Sam P-F

A true modern Labour MP. Her leader must be very proud of her.

EU: Welcome changes to the EU’s Anti-Torture Regulation should inspire more ambitious global efforts against torture – European Institutions Office On 31 July, the European Union (EU) extended the scope of goods covered by its pioneering Anti-Torture Regulation, strengthening its region-wide measures preventing the transfer of law enforcement equ...

📢 Last week the EU expanded its pioneering Anti-Torture Regulation, adding more equipment used for torture and other ill-treatment to the trade ban and control lists – a key move to protect detainees, protesters and human rights defenders.

BREAKING

Defend Our Juries website taken down as attack on freedom of speech worsens - blocking access to important legal info for protestors.

This is what happens when the Government uses anti-terror law to silence dissent.

www.wedonotcomply.org <— legal info here instead!

We're still seeing great promise of COVID nasal vaccines with various vectors, preventing infection and transmission, but the HHS cancellation of US support will very likely derail the progress that has been made
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Serve your country! Defend your culture!

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.

SCOOP: Contractor Leading Security for Gaza 'Aid' Sites Part of Infidels Biker Group That Seeks to Fight 'Islamic Extremism' The US contract leader, who is supposed to help deliver aid to Palestinians, once promoted Israel as “God’s Chosen Nation" and was previously debarred from contracting with the government.

NEW: A Gaza Humanitarian Foundation contract leader is in a biker club seeking to fight "Islamic Extremism."

One chapter held an anti-Ramadan pig roast.

The US contractor — who's supposed to help deliver aid to Palestinians — once hailed Israel as "God’s Chosen Nation."

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Former 'Alligator Alcatraz' worker describes 'inhumane' conditions inside In an exclusive report, NBC6 spoke with a former corrections officer who says she saw hundreds held in cages with no sunlight, backed up toilets and little access to showers.

A former “Alligator Alcatraz” worker says detainees are subject to “inhumane” conditions — packed by the hundreds into cages without sunlight, with overflowing toilets and limited access to showers.

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. TAX THE SUPER-RICH TO CLOSE THE INEQUALITY GAP Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has warned that Rachel Reeves will have to raise taxes in the Autumn Budget.

The Chancellor has a choice - continue to penalise people on the lowest incomes or tax the super-rich fairly.

We know what we would do 🤑

One problem with relying on the free market and capital to produce answers to political questions is that questions pertaining to identifying, surveilling and killing people constitute a market with growth potential in ways that simply keeping them safe and not killing them is not, nor ever can be.

LIVE: Israel kills 135 Palestinians in Gaza in 24 hours At least 135 Palestinians, including 87 aid seekers, have been killed and 771 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. The number of people who starved to death in the enclave during Israel’s war has risen to 193, with the five new confirmed hunger-related deaths coming in the past 24 hours, the ministry says.

87 aid seekers in 1 day

Any respect I had for Booker for that speech has completely evaporated with his votes for continuing arms sales to Israel, against Sanders' resolutions of disapproval. You can't defend democracy while supporting genocide.

NEW: Israeli ground forces occupied schools across southern Lebanon during hostilities with Hezbollah between September and November 2024 and, in the weeks that followed, appear to have intentionally vandalized, pillaged, and destroyed some school property.

#EducationAtRisk

Photo of Gazan mum holding her starving child. Text: NATIONAL DEMO SATURDAY 16 AUGUST 2025 GATHER GLASGOW GREEN (MCLENNAN ARCH) -12.30PM -IPM MARCH INTO CITY CENTRE GENOCIDAL STARVATION ISRAELI DELIVERED WESTERN AIDED GAZA GENOCIDE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE END GAZA'S HUNGER GAMES Gaza Genocide Emergency Committee.

