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Ben Phillips

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Author, How to Fight Inequality. Comms Director @UNAIDS . Justice is not given, it is won. This is personal.

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Ben Phillips

4 months

At @TheKingCenter Global Summit. Kingian nonviolence: 1) is not soft, it confronts power. 2) is not a history that is past, it is an approach for today. 3) learns from Dr King, but is about what *you* do. 4) is the most effective way of bringing about social change.

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2 years

A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened

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2 years

How to do a media interview while being carried away by police for protest. 10/10, no notes.

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2 years

Just massive kudos for the person who created this Halloween squirrel feeder

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7 years

The best news story today is this little girl called Anu showing her friends her new foot. Watch.

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2 years

We used to “correct” kids who were left-handed - through violence, shame or “guidance” on how to be right handed. And so there seemed to be very few left handers. Then we stopped, & with no shaming there was a seemingly rapid rise. Then a plateau. This is a tweet about trans kids

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6 months

I clicked sort by age. There are 6 pages of these before you get to the one year olds.

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3 years

Just a parrot at the vets pleased about his recovery

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2 years

Ukrainian refugee kids arrive in Italy, and start at local schools. On their first day they enter nervously. You won’t believe what the Italian kids did next …

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1 year

I don’t know who needs to hear this but Neil Diamond, who retired from performing five years ago because of Parkinsons, just had a Broadway show of him open and it at the opening night he did this

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2 years

German TV news on what is happening in British politics is amazing. No need to understand German, watch to the end

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3 months

This is very good

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4 years

Question. Answer.

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3 years

This is the saddest movie ever made

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3 years

At last, our world has a leader. She is Mia Motley, Prime Minister of Barbados, and *this* is a speech:

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11 months

Sometimes a crisis hits so hard that a country needs help from others to overcome it. That’s not one-way humanitarian saviourism, it’s international solidarity. 200 South African firefighters land in Edmonton, Canada to help fight the wildfire. Sound up 🔊

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8 months

“Thanks everyone for comments on the draft, here it is revised with all your edits.”

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5 months

“Lives found ended” is not a phrase in English. This is the first time it has ever been used. The daily coining of new euphemisms. The shame of it.

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2 months

This image

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7 days

The way to explain London is this: this man called Count Binface, who really did change his legal name to Count Binface, and, as you can hopefully see, has a bin face, stood in the election for Mayor, and, when the results were announced, he got more votes than the far right did.

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I fight Fascists and extortionate croissants.

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Ben Phillips

4 years

A very large panda eating a very large carrot, very loudly

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4 years

Graphs are useful but to really get what that rising curve is, have a look at the obituaries page of this Bergamo daily newspaper, comparing one from February with one from now

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3 years

Once again Barbados PM Mia Mottley has been the one who has delivered the speech the world needed. May she be heard, may we rise. Take 8 minutes to listen to the whole thing. Share the lines that grabbed you most. #COP26

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7 years

There should be an app to watch all Trump interviews like this

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2 years

The mayor of Kyiv shows how to do a TV interview

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4 years

❤️❤️❤️ To beat #Covid19 , listen to this Italian grandma.

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7 years

Every newsroom in America: - Trump has fired the Nazi. - Which Nazi? - The one called Steve. - Which one of the Nazis called Steve?

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2 years

Philosophers: the only way to solve the trolley problem is to kill one of these groups of imaginary people. Model railway dads:

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28 days

1. In Sydney, a mother & child were stabbed by a mentally ill white man, Joel Cauchi 2. When a brave security guard, Faraz Tahir, a Muslim refugee, stepped in to save them, Cauchi killed him 3. Top British media figures blamed the deaths on Muslims 4. Their tweets are still up

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3 years

This photo of Tuvalu’s virtual address to the Climate Conference says everything that should need to be said. #COP26

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2 years

This is so good. Man wakes up and it is 250 years later.

