The arab spring began when a Tunisian version of ICE harassed a fruit vendor. Nepals began from anger over Trump like nepo babies flaunting their wealth “India’s top judge [sparked] New Delhi’s biggest protests in years when he compared unemployed [youth] to ‘cockroaches‘ during a…court hearing”

Cockroach Revolt Exposes Cracks in Modi’s Vision of Rising India

The economy is failing to absorb a surging number of young unemployed graduates.

bloomberg.com

📍India Police in New Delhi used tear gas, batons, and internet shutdowns against largely peaceful student-led protests on July 20 🧵⤵️

India: Excessive Force Used Against Student Protesters

Indian security forces used tear gas and batons to suppress largely peaceful student and youth protests in New Delhi on July 20, 2026.

hrw.org

India: Protests continue as ‘cockroach’ party presents challenge for Modi government www.channel4.com/news/india-p...

India: Protests continue as ‘cockroach’ party presents challenge for Modi government

It began as an online joke, but now young Indians calling themselves 'cockroaches' are presenting a serious challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

channel4.com

Bellingcat has been monitoring student protests in India. Police initially denied reports protesters were met with violence at a July 20 march, although later acknowledged injuries to protesters and officers. Social media videos showed tear gas deployed and batons used by police against protestors.

How about a jet-lagged live posting while I read? Trying to read this because I keep getting tagged in posts about it, but the first paragraph already contains synthetic text (a quote from Claude). I will skip that bit and persevere... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Could AI be conscious?

Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications

theguardian.com

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

1/ Each Summer, @katemac.bsky.social & I write a essay with a different focus on political economy of Climate Don't miss our trilogy over last 3 summers Global Boiling: Scorched Earth: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo... Uninsurable Earth: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

Global Boiling | The Polycrisis

Stocks and flows, action and inaction in the planetary impasse

phenomenalworld.org

🚨Finally published: How does the US Military enlist AI researchers in war? @siree.sh, Lucy Suchman and I examine 7k US Military grant solicitations for AI research, and show how even "Basic Research" enlists researchers in a warfighting agenda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Basic research, lethal effects: Military artificial intelligence research funding as enlistment - David Gray Widder, Sireesh Gururaja, Lucy Suchman, 2026

In the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorit...

journals.sagepub.com

✊ Respect to the folks from No Tech For Apartheid. Let's keep going, make it impossible for those designers, engineers, managers to ignore what the tech they build is being used for. #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #AI #Tech

Paraguay to the World Cup audience:

BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds Lloyds have debanked the Canary with no warning or explanation, putting the outlet in severe financial crisis www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds

BREAKING: Lloyds have debanked the Canary with no warning or explanation, putting the outlet in severe financial crisis

thecanary.co

Had a great conversation on the digital welfare state (across three continents). Thanks @themaybe.org for getting this great group together to discuss accountability concerns in public sector digitalisation.

The Maybe@themaybe.org · last mo.

Governments across the Global Majority are trying to tackle tough problems with tech. But instead of creating the oft-promised efficiencies, these tools are delivering deeper inequities–while making them harder to see and challenge.

Of all the idiotic and irresponsible ideas this government has come up with this must take the cake. A self selecting group of people massively undertrained and under prepared to evaluate what are often nuanced and complex situations for asylum appeals. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Public to decide asylum cases as Mahmood pledges to speed up decisions

The Home Secretary will set out plans for a new independent body made up of people from a range of backgrounds with training similar to magistrates.

standard.co.uk

Labour has closed more safe routes, including family reunification than Tories did They haven't opened new safe routes, they have rejigged existing ones to put the onus of sponsorship on individuals and community groups rather than the state Work and study routes exclude families. 1/3

Tory Fibs@toryfibs.bsky.social · last mo.

• UK is now going to open new safe and legal routes for refugees to come to the UK. Tories closed down safe routes to cause the boat crisis to drive voters to the right. Delighted that families will be able to come to the UK and settle into our communities & build a life here

Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. In earlier incarnation, he supported the Iraq invasion; was chairman of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. What next?

Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff

Decision is one of Makerfield MP’s most significant since his Westminster return as he builds his team for government

theguardian.com

"A breast feeding baby was shot by a quad copter through the head" Yesterday the UN commission of inquiry published a report detailing how Israel deliberately targets & kills Palestinian children

"Drs told us many of the amputations they had to carry out on babies/very young children were without anaesthesia.. you can imagine the agony those children went through" The UN commission of inquiry has published a report on how Israel deliberately targets Palestinian children

Poster, "London 2026 AD this is all in the air", by Montague B Black, 1926

This is absolutely deranged. He is promising genocide in Lebanon to ‘avenge’ the death of an illegally-invading soldier.

IGC Navy has closed the Strait of Hormuz, warning all vessels to not attempt to cross, following Israel’s refusal to withdraw from and strikes this morning on Southern Lebanon.

liberal democracies will never be safe with musk this powerful—they must unite to break him my latest with @newrepublic.com c/a @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2119...

Elon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global Response

The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.

newrepublic.com

NEW: Across Africa, the State Department has demanded access to health data for millions of people as a condition of giving countries billions of dollars in aid needed to address HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other illnesses.

“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns

The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...

propublica.org

The decision to go ahead with this 'debate,' even after Robinson is questioned under anti-terror laws, following his return from Moscow where he helped stoke racist riots on the streets of the UK, is utterly shameful from the Oxford Union bylinetimes.com/2026/06/17/p...

Pubs Shut and Streets Close as Police 'Screen Attendees' for Oxford Union Tommy Robinson Debate

The world's most prestigious debating society is set to host the far-right agitator just days after his return from Moscow and questioning under anti-terror legislation

bylinetimes.com

I continue to be struck by how few Cabinet ministers and ex-ministers the impacts + implications of this complex 8-tier settlement policy - esp the sheer scale of Commonwealth voters who risk losing legal status in 2028. Is it remigration by stealth - or by mistake? ukandeu.ac.uk/unsettled-st...

Unsettled status: the policy and politics of indefinite leave to remain - UK in a changing Europe

Sunder Katwala looks at the government's proposed reforms to the settlement rules in the UK as part of its immigration overhaul and asks whether they could meet the fairness challenge.

ukandeu.ac.uk

Keir Starmer keeps referring to the consultation as evidence for why the social media ban isn't a last gasp by-election gambit in his answers to the press. The consultation had 116,211 responses to 54 questions. The government has published a single percentage of answers to just two questions

breakthrough news with another angle, reporting that the walkout was organized by SJP and No Tech for Apartheid

X is continuing to give impunity to racists using unlawful n-word and p-word slurs, despite its legal obligations. The Guardian reports on early findings from @britishfuture.bsky.social real-time testing of the efficacy of its May 2026 commitments to Ofcom www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

X accused of giving racists ‘impunity’ after refusing to bar N- and P-word posts

Site takes no action over hate posts against UK politicians including Kemi Badenoch, Shabana Mahmood and Zia Yusuf

theguardian.com

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

There's a Genocide happening in Gaza. Our Government is arresting pensioners for holding cardboard signs that say "I support Palestine Action." And Andy Burnham - labours apparent last hope - won't even acknowledge what's really happening.

Yeah, burning 27 families out of their homes because of their race is bad. But at least they weren't holding a Palestine Action placard.