Join us on the 16th to stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza, who are facing starvation & genocide. We urge the Labour government, led by Prime Minister Starmer and Scottish Labour's Anas Sarwar, to stop providing arms & support to Israel & to take immediate action to end this crisis.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Both parties are out of step with their base on Gaza. Especially Democrats. This table compares approval and disapproval ratings of Israel’s actions in Gaza between Democrat and Republican senators and voters. For Democrats, approval is 35 percentage points higher in the Senate than it is among the voter base, while disapproval is 32 points lower. For Republicans, approval is 29 points higher and disapproval is 22 points lower. Difference = Senators % minus Voters %. Senators % reflect votes on S.J.Res.34 (30 July 2025). Voters % from Gallup poll on Israel’s actions in Gaza (29 July 2025).

Only 8% of Democratic voters approve of Israel’s actions in Gaza, yet 43% of Senate Democrats just further enabled them by approving another bomb shipment.
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Atty Stmt Re: Execution of Byron Black, a Person With Intellectual Disability.docx Attorney Kelley Henry Statement on the Execution of Byron Black, a Person With Intellectual Disability August 5, 2025 “What happened here was the result of pure, unbridled bloodlust and cowardice....

Atty Stmt re: the execution of #ByronBlack: “Today, the State of Tennessee killed a gentle, kind, fragile, intellectually disabled man in violation of the laws of our country simply because they could.” Read more here: tinyurl.com/bdhnc6de

A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s offensive

"Its markets were crowded, its streets were full of children. That Gaza is gone— not buried under volcanic ash, not erased by history, but razed by an Israeli military campaign that has left behind a place that looks like the aftermath of an apocalypse"

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Tennessee Is About to Execute Byron Black — Despite His Intellectual Disability Decades after sending him to death row, Nashville prosecutors admitted he shouldn’t be executed. Tennessee plans to kill him anyway.

I wrote about the 69-year-old man Tennessee plans to kill tomorrow. @theintercept.com

Israeli politician quotes Hitler to advocate for a ‘Hebrew Gaza’ Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin quoted Adolf Hitler when discussing the push to create what he called a ‘Hebrew Gaza’.

Who is drawing parallels between the Holocaust and the Palestinian genocide now? Moshe Feiglin is: “Just as Hitler vowed to eliminate every Jew and said he couldn’t live as long as one Jew remained, I say:...They must be eliminated.” www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

A further slide into dictatorship

📣 Weekend Media Round-Up: Executive Director Alex de Waal on Famine, Starvation & Moral Failure in Gaza

As conditions in #Gaza worsen, Alex de Waal continues to share the message that this is not just hunger—it’s intentional, systemic, and catastrophic #famine.

PMO: Benjamin Netanyahu decides full IDF occupation of Gaza | The Jerusalem Post The Prime Minister's Office conveyed the message to the Chief of Staff: If this does not suit you, then you should resign.

Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan.

And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.

From @theguardian.com: The Israeli government knows how much food is needed in Gaza. It has been calibrating hunger levels for decades, initially calculating shipments to exert pressure while avoiding starvation.

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Join London CAAT for an eye-opening experience at the Merchants of Death Tour to visit some of the key companies and organisations who will be exhibiting at the DSEI arms fair.

📅 Tuesday 19th August
⏰ 6pm
📍 Boeing Defence UK Limited, 25 Victoria Street, London

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Engender blog | Engender launches report on women’s experience of the election process Engender’s new report ‘Women’s Political Journey’ explores the candidate journey—from preparing to stand as a candidate, including all the interview and vetting processes, to being elected and what ha...

New report by me, Rhianna, @talatyaqoob.bsky.social and @engenderscot.bsky.social‬ on women’s political journeys in Scotland and their experiences of becoming and being a candidate. It's not a pretty picture...

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📊 Gaza Media Office: Aid truck entries from July 27–August 3, 2025

▪️Total: 674 trucks—just 14% of the 4,800 needed. Gaza requires 600 trucks/day for food, fuel, and medical needs. Current average: only 84/day.

REVEALED: DSEI, the UK's largest arms fair, have quietly removed Israel from the list of 'International Pavilions' on its website.

Israel was listed as exhibiting in April but was removed in July.

Israel's MoD appear to have also removed DSEI 2025 from their website, as of this week.

Actually most people do like the idea of having human rights