Labour is trying to prove mental health is over-diagnosed so it can cut DWP benefits further www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Take a look at these events in Sheffield next month co-organsied by a friend. thisdamnpassivesoul.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/f...

Experiences of transphobia over the past year have made me sometimes regret coming out as nonbinary for the first time. I've long received hatemail and death threats for being a public-ish trans person, but that wasn't so bad and it never made me regret being out. Things are getting so much worse.

ICE is now targeting Black and Latino children in Chicago, arresting and zip-tying them. Their goal is simply to terrorize these kids and families of color with no regard for legality, let alone basic humanity. It's Nazi-level shit. ICE must be abolished.

The thing to know about Trump's autism and paracetamol claims is that the cruelty is the point. They want women in pain and disabled people stigmatised. And they enjoy showing they can lie outrageously without accountability. I worry that debating the science is to play their game, by their rules.

"Sperm racing isn’t just about racing sperm. It’s about turning health into a competition. It’s about making male fertility something people actually want to talk about, track and improve" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On the relationship between trans politics and disability D.K. Renton criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/16/o...

Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

Wild that a few years ago loads of liberal and conservative op-eds and books blamed "post-truth" on left-leaning 1970s french intellectuals. Meanwhile, on Truth Social, you do not need evidence to give medical advice: you just post your truth and then other people "ReTruth" it if they agree.

Someone I admired hugely. Read her autobiography if you haven't.

"If you want to see if a man or woman has fascist potentialities, give him a flag. If he starts waving it, worshiping it, making a fetish of it, he's good fascist timber." - undercover journalist Avedis Derounian, reporting on an America First meeting in 1941.

If you want to oppose “political violence,” then demand the abolition of ICE, the end of an ongoing genocide, and insist Congress stop killing people by forcing for-profit healthcare exclusion on us. If you’re not doing that, spare me the sanctimonious speeches. www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

lithub.com/inside-the-p... You can read an excerpt from Slavery and Capitalism on @literaryhub.bsky.social .

What are some movies or series from the past few decades that explore themes of health or fitness in relation to fascistic tenandancies?

Our full list of dishonours…. recoveryinthebin.org/2025/09/19/t...

I'd rather not have to chose, but if I have to, I'd follow Sultana. She has both steadfast politics and the necessary energy and drive. Corbyn has too much baggage and the independent MPs have no ideological coherence as a group and thus were never going to form a good basis for a party.

I think the kind of fascism we are seeing now is distinctive partly as it is mediated by capitalist realism. Even fascism's proponents can't see beyond the horizon of capitalism as the only possibility; so the fascism of today works within that despite being a reaction to ongoing capitalist crises.

Horkheimer once described "bourgeois class solidarity" as "the outrage that even rich people are no longer safe". I think this gets to the heart of something relatively powerful and widespread but underrecognised.

He condemned the criminality, not the politics - only the means, not the ends

While he's in the news for defecting to a far right party, note that this is the hard right nationalist mp who works closely and co-authors with leading British critical psychiatrists and ptmf authors on mental health politics. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"The new study challenges the argument that the experiences of some of the White British people in workhouses could be compared with what enslaved people endured." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Deluze, in 1976: "All our petty fears will be organized in concert, all our petty anxieties will be harnessed to make micro fascists of us; we will be called upon to stifle...every suspicious face, every dissonant voice, in our streets, in our neighbourhoods, in our local theatres."

I have been a parent for a few weeks now. I like it a lot. But most of my conversations are now just me saying things like "yes its hard being alive, isnt it. Especially when you are awake" to a tiny crying blob.

Cute www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trans people are about to be banned from being able to use the bathroom when they leave the house but sure, trans people are the threat

Labour seems really set on paving the way for fascism.

"The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), a 500-member body of academics founded in 1994, passed a resolution on Monday, stating that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza fulfil the definition of genocide" www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

"These divergences highlight the need to distinguish between the formal, general norms adopted by funding agencies and the unwritten, situated norms that review committees rely on to evaluate and rank applications within their respective fields." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

need people to understand that the idea that “regular people” can’t understand trans people is inherently transphobic framing. #1: we are regular people. demographically, we are less wealthy than cis people on the whole because of employment discrimination, housing discrimination, and the wage gap

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Hero! "An executive with ADHD who was sacked after spending the night sleeping in a sauna when she lost her room keys during a team-building event has won a disability discrimination case." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Good, illuminating @aselrod.bsky.social piece laying bare how RFK's agenda echoes "eugenicist and fascist thinking around medical science" and how that's all linked to the "logic that drives other aspects of Trumpism": www.liberalcurrents.com/degenerate-n...

"This is what makes cosmetic decolonisation so insidious. It tells a story of change without changing... celebrates inclusion while reinforcing exclusion...clings to the aesthetic of justice while refusing to confront the mechanics of power" (Manuel Aguilera, IIPP alumin) medium.com/iipp-blog/wh...

This is how extractive abandonment works: the state refuses to provide the material conditions for life, then exploits the fallout to build new systems of capture. In this case, the executive order calls for funding expansions in involuntary treatment programs, civil commitment, and carceral housing

I wrote the essay of the week for @theguardian.com on, well, guess. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Thanks google AI but I meant to type “shut”…

The people currently getting arrested in support of palestine and our freedom to protest are so brave. They have my full support and solidarity.

This is good from @eric-reinhart.com www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

This is interesting. Sark was actually a feudal fifedom until 2008, and more recently it's been upheld as a utopian libertarian experiment with few laws and taxes. Yet the outcome seems to be that the residents are bringing electricity into community ownership. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Driving trans people out of our jobs or careers as Rowling is attempting here is routinely happening everywhere across the uk right now and unions should be doing much more on this tbh. www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/06/m...

I really recommend Empire of Normality by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social, esp in view of the current UK ed crisis which is having an oppressive impact on children & families from the #SEND side of the tracks www.plutobooks.com/978074534866...

It seems the fascists outnumbered the antifascists in both Newcastle and Manchester yesterday. The streets are only ours so long as we have the numbers to keep them. So much rests on that.

Among all the weird takes that seem to be popular online, the one that always gets me is that studying STEM somehow morally corrupts people and the solution is to make people additionally go through a humanities and/or social science curriculum at the university level.

This is good and also a lot of cis people will sympathise more with the smashed windows than with the dead trans people.

I've uploaded a free preprint for a forthcoming article, Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Actvism. It will be published in History Workshop Journal next year. I'm proud of this and see it as the start of a new, much bigger project. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

An overlooked harm of the prominence of gender critical transphobia is that transphobes who don't hold gender critical metaphysics now find it easier to pass unnoticed. This includes those engaged in transphobia for opportunistic reasons, those who just enjoy dominance over trans people, and others.

NEW PAPER (ish - I'm also just delayed) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Using Q Methodology, a Group of Neurodivergent Neurodiversity Researchers Ask: What is the Neurodiversity Movement and what should it do?

This back and forth between the ideology of establishment psychiatry in defense of a failed, distrusted status quo and fascist anti-psychiatry seeking to destroy public care services is not doing what its ostensibly progressive advocates think it’s doing. We must reset the terms, not parrot them.