John-James
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Yup: "80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding."
For more on this listen to "Carbon Bros," the latest season of @drilledmedia.bsky.social with @amywestervelt.bsky.social
For more on this listen to "Carbon Bros," the latest season of @drilledmedia.bsky.social with @amywestervelt.bsky.social
Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
heated.world
September 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Yup: "80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding."
For more on this listen to "Carbon Bros," the latest season of @drilledmedia.bsky.social with @amywestervelt.bsky.social
For more on this listen to "Carbon Bros," the latest season of @drilledmedia.bsky.social with @amywestervelt.bsky.social
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Being disabled/chronically ill means constantly balancing two impossible tasks: convincing the state/doctors that you’re “disabled/sick enough” to deserve help and convincing everyone else that you’re “well enough” to be worth keeping around.
August 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Being disabled/chronically ill means constantly balancing two impossible tasks: convincing the state/doctors that you’re “disabled/sick enough” to deserve help and convincing everyone else that you’re “well enough” to be worth keeping around.
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I'm more likely to be made destitute by Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves or be hatecrimed by Reform than be affected in any way by Iran and so are you.
Iran poses ‘persistent’ threat to UK, warns intelligence committee https://on.ft.com/3Ii6Bof
Iran poses ‘persistent’ threat to UK, warns intelligence committee
Parliamentary report finds there has been a ‘significant increase’ in risk faced by dissidents and Jewish people in Britain
on.ft.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I'm more likely to be made destitute by Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves or be hatecrimed by Reform than be affected in any way by Iran and so are you.
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Politics is not a game. It's people's lives.
The Government's welfare cuts will have a catastrophic impact on the sick & disabled, and plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty.
It's simple: show some humanity and drop this Bill, now.
The Government's welfare cuts will have a catastrophic impact on the sick & disabled, and plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty.
It's simple: show some humanity and drop this Bill, now.
June 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Politics is not a game. It's people's lives.
The Government's welfare cuts will have a catastrophic impact on the sick & disabled, and plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty.
It's simple: show some humanity and drop this Bill, now.
The Government's welfare cuts will have a catastrophic impact on the sick & disabled, and plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty.
It's simple: show some humanity and drop this Bill, now.
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"It has always been a peaceful protest since." ...Who wants to tell her?
June 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"It has always been a peaceful protest since." ...Who wants to tell her?
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So the #PlanForChange is that the NHS offers you assisted dying when your illness is untreatable because it can't afford to treat you or to offer palliative care – or you can choose to die in pain and poverty when too ill to earn a living, because disability welfare will no longer be there for you.
"Rehabilitation centres face being shut, talking therapies services cut & beds for end-of-life care reduced as part of efforts by NHS trusts to comply with a 'financial reset'."
The destruction of core, vital, humane NHS services - under a Labour government 😔
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The destruction of core, vital, humane NHS services - under a Labour government 😔
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Hospitals in England reducing staff and services as part of NHS ‘financial reset’
Trusts having to ‘think the previously unthinkable’ to make savings demanded by new NHS England boss
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
So the #PlanForChange is that the NHS offers you assisted dying when your illness is untreatable because it can't afford to treat you or to offer palliative care – or you can choose to die in pain and poverty when too ill to earn a living, because disability welfare will no longer be there for you.
why can’t liberals go a day without resorting to sanism to describe the acts of evil, selfish people? Men that the political party they are so dedicated to has enabled for years 🤡
May 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
why can’t liberals go a day without resorting to sanism to describe the acts of evil, selfish people? Men that the political party they are so dedicated to has enabled for years 🤡
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Essential reading:
(long🧵) Watching some gays & lesbians celebrate that heinous UK Court ruling against trans women has me again thinking about how little most gay people know about their own history. No, I'm not rehashing if trans people were at Stonewall (they were). I'm talking about the long arc of what it even...
April 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Essential reading:
I have a short chapter in this! Go check it out and the other books in the series
📚 LGBTQIA+ Phobia in the Mental Health System by @dollysen.bsky.social exposes the systemic violence enacted on LGBTQIA+ people and gives survivors the space to write themselves into existence.
A powerful, necessary read.
🔗 Get your copy now: bit.ly/4bMyMqc
A powerful, necessary read.
