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Mave Young retweeted
Primary school teacher on #BBCQT
"I think people are tired of it now.. We tend to follow the US.. I hope the rejection of Trump, and watching people like James Talarico and Abdul El-Sayed and the poise they carry themselves with, the respectability that they have, will filter over to here and then we will reject bullies like Nigel Farage"
"I'm a primary school teacher and I have to talk to my children about British values"
"And if we end up with a Reform UK government, or a government similar, what are those values?"
"I can't hand on heart say these are the things British people do, when they're clearly not"
Fiona Bruce, "We don't have Reform UK on the panel, but we do have them often"
My view:
Teachers can spend all week teaching children to treat others with respect, challenge prejudice and take responsibility for their actions.
But those lessons become harder when children see adults rewarded with attention and political power for behaving in ways that would never be acceptable in a classroom.
What does a child learn when cruelty gets a laugh, intimidation wins an argument, or blaming an entire community becomes a route to popularity? They learn from what we reward as well as what we teach.
That is why decency in political leadership matters.
We should expect leaders to disagree without dehumanising, persuade without scapegoating and accept scrutiny without bullying.
If politicians want to lecture anyone about British values, they should start by demonstrating them.
Mave Young retweeted
Meet one of the most intelligent and caring women alive today. Expert on Israel's war on childhood.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a Palestinian scholar who has spent decades studying what happens when political violence enters the bodies, bedrooms and minds of children.
Here are ten of her most devastating insights.
1. You can destroy a child's childhood without killing the child. Fear, imprisonment, humiliation and the constant possibility of death can rob a child of everything childhood should be.
2. Before you can brutalize a child, you must first make that child seem dangerous. Strip away innocence. Replace it with suspicion. Violence becomes easier to justify.
3. Call it security, and almost any cruelty can become a precaution. Even children can be treated as enemies.
4. Terror enters the mind long before a bomb strikes. The sound of footsteps, a knock on the door, a strange noise at night. Fear colonizes the imagination.
5. Occupation enters the bedroom. It determines whether families can live together, whether parents can protect their children, whether a home can remain a home.
6. Destroying a house destroys more than walls. It destroys the place where a child learned to feel safe.
7. Palestinian women face multiple forms of domination. Political violence from outside, patriarchal control from within. Neither should excuse the other.
8. Even death does not guarantee dignity. Shalhoub-Kevorkian writes about ashlaa’, the Arabic word for scattered body parts. Parents searching rubble for pieces of their children. A ring identifying a mother. Pajamas identifying a child.
9. How can a child recover from trauma when the trauma never ends? There is no meaningful after while the terror continues.
10. A little girl in Gaza begged her cat not to eat her if she was killed by a bomb. Shalhoub-Kevorkian understood something profound in this plea: even a terrified child was trying to preserve the dignity of her own body.
And when parents gather the scattered remains of their children, they are doing more than preparing a burial.
They are refusing to let violence have the final word about who their children were.
That is perhaps the most extraordinary insight of her work: even when human beings are reduced to fragments, love still struggles to make them whole.
Mave Young retweeted
“If you supply weapons to somebody that is accused of acts of genocide, then you yourself become complicit in those acts as well”
Retweet if you agree with Corbyn
Mave Young retweeted
BREAKING: YES! Fox News’ Jesse Watters freaks out that Republicans will “never sniff the White House ever again” if Texas stays blue.
MAGA is in total panic mode…
“They seize Texas and are on pace for the biggest midterm landslide since Watergate,” whined Watters. “Now, if Texas stays blue, a Republican will never sniff the White House ever again.”
The victories of Senator-elect James Talarico and Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa have right-wingers terrified because they had foolishly assumed that Texas would always be red, that voters would simply accept skyrocketing gas prices and blatant corruption in the White House. They were dead wrong.
Drowning in his own doom and gloom, Watters went on to warn his fellow fascists that Democrats will not “take it easy” on the Republican Party over the coming years.
“They want it extinguished,” he said. “They’re already talking about abolishing the Electoral College, impeaching the president, and executing Elon Musk. Democrat governors now control a majority of states where most of the population lives.”
To the first two points we can only say: From your lips to God’s ear, Jesse. As for Musk, no Democrats want him harmed. We just want him investigated and held accountable for the countless deaths that he directly caused by gutting USAID.
Now is not the time to let bygones be bygones. The American people demand accountability for the unprecedented crime wave unleashed by this mafia White House these past two years. We need a downpour of subpoenas, an avalanche of investigations, and a tsunami of prosecutions.
