This keeps me awake at night.

This is hellish. It is utterly shameful.

I’m sure I’m not the only woman feeling like this right now. Exhausted and antsy and so angry and sad and hopeless. We all knew what was happening, we all know how power and patriarchy works. We spend so much of our energy living with that knowledge.

Behind a paywall, but deeply disturbing. The 3m #Epstein ‘files are a vast careless jumble that takes shape the more you read. There are multiple sets of "soap on a rope" in the shape of vaginas; girls' disembodied limbs;+rich, often anonymised, men using punitive, humiliating terms for women.’ 1/

Wes Streeting saying on Today that Mandelson is ‘not the man we thought he was’ but the trouble is, he is exactly the man we thought, just on a much worse scale than almost anyone thought. And there is an alternative world where none of this is this govt’s problem, because they never gave him a job

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Today is the 40th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster, and I still vividly remember being confused and traumatized alongside my classmates. I think about these kids being terrorized by ICE, and I think that trauma will also stay with them well into adulthood. It's unforgivable.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

We need to get it broadly understood that Stephen Miller's ethnic cleansing will result in a permanent metastasized immigrant carceral state and paramilitary warfare on US streets that goes on *for years.* The internal logic of his agenda dictates this of necessity. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

BBC having a totally normal one again, granting respectability and credence to their sworn enemies.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

These people consider themselves patriots, but grovel to the leader of a hostile foreign country.

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

Worked out very well for me. If this hadn't happened, I'd probably never have tried Peter Gordon's Turkish eggs.

Very keen on this. Asking for a friend and his dual-national kids.

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

Leaving my son's nativity and reflecting that Mary's story is a long way from the worst birthing experience I've heard this week #maternity

This is such nonsense - I informed them my pay increased in Sept 24. They continued to pay me until October 25 when the relevant DLA was up for review. I told them regularly. On Thursday this week they sent me 5 identical forms, each for a different time period but ALL including Sept 25.

I had a miscarriage that week, was looking after a toddler, it was my birthday...and I still carried on doing my job. Also he was there supposed to be writing his bloody book. He was not-doing two jobs.

My parents and sister were immigrants living in Chicago in the 2000s - some very happy times. It is horrifying and so hard to process the terror now striking the city and state

Olivia Buckingham, 26, who took three months to learn the layout of her small workplace and still frequently ends up in the stationery cupboard, reportedly thought it would be a great idea to visit a dense thicket of over a million maize plants and see what happens.

My reception-aged son's teacher has asked for photos of how the children were welcomed into the family when they were born, which is an unusually intense request for parents of lockdown-neonates. Need to come up with something that won't traumatise anyone (else)

We are 3 minutes into what would have been the school day if there wasn't an emergency closure due to a broken boiler (!) and I am shattered. It is amazing anyone survived lockdown homeschooling.

HOPE not hate condemn the appalling, violent attack at a synagogue in Manchester which has taken place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Our thoughts are with the Jewish community and all affected.

Missed this from Monday. I still think this has the potential to be a disastrous direction of travel. Normalising keeping kids in SEND units deprives them of the security of the mainstream offer or a specialist place. inews.co.uk/news/labours...

If I could get non-autistic people to understand one thing, it wouldn't be that I have support needs. It would be that YOU have support needs.

PSA for the PSAs: autism isn't harm

Comparing paracetamol to thalidomide is genuinely laughable. They should be laughing at him.

Brenda Hernández, 45, who until recently had spent her life oscillating between fawning responses and explosive outbursts, issued a statement today explaining that she is finally at peace and totally, blissfully fuckless.

Grateful to all the MPs speaking in defence of this right. Until you're living it its hard to comprehend how poorly supported schools and staff can be, how little training they receive in how to support children with additional needs, how utterly disinterested and willfully obstructive LAs can be.

The price of "free childcare" in modern Britain appears to be going full circle and applying nit lotion to your mum after the grandkids cause an infestation.

@jessphillipsmp.bsky.social right on the money here in so many ways. Might I add: not only does the country benefit from this free labour, gender health gaps show women get sicker because of it. It's not a solution to pin the future of an economy on free labour that makes half the workforce sicker.

This is very good, and highlights the impact of our housing mess.

This is a heart-rending and beautiful account of baby loss. Her guilt at "lying" to a midwife who was treating her badly will haunt me.

The situation for SEND kids: Last time I tried to find a club my eldest could go to, as he needs a 1:1, this was the cost per day 🥲

Good to see Florence's legacy lives on

This is just excellent on how to get reform of SEND education right (and how you can get it wrong)

I have been taken aback by some of the casual racism I have witnessed or heard of since starting as a maternity service-user rep. No awareness that it's problematic, let alone consequences or training for staff. Disbelief when women complain of racist treatment.

“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.” The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I wrote about my fears we're sleeping walking into policy groupthink on SEND units, and the very real risks with that direction of travel: open.substack.com/pub/jimlaude...

I went to a presentation by the head of SEN here last week about his "One plan for Send" and you know what, the educational attainment of these kids did not factor in. At all. I raised the complete resistance to including knowledge as an outcome in our kid's EHCP and he didn't seem to understand

I sometimes forget that I'm an "older" mum...and sometimes school decides to remind me in brutal fashion

I'm sure there being 25% of kids who don't become confident readers is NOTHING to do with the fact that the only method used to teach reading doesn't work for up to 25 per cent of kids. It's all down to the parenting

When a govt lets it be known that it's considering taking rights away from children with Special Needs, a minister doing the rounds saying he's ’not getting into the details’ has one big effect. People feel scared. They lose sleep. Once again: this is not how to do disability policy (or any policy)

Here is the campaign website—find out how to Protect the law for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities - www.saveourchildrensrights.o... www.saveourchildrensrights.o... Download the right poster, fill it in, take the pic and upload #SaveOurChildrensRights

I'm busy with a 4yo so proper analysis will have to wait, but I'm very concerned about proposals around patient voice. I lead a maternity voices partnership, have run a Healthwatch and now chair one (tho these are my personal views). I have spent years discussing patient feedback with the NHS🧵

Really pleased that families' voices and accountability have been placed at the centre of this by @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social. Maternity need more time to provide care and support themselves. But their training has to include listening, patient expertise and informed consent