Jen

Teacher, writer, Spanish speaker, spurs fan

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Gaza is being annihilated.
Thousands upon thousands of children are dead. Entire bloodlines erased. And the United States is the supplier, sponsor, and shield of the killing.

Netanyahu is not a defender.
He’s a butcher.
A fascist running from jail who’s building his legacy on mass graves.

Trump is insane .
Biden enabled it all .
Harris went with him.

This isn’t “complicated.”
It’s calculated.
You don’t “accidentally” flatten hospitals, starve cities, bomb refugees in tents or bomb convoys labeled UN. You do that when you know you’ll get away with it. And the U.S. ensures these crimes continue.
Every liberal who says “I don’t support Netanyahu but…” Every progressive who “wishes for peace” but won’t say the word occupation— You’re complicit. You are lubricating the machine of murder with your cowardice.

And don’t dare hide behind antisemitism to justify silence.
Antisemitism is real.
But using it to silence truth while bombs fall on children is a grotesque betrayal of every moral code.

Criticizing a government that carries out war crimes is not hate.
It’s obligation.

And if your politics can’t confront genocide, then your politics are trash:

No more money.
No more bombs.
No more fake neutrality.
No more bipartisan War Inc gorging on profits wrapping themselves in flags .

You are either against genocide. Or you are part of it.

Now pick a side.

[Jen @jmiceling]

@LiverpoolEmpire Can you turn off the air con for a bit please. It is freezing watching War Horse 🐴

[Jen @jmiceling]

Edward Tulane ready for World Book Day @KateDiCamillo #WorldBookDay

[Gary Lineker @GaryLineker]

This: Sport may be a blunt tool of social change, but it’s time to take a stand against Israel | Sport politics | The Guardian https://t.co/KXwm8tQtwj

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Trump wins the White House. Again.
The Democrats blew it. Again.
A depressing yet predictable result.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel’s genocidal mayhem has given me a hideous understanding into the great horrors of the past.

How could so many people who regard themselves as decent, humane, ‘moderate’ become complicit in unspeakable atrocities? It’s something I’ve always wondered.

After all, only a tiny proportion of any society are actually sociopaths.

Well, this great crime of our age offers the answers.

The British media and political elites are full of people who aren’t even pretending.

Their worldview is clear. Israelis are “us”. Palestinians are “them”.

Accordingly, every Israeli life has meaning and value - it is inherently precious.

A Palestinian life is worth virtually nothing. It is less than cheap. A bag of rats drowned in a lake is likely to elicit more sympathy.

Violence against a single Israeli life - “us” - is therefore seen as intolerable and unbearable.

Endless violence against countless Palestinians, on the other hand, doesn’t even produce a genuine emotional response.

We’ve seen this tested to destruction.

It doesn’t matter what the atrocity is.

Newborns cooked alive in rubble, or left to suffocate and rot in bombed hospitals.

6 year olds shot in the head by snipers.

Terrified children deliberately blown apart in their families’ cars by tanks, the paramedics sent to save them butchered, too.

Entire family bloodlines exterminated in moments.

Detainees gang raped. Bodies thrown from roofs. Civilians riddled with bullets while trying to get food.

The worst imaginable atrocities committed over and over again, but because the victims are Palestinian, no outrage or horror or anguished demands that this must stop, whatever it takes.

There is, at best, empty handwringing and platitudes, while our government continues to arm the perpetrators.

But when an attack is launched against Israel in which not a single Israeli is killed, then there is wall to wall horror, disgust, outrage from our political and media elites.

So if you’re wondering how so many who regarded themselves as decent, modest, upstanding, morally sophisticated citizens actively made themselves complicit in all the horrors of the past you read about in books - well, now you know.

What mattered to them was who was “us” and who was “them”.

I used to passionately disagree with these elites - I work, after all, in the British media, and have now for 13 years: even hold them in contempt. But it took this genocide to make me realise:

I don’t live in the same moral universe as these people. They now disgust me: I am repulsed by them. It is what it is: my job is to be honest about my opinions, and I could pretend this isn’t how I feel, but for what moral reason?

I’m not telling you because it’s cathartic, even though it is. It’s because what I feel is felt by many others, and that matters - a lot.

Millions of people in every country, on every continent, are feeling this, and it gets stronger with every passing day,

The consequences will be felt for many, many generations.

[Jen @jmiceling]

@rickygervais still the best episode (of anything)

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

A new day in Westminster has dawned...

[Cat Barter @batcarter]

🎶Blame It On The Tories🎶

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🎼Mick Jackson, Dave Jackson & Elmar Krohn

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[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Have voted. Voted for the party I've been a member of ( not any more), and have pretty much voted for my entire life.

The Labour Party.

