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🏙 urban studies + border studies 🏳️🌈 lgbtqi+ she/her all views my own How fast or slow it becomes a ‘ruin’ is unknown. – Beverly Buchanan @urban__james__ https://www.instagram.com/urban__james__
One of your writers was specifically told of Jason’s mental health and that he was distressed but he went on to publish 6 articles and do two podcasts in the space of eleven days anyway. “We were only doing our jobs” won’t fucking wash. You are part of this. Own it.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 12h agoA rightwing witch-hunt focused on Jason Arday – but so did legitimate journalism | Hugh Muir
Lorsque Robert Ménard placarde ses affiches d'exclusion payées grâce aux millions d'euros publics dépensés en communication, n'oubliez pas qu'il s'agit d'abord de masquer la réalité de Béziers, une des villes les plus pauvres de France : 36 % de taux de pauvreté, jusqu'à 60% dans certains quartiers.
Padre Pio@padrepio.bsky.social · 3d agoEh ben nous on va éviter Béziers et ses gros blaireaux mascus qui aiment bien torturer des animaux en prétendant honorer dieu et l'ordre.
The architecture of anti-trans panic is built, in part, by parents who refuse to accept their kids as trans and then become anti-trans pundits. Wrote about this phenomenon via a profile of Renton Sinclair, the trans son of an anti-trans influencer www.huffpost.com/entry/trans-...
He’s The Trans Son Of An Anti-Trans Influencer. It’s His Turn To Speak.
Renton Sinclair’s mother is a former Miss Illinois who wants to force trans people out of public life. That’s exactly what makes her a rising star in MAGA World.
huffpost.com
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d agolol come the fuck on
France Culture@franceculture.fr · 11h agoDepuis la sortie de l'adaptation cinématographique de Christopher Nolan, la vente cumulée des différentes traductions de L'Odyssée a plus que triplé. Comment expliquer ce regain d'intérêt spectaculaire pour les textes fondateurs de l'Antiquité ? ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/ppj
Régime exceptionnel : Parmi la salve de lois promulguées, la loi de programmation militaire. Qui crée un nouveau régime d'exception : L'« état d'alerte de sécurité nationale ». Et s'ajoute à l'état d'urgence sécuritaire, l'état de siège ou encore l'article 16 de la Constitution. => bit.ly/4gpAVuH
About a month until 8,000 volumes on British postwar planning and housing history gets pulped. Unless we can find someone to save it municipaldreams.substack.com/p/a-good-hom...
A Good Home Needed Urgently for One of the Most Significant Libraries of Housing and Planning in the Country
The trustees of the Octavia Hill Birthplace Museum are disposing of its Harry Simpson Memorial Library in September, next month.
municipaldreams.substack.com
Arconic, the “primary cause” of the spread of the fire, paid $74m to its shareholders for economic loss they incurred after the blaze + paid $43m to the estates of the fire’s victims and survivors. Across both payouts, all but $2m was covered by Arconic’s insurers 🤮
Grenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders £23m more in compensation than to fire victims
Report’s author said findings highlighted ‘near-total failure’ to hold corporations accountable over the disaster that killed 72 people
theguardian.com
«what it is to write fully, to be fully in the world against all kinds of economies—the economies of publishing, the economies of writing.»
Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2y agoBrand's latest is a personal history of “how a reader is made [and] unmade.” A life can be “destroyed” by books: novels, steeped in the imperial episteme, aestheticize & efface the violence that has made and unmade the captive.. the colonized. A life also can be remade by books. - Saidiya Hartman
Omaha parents, students denounce electric shock gloves at school board meeting
Omaha parents, students denounce electric shock gloves at school board meeting
About 30 parents, students and community members shared concerns about the use of electric shock gloves at the Omaha Public Schools board meeting Monday night.
nebraskapublicmedia.org
Been hearing chatter this was imminent. Will include “citizens or nationals of African and Western Hemisphere countries who are medically authorized to travel.” There’s a plane in position to leave tonight or tomorrow morning. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Liberia agrees to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from US
Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S. in the coming year, and an initial group of 20 deportees is expected to arrive in the West African nation on Thursday,...
reuters.com
A boat has launched from Bristol Harbour carrying a dozen activists who hope to deliver aid to Gaza: The vessel, named Kate, set sail at 8am on Monday on the first leg of its journey to the war-stricken territory. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
Boat sets sail for Gaza in attempt to deliver aid
Previous attempts to reach the territory have been met with bombs and violence
bristol247.com
🔴 The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday The academic's coordinated targeting by an explicitly anti-black race science network did not come out of nowhere, reports @nafeez.bsky.social
The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
bylinetimes.com
Here’s what you need to know about the latest Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision. Remember, if you have advance parole or are planning to apply, talk to a trusted immigration attorney before you make any travel plans. 📲 Text HOME IS HERE to 787-57 to stay informed.
