I guess “protecting women’s sports” only applies when women athletes agree with them.

30 House Democrats sign a letter led by Jake Auchincloss criticizing countries for recognizing Palestine The letter also praised the Arab League’s recent statement which calls on Hamas to disarm, while not realizing the statement was part of French-Saudi push for recognizing Palestinian statehood.

Really important to internalize that the president of the United States is ordering troops into major population centers precisely to create violent confrontations, for the sole purpose of intimidating, criminalizing and disabling opposition

Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland

The biggest obstacle to learning a foreign language as an adult is accepting how stupid you will feel, in public, with other people. If you can move through that you can do anything

I'm locked out of my apartment and while I wait for my friend who has my spare key someone somewhere is playing the bagpipes so I guess you could say I've had better days

"Would you say the US is in a political crisis?" Yes: 79% No: 18% Quinnipiac / Sept 21, 2025

Ah, finally, the President of Colombia has had enough and decided to take to the streets of New York City to stand up for democracy and against a tyrant! Oh, wait, sorry, that's Colombia with an O, not a U.

Coming to the conclusion that the actual obstacle to ID card in the UK isn't elite opposition but elite /support/, in that every time it comes up the political class starts floating weird daydreams about how it should work that are much less defensible than 'a card with your name and photo on it'

Civ-mil relations isn't exactly my wheelhouse but I'm sure there's a book somewhere that says "don't do this"

god, as awful and terrifying as all this is, imagine if they weren't the dumbest drunks on the planet

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

lol I fucking KNEW IT “…to hear him make a short speech on military standards and the ‘warrior ethos’” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Morning walk

"A federal judge has ordered prosecutors to respond to a letter from Luigi Mangione's legal team alleging that Trump administration officials' recent social media posts about the case appear to have violated his right to a fair trial." #NewYork #USA #Incarceration

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For whatever it’s worth: “AP journalists inside Gaza saw no immediate evidence of Netanyahu's speech being broadcast on phones there.”

The Prime Minister of Spain, the Vice President of the European Commission, two former Prime Ministers of Sweden, and the leader of the Democrats in Italy call for an EU-Palestinian trade deal and for sanctions on Israel in an editorial in the Guardian.

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

DHS says the ICE officer who shoved the woman in New York yesterday has been relieved of his duties and his conduct unacceptable. Bit surprised as I’ve seen a lot of not too dissimilar videos of ice actions DHS has stood by.

yes the nazis did. that was their first plan

NEW: Despite Germany publicly saying that it would only halt arms exports to Israel if said arms were to be used in Gaza, it appears that in reality virtually no arms exports have been approved in months.

Thank god the centre held at the election eh

If anyone ever tells you academics are some privileged caste that imposes its woke agenda on a guileless political class, you can point to the sheer, stubborn refusal even to entertain the lessons of a significant current of research about far-right normalisation.

How are reporters not embarrassed to write wishy washy tripe like this. An entire industry full of ppl that are the worst, most pathetic versions of what their profession is supposed to look like.

NEW Quinnipiac poll of registered U.S. voters: • Half now say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza • Only 47% see backing Israel as a U.S. interest, down from 69% in 2023 • 60% oppose more military aid to Israel • 58% favor UN recognition of a Palestinian state www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

As I always say a "technicality" is the word you use for a bit of law you don't like.

The terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Mo Chara (Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh) has been thrown out by the chief magistrate sitting at Woolwich Crown Court following a technical error in the way the charge against him was brought. jrnl.ie/6827726

If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.

It's super telling that he's writing for the Telegraph too. This idiot is still chasing the votes of far-right knuckle draggers

Here's me. "The Yanks are cooked (and cooking the rest of us)"

boycotts work. anyone who says otherwise is spreading pro corporate, pro government propaganda

All of the world's viagra is made in Ireland so a lot of angry old dudes who voted for Trump are about to get an unpleasant surprise

I can't believe I wrote this

My German is a bit rusty since school, but I understood that first sentence just fine.

THIS is political violence. Why haven’t all of the national political leaders decried it? @governor.ny.gov has said nothing.

I wrote about observing immigration court arrests this summer and the bland, bureaucratized violence of the immigration system before ICE even shows up in the hallway. voiceofoc.org/2025/09/lock...

"Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

🚨🇪🇸 Breaking: Spain has dispatched a navy vessel to support the Global Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza. Speaking from New York, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Spain “condemns the genocide” in Gaza and demanded Israel uphold international law and allow Spanish citizens to sail safely in the...

Wow — Italy and Spain have now both officially announced they're sending military ships to support the Gaza aid flotilla

Research conducted by @transjournalists.org “identified 43 outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The Daily Beast running with the disproven stories of a ‘trans shooter’ and ‘trans bullets.’”

"It's gauche and uncivil to accurately describe me" is a core view of today's fascists

Gantz claims that recognition of Palestine is an affront to the 'democratically determined consensus' of the State of Israel which rejects such a state's existence. Israel rules over 5,000,000 people who do not have the right to vote.

Holy shit. Italy has sent a naval frigate to a flotilla of boats attempting to bring aid to the Gaza Strip www.dw.com/en/italy-sen...

Not covering trans issues like this is a choice, and one that could still be rectified at any time

"Among those arrested was David, a 31-year-old healthcare worker...David, who is gay, was wearing a rainbow Pride wristband as he says he was simply trying to pee when he was arrested."

Bessent on why US troops won't get involved in defending Europe: "As I told my European counterparts about two weeks ago, 'All I hear from you is that Putin wants to march into Warsaw. The one thing I'm sure of is that Putin isn't marching into Boston.'"

Putting on a mask doesn’t turn agents into secret police. If you want privacy while at work, don’t take a job as a public figure at the center of the news. Also, don’t shoot people.

Again, this is a broad coalition of people across the ideological spectrum whose top concern is making sure everyone rues and laments the “Woke Times” forever. It’s very much akin to the myths around “Negro misrule” in Reconstruction, which justified Jim Crow.

"The Israeli government has shown a clear intent to establish permanent control over Gaza and to ensure a Jewish majority in the occupied West Bank, a United Nations commission said in a report on Tuesday." www.reuters.com/world/middle...