Roo Stevens #WeAreCorbyn

Art Loving, Greyhound loving, Nature loving, History loving, Hare loving, Moomin loving,Book loving,Wine loving, Corbyn supporting Socialist.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In October 1942, a terrified nineteen-year-old Jewish girl knocked on the door of Céleste Varon, a 63-year-old seamstress who lived alone with her elderly cat.

The girl was the Mandel daughter from the second floor.

The girl’s parents had already been taken by the authorities, and she had absolutely nowhere left to go. Céleste did not make a grand speech, and she did not hesitate.

She simply stepped aside, let the frightened teenager inside her two-room apartment on the Rue Sainte-Catherine, and quietly decided to change history from her sewing machine.

For forty years, Céleste had a reputation in her Bordeaux neighborhood as the woman who could make something from nothing.

She spent her days doing close work by her window, watching the world change through the glass. When the German occupation brought terror and yellow stars to her streets, she did not see a political crisis.

Instead, she saw a practical problem that required a practical solution. To survive, her new guest needed to become completely invisible to the soldiers patrolling the city.

Céleste knew exactly how to do that because she understood that how a person is seen depends entirely on what they wear.

She immediately set to work transforming the young girl into her niece.

She did not just alter clothing. She coached the girl on how to walk, how to carry her shoulders, and how to blend into a crowd with the same patient specificity she used during dress fittings.

Later, she used her sharp eyesight and steady hands to alter identity papers, mixing her own inks under a work lamp until the changes were flawless.

"A person is noticed when they look out of place," Céleste whispered to her guests as she worked. "Our job is to make sure you look exactly like what the world expects to see."

Soon, her quiet resistance grew.

Over two years, Céleste hid a total of seven people in her tiny back room.

When her savings ran out in 1943, she took a massive risk to feed them. She started accepting alteration commissions from the wives of German officers.

She sat calmly in apartments decorated with swastika flags, pinning hems and maintaining a perfectly blank expression, using the money from the occupiers to buy food for the Jewish citizens hidden right under their noses.

Twice, the French police searched her building, but they only ever saw an old woman sewing quietly at her machine and moved on.

Of the seven people she sheltered, five survived the war. After the liberation, the Mandel daughter emigrated to Canada and eventually named her own first daughter Céleste.

In 1947, she sent a letter back to the little apartment on Rue Sainte-Catherine, thanking the woman who taught her how to walk down a dangerous street like she belonged there.

They wrote to each other for eleven years until Céleste passed away in 1958, right at her sewing machine, with a piece of fabric still under the needle.

Céleste never asked for fame, medals, or recognition.

She simply went back to her normal life after the war, believing she had just done her job. Today, her story lives on through that single, treasured letter preserved in the Bordeaux municipal archives. It reminds us that ordinary kindness, mixed with a little courage and practical skill, has the power to light up the darkest times and sew a broken world back together.

[. @LouiseRawAuthor]

Do something for me, @RupertLowe10.

Look, properly LOOK, at these 17 faces.

According to you this is ‘one murder’, worth less than Daddy’s guns

MURDERED DUNBLANE CHILDREN:

Abigail McLellan, aged 5

Victoria Clydesdale, aged 5

Sophie North, aged 5

Ross Irvine, aged 5

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[gregorio catarino @gregcatarino1]

Sit wherever you like,
on a wall,
on a rock or a tree stump, on the grass or the earth: wherever you are surrounded by a painting, a poem, wherever the world resonates harmoniously, beautifully, and happily around you.
Hermann Hesse

[Cucumberman @BersekEv]

El ejército terrorista de colonización sionista ha asesinado a esta niña.

Su madre ha publicado el vídeo como homenaje a la memoria de este pequeño ángel.

Debemos detener a Israel antes de que extermine el futuro.

[Roo Stevens #WeAreCorbyn @StevensRoo]

@JamesTate121 Rowan Atkinson

[Ramblings @ramblingsloa]

Don't be scared to walk alone.
Don't be scared to like it.

John Mayer

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Who agrees with De Niro?? 🖐️

[Mark G #SayNoToReform @TheLabourMark]

One of the most vile fascists we've had in Parliament for a long time. Utterly deluded, racist and just a deeply unpleasant person. #NeverReform #Reform

[Ian L Richardson @ianrich15813274]

2 years ago my son, a white British lad, married a Muslim young woman originally from Bangladesh. Their relationship has helped me understand that the negative stereotypes about Muslims are just plain wrong. Yes, some people identifying as Muslim have done despicable things, but that is true of some bad individuals of every colour & creed.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Dahlias becoming a hotel for frogs.

