Keir Starmer. Now, with no mandate to do it, he wants to restrict this fundamental cornerstone of our democracy - a move which will place us on a path toward authoritarian justice. Labour MP’s must step up to prevent this

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

MPs urge Fujitsu to make immediate payment to Post Office Horizon victims.

£1.5bn paid from public purse, more to the come. Fujitsu paid zero.

Compensation to Capture victims mounting.

Urging won't do, need emergency legislation to force Fujitsu to pay.
https://t.co/Dsj7tURKN4

[Heidi Alexander MP @Heidi_Labour]

Come with me as I commute from home in Swindon to Westminster 🚴‍♀️

After launching the Government’s new Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS), the journey was a good reminder of why active travel matters.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

82% of Britons support nationalising the water industry.

The public gets it, how come govt doesn't?

https://t.co/VgHEJLFCX1

[Guinness World Records @GWR]

Jonathan the tortoise is officially a Guinness World Records ICON ✨

Believed to have been born c. 1832, Jonathan is the oldest living land animal at the grand old age of 194 years. He is a Seychelles giant tortoise and the average life expectancy of his species is 150.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Environment Agency accused of 'lip-service' on sewage crisis after downgrading 96% of serious pollution incidents."

Yep you read that correctly, not only has the EA being allowing water companies to mark their own homework they've being joining in the fun down grading the most serious pollution incidents to get them off their books, close the files and hope no-one notices.

Well, they've been caught.

https://t.co/iWiXAHf0z2

[Lord Sugar @Lord_Sugar]

Watched Brexit programme on BBC today. What would Farage, Johnson and Gove say now. We are in a total mess. Small biz can't do biz easy with EU .The biggest disaster I have experienced in my life time. Sunderland tipped the scales. Nissan only went to Sunderland so they could sell cars to the EU at low prices.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

BT CEO collects £5.58m in pay and bonus, up from £2.48m.

4.1% increase for employees earning less than £30,000, 3% rise for the rest.

BT profit boosted by inflation+ rises in customer bills, job cuts on the way.

No govt checks fat-cattery.
https://t.co/HxFz0aJcpr

[Sheep In Stitches @sheepinstitches]

Stolen from GL4 (Glos) between 9pm Wed 10th & 6am on Thurs 11th June. Landrover 90 TDI. N463 UUX.
V. well used and v. distinctive. Series 3 drivers door, Mercedes front grill badge, multiple scars and dents and stickers including #hawkstonefarmerschoir Please share. Thanks!💔

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

The brilliant @Feargal_Sharkey sums it up

"The whole industry’s got to go. Absolutely, without exception"

Time to end the privatisation rip off diverting 1/3 OF YOUR WATER BILL into shareholder dividends and debt

Are you listening @DefraGovUK ?

https://t.co/s4lIJWp8O1

[steveo @fluffybubbles73]

On #rikmayall anniversary for anyone who has children or infact doesn’t have children sit them in front of a tv n make them watch rik mayalls jackanory, George and the marvellous medicine on you tube you won’t find a better 30 mins of tv anywhere

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Reeves examines using private sector funds to build new towns.

It is PFI renamed as public-private partnerships (PPP).

The state guarantees corporate profits. £1 investment results in £6 repayment.

Cheaper for govt to borrow. It can issue public bonds.
https://t.co/Ve5wuY4reE

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

'Utter disaster’: Alan Bates attacks schemes compensating post office scandal victims.

7 schemes. £1.5bn paid from public purse, could hit £3.5bn.

Zero contribution by Fujitsu, PO execs, other perpetrators.

No one charged for false criminal convictions.
https://t.co/1pkj4Fx051