Matthew Turner
@mjt876.bsky.social
Christian Socialist | Ehemaliger Wiener | Antifascist | Communion wine sommelier | he/him 🏳️🌈
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Just waking to the appalling news of the evil attack on our Anglican Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City. A short IDF warning avoided more deaths but it’s unconscionable to attack medical facilities. The impact on Gaza’s ability to tend the sick and save lives is devastating.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Gaza hospital hit by Israeli strike, Hamas says
The group called the alleged attack on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital a "horrific crime" committed by Israel, which said it was looking into the reports.
www.bbc.com
April 13, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Just waking to the appalling news of the evil attack on our Anglican Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City. A short IDF warning avoided more deaths but it’s unconscionable to attack medical facilities. The impact on Gaza’s ability to tend the sick and save lives is devastating.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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This is a pretty good section
January 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This is a pretty good section
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Sorry Nick but to paraphrase “all the politicians will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper 'No.”
Another one just walking around
January 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Sorry Nick but to paraphrase “all the politicians will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper 'No.”
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Woefully inadequate responses www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Conservative Evangelicals reckon with legacy of Smyth’s abuse and its cover up
Conservative Evangelical groups respond to the criticisms in Makin review including that “the beliefs and values of the Conservative Evangelical community in which John Smyth operated are critical to ...
www.churchtimes.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Woefully inadequate responses www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
The best writing I've seen on this so far and which elegantly if not explicitly asks a vital question: so long as these bigots and homophobes are allowed to remain in the Church of England how can we pretend to be an organisation which takes safeguarding seriously?
This is really, really, really good.
I missed the layby bit in the Makin report. Awful.
Another thought about "protecting the work" (apart from the arrogance) is the lack of faith.
God needs these particular men? Give over.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I missed the layby bit in the Makin report. Awful.
Another thought about "protecting the work" (apart from the arrogance) is the lack of faith.
God needs these particular men? Give over.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Cover-up of child abuse in Church of England tried to ‘protect the work’ of twisted theology | Helen King
It’s difficult to face the fact that those who call themselves Christian can abuse, and hard to believe anyone thought silence was the right response, writes General Synod lay member Helen King
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 7:47 PM
The best writing I've seen on this so far and which elegantly if not explicitly asks a vital question: so long as these bigots and homophobes are allowed to remain in the Church of England how can we pretend to be an organisation which takes safeguarding seriously?
I'm sorry but far right politics are simply not worthy of being listened to and should not under any circumstances be given the time of day
I find the number of people saying they want to block her as a response to this genuinely baffling. You don't need to like her. She's the leader of the opposition. Even if you're absolutely convinced she's wrong about everything, why not listen to ideas you disagree with?
November 17, 2024 at 7:42 PM
I'm sorry but far right politics are simply not worthy of being listened to and should not under any circumstances be given the time of day
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Hear out the white supremacists with power. Drive the socialists from public life, demonising them all. The British media eh?
This tendency to want to just close the eyes to opposing viewpoints has proven a huge problem for progressive politics. It's rooted in the the idea that even to engage is somehow morally compromising. It means that the argument is not joined and real people aren't won over. bsky.app/profile/lewi...
I find the number of people saying they want to block her as a response to this genuinely baffling. You don't need to like her. She's the leader of the opposition. Even if you're absolutely convinced she's wrong about everything, why not listen to ideas you disagree with?
November 17, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Hear out the white supremacists with power. Drive the socialists from public life, demonising them all. The British media eh?
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This is really, really, really good.
I missed the layby bit in the Makin report. Awful.
Another thought about "protecting the work" (apart from the arrogance) is the lack of faith.
God needs these particular men? Give over.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I missed the layby bit in the Makin report. Awful.
Another thought about "protecting the work" (apart from the arrogance) is the lack of faith.
God needs these particular men? Give over.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Cover-up of child abuse in Church of England tried to ‘protect the work’ of twisted theology | Helen King
It’s difficult to face the fact that those who call themselves Christian can abuse, and hard to believe anyone thought silence was the right response, writes General Synod lay member Helen King
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 7:09 PM
This is really, really, really good.
I missed the layby bit in the Makin report. Awful.
Another thought about "protecting the work" (apart from the arrogance) is the lack of faith.
God needs these particular men? Give over.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I missed the layby bit in the Makin report. Awful.
Another thought about "protecting the work" (apart from the arrogance) is the lack of faith.
God needs these particular men? Give over.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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UK journalists talking about echo chambers when 0.2% of journalists are Black and 2.5% Asian and 51% of the most influential journalists went to private school is a bit of a joke
November 17, 2024 at 6:29 PM
UK journalists talking about echo chambers when 0.2% of journalists are Black and 2.5% Asian and 51% of the most influential journalists went to private school is a bit of a joke
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Allison Pearson has a rant of a column about how she’s being investigated by the cops for a tweet. Halfway through she says it’s been upgraded to a criminal matter under S.17 of the Public Order Act 1986, ‘likely or intended to cause racial hatred’, and… that’s maybe 50% UK op/eds on a good day
November 12, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Allison Pearson has a rant of a column about how she’s being investigated by the cops for a tweet. Halfway through she says it’s been upgraded to a criminal matter under S.17 of the Public Order Act 1986, ‘likely or intended to cause racial hatred’, and… that’s maybe 50% UK op/eds on a good day
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A good and needed message from the Bishop of Minnesota ⚓️
November 14, 2024 at 1:08 AM
A good and needed message from the Bishop of Minnesota ⚓️
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I keep coming back to the Black Panther Party’s free breakfast program that the FBI dismantled, before Congress created the federal means-tested School Breakfast Program.
