Campbell X

The hunger strikers are in mortal danger. But the conditions they’re being kept in are already critical. How the government and its prisons ignore strikers' basic rights and demands.

Eight people are on hunger strike, several apparently at imminent risk of dying, because our law punishes more harshly those opposing genocide than those supporting it. (And under a so-called Labour Government.)

How on earth did we get here? www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...

Tomorrow's front page 📰

'The UK is letting these people die'

Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams A landmark report on global inequality shows that the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else continued to expand this year

Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...

Screenshot of Pages of Hackney website showing the covers for both books mentioned, beneath the name Ollie.

Ahhhhhhhh thank you thank you to Ollie @pagesofhackney.bsky.social for choosing BAD LANGUAGE as one of your books of the year 🥰 and alongside the equally witchy WAX CHILD by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken.

www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/christmas-20...

A thought experiment

How can we draw more attention to this? They're Palestine Action hunger strikers who are now in critical condition in the hospital and the UK is just letting them die. It also feels like there is a media blackout

Home for the Holidays: Sixteen Black Christmas films to add to your rotation this winter • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine From jolly rom-coms to chaotic family romps and religious gems, Robert Daniels celebrates sixteen Black Christmas films to add to your holiday rotation.

It’s here! For @letterboxd.social, I wrote a special starter pack about the rarest of gifts.

Here are 16 Black Christmas movies to cheer up your holiday!!

Farage just said “I didn’t wear a mask last time and I won’t wear them this time. This is nonsense.”

Here he is, not only wearing a mask, but also getting vaccinated…

Pay them no mind! Also its a nice round magic number.

"The only way to stop bullies is to stand up to them. Anti-trans campaigners have been making legal threats, trying to force trans people out of public life. They thought after the SC decision the whole world would suddenly agree with them. But they've misunderstood the law, as well as human nature"

Good

Yeah isolation is one word for it.

Another is "apartheid".

I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.

Lost for words at where we are, the absolute cruelty

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"Were proud to provide the PIP, so people can be more independent and be more fully included in society."

*Person shows any semblance of independence*

"NOT LIKE THAT!!!!!!"

"Common sense is not so common." And they are so smug and dangerous in their ignorance. And doing real harm. Awful people.

This is all the more mendacious when there is good evidence that the whole moral panic against trans people (which didn't exist 10 years ago) is spearheaded and funded by US right wing money
#r4today

According to Webb, it's scientists who support trans people who "have been captured" by an "ideology", not himself and his mates in the media who are opposing their very existence... if that's not bias
#r4today

I was so irritated. I had to switch to another station tbh.

Thank you!

Every American posting that they’re moving to Ireland when actual refugees are being turned away.

Also never give money to the US Red Cross 👍🏼

QueerAF newsletter screenshot showing headline that reads: Starmer "furious". His anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric is creating anti-LGBTQIA+ sentiment. Picture of Starmer on the right.

Keir Starmer says he had “uncontainable fury” about his niece’s homophobic attack in 2022.

Here’s a look at his party’s anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric and policies since 🧵

From op-ed by @jamiewareham.co.uk

Well we could talk about the fact that everyone I’ve met who has recently moved to Walthamstow appear to nearly all be white and from the home counties, and the homeowners are definitely armed with £500k from mum and dad

Bezos literally makes this much money in *minutes* every day of his life. It's like if any of the rest of us donated $5. bezoscalculator.com

It's hard to overstate the impact Taylor had as an AIDS fundraiser. $100 million is an estimate that doesn't include nine-figure bequests to AIDS charities.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

Books of the Year 2025 ✨ It's the most wonderful list of the year: bookier than the Booker! More indie than your fave band! It's 75% indie publishers, 30% non-fiction, 25% translation, 20% poetry & 100% Burley Fisher.  So say...

OK, book/list fans, here's the @burleyfisher.bsky.social Books of the Year 2025, inc our Zines of the Year + BF bestseller list.

My picks 🧵

burleyfisherbooks.com/blogs/news/b...

A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).