“They’re talking about uniting the minority races against whites. Texas Democrat politicians are declaring a political race war. And they could win, because Republicans nearly lost the white vote Tuesday,” Watters went on.
“Democrats are on the cusp of winning a majority of whites, Blacks and Hispanics. Open borders is suicide. The Democrats are about to win a Senate seat in Mississippi. Black guy. That’s like Republicans winning Hawaii,” he said.
The irony is that Democrats are not the racebaiting party. This past election cycle, Republicans sank to new racist, Islamophobic lows in their efforts to sink our candidates. Their bigotry failed. Americans are sick and tired of these conservatives trying to divide us along racial and religious lines.
“This wasn’t your standard midterm thumping,” said Watters. “When Obama got blown out in 2010 and 2014, those races were close. And he didn’t almost lose the Black vote like Republicans almost lost the white vote.”
On one point, we do agree. This WAS a blowout. Now, it’s time for Democrats to take their mandate and deliver for their voters. In the words of Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed, it’s time for money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for All.
Please ❤️ and share to urge Democrats to pursue an aggressive agenda!
Mave Young retweeted
Ellos son los '4 de Pucela', antifascistas que mostraron solidaridad con Palestina en la Vuelta a su paso por Valladolid. Fiscalía les pide 8 años de prisión por protestar. Nos piden máxima difusión para el 10 de noviembre. Copia y pega el enlace y comparte.
Mave Young retweeted
BREAKING: Hakeem Jeffries dances on Mike Johnson’s political grave with the perfect trolling taunt after last night’s blue tsunami.
It’s time to put these fascists in their place…
“Mike Johnson was correct. The polls were wrong. It wasn’t simply a blue wave; it was an American tsunami!” Jeffries mocked at a press conference.
Republicans like Johnson insisted right up to Election Day that the polls were wrong and that their party would overperform at the ballot box. Instead, we witnessed the greatest collapse of a political movement in modern history as MAGA crumbled and Democrats swept the night.
Johnson has already signaled that he will not seek the role of House Minority Leader after Democrats take control of the chamber. In fact, he’s even floating the idea that he might retire from government and start a “lawn business.” He can’t possibly be any worse at that than he was at being Speaker.
“The American people have chosen the economy over extremism,” said Jeffries, who is the frontrunner for the gavel. “The American people have chosen House Democrats because they want to see a dramatic change in direction, and that’s exactly what House Democrats will deliver on Day One.”
He vowed that Democrats will use their mandate to tackle the issues that Americans most care about: solving the affordability crisis, expanding ObamaCare subsidies, reversing MAGA cuts to Medicaid, cutting of Trump’s tariffs, and ending the disastrous war with Iran.
“Democrats promised a new path forward, and last night, the voters delivered a mandate for it,” said Jeffries.
Now that the sun is setting on Johnson’s reign, let’s briefly enumerate his “accomplishments.” He rubber-stamped a pointless war that skyrocketed gas prices, oversaw the coverup of the Epstein files, and handed Texas to Democrats. He will go down as one of the most spineless, ineffective Speakers in American history.
Please ❤️ and share to wish Johnson good riddance!
Mave Young retweeted
#r4today Tucker Carlson serves bbcfriendofisrael Victoria Derbyshire her entiltled arse on a plate. Brilliant stuff...well done that man!
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BREAKING: HELL YEAH! Rep. Jason Crow declares "relentless" WAR on Pete Hegseth and vows to impeach and remove him after our historic blue tsunami.
This is the worst case scenario for MAGA...
"I'm going after Pete Hegseth, not only is he incompetent and corrupt, but he is undermining our national security and the safety of our troops," Crow said in a video posted to X.
"Everything from threatening to do live executions via live stream, to disparaging women and folks of color, and undermining our national security at every turn," he continued.
"I'm going to be relentless night and day to get him out of the Pentagon and to restore the culture of respect and diversity within our military," concluded the congressman.
Now that we control the House and the Senate, holding Hegseth accountable for his countless crimes and abuses is no longer a pipe dream. We have subpoena power so we can dig into everything from his extrajudicial murders of fishermen in the Caribbean to the disastrous and illegal Iran War.
Not only that, but Trump is now incentivized to throw his lapdog Fox News "Secretary of War" under the bus because it's clear that the war played a huge role in the elections. The President needs a scapegoat for this conflict and Hegseth fits the bill perfectly. Nothing can save him now.
Please ❤️ and share if you support removing and prosecuting Pete Hegseth!
Mave Young retweeted
The BBC consistently interrupts every guest that criticises Israel with a defence on their behalf: “Israel would say [insert genocide justification here]”
They say they do this for “transparency” and “due impartiality”.
