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Policy & engagement older people. Equality & rights. Health & social care. Faith & abortion. Reproductive Justice. Antiracist community-building. Trans rights. Free Palestine. Opinions expressed in a personal not professional capacity. she/her
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Is bluesky allowing multiple profiles under the same email address yet? Looking for how to set up profiles for different campaign groups.

Jasmine Crockett is a Democratic Congresswoman youtu.be/KA1VGsCgXAE?...

NEW: One of Sean Combs’s lawyers filed a motion to withdraw as counsel overnight, raising attorney-client privilege and asserting in an affidavit that “under no circumstances can I continue to effectively serve as counsel for Sean Combs, consistent with the ABA Standards for Criminal Justice.”

Stand up for trans people. And if someone tries to victimise you for that, stand up for yourself too. Great to see a positive outcome in this tribunal case.

Not every "gender critical" person is a fascist. Some of them (a great many, possibly) are just mistaken. I hope. But all fascists are transphobes. And when you lie in the same bed as fascists, that ought to be a reason for introspection.

I can confirm that ppl online who claim to be part of these gender critical groups call me things that more than justify my decision not to engage with them. I have a nice big folder of screenshots too should anyone ever want receipts.

The Onion headlines are getting scary because you really have to stop and wonder if maybe they're true.

This past year was the deadliest year on record for journalists. Israel accounted for nearly 70% of the deaths. At least 124 journalists in 18 countries were killed – with the Israeli military responsible for 85 of those deaths. Report from the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Proud to be part of a feminist movement that practices solidarity with trans ppl. Thank you NIRWN 😍 Anyone that thinks they're a feminist while cheerleading the persecution of trans ppl has lost the plot at this point. They're literally on the same side as rapists. Wise up.

NIRWN stand with our trans community today & every day. If you caught some of the toxic nonsense peddled to one of our Assembly Committees please know that we see you, we value you and we know that Women’s equality will not be advanced by the subjugation of another’s rights 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

Courts blocking government funding cuts - now there's an interesting thought...

We have begun to commission abortion services in Northern Ireland, BUT we still don’t have all the services in the regulations. For more information on abortion in Northern Ireland visit our website👇 https://buff.ly/3gx84p7

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

"A sinister side to this administration has revealed itself... It’s happening before our eyes: They are deliberately allying with violent men." @chloenazra.bsky.social shows how the Trump administration has validated the abuser's false narrative of male victimhood. ⬇️ msmagazine.com/2025/02/04/m...

White evangelicals are marinated in a foundational theology that sacralizes authoritarian male power unchecked by accountability. This explains a lot about where we're at. Theology has consequences.

I know people who didn't grow up in the church can find it hard to understand how self-proclaimed Christians support an abuser like Trump given all their rhetoric about loving ppl. It's because many of them have been protecting & following abusers for decades in their own churches. It's the norm.

Jesus never called his followers to defend Christianity, a “Christian nation,” or even their Christian churches. Jesus called them to defend the poor, the oppressed, and the hurting. Stop manipulating Jesus for the benefit of a few. Get to feeding, healing, and peacemaking.

This is huge. My petition got approved. It challenges the UK government to the lift the Puberty Blocker ban on the grounds that it contradicts article 8 of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child. Please sign and Repost ✊️🏳️‍⚧️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

BBC Radio 4 are going with ‘bold plans’ as a descriptor forTrumps ethnic cleansing ambitions for Gaza. They led the story with “Trump is right about 2 things, Gaza has been reduced to rubble and American led peace approach has thus far failed.” Just incredible to listen to

Yesterday, I returned from 3 weeks in Costa Rica, where I went to find out what can be learned from their spectacular success rewilding a country. I cannot overstate how awe-inspiring the trip was: nature loss CAN be reversed on a huge scale, benefiting *everyone*.

The Education Minister deflected and dodged questions in the Education Committee today over the decision to give money to a new pitch at Lisneal. This is one of a worrying pattern of opacity coming from the Department regarding public appointments, and decision making.

Lovely profile of Scoil na Seolta but I'd love to know why a journalist would call Lisnasharragh a 'loyalist heartland' when its 6 elected cllrs are 2 Alliance, 2 DUP, 1 SDLP & 1 Green? Maybe the sensationalism plays well with the IT readership but it's not accurate. We're a diverse community.

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Over 50% of nonviolent movements to overthrow governments are successful within one year of their peak. The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership. We can do this. More:

What's happening in South Africa as a result of the Trump/Musk attack on USAID is scary. Services closed their doors overnight. 17% of funding for national health services to ppl with HIV & AIDS gone. Stolen by billionaires. youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4a...

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

The richest man in the world shutting down aid to the poorest and most in need is just everything you need to know about these appalling examples of garbage apnews.com/article/doge...

Queen's University Belfast has today joined other UKHE universities by launching a Voluntary Severance Scheme, citing rapidly rising operational costs, the Northern Ireland cap on domestic students, a decline in international students, & an operational deficit (£12.7m) in 2023-4.

What a joy to receive my copy of this gorgeous book today! Thanks to eds @karenod.bsky.social & @clairewtheology.bsky.social for allowing me to participate in this important volume of work & to my writing partner @noirinmac.bsky.social for being a theory genius! Available from @scmpress.bsky.social

"Security agents" pulling an independent watchdog out of government after being illegally fired. What would you say if you saw it in another country?

With being a bit sick this week I realised I can't go on social media when I'm ill. It's just too draining mentally & physically so I find myself putting the phone down. Which raises the question of what it's depleting from me the rest of the time when I think I'm scrolling to relax...😬

Imagine seeing Grenfell Tower burn and thinking, "You know what the UK really needs is less red tape." That's who Keir Starmer is, in his soul. Of course, it's generally the working class who are victims of deregulation, while Keir's mates, who will profit from deregulation, keep their profits.

Brilliant thread on how moral inversion works for fascist movements.

As a mainline Protestant myself, I am acutely aware that many MAGA-oriented conservatives don't believe I'm a Christian at all, since denying that Jesus was/is a homophobe or misogynist outrages them. They're really baring their teeth right now: nymag.com/intelligence...

As someone who studied the suffrage movement/ 1st wave feminism, an appeal to natural law was one of the key frames used to argue that women shouldn't be allowed to participate in politics. How are we having to listen to this same framing against equality over a century later?

Harvard just fired me and all of my colleagues. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This beautiful learning space is what Moore Holmes and Jamie Bryson came into our community to agitate about and try to get stopped. The images just make you realise how ridiculous these men are. God love them.

NPR Exclusive: The Episcopal bishop of Washington spoke with NPR to discuss her sermon addressing President Trump and why she asked him to have mercy.

Huge well done to this young man and his mum who took on an institution for their lack of action on bullying rooted in toxic masculinity. I really hope the NI grammar school rugby establishment see this as a watershed moment and finally do something to change this culture search.app/HAsbkFM8KrYN...

For all the doubters, how are these not the same?

I can't bear to watch DJT in the Washington National Cathedral. It makes me sick. They didn't have to do this. It is a LIE that they have held such services for every president. In 1973, WNC refused to hold a service for Nixon. Instead, they had Leonard Cohen in concert - and no Nixon in sight.

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

in case you missed it, telling the nazis to fuck off starts with you getting off substack

They're just straight up firing women already. First women in positions of power and influence, next they'll be bringing back the marriage bar to keep the majority of women in domestic servitude.