Imax projectors are like the Pantheon -- people will wonder in future centuries how they could have been built

Nina Metz@ninametz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why Aren’t There More Imax 70mm Screens for ‘The Odyssey’? variety.com/2026/film/ne...

WTF He hasn’t a clue that it was a primary election.

Buses, famously for the richer classes and upper orders.

Times report still misses > draft proposals 15 years for most, not wait 10 > but most on 15 years could never settle at all (by accident or design), inc many women. Most who'd lose status are black or brown > Mahmood (reluctantly) + Tapp did concede need signficant change to Rayner,Starmer + Burnham

Vanquished by the baby you washed is some Athena bullshit

Argentina and Spain drew each other in regular time. Cape Verde drew both in regular time. The only solution is to put another goal on the pitch and invite the Cape Verde team back for extra time

Just one para from @jdportes.bsky.social brilliant (and beautifully written) @theguardian.com piece on Burnham and the economy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AB, a 🧵

We need more immigration, not less.

One day, somebody in government will notice what the net migration level is hesding to. The fiscal forecast (£24 billion) was based on average net 235k to 2026-29 but that is at least 100k too high, costing £13 billion, or double that if want to reduce immigration visas further.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Times reporting that Andy Burnham succeeded in persuading Shabana Mahmood to become Chancellor because it would give her more control over cutting immigration

The Justice Department appears to have included a fake AI-generated. citation in an ICE detainee's case. Judge Jarbou, a Trump appointee in Michigan, called it out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 3w ago

The federal immigration agent who shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford has been identified as David Michael Brouillette. Brouillette, who is 37 and lives in Manchester, was identified by an ex-wife as the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

The government is considering amending the Immigration Act 1971 to deport a grooming gang leader. This would remove a major protection against deportation for "Windrush" immigrants; incredible given the controversy about retrospectively changing settlement rules 🧵 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mahmood to set out plan to deport grooming gang leader

Calls have grown to deport Rochdale grooming gang ringleader Shabir Ahmed after his release from prison.

bbc.co.uk

A total violation of international law. Eswatini is imprisoning people from multiple countries no crime, based on no violation of law in that country, and with the direct knowledge and acquiescence of the United States.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4w ago

Reuters confirms. 11 more people captured by ICE have been sent to a maximum security prison in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a country where they have no ties and committed no crimes. reut.rs/4wpbIGU

Thank you @mcslaven.bsky.social for the invitation to this 2-day @britishacademy.bsky.social funded 'Colonialism and Migration in Global Perspective' workshop bringing together humanities and social sciences scholars to interrogate the colonial pasts & post-imperial presents of migration governance.

When I was looking for a wedding venue, “above Penn Station” did not occur to me

Four years ago, a coordinated right-wing smear campaign condemned Monticello for "going woke." Bridget Gillespie was working there at the time, and she gives this revelatory inside account of the harassment staff endured and ultimately how the institution buckled. Amazing piece.

What Broke Monticello - The American Prospect

How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.

prospect.org

"Two former principals at a crisis-hit university received payments totalling more than £290,000 after leaving their posts, despite a financial and governance crisis plunging the institution into turmoil" news.stv.tv/north/dundee...

Dundee University principals paid nearly £300,000 after stepping down

The delayed 2023-24 financial statements raised concern about the institution’s future amid the ‘greatest crisis’ it had ever seen

news.stv.tv

"It is now de rigueur for federal judges to 'do history' via originialsm or textualism. But the craft of history involves years of reading and immersing oneself in the secondary and primary literature, which a law degree doesn’t train for and the haste of writing an opinion does not allow."

Anna O. Law@unlawfulentries.bsky.social · last mo.

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

For a long time the complaint from people like Goodwin was, 'Migrants and refugees need to integrate properly into British life'. We're now well past that and into the open racism stage.

James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · last mo.

Matt Godwin is a failure who needs to leave my city the fuck alone. Failed candidate. Failed academic. Failed commentator. Failed intellectual. A massive ego wrapped around a shrivelled and scared intellect, poisoned by bile and subconcious awareness of his own inadequacy.

This is a big problem. If the last information people receive is always “numbers went up” because “numbers went down” is never reported we shouldn’t be surprised that perceptions about immigration end up so skewed. Media should take some responsibility here - this is a salient and polarising issue.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

Revealed preferences suggest this 37% drop in small boat nunbers (first two quarters) is treated as ×10-x50 times less newsworthy than a 37% increase has been. Given high salience of the issue, should broadcasters try to check/balance that instinct?

This day will be celebrated, but it never should have come to this. President Trump attempted to subvert the clear words of our Constitution and the traditions of our country for hundreds of years by instructing ICE to arrest US-born Americans. It was an attempted crime.

Gov. Mike DeWine on the Mullin v. Doe: "It's not in the U.S. interest, certainly not in Ohio's interest, to have people who are working every single day, who are supporting a family, who are buying houses, fixing up old houses, starting businesses — and yank them out…That is a huge, huge mistake."

the feds have done more to harass americans angry over good and pretti’s killings than they have to investigate them

Adam Steinbaugh@adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · last mo.

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This is absolutely damning.

Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration@icibi.bsky.social · last mo.

The Independent Chief Inspector's report on ‘An inspection of asylum casework’ has been published and is available on the ICIBI website:

When you think you've heard it all. German courts have ruled that a family who entered Germany on German passports in 2020 had never been German citizens, because a 1908 marriage between a German colonial official and a Togolese woman was not legally valid under colonial law.

GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · last mo.

Citizenship in the News 🇩🇪 DW: A family from Togo has been stripped of their legally obtained German citizenship under a racist colonial law, leaving them stateless. Unable to return to 🇹🇬 as they were forced to give up their Togolese citizenship for the German one www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH0d...

This is interesting www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Canada rejected more than half of all World Cup visitor applications

Thousands of soccer fans applied to visit Canada for the 2026 men’s FIFA World Cup, but less than half were allowed to enter the country.

ctvnews.ca

At the risk of accelerating the smug American thing, we skipped straight to “Brits don’t have AC” and went right past “Brits don’t have ceiling fans,” a technology that uses a tiny fraction of the energy

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · last mo.

I thought being on air conditioning social media was bad, but I've stumbled across ceiling fan social media and at this point I think some of you just want to suffer.

Redundancies at a post-92 are just as catastrophic--if not more--as redundancies at the institutions that are members of a group specifically set up to structurally advantage themselves at the expense of post-92s. Solidarity with everyone at risk. We are all very much needed.