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7 months

Writers the contest is over: this sentence has been written and you’ll never write a sentence this bad.

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3 years

peak dad has now been reached 👑

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3 years

What if the point is not to beat the others but to make sure everyone makes it?

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2 years

The first two donkeys are all the “I faced hurdles but I got over them” folks; the third donkey is the one we need to be

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2 years

🎤 9 year old Gugulethu Ndzendze from South Afica sings Ave Maria. What a wonderful talent. Happy Christmas all. 🕊

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5 years

Be this girl. *watch till the end*

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1 year

Put her in charge of all things, she’s amazing.

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2 years

When you’re searching for how to say what you feel. 30 seconds of wisdom here, watch till the end.

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2 years

One of the most heartbreaking sentences ever written: “The child was pretending to eat out of an empty lunchbox because they did not qualify for free school meals and did not want their friends to know there was no food at home.”

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8 years

Peak #Brexit : UK protestor tries to burn the EU flag, but can't, because of EU regulation on flammable materials

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8 years

Why the Internet was invented.

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2 years

Just so well done. Watch the whole thing.

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1 month

this conversation, amazing

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4 years

“I love you.” In 44 seconds, this is the politics of loving.

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6 years

This is really, really good. Fox News vs North Korean State TV.

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4 years

What makes this photo so amazing is that it looks so ordinary. The man in the shorts waiting in line in this shop in Portugal is the President.

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8 years

London Mayor Sadiq Khan breaks Eid fast with the Archbishop and the Chief Rabbi. I love this picture so much.

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3 years

I feel sick

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3 months

Folks it’s not that complicated

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2 years

No one is self-made

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3 years

Finally, the answer to the question “if you help a sloth cross the road, will they be grateful?”

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2 years

Superb

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4 years

OMG now the mothers’ group are singing “hands up please don’t shoot me” in the style of a lullaby. Impossible to watch and not cry.

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4 years

This is a desperately low point for any politician to get to. A mother died of starvation; her baby, who she was holding when she died, was mercifully found. The minister in charge of welfare is invited repeatedly merely to express sympathy. And cannot ...

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2 years

This video. Wow. Asking Siri what the time is in Palestine.

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3 years

I love this clip of Mike Gravel recounting reading the Pentagon Papers into the Senate record, because of what it teaches about courage. He was not excited, not confident; he was “frightened to death”, scared of going to prison; he was overcome with emotion. And *that* is bravery

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4 years

Truly extraordinary times indeed. Question Time has just allowed on a person who knew what they were talking about. Kudos to Richard Horton here, the editor of the world’s leading medical journal, The Lancet, speaking facts to power.

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2 years

All in under one minute: Trickle down economics brilliantly explained, by the @Exploding_Heads

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2 years

This is so good.

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20 days

How rich are the rich? the two *families* who own the biggest chocolate corporations have more wealth than the two *countries* who supply the most cocoa beans

Media advisory: Oxfam and cocoa farmers at World Cocoa Conference in Brussels | Oxfam International

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2 years

This is such a poignant conversation with such a wonderful man. Blue Peter interviews Anne Frank’s father Otto in 1979

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8 years

Greek statues dressed as hipsters.

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4 years

Which one are you?

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1 year

I don’t know who needs to hear this but when Paul Robeson, the great American movie star, singer, and activist, met with British miners, and he sang Joe Hill, it went like this ...

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7 months

In 1919, seeing children from the defeated Austrian empire starve, Eglantyne Jebb established Save the Children. Many asked "How can you help enemy children?" One of Jebb's supporters, the great George Bernard Shaw, replied, "I have no enemies under six."

