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[GiveMeSport @GiveMeSport]

🗣️ "One thing that I would just ask, sign a right back!"

Prime MInister Andy Burnham talks Everton and calls for the club to sign a right back this summer 🤣

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

Caroline Lucas, Chris Packham, George Monbiot and others are asking you to add your signature to a petition, putting pressure on the government to hold a televised emergency briefing on the risks of climate and nature breakdown. They need 100,000 signatures. https://t.co/saHaqs34wf

[Everton Women @EvertonWomen]

🫂 A warm welcome back.

[Atlanta Rey 📚 @areyoflight]

I’m disabled and I’m sick of the current rhetoric against disabled people 👇

We’re vilified as lazy, scroungers who fake our disabilities because we’re workshy.

Headlines scream that we steal from hardworking taxpayers or scamming the government into giving us free designer cars.

Our diagnoses are challenged by politicians and strangers online. We’re told our illnesses aren’t real disabilities or that we don’t try hard enough. We’re a welfare bill, not people.

Hacks without any experience of disability telling us don’t try hard enough. Comment pieces belittling our suffering, dismissing us as malingerers.

Some people even go as far as demanding that disabled people are locked up or worse, culled.

And yet no-one asks disabled people what it is like to be us. The moment we have opinions, we’re shut down and hounded.

The moment we no longer serve as inspiration porn, they want us gone.

[Everton Women @EvertonWomen]

💙 Upon full-time, Meg was gifted a book filled with written messages from friends, players and staff.

👏 Proud of you, skip!

[Danny @Danny_EFC6]

That clup of him at Goodison praising the fans when he was at Brentford is a pretty cool thing to have in an announcement video can’t lie

Again, think this is good business 👍🏻

[India Willoughby @IndiaWilloughby]

Terfs are just horrible people. They are anti women.

[Vikki (they/she)👩🏻‍🦼🏳️‍🌈🧚🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♀️🐲🦄 ♿️ @vix_the_star]

Not content with going after trans people, I see Kathleen Stock has now turned n disabled young women. Accusing them of faking disabilities and not needing mobility aids. What a nasty piece of work. Clearly not someone looking out for women and girls.

[Everton @Everton]

Fireworks and earthquakes... 👀

Christian Nørgaard's memories of the Blues! 🔵

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

Nadia Sawalha has confirmed she is planning legal action against ITV following her absence from Loose Women.
She was told "it's all abit noisy out there "

Having myself been told by tv I'm abit "too much " - I find it astonishing as a woman - that you will be cancelled for Having er - an opinion! Wow

I guess itv and daytime programming are worried about advertising revenue more than actually truths being told and freedom of speech.

[Merseyside Police @MerseyPolice]

We are appealing for help in finding a 15 year-old girl who is missing in Kirkby.

Ebony-Jade Lynn was last seen at 12.40pm today, Thursday 6 August.

She is described as a white female, 5ft 11in tall, with brunette hair.

When last seen she was wearing white joggers, a grey zip-up long sleeve top and white trainers.

She is known to visit the Chorley area.

If you see Ebony-Lynn please call 999 so we can make sure she’s safe.

Alternatively, you can pass on any information by calling 101 or contacting us on social media @MerPolCC. You can also pass on any sightings via our form: https://t.co/u5cnQjBzYq

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Powerful speech by Naturalist Chris Packham speaking alongside Zack Polanski on the subject of Climate Change,

"To the disappointment of many, football didn’t come home this summer, but to the pain and suffering of millions, climate breakdown has. And our government and media response has displayed a total dereliction of duty in a time of extreme crisis."

"As we’ve heard, in May and June there were 3,000 deaths attributed to the heat domes that have hung over the UK. Heat exhaustion, heat stroke, stress on the heart and kidneys, and of course those mental health issues that you’ve just talked about."

"In Europe, the figure is somewhere between 14,000 and 20,000 up until the end of July, and it’s expected to double by the end of this summer. So we’re looking at potentially 50,000 deaths across Europe."

"If these deaths had been the result of terrorism or a pandemic, the government would have cancelled its summer holiday, it would have held COBRA meetings, and there would be public information campaigns the likes of which we saw during COVID, designed to protect us in this time of crisis."

"And yet what do we get? We get rumours of possibly more drilling for oil and gas, and we get articles in the Telegraph which suggest that we ought to adapt to a Mediterranean climate. If that isn’t reckless and irresponsible, I don’t know what is."

"What we do need at this point is to listen to the science, not to the ongoing malevolent raft of mis- and disinformation that’s perpetuated in politics, in public life and certainly across social media."

