charlie grafton

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

The greatest ABOMINATION of our time is the Israeli GENOCIDE in Gaza AND the support and enabling for it given by Western "elites"

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

US Sanctions? Hear the case, then decide for yourself.
You may disagree with my words, my findings, or my work as a UN independent expert altogether. That is legitimate.
But using sanctions against me for fulfilling a mandate is not debate about opinions: it is an abuse of power.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

The israelis install machine-gun cranes firing randomly and almost nonstop at tents & public spaces in Gaza City | via @Tamer_Alnoaizy

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

Twitterites, I will be having very major surgery on Thursday. Those who have followed me for some time may remember that I have been waiting for this surgery since I was diagnosed with cancer in October 2024. for a long while it seemed as though I could not undergo the operation. It involves a major hepatectomy (lopping off of at least half my liver) in an attempt to make me cancer free (metastases have been limited to my liver for a while now). There are numerous complications, quite a few of them life threatening. I will be closely monitored and expect to be hospitalized for 10-12 days at least. Then I will a long convalescence and chemo and all the other treats to which this good news entitles me :)

I've decided to stop writing here till I can physically return, hopefully within several days. I am afraid, but thankfully not in a paralyzing way. Frank Herbert's litany from Dune has helped me focus ("I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer..."). I was afraid of being torn asunder by my fear. Acknowledging this fear has helped me to realize that live or die, I will remain Ori. My faith in human solidarity is only strengthened by my conviction that we are all fleeting and temporary, that we are all on the verge of being consumed by fear, that we are the first and most important village required to raise all of us.

Be good :) Do everything I wouldn't do. I will resurface as soon as I can. You are my community, a constant source of hope and even solace (as well as permanent annoyance sometimes). I have no plans of disappearing anywhere or anytime soon. Thank you for reading, for writing, for insisting on interaction. You mean the world to me.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They will tell you the world is complicated.

They will say this with such confidence, such weariness, such practiced exhaustion with your naivety, that for a moment you will feel embarrassed for not already knowing what they know.

The world is complicated.

Which means: the sanctions that are starving children are complicated.

Which means: the coup that replaced a democracy with a dictatorship had strategic logic you simply aren't equipped to evaluate.

Which means: the drone strike that killed the family was a difficult decision made by serious people with information you don't have access to.

The complication is always one-directional.

It always runs toward excusing the powerful.

It never runs toward complicating the story of the people underneath.

Their lives are never complicated enough to warrant the same forensic sympathy.

They are simple.

They are context.

They are the complication that required the difficult decision.

"The world is complicated" is not a statement about epistemology.

It is a class position.

It is what power says to people who are about to start asking the right questions.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

UK Ministers to weaken proposed cap on corporate political donations.

A cap £100,000 means that the rich can buy political parties, power, influence; won't check political corruption.

Must ban political donations. Let parties be funded by membership fees
https://t.co/Tvwk9nFXjO

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

South West Water fined £1.853m for supplying contaminated drinking water.

SWW is a serial offender, loses 107m litres of water daily to leaky pipes, dumped sewage in rivers for 407,006 hours.

Still trades. No exec fined, charged. People fleeced.
https://t.co/xN3dxKeYnr

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

We keep being told that bond markets may veto democratic choices, but that is not fiscal responsibility: it is the normalisation of financial power over elected government. The real question is who democracy is meant to serve. Is it people or money? https://t.co/XX6TMTCLPl

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Activists block Samlesbury BAE Systems in Lancashire over its supply of F-35 fighter jets used by the israelis to murder | via: thanet4palestine

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

The israelis bomb the Islamic University in Gaza, the very last standing building in its complex: but it was sheltering 100s of displaced families

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Wes Streeting has received over £372,000 (by early 2025, with more since) from donors and companies linked to private healthcare, roughly 60% of his total donations since entering Parliament.
This includes repeated payments from the OPD Group (a headhunting/recruitment firm serving both NHS and private health providers, controlled by Peter Hearn): £48,000 (2023), £53,000 (2025), £55,000 (2026), and others specifically for constituency office staffing.

Wes Streeting invited private healthcare executives (including from US giant UnitedHealth and the Independent Healthcare Providers Network) to help draft Labour’s 10-year NHS plan.
Under his watch, Labour has expanded private-sector involvement in the NHS, with some areas seeing increases well above the announced 20% target for the private provision.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You said it better in one sentence than most people manage in a book.

That is exactly what the Vietnamese resistance was, whether it intended to be or not.

When a poor kid from Alabama was told to go kill Vietnamese farmers, two people were being wronged simultaneously.

The Vietnamese farmer being shot at.

And the Alabama kid being handed a rifle and told this was freedom.

Vietnam could not save that kid from his country's story.

But Vietnam could, and did, prove that the story was a lie.

Every Vietnamese fighter who held the line was saying, without words, to every soldier sent against them:

You were deceived.

This was never about "freedom."

Look at us. We are the freedom they told you you were defending.

And we are defending it. From you.

The Vietnamese resistance did not just defeat an army.

It held up a mirror.

And some of those soldiers, the ones who came back, the ones who testified before Congress and threw their medals over the White House fence and spent the rest of their lives telling the truth about what they saw, they saw themselves in that mirror.

Vietnam fought for its people.

And in doing so, it fought for the humanity of everyone the empire had conscripted into its service.

That is not a small thing.

That is, in fact, a very large thing.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

The bond market is being treated by the media as if it has a veto over any Labour move to the left. The media are, then, complicit in the whole conspiracy to make sure democracy cannot deliver what people want and need so that the wealthy might gain. https://t.co/06MiczuhNw

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Just five hours ago, the israelis bomb a building in Gaza, crushing dozens of families: rescuers work to lift heavy debris off a little boy

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

We’re on the last leg of our journey to Gaza, say @gbsumudflotilla and we need your eyes: tune in to the livestream: share it: follow us: rise up

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Hedge fund proposes £1bn buyout of Spire Healthcare, UK’s biggest private hospital operator.

Your taxes boost value of Spire, make shareholders richer.

Third of Spire’s revenues comes from NHS contracts.

Average profit margin estimated, up to 32%.
https://t.co/8aFPznPFi6

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Reuters is openly discussing which Labour leaders financial markets might “accept”. It seems they think democracy is legitimate only within limits approved by bond investors, even though the neoliberal economic model has failed millions of people.

https://t.co/MNioj2tZT1

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Reminder
In January 2025, Keir Starmer launched AI Growth Zones, with 200 bids on sites to date.
From Oxfordshire to the Welsh Valleys to the Dorset countryside, Keir Starmer’s ‘Labour’ government is orchestrating the largest industrial land grab in a generation, and most communities have no idea it’s happening.
What does this mean on the ground?
Facilities that consume as much electricity as 100,000 homes. Water usage matching entire cities. Industrial noise levels reaching 90 decibels, equivalent to a chainsaw running 24/7. Soaring energy bills for local residents who get to subsidize the infrastructure while tech giants get 10 year tax breaks. And property values plummeting by 5-15% as once-peaceful communities are transformed into industrial zones.

The first victims are already being lined up: Culham in Oxfordshire is ground zero, Wales is getting nine data centers alongside eight Special Economic Zones and two Freeports, and Dorset is actively positioning itself to be next in line.
No one voted for this.
https://t.co/L929lA4DEs

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

A small but significant victory in a massive battle to defend human rights and international law. Francesca has been vindicated even in the courts of the superpower that sanctioned her for doing her duty https://t.co/OlGwosbzhI

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

100s at the funeral of 2 Lebanese paramedics killed by the israelis while on an emergency rescue mission: you think this is defensible? scroll on