🔗 Get your copy now: bit.ly/4bMyMqc
April 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I have a short chapter in this! Go check it out and the other books in the series
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After 14 years of Conservative rule, we were told that austerity was over. That was a lie.
A statement from The Independent Alliance on the Chancellor's decision to abandon those in need.
A statement from The Independent Alliance on the Chancellor's decision to abandon those in need.
March 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
After 14 years of Conservative rule, we were told that austerity was over. That was a lie.
A statement from The Independent Alliance on the Chancellor's decision to abandon those in need.
A statement from The Independent Alliance on the Chancellor's decision to abandon those in need.
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Government Strategy Explained.
March 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Government Strategy Explained.
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🪡 @dollysen.bsky.social is creating a modern version of Lorina Bulwer's embroidered scrolls and is looking for raging sewers to join her raging sew & sew.
disabilityarts.online/blog/dolly-s...
disabilityarts.online/blog/dolly-s...
March 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🪡 @dollysen.bsky.social is creating a modern version of Lorina Bulwer's embroidered scrolls and is looking for raging sewers to join her raging sew & sew.
disabilityarts.online/blog/dolly-s...
disabilityarts.online/blog/dolly-s...
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Please hear this from me as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist re latest press release—it’s important.
The ‘not needing to seek work’ group (LCWRA) does NOT push people out of work. It exists to stop people from killing themselves or their health hugely deteriorating.
Misrepresenting is dangerous.
The ‘not needing to seek work’ group (LCWRA) does NOT push people out of work. It exists to stop people from killing themselves or their health hugely deteriorating.
Misrepresenting is dangerous.
March 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Please hear this from me as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist re latest press release—it’s important.
The ‘not needing to seek work’ group (LCWRA) does NOT push people out of work. It exists to stop people from killing themselves or their health hugely deteriorating.
Misrepresenting is dangerous.
The ‘not needing to seek work’ group (LCWRA) does NOT push people out of work. It exists to stop people from killing themselves or their health hugely deteriorating.
Misrepresenting is dangerous.
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ITV has discovered details of the disability benefits cuts:
- PIP will be harder to qualify for
- PIP will be frozen not rise with inflation
- universal credit rate cut for unfit for work but raised for those looking for work or in work
This is so unspeakably cruel + will kill disabled people
- PIP will be harder to qualify for
- PIP will be frozen not rise with inflation
- universal credit rate cut for unfit for work but raised for those looking for work or in work
This is so unspeakably cruel + will kill disabled people
March 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
ITV has discovered details of the disability benefits cuts:
- PIP will be harder to qualify for
- PIP will be frozen not rise with inflation
- universal credit rate cut for unfit for work but raised for those looking for work or in work
This is so unspeakably cruel + will kill disabled people
- PIP will be harder to qualify for
- PIP will be frozen not rise with inflation
- universal credit rate cut for unfit for work but raised for those looking for work or in work
This is so unspeakably cruel + will kill disabled people
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I’m amazed that No Other Land actually won an Oscar and its brilliant makers spoke about the injustice of Palestine before a global audience.
No US distributor took it - even before Trump’s election, but it is currently free to view in Ireland and the UK here:
www.channel4.com/programmes/n...
No US distributor took it - even before Trump’s election, but it is currently free to view in Ireland and the UK here:
www.channel4.com/programmes/n...
No Other Land
(2024) Oscar-winning film offering an insider's view of the destruction of the West Bank
www.channel4.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I’m amazed that No Other Land actually won an Oscar and its brilliant makers spoke about the injustice of Palestine before a global audience.
No US distributor took it - even before Trump’s election, but it is currently free to view in Ireland and the UK here:
www.channel4.com/programmes/n...
No US distributor took it - even before Trump’s election, but it is currently free to view in Ireland and the UK here:
www.channel4.com/programmes/n...
last year I took an online course with the School for Poetic Computation called Scripting is Scrying & during the classes on Markov chains I made an interactive oracle of sleep (I have refined it a little over this last week).
jhnjms.github.io/sleeporacle/
jhnjms.github.io/sleeporacle/
jhnjms.github.io
February 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
last year I took an online course with the School for Poetic Computation called Scripting is Scrying & during the classes on Markov chains I made an interactive oracle of sleep (I have refined it a little over this last week).
jhnjms.github.io/sleeporacle/
jhnjms.github.io/sleeporacle/
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I am disgusted by the government’s relentless demonisation of disabled people.
