ged king

lucky to be a therapist working in children and yps charity. Lover of cats and fond of teenagers.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

This Iranian artist, Parastoo Ahmadi, has been sentenced to 74 lashes for "dressing inappropriately and singing".

Flogging is one of the most painful forms of torture for the human body.

$300 billion will go to her torturers.

[United Nations @UN]

As conflicts escalate across the world, an alarming number of girls and boys are falling victim to rape, sexual slavery, forced marriage and trafficking.

On the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, @antonioguterres calls for an end to this abhorrent crime. https://t.co/HE5aTIrXQw

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

“What’re you in for mate?”

“Cleaning a river without a permit. What about you?”

@EnvAgency is really plumbing new depths of malevolent uselessness here.

[👑 دریـــا 🇮🇷🇦🇺 @yaroomanian]

His body was covered in wounds held together with staples.

He was 17 years old.

Yasin Davoudnabi, a teenage wrestler from Narmak, Tehran, was arrested during the January protests. Days later, his body was returned to his family. It had signs of severe torture.

But the horror did not end with his death. One of the friends who had been with him during those nights reportedly attempted suicide after learning what had happened. Sadra Daneshmayeh, died from the grief of losing him.

That is how much Yasin’s death shattered the people around him.

He was only 17 years old.

#IranMassacre‌
#KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran
#جاویدشاه

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

More than 150 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas have been infected with influenza over the past three weeks — less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated against the flu. https://t.co/2lDEzePV2O

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

This is a fascinating and detailed investigation into the arson attack on Keir Starmer’s house - for which two men with Ukrainian links were found guilty at the Old Bailey yesterday.

It shows how the attacks were just one part of an extensive campaign of sabotage, provocation and lies leading all the way to the Russian state - which included attempts to divide British communities and smear the PM.

https://t.co/0VOA20055r

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This is Officer Caroline Edwards and she was one of the Capitol Police that defended the Capitol on J6 during the Insurrection. The rioters attacked her cracking her head open & leaving her with a permanent brain injury. Trump said it was Peaceful and full of Love that day!

[Matthew Adrien✝️🇮🇷🇮🇱 @RealMattAdrien]

DON’T LOOK AWAY!

Be his voice before it’s too late.

Farzad Alaei Sheykh Robat, 20
Resident of Isfahan

He was arrested in January by the Islamic regime security forces, subjected to forced confession under severe torture & pressure, & has been sentenced to death.

@FoxNews @nypost @DailyMail @hrw

#JavidShah‌‌‌‌‌
#KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran

[Dov Forman @DovForman]

There is a history lesson that the British Museum might usefully teach, were it still in the business of teaching history rather than surrendering it to the heckler’s veto.

It goes like this: when a society can no longer protect its Jews in the public square, cannot guarantee that a talk about ancient archaeology will not be shut down by a mob, it has already lost something foundational. The Jews are not the only ones who should be alarmed. They are simply the first.

Yesterday the British Museum, founded in 1753, repository of civilisation's deepest memory, cancelled a Jewish Culture Month event on the kingdoms of Ancient Israel and Judah. Not because the content was controversial. Not because the speaker, Dr Paul Collins, was provocative. But because a "significant number" of registered attendees had pre-planned to disrupt it. The bullies, in other words, didn't even need to show up. The threat alone was sufficient. The institution folded. A talk about archaeology, about pottery and inscriptions from a civilisation nearly three thousand years old, was considered too dangerous to host.

Let that sink in. This is Britain in 2026.

The museum's statement was a masterpiece of institutional euphemism. It spoke of its “responsibility to ensure that events hosted within the Museum can proceed safely.” It noted, with some delicacy, its commitment to "freedom of expression in a democratic society." What it did not say - what it could not quite bring itself to say - is that a group of activists committed to the erasure of any Jewish connection to the land of Israel decided that even academic archaeology was an affront, and that rather than face them down, Britain's foremost cultural institution chose to stand aside.

This is not a security decision. It is a political one. And it carries a clear message: that organised intimidation works.

Worse still, it is not even an isolated incident. Last year, the Russell-Cotes Museum in Bournemouth postponed an exhibition on Jewish life in the town, citing “security concerns” and what it called a “sensitive time.” The exhibition, funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund, celebrating a century and a half of Jewish community life, was quietly shelved. It came after a Jewish man had been shot with an air rifle in Bournemouth's East Cliff neighbourhood and swastika graffiti had been painted on a local rabbi's home.

Then there was Edinburgh. Last summer, two Jewish comedians had their shows cancelled from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after staff members raised "safety concerns". One of them, Philip Simon, said afterwards: "I am still processing the concept that in 2025 I can be cancelled just for being Jewish."

This is a story that Jews in this country have grown sickeningly familiar with. The language changes slightly each time - "security concerns," "sensitive period," "logistical challenges" - but the outcome is always the same: Jewish culture retreats and the mob advances.

And now the British Museum. The pattern is not coincidental. It is the incremental, bureaucratically managed exclusion of Jews from British public life - achieved not through legislation, not through violence, but through the quiet, cowardly calculation that accommodating the mob is less trouble than standing with the minority it targets.

"London is for everyone" - except, it appears, for Jewish Londoners who wish to attend a talk about ancient history without requiring a security cordon and police guard. "Antisemitism has no place here" - except, it seems, at public galleries, comedy and theatre venues, university campuses across London, and now the British Museum. When a city's most celebrated cultural institution cannot guarantee the safety of a lecture on ancient pottery, the mayor's solemn pledges ring not as reassurance but as insult.

