UK Quakers commit to continued, explicit trans inclusion. "...toilet facilities labelled with a 'female' sign remain available to cisgender women, trans women, and others for whom those facilities best align with their lived experience."

Quakers reaffirm commitment to trans inclusion in the wake of EHRC Code of Practice

Quakers in Britain has refreshed and reaffirmed its commitment to providing trans-inclusive facilities across its buildings.

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Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety aboard the West Virginia. He then hopped on a AA gun and despite no training at all shot down at least one plane despite being under constant attack. He was later killed action aboard the USS Liscome Bay during Operation Galvanic

CNN@cnn.com · 16h ago

The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor President Trump, sources say. https://cnn.it/4hFq6a6

Gender so manifestly central to politics right now and yet Harvard is gutting gender studies. This is crazy!

Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 4d ago

And transmitting a body of knowledge and theory whose critical purchase on life in 2026 becomes more apparent with every passing day.

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“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.

With Fear and Favor

Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.

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it's odd to me that the resistance to all this seems to be a one-man operation, and that one man is Sunder, but I thank him for his service. I just don't get how all this is allowed to fester, it's not like we can't guess the consequences

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 5d ago

There needs to be more urgency from the police to investigate + prosecute this clear incitement to xenophobic violence against asylum seekers, the platform + the online regulator Ofcom & ministers to cut off & prevent this malicious & unlawful content inews.co.uk/news/vigilan...

Mamdani suggests Social Democracy With Basically Pleasant Bureaucrat characteristics can be electorally and administratively viable. Still early days but not so early that there's nothing to be said. Helps that it's in a prosperous left leaning city with a generational-talent charismatic figurehead.

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

Today the NYTimes published a story about prosecutors pursuing a criminal investigation against a judge's daughter as possible retaliation for that judge presiding over Trump's criminal trial. It had a single byline. The article on race and hiring at Cambridge, a UK university, had 5.

It gets awkward following former students when they post provocative content.

Josephine beckbook.com Riesman@josie.zone · last wk.

My ass looks great in this pic

Lysenkoism, in retrospect, seems like a relatively serious attempt at evidence-based policymaking.

Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · last wk.

This is absolutely ridiculous. For all its potential pitfalls, the Ford aircraft carriers are built entirely around the EMALS system, and "replacing" it with steam catapults - which require large amounts of space and personnel - is simply not a realistic option. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

If you followed or signal-boosted the claims a few weeks back by the historian who said the graphic novelist had done an unauthorized adaptation of her work on Charity & Sylvia, a lesbian couple from 19th c Vermont, please read this essay from someone who fact-checked these claims in detail.

thene@thene.bsky.social · last wk.

out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

Ouch...

Patrick Schmidt@pdwschmidt.bsky.social · last wk.

The Fed can always respond with Quantitative Cheesing.

Gives an occasion to say: Friedman’s Presidential Address was an egregious affront to the scholarly endeavour, assuming what was to be proved and entirely bereft of arguments against actual Keynesian theories of inflation; a naive reader wouldn’t even know they existed. Its influence is a disaster.

Same argument always, and always wrong. The private sector is *never* in a better position to buy and operate not-for-profit assets because its cost of capital and, therefore, required returns are always—always—higher than the state's. Which means higher user costs and/or lower service quality.

At the Shanghai postal museum, where I concluded that a Foucauldian history of imperialist postal administration would practically write itself. Standardisation=cheap surveillance=multiple handles for power to shape behaviour.

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Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 2w ago

Hooley, Merstham & Netherne (Reigate & Banstead) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+3.4) ➡️ RFM: 24.4% (+13.6) 🌳 CON: 20.3% (-3.8) 🔶 LDM: 7.4% (+0.9) 🌹 LAB: 6.2% (-14.1) Green GAIN from Conservative. Changes w/ 2024.

This week Articles on one investigation at Cambridge: multiple every day Articles on the crisis across numerous UK universities, which are firing staff in droves and closing crucial departments: 0 Just saying.

You can find more information regarding this by-election, including the location of polling stations, via the Reigate & Banstead Borough Council website linked below. www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk/info/20318/vot…

It’s voting day in Hooley, Merstham and Netherne today! Please vote for Green Party candidate Cllr Nick Abear to be your new cllr to work alongside Green Cllrs Joel Gabriel and Shasha Khan on Reigate and Banstead Borough Council.

Visiting the Securities Museum in Shanghai today, where one can reflect on different national styles in giving commemorative gifts.

What you learn about leverage if you take one of my classes. Tooth=equity, and as you all know the Hellboy 2 tooth fairy destroys the rest of you as well as taking your tooth.

Robert Smith@bondhack.ft.com · 3w ago

Wonderfully detailed account from my FT colleagues of how Leopold Aschenbrenner became situationally aware that leverage works just as powerfully on the way down. www.ft.com/content/620b...

Mid Will Hunting

Eric Rauchway@rauchway.bsky.social · 3w ago

Love in the Time of Indigestion

Competing headlines in China Daily this morning.

To anyone intrigued, my two cents: I enjoyed the first two books of the Harlem Trilogy enormously, and so far Cool Machine has me literally grinning in amazement at how great it is. Also, if you like audiobooks, Dion Graham’s performances of all three books are masterpieces in their own right.

Colson Whitehead@colsonwhitehead.com · 4w ago

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/m...

The average opinion, average opinion of the average opinion, and average opinion of the average opinion of the average opinion of my students about footballer hotness. I think Keynes made up the claim that newspapers did contests like this; at any rate I’ve not been able to find an example.

David Woodruff@dmwoodruff.bsky.social · last mo.

Inspired by Keynes, a classroom exercise.

Inspired by Keynes, a classroom exercise.

Wonder how the journalists involved are feeling. Have no idea about Healey but I’m glad it’s not Mahmood.

David Woodruff@dmwoodruff.bsky.social · last mo.

Instinct still unfalsified.

Instinct still unfalsified.

David Woodruff@dmwoodruff.bsky.social · last mo.

My instinct—nothing more—is that this is an effort to push a decision: Andy, you can’t afford to disappoint the markets now that they think it’s hers… FT pages have been used for this sort of thing before.

There's a minor change in QT arrangements, one that wouldn't contradict BoE autonomy or stated policy purposes in any way whatsoever, that could save the Treasury a couple of billion pounds a year and end APF sales of long-dated gilts.

David Woodruff@dmwoodruff.bsky.social · last mo.

I once again appear before FinBlueSky with a cri-du-couer: Whatever you think of QT, the BoE can both pursue WY and rid itself of long-dated gilts without selling these on open markets!!! The whole conversation in @alphaville.ft.com and elsewhere misses this point. www.ft.com/content/8e5b... 🧵