All so they can protect the wealthiest from paying their fair share.
Instead of targeting the most vulnerable, let’s “crack down” on corporations and billionaires evading tax instead.
All so they can protect the wealthiest from paying their fair share.
Instead of targeting the most vulnerable, let’s “crack down” on corporations and billionaires evading tax instead.
February 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I am disgusted by the government’s relentless demonisation of disabled people.
All so they can protect the wealthiest from paying their fair share.
Instead of targeting the most vulnerable, let’s “crack down” on corporations and billionaires evading tax instead.
All so they can protect the wealthiest from paying their fair share.
Instead of targeting the most vulnerable, let’s “crack down” on corporations and billionaires evading tax instead.
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A bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide will have a “serious and profound” negative impact on how disabled people’s lives are valued by society, MPs have been warned.
#AssistedSuicide #AssistedDying
#AssistedSuicide #AssistedDying
Assisted suicide bill will have ‘serious and profound’ negative impact on disabled people, MPs are told
A bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide will have a “serious and profound” negative impact on how disabled people’s lives are valued by society, MPs have been warned. Fazilet Hadi, head of po…
buff.ly
January 31, 2025 at 7:30 AM
A bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide will have a “serious and profound” negative impact on how disabled people’s lives are valued by society, MPs have been warned.
#AssistedSuicide #AssistedDying
#AssistedSuicide #AssistedDying
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It’s in this context that the assisted suicide bill is being steam rollered ahead
‘I’m having to spend the last days of my life fighting for the right to live.”
‘I’m having to spend the last days of my life fighting for the right to live.”
"Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet for hours a day she is being left completely alone"
Important piece from @francesryan.bsky.social on the chaotic, siloed and dangerous bureaucracy of Britain's health and social care systems.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#Disability
Important piece from @francesryan.bsky.social on the chaotic, siloed and dangerous bureaucracy of Britain's health and social care systems.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#Disability
A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan
Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet for hours a day she is being left completely alone, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
It’s in this context that the assisted suicide bill is being steam rollered ahead
‘I’m having to spend the last days of my life fighting for the right to live.”
‘I’m having to spend the last days of my life fighting for the right to live.”
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A “groundbreaking” legal victory at the high court has provided fuel for disabled activists to fight the new government’s expected cuts to spending on disability benefits, and to call on ministers to meet their legal obligations to co-produce policy.
High court victory over Tory DWP cuts will provide impetus to fight any Labour plans, say activists
A “groundbreaking” legal victory at the high court has provided fuel for disabled activists to fight the new government’s expected cuts to spending on disability benefits, and to call on ministers …
buff.ly
January 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A “groundbreaking” legal victory at the high court has provided fuel for disabled activists to fight the new government’s expected cuts to spending on disability benefits, and to call on ministers to meet their legal obligations to co-produce policy.
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DNS will focus a lot in 2025 on the need for a public inquiry into the countless deaths linked to the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions over the last 15 years. And the many years the department has spent covering up those deaths. Here's why:
Deaths, lies and cover-ups: the case for a public inquiry into the ‘unthinkable cost’ of DWP’s systemic violence
Senior civil servants and ministers spent more than a decade covering up evidence that links the actions of a government department with hundreds, and probably thousands, of deaths of disabled peop…
buff.ly
January 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
DNS will focus a lot in 2025 on the need for a public inquiry into the countless deaths linked to the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions over the last 15 years. And the many years the department has spent covering up those deaths. Here's why:
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Episode 70: 30 YEARS OF VIOLENCE IN THE DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS w/ John Pring
: bit.ly/4fjEyQa
Spotify: bit.ly/4gm9RuG
@plutopress.bsky.social
: bit.ly/4fjEyQa
Spotify: bit.ly/4gm9RuG
@plutopress.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Episode 70: 30 YEARS OF VIOLENCE IN THE DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS w/ John Pring
: bit.ly/4fjEyQa
Spotify: bit.ly/4gm9RuG
@plutopress.bsky.social
: bit.ly/4fjEyQa
Spotify: bit.ly/4gm9RuG
@plutopress.bsky.social