Paul Robeson was a canary in the coal mine long before Jeremy Corbyn My article in @thecanaryuk.bsky.social on #PaulRobeson's birthday, ahead of a sharing of Paul Robeson's Love Song for #mayday 2026. #peekskill #kenosha #blacklivesmatter #antisemitism #itwasascam www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Paul Robeson was a canary in the coal mine long before Jeremy Corbyn

On his birthday, Tayo Aluko looks at how the establishment destroyed Paul Robeson's character because of his political views

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Mothin Ali calls out spineless Starmer for dragging the UK into the Iran war and then repeatedly lying about doing so

Mothin Ali corrects Starmer’s Green Party slander

Mothin Ali calls out spineless Starmer for dragging the UK into the Iran war and then repeatedly lying about doing so

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i swear this gov is a TV show. the head of intelligence got hacked and used his real name for a porn account. the head of dept of war accidentally texted war plans to a journalist. and now former head of homeland security grappling with husband's secret cross-dressing double life in anti-LGBTQ admin

How on EARTH does a former human-rights lawyer have nothing to say about this?!

bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b... Peter Jukes reports on more revelations about the transatlantic right-wing network, and why the Government is withholding key information on the former Prime Minister’s role Peter Jukes 24 April 2023

Bannon, Brexit, Johnson and Cambridge Analytica: the Daughter of Time

Peter Jukes reports on more revelations about the transatlantic right-wing network, and why the Government is withholding key information on the former Prime Minister’s role

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Just yesterday the Netanyahu govt adopted a law to hang Palestinians who commit certain crimes in the West Bank but not Israeli settlers who commit the same crimes. Why are we sending a blank check of billions of $ to a govt that pursues these & other blatantly racist policies?

‘Discriminatory’ Israeli death penalty law would be war crime, says UN rights chief

Volker Türk says bill, which applies to Palestinians convicted of terror charges but not Jewish extremists, must be repealed

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This is a massive and unconstitutional voter suppression effort aimed at giving Trump the power to create a list of who is allowed to vote by mail. We know where this will go -- the targeting of Democrats for mass disenfranchisement. We will sue and we will win.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is in the Oval Office riffing on mail voting, because nobody in the Trump administration has real job duties beyond fluffing the leader on TV

Thank you @vickyblake.bsky.social and @ewanmg.bsky.social for fighting this fight on behalf of all UCU members.

Vicky Blake UCU (she/her)@vickyblake.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Certification Officer has issued his decision in Blake & McGaughey v UCU. My initial response is here: vickyblakeucu.uk/2026/03/31/t... I urge members to read the full ruling rather than relying on the summary emailed to all members by HQ today. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69cbcb...

The Certification Officer has issued his decision in Blake & McGaughey v UCU. My initial response is here: vickyblakeucu.uk/2026/03/31/t... I urge members to read the full ruling rather than relying on the summary emailed to all members by HQ today. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69cbcb...

The Certification Officer’s ruling: Blake & McGaughey v UCU

The Certification Officer has now issued his decision in Blake and McGaughey v UCU. One complaint was upheld in part as a technical breach. The rest were dismissed, and no rerun or further remedy w…

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Ministers are reportedly exploring how to cancel dangerous spy-tech firm Palantir's contract to handle NHS data after over 150k people joined me in calling on them to break the contract. Join us - together we can kick out Palantir out of our NHS: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

‘Battle of the titans’: Trump’s distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall

‘Battle of the titans’: Trump’s distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall

War is testing operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it “Let me say, we’ve won,” he told a rally in Kentucky on 11 March. “I think we’ve won,” he said on the White House south lawn on 20 March. “We’ve won this war. The war has been won,” he said in the Oval Office on 24 March. “We are winning so big,” he promised a fundraising dinner on 25 March. Donald Trump keeps declaring victory in Iran. But saying it over and over does not make it so. While the US president insists that his military campaign in the Middle East is a historic success, the world is bracing for a conflict that continues to metastasize and could wreak havoc on the global economy. Continue reading...

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Does AI risk repeating colonial erasure on a digital scale? A new article in Times Higher Education draws on research by @jeater.bsky.social funded by the British Academy, exploring how AI’s training data and linguistic norms reflect the Global North’s historical dominance. https://bit.ly/4sE53qF

In postcolonial Africa, the ethical neutrality of AI is pure fantasy

“Knowledge production, including the production of technology, is one of the most important political questions facing higher education globally.”

