Shame on @Strathclyde for sacking staff
Power to the joint picket @ucu.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social

Conventional wisdom is a really fascinating phenomenon. We're at the point where "everyone knows" kids were being rushed into inappropriate gender transition.

There are between zero and 10 recorded cases of this happening (depending on your definition of rushed).

Breaking: Iran toll at 787; Israel seizes land in Lebanon; US embassy in Riyadh hit

The horrors of the moment

I really don't understand the 'yes, they lied to us before but at least they bothered to do that before starting a war' mindset.

If anything, this is the most honest the US has been in my lifetime.

I think I'm on to a winner here @zackpolanski.bsky.social

So all the greedy assholes who moved to Dubai not to pay taxes now will need to be rescued I see. Well, let's rescue them by all means. And then tax them retrospectively too.

but not the racists.

demonising people for substance abuse, demonising people for thinking about those with substance abuse, demonising women for having children and for not having children, demonising gays and lesbians and trans people and intersex people and and everyone absolutely every fucking one everyone of us

*Back to demonising the disabled, demonising the sick, demonising the old, demonising the unemployed, demonising the youth, demonising students, demonising graduates, demonising single parents, demonising migrants on a visa, demonising migrants without a visa,

Labour's *back, baby.

Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.

A lobbyist used AI to falsify 20,000 public comments to tip the scales against reducing deadly air pollution in homes. This has been illegal since at least 2019 - but enforcement would require a prosecutor brave enough to argue that "bot" can mean "AI". Crickets.

www.latimes.com/environment/...

That Goodwin would attract like-minded racists, bigots and neo-Nazi adjacent lowlifes was predictable.

That the BBC, Times, etc would entirely ignore this...was also predictable.

Why be a bystander when you can be an active participant

Revealed: Tony Blair’s Institute lobbied EU to work with Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza TBI pushed bloc on US plan for Palestine but internal disquiet on “taboo topic” Gaza grows

🔴 Tony Blair Institute privately pressed a top EU official working on rebuilding of Gaza to work with Donald Trump’s Board of Peace.

Fair to say Democracy for Sale isn’t sleeping at the moment!

New story up w/ Lighthouse Reports and Follow the Money

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...

It *literally* does.

Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.

Trade Unionist is free - but repression continues! YouTube video by Labour Behind the Label

Iqbal Abdo is free! But trade union repression in Pakistan continues @cleanclothes.bsky.social : youtube.com/shorts/7E2YR...

In Bangladesh, Photographer Taslima Akhter Tries to Prioritise Workers’ Rights on the Campaign Trail In a contest dominated by male power, Akhter cuts a figure that symbolises change.

Essential reading:
“It’s true that [garment workers] living in very bad conditions, but I want to show their strength also. Because it is from their strength that we get hope. I don’t want to show them all the time as victims, I want to show them as fighters.” thewire.in/south-asia/i...

They're torture camps

A lot of the commentary seems to completely miss the reality that this is a man who lied to the whole Labour membership to get himself elected. This is not some complicated psycho drama. The man's a liar. He appointed Mandi because he thought he'd be useful precisely because of the sleaze. Spare me.

Keir Starmer’s director of communications Tim Allan steps down Exclusive: Decision follows departure of chief of staff Morgan McSweeney over Peter Mandelson scandal

Tim Allen was on the Board of the Sex Matters hate group before becoming Number 10 Comms Director. Hopefully Labour is realizing that it has no future in pitch-rolling for Reform. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

McSweeney goes - but ​​Josh Simons in the frame over targeting journalists Cabinet Office minister hired a PR firm to investigate journalists. His explanation is bewildering - and begs one big question. How can Starmer keep him on?

When he ran Labour Together, Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons hired a PR firm to investigate journalists

After our revelations, and a flurry of news stories, Simons finally gave his side of the story

But it doesn't seem to tally with the facts... 🧵

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/mcsweeney-...

Image showing news where Sex Matters has lost (twice in a day)

Rough day for Sex Matters

I'm really not interested in all these articles about how senior ICE officers are uncomfortable with what's happened in Minnesota. I'm not interested in reading anything that will be used to justify ICE's existence. I'm not interested in reforming it. It's acting true to substance. Abolish ICE.

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Barack Obama @baracko... • 1h More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it's important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American. Barack Obama Follow @barackobama.bsky... Here's a podcast that does a good job of laying out what's at stake, and why all of us need to get off the sidelines to demand change.

This four-panel comic strip depicts a humorous yet dark scenario. In the first two panels, two hands are seen reaching out of the water, suggesting someone is drowning and calling for help. The third panel shows another hand reaching down, implying an attempt to provide assistance or a high-five gesture. However, in the final panel, the hand that was reaching out is now submerged underwater with only a few air bubbles visible, suggesting the drowning person did not receive the intended help and met an unfortunate fate. While morbid, the comic employs dark humor to comment on misunderstandings or missed opportunities for aid in dire situations.

“Here’s a podcast…”

The state of Minnesota is essentially under violent occupation by sections of the federal government and I don't see how this is that different from many a despotic regime pundits have bemoaned over the years. The US is a violent dangerous war criminal of a state attacking its own citizens

Trump's threat to Greenland must be a wake up call for Britain For too long our politicians have toadied to a dangerous president

When Trump says "one way or another we're going to have Greenland" - we should sit up and listen.

Time for British leaders to stop burying their heads in the sand.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

If you don't understand the NEITHER is the most important part of Neither Washington nor Moscow now, you never will

The government has a range of different tasks on social media

1. UK government has a core responsibility to ensure X is under effective pressure to operate within the law.

Go broader than child abuse + non-consensual stripping. Link to racist abuse, incitement to violence, hate crimes of all kind

FLyer for the vigil at the US embassy on Monday 18.30

On Monday we will gather in anger, grief & solidarity to remember Renee Nicole Good & the many victims of racist ICE violence - outside the US embassy🕯️

@ukstoptrump.bsky.social @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @indivisible.org