Sylvie Ball

just here for the therapy. views mine, all mine

[Osama Abu Rabee أسامة أبوربيع @dn_osama_rabee]

In Gaza’s hospitals, 5 unidentified children lie after surviving Israeli bombardment, while their families were lost beneath the rubble.

Nothing is known about them except the place where they were found.

Children who were destined to survive, and whose stories remain suspended, waiting for someone to recognize them.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It's time to end Rip Off Britain.

And Brexit is one of the biggest mistakes. Let's change our future.

[Together @Togetherdec]

.@fleurmeston takes the Pledge against Digital ID

The Pledge is a simple but serious commitment to refuse Digital ID and “government by app”

Launched at our Trafalgar Square rally, with NO2ID

A similar pledge helped defeat Tony Blair’s ID cards in the 2000s - and was signed over 1 million times

Great reception to the Pledge at @ARC_Conference where we're spreading the word this week

Learn more:
https://t.co/cNOJgWn42A

#PledgeTogether

[Malala Yousafzai @Malala]

The EU has invited Taliban officials to Brussels to discuss a migration deal — and today I am shaken and deeply disturbed by this.

This is the same Taliban that banned girls from secondary schools and forced them into marriage. The same Taliban that, earlier this month, arrested dozens of women in Herat for how they were dressed. The same Taliban that detains, beats and executes women who dare to speak out or break their rules.

Through its system of gender apartheid, the Taliban have erased women and girls from public life. Europe must not legitimise a regime responsible for one of the worst human rights crises in the world.

Any engagement with the Taliban must begin and end with the rights of Afghan women and girls.

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

Bro, you got the police to perform a 4am raid on a constituent because they emailed you about Gaza.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Dear @EnvAgency.

In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.

Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.

Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.

So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Quite something that around the tenth anniversary of the Brexit campaign murder of Jo Cox he says he is the most attacked politician of the last decade. Well done Sally Nugent for pressing with Qs so many of her colleagues have decided to move on from because he doesn’t want to answer them

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

“My only daughter, my flower… We slept on the same pillow side by side. She’s gone. Why?”

🚨HEARTBREAKING : A grieving mother bids farewell to her only child, 17 year old Raghd Ashour, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City shortly after returning from her final high school exam.

Her father had already been killed earlier in the war.

[Manchester Green Party 🐝 @McrGreenParty]

Burnham is surrounded by the worst of the Labour Right.

He doesn't stand a chance.

He's committing to Rachel Reeves' fiscal rules.

A straightjacket of cuts to public services and misery for the most vulnerable.

Labour is over 🥀

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

400,000 UK children supported by baby banks, up 11%.

4.5m children living in poverty.

Low incomes, rising cost of energy, water, housing, essentials drive poverty.

Tories and Reform pledged to reimpose the two-child benefit cap.

What future?
https://t.co/WUL0celyNW

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Oxevision – a controversial surveillance technology that films patients 24 hours a day in their bedrooms – is currently used in around 40% of NHS trusts’ mental health inpatient services, including children’s wards.

Following a ruling from the patient complaints watchdog, a senior lawyer has warned that NHS trusts continuing to use the technology are opening themselves up to “clear legal risk”.

@harriepw reports: https://t.co/h4N7d8HTQo

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

🚨Breaking: Met Police to expand Orwellian FIXED live facial recognition cameras into London’s West End by Christmas & six other areas in 2027

"Expanding the use of live facial recognition to static cameras is an alarming escalation of an intrusive technology which has already scanned the faces of millions of innocent Londoners.

Forcing people to enter a digital police lineup in the capital’s busiest and most popular destinations is an affront to the idea that you should not have to identify yourself to the police if you have done nothing wrong. To see a play, you must now pay with your privacy."

- Silkie Carlo [@silkiecarlo]

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

If you have a spare 3 mins and 45 secs today, watch this fantastic grilling by Sally Nugent on BBC Breakfast.

The very first time I've seen Farage questioned properly about his £5M bung, and it's fair to say, he totally fluffed it.

There are points when you can see Farage tremble and even accuse the BBC of putting him in danger. 🤦‍♂️

It was for security. It was for cars. Nobody cares. It's no one's business. He won't tell us. DANGER!

At one point, he let slip that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards may 'disagree' with him on the rules around donations.

He knows he's going to be found guilty on this one. He's in trouble, and his face gave it away gloriously.

Top hats off to Sally Nugent. Stellar work. 👏

[mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 @__mike91]

now you know why governments around the world are trying to bring in digital id and social media bans.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

And now they’re doing the “shift all the blame to the individual consumer” paper straws thing with AI use.

[Samantha Asumadu @SamanthaAsumadu]

This is very... stark

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨HEARTBREAKING: A mother in shock after losing her only child, 17 year old Raghd Ashour, who was killed today in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City shortly after returning from her final high school exam.

Her father had already been killed earlier in the war.

[☭Stay Dangerous ⚒︎ @Now_we_Revolt]

This is the cause of homelessness. It's not drugs. It's not mental illness. It's this. We're not angry enough

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Starmer blocked a heavily pregnant Faiza Shaheen from standing for parliament - after she was democratically selected - for entirely bullshit, factional reasons.

But he nearly cried after resigning so a woman’s magazine says he’s a great feminist hero 💩

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed Raghad in Gaza today.

Not a fighter.

A high-school student.

Israel executed her after she returned home from taking her final exam.