BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

This is all like Game of Thrones now. Winter is here.

who wore it better

A sad vijesti iz fešna

"We will be monitoring this delicate situation to make sure there is no unnecessary loss of innocent oil” chaser.com.au/world/ally-l...

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Hard to believe a FIFA Peace Prize laureate would do this.

may your warm beverages always be at the perfect temperature and may all your enemies quake in fear. happy new year, skyline. good to be here with y’all.

the government really will just let people die because they threw some paint on a plane like what the actual fuck, respectfully www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

not sure how i ended up in this fab lineup, but extremely excited about this!

Bail them. Release them. They are not terrorists. Shameful government of utterly contemptible cowards

ICE claims that this man's death was "suspected to be from natural causes" but the story makes it patently obvious that ICE murdered this man through their actions and negligence. abc7chicago.com/post/bulgari...

Really great article on what the future could look like for the US (and UK): open.substack.com/pub/oceandro...

welcome to my mom’s house. here’s some food. here’s more food. would you like a bit more. lol jk that was a rhetorical question you’re having more. don’t leave yet you’ve just arrived (it’s been 17 hours). here, bring some food. enough to feed you and your 75 closest friends for three weeks.

My response to anything over the next two weeks

The BMA has published an updated policy position on the rights of transgender and non-binary people in healthcare settings. www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...

An infant froze to death in Gaza last night, starved and cold.

We are urging people to call prisons now to ask about the wellbeing and medical treatment of Palestine Action-linked prisoners on hunger strike.

"The Post and open-source investigative outlet Bellingcat were able to independently verify 71 civilian casualties in five strikes where nuclear scientists were targeted ... including a 2-month-old infant" [The scientists also appear to have been civilians] www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

‘protesters refusing food’ if only there was a phrase that captured this

Despite becoming a progressive favourite in recent years, Taylor Swift’s billionaire feminism has always been a vibes-only endeavour guided by consumerism and the girl boss ethic. Is it now shading into something yet more sinister?

Sultana MP says that so far neither Lammy nor Streeting are weighing in on this. The ambulance service said it would need to negotiate with prison staff to determine what’s appropriate. This isn’t on the frontpage of the BBC, the Guardian, or the Independent.

The eight Palestine Action hunger strikers have now been held without trial for months, and three have been hospitalised. Here's a toolkit with 11 proposed actions you can take to support them.

Bestie @suzanarahde.bsky.social and i wrote a thing about Taylor Swift and feminism as consumerism for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social and you should all go and read it and then also share it (& tell us how great it is tbh because it really is) tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/is-t...

Go to prisonersforpalestine.org to support the campaign

I am urgently on my way to HMP Bronzefield. Palestinian hunger striker Qesser Zuhrah, now on day 46, is being refused an ambulance by the prison. She is critically ill and at immediate risk of dying. I have contacted David Lammy and Wes Streeting and received no response.

I had an interesting exchange with the chatbot issued to students by my university about the advisability of using it—at a university. It thought this was a terrible idea.

it's like he saw his shit approval ratings and said "Still too high"

the state of uk academia rn the exhaustion (emotional and otherwise) is very real

nothing screams optimism like putting FINAL DRAFT in a word doc title

how your email finds me

So much of the commentary on the FWS judgment has been driven by reflexive responses to the outcome, but there are so many gaps and leaps in its reasoning that it will spawn litigation for years to come - @aoifemod.bsky.social and I flag some failings in judge craft: nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...

I normally like Malik's writing but frankly fail to see anything "twilight zone" about this. Britain is a constitutively racist society; Farage's success is not a surprise. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In the early 90s this Jewish family kept getting harassed in Montana, so the entire town of Billings put up menorahs in their windows in solidarity Now Ahmed al Ahmed is part of this tradition too, as he figuratively did the most putting up of a menorah in the window that a human being can ever do

You can’t “fix” X, The Everything App by going back and posting there because the owner has this thumb on the scale of the algorithm to promote the worst ideas and people. It’s not a viable solution, you have to let it go.

Following news that the hero who rushed in to disarm one of the gunmen in the horrific Bondi Beach attack was a 43 year old Muslim man named Ahmed al-Ahmed, there's been a huge disinformation campaign claiming it's another man and attempting to cause confusion about his identity.

We mourn the victims of the mass shooting on Bondi Beach at a celebration on the first night of Chanukah, bringing darkness into a festival of lights. Our hearts go out to those attacked and their families and friends, as well as the entire Australian Jewish community.

honestly reading this is like something out of a horror film

"At least two of the Brown University students who were on campus when a deadly shooting unfolded there on Saturday have survived school shootings before."

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

Honored to have been able to join Jasper Bernes and M. E. O'Brien in conversation last month. Here is part one of the transcription of our convo. Both Jasper and M. E. offer incredibly valuable thoughts on revolutionary speculation and organizing www.e-flux.com/notes/678342...

For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence. I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk

one of these activists has dangerously unstable vitals at this point, another can no longer walk, many are collapsing regularly and have dangerous levels of well, pretty much everything. and the government is acting as if it's not a big deal. news.sky.com/story/five-p...

mask up and protect everyone around you (tldr don't be an asshole) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Dear journalists, we know the novelty has worn off, but you don’t want the next novelty of this #UKHE crisis leading to the collapse of towns. Ask politicians serious questions, AND KEEP ASKING. Their bland deflections are unacceptble.

‘A sound archivist told me he and his colleagues could earn more in the private sector but they work here for less pay because “we believe in what we do.”’ Anna Aslanyan on the picket line at the British Library, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...