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Liz Kelly retweeted
BREAKING: Billionaire Sir Richard Branson unleashes a SCORCHING attack on Trump and his disgusting cozying up to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
This is EXACTLY the kind of thing that gets under Trump's skin...
"I thought I’d never have to say this in my lifetime, but this is 2026, and sadly nothing is what it used to be," Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, wrote on LinkedIn. "The Trump administration has become an appeaser to autocrats and dictators, putting their personal whims before the best interests of the American people and those of the free world. What is it about Putin that President Trump fawns over?"
"How will America’s allies ever be able to trust this administration again when they are now turning against them at a time of war and suffering?" he asked.
Trump has repeatedly betrayed our Ukrainian allies in recent days. First, he announced a stunning deal with Putin to allow millions of barrels of diesel into the global markets, a move that will directly pump money into the Russian war machine. Then, he began a concerted smear campaign against President Zelenskyy and said that Putin is easier to deal with.
The backstabbing escalated when Washington failed to provide its usual early warning to Kyiv of an incoming Russian ballistic missile attack. Now, it appears that the White House ordered a temporary disruption of Starshield, a military version of Elon Musk's Starlink that the Ukrainian armed forces rely upon.
"The slowdown of Starlink/Starshield and the inexplicable lack of advance warning of Russian missile launches have already caused Ukrainian civilians to die unnecessarily," wrote Branson. "How much worse can it get?"
"If one thing is clear it’s that European leaders must overcome the initial shock about Trump’s recent actions and step up to the plate. It’s as much about Europe’s freedom as it is about Ukraine’s sovereignty. Both are worth fighting for," he continued. "All options should be on the table now, from the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine to the delivery of advanced weapons systems such as Germany’s Taurus."
"Why oh why is this happening? We cannot let the free world be dismantled before our very eyes," Branson concluded.
We couldn't agree more. Trump is an enemy to Ukraine, an enemy to democracy, and an enemy to the American people. When Democrats retake power, we have our work cut out for us. Every last trace of this monstrous man's legacy must be erased.
Please ❤️ and share if you think that Trump is Putin's puppet!
Liz Kelly retweeted
"Consenting to snort white powder is not consenting to be gang raped for seven hours." The law is not on women's side, surprise. "Basically, the law says if a victim took drugs or alcohol willingly, they’re not legally incapacitated so consent is assumed. Basically, it makes rape legal. That’s so screwed up it’s sickening. Laws should not make rape legal.
"That is why New York lawmakers and organizations like RAINN are pushing for bills like Senate Bill S10632 to change the law to focus on whether the victim was too impaired to consent, instead of whether they agreed to take the drugs."
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Liz Kelly retweeted
Substantial proportions of men engage in violent and abusive behaviour towards women, including acts that meet legal definitions of crime.
E.g., 29.3% of male college students in North America have perpetrated sexual assault.
Yet very few receive any kind of formal sanction.
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Liz Kelly retweeted
Acaban de actualizar 2.2200.000 personas . Record absoluto de la historia de Madrid . Ni la selección. La derecha está muerta . Madrid dice se acabó 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷
Hi @openreach and @EE I stayed in for 6 hours waiting for an engineer, no show, no message and and an AI response. Computer says no is not customer service
Liz Kelly retweeted
This is 17 yr old Jeremiah Carnegie from London. He realised that local families couldn't afford swimming lessons for their kids. So, he went to the bosses of the pool and proposed the idea of running a free, two-week swimming course.
The result: 780 kids signed up!
Liz Kelly retweeted
They took memory cards from us and made us pay for storage. They took CDs and DVDs and made us pay for streaming. They took software you could buy once and turned it into a monthly subscription. They took ownership, convenience, and basically everything that used to be a one-time purchase… then somehow made us pay for it every month.
Liz Kelly retweeted
I knew I had A GOOD reason, apart from her superb acting career, to admire Jody_you go girl!
Liz Kelly retweeted
What strikes me about this letter is that the writer isn’t demanding Nigel Farage agree with her politics. She isn’t even attacking him for being Reform.
She simply wants access to the person elected to represent her.
That’s the part of politics we sometimes lose sight of. Being an MP isn’t primarily a media job. You represent everyone in your constituency, including the people who voted against you.
Four unanswered emails just to ask about a constituency clinic is a poor look.
Liz Kelly retweeted
"When people talk about the need for Black Excellence I counter with an insistence on Black mediocrity: the right for black people to be as average, flawed, compromised & mistaken as any other group of people. The right, ultimately, to be human." R.I.P. Jason Arday
Liz Kelly retweeted
Long post, sorry. But I swear, one of the disorders of this island is that whenever we do something well, we destroy it to appease an imagined reactionary swing voter in about 20 constituencies.
We do universities well. Genuinely, world-beatingly as a sector.
So naturally we're dismantling them — because "migrants," "foreigners," and "Mickey Mouse degrees."
While ignoring entirely that the sector:
1. Redistributes wealth around the country as students move between regions.
2. Delivers a massive net benefit through R&D
3. Anchors local economies — in half our towns, the university is the economy
3. Is one of our biggest export industries, with international students bringing in billions
5. Trains the doctors, nurses, and teachers as well as producing an educated population, in general.
6. Remains one of the few engines of social mobility we have left
7. Generates the spin-outs and startups every government has claimed it wants more of
8. Is among the last sources of British soft power that still commands global respect
9. And is a GOOD in and of itself, builds lifelong friendships, improves social cohesion, exposes young people to different ways of life and living. The most formative experience in many peoples' lives.