If they were honest about that, they would also add the other things Israel themselves have said.
Allow us to demonstrate:
1. “Israel would say [genocide justification] although Isaac Herzog, Israel’s President did say on 12 October 2023 ‘It is an entire nation out there that is responsible’”
2. “Israel would say [genocide justification]. Netanyahu did also say in a letter to his soldiers on November 2023 that Gaza is a ‘holy war of total annihilation’”
3. “Israel would say [genocide justification]. On 9 October 2023, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant also said ‘We are fighting against human animals.’”
4. “Israel Katz, the Energy Minister on 13 October 2023, did say that Gaza's civilians would ‘not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.’”
5. “Bezalel Smotrich, Finance Minister in August 2024 said starving two million people “might be just and moral until they return the hostages.’”
The BBC has consistently hidden behind “transparency” and “due impartiality” to defend Israel at every opportunity.
But their cherry-picking of what they say after “Israel says”, is telling of just how opaque and partial they are.
“Israel says” is not inherently bad, if one actually says what Israel says.
Mave Young retweeted
BREAKING: SUSPECT! Pete Hegseth's wife under ethics SCRUTINY over consulting payments tied to a major Pentagon contractor.
While Pete Hegseth runs the Pentagon (poorly, we must say), his wife reportedly has a front-row seat to all he does, and she’s been collecting consulting money from a firm that works for one of its biggest contractors.
According to POLITICO, Jennifer Hegseth disclosed that she was paid for consulting by Watchtower Strategy, an influential Trump-aligned public affairs firm. One of Watchtower’s clients is Lockheed Martin. Public records show the federal government paid Lockheed more than $66 billion during the fiscal year she was paid.
This wouldn’t matter much if she were just a Cabinet spouse staying out of her husband’s work. She isn’t.
The Daily Beast describes her as an unofficial adviser to her husband who has embedded herself in daily Defense Department operations. The New York Times reported that in late 2024, before his confirmation hearing, she attended closed-door meetings with Republican senators and sat in on interviews with people who wanted jobs under him. Some senior officials and politicians told the Times her closeness to sensitive defense conversations was “not normal.”
There’s a family connection too. Her father was a Lockheed Martin executive. He died in 2009. The Pentagon says everything is fine. They would, wouldn’t they?
Spokesperson Sean Parnell said the couple is “in full compliance with all ethics laws and regulations.” He called any suggestion otherwise “ridiculous slander.” He also said the department works to “ensure senior leaders are completely screened” from private interests. He did not say whether Jennifer has been screened for a security clearance, which is a strange thing to leave out about someone sitting in on Pentagon business.
A spokesperson for Watchtower told POLITICO that “it should be no surprise” a public affairs firm would want to work with a former Fox News star producer.
The reporting doesn’t show that the money influenced any Pentagon decision, and it doesn’t say how much she was paid. But it doesn’t need to. Conflict-of-interest rules exist to prevent exactly this situation: a defense contractor’s consultants paying someone with a direct line to the defense secretary.
It’s also part of a pattern under Hegseth. His department just handed a no-bid extension to Raytheon, a company that admitted defrauding taxpayers. It paid $533 million for an artillery plant that produced no shells. And it spends its energy chasing generals over supposed leaks instead of chasing contractors over fraud.
Jennifer Hegseth said on a podcast that once her husband got the job, “We were ready to serve in any capacity.” Apparently, that includes on a consulting payroll.
With Democrats about to hold subpoena power, the Hegseths may soon have to explain all of this under oath. Whether it will be before or after Pete Hegseth faces an impeachment motion remains to be seen.
Please like and share if you think that this is all too fishy to accept Hegseth’s denials!
Mave Young retweeted
Yesterday, the Palestinian teacher from Gaza, Abdullah Ayoub, stood before his students, holding a piece of chalk in his hand, planting knowledge and hope in their minds, and helping them envision a future
Today, the harsh realities of life have brought him to a food kitchen queue, waiting for his turn to receive a meal to satisfy his hunger and feed his children
What kind of pain is this? A man who once taught generations how to build their future is now struggling to provide his family with the most basic necessities
This is not just the story of a teacher. It is the story of a human being exhausted by hunger and war, with every path to survival growing narrower
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BREAKING: BLUE TSUNAMI! Pope Leo XIV casts his vote in the midterm elections, making him the first pontiff in history to do so!
And it gets even better...
