There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

people forget how vulnerable pregnancy can make you feel. pregnancy and post partum is the most vulnerable i've felt since my dad passed away. it's so easy to be taken in by this stuff when you're in that state of mind

I have set up a sub-Reddit thing for reviews of books written in Scots. Not much there at the moment, but I'll keep adding to it. www.reddit.com/r/ScotsBookC...

It’s hard to exaggerate how bad the situation is in the UK. There are eight people on hunger strike and David Lammy recently claimed he wasn’t even aware of it. That hunger strikers may actually die is barely even news.

woman on the bus lost it on me because i was wearing a mask...while coming home from an appointment to treat my long covid lmao literally minding my business, not bothering anyone, and i told her i wasn't sick but that i'm masking because i don't want to get sick. she still shoved me anyway 🤣

This came out in 2025 but precisely none of yous have heard it. charmwrestle.bandcamp.com/album/longer...

Israel is still throttling the aid supply to Gaza. And Britain is still supplying Israel with arms and maintaining normal diplomatic relations. The genocide continues, as does British complicity. 26 months and counting. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.

Believe it or not we are not solely surplus value generating sacks of meat whose only purpose is to “boost the economy”

No, coconut is not about “disagreeing with people” it is about people of colour throwing the rest of their community under the bus by colluding with white supremacy for personal gain. You obviously don’t have the range for this discussion so why get involved?

I am so tired of these ghouls in parliament. Making tiresome, tiresome, badly recited jokes while making us poorer and the future bleaker.

Grown adults using PTA status to go on power trips is maybe the most pathetic and toxic thing I’ve encountered as a parent

Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office. www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...

he truly can't answer even the most basic question without withering into a puddle of panic. he's just so bad at...everything

the legend @flavorflav.bsky.social rhyming "A.I" with "NO WAY I" is 🤌🏽 youtu.be/iX6Lg8NwdWU?...

Harman explaining that actually, horrible migrant crackdowns are left wing politics and if you - a white person - don’t like it, then you are actively harming people from ethnic minorities. An outrageous insult to the public’s intelligence IMO, offhandedly dropping a dog turd onto your dinner plate.

This is unacceptable. But don't expect Labour to do anything about it. Their priority is global corporations. #CostOfLivingCrisis

Curtailing our civil rights has become something of a habit for the Starmer government.

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this legit sounds amazing

But don’t you want to make sure our kids know they can aim low and grow up to be soulless bootlickers 🙃

Yeah but these defenders “aren’t like them” you see, they’re ~good people~ who need to be able to sleep at night knowing how good they are

BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation" As opposed to doing what with their children??

weaponising racism so she can outracist everyone is pretty nasty work. of course this is why starmer installed a WOC, to make sure any pushback on racist policies could be shut down she'll wake up when they come for her but it'll be too late by then

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"

Cruel. Callous. Cowardly. The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are. We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box. Reject the hate. Reject them. This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk

internet was so much better back when we just had forums and no AI and no social media rage bait posts that show up in our timelines without our permission

People fleeing war and persecution are ready and able to contribute to our society. The problem is... they're not allowed. Rather than shipping them off to army barracks all over the country, it's time to let asylum seekers work.

Almost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families. Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by scrapping the two-child benefit cap. Child poverty is a political choice.

There’s something really disturbing to me about the way the media, and indeed her own mother, continue to talk about Brianna Ghey - a constant focus on publicising her mental health, as if she’d committed suicide, and never focusing on the transphobia that actually led to her horrific murder.

"Israel has continuously carried out low-intensity strikes since Oct. 11, the first full day after ceasefire came into effect — killing more than 90 people, according to Gaza Health Ministry." "Low intensity" apparently means killing "only" 90 people. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

wait til these people find out how many punjabis don't even know the real names of a lot of their aunts/uncles. so many are 100% of the time referred to by nicknames that sound nothing like their given names

This is literally how kinship structures work in a lot of cultures. Just because it doesn’t correspond with specific white American ones doesn’t make it a lie ffs

son has officially declared that his fave sport is cricket. looks like i finally need to try and understand it now 💀

Pretty sure all Jewish people aren’t violent football hooligans, Ed

They have completely and utterly bludgeoned any idea of public truth - we will probably live with the negative consequences of this for the rest of our days

Saying *WEST MIDLANDS POLICE* are an islamist organisation is fucking circus clown bullshit. But now, Starmer is feeding the narrative that they're acting outside of the government and Starmer himself can't control them. He's achieved this within half of a 24hr news cycle.

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Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

this sweet man 💔 i saw this video so many times at the start of the genocide. his love and gentleness towards this tiny baby ❤️

Bad person seeing a good person: what the fuck, why is she faking? Is it just to piss me off?

Two EPs, thats 12 songs, of Charm Wrestle here for you. Free of charge if you like that kind of thing. charmwrestle.bandcamp.com/album/longer...

Once again racism and racism apologia is ripping apart a community I’m part of and it’s literally the same playbook they use every damn time. This is my kid’s school and it’s unsettling knowing who the racist parents are and how many 😬

what do you even say. what do you even say.

Yeah DWP bullies are what’s needed. Not more GPs and better mental health and chronic illness services

Why don’t they want to talk about how Covid has contributed to a huge rise in disability? Long covid is a huge issue, many people are undiagnosed, suffering unexplained health issues, and not getting support. There are millions of sufferers in the UK alone, unable to work or live their lives

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years" The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.