Naila Dracup

What is there left to say. This is a war crime. This is genocide. This is ethnic cleansing. This is an unimaginable horror. Delivered by Israel, and it has been aided and abetted by the UK.

We must see sanctions, arrests, and the everything possible to stop this state sanctioned murder.

Bridget Phillipson’s statement is shockingly bad.

- “Move Forward” has never been more loaded.

- There has not been a single real reassurance for trans people.

- A load of bullshit about mixed sex wards which has nothing to do with trans people or this judgement.

Plus a load of culture war.

Keir_Starmer These pledges and LGBTLabour have my full support. I stand in full solidarity with our LGBT+ members and the wider community, will defend LGBT+ rights and protections, and campaign with you for the changes rightly prioritised here. Look forward to the hustings! 8:55 AM · Feb 13, 2020 Quote LGBTLabour Feb 12 2020 We're asking each of the Labour Leader and Deputy Leader candidates to sign up to our 10 pledges that we believe are vital to protecting and extending the rights of LGBT+ people in the Labour party and in wider society. This is what we're asking for Ten pledges to LGBT+ Labour members and the wider LGBT+ community: 1. Fully inclusive LGBT+ Sex and Relationships Education for all children in the UK. I will campaign for: greater training and support for teachers; buffer zones to protect children, parents and staff from protests; and the removal of any exemptions for non-council maintained schools and an end of the parental right to remove children from these classes. 2. Trans rights and reforming the Gender Recognition Act. I will campaign to reform the Gender Recognition Act to introduce a self-declaration process and for the introduction of legal recognition for non-binary gender identities. I believe that trans women are women, that trans men are men, and that non-binary gender identities are valid and should be respected. 3. Tackling the rise in anti-LGBT+ hate crime. I will campaign for a change in the law on anti-LGBT+ hate crimes to bring them in line with hate crimes based on race and faith, by making them aggravated offences. 4. Healthcare system that supports the LGBT+ community. I will campaign for the provision and funding needed for: the full rollout of free PrEP across the UK; IVF treatment for lesbians, bisexual women, trans men and non-binary people; the reduction of waiting times for trans people to access hormones and surgery; and specific LGBT+ mental health services. 5. Supporting LGBT+ homeless people. I will campaign to…

Remembering the ten pledges from LGBT+Labour that Starmer signed up to in the leadership election.
Guess what?
Starmer lied about these pledges as well

New Green Party advert just dropped explaining why you should vote for them. And its a cracker!

YouTube video by Manufacturing Intellect Edward Said interview (1994)

Listen to this 1994 interview with Edward Said and see how little has changed. If anything, what he warns about has come to pass and only gotten worse. He even said that the Israelis will seek to have all of southern Syria demilitarized.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAu-...

DOGE Descends on the Institute for Museum and Library Services DOGE employees and a new acting director showed up at the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) on Thursday for an intended 'raid'

This is the best piece of reporting I’ve seen so far on what is going on at IMLS. I encourage everyone who cares about the key role that libraries and museums play in the United States to read it. news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

Stark choice.

Reform paid for by oil and gas, corporations & multi billionaires

Vs @greenparty.org.uk: tax the super rich, tackle inequality & fund our public services.

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🚨A new study in the Lancet has found that life expectancy in Gaza dropped by almost half, from 75.5 years to 40.6 years, between October 2023 and September 2024.

The UK government facilitated this devastation through military and intelligence support.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Since Labour took office, 10,000 more children have been plunged into poverty by the refusal to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

Increasing military spending while millions of children go hungry is not a tough decision. It’s the wrong decision.

For the first time in over 20 years, Israel has deployed tanks in the West Bank, after expelling 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps.

This is a prelude to full annexation, and makes a mockery of the ceasefire agreement that Israel continues to violate. [1/3]

Never underestimate the vengeful nihilism at the heart of this movement. The glitter-eyed fanatics behind Project 2025 and other such programmes will smash whatever is most precious to you, partly at the behest of commercial interests – but also to enjoy watching the pain it inflicts. They will crush beauty, joy, community and hope precisely because other people value them.

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cows make milk. They milk themselves. Other cows check the milk (for free). Cows - get this - PAY THE FARMER to take the milk away. Then the farmer (you won't believe this, honestly) sells the milk *back to the cows.* #academicpublishing

The arm of the organisation that includes Elsevier had "revenue of £3.05bn, giving it an adjusted operating [profit] margin of 38.4 per cent."

To put that in context:

- Google's operating margin is 33.03%
- Apple's is 29.7%
- Exxon Mobil's is 14.61%
- Toyota's is 11.98%
- Amazon's is 6.53%

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George Monibot, "We have a Chancellor and. Prime Minister who seem to have no vision at all, except this thing called growth, GDP growth"

"GDP should not be used as a measure of national welfare" #BBCQT

George Monbiot nails it.

The spectacle of these privileged people choosing to make peoples lives a living hell - and stream it for their political ratings.

There isn't a depth to how far their party should now sink in the polls.

But as Labour crumbles, it's vital the alternative is growing.

The very best

Really enjoying the episode of the Rasputin Ambrosia with Ivor Kallin. Thank you so much for including me www.resonancefm.com/programmes/5...

Salama Maarouf, the head of Gaza’s Government Media Office, says more than 12,000 bodies are estimated to be trapped under the rubble in the enclave, amid a lack of equipment to retrieve them due to Israeli restrictions.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/xr13pe

While the ceasefire allowed displaced Palestinians to return north, the destruction in Northern Gaza will leave many homeless. Bellingcat's analysis of 50 shelters for internally displaced people, suggests that many former shelters have been damaged or destroyed. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02...

Only 3% of new housing approved in London is accessible, study finds Shocking shortage of suitable homes for disabled and elderly, with less than 1% designed for wheelchair users

Total unnecssary, thought-less failure of housing policy dominated by #privatisation - a few profit and the rest of us pay

#Discrimination #equalities
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

It's a hell of a time to be teaching a seminar on "The Long Arc of Fascism." Going to start today's class with this.

🚨 BREAKING: 80 children have died in temporary accommodation in the UK in just 1 year.

It's devastating that this is happening. Our social security system is there to support all of us when we need it - but it's failing, leaving families trapped in crisis.

These are political choices.

Why is Britain still sending spy flights towards Gaza? Two RAF surveillance planes have flown over the eastern Mediterranean during the ceasefire, as campaigners demand inquiry into UK intelligence sharing with Israel.

👉NEW -- Why is Britain still sending spy flights towards Gaza?

by @jmcevoy.bsky.social

Two RAF surveillance planes have flown over the eastern Mediterranean during the ceasefire, as campaigners demand inquiry into UK intelligence sharing with Israel.
www.declassifieduk.org/why-is-brita...

so many people warned about exactly this for years and major papers preferred to publish scare pieces about trans girls playing sports

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And of course infinite thanks to Luke Poot for all of his support x

I hope they wouldn’t mind me posting this but one of the benefits of playing on the bill with the legendary Bohman Brothers last week was being able to surreptitiously gaze and marvel over their many instruments. Incredible. Loved it so much. Thanks to Sonido Polifonico and @pefkin.bsky.social

To shut down or unjustifiably curtail efforts to raise the alarm about a genocide is effectively to collude with that genocide (morally if not legally speaking).

This is particularly true in states like the US, UK and Germany: key external facilitators of the genocide.

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

'The January 31, 1933, New York Times story on Hitler’s appointment as chancellor was headlined “Hitler Puts Aside Aim to Be Dictator.”'

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees