"If you stick a knife in my back 9inches and pull it out 6inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out, thats not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made.. They won't even admit the knife is there" Malcolm X Cutting <10% of arms does nothing

The girl in the pink roller skates. The boy and his parakeet. The autistic boy who cried out, confused and scared. The mother crying over her son only to see her other’s son’s lifeless body arrive. The boy carrying around his sibling’s remains in plastic bags. A million stories.

So I wrote an honest and heartfelt column about Ben, and me, and the loneliness of long-term illness newstatesman.com/back-pages/202…

For years, both Conservative and Labour governments ripped into the regulations designed to protect human life, workers, consumers and the living world, favouring corporate interests over the public interest. The Grenfell Tower disaster is one of the results. 🧵

I am sorry my little one. The world has failed you, humanity has failed you, and I too have failed you. 💔😢 Born just a month ago, today you became a target and his family was killed 💔 While I was treating you, my heart ached with the thought of how you will survive now. 💔🇵🇸

Ah - new term ‘school skirt length’ messages have landed 🙄 Reminder: Rape culture is engrained in everyday social/cultural practices. It puts focus on girls’ bodies as sexualised or inappropriate rather than boys’ and mens' behaviour. In policies, watch for the word 'indecent.'

Happy to see the mRNA platform being used for mpox But, after Covid, I have little hopes that companies like Moderna care about access or equity That's why Africa's mRNA hub is critical! statnews.com/2024/09/04/mod…

"Elon Musk is himself inculcated with radical right politics. So Twitter is behaving much more like a bespoke platform, created by the far right." theguardian.com/technology/art…

#ThroughHerEyes The murder of Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei at the hands of her boyfriend, got a single line on the news this morning. Let's make more of it here. Another beautiful and talented woman's life snuffed out by violence. #VAWG

Please sign and share this petition to demand the government suspends all arms exports to Israel, including components for the F-35 combat aircraft currently being used in the genocidal assault on Gaza: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/petition-end-a…

Knew 75% burns wasn’t good but was still praying for her 😪. Rest in perfect peace Rebecca. Violence against women is so horrifying in its magnitude and scale. It is all around us now it seems. #intimatepartnerviolence #endSGBV

No limits to violence against women & femicide. Even if you are an Olympics star. Ugandan Olympic marathon runner dies from injuries after being set on fire theguardian.com/sport/article/…

A history of femicide of elite female athletes in Kenya. • Agnes Tirop-stabbed/clobbered to death 2021 •Edna Muthoni-Throat slit by machete 2021 • Damaris Muthee Mutua- Strangled 2022 • Rebecca Cheptegei- Torched Sep 2024. All by their male partners. None have been jailed.

There is no one who thinks this will make a difference. Nationalisation is the only answer. Privatisation has failed. It’s time @uklabour stopped pretending neoliberal ideas work when they very obviously do not.

From Afghanistan and Iran to the United States, women’s rights are being eroded theguardian.com/global-develop…

📢 Could Gen-Z protests mark a shift in power dynamics across Kenya? Kenya has recently witnessed a unique series of protests, reflecting a growing concern about the high cost of living, persistent governance issues, corruption, foreign debt and an increasing inflation rate.

Read--and reread--this headline: "Bill Gates Advises [Nigeria] Against Prioritising Local Vaccine Production" Gates is telling Nigeria what its priorities should be? And these priorities are to maintain Nigeria's dependence on Gates/Gavi/Big Pharma? thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024…

I'm an Israeli, like those two ('nice') individuals; all three of us grew up with a narrative that paints Gaza—just a few dozen kilometers from our home—not as a place of and for people but as a land of terror, tunnels & extremism, something hopeless to be caged and controlled 🧵

Gates freq argues that poor nations like Nigeria aren't sophisticated enough to safely produce their own vaccines. Now he's saying this to their face Reminds of guy in my freshman dorm who liked to say, "I'm not a racist, I'm a realist." No, dude, I pretty sure you're racist

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