we finally got a pro-trans opinion piece in the mainstream uk media (by @transsolidarity.bsky.social's alexandra parmar-yee) worth sharing www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trans people like me are facing segregation now. We need parliament to restore our rights | Alexandra Parmar-Yee

Hard-won, vital legal protections have been upended – ultimately our lawmakers must fix this, says director of Trans+ Solidarity Alliance, Alexandra Parmar-Yee

theguardian.com

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two players chase a ball for 90 minutes and whoever forms a more impenetrable meat wall on corner kicks wins.

A week full of One British Archive! Check out these two new additions to the series! 📗“Burning Archive”: The Barbados Department of Archives by Tara Inniss Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fantastic resource for historians: a spreadsheet of NARA's digitized microfilm, with links to the files in the Archives catalog. May it help you as much as it has helped me. www.archives.gov/files/colleg...

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use development is illegal to build these days.

John Brooks@johnbrooks.bsky.social · last yr.

Never change, England

🙏https://bsky.app/profile/honeybakedsam.bsky.social/post/3ltpywnvr3s2v

@honeybakedsam.bsky.social · last yr.

Please please please let Eric Adams be involved somehow

⚽️🧨💰Fit and proper person? Profile of Manchester City owner, coddler of warlords and named co-conspirator in US’s ‘largest kleptocracy’ case Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Months long investigation with @declanwalsh.bsky.social Free to read on link below: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...

The Sheikh Who Conquered Soccer and Coddles Warlords

nytimes.com

All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · last yr.

A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed

I was just happy to find out the chef from my all-time favorite Puerto Rican spot was cooking again, but I then I learned he's been on a whole JOURNEY—one involving Guy Fieri and a long stint in Santa Rita Jail. His story: www.kqed.org/arts/1397795...

A Legendary Puerto Rican Chef Reemerges in Oakland — After 5 Years Behind Bars

Borinquen Soul’s Eric Rivera is bringing the arroz con gandules back.

kqed.org

One weird indignity of being a feminist in America is not just that a belief in women’s inferiority is part of the political mainstream, but that the violence of those who hold that belief is considered unremarkable.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · last yr.

I did clinic defense in New Haven when I was 18 and yes, the protesters there did not physically hurt anyone those time, but when you galvanize people to get as close as possible to vulnerable people and scream “murderer and baby killer” at them, the pathway to violence is very short.

The exhausted nation that found itself forced to side with Harvard is going to be fucking shattered if it has to rise up to defend Gavin Goddamn Newsom.

Just chillin'. Photo from my collection, ca. 1960s.

Abdullah, who suffered a three-year "arbitrary detention", was a 2022 World Cup media manager “I believed you were being racist... It took me so long to understand they are bad people. “During the World Cup was the worst. It felt like total defeat" www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

After three horrific years in jail, Abdullah Ibhais wants justice from Qatar and Fifa

Exclusive: Described as the Qatar whistleblower for his revelations about the build-up to the 2022 World Cup, Abdullah Ibhais tells Miguel Delaney he was physically assaulted, kept in complete darknes...

independent.co.uk

following the development of this fascinating story, at the intersection of post-colonialism and LGBTQ+ rights, with implications in other parts of the world dealing with entrenched colonial laws -

A push for constitutional reform in Trinidad & Tobago as overturned ‘buggery law’ ruling heads for the Privy Council

The country's law association hoped “urgent legislative action" to be taken to court correct this state of affairs,” since the Constitution “sets out the rights and freedoms of all individuals."

globalvoices.org

40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

MOVE bombing 40 years later: A day of reflection and remembrance

Forty years ago today, city officials made the unconscionable decision to bomb its own people.

phillytrib.com

Black people don’t count as working class in the UK because, when they express concern for their health and safety due to racist policies, they are sneering and looking down on “the ordinary voter” - who is always white and simultaneously above them and beneath them in society.

Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · last yr.

Enraging to have grown up around working class black people who came to the UK and broke themselves for it only to be told that their host nation still has “legitimate concerns” about them being there.

This map all of the projects built by the New Deal is really remarkable. Astounding how much was built in such a short time. Clicking on each dot brings up a project -- and there are so many of them, and so varied. livingnewdeal.org/map/

I’m an Israeli professor. Why is my work in Harvard’s antisemitism report? |

I’m an Israeli professor. Why is my work in Harvard’s antisemitism report? |

Harvard is conflating Jewish identity with political loyalty to Israel. That’s a dangerous mistake

theguardian.com

Absolute spit-take of a byline here www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Why I Broke Up with New York

Most people accept the city’s chaos as a toll for an expansive life. It took me several decades to realize that I could go my own way.

newyorker.com

Why is this still the framing rather than you shouldn’t be deporting anyone there? It’s obvious that criminality is something that they can determine whenever and however they want, but it feels like immigration views here have gone so hard right that you can’t even push back against the act itself.

ian bremmer@ianbremmer.com · last yr.

bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

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Join us in wishing Dolores Huerta a very happy 95th birthday! ¡Únete a nosotros para desearle a Dolores Huerta un muy feliz cumpleaños número 95!

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like. And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

theguardian.com

“A 400-year-old institution should be making decisions with a time horizon of centuries, not news cycles. Making a principled stand now … is the single best thing Harvard could do to earn its continued place as a symbol of genuine excellence, free inquiry, and commitment to the public good.”

Niko Bowie@nikobowie.bsky.social · last yr.

“Harvard now faces one of the most consequential choices in its history: Submit to extortion and make itself complicit in the most profound assault on academic freedom and constitutional governance of our time—or go to court. The stakes are high, but the choice should not be difficult.” (Fixed link)

Princeton has announced that it is considering selling approximately $320 million of taxable bonds. The bonds are a way for the University to raise short-term funds. The major credit-rating agencies rate University bonds AAA, the highest level of creditworthiness.

Princeton considers issuing bonds same day as federal government pauses grants

The University announced its consideration to sell approximately $320 million of taxable bonds on Tuesday, following a notification from government agencies about the suspension of research grants.

dailyprincetonian.com