The First Amendment Wins www.nbcnews.com/business/med...

It's clear as day that Farage would come for my kind next and Trump is an ableist misogynist piece of work who also is coming for my kind next. With my so-far-unrequisitioned spare money I'm setting up a donation to Hope Not Hate hopenothate.org.uk

I think scepticism is warranted when it comes to whether Keir Starmer's team will ever fully realise that every attempt to outflank Farage on the Right will just lead to Farage escalating demands further.

"The proof of the pudding for how well students continue with, complete and progress from their studies is in the eating, or rather in the outcomes themselves, rather than the recipes."

"Educational gain is an area in which institutions were increasingly thinking about distinctiveness and how it informs student experience. It is a real loss to see it go, and it will weaken the power of many education strategies."

Jenny Jones is right. A new Heathrow runway is a harmful way to grow an economy.

The passing reference to our Prime Minister in David Mencer's #BBCR4Today interview showed how deeply Netanyahu's Israel depends on the far right winning its allies' elections. Who is working with the Palestinian caretaker government in waiting?

This is very, very good. It should have been said far earlier but it’s being said now and it matters. It’s this or it’s the racist right. Starmer or Farage. That’s the choice. I know whose side I’m on.

Aside from, you know, the PM doing a article in The Sun today on it, multiple interventions by cabinet ministers hitting Reform and the far right this week and various other statements by the PM over the weekend. No, Labour have had nothing to say.

Should I ever get shot by assailants who want to censor my speaking truth to liberals, can I just request now that nobody makes any fan art of me? For uh reasons

The ratchet is inevitable and only goes one way. Post-Brexit settled status next.

Meta - Facebook - in Myanmar "During that blood-soaked period from 2016 to 2018, website’s attention-hunting algorithms pumped vast amounts of ferocious anti-Rohingya content into the feeds of millions of Myanmar Facebook users, and the site failed over and over to counter dangerous hate speech"

Huh.

Kirk is not a modern day St. Paul, despite what Cardinal Dolan says. The only thing that such myth-making achieves is fomenting resentment, curtailing dialogue, and stifling action to otherwise prevent this tragedy from happening again, says John Grosso.

Worth pointing out how most of the time Trump doesn't know what he's talking about and is dragging a lovely country into the mud

The sad life Maga has in mind for women www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The problem is that the centre-left can't win every election. And trying can make them cautious, when they need to be bold. Really successful govts - Attlee, Thatcher, Blair - secure the things they believe in by forcing their opponents to change. But that requires a confident project of their own.

The reason the UK recognised Palestine today is Netanyahu's decisions and their costs in lives, trust and future peace. The evidence is mounting. In this matter, there's nobody else to blame. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Defective Central Line train again. Last week's journeys were really good and I dared to think TfL had sorted themselves out. No. Still this tragic service

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Getting close to 50k views and I'm wondering is it just everybody is scared to say this and pleased I did? Because if there's so many of us who agree, trust me I'd know if 1k people disagreed with me let alone 50k, why are we letting AI ruin our universities? Together we can turn back the tide.

Meta keeps doing this kind of thing. No need t use it - plenty of alternatives to whatsapp and instagram www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Watching Rick Stein casually slapping a trussed up, frantically struggling crab on #BBC Saturday Kitchen makes me feel nearly as helpless. Old excerpt that shouldn't have been shown

If you wrote this as a spoof everyone involved would be FURIOUS about the stereotyping

A walk estimated by Google at 1 hour 4 min I completed in 45 min at ramming speed. The mammogram machine is going to need a good wipe down though, sorry King George Hospital

wow. if you're from UK and someone mentions that all the mess is because of immigrants, commies, or gays, show them this site. BRILLIANT REPORT on the real cost of the great British privatisation. long story short: they siphoned £200B+ from us*

The mood lightens across the UK.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

Zack Polanski trying to take credit for people coming round to his view on Israel, ignoring the UN commission of inquiry out this week. For decades Greens have used animosity to Israel to unite - its their kind of populism - and I don't find them trustworthy

The last thing this country needs is the egos of Sultana and Corbyn

Tragic windbagging from Trump. All destruction, no creativity. He doesn't deserve all the power US voters gave him and forfeited to him.

Beautiful, thank you Mayor Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk

How extremely abusive of our hospitality. However we feel about Mayor Sadiq Khan (me: OK) I reckon most of us feel dirty about having to suffer Trump's interfering and race baiting and would love to be able to raise a middle finger and send him home early

Netanyahu tries to dispel conspiracy beliefs implicating him in Charlie Kirk's killing. MAGA will cut him loose and Israelis will be left looking around for the friends he lost www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Undergraduates are spending just over £500 more on monthly living and accommodation costs than they receive in maintenance loans, new analysis suggests. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #academicsky #edusky

Euphemia Haynes was born #OnThisDay in 1890. Haynes was the first African American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, and worked throughout her career to make education more equitable. #WomenInSTEM https://bit.ly/3VeLRkF

Happy Peer Review Week (I personally don't see a place for AI in peer review) peerreviewweek.net

Very interesting by Nadine Rossol. "'flag wars’ were, and are, at the heart of citizens’ engagement with politics."

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Nigel Farage says his party is a break from the political establishment but it is funded by the super rich. Reform has an unusually high number of overseas backers with links to tax havens. Fossil fuel interests fund Reform, party will expand their trade.

Reckon this is the most prostituted King Charles, Starmer and Reeves have ever felt. What was the US doing admiring the weapons that are threatening us in Europe? www.bbc.com/news/article...

On this day in 1946, Maceo Snipes was lynched in Taylor County, Georgia, for voting in a recent election. His relatives later faced threats and fled the region in fear.

How can universities respond to the current worries that climate action is not a good place to spend money and energy? wonkhe.com/blogs/despit...

University security guard considers the deportation of international students who try to stay on www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/inte...

The Global Jigsaw pod from BBC World Service is good and lives up to its name. Climate breakdown in the Sahel forces people into dangerous gold mining, a source of income for JNIM (Al Quaeda offshoot). Russia seems to offer military support to the governments - but. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

He and his people coming over here to scold us about not defending free speech while this is going on. Tragic uk.news.yahoo.com/maybe-trump-...

Wes Streeting has one of the most diverse constituencies in the country - and that often attracts politicians who seek to drive wedges. Wes Streeting is not one of those. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reporter (about protesters): “They still have First Amendment rights though?” Trump: “Well, I’m not so sure.” Not so sure. About free speech.

Infotainer and flimsy debater Charlie Kirk, who didn't deserve a hair of his head to be harmed, himself inspired violence and championed the gun that killed him. He leaves no body of work. By @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social