ICE Enforcement Backlash 🛡️ ICE pushes legal-insurance for cops ⚡ ICE may buy $20M electric-shock gloves ✈️ ICE set up deportation flights via Iran
civicshout.com/p/don-t-let-... Feel free to sign and share this petition to fight back against ICE.
Don’t Let Taxpayers Insure ICE’s Local Deportation Force
ICE wants to build a bigger local deportation force — and make taxpayers help cover the risk. Through ICE’s 287(g) program, local police officers can be deputized to carry out federal immigration enf...
civicshout.com
Quelle tristesse cette grande féministe s'était battue pour le remboursement de l'IVG en 1982, pour la loi sur " l'égalité de l'homme et de la femme qui travaillent en entreprise" en 83, pour la féminisation des noms de métiers en 84, puis pour la parité politique. www.humanite.fr/politique/as...
Yvette Roudy, ancienne ministre des « Droits de la femme » de Mitterrand est morte à l’âge de 97 ans - L'Humanité
Disparition La première ministre titulaire du portefeuille des Droits de la femme (1981-1986) est décédée ce mardi 18 août, à 97 ans. La socialiste a mené bataille pour l’égali...
humanite.fr
Route des Canaries : 42 migrants partis de Gambie secourus au large de la Mauritanie #Refugees
Route des Canaries : 42 migrants partis de Gambie secourus au large de la Mauritanie
Les gardes-côtes mauritaniens ont secouru dimanche une embarcation partie de Gambie avec à son bord 42 personnes, dont une femme enceinte et trois enfants. Elles espéraient probablement rejoindre les îles Canaries.
infomigrants.net
La “skyline” d’Athènes était unique — à mes yeux sublime — et dominée depuis 25 siècles par l’Acropole. C’était sans compter la “Riviera Tower” fruit chancreux de l’arrogance, l’hubris et le goût de chiotte des ultra riches, avec l’aide de Bouygues, Foster et bien sûr un gouvernement de droite.
One year ago today Camp East Montana officially opened as a detention camp for immigrants. The site is the largest detention center in the U.S. and it's first year has been marked by death, abuses, and a served as a symbol of corruption and mismanagement. Here is my story looking back:
Camp East Montana: A year of deaths, controversy and management woes
Camp East Montana is marking one year of operation on Fort Bliss in El Paso. The year has been marked by criticism and calls for its closure.
elpasotimes.com
ICE turned a busy Hyattsville intersection into an armed threat against everyone watching. One goon’s handgun falls into the street. After recovering it, the goon stands with the weapon drawn toward bystanders. When people challenge another masked goon, he responds: "You want to be next?"
Samedi 15 août 2026, à Valréas (84, Vaucluse) Fatima, 52 ans, a été égorgée à son domicile. L’un de ses fils a reconnu les faits lors de sa garde à vue. Ce féminicide est aussi un matricide. Source : www.ouest-france.fr/faits-divers... #vss #feminicide #NousToutes
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HOWL@howl2025.bsky.social · yesterdayHelena Graham kicks off the Hackney Harriers series of stories about being sporty, lesbian and having lots of fun in Hackney in the 1990s. Read her outline of the political and social context at that time and stay tuned for more stories to come: howl-uk.org/hackney-wome...
"Toute l’entreprise savait que c’était un harceleur sexuel" : d’anciennes salariées dénoncent la passivité d’Iris galerie (vous savez c'est là qu'on vend à prix d'or une photo HD de votre iris, ça a été fondé par les ex d'HEC qui ont créé YellowKorner) www.humanite.fr/social-et-ec... @humanite.fr
« Toute l’entreprise savait que c’était un harceleur sexuel » : d’anciennes salariées dénoncent la passivité d’Iris galerie - L'Humanité
Alors qu’un ancien manager de l’entreprise fait l’objet de plusieurs plaintes pour harcèlement moral et sexuel, d’anciennes salariées reprochent à l’entreprise d’avoir tardé...
humanite.fr
On top on my list for next readings. Thanks @plutopress.bsky.social for the relevant and wonderful work you do 📚🍉
Pluto Press@plutopress.bsky.social · yesterday"Insists on an insurgent memory of Pan-Africanism and political imagination that once understood liberation as indivisible" Rising for Palestine, edited by Raouf Farrah and Suraya Dadoo, reviewed in @thenewarab.bsky.social: www.newarab.com/features/ris...
"I don't have anything to lose. The regime took everything from me and the only thing that I still have is my truth and honesty as an observer." Yalda Moaiery, 15 year prison sentence, shows rescuers carrying a body Tehran,2026. Image credit: Yalda Moaiery, Reuters. www.reuters.com/business/med...
