When Ilhan Omar is disappeared, will her Democratic colleagues act? Will they stand with her? Will anyone?
Pratibha Parmar
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Writer. Director Film & TV (feature docs: My Name Is Andrea, Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth - T.V.- Queen Sugar, Law&Order: SVU pratibhaparmar.com
PALESTINE IS A FEMINIST ISSUE Today in D.C., feminists share why they stand with Palestine. Urge the Center for Reproductive Rights to join feminists across the world and stand up for Palestine: codepink.org/cfrrletter
Good morning. A while back I wrote something short indebted to Dr. Walcott’s essay “Toward Another Shape of this World”. Resharing it today because the words “abolish ice” don’t seem enough to how I’m feeling
Thank you to everyone who came out to campaign in Holborn & St Pancras today! The election is feeling incredibly close from the thousands of conversations today. We need to keep it up for just a few more days. Every conversation matters. Join us: linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
The UN has again warned the UK against the implementation of the EHRC code of practice ⤵️ Read our full report: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-the-lgbtqia-news-what-are-the-challenges-facing-queer-journalism/#%F0%9F%8C%8D-un-warning
“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”
Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”
Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives
One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.
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Arundhati Roy writes powerfully and incisively about what is unfolding in India right now.
Ordinary Notes@hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 3mo agoA powerful and important piece by Arundhati Roy. Posting again. m.thewire.in/article/righ...
Btw if you enjoyed this, you can listen to some of the selections here: vijayiyer.lnk.to/nonesuchsele...
Vijay Iyer's Nonesuch Selects
Listen to content by Vijay Iyer.
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Nonesuch Records@nonesuch.com · 3mo ago@vijayiyer.bsky.social came by for the Nonesuch Selects series to share some favorite recordings by Ramnad Krishnan, Laurie Anderson, Julius Hemphill, Kronos Quartet, and Cécile McLorin Salvant, and from the Nonesuch Explorer Series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq17...
"The facts of Palestine are spoken, and increasingly by Palestinians themselves, but they are met by a refusal to listen, by ears that prefer the drone of implausible denial to the unbearable weight of fact." www.equator.org/articles/mor...
Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
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So this happened yesterday. I received an Honorary Doctorate from University of Arts London #UALGrads2026
Our investigation caught Shivat Zion on camera offering to help UK citizens move to an illegal Israeli settlement. Shivat Zion were then photographed at an event in London. The government has still not imposed sanctions on the Israeli group. www.declassifieduk.org/uk-politicia...
UK politicians call for sanctions on Israeli charity
Demands follow Declassified investigation, which revealed how Shivat Zion touted ‘awesome’ illegal settlements
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I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.
on the 1000th day of genoc!de, anything else that floats across your feed today is a distraction
Starmer’s legacy - • Crackdowns on peaceful protest. • Support for Tory benefit cuts. • Blaming migrants for failing public services. This is Starmer’s legacy.
Keir Starmer resigns as Prime Minister In our documentary, we ask whether Starmer's decision to send hundreds of spy flights over Gaza amid the genocide should put him in the Hague👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fk3...
Britain's Gaza Spy Flights Scandal - A Declassified documentary
YouTube video by Declassified UK
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Former PM Keir Starmer leaves a legacy of total complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza & the destruction in the U.K. of basic civil rights and free speech. #freefilton4 #stoparmingisrael
I just donated. Help them reach their goal. A few hours left. #sparkspacegaze
'Burnham is a Giant Step Backwards to a Better Sort of British Politics' – Byline Times, Peter Oborne bylinetimes.com/2026/06/19/b...
'Burnham is a Giant Step Backwards to a Better Sort of British Politics'
Makerfield’s new MP will face deep challenges if he makes it to Downing Street – but he can succeed where others haven't been able to
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Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.