Lanie

fmer crit social wker, cared for & loved mum w cog decl | died 9May24 💔 loss & grief - I reject labels that pathologise life & medicalise emotional distress 🙏

[Lanie @LanieP]

#AudreLorde

[Doug Cameron @DougCameron51]

At last! An independent public inquiry into the fiasco that is AUKUS.
A great team of Commissioners led by Peter Garrett. As days go by the problems, changes and complexities multiply.
Why are we spending $368b to appease Trump and attack our most important trading partner?

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Unfortunately, the current level of supplies for our air defense does not allow us to intercept a significant share of missiles. Last night, there were hits. 130 people were injured. Tragically, 22 people were killed, including two children. My condolences to all those who have lost their loved ones.

We know from intelligence that another large-scale strike may come as soon as tonight. All our partners together, and everyone in Europe, should continue working to ensure missiles for our air defense, as well as the systems, critical intelligence, and other things that help to save lives.

It is crystal clear that Europe needs its own anti-ballistic system with sufficient volumes and strength to guarantee protection against any threat.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

SHE REPORTED CHILD ABUSE 181 TIMES. BRITAIN SAID NOT NOW, THANKS.

Sara Rowbotham was an NHS sexual health coordinator in Rochdale. Between 2005 and 2011 she filed 181 detailed referrals to Greater Manchester Police and social services.

Each one named victims. Each one described systematic rape and trafficking of girls as young as 11. Each one went nowhere.

She was not ignored because the evidence was weak. She was ignored because the evidence was inconvenient.

Authorities labelled her not credible. Her team was dismissed. The official reason given for inaction was community cohesion.

Read that again.

Community cohesion. While children were being passed between men like property, the priority was keeping things quiet.

She was made redundant in 2014.

A 2024 independent review confirmed every referral she filed was credible, substantive and appropriately communicated. The same review identified 96 men still considered an active risk to children. Still out there. In 2024. Because the original response scraped only the surface and called it a job done.

Five police officers refused to cooperate with the review. They were not charged. They were not recalled. They retired on pensions.

Sara Rowbotham got an MBE.

The system that failed 181 times got a press release about lessons learned.

If this does not alarm you, you have not understood it yet.

@BBC @guardian @AndyBurnhamGM

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

Israel yesterday kidnapped four women. Two are footballers in the Palestinian National Team.

Their names are: Natali Abu Dia and Rand Halwani.

Is it normal to kidnap footballers, @FIFAcom? Where are sports media organisations? This story should be the headline everywhere.

[Wazza from Melbourne @Melbourne_says]

Grace Tame being called 'problematic' by a bloke who happily did an interview with another bloke who was convicted of beating a woman is breathtaking.

Dunno about you, but #IStandWithGraceTame on this one.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Alex McKinnon @mckinnon_a]

I've sent questions to the ABC asking if they intend to counsel or discipline Charlie Pickering for giving an interview to someone who:
- pled guilty to unlawful assault in 2019
- describes Islam as a “barbaric ideology”
- was banned from Facebook for doxxing an ABC employee.

[💙🇵🇷Deanna🇺🇦💙 @DemDeanna]

Thank you, Denmark. 🇩🇰

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Ukraine knows how to do the right thing.

Thank you, Sweden!

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Totally free of sanction condemnation or disapproval of any kind. Free to kill, all day and every day…

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.

His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.

He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.

In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.

The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.

Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most horrific scenes in human history has been revealed.

A video shows people trying to rescue an injured person and carry him to the hospital; Israel bombed them all and killed them with a missile.

A video the world must never forget.

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

The House of Representatives is debating and dividing on important changes to the NDIS. Not a single member of the Coalition has bothered to attend.

[Dr James Davies (PhD) 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

Imagine the mental contortions you'd have to perform to shield your faith that working within the medical model is a viable way to 'tackle anguish' & the 'maladies of the soul'... Imagine the perpetual strain of forcing your intellect to fend off any sting of conscience or doubt.

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

Tonight, entire families were wiped out in Israel’s bombardment of Mashghara in the Bekaa.

Among the dead:
Samir Rizk.
Hamza Rizk & his two children.
Hassan Mansour, his wife, & their two daughters.

Killed inside their homes, late at night, as Israeli warplanes unleashed wave after wave of heavy strikes on the town.

The footage from the scene is hellish. Homes burning. Entire buildings torn open. Families buried beneath the rubble in their sleep.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

A reminder that Russia is waging a terrorist war on Ukraine, and a reminder that standing by and watching are the richest nations on Earth, controlling the most powerful military alliance in history, an alliance created specifically to stop Russia in Europe. Sickening.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

ISRAEL just BOMBED Al-Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Gaza.

With ONE STRIKE, FIVE homes were completely DESTROYED.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This is Tyre in South Lebanon today.

Israel is leveling entire civilian neighborhoods in one of the most intense bombardments yet.

One of humanity’s oldest cities.

Is being systematically wiped out.

And not a peep from the complicit international community, of course.

[Wayne Hsiung @waynehhsiung]

Just a reminder that the USDA admits that enforcement of animal welfare laws in labs is “basically meaningless.” (Their words)

If the 40,000 dogs are going to be saved, it’s up to us. And we’ve got a plan to do just that.

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

What’s being done to Cuba is a crime against humanity.

And no one is talking about it.