awful news to wake up to. if you’ve ever considered getting involved with your local anti raids network (or setting one up if there isn’t one where you live), nows the time!! as communities in peckham, glasgow etc did we can resist these horrendous deportations and we can win

thread: the most active publisher of transphobic books in the UK, Swift Press, is also a big hub of anti-CRT activism and other anti-left publishing, was cited as 'grow[ing] very fast' by a recent prize committee, and is backed by basically every acclaimed indie press you know

It’s racist af to take Arabic words with varied meanings & claim they’re hate speech based only on the worst most extreme interpretation

In 2 weeks it'll be Nakba Day, where we commemorate the ethnic cleansing, land theft and forced expulsion of Palestinians by Zionist militias in 1948.

And it'll coincide with Palestinians in Gaza experiencing precisely that. A truly painful reminder that the Nakba never ended.

🚨Israel is RAPING & sexually assaulting Palestinian detainees:

'They were led to the kitchen, where they were stripped & forced to lie one on top of the other.... They were beaten with clubs & spat on. A guard then started to stuff carrots into the anus of Abu Halil & other

The Cass report systematic review methodology doesn’t match its PROSPERO pre-registration.

The authors used an entirely different scale (an adapted one they created) instead of the scale from their pre-registration.

That’s about as big of a bias red flag as there is.

It's so dehumanising that you have to basically tell the dwp if you shit yourself to get pip

Try thinking about WHY there is a market for smugglers.

Smugglers aren’t the root of migration, we CREATE the need for smugglers.

There will always be demand when people who need to move to find safety & opportunity are barred from safe travel. People have always moved anyway.

Conservative MP Mel Stride claims PIP benefit is thousands of pounds per month.

No it is an absolute maximum of £720 a month, and most people only get about £250.

Meanwhile he claims £1,250 a WEEK in rent on his expenses

Lying, thieving b******

Dear Mel Stride,

PIP has nothing to do with employment.

PIP is for moderate to severe disability and is v difficult to qualify for.

Noone gets PIP 'for' depression or anxiety. It is based on a functional analysis.

Stop playing smoke and mirrors with people's lives.

Jay

On the same day they are proposing to replace PIP with vouchers, I don’t trust them with this one bit.

The “reasonable” commentators with “gender critical friends” have nothing to say about the RCGP advising the removal of any GP support for trans healthcare, down to basic blood tests and shared care with private providers

Lot of 'serious' people keep trying to say these encampments are frivolous and don't matter.

I dunno, feels like this matters.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expects an assault of Rafah within days and says only the US can stop Israel attacking. The Gaza health ministry said today at least 66 Palestinians had been killed in the past 24 hours

Gov plans arrests for exportation to Rwanda to coincide with local elections.

People already terrified of being raided & shackled. We’ll see people vanishing into destitution & exploitation. So Sunak can pick up a few grubby votes. They’re disgusting.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

While the media ignores them, students at community colleges ARE protesting genocide too.

They have far fewer material resources to leverage but are just as important. I’ll flag them in this 🧵 as I learn about their efforts.

#GazaSolidarityEncampment #CeasfireNOW

Gender assessments aren’t known to be reliable and more often than not merely reflect cisnormative biases.

For a review: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-…

I was a third-year college student before this genocide started, but I'll never be able to finish my studies because Israeli occupation forces bombed my university and every other university in Gaza. Thanks to the brave college students who are protesting and advocating for us,

Headline: 'Protests turn violent'

Video: All the violence is being done by cops