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3 years

🤦🏻‍♂️

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3 months

So there are western politicians who didn’t want to sanction Apartheid South Africa for defying international law, but do want to sanction democratic South Africa for upholding international law. 😐

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3 months

BREAKING: US congress introduces bill to review relations with South Africa following ‘politically motivated’ ICJ case

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3 years

This new anti-protest law is being proposed in Britain this Tuesday. This bill is so draconian it says that if your action *or inaction* means *anyone* is *at risk of serious annoyance* (yes, that’s the bar!) you can be jailed *for a decade*. Crushing the vigil was just the start

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3 years

No your country hasn’t taken most of the refugees from Afghanistan. Not even close.

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2 years

Amazing

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7 years

Pointless but brilliant hobby of bookstore employees, via @GreggDCaruso

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2 years

Cats’ reactions to the cat face filter are superb

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4 years

Two of the three people below are famous, well paid, right wing intellectuals, who get to work from the safety and comfort of home. The third is a nurse.

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4 years

“How much time do you want me to wait for your progress?” The great James Baldwin would be 96 today, and his question has still not been answered.

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2 years

Good write up in the Washington Post on what the video shows about the need to hear difficult news

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A U.K. meteorologist warned of deadly heat. He was told to cheer up.

A Twitter user juxtaposed the news clip with a scene from the movie "Don't Look Up" in a post that has racked up more than 18 million views.

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3 years

Siri, *how* does it “trickle-down”?

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4 years

Wow that went big. So Pls NB this mom’s sign from the protest.They are amazing inspirational women, and also, as they note...

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4 years

I don’t know who needs to hear this right now, but this is the bird dance for every option on your phone alarm.

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3 years

@david8hughes The second funniest thing about this superb tweet is Americans denying it can be true because they don’t know that there are time zones

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3 years

This is amazing and perfect. Read the whole thing.

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7 days

Western politicians and police chiefs getting ready to express their fear, disgust and outrage at this huge march for a ceasefire in, er, Tel Aviv

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2 months

Without comment. Hear, in their own words, what is being said to defend the blocking of life-saving humanitarian assistance.

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4 years

How to be a journalist, in 15 seconds, by Mehdi Hasan.

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2 years

This is Prof. Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS is a Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health at McGill University, Montreal. He is global health eminence par excellence. And he just eviscerated global health. 🧵🪡

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6 months

This poem.

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7 years

White folks: If you like to think you'd have rejected white supremacy 60 years ago & defended her rights & dignity, do it now & defend his.

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4 years

Statue of slaver Robert Milligan in London taken down: agreed by owner, announced by Mayor, done by authorities. And all the people who’d shouted the toppling of the Bristol slaver’s statue was bad because it was *not* done this way were ... still angry. Maybe they like slavers?

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Progress.

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3 years

The debate about history and social studies lessons explained

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1 year

For May Day, would you like to hear how it went when Paul Robeson, the great American movie star, singer, and activist, met with British miners, and he sang Joe Hill? Well, it went like this ...

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4 years

To understand inequality, economists & political scientists only take us so far. We need artists & musicians. Nina Simone’s Mississippi Goddam is a blunt lesson told to the privileged about their myths & lies. <thread> First, that the radicalism of the oppressed is the problem:

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4 years

I didn’t think we’d see anything more moving than the videos of people on their porches and balconies clapping for the heroic doctors and nurses. Then I saw this video of the doctors and nurses applauding the cleaning staff. My heart. 🙏❤️✊

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2 years

These shadows. How beautiful.

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2 months

More kids killed in Gaza in 4 months than all wars worldwide in 4 years

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2 years

Ali Hasan is a 15 year old refugee from Syria, living in Portugal. Bureaucracy delayed his registration to his football club for 3 years, but this week he finally received it and, well, just watch what that means to him - and what it means for the Portuguese boys in the team.

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10 years

Well done whoever did this. http://t.co/wlbAC8reur

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7 years

@aSciEnthusiast That's lovely. Reminds me of this poem you can read top to bottom or bottom to top.

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2 years

Kudos to this person dressed as a pink bunny at the bomb shelter at Kharkiv metro station. ❤️‍🩹

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7 years

Best ever use of "(left)" in a photo caption

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