Mackadoodle

🎶🎵I'm making a stand while I sit on my arse🎵🎶

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

Yvette Cooper says the “situation in Gaza is desperate”. Now perhaps she’d like to tell us WHY?

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Remember those horrific pictures of Jews liberated from Auschwitz?

This isn't one.

This is a Palestinian man released after 26 months of Israeli "administrative detention." No charge. No trial. No legal rights.

"Never again" sounds noble. It just turns out it was never meant to apply to everyone.

The Israeli government currently holds roughly 3,500 Palestinians under this system, and has issued more than 100,000 such detention orders since 1967.

October 7th wasn't the start of this. It was a reaction to it.

Why don't we hear anything about this?

[Mackadoodle @Mackadoodle63]

As an Arsenal fan, really pleased for Palace tonight, and Steve Parish is absolutely right: there's no point in being in a competition if you don't want to win it. Other teams take note!

[Mackadoodle @Mackadoodle63]

Hey, Ebe, so pleased for your old team. Now get out there and do the same for your new team on Saturday! ❤️

[Mackadoodle @Mackadoodle63]

@EberechiEze_

[Mackadoodle @Mackadoodle63]

@dudulives24 Even the buses are red!

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This deserves to be circulated.

A former Red Cross staff member got in touch.

She testifies about @ZackPolanski's role.

For transparency: her name is Brea Thibodeau.

The whole thing is a desperate smear.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

🚨Some professional news…

I’m thrilled to be joining the incredible independent news site @thenerve_news as their Political Commentator.

The all female founders - including @carolecadwalla - are, like me, seasoned professionals who honed their skills in the mainstream. We believe it’s fearless, independent, value driven journalism that will meet the challenge of the rise of the hard right as it merges with Big Tech. I’m excited to be part of a highly respected team that will offer readers a much needed alternative to the corporate media landscape.

[Mackadoodle @Mackadoodle63]

#highly The world needs more Miles Jupp!

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS CALLED HIM A NUISANCE. A TRIBUNAL CALLED IT A WITCH HUNT.

Andrew Smith spent 28 years as an NHS nurse. Served in the Gulf War. Not a single blemish on his record.

Then he raised concerns at Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust @MSEHospitals about staff being wrongly denied recruitment and retention payments. He pushed. He represented his colleagues. He did exactly what a union rep is supposed to do.

The Trust decided he was a nuisance. They hit him with a disciplinary process. Then they sacked him for gross misconduct.

He took them to tribunal. Won. The judgment described what happened to him as a witch hunt. Senior nursing officers were personally criticised for their conduct.

The Trust appealed. Lost again.

Then came the remedy hearing, where reinstatement should have been the obvious outcome. Instead, a trust manager told the Employment Tribunal that they were worried Andrew might continue raising concerns if he came back.

Read that again. A manager told a tribunal, out loud, that they did not want their own vindicated employee reinstated because he might keep flagging problems.
He was not reinstated.

Meanwhile, one of the senior nurses found by the tribunal to have mistreated him walked straight into a director role at NHS Improvement. No consequences. A new title. A better salary.

Andrew Smith's children had to use their own savings to keep him and his wife housed. He had been effectively blacklisted from @NHS work, unable to secure positions he was more than qualified for.

He wrote to the National Guardian's Office (@NatGuardianFTSU) asking for help with reinstatement, as they had promised in 2017 to support unfairly dismissed whistleblowers.

They declined to review his case while tribunal proceedings were still ongoing.

Source: minhalexander_com / Dr Minh Alexander and others

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Trump 🇺🇸 announces a ‘ceasefire’ and:

Israel 🇮🇱 hits southern Lebanon 🇱🇧 with more than 50 airstrikes in a matter of hours

For 🇮🇱 it’s all about ethnic cleansing
All about land theft
All about a ‘Greater 🇮🇱’

Expel 🇮🇱 from the UN now.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Susan Collins just reported taking another $340,250 from AIPAC. That's 11% of everything she raised this year.

And yesterday she voted for the war in Iran. Again.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Jared Golden was the one and only Democrat who voted to continue Donald Trump's war on Iran.

The vote was won by Trump by 214-213.

Won by just one vote, Jared's.

What a scumbag.

[Kavita Algu @KavitaAlguMD]

🚨Canada denied travel visas to 3 officials from the Palestine Football Association @Palestine_fa who were travelling to a @FIFAcom event to respond to a report about Israel hosting games on land it illegally occupies🚨

🇨🇦 denied entry to PFA’s:
- president
- general secretary
- head of legal affairs.

In 🇨🇦, if you are a Palestinian coming to speak about crimes being committed against your people you will be denied entry; but if you are a literal @IDF soldier who has participated in genocide, you will be welcomed with open arms.

Absolutely disgusting racism.
Good luck hosting the World Cup.

@MarkJCarney @LenaMetlegeDiab @SeanFraserMP @gary_srp @AnitaAnandMP

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Tony Glover (@TonyLiberator) is Reform UK's candidate for Vauxhall, Lambeth.

We have a question for you Tony - in 1996, were you a Tory Councillor in Hammersmith and Fulham (Town Ward)?

The one that resigned because of allegations of Benefit Fraud.

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

not sure ‘let’s starve british kids so we can blow foreign ones up!’ is the winning campaign slogan he thinks it is

[. @jdpoc]

London Borough of #Hillingdon, this is your #Reform Candidate.

#Reform Branch in #Hillingdon, try not to act shocked and surprised, nobody will be fooled.

You were informed of this months ago.

And you chose him as your candidate.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

RT if you want the evil Palantir OUT of the NHS.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

NHS staff have been told they might lose their jobs if they criticise NHS England’s controversial £330m contract with IDF-contractor Palantir.

According to the FT, an analytics officer who had raised concerns about Palantir’s Federal Data Platform (FDP) was told by a senior NHS official: “If you criticise the FDP one more time, you are going to lose your job.”

“I know I am not the only one inside the NHS who has been warned off criticising the tool publicly,” the analytics officer added.

In January 2024, Palantir announced a strategic partnership with the Israeli government to support “war-related missions”, meaning its tools are being used in a genocide. It also provides technology to immigration enforcement in the US, and founder Peter Thiel has provided financial backing to Donald Trump.

Citing ethical concerns, the British Medical Association (BMA) has instructed union members not to adopt Palantir’s Federal Data Platform.

In February, BMA chair Tom Dolphin told the British Medical Journal: “Given Palantir’s track record, including controversies in the US involving immigration enforcement and the risks to patient trust, data security, and NHS independence, we believe there must be a complete break from Palantir technologies in the NHS and no further contracts awarded.”

But staff told the FT that NHS organisations are under pressure to sign up voluntarily to the Palantir data system. Technicians working on alternative systems have been told to stop in their tracks.

“When letters go out saying, ‘Sign this or we’ll call your chief executive’, that doesn’t build goodwill,” said an analytics official. “It creates compliance, not commitment.”

Palantir boasts contracts across British public services, with its technology already embedded in the police and the military.

Last month, two anonymous Ministry of Defence officials told journalists at the Nerve that Palantir’s deepening knowledge of the British state poses “a national security threat to the UK”.

123 out of 205 NHS hospital trusts have already adopted Palantir’s data system.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

This week, I will be forcing a vote to block nearly $500 million in bombs and bulldozers to Israel.  Enough is enough.

U.S. taxpayers must not keep funding the Netanyahu government’s mass killing and displacement of civilians in Gaza, Iran and Lebanon.