Allison Lamb raises around 200 dahlias on her property and was delighted to discover that the blooms serve as a perfectly sized house for frogs.

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

Annie Kenney lost a finger in a cotton mill before she turned twenty.  Her file from Holloway prison records her starving herself to the edge of death to get votes for women.  As she said to the judge: "if it means I will have to die to get the vote, then I will die.'
On behalf of all of us: thank you, Annie! Read more below 👇

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

A Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 fan at the World Cup sees an 🇮🇱 flag & shouts for a Free Palestine 🇵🇸:

‘I was a nurse in Gaza 🇵🇸’
‘I volunteered’
‘I saw it for myself’
‘It is a genocide’

Refusing to be silenced 👏

A Flower of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

BREAKING: I've secured a parliamentary debate next week on banning all MPs' second jobs.

Farage has pocketed over £1 MILLION from outside "work" since the General Election

Being an MP is a full-time job. No MP should be out chasing lucrative second jobs.

Let's end this racket!

[Sam @SamCKx]

The more I dig, the more I realise that Nigel Farage is literally done for. It's over for him. The £5 million bung is big enough to take the entire Reform movement down and possibly land Nigel in jail.

1) The fact the donation was made BEFORE Nigel was MP is absolutely irrelevant. Parliamentary Code of Conduct requires all receipts for the full 12 months before election. Nigel receiving his bung just a few days before he announced his candidacy makes it so much worse, not better.

2) "Category 5: Gifts and benefits from sources outside the UK - THRESHOLD FOR REGISTRATION Section 39. Members must register, subject to the paragraphs below, any gifts or benefits with a value of over £300 which they receive from a source outside the UK."

Nigel argues this was 'purely personal' but the Code refers to partners or families when it comes to personal gifts... this takes us to the next issue...

3) Christopher Harborne has a long track record of making SUBSTANTIAL political contributions to Nigel's parties, first to The Brexit Party, and later to Reform. He is a POLITICAL DONOR - any "gift" he made to Farage CANNOT be argued as personal or without political context due to this track record.

4) Using his platform as an MP, Nigel went on to promote 2 companies in which Christopher Harborne holds $ billions in stock - Nigel NEVER publicly endorsed or mentioned these companies prior to the "gift". Nigel also began actively pushing for policy that would directly interest Christopher Harborne and his business affairs. These were not interests that any could argue could possibly be of interest to his constituents - deregulation of crypto, and lowering of taxes on crypto gains. Nigel spent a substantial amount of time and effort pushing these policies.

It is beyond a doubt that this is the biggest breach of Parliamentary Code of Conduct rules in relation to donations in parliamentary history.

But even more concerning for Nigel will be that if it can be proven he was secretly incentivised to use his public office to push for policies to support a wealthy donor, then he should very likely face a criminal probe for corruption and bribery. I suspect Harborne might also be exposed to this. The United Kingdom and Thailand have a bilateral extradition treaty. Maximum prison sentences of up to 10 years for the offence.

This is not going to go away.

[Roo Stevens #WeAreCorbyn @StevensRoo]

@LBFlyawayhome That was cover on my copy

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Keir Starmer could have ended child poverty, homelessness and the grotesque levels of inequality in this country.

Instead, he abandoned those in need, destroyed our civil liberties and facilitated genocide in Gaza.

That is how this Prime Minister will be remembered - and that is the legacy of moral and political bankruptcy he leaves behind.

The crises in our society are not going away. Neither are we - and we will keep fighting for a more equal, peaceful and dignified society for all.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Caroline Lucas: "We need to recognise that what happened on the streets of Belfast was being orchestrated by the far right, by Elon Musk, by a network of people who actually want this to happen, so it wasn't quite as spontaneous as it looked.. and that has to be stopped"

[Martin @martycon73]

Good morning ☕️🎶🎸✊🏻
Fuck the Fascists & Racists
The Specials
A message to you rudy

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

What do you think?

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Richard Burgon just exposed the most glaring double standard in British policy

"Imagine if this weekend in London there was a Russian real estate event selling Ukrainian land. The government would ban it immediately.

Instead, we have an Israeli real estate event openly advertising the illegal sale of land in occupied Palestinian territories. The government recognizes Palestine. Why isn't this banned?"