Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!” Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Sign up: National antiracist network to stop the far right. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...
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Masked far right gangs have mobilised in Dover and Portsmouth to physically blockade refugees from entering the country. This is a significant, organised and well-funded escalation. We need to get org...
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Every now and then, it’s worth saying what ought to be obvious: trans people have always existed, and will exist as long as humans do. They’ve not done anything wrong by wanting their existence recognised, supported, and celebrated. The transformation of their existence into “an issue” is evil.
Since Oct 7 2023, the Israeli military and settlers killed 240 Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank. Read the B'Tselem report. www.btselem.org/video/202606...
twenty years ago people attacked universities by deriding “Mickey Mouse degrees” like media studies in favour of “proper” subjects like history, and now universities are skipping that step and simply abolishing everything that isn’t economics
Ceri Houlbrook@cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhy would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes
‘The scale of the earthworks was so great that Israel’s two hundred bulldozers were not nearly enough – many were damaged by the Palestinian resistance – and Israel urgently needed two hundred more.’ Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line
Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...
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‘More than 780 Palestinians have been killed and 2200 injured in Gaza since the “ceasefire” last October. The bombing continues. “The massacres happen every day,” Bisan Owda reports from Gaza. “Nothing really changed.”’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...
Selma Dabbagh | Displaced
Last Wednesday, the reporter Amal Khalil and photojournalist Zeinab Faraj were on assignment in south Lebanon when...
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you know the way "why did the Roman Empire fall" and "what are the causes of the First World War" are big questions that sort of function like Rorsharch tests, allowing people to debate ultimately inexplicable moments in history? "Why did no one stop Trump" a decent future shout for the third.
It's just an objective fact that Republicans like it when mothers die. It's been a core policy plank of the GOP my entire life.
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 6mo ago"Countries heavily reliant on US aid see a 10.5% increase in maternal mortality following a switch from a Democratic to a Republican administration—about 44.7 additional deaths per 100 000 live births." gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...
A year of USAID was $32 billion. So roughly next Wednesday. Monsters.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)
Given that the UK's position in the last 50 years is that settlements are illegal and Israel cannot annex the West Bank, banning trade with West Bank settlements is really the absolutely minimal ask. It's pathetic that it hasn't happened.
Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding)@caabu.bsky.social · 7mo ago119 UK Parliamentarians call for further sanctions on Israel and a total ban on all trade and interaction with illegal Israeli settlements in letter to @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social following yet further illegal Israeli government measures in the occupied State of Palestine. caabu.org/news/news/11...
I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure this is how you get 9/11: the sequel
MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 7mo ago🇮🇷🤯 Tehran
Yanar Mohammed is one of Iraq’s most prominent women’s rights activists and established the country’s first shelters for survivors of domestic violence and trafficking. She was assassinated outside her Baghdad home when two gunmen on motorcycles opened fire in the morning.
60 years ago today, Ghana's military overthrew president Kwame Nkrumah. The UK Foreign Office conducted a covert propaganda campaign to help remove him, declassified files show. www.declassifieduk.org/top-secret-d...
Top Secret Document Exposes UK Role in Ghana Coup
The UK Foreign Office conducted a covert propaganda campaign to help remove Ghana’s president Kwame Nkrumah in 1966, declassified files show.
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Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.
pretty good petition this for the uk to rejoin the creative europe programme. www.openpetition.org/uk/petition/...
United Kingdom to join the Creative Europe programme from 2027 - Online petition
This is a Europe-wide petition calling on the UK Government to formally declare the United Kingdom's interest in fully participating in the EU's Creative Europe programme (https://culture.ec.europa.eu...
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The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
More than 36,500 people were killed during Iran’s January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history, according to classified government documents reviewed by Iran International. iranintl.com/en/202601255198
Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
More than 36,500 Iranians were killed by security forces during the January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history, according to documents re...
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It’s 1:04 am in Kyiv and siren went off because Russia is attacking us with drones . Hate the beginning of the siren , that loud first note and when it starts rising, crawling through your bones and muscles. it’s the most disgusting part. It gets under your skin. I was told once that it’s by design
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
A hunger striker is said to be ‘at imminent risk of death’ due to 59 days without food while on remand in prison. Kamran Ahmed was transferred to hospital from HMP Pentonville in north London in the early hours of this morning metro.co.uk/2026/01/07/h...
Hunger striker taken to hospital 59 days into Palestine protest
Kamran Ahmed is said to be at 'imminent risk of death'.
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I think analysts specifically, and society more broadly, underestimate how much white supremacy and belief in conquest and racial hierarchy motivate the decisions of this administration. Like yes its "neo-royalism," yes its oil, but also its white supremacy.
fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US
