WhatIsBeeping

Doing the ballet of the perfectly neat sheets to the music of the ICU quartet featuring filter, vent, montior and pumps

[WhatIsBeeping @WhatIsBeeping]

@alisonleary1 Interesting to see how this works where maternity training sits with midwifery and not nursing but it will be largely nurses (depending on the outreach model) who respond to Martha’s rule calls. Where will the additional maternity training for responders come from?

[Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) @thecsp]

‘Advanced practice physiotherapists are highly trained, regulated practitioners who provide expert care to patients in a range of settings across the NHS.

‘Their skills, knowledge and expertise complement what other professions bring to teams treating patients and have an exceptionally strong record on safety.'

The CSP has responded strongly to media claims over the weekend around the safety of advanced practice roles in the NHS.

Read more: https://t.co/wnQtmJ4OUH

[Prof Thuli Madonsela #KindnessBuilds @ThuliMadonsela3]

Not true. You know it Sir!!!!! South Africa has constitutionally mandatory guardrails for the economy and social life that dictate transformative governance to ensure economic parity through restitutive measures as acknowledged by the Constitutional Court in Minister of Finance v Van Heerden. Such are also permissible under Article 1(1) of ICERD which clearly states special measures solely taken to advance disadvantaged groups do not constitute discrimination. Additionally, BEE rules equally apply to black owned companies such as Royal Bafokeng. Also worth noting is that Commerce restrictions for strategic national purposes is not unique to SA. The US forced TikTok and others to have local US ownership. You could say that’s discrimination on the ground of nationality in violation of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights but the truth is it’s more nuanced than that. So Mr Musk, please stop misleading people about your business interests in South Africa. Tell the truth #ConstitutionalGovernance #Justice #Transformation ⚖️🕊️

[Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore]

Every word

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In the autumn of 1942, a slight, 32-year-old Polish social worker named Irena Sendler passed through the gates of the Warsaw Ghetto with a carpenter’s toolbox in her arms. Beneath the hammers and nails lay a drugged six-month-old infant, breathing softly, utterly silent. One cry would have meant instant death for both of them. Irena smiled at the guards; they waved her through. They never suspected that this quiet woman would repeat the journey 2,499 more times.

The ghetto was a slow-motion extermination. Starvation, disease, and random murder stalked every street. Jewish parents faced a choice no human being should ever have to make: keep their child and watch them waste away, or hand them to a stranger who promised a chance—however thin—at life.

Irena came officially to inspect for typhus. In reality, she came to steal children from death.

Babies left in toolboxes or ambulances under false bottoms. Toddlers sedated and tucked into potato sacks. Older children led by the hand through the stinking, lightless sewers while German boots marched overhead. “Not a sound,” she whispered as rats scurried past their feet.

She knew that the rescued children would be given new names, new religions, new families. Their pasts would vanish unless someone remembered. So, on fragile scraps of tissue paper, Irena wrote each child’s real name, their parents’ names, and their new hiding place. She rolled the papers tight, slipped them into glass jars, and buried them beneath an apple tree in a neighbor’s garden. If she were caught and killed, the truth might still survive.

She was caught.

On October 20, 1943, the Gestapo kicked in her door. They took her to Pawiak Prison and demanded the list. When she refused, they smashed both her legs with iron bars. Then her feet. Then her arms. For weeks the beatings continued. She never spoke. They scheduled her execution. On the appointed morning, guards dragged the broken woman from her cell.

Instead of a firing squad, she found herself outside the prison walls—alive. The Polish underground council Żegota had bribed a guard to mark her file “shot while trying to escape.” Officially dead, Irena Sendler limped back into the shadows to keep working.When the war finally ended, the first thing she did was dig up the jars under the apple tree. She spent years trying to return the children—now scattered across convents, farms, and foster homes—to whatever family might remain.

