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NEW ANIMATION! 📹🦡 RT if you agree that @UKLabour need to end the badger cull ASAP. Please sign our petition today and urge @SteveReedMP to take action! @domdyer70 @ChrisGPackham @euro_badger @BadgerCrowd

My heart breaks for Carol, Hannah and Louise. A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK. They’re not a statistic, but people whose lives and dreams were cruelly stolen from them. Male violence and misogyny are endemic. We demand a world where women are safe and free.

My thoughts today remain with the lives stolen from this world by yet another violent man: Carol Hunt, 61 Louise Hunt, 25 Hannah Hunt, 28 We must name it, again and again: Male violence against women and girls. This has to stop.

As a child bereaved by fatal domestic abuse, headlines calling a man who killed three women a “nice guy” and “normal person” have felt personally traumatic. The media called my father a “gentle man” and “nice chap”, which misrepresented the controlling reality that myself and my family experienced for years. It compounded our trauma. Reporting like this causes so much damage – both to victims’ families, and to public understandings of coercive control. It has to stop. Now. We need every single newsroom trained in how to report domestic abuse deaths, and to lobby the regulator for stronger rules. The press has the power to prevent further deaths and save women’s lives. Please support this crowdfunder I’ve started to support @we_level_up’s crucial work to train journalists in their Dignity For Dead Women guidelines. This takes all of us ➡️ gofundme.com/f/levelup-media

Actor and animal advocate Maxine Peake is urging the next government to properly ban hunting. Will you help her to make them listen? Watch, share, and make your voice heard. Take action today ⬇️ hhttps://www.league.org.uk/campaigns/take-action/ #TimeForChange

GP, television doctor, author and animal advocate @DrAmirKhanGP has a remedy for illegal hunting: closing the loopholes in the Hunting Act. Join him in saying it’s #TimeForChange. Take action today ⬇️ leagueacs.co.uk/zMhM5 #GeneralElection2024 #EndHunting

“The overwhelming majority of the public want fox hunting banned properly,” says actor Mike Beckingham, and he’s not wrong. Join him in saying it’s #TimeForChange. Watch, share, and make your voice heard. Take action today ⬇️ leagueacs.co.uk/vMMUL #GeneralElection2024

If you could spare a moment to RT my tweets linking to my Etsy shop it would help so much, thankyou. 🌿

Apparently it's autism awareness month-weird to me as I'll still be autistic next month,but here are a few things I've learned since my late diagnosis (Nov '21,age 49): We have MANY more neurons than neurotypical folk bc synaptic pruning didn't really happen when we were tiny...

Please watch and share Khizra Bano's amazing piece about the Warwickshire SEND scandal. 👏👏👏

Warwickshire Tory Councillors Hammersley, Morgan & Golby & their crazed views on Special Educational Needs "Is there something in the water?" "Parents are to blame" Put SEND children into "institutions" for "strict correction" More #PopCons 😳 Labour MP @MattWestern_ ⏬️

The @Warwickshire_CC Councillors' comments are outrageous. It’s prejudice SEND children & parents suffer every day. Councillors elected to serve their whole community but instead undermine those asking for help and laugh at their plight. They should resign.

An MP has called for the resignation of the three Warwickshire councillors accused of making offensive comments about children with SEND. The councillors have made somewhere of a rubbish apology. They should go, not wait to see if it blows over bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Here is the response of Warwickshire County Council to the appalling footage taken from their recent meeting. Two of the three apologies are bewildering. Councillors Morgan and Golby now need to be sacked. #feedback" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">warwickshire.gov.uk/news/article/4…

Terrible that the @NFUtweets is posting this like a celebration! What a pile of greenwashing. Whilst that stat might seem impressive, we’ve lost 52% of hedgerows in the last 50yrs and 60% of the ones we do have aren’t in good ecological condition. Let’s not pat ourselves on the back for this destruction. Let’s face the facts and support the farmers actively trying to change the stats!

Did you know that the way a woman looks will impact whether her rapist or abuser is found guilty in a courtroom? This was one of the most depressing findings of my PhD years ago. Here’s what I learned: If a woman is raped or abused, and she is seen as unattractive, overweight, gender non-conforming, if she is Black, if she is disabled or in some other way ‘unconventional’ to the white thin het femme norm, she is more likely for her case to be found not guilty or to be dropped. When jurors and professionals have been asked why this was, they stated that they didn’t believe unattractive women would be raped or abused by men, and that she was probably lying. HOWEVER - and here’s the fuckin kicker… If a woman is raped or abused, and she is seen as very attractive, thin, White, or in some other way seen as beautiful… she is also likely for her case to be found not guilty or to be dropped. When researchers asked jurors and professionals why this happened, they stated that they felt the woman must have led the man on, and it wasn’t his fault that he couldn’t control himself when she was so attractive. They were also more likely to employ rape myths about her wanting it or asking for it. Worst of all, these findings apply to children: teenage girls. So the moral of this vile misogynistic story is that: Women, we can’t win. They might pretend it’s about our appearance, but either way, we will be blamed and framed as liars. Our bodies will be used against us whether we are size 8 or size 22. It doesn’t matter whether we have long wavy locks or a short crop, it will be used. It doesn’t matter if we were running on a treadmill or we were in our wheelchair, it will be used against us. This is misogyny. This is the reality of our courts. This is why we can’t/won’t/don’t prosecute rape of women and girls. Because no matter what he did, observers always find a way to blame the woman.

Leave out the fireworks 💥 this New Year

Hello , I’ve written another letter to @antanddec about the ongoing appalling abuse of animals on @ITV programme @imacelebrity . I’ve tried to be polite but my patience has run thin . If you agree with what it says please RT . #ImACeleb

Autumn Statement - no money at all for schools. *stares at 45p left in photocopying budget for the next ten days* *stares at classroom full to brim* *looks up to see if the holes in the roof are now filled* They are failing a GENERATION of kids. What a waste.