'Among the deceased were allegedly older people, women and wounded, including some bound and stripped of their clothes.'

I do not understand why more people are not talking about this. I do not understand any of this at all.

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Some new research we’ve been working on Dark Matter Labs with CIVIC SQUARE on the real climate risks UK neighbourhoods face and why transformation we may need.

Happy to have this out there and hoping it helps move things forward.

Stage Two of the Multi-Year Funding applications has now closed: 281 orgs asking for £87.5m annually.

Creative Scotland's Iain Munro: 'Our budgets remain extremely limited, and we anticipate being able to fund only a proportion of the organisations which have applied.'

I see

This has been a bit of a labour of love… but excited to publish this day-in-the-life podcast about Toronto’s Moss Park Consumption and Treatment Service next week.

Today in The Nation we have a piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza, that has floored me every time I've read it. It's about what happened when an Israeli bulldozer came to destroy the house she was staying in, and you must, must, must read it. thenation.com/article/world/…

UN says mass graves in Gaza show older people, women and wounded, found tied with their hands and stripped of their clothes. #Israel #Gaza
news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

Hi The Booker Prizes, I really appreciate the transparency. The enslaved African people referenced are my family.

Josias & George did not 'manage' my family. They enslaved them. Thats why we STILL have their last name. They were enslavers, not 'managers'.

thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-bro…

Have a wee read, folks. What a state arts funding in Scotland is in now if new talent pipeline projects like this can’t afford to keep going.

Just finished my second play. It's about an island, about syphilis, about who is disposable and who isn't, how history repeats itself and what happens when people suffer outside our gaze. And it's more fun than that makes it sound!

Great session with Chris Stark in Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee this morning on Scotland’s climate ambitions 🌎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Big takeaways🧵

🚨🌎2030 target was always on the edge of what was possible, but now it’s impossible to meet. No option but to change climate law.
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Does “organised transphobia” in the UK, US and beyond deploy similar strategies to the far right?

In new #OpenAccess research, Fran Amery and Aurelien Mondon PoLIS - Bath look at trans rights, populism, moral panics and reactionary politics.

#OpenAccess buff.ly/3QcGakV

The SNP condemns Israel's massacres in Gaza while continuing to sign off on grants worth millions to the arms companies which enable those massacres.

They must suspend these grants, as we've been calling for them to do for months. No ifs, no buts.

parliament.scot/chamber-and-co…

UN Special Rapporteur on #Health Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng:

'The health system in #Gaza has been completely obliterated and the right to health has been decimated at every level.'

'The Rwanda bill is state-sponsored people trafficking,' says SNP MP Alison Thewliss 🧡.

'It should not be the actions of any responsible government,' she adds.

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HAPPENING NOW: HUNDREDS OF JEWISH NEW YORKERS TAKE EASTERN PARKWAY RISKING ARREST ON THE SECOND NIGHT OF PASSOVER DEMANDING THE US GOVERNMENT TO STOP ARMING ISRAEL AND TO STOP FUNDING GENOCIDE.

He talks about drone operations - “It feels like a video game” “but there were probably real people in that house”

🚨There are over 142,490 homeless kids in England. In the school holidays some of these kids delivered an eviction notice to Michael Gove for his role in fuelling the housing crisis + demanding the high-quality council homes we need and deserve!🏡✊♥️

🎥🍿youtu.be/JEXTvETKUto

if you can tolerate the reality behind the phrase 'mass graves found at hospital' then you have quite simply internalised on some deep level the pervasive racist myth that Palestinians do not share fully in your humanity

Living Rent is hiring for three organisers - in Edinburgh, Dundee and the Highlands. This is an absolutely crucial time for Scotland's tenants' movement, if you are up to the task, or know someone who is, apply here:
livingrent.org/work_for_livin…