Medgar Evers was killed in his driveway because he refused to accept a Mississippi where some were denied the right to vote. He stood with thousands who marched, organized and sacrificed so future generations could have a voice.
Federico Ortino
@federico-ortino.bsky.social
Professor of International Economic Law, King's College London 🇮🇹 in Hackney, London https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/federico-ortino
This will implode, sooner or later. No doubt about it. But I wonder those people in the back applauding, do they really know what they are doing? And will they ever feel ashamed for their behaviour?
Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 4d agoLook, American politics had plenty of issues before Trump came down that escalator in 2015. But at least presidential speeches didn’t sound like Klan gatherings.
The day the EU, as we know it today, was born. 🇪🇺 On 1 November 1993, the Maastricht Treaty entered into force, officially establishing the European Union, formerly the European Communities. Happy birthday to us! 💙
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO: I bought Stelco because I could not afford anymore having Stelco flooding the market here in the United States to the detriment of my own company. David Cochrane: Am I understanding you correctly there? It was a defensive acquisition?
Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
“The generation gap was huge. My parents had no experience of being a teenager.”
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago18 again: I returned to my life in 1983 – to reckless adventures, in a world soaked in alcohol
Happy Italian Heritage Month, New York. Here’s continuing to fight for Vito Marcantonio’s vision of a government that works for all working people.
🚨🚨 Social media venues such as #facebook and #instagram's algorithms have been designed by #meta to filter out 'social topic' such as #civilrights and #feminism. #Freespeech my ass. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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How is this news? billionaire oil person says uk needs to drill more and tax less, though, of course, he‘s actually in Monaco. And he would do more in the uk if the state subsidised him more. Dear BBC, that‘s like me saying the uk‘s problem is underpaid law profs. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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UNHCR’s future is at risk – and so is its past - Refugee Law Initiative Blog
By Jane McAdam and Maja Janmyr Budget cuts are forcing the UN Refugee Agency to cull its archives, threatening the world’s memory of displacement and undermining future protection. When people think o...
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New update on #Swedish elections. At this stage 21.48 tonight nearly all the final remaining election districts have been counted (302 out of 314) and the mandates between the blocs are unchanged, 176 for the social/left/centre bloc and 173 for the right/liberal/populists.
Jacob Öberg@profjacob.bsky.social · 2mo agoUpdate; election results are in and as suspected the results are very tight. Currently, the social/left bloc holds 176 mandates whilst the right/liberal/populist holds 173 mandates. Final counting is expected to be finalised by Wednesday. /1
Swedish elections in a week. New Swedish Radio poll indicates win for Left-Green-Center opposition. But Social Dems on historically low numbers. When Social Dems in Denmark copied right on immigration, got worst election result in 100 years. Swedish Social Dems doing same, could see similar results.
Here's Jason Arday's death - and the media's role in it - trending on social media, again. And yet it's *nowhere* in the mainstream media today. It's "fallen" out of the news cycle in the same way that Russian scientists "fall" out of windows. 🔗
“The faintly preposterous tax schemes of the past,” said Philip Laroma Jezzi, a tax law professor at the University of Florence, “have given way to something far simpler: Malta.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/b...
Crocs Has a Trick for Dodging Taxes: a Tiny Office in Malta (Gift Article)
The Mediterranean archipelago is a hot destination for U.S. companies seeking to shield profits from income taxes.
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In Aug. 2025, we wrote “medical providers should prepare for new food-born outbreaks in a weakened food safety system…Americans as a whole can expect to live in a less healthy country, with less regulated food and medicine, reduced healthcare access and equity, and less resilient emergency response”
Trump's second presidency begins: evaluating effects on the US health system
The first hundred days of the second Trump administration was unprecedented, with the administration taking remarkably aggressive, often questionably legal actions across health policy. This article u...
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ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch
Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.
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Trump just denied disaster aid to four blue states, after approving aid to six red states.
Trump denies disaster aid to four blue states, after approving aid to six red states
A White House spokesperson said there is “no politicization to the president’s decisions on disaster relief.” There’s compelling evidence to the contrary.
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"He did not deserve to die. He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline of Mexican man shot and killed by ICE." www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
A Mexican father was shot and killed by an ICE officer. His son is demanding an independent probe
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo worked for 35 years from sunrise to sunset to send all three of his American citizen sons to college. He had also been working toward securing legal status in the U.S. after neg...
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I'm so proud of Yassin. He made Bristol and Britain his home. He has contributed so much as a Green Party Cllr to his city and to the community in Lawrence Hill. Solidarity in the face of this Reform fuelled racist hate. Hope always wins!
Buckle up for another epic thread from the ever-insightful Emma Monk, debunking yet another fact-free right-wing story! This time, about climate crisis. This thread is also a great lesson in how to do science communication to reach us non scientists
Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 4mo agoIt was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
More Brexit winning www.reuters.com/world/spain-...
In Spain, elderly UK expats struggle for care post-Brexit
Daniel Northover left his home in Liverpool this month, which marks the 10th anniversary of Britain's Brexit referendum, to move in with his 80-year-old mother in Turre, a town of 4,500 people in And...
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Debate in the Scottish Parliament on the future of Scottish universities "A society that cannot think critically about itself is a society that is poorer in every sense." www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-...
50 years ago I began work at Chatham House on the future of British foreign policy. Very much enjoyed this conversation with Olivia O’Sullivan who is now also running a Uk foreign policy project at Chatham House.
Chatham House@chathamhouse.org · 5mo agoProfessor @ldfreedman.bsky.social (@warstudieskcl.bsky.social) joined @oliviaosullivan.bsky.social to discuss America’s foreign policy failures and the impact of Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan on his time at Chatham House. Read the full interview for @theworldtoday.org ⤵️
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.
Foreign investment screening: Council signs off on updated framework www.consilium.europa.eu/de/press/pre...
Foreign investment screening: Council signs off on updated framework
The Council adopted new rules to reinforce EU foreign investment screening, improving coordination and safeguarding key technologies and infrastructure.
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Reform Candidate Sh*ts Himself On National TV Rob Kenyon’s Question Time appearance was an absolute abortion but despite that and his sexism, he could still win Makerfield regardless. I explain how and why, while absolutely ripping the piss out of him youtu.be/WAw3V2XZqqk
Reform Candidate Sh*t Himself On National Television
YouTube video by Supertanskiii
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This is going to be the White House in 2028.
