To my progressive comrades and kind friends in the US and globally: Like you, empathy is what made me want to organise. You can’t watch little kids, already with odds stacked overwhelmingly against them, go hungry, live in fear, (1/4)
a world where the very air we breath and water we drink is bloodied and muddied and poisoned - this is not a world worth growing up for. And to think, the preposterous alternative is right here within touching distance. A breath away, a black cat’s whisker. (3/4)
Tweets about Palestine no longer go viral. The genocide is no longer trending. Back to business as usual. The normalization of our people’s slaughter is sweeping across the West, whose leaders provide the nails being driven into the hearts of our children.
The fetishization of the vote in a managed democracy like the US is bad. If you want real change, yes; you should vote. But it’s nowhere near the top of the list of what you should be doing. (If you truly care)💫
Chomsky on the quadrennial extravaganza. 👇🏼
🚨 BREAKING
Hundreds of workers and trade unionists have blockaded the Foreign Office to demand the new Labour government ends its complicity in the genocide in Gaza and immediately suspends all arms to Israel.
82,000 children in the UK are looked after by their local authority. In today's podcast, @thatdunleavy is talking to @RebekahPierre92 about the new anthology she edited, #FreeLoavesOnFridays, and what life is like for those children growing up in care. https://t.co/RMOwMy7BVM
Clean Up The Internet's founder @Kinsellas sets out how tackling harm from fake and anonymous social media accounts would contribute to several of the new Labour Government priority "missions" - and why failing to could create obstacles to delivery.
https://t.co/V5d3BWObmp
@_amiekirby 100% - the denial (due to lack of vulnerability many feel) is very real, but also it cost me £5 for one test which is madness too! Basically it’s another governmental dereliction of duty isn’t it - glad you avoided a bad one mate🤢
Oh look - someone who's actually gone to the trouble of talking with trans people when talking about trans issues! It can be done! https://t.co/HveoXfi8OR
URGENT: Last chance to act 🚨
Water companies are lobbying hard to increase your bills to inflation-busting levels.
Tell Ofwat's CEO that polluters, not the public, must pay to clean up our water ⬇️
https://t.co/8Q7ZVnT31i