Bertie the cat.
Bertie the cat.
@alemapgl.bsky.social
Politics, news,animals, music,reader of books, arts and crafts, telly addict enthusiastically learning crochet. Makes my own bread, it's yummy.
Always protested for equality.✊
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🏥🧵Marwan Al-Hams, the director of Abu Yousef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah:

“Infectious diseases are spreading among children, including chickenpox.

There are no treatments available for those with chronic diseases, and some have lost their lives due to a lack of medicine.”
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March 11, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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And so heavily and dangerously politicised, but no one seems to grasp this. It’s like banging your fists against a one-way window. @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/educati...
Educating ‘dirty northerners’ and ‘fettered foreigners’ in Gove’s curriculum of ‘hard facts’
Gove's derogatory comments raise serious questions about the national curriculum he instilled
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
March 10, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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On X, a lawyer I appreciate suggests this guy - Barak Hiram, who ordered the destruction of a university in Gaza - will be the first Israeli officer indicted by the ICC. I think he's probably right
March 11, 2024 at 7:01 AM
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Sunak, Starmer, Biden, Trump, the pretence of any of this meaning anything has dropped, only the most terminal liberals who cling to their belief voting makes a difference are under any illusions it will, the rest of us know they serve one master: capital
March 10, 2024 at 9:40 PM
This person.
News years recipient at Buckingham Palace to receive a CBE.
These are the arms used to murder people.
#Stopthegenocide💔🇵🇸🙏
March 11, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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“According to 2022 figures from the Food Foundation charity, 25.8% of households with children had experienced food insecurity within the past month, affecting an estimated four million children in the UK”

Just think about that

news.sky.com/story/women-...
Women begin hunger strike outside parliament to demand free school meals
The group, who braced in the rain outside parliament on Mother's Day, said they want to highlight the plight of mothers struggling to feed children.
news.sky.com
March 10, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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For those who are not yet members of the 99% Organisation, here is a copy of this week's letter to members. The Budget we needed ... and should have had.

sh1.sendinblue.com/ai2nlu2bglpf...
March 11, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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#OtD 11 Mar 1963 anarchist Louise Olivereau died. She was a member of the @IWW union and she was jailed for 10 years for her opposition to World War I. She resumed her activism upon her… https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e16-women-in-the-early-iww/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
March 11, 2024 at 9:35 AM
#BDS welcomes a lawsuit at the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeking arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, for war crimes and the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

We call for maximizing int'l pressure on the ICC to fulfill its duty to urgently stop #GazaGenocide.
#ICComplicity
#ICC4Israel
March 11, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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Rupert Murdoch's media empire has poisoned global democracy and spread disinformation on a mass scale.

It's time to break up monopolies and build a truly free media — one that exposes the truth, challenges the powerful and amplifies local voices building a better world.
September 21, 2023 at 4:06 PM