We can but dream....

Although the piece now seems to have been considerably edited since it first appeared. FFS.

A parade of horrors, Molly includes her last messages with Hany in a quote tweet where the racist moderators of this app have yet again deleted Hany’s account, where he was pleading for help in the last days of his life. People in Gaza on this site are as real as me or you. They face real danger.

Something well worth popping along to, Black Country folk!

This is the clearest, most effective messaging I've seen from a politician in years. Hits every point calmly but with a goal that's energising and hopeful.

This piece from @bearlypolitics.co.uk is just superb. Read it and share. Please.

A mate of mine has fallen down the "asylum seekers are all living it up at our expense" rabbit hole. He needs to read this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Keir Starmer: "This death and destruction horrifies all of us" So you'll stop all arms exports to Israel? No So you'll halt all trade? No So you'll impose sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy? No So you'll end all military ties? No. So its just empty words.

Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler. Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”. Well sod that. Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4

Recognizing Palestine. Recognizing genocide in Palestine. Ok, so are you going to stop it? Are you going to intervene? To withdraw your material support at the very least? Otherwise it’s just words.

@amnesty.org has released a report on the "global political economy” enabling genocide against Palestinians. The report names Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems, Hyundai and Palantir, among others.

Tommy Robinson’s connections with Byrne and Messerschmidt, and the amplification of his false claims via key technology platforms controlled by Trump donors, suggest that Britain’s far-right riots were orchestrated by an international far-right network.

The Blackcountryman is out and about in all of its usual retail outlets... Black Country Living Museum, Red House Cone, Dudley Canal Trust, RS News in Willenhall, New Art Gallery Walsall, Framers Gallery in Wolverhampton, Ashwoods, Black Country Hub at the Merry Hill Centre.

This is good. Really good.

Greta Thunberg and the Flotilla have made their last stop, they are now less than 1000 miles from Israel Sometime within the next 6 days Israel is going to try to stop them The people of the world stand with them, it's time the Governments did, they must be protected

Let that sink in. I mean really sink in. Global military spending at £2,700,000,000,000. This is enough Money to fix world hunger 25 times over.

A message of hope. And right now we need a message of hope.

The UK government has confirmed it will finally recognise the state of Palestine - a welcome step. But this must be accompanied by real, concrete actions to bring an end to the genocide in Gaza, including boycotts, sanctions and the end of arms sales to Israel.

Now we know #Gaza is & always was a genocide, returning #IDF soldiers who've seen action in Gaza are being detained, right? Right?

Need something to read? I've written a new substack. stevepottinger.substack.com/p/killers-li...

I find myself increasingly wishing for US government officials that which they allow for the people of Gaza. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Yolande, just bring us up to date on what's happening on the ground as that offensive on Gaza City continues" Deliberately destroying civilian infrastructure to forcibly expel Palestinians from their land is not an "offensive"

It’s just sick. I am beyond upset that our government allows this to continue without opposition. The situation in Gaza City is "nothing short of cataclysmic", a UN official has told the BBC, as Israeli tanks and troops continue to advance on the third day of a ground offensive.

Antifa

I don’t have a lot of sympathy for very wealthy, privileged people who are capitulating to fascism and/or staying silent because they’re “scared.” People are being dragged out of their homes and people who could be next are *still* speaking up. Silence won’t protect you but it emboldens them

For almost two years, our government has been deeply complicit in an ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. What kind of person must you be to see images of eviscerated kids month after month, and continue to support and enable their murder? What a world. 😞

Black Country folk, this is for you!

21st century Britain where it's illegal to project an image on a wall but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

Israel has killed at least 64,871 Palestinians and wounded 164,610 since October 2023. At least one Palestinian child has been killed every hour on average by Israeli forces in #Gaza over nearly 23 months of war, with the number of children killed now surpassing 20,000, Save the Children said. 💔

The #UN has confirmed what we already knew: #Israel is committing #genocide against Palestinians. Only last week the #UK government were denying this reality and continue to sell arms to Netanyahu's genocidal regime. They must wake up and act now to end the genocide.

The UN has confirmed what we already knew: Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. Only last week our government were denying this reality and continue to sell arms to Netanyahu's genocidal regime. They must wake up and act now to end the genocide.

Our country is deeply, deeply complicit.

This is a fascinating tale, and shows just that people moving from one part of the world to another in the hope of a better life is nothing new…

Time for the rest of them to step up to the plate…

#BBCNews time to change giving so much publicity and advantage to Reform. It's inequitable.

While the BBC *is* finally calling the genocide a genocide, note that its piece on the website states the UN 'says' rather than 'finds'. And it then devotes the first half of its report to Israeli denials of guilt. Can you imagine them doing that for, say, a report about Russia? No. Me neither.

Thanks to @bylinesnetwork.co.uk for sharing my poem about how fascism chooses to slide in by pretending its something else...

14 years of the Tories pillaging our country and devastating the fabric of our society has made many people’s lives a misery and created a reservoir of inarticulate anger. All you have to do to exploit it, as Farage and Robinson know, is point and say: “Those people who don’t look like you did it.”

Thanks to @yorkshirebylines.co.uk for publishing my poem. Have a read. Share it if you want to. 😊

This is huge. 3 more London councillors leave Labour and join @greenparty.org.uk. We're now on more councils than the Lib Dems in London. Labour - you're next.

Please ignore this crap and ask him why he is using his power to stop people seeing the truth about Palestine.

Israel is systematically destroying every building in Gaza City, erasing communities and making the city unliveable. Yesterday they demolished at least 16 buildings, including 3 residential towers.

Yes, the summer's over, but we're still celebrating it at this month's PASTA. Come and join us at Wolverhampton's Arena Theatre on Tuesday evening. Bring your poems and stories about sunshine for the first half; anything goes int he second. See you there! 😊

The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference

Mandelson was architect of 2nd State visit for Trump. That visit should not happen. It is sickening to confer special UK honour on Mandelson's fellow Epstein acolyte who is a dangerous autocrat, banning books, militarising police & destroying democratic freedoms.

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Gary Lineker just won best Presenter he was the only one to stand up for Palestine. Well done Gary. 🇵🇸