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Give me a little hope

[Silver @silver_mfc]

@DrTOMontgomery I hope this is true

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Blaming the Iranian people for "not rising up" is worst kind of victim blaming

They *did* rise up and were slaughtered

Trump said help was on the way

Help came, but it was late, botched and then he surrendered.

[Justin 📘 @jewald25]

I wish someone would ask Trump and Vance about these 4 young women who are going to be executed. They went to the streets with their brothers and sisters demanding a better life. They didn't ask for a nuclear deal or for you to betray them. They want freedom! Can you even look them in the eyes?

[R. R. Halda, PhD @RRHalda]

Friends of Iranians:

There are countless people on social media platforms, most notably X, who tirelessly work almost their entire waking moments to keep the names of the fallen, executed, or imprisoned ever present in our minds and voices.

Today I want to honor everyone who carry these stories. The ones who remember the names. The ones who keep the truth alive when the world tries to forget.

There are Iranians who hold entire histories in their hands. They remember the faces of the missing. They remember the voices of the fallen. They remember the laughter that once filled homes. They remember the dreams that were stolen.

Some of them are young. Some of them are old. Some of them live inside occupied Iran. Some of them live far away.

But they all carry the same weight. The weight of memory. The weight of truth. The weight of responsibility. The weight of love that refuses to disappear.

To everyone who carries the stories.
To everyone who refuses to let the world forget.
To everyone who keeps the names alive.

We see you.
We honor you.
We stand with you.

[Neo @Realneo101]

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This is Shayan Hadian. He is 17.

He's a swimmer and a boxer.

The Islamic regime arrested him after the January protests and forced him to confess he “led the protests.”

Now they want to hang him.
He is just a kid.
Share his name before they kill him.

[Infidel - ملحد @Joe19298683]

My dear @POTUS

It is not about the fact that you made promises and failed to keep them. It is not even about the Iranian people who died looking to the sky, waiting for the help that was promised but never came.

It is about something much bigger.

At the age of 80, you were given a chance that comes to very few men in history: the opportunity to do the right thing when it mattered most. You had a chance to become one of the greatest presidents in American history—and you failed.

Ask yourself: what would history say if Churchill and Roosevelt had chosen to negotiate with Hitler instead of confronting him? How would historians remember them?

History will not remember you as the man who destroyed a 70-year-old navy. It will not remember you as the man who struck aging aircraft that were already decades obsolete.

History will remember you as the man who made a deal with the very people responsible for the massacres of January 8 and 9. It will remember you as the man who chose accommodation over justice, negotiation over accountability, and legitimacy for murderers over freedom for their victims.

That is the legacy being written.

Good luck.

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

I was pleased to speak in Parliament today on the topic of Sharia councils and how they are used to oppress, exploit and abuse Muslim women.

Britain is the "Western capital" of Sharia councils and helps set up councils in other countries.

60%-80% of Muslim marriages in the UK are sharia-only marriages, with no British civil registration (and thus no protection for the wives, who can be quickly divorced and left penniless by the husband, who also has priority over custody of the children).

This is far higher than anywhere in the Western world.

Far too little is known about how some of these completely unregulated councils are led by extremists and Islamists.

Some councils condone wife beating, ignore sexual and honour based violence, and allow forced, child and cousin marriage - and can deny mothers access to their children. And that's just the start!

Sharia law and councils have no place in Britain or any advanced Western nation.

Around 50 in attendance today including MPs, Peers and other notable figures such as Sir William Shawcross who led the critical review into the Government's "Prevent" programme.

Thank you to the Women's Policy Centre & Paola Diana for inviting me and to Sarah Pochin MP for hosting.

Brilliant speeches from Dr. Anna Loutfi, Camilla Tominey and Khadija Khan.

[Richard Seiler @richardseiler]

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦

Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is

Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he?

