My mother just knocked on my door to say “Mayim Bialik is doing a live podcast about Judaism, night!” I chose Judaism as an adult, but my mom continues to be the most Jewish non-Jewish mother in the world Shabbat shalom

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and homelessness charity Crisis have jointly called for the government to increase Local Housing Allowance at the Budget to help tackle homelessness Burnham told PolHome that Labour "must go further" to combat rough sleeping, reports @nadinebh.bsky.social

We are in the midst of a homelessness emergency, the cross departmental strategy for ending homelessness cannot be delayed any longer. The human cost is far too high. Thank you to @nadinebh.bsky.social at @politicshome.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

The government is to hold a homelessness summit as it faces calls to step up its urgency in tackling rough sleeping Charities have expressed concern that momentum within Whitehall to tackle the issue seems to have fallen off since Angela Rayner resigned from Cabinet, reports @nadinebh.bsky.social

Excl: Govt set to hold two meetings on homelessness this month as stakeholders call for more urgency on the issue The government is being urged to step up its efforts to reduce homelessness as it prepares to host a summit on tackling rough sleeping. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Some nights I find it impossible to write and feel creatively blocked Other nights, I can’t stop writing And this short horror story is now evolving into a book (that my mom, who has read my stories since I was 6, is reading faster than I can write it) “Don’t tell me what happens!” she says

Now we’re cooking 🔥

Current narrative around Birmingham is unhinged again, must be a Wednesday

Reading Stephen King has inspired me to do some horror creative writing of my own (haven’t got the necessary focus to edit the epic fantasy book I’ve written) and honestly is it possible to scare yourself with your own imagination because 👀 💀

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We hear about the legitimate concerns of white working class communities a lot from the British hard-right, think they’ll care about these horrific and very legitimate concerns? Being a black baby in the UK shouldn’t make you 81% more likely to die in the NHS www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

1/2 So I finished IT (yes, I read absurdly fast - one of the benefits of my neurodiversity) and what a journey that was! It’s the first Stephen King book I’ve read and his ability to carry a coherent and gripping narrative and still write in that style is *wild* The best to ever do it. Obviously…

Levies and VAT are on the table as the government looks to alleviate the cost of energy bills in the Budget later this month, reports @nadinebh.bsky.social

A group of Reform Party members have begun a "Reformers for Remigration" group. It is praised by the extreme Steve Laws, who got 0.4% in Dover Laws was - madly - on the Reform approved candidate list, until June 2023 when Richard Tice threw him out for advocating deporting Rishi Sunak + myself

Remember when UKIP were polling at around 20%? They’re now a political irrelevance It’s not unusual to see fringe parties poll extremely well in the middle of a political term in the UK I find it weird this isn’t spoken about more in SW1 And it’s why I think the Reform bubble will burst

I predict Reform’s polling will collapse before the next election, the hard-right populism bubble will burst before then And I think Farage knows it, hence he keeps talking up an early election, despite there being next to no chance of that happening 2029 is a long way away

Currently half way through reading IT and honestly this video has absolutely sent me - I’ve watched it too many times 10/10, cinema - never beating the allegations 🎈

Avoided bread for like 10 days and had some on the weekend and had unbelievably bad stomach pains and felt extremely sick and woke up with joint pain Why did no one tell me this could happen, I can’t give up my beloved wheat - I don’t care if I’m intolerant now 😭

If people want to have a conversation about Caribbean integration, let's go! Let's talk about what the white communities of England did to the fresh-faced and hopeful Black Caribbeans when they arrived - who were INVITED here How they persevered despite deadly racism to be part of British society

I'm so sick and tired of these dutty, poundshop Enoch Powell racist wastemen and wastewomen trying to present themselves as respectable intellectual commentators or academics Their ideas aren't new, and posting into oblivion about them on Twitter to an audience of racists won't change that

Can we just call it for what it is? Racism. It. Is. Racism. Using this heinous attack - which was prevented from being worse by an ethnic minority worker who is now in critical condition in hospital - to push racism is beyond morally repugnant

Time moves differently when you’re reading a good book, I swear I checked my phone 10 minutes ago and it was 6.30…

was gifted this age 14 by a friend and couldn’t get past the first 100 pages because it freaked me out too much The book has since been lost in the ether, so I’m giving it a go on my Kindle Will I bottle ‘IT’? Stay tuned…

