Some guy broke into my house and set up residence in the study room. He says his grandparents used to live in this house and now he won't leave.
My family and I tried to kick him out but he got very violent. He brings in his friends and they help beat us up if we ever try to make him leave.
They keep saying I hate the guy because of his religion. I don't even care about his religion, I just don't like sharing my house with some random outsider who broke in here out of nowhere and took my stuff.
"The poor guy just wants one room to call his own," his friends say in his defense. "You and your family have all the surrounding rooms in the house, and yet you have a problem with the guy having sovereignty over ONE room? That's kind of bigoted and evil."
He keeps throwing stuff at me and my family if we get too close to his door, saying we make him feel afraid. His friends say it's understandable because his room is surrounded by enemies who hate him just for existing, but we don't hate him for existing, we hate him because he forcibly inserted himself into our home and keeps throwing stuff at us.
And what's weird is whenever I explain my situation to normal people they completely understand where I'm coming from and agree the guy is being a dick, but if I talk to the police or the local paper they always side with the guy. Almost everyone in town hates this guy now because of how he's been acting, but everyone in power does everything they can to protect him. It's like there's a total disconnect between the authorities and the will of the public on this particular issue.
It's having a nastier and nastier effect on the community at large all across town. The police have been showing up to arrest anyone who says they think the guy's being an asshole. The paper keeps printing these obnoxious lies telling everyone that me and my family are the real criminals and the guy is actually sweet and awesome. It's really unfair.
Things have been so tense and hostile ever since this guy showed up. I honestly think it would be better if he'd never moved in here at all, but whenever I say that his friends claim I'm saying the guy should be exterminated and try to get me in trouble.
It's a real mess, man.
That guy sucks.
Today my heart is with our trans community, treated so abysmally in this country.
Draft guidance means trans people are barred from services they could previously access & inclusive service providers will be at legal risk.
Green Party statement: https://t.co/eFXLj10wBS
Does anyone still have doubts that Palestinians are being tortured and raped? This is how Israel treats international protestors in public. What they do to Palestinians in private is a million times worse.
The lack of news on Gaza isnโt because the genocide is over.
Itโs because Israel slaughtered the journalists and Western media pretends thereโs a ceasefire.
This week, they came for Zack Polanski.
Every interview hostile. Every presenter badgering. The Met Commissioner wrote him a scathing letter. Trevor Phillips piled in. Ed Balls, a Labour politician married to a Cabinet minister, sat across from the Green Party leader and acted like that was normal.
They meant to destroy him.
Instead, they destroyed their own credibility.
Ed Balls is now facing questions about whether he should remain on air. So is the Met Commissioner. So is Trevor Phillips. Zack walked into every room, took every hit, and gave as good as he got.
Maya Angelou said it best: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." The media, the establishment, the parties who feel threatened by what he represents, they showed us exactly who they are.
And Zack looks braver for every punch they threw.
If protests have to be approved by the government, itโs not a protest, itโs a state sanctioned meet and greet.
Starmer, the human rights lawyer, continues to take away our human rights
This ends any debate over the reality of Israel's apartheid regime.
The death penalty for one race only, enforced through military courts with a 99.7% conviction rate.
Shame on those who deny apartheid.
Shame on those who deny that West Bank settler terrorism and ethnic cleansing is Israeli government policy.
Shame on the Labour government for not ending the sale of weapons to Israel 2.5 years into a genocide in Gaza.