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London football club announces trans-inclusive tournament to protest FA ban A London football club has announced a trans-inclusive tournament to protest the FA ban on trans players, which kicks in on 1 June.

“We are reclaiming this day, with a cross-club trans-inclusive football tournament. The purpose is simply to get our community together doing what we love and to celebrate our trans teammates.” #TransRightsAreHumanRights www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/22/l...

‘World-first’ gonorrhoea vaccine to be rolled out in England Jab hailed as ‘landmark moment for sexual health’ and comes amid record cases of infection

“The launch of a world-first routine vaccination for gonorrhoea is a huge step forward for sexual health and will be crucial in protecting individuals, helping to prevent the spread of infection and reduce the rising rates of antibiotic resistance.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Disability and Migration Network Response to Care Worker Visa Announcement “When Disabled people are able to access care and support, this is often from migrant care workers, whose skills and essential role in social care have been devalued and invalidated by both the government and the media. The government’s dangerous and inflammatory announcement further normalises far-right politics, while distracting from the repeated failure of successive governments to progress meaningful reform, or to reverse the widespread profiteering in England’s predominantly privatised social care sector.” Disability and Migration Network logo underneath

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

Disability and Migration Network respond to Government plans to axe the care worker visa - a dangerous distraction from decades of decaying social care at the hands of government policies.

Read our full statement here👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

Reeves to raise spectre of Liz Truss to persuade Labour MPs to accept cuts Chancellor to tell party she is making steep cuts to avoid similar fallout to that which followed 2022 mini-budget

Disabled people are the collateral damage of a reassurance exercise for the international money markets. That's definitely a hard sell for most MPs.

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Loss of key protection is ‘nightmarish’ demonstration of green paper’s bureaucratic violence, say activists A tiny detail in the disability benefits green paper that suggests the government will scrap a key protection for claimants at extreme risk of harm is a “nightmarish” demonstration of the bureaucra…

A detail in the disability benefits green paper that suggests the govt will scrap a key protection for claimants at extreme risk of harm is a “nightmarish” demonstration of the bureaucratic violence being inflicted on disabled people, say activists.

Activists will protest over government’s refusal to engage with ‘deep-rooted’ mental health bill concerns Disabled activists are to hold a day of action in Westminster – and online – next month in protest at the government’s refusal to engage with the “deep-rooted concerns” of autistic people and peopl…

Disabled activists are to hold a day of action in Westminster – and online – next month in protest at the government’s refusal to engage with the “deep-rooted concerns” of autistic people + people with learning difficulties about the mental health bill.

Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says Nuffield Trust says supply chains have shifted, with medicines for epilepsy and cystic fibrosis among those now scarce

Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says

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Image on white background shows DPAC Colour Logo Red Text: DPAC Day of Action Wednesday 26th March 2025 In blue and red text: Welfare Not Welfare Red text: End Labour War on Disabled People Picture depicts Rachel Reeves as a thief stealing disability benefits In Red Text #WelfareNotWelfare In Blue Text End Labour war on disabled people In red text https://dpac.uk.net//

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DPAC Day of Action!
Wednesday 26th March 2025

#WelfareNotWarfare

📢 Join us📢✊🏼

Poster for DPAC Day of Action in Derry on March 26, 1-1:30 PM, titled "Welfare Not Warfare. Includes hashtags #WelfareNotWarfare and #EndLaboursWarOnDisabledPeople, with website info dpac.uk.net and a cartoon of Rachel Reeve in burgler clothes, with swag bag over her shoulder. Wording on bag "Disability Benefits"

#WelfareNotWarfare

Join DPAC Northern Ireland at Guildhall Derry from 1pm to 1.30pm

We begin the biggest resistance to Labour government austerity agenda, your voice matters.

Join us and make your voice heard!

#EndLaboursWarOnDisabledPeople

YouTube video by Clive Lewis Clive Lewis MP Question to minister about £5bn cuts to disability benefits 18-03-25

1/3 My government is trying to do two incompatible things simultaneously. On the one hand, it’s trying to fix our broken welfare system while saving money.

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He called Zelensky disrespectful....

It is time to end the special relationship with Trump Donald Trump in the White House: a relationship with a dishonest sexual predator and convicted criminal isn't a relationship. It's abuse

Donald Trump in the White House: a relationship with a dishonest sexual predator and convicted criminal isn't a relationship. It's abuse

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Defunding Freedom – Impacts of U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts on LGBTIQ People Worldwide

What happens when USAID funding stops?

- Violence and arbitrary arrests increase
- LGBTQ voices silenced
- Health care jeopardized
- Most marginalized are harmed

This report from @outrightintl.bsky.social shows the harm that is being caused by eliminating LGBTQ programming and funding.

Ukraine rejects Trump bid to take rights to half its mineral reserves Kyiv wants security guarantees to be tied to any natural resources deal

Ukraine rejects Trump bid to take rights to half its mineral reserves

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BREAKING: United States Enters Trade Wars | Evening News Rundown The United States has officially begun a trade war with Mexico, Canada, and China, Elon Musk has access to a critical government payment system, and Democrats have a new leader.

BREAKING: The United States has officially begun trade wars with Mexico, Canada, and China, Elon Musk has access to a critical government payment system, and Democrats have a new leader. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

Of course, it’s possible that all of the people accused of ‘over-reacting’ were actually under-reacting all along…

YouTube video by Femi Reform Councillors call Nigel Farage undemocratic!!!

12 Reform Party councillor quit because Nigel Farage is "Autocratic"???

I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!!

Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship - Anadolu Ajansı

More than 60 universities and higher education institutions in Germany have announced their departure from X

In a joint statement, the universities condemned the platform for amplifying far-right populist content, calling it “unacceptable”

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Merry Christmas, everyone hope you have fun

Meanwhile…

“When we left the European Union people were promised more money into the NHS, your living standards will be better and the opposite has happened”

Deputy PM Angela Rayner

Revealed: bias found in AI system used to detect UK benefits fraud Exclusive: Age, disability, marital status and nationality influence decisions to investigate claims, prompting fears of ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach

An artificial intelligence system used by the UK government to detect welfare fraud is showing bias according to people’s age, disability, marital status and nationality prompting fears of ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach
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Let’s also not forget leaving the ECHR could result in UK’s trade deal with the EU being terminated because the convention is written into the 2020 Trade & Co-operation Agreement & would also breach the Good Friday Agreement which requires the Convention be directly enforceable in Northern Ireland

Keir Starmer Considers Closing Elon Musk Donations Loophole to Stop 'Foreign Interference' in UK Elections A rumoured $100 million donation from Musk to Nigel Farage's Reform would be banned under the proposal

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is considering plans to close a loophole that allows foreign billionaires like Elon Musk to bankroll British political parties, one of his ministers has signalled👏

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BREAKING: The government is sending a rare "risk to life" alert to three million people after a red weather warning was issued across the UK for wind tomorrow

Stay safe everyone

TikTok faces US ban after losing court battle The video-sharing app has been given an ultimatum to break ties with its China-based parent company by mid-January - or face being blocked in the US.

TikTok faces US ban after losing court battle

The video-sharing app has been given an ultimatum to break ties with its China-based parent company by mid-January - or face being blocked in the US
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