Xenofobia e razzismo spostano la colpa da una persona a un gruppo, da un gesto a una genealogia: si è trattati da italiani “a tempo determinato”. Modena, il dolore delle vittime e la normalizzazione dell’odio di @matteopascoletti.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/modena-dolor... via @valigiablu.it

Two Futures for the American Left www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

🧵 Modena, il dolore delle vittime e la normalizzazione dell’odio | @matteopascoletti.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/modena-dolor...

Amnesty International's analysis of how the 'gender critical' hate movement spent millions promoting their prejudices - and furthering the goals of the Christian Right. media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Li...

Condannato in via definitiva all’ergastolo per concorso nella strage di Bologna, ha chiesto di accedere al suicidio medicalmente assistito. Paolo Bellini e l’eutanasia, perché il terrorista nero non ha diritto al fine vita di @vitalbaa.bsky.social #Domani www.editorialedomani.it/idee/comment...

EXCLUSIVE: The UK Government has been told to intervene 'as a matter of urgency' after Israel kidnapped a number of UK activists while sailing in international waters on a historic aid mission to Gaza

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

Immigration make Britain brilliant

Top: Trump with leader of democratic Ukraine. Bottom: Trump with leader of authoritarian China.

For my newsletter, I wrote about the killing of Juniper Blessing and ruminated on who the media thinks deserves attention in death. Friday newsletters are usually paywalled, but I have made the mini-essay portion of this post free to all: www.burnsnotice.com/her-name-was...

Nigel Farage bought £1.4m property after receiving £5m gift from British crypto billionaire, Sky News learns

Breaking: it turns out that a strategy that literally every political scientist went 'No, don't do that. That's nuts!' is, in fact, nuts.

‼️BREAKING | Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan has lost her seat, says the BBC. This is the first time in British electoral history that a head of government has lost their seat in an election. (Source: BBC) x.com/LeftieStats/...

SP26: Final Ballot Box Scotland Projection Likely range: SNP ~ 48 to 70 Reform ~14 to 26 Labour ~ 15 to 23 Green ~ 8 to 16 Conservative ~ 8 to 17 Lib Dem ~ 7 to 13 Note: Sum of minimums is *100 seats*; in other words, an estimated net of 29 seats are meaningfully to play for.

📌 ICYMI — ‘Reform UK Wouldn’t Leave Me Alone’: My Experience Being Hounded to Stand for Nigel Farage’s Party Reform UK repeatedly cold-called journalist Lucy Gape asking if she would stand as a local candidate. When she looked into it, it revealed a world of poor vetting and murky data practices

Leaked transaction data reveals how a major refinery in Ireland feeds into the aluminium supply chain of Russian weapons manufacturers arming Putin’s forces as they attack Ukraine

The quoted comments are disgraceful. @greenparty.org.uk need to take appropriate, swift action on the open antisemitism whether they’re unlawful or not.

Watchdog weighs investigation into Farage’s undisclosed £5m donation

🧵 Ricostruire la dignità del lavoro nelle economie avanzate | @mattiamarasti.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/dignita-lavo...

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Trans people are dying of self harm more than the general UK population, new investigation reveals

Activists say harassment didn’t stop at protests. Some were targeted with AI-generated content online after their identities were shared http://www.theferret.scot/women-abused-far-right-scotland/

It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook

"I see the Green vote as being ethnic minorities. Many who don’t speak English" - Nigel Farage to The Sun. The Greens are on 15-20% in the polls. Their national vote will be > 75% white British. It is significant for Farage to try to delegitimise both ethnic minorities & Green voters in this way

"Farage has clocked up nearly £2 million in income and gifts since he was elected as the member for Clacton in July 2024." open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles. That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org. (All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

🔴 Reform UK Candidate Claimed COVID Was ‘Pentagon-Led Plot’ in Conspiracy Theory Journal Exclusive: Reform candidate David Booth is listed as the author of a paper arguing the pandemic was “staged” by Western military and intelligence agencies bylinetimes.com/2026/04/15/r...

🧵 Resistere e sopravvivere in guerra | Carolina Chernoivan www.valigiablu.it/resistere-so...

🇭🇺🗳️ Good morning to everyone, but in particular to the people at the Hungarian Sovereignty Protection Office and the MCC Brussels Democracy Interference Observatory who are looking into how civil society organisations are "subverting democracy using EU, German and Dutch funds".

Reform donor Ben Delo, who has given £4 million to the party, is making legal threats to those who reference his 2022 US conviction for failing to implement anti-money laundering laws, prior to a pardon by President Trump. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Here is a link to the article without the paywall. archive.ph/dLvW8 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

🔴 MAPPED: The Reform-Orbán Network Ahead of elections in both countries, DeSmog has catalogued the connections between Hungary’s autocratic government and Farage’s operation. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

The most predictable thing ever happened. Don't say trans people didn't warn y'all. Another proud leopards eating faces party member.

Presenting the reopening the Strait of Hormuz as a victory is like the Greeks failing to take Troy but celebrating the safe return of their wooden horse

“Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk.” Microsoft Says You’re Not Supposed to Take Copilot’s Advice Seriously gizmodo.com/microsoft-sa...

NEW: University of Michigan Chinese researcher dies after allegedly "hostile questioning" by federal agents www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

Trans Community Cuts Ties With Pink News sophie-molly-reports.beehiiv.com/p/trans-comm...

Least surprising news of the day. But good to know there's still a line, for now.

"Stop overreacting, they're never going to do that."

this is terrifying AND random but *why* are they citing the DSM III from 1980 as if it matters at all?? ... last i checked we've got a DSM V.

Reform stood by him despite the Nazi salute; now a video has emerged in which he appears to be drink driving

This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event). However.... apnews.com/article/ioc-...

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Trump's minions have quietly disappeared most federal data on gender identity

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

Green Party in second place in Scotland as Labour nosedives and Reform stagnates.

Reading about Lyra McKee being 'hit' with a bullet. She wasn't 'hit'. They didn't throw it at her. They shot her in the fucking head [Belfast Telegraph]

Corea del Nord e Bielorussia firmano un trattato di "amicizia e cooperazione" Kim Jong-un ha accolto Alexander Lukashenko con una sfarzosa cerimonia con salve di artiglieria e soldati a passo d'oca davanti a una folla che sventolava bandiere (attenti a quei due) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

PinkNews, one of the largest gay news organisations, is going to move to a 'reporter free newsroom' with redundancies across its editorial team, QueerAF understands www.wearequeeraf.com/pinknews-to-...