I have just read the following from a friend in Wales. Sue, a veteran of Greenham Common, is in her late 70s & in poor health; & yet has been subject to arrest & imposition of unreasonable bail conditions, while her partner was subject to a raid on their home by police at 3am.

Her crime? To protest peacefully in defence of the right to protest.

The United Kingdom & its constituent parts have become, under a Labour government, a police state.

#Starmer must go. #Cooper must go.

Age verification appears to be an online trojan horse for identity verification, long demanded by authoritarians, the litigious rich, big tech data miners and the advertising industry.

An attempt to lock down the free internet, render everything walled and every action and interaction tracked and traceable.

#privacy

Interview: "It looks like I've hit a nerve."

~Francesca Albanese

The US has sanctioned Albanese following her scathing report, which named over 60 companies, including major US technology firms Google, Amazon & Microsoft, involved in "the transformation of Israel's economy of occupation to an economy of genocide".

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/francesca-albanese-defiant-face-trump-sanctions

#USPol #FrancescaAlbanese #GazaGenocide @palestine .

What a breath of fresh air to hear directly from #FrancescaAlbanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, now banned from the US for doing her job.

To hear someone who simply speaks the truth, with courage, decisiveness and the smile of integrity in her eyes.

Makes me realise how rarely that makes it to any mass broadcast:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/10/un-expert-albanese-rejects-obscene-us-sanctions-for-criticising-israel

Look Google, We Have This New Private, Offline Alternative Now
A maps app that doesn't track you but lets you track your path on the map. A pathbreaking open source alternative.

https://news.itsfoss.com/comaps-launch/

CoMaps is a community-driven project, here is how to get involved:

• Join the effort on Codeberg (codeberg.org/comaps) no development experience required!
• Spread the word!
• Join organizational and decision-making activities
• Donate at OpenCollective