“The Holy Father expresses his belief in the right and the duty of citizens to participate in democratic processes,” stated the Vatican, adding that Leo “has exercised his right to vote as a United States citizen, whenever he was eligible to do so," including during his time as a missionary in Peru.
The pope — the first American to hold the Chair of Saint Peter — was registered to vote under his birth name Robert Prevost and cast a mail-in ballot, citing an address in New Lenox, Illinois.
Leo has voted in Republican primaries in the past as well as in Democratic ones. While the Church's stance on abortion is presumably what tilted him Republican in the past, the relatively sane conservative party of the pre-MAGA days is long gone. It seems exceedingly unlikely that he's voting red this time around.
Leo has become one of the Trump administration's fiercest, most prominent critics. He has repeatedly slammed the White House's brutal and cruel treatment of migrants as well as its illegal Iran War.
“I’m not a big fan of Pope Leo,” Trump previously said. He absurdly accused the Vicar of Christ of being "WEAK on crime" and "terrible for foreign policy" while simultaneously claiming personal responsibility for his papacy.
While we will likely never find out for certain who Leo voted for (we'd put good money on JB Pritzker given his bold opposition to the fascist MAGA movement), the pope's example of civic engagement should be an inspiration to us all. If he can find the time to vote while running the oldest and largest religious institution in the world, the rest of us can carve out some time to cast our ballots.
Please ❤️ and share to thank Pope Leo!
Mave Young retweeted
Israeli crimes will never be forgotten or erased from the pages of history. They tore children’s bodies apart with advanced missiles and unleashed the deadliest weapons upon tiny bodies that knew nothing of life but innocence. They turned their dreams into fragments, their childhood into tragedy, and left behind a pain beyond words
Justice is coming, and it will remain a right that can never be extinguished by the passage of time
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BREAKING: NAILED IT! Fearless journalist Mehdi Hasan savages JD Vance for being a shameless racist despite having an Indian family.
This is a knockout punch...
"JD Vance's in-laws' names are Radhakrishna Chilukuri and Lakshmi Chilukuri. I wonder if he tells them this stuff, too. To their faces," Hasan wrote on X, responding to a vile Vance campaign rally clip.
"Or does he just save it for white MAGA rallies? Truly a racist pathetic embarrassment of a son-in-law to his brown Indian immigrant in-laws," he added.
The clip in question showed Vance engaging in the kind of lowest common denominator, xenophobic, gleefully ignorant rhetoric that has defined the Republican Party's messaging this entire election cycle. They know that they can't fix gas prices or improve affordability because of Trump's interminable, disastrous Iran War, so they're mashing the big racist button as hard as they can.
"A very distinctive memory I have of right after 9/11, I was a young man in high school," said Vance. "I remember that sense of pride, you remember that? That all of us had, Democrat, Republican, and Independent in our country. And I remember driving to a local gas station to wait hours in line for gasoline...
"That was now, of course, more expensive because of a region of the world made up of countries of names that I couldn't even pronounce," he said.
The joke there, folks, is that Arabic names are alien sounding and impossible to pronounce for a simple country boy like James David Vance. Who exactly finds this kind of provincial, bigoted material appealing? The infuriating irony, of course, is that while Vance can't "pronounce" Arabic names, he has absolutely no problem dropping bombs on Arabs in Gaza.
This is the deal with the MAGA Devil that Vance has made. He wants to be the leader of a party that is now unashamedly white nationalist, but his entire family is Indian-American. His wife's name used to be Usha Chilukuri. One of his sons is named Vivek.
Vance is so power-hungry that he is actively creating a world that is more hostile to his own flesh and blood. He's a disgusting, spineless creature who can never be permitted to inhabit the White House.
Please like and share if you think that Vance is a disgrace!
Mave Young retweeted
As I presented my latest report at the UN two days ago, the US ambassador managed to be even more insulting than Israel’s. No small feat, given that Israeli representatives at UN in New York have long been second to none in diplomatic buffoonery.
At the UN on Monday, Israel's ambassador called @FranceskAlbs a fraud and a liar. The US representative called her a lunatic.
Her report documents nearly 300 journalists killed in Gaza. Of course, neither of them addressed it.
Then she answered.
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J'ai vu, de mes propres yeux, un enfant tenant un morceau de pain sec, imbibé de sang, pleurant sur le corps de sa mère... tandis que les soldats riaient, comme s'ils regardaient une vidéo humoristique...
