#A_NewHope ✊

NO KINGS NYC! 10.18.25 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF US STAND TOGETHER, PROTESTING FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE, RACIAL JUSTICE, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, GENDER EQUALITY, FAIR WAGES, CLEAN AIR + WATER, AND MORE! 🎵 Freedom NO KINGS, by Ole No Kings @bkindivisible.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social l

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Boston. Wow.

Mayor Michelle Wu @wutrain.bsky.social was fantastic as always. My favorite line: Trump and his cabinet “mistake cruelty for greatness and chaos for power.”

Frogs of New York

🚫👑 One of the largest single-day protests in modern U.S. history is underway, with millions rallying under the “No Kings” banner at more than 2,600 events across all 50 states. They’re protesting Donald Trump’s authoritarian power grab, expanded immigration raids, and the erosion of democratic...

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

It’s going to take ages to pay all these people

NYC showed up ✊ #NoKings

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

No Kings-Chicago, IL

DC SAYS #NOKINGS, #FREEDC

I now want to start every Saturday listening to a softly spoken Quaker share an ongoing story of loving solidarity in action where they live. A story with elements of peacebuilding, nonviolent creative resistance, civilian protection, & Quaker witness. #Quakers

'What do you do for a living?” asked the sky to the sunflower. “I pour hope into the fainting hearts,” whispered the sunflower.' Bhuwan Thapaliya #Bloomscrolling

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 216 of The Continent Raila Odinga was nicknamed Agwambo, the “mystery man”. Over and over, through crisis after crisis – and handshake after handshake – Odinga would live up to that moniker. Now Kenya must reckon with life without him. 👉 bit.ly/216_TC

Oh. I missed this. They are saving God now.

The Trump/Musk/Rubio gutting of USAID is the defining moral atrocity of this regime (so far)

The government has LOST its bid to block the Palestine Action ban appeal, which will now take place in the last week of November www.bbc.com/news/article...

"A nine-week trial at Sheffield crown court heard how the trio idolised Hitler and the Nazis, used racist slurs, glorified mass murderers and encouraged violence against anyone deemed an enemy." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Three [UK] neo-Nazis who plotted terrorist attacks on mosques and synagogues have been jailed for a total of 29 years." news.sky.com/story/three-...

International eyes needed on Ecuador rn, where an organised assault on constitutional integrity, land- & water-defenders, the rights of nature & Indigenous rights is currently in full swing, as directed by the newly elected president Noboa. Excellent piece here: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

'thanks' to the algorithm, this is what I woke up to every morning... As a foreigner, this really gets me in a good mood (not) for the day.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:

Soon at Third Committee, the @unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social is presenting her most recent report on freedom of assembly & association rights, collective action, & human solidarity facing an existential threat. Read the report: www.ohchr.org/en/documents... Watch the session: webtv.un.org/en

"We're cold but not as cold as ICE."

"This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power." organizingmythoughts.org/they-came-fo...

Not that you come to me for movie tips but I recommend One Battle After Another. A whirling swirl of juxtapositions. Funny. Topical (sadly). And the wildest film score I think I've ever experienced. Watch at a cinema though (if you can afford it).

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled, not spiralling Worklessness is near record lows My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Kenya’s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has died. thekenyatimes.com/latest-kenya...

Had the absolute pleasure of facilitating a panel sharing thoughts on "Quakers and Anabaptists: Peacebuilding Today" for @woodbrooke.bsky.social

We're commissioning an artist to co-create an artwork for our upcoming exhibition on migration and nursing. Help us tell powerful stories of identity, home and care. 🗓 Deadline for applications: 19 October 2025 📍 Location: Anywhere in the UK 👉 Find out more and apply: https://bit.ly/3IKaZNA

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

The government’s restrictions on immigration will turn this around any day now.

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

"To advance its mass deportation agenda, the Trump administration has reached for any power it can find to remove people from the country as quickly as possible and without due process." Including children as young as 14. #R4Today #BBC immigrantjustice.org/blog/did-you...

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

We have started a multi-phase operation to facilitate the release and transfer of hostages and detainees as part of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. More details here: ms.spr.ly/6182s2AQs

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

"Somewhere south of the Scottish border I just snapped." www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

Catherine Abel Teascape with Homemade Shortbread 2024 Oil on linen

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

For the first time, the ICC has convicted a Sudanese militia leader for war crimes in Darfur—including gender-based persecution as a crime against humanity. It took 20+ years, but the case sets major legal precedents.

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season. TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible. christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

we were wrong about the Nobel peace prize but here’s some more about the emergency response rooms anyway news.un.org/en/story/202...

Shadow Justice Secretary has made a symbolic gesture of support for Quran burning, both in law & apparently in practice too