Almost no parents had survived. But the children had. Because of her, 2,500 Jewish boys and girls lived to grow up, to marry, to have children and grandchildren of their own—an entire secret branch of the human family tree that the Nazis never managed to cut down.For decades her story stayed buried deeper than the jars themselves. Then, in 1999, four high-school girls in rural Kansas stumbled across a brief mention of her name. They found the old woman still living quietly in Warsaw and brought her courage back into the light.

Journalists called her the greatest rescuer of the Holocaust. Irena only shook her head.“I could have saved more,” she said. “That regret follows me to the grave.”Irena Sendler—armed with nothing but a ghetto work permit, a toolbox, and a refusal to look away—proved that even in the heart of the worst evil humanity has ever devised, one determined person can still keep the darkness from winning completely.

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

So, as a doctor I can’t accept a plastic pen from a pharmaceutical company because it might influence my prescribing decisions, but MPs can accept thousands in cash from those who want to privatise the NHS and it won’t affect their decision-making??? CTFO
https://t.co/ax78s1RSRJ

[Asylum Matters @AsylumMatters]

"Britain has decided that the girl who fought the Taliban’s agenda, who learned English in secret, who turned down a forced marriage, who won her place, is an asylum risk.
Her name is Bahar. She is 18 years old. She did everything we asked of her."
https://t.co/YnCQAxZo0p

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

Quite simply one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen on here 👇
Whatever you think of the awful Iranian régime, the White House treating bombing raids like a cheap video game is gut-wrenchingly shocking

America, your country is going to hell 👇

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president.

The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo.

Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water.

I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

RFK Hospital: A groundbreaking new series inspired by the medical advice of RFK Jr.

[Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde]

My column on Epstein’s helpful mega-famous friends - who just didn’t care that he went to jail for soliciting minors

https://t.co/XEL00y21q2

[Gordon Brown @GordonBrown]

As the Taliban continue their war on women and girls, it is clear that appeasement has failed
https://t.co/3JJL1XM89l

[robert shrimsley @robertshrimsley]

Oh no, we've lost Liz

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

“It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race.”
~ Karl Stojka, Auschwitz Survivor

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster.

Peter Thiel is now the third wheel in the US-UK ‘special relationship’.

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[Zapiro @zapiro]

Zapiro cartoon published on @dailymaverick (6 January 2026) on It Begins ... @realDonaldTrump - https://t.co/EoEtGO5Uif

[Zakes Mda @ZakesMda]

The American voter has unleashed a madman upon the Earth, and the insane among them are celebrating: “Yeah yeah we are tough! We have balls of steel. We can fuck anyone and everybody in the world.” The sane ones want to rein him in but don’t know how. The best they can do is utter lamentations and wishful thinking on varied media: “That is illegal, that is unconstitutional!” Oh yeah? So what are you going to do about it? Is there no rule of law in your country? Didn’t you proclaim all men are equal before the law? “Oh yes, but all we can say for now is the man has dimentia, his hands are rotting, he has cankles!” and “Oh, he is a pedophile and Epstein will come from the dead and rescue us from him!” and ”Oh, dont worry, age will catch up with him, he’s dead meat as we speak!” Really? Is that’s all you can do? Are your constitutional and statutory systems so weak that they cannot provide any guardsrails against such lawlessness? Meanwhile the madman continues wreaking universal havoc unabated, like an evil comic book villain but with real-life dead bodies piling.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

President Donald Trump has claimed that the US carried out a 'large-scale strike' against Venezuela and captured its leader, President Nicolas Maduro. The abduction of a foreign leader by another state is a serious violation of international law.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Trump 🇺🇸 announces the ‘capture’ of Venezuela 🇻🇪 President Maduro and his wife and has ‘taken’ them to the US 🇺🇸

Airstrikes.
Kidnapping.
Hostage taking.
Mineral theft.
Regime change.

All now mainstream 🇺🇸 foreign policy.

The US 🇺🇸 is a rogue state run by a gangster.

[Bianca van Wyk @BiancavanWyk16]

So let’s get this straight … a country, not at war with the US, has been bombed by the US and its president and his wife were captured and flown out of the country by the US.

On a side-note: Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves.