Debbie Kaney

Professionally nosey, charity assessor. Interested in what makes community. Retweets are not endorsement.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Art by Victoria Villasana
#giselepelicot

[Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf_uk]

Bangladeshi, Black African and Pakistani families are up to 5x more likely to be living in severe poverty for a long time compared to white families in the UK 📢

Find our latest research: https://t.co/AW7bBzVoBW

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

Kamala Harris didn't lose, America did.

As a nation, we collectively failed her—and in doing so we failed girls and women, the LGBTQ community, people of color, Muslims, Jewish people, immigrants, the sick, the poor, the elderly, the people of Ukraine, and Gaza, and the planet.

It's unthinkable, that instead of being able to celebrate a beautiful, hopeful new chapter in the story of this nation with a leader who appealed to the best of our natures—we will instead be holding a postmortem for democracy as we enter our 250th year, stewarded by a malevolent sociopath who despises empathy and shuns the law.

I truly thought we were better than this, that our shared humanity would show up. I thought we would reject this hatred and ugliness once and for all.

I hate being wrong about the majority of the people of this nation.

I don't know what's ahead. All I know is that good-hearted human beings are more necessary now than ever.

We did all that we could to avoid this moment, but now that it's here we'll just have to decide who we will be.

There is no way to comprehend or measure how grievous an error this is, but the only thing the decent people of this nation can do is wake up tomorrow and fight like hell for what we still believe is worth the fight, and we will.

I'll be doing that with whoever has the strength to join me.

I'm mourning the country we could have been and the one we apparently are—but I refuse to give up believing that compassion is the right path, that diversity makes us better, and that love is greater than fear.

[RIAS @RIASmembership]

📣Celebrating our #RIASAwards2024 Winners | Kinning Park Complex - @_newpractice

@KinningParkComp sees an Edwardian building inventively brought back to life as a joyful, activity-filled hub, with judges praising the practice's “community first” approach: https://t.co/Is5y1NIGiT

[Lesley Riddoch @LesleyRiddoch]

July 4 election wouldn't just leave many Scots out of the country - but public buildings normally used as polling stations closed and counting staff also away. There are legal requirements about staffing. This will be an undemocratic mess but clearly Sunak doesn't give a toss.

[Gordon Lawrie @thesaucers]

If you live in Scotland, whatever you do get a POSTAL VOTE organised for a 4th July #GeneralElection. However you plan to vote, please don't miss this chance because it's the school holidays.

Come on, let's do this, Scotland.

[Third Force News @ThirdForceNews]

TFN is @scvotweet's magazine for the voluntary sector

On this month’s opinion pages, @Charlotte_Bray "There’s a lot to learn from Wonka - but it gives us the opportunity to reflect on our own value and how we express it to our supporters."

Read it here: https://t.co/fgo26Gtdf4

[The Guardian @guardian]

How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet https://t.co/oKi0muABP1

[BBC Archive @BBCArchive]

On #WorldPoetryDay, Roger McGough tells of the inspiration for his touching and tragic poem The Identification - an interview with a bereaved father on BBC News in 1972. Watch, as Roger sees the footage for the first time in over 50 years.

[Down's Syndrome Scotland @DSScotland]

Down's Syndrome Awareness Week is nearly here! There's still time to join us by signing up at https://t.co/QGl84BfiUo!

[Third Force News @ThirdForceNews]

Exclusive: TFN lifts the lid on Glasgow #Wonka farce charity chief

Billy Coull - the man behind the disastrous and now world famous AI-designed #WillyWonka event - is a charity CEO with questions to answer over his approach to fundraising and finances.

https://t.co/v0sLMFRyVA

[healourskin @healourskin]

To celebrate Rare Disease Day 2024, the IPPF is excited to announce the publication of Understanding the Unmet Needs of the Pemphigus & Pemphigoid Community, a summary of the 2023 patient-focused drug development meeting. Learn more at https://t.co/N0auiXtJbg. #healourskin

[The Guardian @guardian]

Raising UK state pension age to 71 will bring ‘misery’ to millions https://t.co/ByBYZPP1QU

[The Guardian @guardian]

Liverpool man who inherited £100,000 lets 12 strangers give the money away https://t.co/hNtFgMbhcm

[Tristan Kirk @kirkkorner]

A woman from County Durham with learning difficulties and depression.

Prosecuted & convicted last week in the Single Justice Procedure for not paying her TV Licence.

She's a constituent of Conservative Party chairman @RicHolden

This is the letter she sent to the court.

[Debbie Kaney @DebbieKaney]

@widow_waiting @CherryMorrello Thanks for sharing. "Fall on your knees" gets me every time.
Wishing you and all here peace, hope and joy this Christmas. Xx

[Alex Renton @axrenton]

A country addicted to cover-up. Since this story went up yesterday, I've had a dozen more disclosures about abusers in schools whose activities were ignored.

‘Jimmy Savile mark II’: why was an alleged child abuser able to move from school to school? https://t.co/dYyeQIBvrE