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Universal credit is back in the dock – this time at the United Nations United Nations special rapporteurs have called for the UK government to question its reforms to universal credit.

Disabled people have warned for years that welfare reform pushes us deeper into poverty and exclusion.

Now the UN has called out the UK again. It's time for rights, dignity, and justice at home.

We write with @justfairuk.bsky.social in the Big Issue

Universal credit is back in the dock – this time at the United Nations United Nations special rapporteurs have called for the UK government to question its reforms to universal credit.

🚨 The UN has raised the alarm over the UK’s social security system. People’s rights are under threat.

International scrutiny matters, but true justice means we must uphold rights at home.

Our advocacy officer @alexwfirth.bsky.social writes with @gmcdp.bsky.social
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BREAKING: At least 84 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 69 people in Gaza City, hospital sources told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/i4tlc9

Daniel O’D with t-shirt with a photo of CMAT wearing a t-shirt with his face on it!

Your timeline is hereby thoroughly cleansed.

Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

My wife is supposed to be doing synagogue security duty on Saturday. It's terrifying.

The Second Coming By W.B. Yeats Guess who just got back today? Them wild-eyed boys that'd been away Haven't changed, hadn't much to say But man, I still think them cats are crazy They were askin' if you were around How you was, where you could be found Told them you were livin' downtown Drivin' all the old men crazy [Chorus] The boys are back in town The boys are back in town (I said) The boys are back in town The boys are back in town The boys are back in town The boys are back in town The boys are back in town The boys are back in town

For National Poetry Day, a personal favourite of mine and one I think about more and more in these troubled times.

Looks like I’ll be on google translate a fair bit..

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I dunno, I'd call them "people," myself. People with a moral and legal right to protection. But, then, I don't run all my beliefs past a fucking Morgan McSweeney focus group.

Jane Goodall, primatologist and global activist, dies aged 91 Scientist turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment

Jane Goodall, primatologist and global activist, dies aged 91

Some great reporting here: “One of the most prominent YouTubers, Anthony Styles, 59, has since deleted his AJ Audits channel after it was revealed he is a convicted paedophile. He was known to frequent protests… where demonstrators claimed to stand for the “protection of women and children”

Controversial Belfast cafe owner charged with harassing trans woman online A controversial cafe owner has appeared in court charged with harassing a trans woman.

Transphobia 🤝 Far-Right

‘He was accompanied to court by Charles Johnston, aka CJ Audits, a self-styled “citizen journalist” with his own YouTube channel.’

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‘Child poverty isn't just about statistics or numbers, it's about individual kids. And the time for action is now, those kids cannot wait.’ - our director of policy Sara Ogilvie speaking at our event at #LabourConference25

image is split into two parts: the reality says "Food banks warn demand has reached crisis point" the distraction: "Reform's plan to scrap indefinite leave for migrants: Bold headlines, but scarce detail"

Migrants are being scapegoated.

It is a distraction from the real problems people are facing: homelessness, hunger and discrimination.

Poverty is a political choice, founded in inequality.

Instead of anti-migrant hate and blame, we need real action.

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

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The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

Israel committing genocide in Gaza - UN commission An independent UN commission has concluded that Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

An independent UN commission has concluded that Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

All of this. It's no good trying to play nice and "understand" why people are espousing racist ideology. We have tried that. We ended up allowing racists to feel emboldened. The only option to confront racism is to call it out. If people don't like being called racist they should stop doing racism.

TLDR: Make racism shameful again. While you’re at it add fascism too.

MI5 admits it unlawfully obtained journalist's data twice The British intelligence service, MI5, has admitted that it unlawfully obtained the data of journalist Vincent Kearney on two occasions.

The British intelligence service, MI5, has admitted that it unlawfully obtained the data of journalist Vincent Kearney on two occasions

Earlier this year, McGregor lost his appeal against a civil jury's finding in favour of Dublin woman Nikita Hand, who accused him of rape.

Still waiting on the Prime Minister’s statement condemning the huge, violent, Nazi mob that attacked police officers in London…

A lovely tribute from Áras an Uachtaráin to mark Professor Conor Gearty's passing:

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The news of Conor Gearty's death has just been announced and I'm not coping. He was a mentor and the pole star in my constitutional thinking. He was also a great friend and fantastic fun to be around. I'm heartbroken for Aoife and the children.

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

Maria Steen tells us that she knows her decision to put herself forward to run in the presidential election will affect her children. It might also affect mine. I don't want a President who believes my daughter has too many rights. Bernie Linnane Dromahair, Co. Leitrim.

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#Aras25 #FeckOffIona

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“MPs get suspended by the party like I did for voting against putting children into poverty.

“But calling the world’s most infamous paedophile and child trafficker ‘your best pal’ among other comments, that’s ok? It stinks to high heaven.”

Well said @ianbyrnemp.bsky.social #r4today

Front cover of research report: POST-PRIMARY SCHOOL EXPERIENCES OF 16-21 YEAR OLD PEOPLE WHO ARE LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND/OR TRANSGENDER (LGBT)

🏳️‍🌈 Want to read the research on experiences of LGBT pupils in NI schools which Minister Paul Givan says has been removed from Department of Education website 'to ensure the information is up to date'?

You can still (at least for now) download it from the Department website: tinyurl.com/4dh78t78