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‘I wished for death’: Sexual violence in Israel’s prisons is an ‘organised state policy’ Palestinian testimonies reveal how sexual violence, including rape using objects and dogs, is approved by 'highest levels' of Israeli leadership

Israel’s sexual torture of Palestinians it’s holding captive is an “organized state policy,” a new report from Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has revealed.

Israeli soldiers are raping Palestinians and recording it with zero accountability.

Hilary Clinton on MS Now: “I’ve been advocating behind the scenes for this [Israel carpet-bombing Lebanon]for several months"

Which goes to show that it is not MOSSAD blackmail that drives these people's policies. It is their fundamental imperial orientation.

P.S she really is repulsive.

Keir Starmer visited the Saudi dictator yesterday to, in the UK government's words, "deepen their defence industrial cooperation", i.e, to sell more weapons.

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026

📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month
⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices

www.carbonbrief.org/...

UK ARMs TRADE: A trifecta of everything THat's wrong Declassified’s latest investigation into UK arms exports to Israel left me shaking my head and shouting at the screen. Here’s why.

👉 NEW -- UK arms trade: A trifecta of everything that's wrong

by Anna Stavrianakis

Declassified’s latest investigation into UK arms exports to Israel left me shaking my head and shouting at the screen. Here’s why.
www.declassifieduk.org/uk-arms-trad...

Now France is denying airspace…

Labour’s Section 28 is here – act now In May 1988, the Conservative government introduced Section 28. This legal measure outlawed support for “homosexuality as a pretended family relationship” across Britain, especially in …

Trans Day of Act Now to Stop Labour's Section 28!

Tell all your cis friends and colleagues. They have until 20 April.

Image shows various workers (Construction, barista, flight attendant, scientists). Text reads: Trans workers and allies: we want to hear from you. Read on to find out more.

Text reads: Recent court decisions have created a workers’ rights crisis for trans people. Help us push the government to change outdated regulations and keep workplaces inclusive.

Complete our survey today, so that we are able to challenge this Government to change the law and ensure all workers can go to work with safety and dignity.

Recent court decisions are making it increasingly difficult for trans and nonbinary people to go to work with dignity and privacy. Complete our Workers Survey to help us push the government to update the law and make trans inclusion possible again!
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Reintroducing student number redistribution is an easy fix that would actually stabilise the sector without even having to pump a load of money into it.

All unis are spending SO MUCH MONEY & RESOURCES on recruiting & advertising rather than teaching & research. Plug that leak. Stop that volatility.

We have two full bursaries available to Early Career Researchers and PhD students from least developed, low & lower middle-income countries to attend and present in our summer conference in London. Find out more at our conference website. Deadline 20th April

centreforwildfires.org/leverhulme-w...

I'm giving a talk in London next week (Queen Mary University). Please come out if you can. Would love to catch up with old friends and comrades.

The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price?

When private equity takes over a care home, deaths at the home rise by an average of 11%. When the private equity company is leveraged more than 75% in debt, the deaths double

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Neo-Nazis attack two people with machete - The Berliner In Friedrichshain last night, attackers targeted two 19-year-olds while shouting Nazi slogans.

Neo-Nazi machete attack injures two teenagers in Berlin. One of the wounds went down to the bone. www.the-berliner.com/english-news... The attackers shouted Sieg Heil before running off.

Fatima and Mohammad Ftouni

Say their names: Fatima and Mohammad Ftouni, sibling
Lebanese journalists murdered today by Israel

Everyone who works for the NYT — including my many friends — should be incredibly embarrassed by this statement.

The depths to which the NYT will go to back its agenda of challenging trans people's right to exist is horrifying, ongoing, and has caused very real and specific harms to trans people.

germany, to nobody's surprise, abstained.

BREAKING: Israeli settlers are carrying out a pogrom right now in the village of Tayasir in the West Bank, opening fire on civilians. Multiple people have been injured.

The situation is horrific. Residents are pleading for help.

x.com/ihabhassane/...

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal Academics raise concerns over ChatGPT owner’s links to US military and claim tools are ‘looking to replace knowledge workers’

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinbur...

Today marks 11 years since the start of the Saudi-led coalition's bombing of Yemen.

We mourn the 377,000 lives lost from this brutal war - and we will never forget how the UK armed this horror.

Join us tonight at 6:30pm outside of Downing Street for a vigil to mourn this anniversary.

How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports If you’re traveling through an airport, follow these digital security practices to keep CBP or ICE from getting into your phone.

How to Keep ICE Out of Your Devices at Airports

If you’re traveling, follow these digital security practices to keep feds from getting into your phone.

And remember: even if you think you have nothing to hide, take these steps so you don't endanger others.

theintercept.com/2026/03/25/i...

Please spend some time with this incredibly moving website containing the obituaries of 84 Gazan scholars who were killed during the genocide. The list is still growing as the builders of the website continue to collect information and testimonies. Share it widely:

rememberinggazascholars.org

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results.
(One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

This horrific story gets worse when you find out how this young woman originally came to the US: as a 17-year-old on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane

To future-proof my book contract (better safe than sorry), I added an AI clause that says AI tools of any kind cannot be used in the review or preparation of my book (also no genAI art can be used for cover, etc)

Very grateful to @slstalter.bsky.social for example from her most recent contract.

Job: Associate Professorship of the International Relations of the Global South, Uni of Oxford

www.politics.ox.ac.uk/opportunity/...

it’s no surprise more of the global south is looking to chinese renewables for geopolitical rather than climate reasons

The people who cancelled Jimmy Kimmel after Charlie Kirk's assassination will now control television stations that reach 80% of Americans, twice that what was legally allowed before Trump's takeover.

The state capture of network television is almost complete.