Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

Forever re-learning to distinguish between "people who talk about privilege as a way to interrogate and potentially fix some of the fucked up parts of the world" and "people who tag you with privilege as a way of rendering you beneath them".

Obviously, one of these is good and welcome and to be encouraged. The other is yet another contemptible type of person. Learning to tell the difference takes way more effort than it should.

Remember allies, if someone asks if your friend is trans, the correct response is:

"What are you, a cop?"

Given the Tories prioritised the maintenance of profits under the varying conditions (from recession to lockdown) across their years of Government, we cannot be surprised that the TUC will seek to 'restore' pay levels (and living standards) to levels last seen around 2010..

However, of course while 'maintaining' profits is seen as a legitimate business policy, restoring living standards for workers is seen as special pleading & exceptional (now even by Labour).

#workers #politics #TUC

Report

Israeli newspaper quotes unnamed Israeli sources saying Blinken “seriously undermined the negotiations & demonstrated a lack of understanding when he claimed Netanyahu had accepted a US-backed proposal that could bring about a suspension of fighting in Gaza.

"Blinken’s claim offered Netanyahu a “gift” by making Hamas appear as the major obstacle to an agreement, dealing a potential “death blow” to efforts to reach a deal."

https://aje.io/rqcpx5?update=3134132

#Blinken #IsraeliLies #TruceTalks ..

“Since the beginning of August, about a third of aid missions within Gaza were denied access by Israeli authorities …”
~Elaine Loughlin, The Irish Examiner

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