![Recognizing the program's success, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover famously wrote in a 1969 memo sent to all field offices that "the BCP [Breakfast for Children Program] represents the best and most influential activity going for the BPP [Black Panther Party] and, as such, is potentially the greatest threat to efforts by authorities to neutralize the BPP and destroy what it stands for." The night before the Chicago program was supposed to open, police broke into the church that was hosting it and urinated on all of the food. The government's attacks on the Black Panther Party are evidence of mutual aid's power, as is the government's co-optation of the program: in the early 1970s the US Department of Agriculture expanded its federal free breakfast program-built on a charity, not a liberation, model-that still feeds millions of children today.
Chapter 1, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (And the Next), by Dean Spade](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xly6kqojey6w244ooynjqpgs/bafkreibzojr7zzr3kimz3ueoc262hdinsozktpziiook27bzttjukcfhuq@jpeg)
November 14, 2024 at 2:41 PM
I keep coming back to the Black Panther Party’s free breakfast program that the FBI dismantled, before Congress created the federal means-tested School Breakfast Program.
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just absolutely incredible effort
Hi everyone.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 3:16 PM
just absolutely incredible effort
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2.2 million people, half of whom are children, held in a prison with no rights or comforts or basic dignity, all of whose lives are being declared meaningless. The only description I can conjure for what seems to be looming in the distance is a sacrifice to Moloch. It's absolute depravity.
October 14, 2023 at 3:37 AM
2.2 million people, half of whom are children, held in a prison with no rights or comforts or basic dignity, all of whose lives are being declared meaningless. The only description I can conjure for what seems to be looming in the distance is a sacrifice to Moloch. It's absolute depravity.
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German Junker aristocrat woman called von der Leyen is in favour of genocide? Knock me down with a feather
October 14, 2023 at 8:05 AM
German Junker aristocrat woman called von der Leyen is in favour of genocide? Knock me down with a feather
Von der Leyen is a very obvious fascist sympathiser.
Ursula Von der Leyen's racism runs deep. She said of Israel on her visit:
"This is the frontline of civilisation and barbarism...”
How much more racist and orientalist can you get?? Literally painting Palestinians as 'savages' of the East, while Israel as the 'civilised' of the West
"This is the frontline of civilisation and barbarism...”
How much more racist and orientalist can you get?? Literally painting Palestinians as 'savages' of the East, while Israel as the 'civilised' of the West
Good article from @naomiohreally.bsky.social here in The Irish Times arguing that Ursula Von der Leyden overextended herself by expressing unqualified backing for Israel and it's campaign against Palestinians without member states giving her a mandate to do so.
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
October 14, 2023 at 9:14 AM
Von der Leyen is a very obvious fascist sympathiser.
I love socialised medicine and think it is essentially a prerequisite to civilisation but fuck me every interaction I have to have with the NHS makes me want to burn it to the ground.
October 14, 2023 at 9:12 AM
I love socialised medicine and think it is essentially a prerequisite to civilisation but fuck me every interaction I have to have with the NHS makes me want to burn it to the ground.
Absolutely love the assumption of heterosexuality by clinicians!
October 13, 2023 at 10:53 AM
Absolutely love the assumption of heterosexuality by clinicians!
People sitting on the viccy line chairs? I think not!
October 9, 2023 at 9:32 PM
People sitting on the viccy line chairs? I think not!
So strange how this keeps happening!
BBC News - Fire at Grade II listed Bilston pub treated as arson
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
BBC News - Fire at Grade II listed Bilston pub treated as arson
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
October 6, 2023 at 8:36 AM
So strange how this keeps happening!
BBC News - Fire at Grade II listed Bilston pub treated as arson
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
BBC News - Fire at Grade II listed Bilston pub treated as arson
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
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Me looking at videos of young Tories being interviewed at conference.
October 5, 2023 at 5:32 PM
Me looking at videos of young Tories being interviewed at conference.
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Damn it turns out that signalling to the right that there's a great big honking "win button" to deploy against people who are Muslim or are perceived to be "too friendly" with Muslims may have been a mistake?
She's fucking foul. Whatever the Sadiq Khan's weaknesses he's been an unflinching ally to all of London's minorities. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Susan Hall criticised after suggesting Jewish people are ‘frightened’ by Sadiq Khan
Tory mayoral hopeful tells party conference event that some in Jewish community are ‘frightened’ by Sadiq Khan
www.standard.co.uk
October 3, 2023 at 9:08 AM
Damn it turns out that signalling to the right that there's a great big honking "win button" to deploy against people who are Muslim or are perceived to be "too friendly" with Muslims may have been a mistake?