Fireworks in Solihull are an absolute joke tonight, have been nonstop since 8pm - cruel on the animals and unfair on kids trying to sleep Don’t get me wrong, I like a firework display - but there’s zero reason for there to be so many in such a tiny area - still going now

A new donation drop off for #Jamaica has been arranged in Ladbroke Grove, #WestLondon #UK 🇯🇲❤️ #Hurricane #Melissa #Relief All details in the flyer below. (Water purification kits need to be pre approved per govt guidelines - in comments)

Reform has lost over 5% of councillors it had elected six months ago A @matildamartin.bsky.social deep dive into the councils won by Farage's party in May found what a local government expert called "unusual" levels of churn Exclusions, suspensions and resignations have taken place nationwide

The fact this guy got to live in a palace and get called a prince throughout all this is wild

Hurricane Melissa has made me realise I’ve not thought about Jamaica as much as I should have done throughout my life It’s given me, and the world, so much - and in its moment of need I hope the world gives back to her and its people Jamaica, the land we love 🇯🇲

I'm in. Small amount of money. Our government must step in, too.

The statement ‘black lives matter’, not the organisation, has never been demonstrated as more necessary than with what’s happened in Sudan For more than two years war crime after war crime has occurred, it’s the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, and nobody really cared Now it’s too late

I just made a donation to the Jamaica disaster relief effort, it was super easy - you can to, link here: supportjamaica.gov.jm Parts of the island are completely destroyed, they need our help 🇯🇲

I better see all these rappers and musicians that say they love Jamaica so much - and use Jamaica and her culture in their music to sell records - give money to this disaster relief effort “Pray for Jamaica 🇯🇲” posts are not enough, time to open your wallets

So proud of Jamaicans today, the resilience they’re showing is incredible 🇯🇲 My cousin has even gone to work this morning, after hunkering down all night against a Cat 5 hurricane while his roof got blown off Jamaicans: taking keep calm and carry on to another level 💪🏽

Really positive development: the airport in Kingston is functional and hasn’t been seriously damaged, this means that aid flights can get in unhindered 🇯🇲 A huge concern before Hurricane Melissa arrived was that airports would be nonfunctional so aid wouldn’t be able to get in

Jamaican minister Desmond McKenzie says several babies were delivered safely during the middle of the hurricane - refers to them as them Melissa Baby 👶🏽 🇯🇲

Jamaican minister Desmond McKenzie says they’ve had no reports of deaths so far, praying this holds - if it does, that’s truly a miracle 🇯🇲

All family is ok 🙏🏽#Jamaica #HurricaneMelissa

Auntie in Mo Bay is okay 🙏🏽💕

Family in Spanish Town okay, still trying to contact Montego Bay 🙏🏽

GO AWAY MELISSA

Anyone else unable to reach relatives in #MontegoBay #HurricaneMelissa

My cousin has lost his roof, thankfully still has phone signal - please keep Jamaica in your prayers #HurricaneMelissa

Please pray for my family in Montego Bay, so far they’re okay, next few hours are the ones that will be the hardest 🙏🏽

#HurricaneMelissa as she begins to make landfall in Jamaica If you pray, please pray now 🙏🏽 Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Hf...

Feels very surreal going between checking potentially the most powerful hurricane ever recorded with 185mph winds head in towards my family and the SW1 news agenda 🫠

If you love Jamaican food, music, culture - if you love wining to dancehall at carnival or getting high to reggae music or watching JA in the Olympics please be ready to donate to the humanitarian assistance JA is going to so desperately need 🙏🏽 Jamaica gives the world so much, please give back 🇯🇲

Hurricane hasn’t hit yet but this is what my cousins garden looks like already up in the hills The flooding is going to be another level

I’ve never watched a storm as closely as this because I’ve never had relatives facing a storm this deadly As you can see the eye of this Cat 5 beast is not tracking what the NHC said would happen, #Melissa is drifting more west She’s still forecast to turn north, the next few hours are crucial

Torn between celebrating the fact Hurricane Melissa is continuing to move West and desperately hoping its eye misses landfall on Jamaica and still being sad that if it continues north west Cuba will get the direct hit of an extremely powerful hurricane instead This is all so bloody horrible