Jonathan Tranter

Know there’s a wide spectrum e.g. those of us who will never know who our birth mothers are and can’t know the situation in which we were adopted, are different to others who find, meet, even get to know, them. But, the wider point

The powerful adoption film you need to see Birth mothers are usually left out of adoption stories. One woman is changing that by telling her story—and audiences can't get enough.

Birth mothers are usually left out of our adoption stories, i.e. not restricting it to Hollywood etc like below. We go on about understating adoption as a system (e.g. child trafficking etc) but so often still miss out our birth mothers as the first victims in who we are aleteia.org/2025/10/12/t...

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Brazil's Miracle: An Indigenous Disaster The story of the Krenak community in Brazil

" This documentary tells the story of what the Krenak community lived through, and the ways the dictatorship still impacts them to this day" www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

t. You Retweeted Saiah @sighahh This lie that there's no news coming out of Sudan needs to stop. It's actually incredibly disrespectful to the people who risk their lives to send us updates that often include images and videos. You're actually saying you need these horrors to be live streamed for you to care which says more about you. • Jeff George M @ @jhon_odey • 22/10/2024 A lot of us really want to help shed light on the struggles people in Sudan are facing, but getting news from the area is super tough. Don't you think more young folks there should share their stories so we can spread the word? It also brings up the big issue of media freedom Show more 12:31 am • 23/10/2024 • 2.3K Views 19 Retweets 1 Quote 32 Likes 1 Bookmark

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"Close to a million people are facing famine in Al Fashir and surrounding camps, as the RSF enforces a full blockade, launching armed attacks on volunteers and aid workers risking their lives to bring in food"

Since the beginning of the war, the town of Alkoma — under RSF control — has been bombed at least 150 times by the Sudanese military.

910 days in, civilians remain the primary victims (and often, targets) of this war.

No one cares about civilians.Today’s update is proof enough.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Temporary agricultural worker policy has exploitation baked in - FreedomUnited.org Immigration raids have devastated the agricultural workforce in the US but Americans don’t want the jobs. To bring in affordable guest workers a new rule has been added that is full of exploitation lo...

With immigration raids across the US devastating the agricultural workforce, the conditions for bringing in new guest workers have been made even more exploitative by allowing employers to charge for housing, on top of employer tie and prohibition on organising www.freedomunited.org/news/agricul...

'Massacre' in Sudan kills at least 53 including 14 children and 15 women Drone and artillery strikes by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group have destroyed a shelter in Al Fashir, the capital of North Darfur.

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I was probably overthinking the ones I let rot, me not picking them in time! I'm lucky the tree needs zero attention otherwise, as I don't have any green fingers 🤦🏾‍♂️ I just eat them as they are. Hope you're having a nice weekend anyway Kate 🙏🏾

Grey bucket of relatively large red apples. On kitchen table, toaster and microwave oven in background

I picked the surviving apples from the tree in my garden this morning. Sadly lost most of them: a) I’m too late picking them and they’ve started to go rotten 🤦🏾‍♂️ and b) the grubs have really been feasting this year! 🍽️🐛

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Get so worn out with all this David. Including because it makes us sound like we’re the ones obsessed with identity, when we’re quite specific with the behaviours we’re calling out (progressive nationalisms, white-led leftism in England). When it’s more us calling out their obsession with identity?

Although Glasgow has a relatively high number of asylum seekers, Scotland as a whole is 8th out 12 of the British regions. Why don't they distribute them better?

Get so worn out with all this David. Including because it makes us sound like we’re the ones obsessed with identity, when we’re quite specific with the behaviours we’re calling out (progressive nationalisms, white-led leftism in England). When it’s more us calling out their obsession with identity?

Exactly! There’s so much politics around this isn’t there (they can’t offload everything to UK-wide policy). And when it’s combined with British national identities we can see where it leads to 😪

Sorry "us" as in their former colonial victims in general. Totally appreciate us having UK citizenship is totally different to non-UK citizens like asylum seekers. Just meant their behaviour in general sorry

Typical of these progressive flag-waving Brits. They love us when we help them promote their identity (in their case, redemption for Scottish colonial violence). Now we're the reason for the Scottish flag being used in a clearer ethno-nationalist way, they want to get rid of us!

Scottish First Minister John Swinney joins call for pause on new asylum arrivals in Glasgow UK-wide figures show Glasgow was the local authority with the highest proportion of housed asylum seekers.

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Today's quick update [Oct 10]:

- RSF shelling continues in Elfashir; at least 10 people reported killed and others injured.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Hamas official thanks Donald Trump for peace deal but warns Tony Blair not welcome Dr Basem Naim also said Hamas would step aside to allow a Palestinian body to govern a post-war Gaza.

BREAKING: Hamas official thanks Donald Trump for peace deal but warns Tony Blair not welcome
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A prize awarded by five folks nominated by one random small European parliament (Norway, always in the top-three richest nations in the world per capita, because of their oil wealth and dealings with some other bad states), as if they're the moral authority for the entire world. What could go wrong!

Well, Nobel Committee still gave peace prize to someone with fasci*t leanings. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️😳😳🙁

🧵 An estimated 30–43% of people with a forced migration background experience PTSD and depression—far higher rates than in the general population.

#MentalHealthDay

YouTube video by Asianometry A Water Company Debt Crisis in the United Kingdom

Really interesting. Also goes into detail about the battle between public and private water supply in England from before the UK was even created 😭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ul...

Poetics Of Revolution with Nivi Manchanda

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And your later post, think the most "controversial" thing is thinking Springsteen is cool etc. isn't it!

Definitely. Guess this is to a large extent about Hurt, including its video isn't it. Probably mainly thinking about how these affected his public perception. But it's probably mainly about who defines cool isn't it, including if it removes his Christmas specials etc.!

Yousra Elbagir @YousraElbagir Follow .. • Sudan's emergency response rooms are responsible for saving millions of lives in a 30 month war that has not had a single humanitarian pause or ceasefire. They are nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for the second year in a row. We celebrate them regardless of the outcome. 6:29 pm • 9 Oct 2025 • Twitter for Android 14 Quote Tweets 10. 17443 906 42

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El-Fasher attack: Thirteen killed as hospital shelled in besieged Sudan city, BBC told A group of Sudanese medics says the latest attack on el-Fasher is a war crime.

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(Sorry they're getting "cool" from the headline, but the wider point)