AlizonRobertson

Writer of crime fiction and ghost stories. Querying The Lantern Bearers. New WIP The Grief Companions. Former Creative Writing tutor and English Lit lecturer.

[The Left Bible @theleftbible]

Repost if you do not stand with Israel 💪

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

We're nearly there 96,353 and counting. Do your thing internet.

As for that vacuous act of futility that is govt's response?

The Sewage Campaign Network has asked for a right to reply, we want to be able to write to the very same people govt did shredding their nonsense response.

Sign now, sign today.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: EVERYONE NEEDS TO HEAR THIS.

Senator Mark Kelly just completely torched Donald Trump:

"When Donald Trump was driving the Taj Mahal casino into bankruptcy, I was getting shot at over Iraq and Kuwait. In 2001, after Donald Trump said that the collapse of the Twin Towers now meant he now owned the tallest skyscraper in Manhattan, I was carrying flags honoring 911 victims into space on a rocket ship. In 2003, when Donald Trump was writing birthday greetings to the monster, Jeffrey Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts who died when Space Shuttle Columbia exploded during re-entry. In 2011, when Trump was hosting a reality show, and peddling conspiracy theories against President Barack Obama, I was sitting next to my wife’s hospital bed as she recovered from a gunshot wound to the head."

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[Iranian Force @MrImranPk]

Retweet if you believe Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Big Green Bookshop @Biggreenbooks]

SIGNED BOOK NEWS

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[Big Green Bookshop @Biggreenbooks]

I'VE SOLD A BOOK!!!!

[Big Green Bookshop @Biggreenbooks]

Thanks for all the retweets.

Imagine if I actually sell a book because of this.

I'll let you know if I do.

[Big Green Bookshop @Biggreenbooks]

I'm posting a load of tweets about SIGNED books.

One person chosen at random who retweets any tweet I do today about SIGNED books will win the paperback of their choice.

You can retweet them all for more chances to win.

I'll announce the winner at about 10pm

GOOD LUCK!

[AlizonRobertson @RobertsonAlizon]

@Helen_Fields @WomackPhilip wtf!

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The Government is considering scrapping the NHS-Palantir deal.

Do you want Palantir out of the NHS?

RT if you do.

#PalantirOUT

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see.

This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Blaming asylum seekers for homelessness? What about the 720,000 empty homes in England, and the 1,627,450 second homes in England alone.

Blaming asylum seekers for expensive food shops? What about the £3,100,000,000 profit Tesco made last year?

Blaming asylum seekers for expensive energy bills? What about the £438,000,000,000 made by just 20 energy companies in profit?

Blaming immigrants for not getting an NHS appointment? What about the 260,000+ migrant workers keeping the NHS going? And what about the 25% real term cut in NHS funding, think that could do it?

Blaming people on welfare for a lack of money to fund the NHS? What about the £36,000,000,000 tax gap due to avoidance and evasion by the elite?

It's time to realise it's not immigrants, asylum seekers or people on welfare causing you any harm, it's capitalism and the mega rich hoarding all the wealth.

[AlizonRobertson @RobertsonAlizon]

@JoeEvener @cjtudor @MSOlney1 How would they know when you query your work?

[AlizonRobertson @RobertsonAlizon]

@Eyeswideopen69 @griffitha I can understand Joe Bloggs not knowing that we don't own our oil and gas reserves (or much else for that matter) but the ignorance of people who should know better or who- to save themselves the embarrassment -might have done a tiny bit of research...

[AlizonRobertson @RobertsonAlizon]

@BeckyLTuch I see it often in longer posts: repetition/opposition/rule of three/mix of sentences. Rhetorical devices as a teacher I encouraged students to use. But it's bland. It all looks the same. No personality. No unique voices. And the word 'quietly' finding its way into everything.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

> 70 years ago, Iran looked just like any Western country.
> Short skirts, rock’n’roll, open universities.
> It’s 1953. Iran elects a secular socialist: Mohammad Mossadegh.
> He nationalizes oil. That pisses off BP.
> Cold War excuse.
> CIA and MI6 stage a coup. Operation Ajax.
> Mossadegh is overthrown.
> They install the Shah, a brutal US-backed dictator.
> Secret police. Torture chambers.
> Iran turns into a puppet state.
> People are that desperate, they turn to Khomeini, an exiled cleric, promising independence and dignity.
> 1979: Islamic Revolution.
> The Shah flees.
> US embassy stormed. Hostage crisis.
> America never forgives.
> Arms Saddam Hussein.
> Iraq invades Iran.
> US provides chemical weapons, satellite intel, logistics.
> 1 million Iranians die.
> Iranian kids sent into minefields with plastic keys around their necks.
> US shoots down Iran Air Flight 655
> 290 civilians dead.
> No apology.
> Fast forward today, Israel attacks Iran.
> The U.S. immediately says “we stand with Israel.”
> They talk about “regime change.”
> They say that Iranians “deserve freedom.”
> No mention of the coup they started.
> No mention of the dictator they installed.
> No mention of the war they fueled.
> No mention of the decades of sanctions and sabotage.
> They created the monster, and now they attacked it because it was still breathing.
> Watch who they try to put on the throne next.
> The son of the Shah is already being presented as the “alternative.”
> The same dynasty.
> The same foreign backing.
>The same promises of stability.
> History will repeats itself.
> And it’s not gonna end well.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Wes Streeting who blocked me for calling out donations from his pals in the private healthcare sector has been up to his old tricks again, he is set to receive £53,000 from OPD Group Ltd in 4 installments from January to December this year to support “staffing costs in my constituency office”.
OPD Ltd is owned by Peter Hearn who got rich from his recruitment firms such as Odgers Berndtson that has a ‘global healthcare practice’ within which it works for private healthcare.
The ministerial code looks set to be bent even further out of shape under Streeting.
@PrivateEyeNews

[AlizonRobertson @RobertsonAlizon]

@SteveLongstaffe What cares colon for Lent!

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING :

The UN accuses Israel of committing EXTERMINATION in Gaza.

EXTERMINATION.

Repeat it. Spread it. Let the world know.

“Israel is responsible for extermination, murder, using starvation as a method of war..”

—The UN Human Rights Council