Anna Walker

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[Gary Younge @garyyounge]

"When people talk about the need for Black Excellence I counter with an insistence on Black mediocrity: the right for black people to be as average, flawed, compromised & mistaken as any other group of people. The right, ultimately, to be human." R.I.P. Jason Arday

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

BIG NEWS!
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[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

No condemnation from our politicians.

No outrage from the media.

No action by the police.

British Muslims are sent a clear message:

You are fair game for hatred.

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

While Labour was trying to Corbynise the Greens, this was going on.

[Nels Abbey @nelsabbey]

Well, this is quite revealing. Had I gifted Zack Polanski £5k, I doubt any self-respecting journalist would have waited until "the elections are out of the way" for him to answer questions about it.

Anti-corruption journalism delayed is corruption enabled.

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party .

Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

@benphillips76 @RimaHas It is very clear what is happening.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Holy crap this is such an antisemitic cartoon wtf

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

A retweet by Zack Polanski is now the main story across every single media outlet.

Two days ago, it was revealed that Nigel Farage failed to disclose a £5 million gift from a crypto-billionaire.

It gets nowhere near the media attention, for straightforward political reasons.

[Cyril @CyrilH44]

Scary as fuck. Fuck that pedophile and everyone who defends him

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba

I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film

As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes

It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions.

But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Hi, environmentalist here. This is bad.

[Momus Najmi @theworldofmomus]

The difference between someone with Tourette's Syndrome and someone who takes offense at the manifestation of their tics is that the one with the syndrome doesn't have control over what they do while the other does.

[Otegha K. Uwagba @OteghaUwagba]

Look forward to seeing a skit implying people in wheelchairs are just pretending they can’t walk, next week on SNL. What a fucking horrendous shit show of a skit, everyone involved in putting this on air should be ashamed.

[NAlison @NAllison89]

That man has faced discrimination his whole life for his condition. Called named, beaten, ostracized, mocked. Yet he handles it with grace. These two who are far more privileged then he will ever be cannot.

[Alan M @Heavy_Boab]

Delroy Lindo called it “a classic case of something that could be very negative becoming very positive.”

For families living with Tourette’s, this past week has not felt positive.

Since the BAFTAs and what happened with John Davidson, I have been arguing that my son deserves to leave his home and be included in society like everyone else.

I have had to explain, again and again, that Tourette’s is neurological.
That tics are involuntary.
That coprolalia is not belief, not intent, not character.

Yet the conversation keeps circling back to whether people like John, and by extension my son, should simply stay home to avoid offending anyone.

Stay home.
Remove yourself.
Do not attend events.
Do not exist publicly in case your disability makes someone uncomfortable.

That is the reality this week.

This is not abstract for me. My son already navigates anxiety and the constant fear of being misunderstood. Inclusion cannot mean only if your disability is convenient. It cannot mean you are welcome as long as you do not embarrass us.

My son deserves to leave the house.
He deserves to attend events.
He deserves to exist in public.

And I am exhausted from having to argue that basic truth.

[sarah 🇵🇸 @sazza_jay]

‘extremist left’ and it’s just a fella who thinks we should use more solar panels and oppose genocides

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The Greens have a 2-point lead among likely voters in Gorton and Denton.

So Labour have just erased the Green Party from their graph.

All Labour have left is deceit.