The workers have spoken: They’re staying home.

And companies can't make them come into the office. Really.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2520794/the-workers-have-spoken-theyre-staying-home.html

#WorkFromHome

Given the rate at which businesses are closing as the nation’s economy collapses, Israel is going to learn there is a heavy price to pay for genocide, even if the price is nowhere near enough.

https://substack.com/redirect/cb46f8e5-a03e-4a88-afcf-e84bc2047ba4?j=eyJ1IjoiMTJ1M2p1In0.AFqsUH1akxn_cR6lLxsguHjspK7OI__T22IVTUI1Cak

Germany still pays reparations to Israel for the holocaust - Israel should certainly do the same for Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinians deserve compensation for the holocaust they have endured.

https://substack.com/redirect/1b8d71bf-9ec5-4629-8d53-204ab56eb55a?j=eyJ1IjoiMTJ1M2p1In0.AFqsUH1akxn_cR6lLxsguHjspK7OI__T22IVTUI1Cak

#ApartheidIsrael #GazaGenocide

Katie Halper was sacked from The Hill for describing Israel as an apartheid state and giving compelling reasons why.

https://jacobin.com/2022/10/hill-rising-katie-halper-israel-palestine-fired?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Britain’s second richest man is cancelling TV shows at the request of Netanyahu, but if you highlight concerns over Zionist influence on our media, you’re the problem?

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-guardian/20240720/282007562631046?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#ApartheidIsrael

Photo of the Day

Finding common ground.

They were the most unlikely of seat mates.

Lyndon Johnson, the former president, out of office just six months, and Spiro Agnew, the new Vice President.

They had come to Florida from opposite poles of the political universe to watch men take off for the Moon.

And they sat there, side by side, dressed in suits and ties in 85-degree sunshine, and ‘made nice’ for the cameras.

It happened 55 years ago.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-631?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#history #photography

Normal Island News

Trump chooses Vance because he couldn't find anyone with a higher opinion of him
What matters is the man of steel has a running mate now

While recovering from a painful cut on his ear, Donald Trump is courageously focusing on his two priorities: getting back on the campaign trail and releasing merchandise to cash in on the assassination attempt.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/trump-chooses-vance-because-he-couldnt?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#NormalIslandNews #JDVance #politics

Normal Island News

UK about to swap utter bastards who wear blue for utter bastards who wear red
This is how democracy is supposed to work

The people of the UK must be hugely excited today because after 14 years of being ruled by utter bastards who wear blue, they are about to vote for utter bastards who wear red!

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/uk-about-to-swap-utter-bastards-who?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#NormalIslandNews #ElectionUK2024

A World Without Men

South Korea:

4B is shorthand: bihon, is the refusal of heterosexual marriage. Bichulsan is the refusal of childbirth, biyeonae is saying no to dating, and bisekseu is the rejection of heterosexual sexual relationships.

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/world-without-men

#women #WomensRights #WomensPower #SouthKorea

Harry's Last Stand

Democracy never survives an affordability crisis

Everyone is tired. The times we live have become an age of exhaustion. Overwork, underwork, the cost of living crisis, stress, the end of public healthcare, and a pandemic along with a forever war in Ukraine and a genocide in Gaza have derailed our society. It has left us no time to catch our breath. So we are weary, uncertain, angry and very afraid.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/democracy-never-survives-an-affordability?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith

"I was an Autistic psychiatric inpatient: Here’s what I would change in the mental health system "

Autistic people are exposed to inordinately high rates of trauma and mistreatment. It is unsurprising then that a large portion of us develop mental health struggles. Where there are concerns around mental health, there are also issues regarding inpatient treatment, both voluntary and involuntary, under the UK’s Mental Health Act.

https://emergentdivergence.com/2023/07/27/i-was-an-autistic-psychiatric-inpatient-heres-what-i-would-change-in-the-mental-health-system/

#autism #MentalHealth

@CloudyMrs @CrypticMirror @Wen Absolutely!

Donate if you want to support more Green candidates:

https://members.greens.scot/Donate2024GE

#Scotland #ScottishGreens #ScottishIndependence #environment #ChildrensFuture #politics

Harry's Last Stand

I don't know if we are too late to stop the construction of fascism as the dominant ideology in our own countries, anymore.

The weather this April felt worse than we deserved. It probably wasn't because even T.S. Eliot called it the cruellest month over a hundred years ago. Still, there is a sharp edge to April 2024.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/i-dont-know-if-we-are-too-late-to?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith

Harry's Last Stand

We live in a new Gilded Age, and we are on the outside looking in.

You do not need to be an economist or a historian to know that our era is an epoch of enormous class inequality. 2024 is a new Gilded Age, where affordable housing is extinct in Britain, Western Europe, Canada and the USA, and renters are a permanent underclass.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/we-live-in-a-new-gilded-age-and-we?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith

@LaChasseuse @CloudyMrs Thank you!

@CloudyMrs @LaChasseuse Sorry, I am not a National newspaper subscriber, and, while I can read it by saving it in the "pocket" facility in Firefox, obviously that doesn`t work for you. I received the link through an email from Scottish Greens.
I understand that there are concerns about creating national parks, but with biomass of domestic species exceeding wild species now, reserved natural spaces are essential for humans and the planet.

@CloudyMrs @LaChasseuse Edited and put up a new link.

The more national parks Scotland has, the better off we will be

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24138718.national-parks-scotland-better-off-will/

#Scotland #ScottishGreens #NationalParks

Normal Island News
King Charles III urged to apologise for slavery links
Turns out our proud tradition of monarchy is not so cuddly after all

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/king-charles-iii-urged-to-apologise?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#NormalIslandNews #King #slavery

Harry's Last Stand

It was anger, solidarity and socialism that built the Welfare State and kept the West safe from authoritarianism until neoliberalism corrupted everything.

Humans are hardwired to keep hope alive and believe that tomorrow can be better than today. For the poor, it seldom is because when there is no social safety net; your poverty can't be outrun. It doesn't stop people from trying.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jmsmith/p/it-was-anger-solidarity-and-socialism?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith

This evening MPs will vote on whether the UK should call for a ceasefire in Gaza and Israel. Despite the UN and humanitarian agencies saying a ceasefire is essential to save lives, Parliament is split on the issue. Will you help tip the balance by telling your MP to vote for a ceasefire?

https://actionaid-mail.org.uk/21O5-8GONB-JMKQ9A-5B3XL2-1/c.aspx

#GazaGenocide #cease_fire_now