And somehow that is the whole point

I have watched him for most of my life
First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need
Then as something bigger
The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had
A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it

From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked
Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture
James May the patient one
Richard Hammond the brave one
And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again

When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared
The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was
He owned it, apologized and carried on
No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback
He just kept being himself and let the work speak

The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed
The format was never the magic
The men were
You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them

But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus

Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have
He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view
No editing it into a success story
No pretending the numbers work when they do not
His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it

A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy
Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care
He showed that too
Most people would have cut it

And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable
He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light
The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week
People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care

And then there is the part nobody warned me about
Men who raise animals for meat and still love them
Who name them, worry about them, sit with them
Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them
And feel the full weight of sending them off

He does not hide that
He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it
The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard

That is not weakness
That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show

We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand
And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won
He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product

That is the whole secret
There is no act
There never was

And that is exactly why we keep watching

Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!

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[Slarty Bartfast @Poppy_yyyyyyyy]

Right, apparently someone is using an account with my name and profile pic and sending people dodgy links which has led people to reporting me as a scammer. Please don’t click on any links and check it’s me if I DM you.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Land bordering Yosemite, Sequoia, and Pinnacles National Parks — now cleared for oil rigs and fracking. YES fracking!

Two hundred thousand people said NO. The federal government did it anyway.

Over 1 million acres of California public land just got opened up - land that touches ancient sequoia groves older than the country itself and sits right in Yosemite’s backyard.

Patagonia's CEO came out swinging, accusing the administration of putting oil profits over the planet's health and saying public land was never meant to be sold off to drilling companies.

And the man who'll make the final call? He was recently confirmed to run BLM after his own state party called him "an outright enemy of public lands."

Who's going to tell a tree older than the country that its time is up?

#DemsUnited

[Mira🌺 @DeepGreens2]

Happy Thursday! #BeachLife

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

The feeling of betrayal amongst all those extraordinarily brave young Iranians who risked (and tens of thousands of whom lost) life and limb must be off the scale.
Trump directly encouraged them to put their lives on the line and solemnly promised them his support, only to abandon them completely.
It is something people everywhere feared Trump would do, but it is particularly cruel all the same.

[Anne Louise Avery @AnneLouiseAvery]

Midsummer fields in England 🌿

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

Breaking: Tohono O’odham Nation sues DHS over border wall plans that would take sovereign tribal land, use the Nation’s water & destroy sacred sites. O’odham Legislative Council approved suit unanimously while facing wall construction that may start in the next few weeks.

[Craig Liddell @CraigLiddell7]

Kinda crazy that I left uni with £35,000 of debt and I’ve just checked it today and it’s £51,000 even though I’ve been paying it back ever since leaving uni.

The system is fundamentally broken.

[Neo @Realneo101]

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi delivered a clear and powerful message regarding the current US-Iran negotiations:

"The people of Iran are not represented in these negotiations. 40,000 Iranians have not died for the Strait of Hormuz or for a nuclear deal."

As an Iranian, I’m tired of watching our brothers and sisters’ blood being traded for empty agreements.

[Shane Janisch 🇺🇦🐬🐳🐘 @janischshane]

太地の鯨類科学館の「跳ねる」イルカは自発的ではありません — 博物館裏の入り江から追い込まれ、何百頭も屠殺され、生き残りは水族館へ売られます。子どもたちは歓声を上げますが真実は知らされない。イルカを愛するなら、野生のまま守ってください。 🌊 #SaveDolphins #Taiji

[Khadija Khan @KhadijaKhan__]

I had the pleasure of speaking in Parliament today about women’s rights and Sharia councils and how false accusations of “Islamophobia” and “racism” are used to shut down discussion on women’s rights in Islam.

I want to emphacise that closing the door on this debate has immediate, and severe real-world consequences for women and girls.

When religious laws and customs cannot be openly questioned, women’s rights are violated with impunity. Women’s rights are precarious. To preserve them, we need more honest discussions and debates without any fear of being called “racist” and “Islamophobic.”

Thank you @paoladiana and the Women's Policy Centre for extending a kind invitation and Sarah Pochin MP for hosting the event.

It was an excellent panel discussion with esteemed fellow panelists Dr. Anna Loutfi, Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, and Camilla Tominey.

[Neo @Realneo101]

We Iranians did not sacrifice tens of thousands of our best people for nothing.

For decades, they have ruled through fear.
Yet millions of us still refuse to kneel.

We will rise again.

And we will take our country back — with or without you.