Kasik

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

I don't want lower taxes.

I want hospital beds.

Trains that run on time.

Kids who aren't too hungry to learn.

Libraries in every town.

Rivers that don't run with slurry.

Local councils not forced into bankruptcy.

Politicians who don't venally line their own pockets.

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

On this day 82 years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the height of insanity of racism after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, signed Executive Order 9066.

It ordered all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be summarily rounded up and imprisoned within 10 barbed wire prison camps, with no charges, no trial, no due process.

One day, a few months later, we saw two soldiers marching up our driveway, carrying rifles with shiny bayonets on them. They stopped up the porch right in front of our window and banged on the front door. My father answered, and one of the soldiers pointed the rifle at him, right in front of us, and ordered us out of our home. I had just turned five in April; it was May when they came to take us away.

My father gave my brother Henry and me two heavy suitcases. And we brought them out onto the driveway and waited for our mother to come out. When she did, she had our baby sister in one arm, a huge duffel bag in the other, and tears were streaming down her cheeks.

That is one morning that is seared into my memory. I will never be able to forget all the innocent people, my family included, who had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor, most of who were law abiding U.S. citizens, who were suddenly categorized as ‘enemy aliens.’

Today, I hear terrifying words from political leaders today that once more raise the specter of what happened before, right here in America.

Donald Trump and his allies are talking about rounding up 11 million people and putting them into mass detention camps before deporting them.

There won’t be time for due process, to sort out who is documented and who is not. Homes will be lost. Businesses, too. Families will be torn apart. Lives will be ruined, over fear and ignorance, all to serve the ambitions and agendas of politicians.

I know, because I lived through it.

I say, never again. Not while I have one ounce of fight still left in me.

Join me. Fight this madness. Help keep America from repeating the mistakes of its past.

[Mark Stephens @MarksLarks]

The Christmas book tree sponsored by Hatchards books at St. Pancras Station.

The little booths at the bottom have speakers that read you a story while you wait for your train.

[Kasik @MakcabK]

#HelloAutumn 🍁🍂☕️🥧📚

[Kasik @MakcabK]

@daja57 @PenguinUKBooks Just finished and loved it too! 👏👏👏

[Kasik @MakcabK]

@Tupusinski know what that feels like 😅

[Amanda @Pandamoanimum]

When my husband is watching any televised sporting event that England are competing in, I know exactly how they’re doing, even when I’m not in the room, by the amount/variety/intensity of the swearing I can hear from him.

[Kasik @MakcabK]

@Leic_hospital 👏🥳💫

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

What's your favourite book?

Here six master storytellers reflect on the power of books - celebrating the written world of human experience and imagination.

#WorldBookDay

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

BREAKING 🚨 | The gender pay gap is now 14.9%.

This means women have worked from January 1st to today - 54 days - for FREE.

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Rachael Dean
time to relax

[Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell]

‘There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.’ ✨
—CS Lewis

[Penguin Books UK @PenguinUKBooks]

‘The beginning is always today.’

Mary Shelley, The Short Stories of Mary Shelley

#WednesdayWisdom

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

This is just heartbreaking. I thought it was bad in the 90's - but as a junior doctor, I never had to triage people sitting in cars outside hospital.
@DrHilaryJones says "I've never seen anything like it... If it doesn’t change quickly the NHS is finished"

[Jason Isaacs @jasonsfolly]

Wishing everybody a 2023 free from hate, from blame, from feeling worse (or better) than anyone else and from hopelessness. The world may seem off its axis but when you look, there is light, love and kindness everywhere too. May you find and spread gratitude wherever you go.
#HNY

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

I wish I had an infinite number of years to read the infinite number of books I long to read.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

NHS nurses hold the hands, tend the wounds, save the lives, wash the dead. They comfort us, console us, diagnose us, save us. They toil & smile & endlessly care.

Not a single NHS nurse wants to strike tomorrow. They’re desperate.

Please show NHS nurses some love. Please RT 💙

[Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru]

This is a superb visualization of European history (1500-2022).
https://t.co/e87t1bKxYC

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

OK.
5 prime ministers in 6 years.
Serial chaos, serial lies & economic collapse.
Enough is enough.

RT if you want a general election NOW.