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NEW: Labour's planned disability benefit cuts could affect the majority of current working-age claimants with ischaemic heart disease, inflammatory arthritis, hip and knee disorders and Crohn’s disease, according to analysis of new DWP data By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Over 800 people were killed in Gaza during the Israeli/iran conflict

BREAKING: the EHRC has formally abandoned its contention that employers need to provide single sex toilets. goodlaw.social/4npg

The government’s disability cuts will have a “devastating” impact on women’s health and dignity and could breach equality law, experts warn. The new rules won’t take into account menstruation or some women’s extra toilet requirements. My exclusive: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing!” “We just apologize for that language from the US president.” -Sky News

The "number of people normally cited as killed" (~50k atm) is the number which Gazan health officials have confirmed killed by violence. To be part of this number, an identifiable body or a witness must be brought to a hospital and issued a death certificate. Every hospital in Gaza has been bombed.

Well, now

Cardiff University students threatened with prison if they protest without the permission of the university

This!!! Forcing trans women to use the male toilets in parliament is to put us at risk of sexual harassment or worse by the demographic most likely to engage in sexual assault… MPs.

The issue with terrorism legislation was always that it allowed authoritarian governments to take sweeping action against organisations they find problematic. This slippage was always the point. The word "terrorism" has been rendered utterly devoid of meaning if some red paint suffices.

I hope it gets challenged in court

personally I think it's far more objectionable to refer to a pregnant 13-year-old as a 'woman' than to refer to a cis woman as a 'person', but what do I know

For the sake of comparison, 9% of Americans approve of the Black Plague.

I grew up in Northern Ireland, surrounded by terrorist organisations, many of which still exist publicly and openly. I have never said I support any of them. I do not support any of them. I support Palestine Action. They are not terrorists.

Keir Starmer predictably backs the US’s illegal attacks on Iran The UK apparently wasn’t involved, although I don’t know how long it’s going to stay that way

And literally negative domestic support. 60% opposition, spread across party lines and including much of his own elite and rank and file base. Are there precedents for a democracy starting a war with this much active opposition?

Genocide is ok, but we draw the line at paint 🤡

Is this good?

Its not that we shouldn't have *an* assisted dying programme. It's that we shouldn't have *this* assisted dying bill while we have so few protections for Disabled ppl and so much wealth and healthcare inequity

I was hoping this might not pass, but here it is

is it this

Thankyou Vicky. Let’s hope this is the first of many.

Photo of the Day. Credit to Palestinian photographer, Saeed Jaras. Posting this here because hardly any mainstream media outlets will publish it. An ongoing genocide silenced. #Gaza

It's notable that the only student speech frequently shut down on university campuses is a) pro-Palestine b) pro-trans-rights. The OfS seems *deeply* unconcerned about that speech being limited. In fact, they want academics who oppose those positions to have the right to 'shock and offend' students.

I fully agree that people should be shocked and have their preconceptions about the world challenged at Uni. That's why I am inviting representatives from ISIS to deliver a presentation on why the king needs to be murdered and a new Caliphate installed in Britain.

I don't know how many people understand that disabled people are looking at losing £450 a month, every month, potentially for life. Money that pays for the help, aids, and adjustments that they need to exist in the world. There are disabled people who wouldn't survive these cuts.

SCOTUS upholds the anti-trans law that singles out trans kids for discriminatory treatment. How do I know? Non-trans kids are allowed unmitigated access to the exact same treatments (puberty blockers).

Tonia Antoniazzi has been vocally anti trans. Her amendment was the less good option. Her response to the Supreme Court’s judgement suggested the only reason she could see for anyone showing trans support was coercion… …yet this is still too much “women’s rights” for GC transphobia:

Hard to believe there was a general election and, notionally at least, a change of Government last year.

Abolish the Home Office

TW: harm to children. My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review. It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban. Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...

I had an abortion in my 20s - I know how important it is that women have control over our own bodies and don't face criminalisation for our choices. I am so glad to be 1 of 379 MPs who successfully voted to decriminalise abortion today - an historic vote to protect a woman's right to choose.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

💥 NEW 💥 The EHRC’s interim update unleashed chaos after the Supreme Court’s transphobic decision. But now the commission says it was only ‘some observations’ and rows back on its demand for single-sex toilets. goodlaw.social/pa8z

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

#Israeli strikes have bombed the Iranian state #TV and radio building in #Tehran as it was broadcasting #live on air.

Keir Starmer's spokesman says that Israel has a right to self defence, before repeatedly refusing to say the same of Iran

The best part of this is that it was Democrats Abroad who did the renaming because no one likes the Royal family more than Americans.

🚨 I remember when these video's used to go viral! This was Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa yesterday. Could be you next.... Share and stay informed with @volcaholic1

What’s your sign?

My mum watched Trump’s parade and found out for the first time that America gained independence from Britain

Rachel Reeves confirms the UK govt is sending military assets, including jets, to the Middle East to support our allies, & in the very next breath she says what's needed is de-escalation #trevorphillips