I'm doing it solely on the notion that there has to be enough democratic socialists in the grassroots of the party to come to the fore in years to come and be bold enough to implement policies and values that most Britons can support and God forbid, someday be proud of.

There are several at the top table of the party who aren't democratic socialists or have democratic socialist values. Instead they're terrified of the "angry right" and have held their noses on jettisoning policies that have hurt every Briton over a decade and half. Something Labour members and long time voters may well forgive but won't forget should a Labour government stay in a status quo autopilot.

The hope is that with a large enough majority, Labour will be bold enough to produce policies down the line that make everyone, regardless of political persuasion, see that there are progressive differences between parties and that voting is worthwhile. With an apathetic public though, we can all but hope, because I think we're all worn out with the lies and empty promises.

It's time we had a grown up conversation about the top 5 issues that are on the public's mind too. Immigration, Brexit, Cost of Living, NHS and a population getting older are all things that unite every Briton in our need to discuss them like adults, get round a national table and find solutions. Solutions based on informed facts, national need, national unity, respect and care for those who've paid a lifetime into the system and to give our worryingly detached children real opportunities and real hope, none which are ever found in short term populism, left or right.

Good luck to everyone who voted, for those who genuinely vote for what is best for the 70 million who live on our island. Any success we have only ever comes through the collective work of others, that's the truth. To those who only vote for self interest, that's fine, take a look at the roads, the schools, the health service. Robbed, divvied up by a small club who now get to walk off into the sunset. Literally. So maybe think bigger than you and your immediate family, you share a house with 70 million, you know.

We're a great country when you strip everything back. Genuine, hard working , self deprecating, generous, humorous, quirky and loving. But we've all been turned into spiteful, selfish, greedy, blaming and petty. It's what corrupt public servants and service do to decent people. Pollute them.

If you've voted Reform or Workers Party, Tory, Labour, Green, SNP, Plaid, DUP, Sinn Fein, Lib Dem or any other, and you hate your oppo in the morning, then you lost anyway. Try talking, try finding common ground, it's there.

To the political class, someone, anyone, step up and unite a nation behind something more than bile, bigotry or the status quo. Because we all desperately need to live again.

With each other.
For each other.

A Voter from the Midlands.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.

[Mark McCourt @EmathsUK]

Today’s KS2 maths reasoning paper is a failure at a national level, one which will serve only to put pupils off maths.

There is nothing wrong with tough questions in maths. Mathematicians love the challenge of overcoming difficult problems.

But that’s not the same thing at all as questions that seek to confuse, mislead or hide meaning in meaningless, tiresome contexts.

Show a real mathematician a problem written by someone who is deliberately communicating badly or poking fun by being disingenuous and that mathematician will tell you to bugger off.

We’re in the business of grappling with and resolving genuinely interesting and important questions. We have no interest in silly, dull and ill conceived questions that lack meaning and intend to trip up.

So, an opportunity to show pupils what mathematics is and can be has been utterly wasted and instead we’ve just made it a lot less likely a nascent interest in becoming a mathematician will flourish for many, many pupils who will, quite rightly, reject the subject as tedious sleight of hand.

To those writing, signing off and publishing national exam papers: be better at your job or do something else.

[Jen @jmiceling]

@MrBoothY6 Love this. Bring on the onions.

[Ninth Letter @ninthletter]

Ninth Letter is open for print submissions! Send us your best stuff, your weird stuff, the stuff you love. Full guidelines on our website and Submittable. Link in bio! #literarymagazine #fiction #creativenonfiction #poetry #creativewriting #clmp

[Abode Press @AbodePress]

‼️SUBMISSIONS OPEN‼️

Abode Press is open for poetry, fiction, or hybrid chapbook manuscripts about identity, origin, and culture.

The chapbook reading period will run from 8/15 to 11/30.

Submission guidelines here: https://t.co/3GYBWILYa8

[Emma Richards @e_e_richards]

It seems @LincolnshireCC is failing Lincolnshire #summerborn children that request #csareceptionstarts and in big way in comparison to surrounding areas!
@sb_campaign @dianabarran @NickGibbUK @karlmccartney @S_Hammond @RishiSunak @GillianKeegan @educationgovuk

[Jen @jmiceling]

@e_e_richards @LincolnshireCC @sb_campaign @dianabarran @NickGibbUK @karlmccartney @S_Hammond @RishiSunak @GillianKeegan @educationgovuk ‘The negative impact of being educated outside of chron age’ Such a blinkered blanket view.
I am in Liverpool where, since 2015, all requests for CSA reception starts are automatically approved. Totally unjust that parents are still having to fight in other parts of the country.

[Liverpool Lighthouse @LivLighthouse]

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[The Emma Press @TheEmmaPress]

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