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‘UK govt needs to stop talking, we need action’, says Palestinian ambassador We’re joined from Westminster by Dr Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, who was born in Gaza.

"If we don't save Gaza we would not have saved our international order, and humanity will be buried in Gaza."

Dr Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, speaks to Jackie Long about the Israel-Hamas war.

Read and watch here:

www.channel4.com/news/uk-govt...

“The world cannot silently just watch while this humanitarian crisis is happening & this siege is also, of course, a continuation of many, many decades of illegal occupation.”

Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg explains how Israel bombed a Gaza Aid ship w/ drones w/ humanitarian volunteers on board.

Rumours, rock-star cardinals and street cleaning: Rome gets ready for conclave Papal electors gossip in bars and restaurants and try to avoid journalists seeking clues to Pope Francis’s successor

Rumours, rock-star cardinals and street cleaning: Rome gets ready for conclave

Wow!!!!

Now THAT’S some #GoodTrouble. #HandsOff

Massive #HandsOff rallies across the country 🔥🔥🔥

They do.

NYC always shows up 🔥💪

#HandsOff

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We’ve decided to stop posting on X.

Our values guide everything we do, and unfortunately, X no longer aligns with them. We’re choosing to focus on safer, more positive spaces - like Bluesky! 💙

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Physical punishment harms not helps children.

Thank you to @jessasatomp.bsky.social for her powerful speech in parliament this week calling for the removal of the ‘reasonable punishment’ defence as part of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

Today mark’s one year since the publication of RCPCH Scotland’s Worried & Waiting report.

Our recommendations to the Scottish government remain unchanged 👇

Cut waiting times
Enhance CYP service experiences
Ensure prompt, effective care.

Read more: www.rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/...

We should tax the rich, not cut foreign aid.

Repost of you agree.

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us?

A thread/

Yep

‘Fix poverty, fix health’: A day in the life of a ‘failing’ NHS A GP surgery in one of the most deprived areas in the north-east of England is struggling to provide care for its patients as the health system crumbles around them. In the depths of the winter flu se...

GPs and patients are feeling the effects of the crisis in #GeneralPractice - especially in deprived areas.

Gateshead GP Dr Paul Evans took The Guardian inside his surgery to show the impact of the crisis.

#RebuildGP #TeamGP
@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...

We see you, our American friends, and stand with you.

Bluesky is a great environment for building European-American resistance links…

…and over the coming months and years, we should actually put some real work into that space.

If you feel that, please re-share this for solidarity. ✊🇪🇺🇺🇸

🔥 Lord Sumption says US is now “very, very” unreliable ally -

- and the UK should disentangle from it.

Absolutely right.

Starmer to join Macron-led European crisis summit on Trump’s Ukraine plan French president Emmanuel Macron calls for urgent talks in Paris on Sunday amid fears US leader is sidelining allies

Good 👍
It’s all terrifying, but it’s the right move.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Almost everyone on bluesky has experience ditching a long-established app that now doesn't align with their values.

What happened here was awesome - people chose their values over convenience and influence.

Meta, Google, Amazon... if you're on here, you'll be the first rocks in that landslide too.

Whining over legacy costs really sticks in the craw – the Omagh Inquiry is certainly no waste of money The authors of a new report by the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange need to come to visit Belfast, the Bogside, and Omagh if they plan to continue to pontificate on our toxic Troubles fallout.

"The authors of a new report on the cost of our conflict need to come to visit Belfast, the Bogside, and Omagh if they plan to continue to pontificate on our toxic Troubles fallout..."

Rewatching Don’t Look Up and think Jonah Hill does a good job as JD Vance, Meryl Streep as Trump, Mark Rylance as Musk/Zuckerburg, and the Don’t look up crowd as MAGA.

My gosh this film is much less crazy today than in 2021!

UK childhood mental health crisis to cost £1.1tn in lost pay, study finds Researchers estimate lifetime earnings lost as charities call for independent review of causes of the crisis

"As paediatricians we are clear that there is no greater investment than our children, and this report rightly highlights the extortionate cost that this mental health crisis is placing on our current and future society." Dr Mike McKean VP of Policy.

Read more: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Image of the young people spoke at our event in January alongside RCPCH CEO Rob Okunnu and host of the event Dr Simon Opher MP, holding a sign saying "I'm pledging to champion child health services"

The diagnosis is clear. Children are being left behind and record numbers are waiting for treatment. We brought this issue to parliament to call on MPs to champion child health services. 🧵

Germany protesting

Nearly 250,000 people in Berlin showed up to protest fascism and the Musk backed AfD party.

If you support Mexico, like.
If you support Canada, RT.

Say no to Donald Trump and Elon Musk and watch their empire collapse.

Woooooooo ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Someone’s done it - archived the entire datasets of the US CDC before the orange toddler could destroy them.
#episky #medsky #academicsky

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Brexit’s failure and Trump’s fury have turned the tide for the UK and EU Two new polls show Britons are now firmly aligned with Europe, not the USA

Brexit’s failure and Trump’s fury have turned the tide for the UK and EU

Two new polls show Britons are now firmly aligned with Europe, not the USA

www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexits-fail...

As I keep saying, we need to make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform on the planet, we need to do it with urgency & we need to send Elon Musk packing

The number of BlueSky users tonight stands at 29,477,992.

WE CAN DO THIS!

Photo of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.