Ils disent : « Ce ne sont pas des êtres humains, nos égaux, à nous, les Juifs. »
Je prenais mon courage à deux mains pour dire à mes camarades : « Mais enfin, même s'il s'agissait d'un groupe de singes, pourrions-nous les tuer de cette manière ? »
Et ils me répondaient : « Tu es un lâche... tu es faible ; tu n'es pas digne d'être juif. »
J'ai vu des colons, en Cisjordanie, arracher des oliviers et s'en prendre aux agriculteurs dans leurs champs...
Je les ai vus détruire des maisons, après avoir ordonné à leurs propriétaires de partir sur-le-champ, avant de raser les bâtiments sur leurs têtes...
J'ai vu, de mes propres yeux, un soldat envoyer un SMS à un Palestinien lui disant : « Monte sur le toit de la maison, sinon nous détruirons la maison sur ta famille, à cause de toi. » Lorsque l'homme est monté sur le toit en agitant un chiffon blanc, le soldat l'a abattu sur-le-champ.
Quelqu'un peut-il croire une chose pareille ? Je ne trouve aucune explication à toute cette cruauté israélienne, si ce n'est dans l'éducation qu'on nous a inculquée, à nous Juifs.
On nous dit que les Arabes sont des êtres immondes, des sauvages, des musulmans extrémistes et des meurtriers. Si nous nous montrons bienveillants envers eux, ils nous jetteront à la mer. Imaginez un peu l'éducation qu'on nous a donnée !
On nous enseigne que la terre de Palestine appartient à nous, les Juifs.
Le Golan et toute la région du Levant appartiendraient aux fils de Sion.
On nous a appris que le « Grand Israël » s'étend de l'Euphrate au Nil.
Comme nous sommes mauvais, nous autres Juifs, pour croire à tous ces mensonges !
Si nous n'étions pas méchants, stupides et dépourvus de toute morale, nous n'aurions jamais exécuté de tels ordres.
Je ne supporte plus de voir toutes ces atrocités. La nuit, je pleurais, et mes camarades se moquaient de moi en me traitant de lâche. Pour eux, un Juif doit être obsédé par le meurtre des Arabes et par la nécessité de débarrasser la « Terre promise » de leur présence.
J'espère qu'un jour les Arabes se réveilleront et comprendront qu'Israël n'est qu'une illusion, un mensonge, et qu'il finira par disparaître. Sans leurs dirigeants, complices du criminel Netanyahou et de sa bande, nous n'aurions jamais pu commettre tous ces crimes et ces atrocités.
Pardonne-moi, Seigneur, pour tout ce que nous avons fait subir aux Palestiniens innocents.
Pardonne-moi, mon Dieu, pour ces atrocités que nous avons commises...
Comme disent les musulmans, Tu es « le Clément, le Miséricordieux » ; je suis donc convaincu que Tu me pardonneras, puisque j'étais égaré et que j'ai trouvé la voie de la vérité...
Merci, mon Dieu, de m'avoir guidé vers le droit chemin.
Le chemin de la vérité, de l'amour et de la paix, bien loin de la voie suivie par l'État criminel d'Israël.
Mave Young retweeted
BREAKING: MAD KING! Trump humiliates his own supporters by boasting that they wouldn't be able to afford the menu at Mar-a-Lago as the affordability crisis worsens!
He really does not give a damn about anyone...
"But the only caveat is that the Trump Dividend it has— You have to spend the money in the United States. Go to Florida. Go to any one of our great places," Trump said at a Texas rally, referring to the $5,000 bribe that he's promised to every American if Republicans maintain control of Congress after the midterm elections.
To point out the incredibly obvious, if Republicans do carry these elections (which they won't) those "Trump Dividends" will never materialize, just like every other monetary promise he's made in the past. The only people who make money under this President are him, his family, and his cronies. Working class Americans get shafted at every turn.
"You could even come to Mar-a-Lago. I said it the other night. You'll be my guest at Mar-a-Lago. The problem is that for $5,000 the most you'll be able to buy is a hamburger and maybe a small dessert," he added, chuckling. I'm not even sure you could buy that. No, don't go there. That's not a good place If you're price conscious."
Obviously, a hamburger and small dessert don't cost $5,000 at Mar-a-Lago but Trump's point was clear. The braying, mindless MAGA idiots who file into arenas to hear him speak are of a lower class and can't afford to dine with him. This disdain for his supporters is a recurring theme in Trump's rhetoric. He hates these people because they're crude, stupid, and easily manipulated, which is ironically the exact reason that they support him.
At this point, Trump could not possibly make it any clearer that he doesn't care about our collective financial suffering. He created this crisis with his disastrous Iran War, and now he's up on stage rubbing it in our faces and admitting that he doesn't mind high gas prices. He hates average Americans and it's time we paid him back.
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