"If we listen to the science, we see that the climate models that were devised in the 1990s have actually proved to be pretty accurate. But those who do try and transmit the information to us, people like the IPCC, which are often derided as alarmists by the right and the far right, have actually been too cautious."

"What we see, for instance, when it comes to the heatwaves, is that they are occurring more quickly and more regularly than those models suggest. We’re updating the science as it happens. What we also see is that it’s not just a lack of water which is leading to the drought, although that might seem painfully obvious. It’s actually being exacerbated by extremely high temperatures."

"And that has an impact on the environment, the environment that I care so much about and we are all dependent upon. Across the world, there have been 35,000 wildfires. In the UK, there have been 66 major wildfires. But let’s not focus on 66, because that sounds quite a small number. In one fire and rescue service, Berkshire, they’ve attended over 250 outdoor fires so far this summer. So the number of grass fires and so forth is going to be significantly higher than that."

"Drawing upon an underfunded, under-resourced organisation at the front line of dealing with a crisis that is impacting all of us. So lives have been lost, homes have been destroyed, businesses have been ruined. The clean-up cost – just look at Palisades in America – is incomprehensible. We simply can’t afford it."

"And then from my perspective, the damage to wildlife, which has got scant mention, of course, because as ever we put human interest first because they’re most immediate. And you might think, well, Chris is bound to bang on about the wildlife because he loves the birds and the bees. Yes, the birds and the bees, which form resilient ecosystems which allow us to produce the food that we eat. We have to protect nature in order to protect ourselves."

"So you might think, okay, the UK, the wildfires – they’ve all been out there on the heaths in Suffolk, they’ve been burning patches of heathland on the Isle of Wight. Not many homes have been destroyed. Well, the Ordnance Survey say that 1.8 million homes are at risk in the UK by looking at their maps and seeing which homes are adjacent to areas which have significant wildfire risk. 1.8 million homes at risk. So far, compared to Europe, we’ve just got away lightly and we’ve just been lucky."

"How many firefighting planes do you think that we’ve got in the UK? How many firefighting planes in the UK, exactly? Zero planes. Which is why, as Zack said, when that fire was burning at Dunwich, the National Trust had to hire a helicopter and pay for it to drag water out of the sea and dump it on that precious piece of habitat, because there are no firefighting planes."

"Is there a public warning system in place which will tell people when there’s a risk of wildfire so that they can be prepared to evacuate and have evacuation plans in place? Well, do you know what? There is. It’s available to the fire and rescue service, but it isn’t available to the public because it’s deemed to be unreliable. Is it unreliable, or is it just a bit too scary? We couldn’t even instigate a ban on disposable barbecues."

"Okay, there are the problems. What about the solutions? Because look, there’s no point in just pointing out the problems. What we must do at this point is offer people real and accessible opportunities to be part of a solution rather than an ongoing part of the problem."

"Well, the first thing already: we’ve got to enact far more rapidly that transition to renewable energy for energy security, to reduce the cost of energy and its volatility that we’ve seen constantly across the world this year, which is having a significant impact not just on the cost of oil, but on the cost of living and global economic stability. It would also generate jobs, as it has in those countries that have invested significantly in those industries, most notably China. Talk of drilling oil – Rosebank, Blackbird, Jackdaw – is simply madness. We’ve got to just stop oil."

"We also need a transition in the way that we eat. This is intricately important when it comes to protecting the environment, everything that lives there, and ourselves. We need a transition to a plant-based diet. It’s healthier for people. If any of you have had bacon or sausage for breakfast this morning, do you know that you’ve ingested a category A carcinogen? That’s it – as toxic as tobacco. You may not. You may have just enjoyed your sausage and bacon. Why do you not know that processed red meat is actually really bad for you?"

"Animal agriculture is responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. It is also the leading driver of biodiversity loss. That biodiversity, that richness of life, that resilience in those ecological communities which we use to produce our food – we’ve got to change the way that we eat and produce that food, and we’ve got to provide sufficient support for farmers through that transition. And at the moment, they’re not getting that. In fact, they’re getting less and less and their life is becoming increasingly difficult."

"We’ve got to address the mis- and disinformation, and we’ve got to do that with positive information campaigns. We’ve got to have people’s minds on the front foot so they know what’s true before they hear the lies. Then they will question the lies. Otherwise we know what happens. If you tell a lie frequently enough, it eventually becomes the truth, and that’s what we’re suffering from. We can’t afford net zero? We can’t not afford net zero. And we’re beginning to see that that’s the case."

