"why your protest aesthetics should utilize the most median established sentiment and visual language"

I literally just relistened to the You're Wrong About three-parter on cancel culture, where @michaelhobbes.bsky.social references this magazine cover. Great miniseries about one of the more embarrassing features of modern existence.

There is more and more depressing evidence that the US military was not prepared for this war, and that the anti-educational ethos which now inhabits the Department of Defense is making US forces unnecessarily vulnerable. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

The story of how disparate and diverse communities are stepping up to deny the federal government a detention infrastructure is a big one, and it’s inspiring. 👇🏾

Students have better critical thinking than Uni leadership "schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship"

In Denmark - the country Britain’s Home Secretary constantly cites as an inspiration - the ruling centre left party is don sharply to its worst ever vote share, while both parties to its left and on the radical right gain.

Historians of contemporary UK, I am looking for any primary or secondary source material on the involvement of university students in anti-racist movements off-campus in 1980s (such as campaigns against police violence or anti-deportation campaigns). I have a lot of stuff re: on-campus activism.

The salience gap by party is just so much greater post-2022 and post-2024 than it was in 2014-16-19 March 2026: immigration salience Reform 74% (1st) Conservative 46% (1st) Labour 17% (5th) Green 11th (9th of the national top 10 issues) www.ipsos.com/sites/defaul...

Trust on immigration (Ipsos, Feb 2026) Reform 37-54 (-17) Green 30-51 (-21) LibDem 29-54 (-25) Labour 27-64 (-37) Conservatives 26-64 (-38) All parties struggle in the middle. (If trust aggregates to 150% so median person sonewhat trusts 1.5 of the 5 parties: but very divided about who + why)

FPTP... highly fragmented party support... anything can happen folks

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Incredibly funny that the president of the United States can do this and retain command of the American Armed Forces, but I said it about a literal Nazi and got fired from a job writing superhero comics.

Tony Vaughan has very quickly become one of my fav Labour MPs

ICE is deporting parents and just leaving (US citizen) kids behind with no arrangement to take care of them www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“Death in detention is no longer a shocking rarity that drew genuine concern from the agency,” @austinkocher.com writes. “Death in detention becoming a predictable and normalized part of ICE operations while Congress and most of the American public appears unaware or indifferent.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

Terrifying numbers in latest annual survey of federal workers from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social. For example, DoD workers' trust in Hegseth is in the toilet. Only 11.5% of Army employees say their dept's political leaders "maintain high levels of integrity." Similar numbers for Navy, Air Force

Someone desperately needs to gather all the Labour MPs who consider their seats vulnerable to Reform in one room, and explain what the fallacy of division is. Please, talk as long as it takes

The BBC has a Labour MP saying, "I have seen the polling and the immigration policies are popular. Some people will never vote Labour unless we get a grip." MPs like this are dumb tbh. There's no clamour for these policies except by ppl who'd never vote Labour anyway www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Really good to see Labour MPs saying the whole thing needs to go www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm all for making the case for the value of universities to everyone. The reality is that UK universities have been wrongly blamed for a host of ills, from the state of the labour market to indoctrination that doesn't happen, in part because the sector's supine leadership makes it an easy scapegoat

Students enjoying themselves in Lincoln ☀️ 🛶

Good to see the headline reflecting the pressure over these awful proposals. But if ministers are insisting exemptions from new rules won’t even cover everyone already in the country (let alone addressing longer term unfairness beyond that) it’s clearly inadequate www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Blue Labour in a panicked retreat. Let’s keep the pressure up until this iniquitous policy is buried five miles underground.

Entirely predictable and avoidable outcome. A government with 400 seats but which still cannot figure out what its MPs won’t accept and therefore what it cannot get through the Commons is not imho long for this world. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

That’s funny, because Nate Swanson, who used to be the point guy on Iran at the NSC but got fired because of Laura Loomer, warned of this in an article written four days before the war started. It was called “Why Iran Will Escalate.”