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Following the recent raid on Westminster Meeting House various folks who were arrested by the police had computers and phones siezed by the police. This included children’s computers. Phil is trying to raise funds to give 10 grants of £150.00 towards replacement devices. @quaker.org.uk

Help raise £1500 to support my community by buying tech kit siezed by the Police in the Westminster Meeting House Raid – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to support my community by buying tech kit siezed by the Police in the Westminster Meeting House Raid. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

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IRS investigations into abusive tax schemes dropped by 63% last year. That's because the Trump administration fired a ton of employees from the department responsible for investigating wealthy tax cheats. When the rich get richer while we struggle, it is ALWAYS by design.

🚨New report out today.🚨 If we want fewer families facing homelessness, we need to be honest about what works... and what doesn’t. Our new report looks at the evidence behind housing policy and why social housing is key to ending the housing emergency. 🗝️ Read the full report: shltr.org.uk/ifWuB

Build Up Not Trickle Down Need-Led Housing - Shelter England

The government must adopt a need-led development model that delivers genuinely affordable social homes so everyone has a safe, affordable and secure place home.

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Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

This campaign is about hope vs hate. United, we can make sure Greens defeat Reform.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 7mo ago

So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.” When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK? www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...

🚨2-month-old Juan Nicolás was "choking on his own vomit" in a TX ICE prison with a recent measles outbreak—with no doctor there. After a short hospitalization, and still sick, ICE deported him to Mexico. "Measles & tuberculosis-infested detainment," - @pabloreports.bsky.social tells us ⬇️

What would a typical worker earn today if their wages had grown as fast as CEO pay over the past 50 years? Take a guess and watch this video to find out.

Why Are CEOs Paid So Much?

YouTube video by Robert Reich

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Essential reading for conservation scientists & ecologists (in fact anyone doing science across borders!) 🌍🧪https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70227?af=R Remote-control science is an internet-enabled form of "parachute" science FWIW, I see a lot of this in AI and macroecology research

Remote‐Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism

We introduce the concept of “remote-control science” as a modern form of scientific neocolonialism in ecology, where researchers, preferably from the Global North, control projects in the Global Sout...

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We're being subjected to a deluge of medieval anti-science claptrap from the right-wing press. Meanwhile, anti-vax attitudes are rising and measles is back. Their opinions are not just "hot takes" – they're wrong and dangerous.

Media derangement syndrome

A new epidemic...

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“As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto ‘Ignorance is Strength,’ this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal gov't has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths,” she wrote. “It does not.”

Judge quotes Orwell’s 1984 as she orders Trump to restore slavery exhibits in Philly

Judge compares president’s attempts to erase history to the dystopian Ministry of Truth

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What Wes Streeting ISN'T telling you... 🧐

The implication of the BT piece is that Farage’s “Movement” is directly funded by that network. If that’s true, it’s much nastier. He should be having to defend his position to every newspaper and talk show. They should be demanding his resignation. *crickets*

Farage‘s connection with Epstein appears to be more directly financial than Starmer’s, but it seems uninteresting to the political press. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein

Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

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‪Will, Ian, Maddie and Aleks are to be released following a hearing this morning.‬ ‪Julija Brigadirova was granted bail but is not released due to being on remand for an Instro Precision action in June 2024. Julija is the only one of the Instro10 held on remand.‬ ‪Free them all.‬

BREAKING: ALL OF THE FILTON24 ACQUITTED OF AGGRAVATED BURGLARY The Filton24 defendants have been formally acquitted of aggravated burglary, after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) today offered no evidence for the charge. Support the Filton24 here: chuffed.org/project/filt...

Sorry this is "unemployment fears" at the same time as they are pushing AI to take people's jobs, which is obviously something that will start with the entry level jobs that young people need? CAN THEY NOT THINK. #Labour #Starmer

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 8mo ago

Ministers may slow youth minimum wage rise amid UK unemployment fears

Universities: what has happened to the Secretary of State dispute? A long, but important, read for anyone in @ucu.org.uk revsoc21.uk/2026/02/18/u...

Universities: what has happened to the Secretary of State dispute?

rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

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