Katie Beets

@marrtoffee Yesterday the IDF killed the owner of this teddy bear — a two-year-old girl — and her mother. They bombed an internet café where a children’s birthday party was under way, killing at least 39 people. Western media and governments: But Glastonbury ...

Letter in today’s Times

This is what matters. Not chants, artists, festivals. While the UK press and political establishment are engaged in navel gazing fury, innocent men, women and children in Gaza continue to be massacred with impunity. For shame. Our future generations should never forgive us.

For me there’s only one contender for Person of the Year. Gisele Pelicot. The woman who has recalibrated how we think about rape by refusing to feel shame. “It’s time we change the way we look at rape”, she said outside the court today. And…more than anyone I can think of… she’s done that. “Shame must change sides”, she said, and perhaps – perhaps – that is a little more true today than it’s ever been. But there’s something else that I want to talk about. Something that’s much more difficult to confront than the inspiration and dignity of Gisele Pelicot. 51 men. 51 men who are not all men… but who are also quite a lot of men. 51 of them in fact. And if you read about them… their backgrounds… their jobs… their families or lack of family… they’re all quite different. A firefighter…a nurse… an unemployed alcoholic. Some were abused as children. Some had comfortable upbringings with kids of their own. Six had domestic violence convictions. 45 didn’t. One was 27. Another was 74. There’s no pattern here. Nothing we can point to. Other than the fact there is no profile of a rapist. Which is perhaps the most frightening thing of all.

This photo made my day. Solidarity with #GiselePelicot and all survivors.

Donald Trump, a self-confessed sexual assaulter, being named Time's Person of the Year over Gisele Pelicot, who was drugged & raped by her husband & 100 men for YEARS, and who waived anonymity to change the world for women, shows you exactly why women are rightly fucking ANGRY.

@charli_xcx Glasgow 💚

I had to read this sentence twice. Just pure evil.

Never has a crime so obscene been so confessed to, so endlessly, so shamelessly, so proudly

people posting their "blue sky" usernames 💛

How easy has it been for him to get away with what he did by simply becoming right wing lol. Should raise concerns. The guy was the most left wing atheist hippie on planet earth until a sexual assault allegation came out

The election of Donald Trump is a dark day for reproductive healthcare, the rights of refugees and the future of our planet. As we speak, people are being slaughtered in Gaza and Lebanon. Our demands on our governments have not changed: stop enabling genocide and end all arms sales to Israel. We are a global movement, made up of all faiths and backgrounds, united in our opposition to racism and hatred. We will never abandon hope in a more equal, sustainable and peaceful world.

chappell roan debuting her first country song on snl is everything to me x.com/gustavobonotto…

Since 2012, the NHS has lost £10 million *every week* to private healthcare profits. If the government really wanted to save money, it would stop wasting billions of pounds on private contracts. End outsourcing. Reverse privatisation. Restore a publicly-owned NHS for all.

Femicide. Rest in Peace Rebecca Cheptegei. We are so so sorry 💔

@happievea8 🚨 Scammer alert 🚨 do not buy from this person !!

The way JK Rowling is gleefully going after a c*s woman for the crime of having higher testosterone levels, but not said a word about an actual convicted child rapist taking part in the Olympics says everything about her real thoughts on “protecting women”

Bukayo Saka celebrated his goal with Arsenal teammate Aaron Ramsdale 🤗

When politicians use a minority as a political football this is the inevitable result. Really hope this young trans woman will be okay.