Astonished Home Sec is still using this £10 billion. It is a fiction. This goes beyond a misleading sleight of hand (it i net lifetime cost in 30 years time of the status quo) because government can't claim their reforms save it MPs must insist on the real fiscal numbers (which may be zero/net)

41 people have died in ICE detention since the start of the second Trump administration. 12 of those deaths have occurred since January 1, 2026, roughly one every six days. Adam Sawyer and I mapped every death. Here's what the data shows. 🧵

The war & AIPAC are nightmares, but so is Joe Kent, one of the most openly fascist figures in Trump’s regime, a comrade of Proud Boys and Fuentes, a man who says Black Lives Matter was a child trafficking ring, a guy who complains that Hitler is misunderstood. Don’t take the bait.

ICYMI: Delta flew Liam Ramos, his dad, and three federal agents to notorious Texas detention center in January, the morning after ICE allegedly used the 5-year-old boy as bait, video shows. Earlier, Delta declined to confirm; even now won’t say if it knew, just that “airlines don’t always know.”

a year without any charges whatsoever. it still stuns me. i can't begin to think what she must have gone through.

I am vaguely open to arguments along the lines of "MTG is making some good points" but under no circumstances do you have to hand it to Joe Kent, whose rehabilitation would have direct electoral consequences and who, again, is a Nazi

there's got to be a word for the weird feeling when the totally unqualified extremist resigns over the disastrous iran war with a vaguely antisemitic gripe.

He has since posted about how correct he was, and how none of these criticisms bother him, fourteen times in the last three hours

Important data about Gorton & Denton from @bwalker.uk. 1. Only around 5% of Lab 2024 voters switched to Reform vs 36% to Greens. 2. No evidence of support for Reform among under 35s (sub 10%) - it's all over 55s 3. Progressives were undecided til last minute www.newstatesman.com/politics/pol...

Thank you Bari Weiss, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Michael Powell for everything you did to win Leqaa's freedom in the name of free speech on campus

Grady Judd endorsing immigration reform and calling for the Trump admin to pull back on deportation is seismic. He is a strong Trump and DeSantis ally who has been a hardliner on immigration for years.

“Cases don’t matter, the judge does” is a great example of confession by accusation. Although we might change “case” to “client” and “judge” to “justice.” bsky.app/profile/atru...

My one Oscars take is that I finally saw "One Battle After Another" last week. It is the best movie I have seen in many years, and certainly one I will be thinking about for a long time. It's very much about the key aspects of the current moment but far from a cheap "state of the nation" type thing.

Americans-in-Europe stereotypes are, largely, projection

The key to Reform's planning for power is that the strong view of party insiders that the model for a Farage government is "be much more like Trump's second term than his first' But its a significant political risk - because Trump is unpopular and Trump 2.0 is toxic observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Lam’s determination to just avoid talking about any real problems is almost impressive. No, people aged 25 to 35 in the underground economy are not putting pressure on the NHS. What a waste of her one and only life.

"illegal" is by the most common descriptor of "immigrant" in the uk press

I'm telling you, boring old lawyers are now going to ABA panels to applaud hostile retorts to MAGA panelists and yell "you're a clown" at them. A whole lot of people who merely furrowed their brows at Trump I are now seething with rage, and the Dem consultant class needs to wake up to that.

'some creative arts graduates don’t appear to earn a significant graduate premium, but the UK’s creative industries are worth £125bn a year or, to put it another way, more than £1 in every £20 in the UK economy – a larger proportion of the nation’s wealth than almost any other country on earth.' 1/3

It is completely mad that the government is expelling high flying Sudanese students from British universities - from a scheme that is explicitly aimed at the future leaders of countries.

39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.

Lincolnshire-born John Bowers KC, principal at Brasenose College, Oxford, will give the 2026 Brian Winston Memorial lecture at the University of Lincoln 6PM Friday 8th May - all welcome with registration!👇

This is not a normal way to live