Vikki Fryer 💙🧡

[Vikki Fryer 💙🧡 @VikkiFryer]

I'm now on Bluesky: https://t.co/qJrklDGyQ8

[Sara Wahedi @SaraWahedi]

At this point I feel like I’m going insane, hundreds of Afghan girls like her are desperate to study and go to university.

Can we get her to 2K, X? We can make her dream come true and we’re so close!

https://t.co/kGYTTw09ZK

[Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen]

An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. This is without a doubt the single best explanation of the reality facing Iranian people today👇

"As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions.

Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation.

So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.

Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse.

A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more."

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

When historians write the chronicle of this scoundrel time (not in the Washington Post, obviously) they will point to what Bezos did for Melania while gutting his own newspaper as the most glaring symptom of cultural collapse in a democracy hanging on to truth and knowledge by the barest of threads.

[Jessica Simor KC @JMPSimor]

Extremely important and rare disclosure here.

[Amina J Mohammed @AminaJMohammed]

Millions of women and girls in Afghanistan face severe restrictions on their basic rights: education, work, security and freedom of movement.

The world must not turn a blind eye to these violations.

Women’s rights are human rights, everywhere.

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

After the Nuremberg Trials, one of the most unsettling conclusions did not come from the courtroom, but from the psychiatrist tasked with evaluating the defendants.

Dr. Douglas Kelley, the U.S. Army psychiatrist assigned to assess many of the senior Nazi officials, expected to find monsters people fundamentally different from the rest of humanity. He did not.

What disturbed him most was how ordinary they were.

They were not raving madmen. They were not obvious sociopaths. They were intelligent, educated, and often convinced they were simply doing their duty, following orders, or serving a higher cause. Kelley warned that this was the real danger: evil does not always look abnormal. It often presents itself as competence, obedience, and institutional loyalty.

His central warning was deeply uncomfortable there are people with morally vacant or destructive tendencies everywhere. In every society. In every era. What determines the outcome is whether systems elevate those people, shield them from accountability, and normalize their behavior, and whether ordinary citizens are willing to question authority when it matters most.

Modern bureaucracies and institutions are powerful precisely because they diffuse responsibility. Decisions are broken into policies, protocols, committees, and “best practices.” Harm is rarely framed as harm; it is reframed as necessity, risk management, or compliance. Individuals are encouraged not to think morally, but procedurally.

This is how ordinary people become capable of extraordinary wrongdoing by outsourcing conscience to institutions and convincing themselves that accountability lies somewhere else.

The lesson of Nuremberg is not that “those people were different.” It is that they were not.

That is why vigilance matters. That is why blind trust in authority is dangerous. And that is why a healthy society must protect dissent, accountability, and moral courage especially when it is inconvenient.

History does not repeat itself because people forget facts. It repeats itself when people convince themselves, “It could never happen here.”

[Max Kendix @MaxKendix]

Hidden in a very eventful press conference, this answer by Nigel Farage about Ukraine does feel significant

The criticism of Zelensky/Ukraine will surely be used as an attack line by Labour

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Well!!! Once a Murdoch hack and a Robbie Gibb pal always a Murdoch hack and a Robbie Gibb pal I guess …. This whole BBC nonsense has been a right wing stitch up from start to finish. EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quotes https://t.co/BwcwMzHE7k

[Vikki Fryer 💙🧡 @VikkiFryer]

@exitthelemming So sorry to hear this, Sam. My condolences to you and your family.

[Sara Wahedi @SaraWahedi]

The Taliban has banned 140+ books written by women in Afghan universities. Texts that ranged from safety protocols in chemistry, botany, to literature.

The last traces of Afghan women in academia erased under “sharia law.” The future of the country is dystopia.

[HOPE not hate @hopenothate]

🚨 Yesterday we saw Britain’s largest ever far-right protest with police estimating 110,000 people in attendance for Tommy Robinson's “Unite the Kingdom” rally.

Read our analysis of the day with all the details of just how extreme it really was.

https://t.co/2UptwicQhc

[Sara Wahedi @SaraWahedi]

This is gender apartheid by the Taliban.

Women aid workers are banned. Men are not allowed to treat women.

That means women and girls are left with no care, and they die from preventable causes.

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

See Nigel Farage misspeaking over and over again in the actual video where he ‘misspoke’ (lied):

https://t.co/lxOcSdj0a1

@standardnews - you might want to share this.

In fact, anyone viewing it should.

Farage says he misspoke that he bought home in Clacton purchased by partner

https://t.co/xqaO1zzpJ5

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Oswald Mosley and Nigel Farage. The same story separated by 60 years.

[Lisa Nandy MP @lisanandy]

No one can ever take away what Angela Rayner has achieved.

Her journey, from a working class background to Deputy Prime Minister is unparalleled.

A colleague, a friend and a force for good in our party and country.

[Malala Yousafzai @Malala]

For four years, Afghan girls and women have led a liberation movement — fighting to end gender apartheid through classrooms, courtrooms and coalitions.

@MalalaFund is continuing to back this fight with $3 million in grants to keep girls learning and defend their rights. Learn more about our new grant partners: https://t.co/0YcWqZl4fH.

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

Cairo on Tuesday 10th February 1914 - this Dervish entrepreneur is selling drinks to passers by in a fabulous Egyptian autochrome that I originally cleaned-up in 2020 amongst the very first batch of Autochromes I ever tackled. It was taken by Auguste Léon 111 years ago and is original colour, not colourised.

[Malala Yousafzai @Malala]

For 4 years, Afghan girls & women have fearlessly fought to hold the Taliban accountable — protesting, organising and advocating at great personal risk.

Their resistance is reshaping international law, influencing world leaders & building momentum to codify gender apartheid as a crime against humanity.

Read more about how Afghan women are turning resistance into global action: https://t.co/rXP2aD98r4

[Vikki Fryer 💙🧡 @VikkiFryer]

Thank you, Sonny 🤍

[Tottenham Hotspur @SpursOfficial]

Seoul salutes a Spurs and Korean icon.

Nice one, Sonny 🤍

[Vikki Fryer 💙🧡 @VikkiFryer]

Congratulations @Lionesses ⚽️🦁🦁🦁

[Lionesses @Lionesses]

It's home, again.