And they're not being destroyed, for the most part, by the sector itself, but by stupid decision after stupid decision by the government around how to run and fund them.
It is a genuine catastrophe, tanking our last stellar industry.
But instead of even reporting on the broader impacts this will all have, the university is just castigated as some fortress in the culture war.
Liz Kelly retweeted
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Liz Kelly retweeted
No matter who wins the continuing front page PR battle as to who is the most discriminated against group on the planet, globally "Misogyny-driven lethal violence against women and girls results in a significantly higher absolute number of annual deaths than racism, antisemitism, homophobia, or ableism". The lethal War Against Women continues. The clearly intentional refusal to focus on that detail continues.
Claims that it's mainly in other countries with other religions is just another example of us, men, globally letting ourselves off the hook. The evidence is hidden in plain sight. The in our faces fact conveniently never makes it to the front page.
Fact check or just shrug and walk on by. Ask in your browser, "Is it true that misogyny results in a significantly higher absolute number of annual deaths than racism, antisemitism, homophobia, or ableism?" It's easy to do and then check on how that is reflected in the media (overwhelmingly owned by men).
And who is responsible for this deadly war against The Female? Clearly: The Male.
But we guys don't have to worry. We have a get-out. Collective responsibility is vehemently rejected, globally. So we don't have to worry. We can continue with, "None of us individually can be blamed, and "I don't personally behave like that". Don't worry, those self-serving mantras will never die.
On the other hand we could demand those figures take their rightful place on the daily front pages and news-casts and social media outlets and as a result, rightly, in all our minds.
#TheWarAgainstWomen #misogyny #murder #racism #antisemitism #homophobia #ableism #Public Relations
Liz Kelly retweeted
Women built the first Rape Crisis service in Scotland from nothing in 1977.
Just three women - including Rosemary Whyte - started in a living room with no money, no premises and no support. They created a women-only space because traumatised survivors needed protection from men. That was the original vision: by women, for women.
Today we are here. Sandy Brindley led Rape Crisis Scotland for 24 years while the network moved away from single-sex services. Mridul Wadhwa (a man pretending to be a woman) ran Edinburgh Rape Crisis and said that some rape survivors were “bigoted people” who would be “challenged on their prejudices” if they wanted female-only support.
Under Wadhwa, Roz Adams faced a “heresy hunt” simply for believing survivors should be able to know the sex of the person supporting them. An employment tribunal ruled it was unlawful discrimination and constructive dismissal.
The damage was clear. Glasgow & Clyde Rape Crisis and other centres broke away from Rape Crisis Scotland to restore proper single-sex services with an all-female workforce. Beira’s Place was founded as a genuine biological women-only alternative because women were being failed.
Women built it right the first time. Trans ideologues wrecked it.
Now the fight to take it back is underway. Listen to the full story of how it started:
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Liz Kelly retweeted
She was a 25 year old lawyer in Ayacucho, Peru when her boyfriend attacked her in a hotel in July 2015. The security cameras captured everything. Him chasing her. Dragging her by the hair. Her screaming for help while hotel staff tried to intervene. The court watched the footage.
Then sentenced him to one year suspended for minor injuries. The more serious charges - dropped. She refused to accept it. She went public. Put her name and her face to everything. Took the fight to the media, to the courts, to the streets. On August 13 2016 half a million Peruvians marched through Lima. The largest demonstration in the history of Peru. Led by her.
The appeals court threw out the original verdict. He was retried. Convicted of attempted f3micide. Sentenced to 11 years in prison. She went on to become a member of Congress. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Her name is Arlette Contreras. And she was just getting started.
Liz Kelly retweeted
In the 1950s, Ella Fitzgerald was not allowed to play Hollywood's most popular nightclub, Mocambo, because of her race.
Marilyn Monroe, who was a big fan, called the owner & told him that if he booked Ella, Marilyn would be there every night - which guaranteed huge press coverage.
He booked Ella and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. Ella said, "After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman - a little ahead of her times. And she didn't know it."
Liz Kelly retweeted
The kiss happened in Sydney in August 2023. In front of cameras. In front of her teammates. In front of the world. She said it wasn't consensual. Immediately. Publicly. Without hesitation. What happened next was designed to break her.
The Spanish football federation closed ranks around him. Former teammates were pressured to support his version of events. His allies called her a liar. His mother locked herself in a church and went on hunger strike in protest at how her son was being treated. D3ath threats arrived at Jenni's door. She didn't change her story. She filed a criminal complaint. Testified in court. Sat in front of a judge and described exactly what had happened to her on the happiest day of her career.
Luis Rubiales resigned in disgrace. Was banned from football by FIFA. In February 2025 a Spanish court found him guilty of s3xual a55ault. The judge ruled that a non-consensual kiss is s3xual a55ault. Period. She held her ground against an institution that tried to destroy her. And the institution fell. Her name is Jenni Hermoso. And she never changed her story once.