The British Museum's statement said the decision was taken "to protect the event, not to diminish it." This is precisely the kind of sentence that tells you everything while appearing to say nothing. What the museum was actually protecting was not the event - which it cancelled - but itself: its staff, its management, its desire not to be in the newspapers for the wrong reasons. The result, of course, is that it is in the newspapers for the worst possible reason. The protesters won without stepping through the door. And the institution that holds the Rosetta Stone and the Elgin Marbles, that has survived the Blitz and two world wars and three centuries of global upheaval, has demonstrated that it cannot survive a vocal mob with bad intentions.

Public money flows generously to these institutions. If they cannot maintain a basic standard of intellectual courage in exchange for it - if they will cancel Jewish history at the first whiff of organised hostility - then serious questions about that compact are not only legitimate but urgent.

What is needed is not sympathy but spine. The British Museum should have taken the measures necessary - whatever they were - to allow the event to go ahead on the planned date. If it lacked the resources, it should have asked for them. If it lacked the legal tools, the Government should long since have provided them. The Director should have stood at the door, personally if necessary, and said: this institution does not negotiate with intimidation. Instead, it issued a statement of regret, rescheduled to a date yet to be confirmed and hoped the story would blow over.

My great-grandmother, Lily Ebert, survived Auschwitz. She spent the remainder of her long life trying to understand how a continent of supposedly civilised nations - with their museums, their universities, their cultural institutions - had permitted the systematic exclusion, humiliation, and ultimately murder of its Jews: one bureaucratic decision at a time, each supposedly reasonable in isolation, each contributing to a logic that ended in catastrophe. She did not ask future generations to simply remember. She asked them to act.

The British Museum will, no doubt, host the talk eventually. It will be rescheduled for a quieter moment, with more security, with fewer registered protestors, with a smaller Jewish audience too. It will be, in all the ways that matter, a diminished thing. And the people who believe that Jewish culture has no place in British public life will note that their tactics worked. And they will use them again.

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

Big surprise. Dell has won a fat contract with the Department of Defense.

Trump has been buying Dell stock. Then going on the road promoting them and now coincidentally Dell wins this contract.

Oh did I mention they donated millions to Trump.

They are self-dealing in daylight and don't care who knows about it.

Meanwhile inflation is up. Wages aren't keeping up with the high costs.

But Biden…

#DemsUnited

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

Hey MAGA Texans.

Let me introduce you to Adam Hoffman. He raped his son’s best friend from the age of six years old to nine years old. For three years this man raped a little boy.

Paxton made sure his buddy only got a 60 day sentence. Oh wait it gets better, he didn't even serve the full sixty days.

Wait wait, it's gets even better. He doesn't have to register as a sex offender and his record has been wiped clean.

MAGA maniacs want women to go to prison for miscarriages but are cool with pedophiles going free.

Ken Paxton is a disgusting criminal, that's why Trump endorsed him.

Make sure you have a plan to vote. @jamestalarico is what Texas needs. Not more of the Epstein Class.
#DemsUnited

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

ICE pulled a gun on a NY teenager, beat him, and then realized they got the wrong guy. Like other cases targeting citizens, ICE dumped him in a random location far from his home, bloody and injured.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

He was sentenced to ten years. Republicans let him out after 6 months. Disgusting.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

A Muslim jihadist cut off the hands of a Christian girl because she refused to marry him and become a sex slave. She managed to escape before he tried to behead her.

This past year, more Christians have been killed in Nigeria than Palestinians in Gaza.

The media remains silent.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE brutally detain U.S. citizen mother—leave 2 little kids in backseat.

Agents grab her by hair and tackle her face first to street—handcuff her behind back.

"I was shouting: I'm a citizen! I have my children in the car—9 year old girl and 1 year old boy!"

She was held hours before being released—despite proving she was a U.S. citizen.

ICE claims that she assaulted an agent first.

"I never assaulted anyone—my intention was to exercise my constitutional rights and request the arrest warrant."

Her husband was released a week later after an emergency habeas corpus petition was filed.

Incident occurred in Asbury Park, New Jersey. #DemsUnited

[Sara Ghorbani @d_white_rabbit]

Seven of the detainees from the protests in January are at the risk of imminent execution.

[Oli London @OliLondonTV]

Iranian men bravely put on defiant final act of resistance by singing- moments before being executed by the regime.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

It is truly remarkable that the people of Iran - apart from the few privileged white SIM card holding regime supporters who can by-pass the digital blackout - continue to have their voices cut for 60 days straight. Bear that in mind next time you hear “news” that the masses are fully behind the IRGC and cheer on executions of protesters.

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Relatively little attention outside Israel given to the expose by the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz that another ship carrying grain stolen by Russia from occupied Ukraine arrived in Israel last Sunday. The EU is considering sanctioning the people involved.

[Matthew Adrien✝️🇮🇷🇮🇱 @RealMattAdrien]

DON’T LOOK AWAY!

Be her voice before it’s too late.

Ensieh Nejati from Darab & a mother to a 5 years old

She was arrested on January 10, 2026, by the Islamic regime security forces, still in prison & faces death penalty.

@POTUS @marklevinshow @FoxNews @nytimes
#KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran
#DigitalBlackOutIran‌