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Hands up if you’ve had your council tax bill for the next year and it’s going up! 🙌🏼 Mine wasn’t frozen, it’s gone up. Labour lied to get into power. “Labour would freeze your council tax” “Not a penny more on your council tax” “No ifs, no buts” Lies, lies, and more lies.

A man who decided he wanted to identify as a woman at the age of 62 is chosen by @BBCWomansHour producers to talk about misogyny. Apparently, there were no female academics with any expertise in misogyny suitable for @BBCWomansHour

No cure for endometriosis. No proper management for menopause. No adequate symptomatic relief for menstrual discomfort. But let’s get handicapped sperm a wheelchair to make not so healthy babies because it would make men feel strong.

"Vegan leather" is plastic. "Vegan wool" is plastic. "Vegan fur" is plastic. Every wash cycle releases microplastics into the water. Every year it degrades slightly and releases more. At end of life it will sit in landfill for four hundred years or end up in the ocean. The sheep, meanwhile, grows a new coat every year, requires it removed, and produces a fibre that has been biodegradable since the Neolithic. But yes. The sheep is the environmental problem. The sheep, standing in the Lake District in the rain, growing renewable fibre from grass. The sheep.

Martyna Ogonowska, a UK rape survivor who, at 18, stabbed a man to death in self-defense as he sexually assaulted her, has just lost an appeal of her 17 year prison sentence. This, lest we forget, is the same court system which failed to prosecute the adult man who raped Ogonowska when she was 14 because a judge decided that she’d consented, and which also recently handed out a suspended sentence to a man who raped a 13 year old because he told the judge that he “didn’t know it was illegal,” and because had been taught in his UK madrassah that British women and girls “have no more value than a piece of candy that has been dropped on the ground. It seems that the British justice system agrees.

Asked a chap holding a UNISON banner if UNISON would support a woman who’d been assaulted by a man in a women’s only space…

Look at her. The girl who trained. The girl who sacrificed. The girl who lost her place. This is who we fight for. #InternationalWomensDay

Two thirds of Alzheimer’s patients are women. Not because women live longer, but because estrogen protects the brain. When it’s suddenly stripped away, the brain literally shrinks. Brain fog in your 40s isn’t “just stress.” It’s a red flag. But instead of addressing hormones, women are gaslight with antidepressants or told to meditate. Fast forward 20 years and she’s in a nursing home and can’t remember her own kids. This isn’t “normal aging.” It’s medical negligence. And despite most Alzheimer’s patients being women, much of the research is still done on male mice instead of female mice. That’s not science, that’s neglect.”

🚨JUDGE LIFTS REPORTING RESTRICTIONS BAN ON TWO BOYS WHO RAPED A YOUNG GIRL Guess what 2 Afghan Asylum Seekers Every other day another one of our girls falls victim The politicians who did this will be held accountable

Tourette Scotland have issued a formal response to the Saturday Night Live sketch and have written directly to SNL and NBC executives. They call the sketch “abhorrent” and say it reinforces the dangerous myth that Tourette’s is fake, following the attacks directed at John Davidson after the BAFTAs. They also highlight that the sketch used a doctored version of the Tourette Scotland logo, dragging a charity that has supported families for 30 years into a vile attempt at humour. Read the full statement here: facebook.com/share/p/1BUqWn…

not to alarm anyone but is anyone else worried about how fucking stupid everyone is ??

craziest thing about this BAFTAs situation is that, that man was present bc they were honouring a film about him, that was so important bc it was showing how tourettes is so misunderstood and vilified, only for this to happen and everyone to react exactly like those in the film

My thoughts are with John Davidson today, Tourettes sufferer and campaigner. He's worked hard to raise awareness of a condition that makes people shout horrible things. It happened to him last night. At the BAFTA's. And he's actually being condemned as a racist. By idiots.

Imagine if the same level of effort being directed at Andrew had also been applied to tackling the grooming gangs.

Anyone else find it a bit weird that they are only going after Andrew & nobody else?

They were starving. The cotton was right there. They refused to touch it. Lancashire, 1862.🇬🇧 The cotton mills that clothed the world. The cotton came from American slave plantations. Then the Civil War began. Lincoln blockaded the Southern ports. The cotton stopped coming. 331,000 people lost their jobs. The most prosperous workers in Britain were queuing for charity soup. Children went hungry. Everyone expected them to break. Demand the government side with the slaveholders. Get the cotton flowing again. They didn't. New Year's Eve, 1862. Manchester Free Trade Hall. Workers packed the hall. Hungry. Unemployed. Freezing. The Manchester Guardian told them not to come. They came anyway. They voted to support Lincoln. To keep the blockade. To keep starving. They refused to buy their survival with someone else's chains. Lincoln wrote back. He called it "sublime Christian heroism which has not been surpassed in any age or in any country." Then he sent ships full of food to Lancashire. There's still a statue of Lincoln in Manchester. His words are still on it. But here's what most people don't know. That hall, the Free Trade Hall, was built on the exact site of the Peterloo Massacre. In 1819, cavalry charged into working people on that same ground. Demanding the right to vote. At least fifteen killed. Same ground. Same working people. Two generations apart. In 1819 they were cut down for asking to be heard. In 1862 their children chose to starve for someone else's freedom. Lancashire. Every time. Help us get the stories of our ancestors out of the archives and into the people. 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support No sponsors. No ads. Just us. Be part of us. Be proud of us. 🇬🇧

The UK: We’ve arrested the former prince Everyone: what about the horde of Pakistani child rapists? The UK: the what?

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It's Shrove Tuesday today and Lent begins tomorrow. Any mention of that? 🤔