"We are committing wanton criminal acts of assassination in the Caribbean [against] innocent people who haven't been found guilty of anything."

"This Roberts Court is out of control. It is behaving arrogantly."

In an unsigned order on Thursday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to require U.S. passports to list travelers' assigned sex at birth. Actress and activist Laverne Cox responds to the blatantly anti-trans policy.

Hop Off (1928). #SilentFilm

hālig-portic, n.n: a sanctuary. (HA-lih-POR-tick / ˈhaː-lɪj-ˌpɔr-tɪk) #OldEnglish #WOTD

“Why are so many young women Democrats?”

I'm sure the Archivists of the United States will be outraged by this flagrant abuse of the Federal Records Act. Oh, right..the Archivist is this guy:

Peter Watkins 'La Commune' youtu.be/0DI4EQxSFvY?...

“Muslims shouldn’t be allowed to hold public office” is now a mainstream position on the right.

Just horrific. These are crimes. And let’s be clear — this is by design. They’ve been forthright about that. The aim is to make it migrants suffer so much that they give up their due process rights and leave voluntarily.

Scoop: “Trump Wine Hits Government Shelves” me, for @forbes.com 1/

BREAKING: Cornell caved. Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107. 12 days of work in 107 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Get your kicks on Route LXVI

Just got an alert that ICE is showing up today in Park Slope. I have a feeling that their presence is going to grow quickly in retaliation for Mamdani’s win. Chicagoans have learned a lot. I have to think ppl have put together good resources to post about how to effectively resist them?

If you search the phrase “private planes” in this article, you will not find it. Why are they not simply grounding private jets first? Does Mr. Bezos not want to be inconvenienced? Isn’t this a basic question all journalists should be asking?

I lectured twice at New College during the Bush years. It was an innovative progressive school similar to my lefty alma mater Hampshire College. DeSantis turned it into a fascist dumping ground that devours money.

Drugs defined us! Coffee, tobacco, sugar (rum), tea, spices — this was the original drug economy & drove development of the Western Hemisphere. Columbus started a drug commodity boom that lasted for centuries, made Europeans & colonizers stinking rich, and launched the transatlantic slave trade.🧵

Other work by the Ladybird artists Red Squirrel Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

The former Midland Bank, later HSBC built in 1890 and situated next to the Town Hall which was built at the same time. It was designed by William Henry Howorth. I just enjoyed seeing these two entrances.

memorial tablets to the Carr family beside the chancel. A brass commemorates Canon Sharp, Horbury’s most notable vicar, while the stained glass — much of it added with the Lady Chapel brings soft colour from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See Alt for image details

to demolish. He funded the £8,000 cost personally, intending the church to serve as his mausoleum; he now rests beneath the north transept. Inside, visitors find graceful Corinthian columns inspired by the Temple of Jupiter Stator in Rome, a fine Harrison & Harrison organ, a Portland stone font, and

Many years ago, I was asked to write a guide to the Church of St Peter and St Leonard in Horbury the village I called home for over forty years. Built by the renowned architect John Carr and consecrated in 1794, the church replaced an earlier Norman building that Carr himself was granted permission

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

We’re all looking for who made the criminal justice system crumble

Haha yesss. Japanese copyright law doesn't fuck around. Since I get challenged on this a lot: U.S. and Japan are both Berne Convention signatories, meaning the copyright is recognized between countries. They CAN go after American companies. And they are. And I love it. variety.com/2025/digital...

And on the day I post this, Glasman suggests bringing back the stocks. Blue Labour is making Labour unelectable.

U Michigan consumer sentiment fell to 50.3 in preliminary November data. That is just 0.3 higher than the low point of the Biden administration, 50.0, in June 2022 at the peak of the inflation surge. Down 29.9% year-over-year. www.sca.isr.umich.edu

US joins Israel as only other country to not show for mandatory process scrutinising rights record of UN member states.

WFP says a 'deepening hunger crisis' is unfolding and that it may have to pause food aid due to record low funding.

Just published: my new book "Forgotten Times" (Amberley Publishing). 180 photographs taken by me in the 1950s and 1960s with street scenes of the UK, Ireland and the outer islands and depicting a world largely unknown to the present day. #up0711

West Berlin, Tauentzienstrasse, 12 September 1959. Previously unpublished. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing). #Berlin

France rights chief says police officers who beat a Black man used 'racist' slurs

United Kingdom struggles to acknowledge the far right's rise

French-Palestinian activist files complaint for 'deportation' after his expulsion from Israel in 2022

Even I thought this was one of mine!

As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.

Despite liberal hysteria, Charlie Kirk’s message was one of faith, family, and respectful debate. Here’s why so many of his followers have replaced him one-for-one with Nick Fuentes.

It is sad, but not surprising, that the president of Mexico is wasting her time on frivolous matters like suing the man who groped her. by Andrew Cuomo

On this day in 1938, Ernst Vom Rath, a German official, was murdered in Paris, shot by Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish teenager whose aim was to bring the world’s attention to the plight of his family and other Jews during the Polenaktion. 📸 Polish Jews being deported from Germany, October 1938

On 16 July 1936, following a decree issued by the Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick for ‘Combating the Gypsy Plague’, 600 Roma and Sinti living in Berlin were arrested and taken to the Marzahn detention camp. 📸 Roma inmates in the Berlin-Marzahn camp, date unknown. Landesarchiv Berlin.

Oh hahahahaha. Hahahahahahaaaa. Using a machine to decide if another machine can pass the Turing Test, because humans are bad at telling who’s human….

Teach it all, the contradictions, scandals, adventures, violence, connections and complexity. And stop seeing it entirely through the prism of feeling.

We need to demand war crimes tribunals when we take back power.

It is guns, but we also need bans on fear-mongering lying media and hate crimes that are strictly enforced.