#TestimonyTuesday 21/4/2026 - A testimony from a volunteer.

#guidersagainsttransexclusion #girlguiding #trans #transinclusion

Good. It’s easy to forget that climate change denial & shilling for fossil fuel companies provided a template for Tufton Street, Brexit & pretty much every egregious example of persuading populations to vote against their own interests. The story of Don Pearlman should be taught in kindergartens…

Labour’s great green energy plan could be a legacy as vital as the NHS | Polly Toynbee Ed Miliband has a rare chance to do for the climate what Nye Bevan did for health: create something future generations will be proud of, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

'Every solar panel, every wind turbine, every heat pump, every EV on the road makes the UK more secure. This link between clean energy and national security throws off the idea that green policy is weak, fluffy, lefty, wokery, when it is basic national defence.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Amazon doing a good ole price fixing conspiracy, apparently www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

In light of upcoming European Union talks with the Taliban, the EU should not risk legitimizing the Taliban through cooperation on deportations. Returning people to Afghanistan would put lives at risk.

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

No war crimes in Gaza, says Nigel Farage’s Israel tsar Jason Pearlman is among several pro-Israel figures behind the party predicted to win big in May elections

👉 NEW -- No war crimes in Gaza, says Nigel Farage’s Israel tsar

by Martin Williams

Jason Pearlman is among several pro-Israel figures behind the party predicted to win big in May elections

www.declassifieduk.org/no-war-crime...

The Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center was founded in 1971 to combat white supremacist groups after the civil rights movement.

Now, the Trump administration appears to be preparing a case against the organization for its past use of paid informants on extremist groups. trib.al/GS8HDom

The Fair Way: Our Journey to Justice Former plaintiffs B. Birgit Koebke and Kendall French recount how their triumphant love helped pave the way to marriage equality. By Former Lambda Legal Plaintiff B. Birgit Koebke For more than three decades, our partnership has been our foundation and our rock — one that’s built on love, resilience, curiosity, and a shared belief in...

This Lesbian Visibility Week, former plaintiffs B. Birgit Koebke and Kendall French recount how their triumphant love helped pave the way to marriage equality. 🧡🤍🩷

Read Koebke and French’s love, bravery, and victory: lambdalegal.lgbt/2p8635vt

Epstein victim recounts how paedophile and Ghislaine Maxwell raped her (Daily Mail) Marina Lacerda was raped by Jeffrey Epstein between the ages of 14 to 17, but throughout that time she was never allowed into his bedroom. The paedophile fin...

Read "Epstein victim recounts how paedophile and Ghislaine Maxwell raped her" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-7zbeWbfi/5...

Streeting refuses to publish secret Palantir NHS briefings | Good Law Project The health secretary wants to keep us in the dark about Palantir’s systems for handling sensitive health records, so we’re taking legal action with Democracy for Sale to fight back

Wes Streeting is keeping Palantir’s secrets 🤫
https://goodlaw.social/dmxu

A Confrontation with Truth What it means to live in a deeply sick country that worships killing. Diagnosis as the first step of any journey toward health.

I wrote a story of two doctors to illustrate what it really means to meet MAGA defectors where they are.

We live in a sick nation, so we should pursue a culture of healing. And every movement toward health begins with a confrontation. www.the-reframe.com/a-confrontat...

Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

I wouldn't underprice this possibility. Last year, the idea of Labour being banned from Pride seemed fanciful. Then everyone did it.

Barring Stonewall from Pride would be an unprecedented and defiant move and, I think, a welcome one.

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

There is something wrong with the asylum process for LGBTQ+ people – but it’s not fake claimants A new investigation is likely to cast suspicion over LGBTQ+ claims more broadly.

Great to write with @raawiyah.bsky.social and Calogero Giametta on the realities of LGBTIQA+ asylum following the BBC's deeply misleading and harmful reporting last week.

theconversation.com/there-is-som...

Thames Water wants to set its own rules. The Board of Ofwat is split over whether to let them. Tip the scales in favour of people and planet: email the Board now, and urge them to reject Thames Water's creditors @weownit.org.uk tinyurl.com/85m396az&nbs...

It’s always about oil.

There has been no reconstruction since a fragile US-backed ceasefire went into effect in October and humanitarian conditions remain dire. ft.trib.al/nrLIFXV

The coming global food crisis Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops

Its worse than you think. The coming global food crisis #TheyDidThis

"This piece by Adam Hanieh is one of the best compact accounts I’ve read of the actual material implications of shutting off shipping through Hormuz. Well worth reading."
Gift article link @FT
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Put yourself in shoes of someone in a oil & gas importing country

Its triage: which hospitals get fuel, which industries shut, which crops get fertilizers?

Those who don't have deep pockets in a bidding war pay in hunger, lost wages & shrinking economies #theydidthis
tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWesleyan

"In retrospect, basing the entire global food system on fossil fuels may have been a poor idea." -- @benehrenreich.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/3634...

Our thanks to @gideonamos.bsky.social for his support from the outset - here calling for a government-led televised emergency briefing to the nation on the threats to British life from the climate & nature crisis.

It's time to level with the British public.
#TimeToStepUp #PEBuk

Gotta give credit where credit is due. Donald Trump is doing an absolutely terrific job appearing unstable. No one can do it better.

Weird that the BBC News doesn’t mention the Richard Tice MP, (Deputy Leader of Reform) tax scandal anywhere on its web pages🤔

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

Trump's "art of the deal" has always been about "negotiating for the right to save face after losing catastrophically on a dumb gamble, followed by furiously jumping into another investment so as to erase the memory of the last loss". That's his career. Nothing has changed.

Wife of LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer steps in to save NPR’s future with $80M gift NPR also received an anonymous $33 million donation in April

Billionaire philanthropist Connie Ballmer just saved NPR with a donation bc “we need fact-based journalism, & we need local journalism.” Free, factual, unbiased journalism should not be under attack. We need reliable news sources now more than ever. This should not hinge on the convictions of one.

This is ***the exact*** failure mode that caused the 2016 blackout in South Australia that fundamentally redefined Australia's energy politics for a decade and is the subject of a whole chapter of my book!!!

This report is wild. Voltage ride-through's gonna get ya

A portrait ID photo of a young woman. SHe has dark hair covering her ears. She is wearing a simple blouse with a collar. Her hand-written signature is visible in the middle of the photo.

A portrait ID photo o of woman. Her face is visible. Her shoulders are covered with some fur collar or scarf. She is wearing a dark hat. Her hand-written signature is visible.

20 April 1926 | A Czech Jewish woman, Mariana Brodová, was born in Prague.

In #Theresienstadt Ghetto from 10 December 1941.
Deported to #Auschwitz on 28 October 1944 together with her mother Terezie.
They both did not survive.