I just think it's pretty obvious Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS and that alone renders Labour unfit to lead this country.

NEW: The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) outlined specific conditions on April 17 for vessels to transit the strait that amount to Iran retaining control over maritime traffic through the strait.

Read More: isw.pub/IranUpdate04...

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Paramedic killed while responding to emergency in Israeli strikes on Lebanon Hassan Badawi was reportedly killed in a drone strike as the IDF faced condemnation over attacks on medics

‘He was a hero’: Tributes to Red Cross paramedic killed by Israel during bombing in Lebanon.

🇱🇧 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

some time later

I don't know if this counts but I love the fact that helicopter isn't from "heli" and "copter" but "helico" and "pter". Something satisfyingly odd about that.

Abolish the Home Office.

Yeah no

Mobility Justice and the Big Ride for Palestine With a focus on how anticolonial social movements can pose solutions to multiple contemporary problems, this essay takes up the Big Ride for Palestine. The principal argument – that the Big Ride co...

Urbanists should talk about Palestine more.

Online talks: “Countercultural Fascism” and “Nazi-Satanism,” April 9 and 16, 2026 “Countercultural Fascism” and “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism”online presentations and discussionApril 9 and 16, 20261 pm EST / 10 am PST sliding scale $10–$100 (covers bo…

so i'd like to announce that i have two online talks coming up: “Countercultural Fascism” and “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism”

April 9 and 16, 2026 at 1 pm EST / 10 am PST
sliding scale $10–$100 (covers both)
 but NOTAFLOF

to register: www.spencersunshine.com/presentations

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The Capital Order: How Economists invented austerity and paved the way for fascism

Join us for a discussion of the book with Clara Mattei (University of Tulsa) + commentary by Pavlos Roufos

The event (open to the public) and will be held in English
cmb.hu-berlin.de/events/the-c...

See you there!

It's official! My next book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire" is coming out with Liverpool University Press on 14 August 2026.

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

You see the darnedest things on the tube.

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

heatmaps from the report showing tracking

BREAKING: You checked the weather this morning.

And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep.

Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones.

No warrant required.

Our @citizenlab.ca investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1
citizenlab.ca/research/ana...

Honoured to be invited speak to lawyers/practitioners at @glanlaw.bsky.social today to discuss racial justice in UK public law litigation (UK Constitutional law) based on my @publiclaw.bsky.social article and as a founder of @raceukconstitution.bsky.social.
#Advocacy
#RacialJustice #UKPublicLaw

High achieving poor pupils less likely to get top GCSE marks New research by UCL finds a dip in academic performance between ages 11 and 14

schoolsweek.co.uk/high-achievi...
Ladders and ceilings .

Idée Fixe — Parapraxis Holocaust trauma and Zionist exterminationism Jake Romm

And its follow up as well, both essential read :

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ide...

Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.

Welcome to new Reform candidate, Derek Bullock. The Tories kicked him out twice for being racist, including a post saying "Shoot the P***s on the spot". But in Reform we view that less as a problem and more as a basic qualification.
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/03/30/s...

klan shit

Image of book cover 'From the Earth to the Moon' by Jules Verne and edited by Anastasia Klimchynskaya.

Speaking of the Moon, this is out soon. Edited by @anaklimchy.bsky.social (and includes an essay by me).

mitpress.mit.edu/978026255386...

A cute cattle dog - pit mix wearing polar bear jammies and smiling.

This is my buddy Augie. He’s at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter and has been waiting 300+ days for his forever home.

Earlier today I posted about him in the big local Facebook group. If you have a second, I’d really appreciate a like there to help boost engagement: www.facebook.com/share/p/1AkX...

NYTimes Headline: The Women Who Believe That Women Should Lose the Right to Vote Subhead: Adherents to biblical patriarchy support household voting: One household, one vote--the husband's. They say the idea is catching on.

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

What if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.

today just got so much worse

Many thanks! 🙏🏾

OMG I will find and read that immediately. How exciting! I had no idea! Cannot wait!

Where is this from?

Bluesky's new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance | TechCrunch More than 125,000 Bluesky users have blocked Attie in just a few days, sending a strong message from the user base.

This is very funny but it's also yet another reminder of the fundamental misalignment of this site's leadership and its core user base, which I imagine will cause legitimate and potentially existential problems down the road