Today is a good day to call Mike Johnson and tell him to do his job of swearing in Rep. Grijalva. Switchboard number is 202-224-3121. Ask for Mike Johnson's office then leave a message once prompted. Be sure to include your name and zip code.

I can't imagine the shame I would feel if one of those officers was my son or my brother or my husband. This is not what the US has become - its the US given licence to be what it has always been. We should all beware. Its not been difficult to unleash it.

Exhibition at V&A Dundee of Palestinian Women's embroidery. Resilience and resistance. 'Resistance is a process not a single event.' Get along to this if you can. You won't be disappointed. www.facebook.com/share/p/178N...

Great thread. Details and research. Easy to follow. Excellent.

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (4?) in a leopard-print dress and sparkly cowboy boots is playing with her teddy as she sits across from Mum in a cafe. Mum is sipping coffee, eyes half closed in the sunshine. Listening intently to Vitally Important Teddy Facts. (1)

DJT at UNGA

FYI - in the context of murder/execution/christianity/free speech

Nesrine Malik on song this morning. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Remembering how empathy, kindness, compassion 'Small Acts of love' reached out and made a difference. Important this week. www.facebook.com/share/p/1786...

Interesting thread.

The lasting legacy of the victims of 9/11 is not hate or anger or fear or war or bigotry or bias or racism or prejudice. Or even courage. The lasting legacy is that every single one of them who managed to leave a message just wanted to tell someone that they loved them.

Here was me thinking we had no freedom of speech here. Take a look at the pictures on this post and tell me Women's Rights are safe and sacrosanct. Otherwise healthy women are dying in USA because they can't get essential care when a pregnancy goes dangerously wrong. This is UK now.

End the genocide

... 'Not with a bang but a whimper' ...

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Jurgen 😢💔

Busy Kent www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref... #bbcpm

🧪...in which I learn that cooking with an air-fryer creates a 95% energy saving! www.physicsresourcebank.com/post/the-phy...

So there you have it. My ex-publishers who last year stopped paying me for the seven books I'd written for them, have today gone back on their promise that some of the money that they owe me and their other authors would come through. I should have guessed.. www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound...

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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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Jacket on. Jacket off. Umbrella up. Down. Hood. On. Off. Windows open. Shut. Hoolie. Howling. Silent. Blinding sun. Grey sky on the pavement. Teabreak. Wait 10 minutes. Jacket on. Jacket off ... Aaaah Scotland. Where've you been?

FYI. For most medical Doctors the Title Doctor is honorary because almost no medical Doctors have PhDs. They have MBChB - Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Chemistry.

Jill Biden has a PhD in education. Which is what makes her Dr Biden. Doctor of Philosophy not Medicine. It is unlikely that a Doctor of Education with a thesis entitled 'Student Retention at The Community College:Meeting Students Needs' will have any expertise diagnosing Prostate or any other cancer

For the last 2 decades I've worked in care. I've always had people in my teams from outwith the UK. To refer to them as 'strangers' is disgusting. We created community across different religions, languages, cultures. We celebrated *all* of them & it enriched the lives of the children we cared for.

I agree wholeheartedly with Dr Jonathan Lord. These ‘illegal abortion’ trials are modern day witch hunts, misogynistic and have no place in a civilised society www.linkedin.com/pulse/public...

Holidays anyone?

This part

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported

Child poverty has fallen in just 12 of the UK’s 650 constituencies in the last decade - all of them in Scotland. Across England, child poverty is rising. Excellent blog from @dannydorling.bsky.social for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social on what the govt can learn from Scotland: bit.ly/42IHQIi

Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

As long as we’re doing French Revolution takes, let’s all remember that Mark Twain’s is undefeated:

Pope unexpectedly encounters The Spanish Inquisition.

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

History always has a lesson.

In an effort to reach across political divides, a group of veterans has been holding regular gatherings to talk about it all over a beer. They call the events "Pints and Patriotism."

The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today. This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.

in his first ever appearance, superman beats up spousal abusers, halts an unjust execution and exposes government corruption. i love how people think they *just now* made superheroes woke superman, woke since 1938

Fascinating, terrible. Much like here in UK workers are priced out of accommodation for more profitable short term let's. Pretty well paid retail and hospitality workers allowed to live in their cars as long as they have jobs. Nomadland. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/r...

#BREAKING: Over 36,000 people rallied in Los Angeles today in support of @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social’s OLIGARCHY TOUR — setting a record as their largest stop on this tour.

The most beautiful cherry tree in the world gets her pink ball dress floof on.

AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock?

Amazing Jaïrus