Becky

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[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

‘The world is not just witnessing this tragedy; it is complicit through its silence’ says @Tamer_Alnoaizy as families already living in tents suffer more misery amid flooding and lack of sufficient basic aid being allowed in by the Israeli authorities

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

🚨BREAKING
The Financial Times has just revealed that Thames Water’s US hedge fund creditors are close to agreeing a ‘last and final’ deal to take over the company.

A handover to US hedge funds. A continuation of the privatised chaos. And a huge reward for the people who have run our water into the ground.

The deal would see them allowed to pollute our rivers and seas without consequence - in exchange for an upfront payoff.

This deal is absolutely outrageous, in every regard.

112 MPs have already called for special administration of Thames Water.

A cross-party group of MPs - who scrutinise the Environment Department - have said that the creditors’ proposal should be rejected and Thames Water should be brought into special administration.

And the former Environment Secretary rejected a previous version of the creditors’ deal in June. This new version is not better in any way.

@andyburnham promised to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation. He promised public control of life’s essentials.

This really is the moment of truth for Andy Burnham. If he allows the water supply of 16 million people to be sold off to US hedge funds - how can we take him seriously about any of his promises?

NO DEAL to the Thames Water creditors. Special administration now.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

The Israeli authorities continue to restrict vital goods into Gaza which would ease the suffering of those living in the most desperate conditions - limiting the entry of ‘tents, tarpaulins, plastic sheeting, insulation materials, blankets, fuel, cooking gas, heating equipment, and construction materials needed to repair damaged shelters’ - @save_children

https://t.co/lsPZA8RBIm

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This week leaders meet for the UN climate summit.

The context? A summer of heat deaths. Scientists saying 2026 will be the hottest year ever.

Our Government's contribution?

To bend over backwards to the car industry, and scrap plans for rapid electrification.

[Hon. PolProf of Agile Ceremonies @CeilNoyle]

Not only that. The privatised telecoms companies are making money from selling off all the copper that was originally paid for by the state when the grid was constructed. Outrageous legalised plunder

[Ricky | Council Estate Media @cem_uk_]

This is dystopian as hell. They literally want to change our words to "protect children". If this is allowed, we'll never know if people are actually saying what they appear to be saying again. What next? Should social media companies change the wording of your posts? What about blogging sites? It's fucking insane.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 Palantir entered the NHS for £1 during Covid.

Then it became a £23.5mn contract.

Then a £330mn contract.

Now ministers admit it is so deeply embedded that removing it would be too disruptive.

Whatever the original intention, this is textbook vendor lock-in: the customer becomes dependent upon the supplier, and dependency becomes the supplier’s greatest protection.

The proposed two-year extension must therefore be treated as an emergency extraction period, not another comfortable renewal.

During that time, the government must require:

• complete data portability and open standards;
• independent access to the system architecture;
• transfer of knowledge and skills to the NHS;
• a tested migration plan with firm deadlines;
• government step-in rights; and
• a procurement process that is not designed around Palantir’s existing product.

Palantir must not be allowed to shape the problem, define the requirements and then win again because only Palantir can satisfy them.

And calling the replacement “British” is meaningless unless Britain controls its intellectual property, technology and future development.

A £1 foothold has become national dependency.

That is not sovereignty and it is precisely why sovereignty is now necessary.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Times reports govt renewing NHS-Palantir contract over fear of patient disruption..proving*exactly* what critics have been saying. That we’re in a technofascist trap.
https://t.co/HZNrTKdrhz

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

These pictures of Reform councillor George David Madgwick posing alongside Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, Zia Yusuf and Laila Cunningham were taken after his arrest.

He has now been charged with 35 offences, including rape and offences involving indecent images of children.

The question is why he was still being paraded alongside the party's most senior figures after his arrest?

[Becky @PinksCharming]

@Boudaued Love the Topman cardigan 😍

[Becky @PinksCharming]

@annadoble @Tate I loved your book Anna 💖

[Peter Geoghegan @PeterKGeoghegan]

🔴 EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE ‘VIP lane’ for 'politically connected'

30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more 🧵
https://t.co/qNBcKuqMmE

[Becky @PinksCharming]

See this Instagram post by @globalactplan https://t.co/CygDJnnfsC

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Not a single news outlet has reviewed its coverage of Jason Arday, for accuracy or proportionality. Zero attempt has been made to conduct any inquiry into the media’s role in his death. Instead, the industry has moved into self-congratulatory mode. This isn’t just tone deaf, it betrays a systemic failure

[Ian Hadley @kentishfenman]

Why have the deaths of over 43,000 care home residents at the hands of inept politicians gone off of the news media so quickly? Shouldn't we be hearing about at least two people being taken into custody by now.

[Charles DeLoach @DeLoach_NC]

North Carolina!! If you voted by mail, go to https://t.co/MsAYxX8dE5 to track whether your ballot was rejected over minor technical issues. If it was, you can still vote in person!

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

Anthropic is effectively telling the government that they should be allowed to facilitate the deaths of up to 50 people per model and cause up to a billion dollars in damages before the government should consider stepping in to stop them. Insane.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Woah woah woah. The lead is buried in paragraph four.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

🚨The Public have got to wake up. This is Istanbul, Turkey, tonight and it’s just the beginning. Last year Professor Hayley Fowler, a leading climatologist and hydrologist, warned the UK could face this kind of extreme rainfall; enough to wash away cars and homes without much warning. It was ignored by the media.

Journalists and anyone with influence needs to lobby the Govt and the Prime Minister to broadcast the National briefing about the facts of climate change and what is coming towards us publicly on TV in the way we had Covid broadcasts. @nebriefing

The public need to face the reality that we’ve all fucked up. Our media and democracy doesn’t work.

I’m very aware that people think those of us who talk about climate change are crazy but the reality is developing right in front of our eyes. The scientists warnings are coming true.

People want to look away. I know lots of people in my own life do. But this is just the beginning it is going to get much much worse. The planet is already hotter than it’s been in over 100,000 years, carbon dioxide levels are higher than they’ve been in millions of years, scientists are telling us our kids will not survive the coming decades on the course we are on. This is really happening and we got to wake the hell up urgently. We are already in huge trouble and it can only get worse. https://t.co/TpIjL5u0Mq

[MKFM 106.3 @mkfm]

Appeal for info following rape and attempted rape in Milton Keynes https://t.co/gVJNolAxYe