"We’ve got to sort out the media. I’ve been fantasising this year that we could perhaps criminalise climate denial. We should certainly criminalise irresponsible journalism. I’ve highlighted the Telegraph, but I’m going to leave you with something that I read on the BBC yesterday: ‘How to survive a heatwave wedding.’ How to survive a heatwave wedding. Point number five: beware of buttercream. This popular wedding cake ingredient is likely to melt if not kept cool. Likely to melt? A bit like my patience and all of our hope."

"It’s time for bold, brave, informed leadership. And we are not getting it. We need Andy Burnham to step up before we and our only home burn down. Thank you."

[LubnanBoi🇵🇸🇱🇧 🇮🇷 @AgitatorAK]

Dear @JeremyClarkson I saw this on my feed on another platform and instantly thought you needed to see it.

"Jeremy Clarkson thinks people who receive benefits should have to send a weekly thank you email to a randomly chosen working person, explaining what they did with the money, or have their payments stopped.

So here is mine. If you’d like to give it a share to help Jeremy see it, that would be great.

Dear Jezza,

Thank you for your concern about my contribution to society.

I should say first that you were aiming this at young people you believe are sitting at home doing nothing.

But you wrote it as a blanket rule applying to everyone whose benefits are paid.

That includes more than thirteen million pensioners, millions of people who receive benefits while working, who may find themselves being ordered to thank another benefit claimant, and me.

I receive PIP.

That money goes towards the Motability car I use to travel to work.

It is not a free car. It is not even my car. I exchange the mobility part of my PIP to lease it.

The car takes the lot.

Which is awkward, because that same payment is also meant to help cover the additional costs of being disabled, including a wheelchair that is actually usable for my job and hearing aids that allow me to do it.

There is nothing left for either.

I chose the thing that gets me to work.

That car enables me to work and, because I can work, I now pay considerably more in tax than I have ever received in PIP.

But my contribution does not end with my own tax bill.

I have built programmes that hundreds of people now use to earn a living.

They pay tax too.

Those programmes have helped thousands of people overcome anxiety, return to their lives and, in many cases, return to work.

Then there are all the people supported by the coaches and practitioners I have trained.

That is what disability support can do when it is designed to enable people rather than humiliate them.

My PIP did not disappear into some great benefits black hole.

It helped provide the transport that allowed me to work, build a business, create opportunities for other people and contribute far more than I could ever have done without it.

But as we are exchanging thank you letters, perhaps you could send me one too.

I paid my television licence throughout the years the BBC gave you the platform that made you famous.

I now pay for Amazon Prime, which helps fund the television programme about your farm.

I do not choose to watch it.

But that is how society works, Jeremy.

We all contribute towards things we may never personally use because the entire country would fall apart if every payment had to provide us with an individual benefit.

Perhaps you could also thank the taxpayers whose public services and infrastructure support your businesses.

And while you have the stationery out, perhaps you could explain the farm.

In 2021, you told The Times that avoiding inheritance tax was “the critical thing” in your decision to buy land.

In 2024, when that became rather inconvenient, you said it had never been true. You claimed you had actually bought the farm because you wanted somewhere to shoot and that tax avoidance had simply sounded like a better story at the time.

I am not sure which version helps your argument.

It is funny how public support and clever tax arrangements are treated as perfectly respectable when they benefit wealthy people.

Yet when a disabled person receives help to leave the house, go to work and participate in society, you think they should be made to perform gratitude.

So thank you for your concern, Jezza.

I hope my licence fee, Amazon subscription, taxes and contribution to the economy have all been gratefully received.

Please send your thank you letter weekly, along with a full breakdown of how you spent the money.

If it is not sufficiently fulsome and effusive, I assume your income will be stopped.

That is only fair."

[DPAC @Dis_PPL_Protest]

#HateCrime

Solidarity to @cheryleehouston
Big love too. Thoughts are with you

Coronation Street’s Cherylee Houston has shared details about the abuse she suffers regarding her disability.

https://t.co/2APs9MII8X

[Danny @doglab]

It takes 3.2 seconds to RT and help find and locate 11 year old Rory who was last seen in the Pwllypant area of Caerphilly on Wednesday
Rory from Ebbw Vale in Blaenau Gwent was last seen on New Street in the Pwllypant area of Caerphilly on Wednesday, July 29 please call 116 000

[EFC_FanAdvisoryBoard @EFC_FanAdvisory]

Enclosed is the full #EFC FAB Statement by Co-Chairs Joanne Davies and Fawad Munir

“Everton supporters deserve fairness, transparency, and respect. The Premier League and the Football Association must explain how these decisions can be considered proportionate or equitable.’’

[EFC DAILY @EFCdaily_]

🚨 @EFC_FanAdvisory statement this evening 🔵

[the hill dicko gang @TerryCoghlan1]

Love iiiiiiiiiiit