New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

We Have Never Been Microplastic www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ministerial statement on X now confirmed for this afternoon: whatson.parliament.uk

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Pretty devastating takedown of American political science, and its inability to acknowledge anti-liberal forces harpers.org/archive/2026...

>> I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way.

GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER: “.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish .. “.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

This BBC drivel was parodied 44 years ago by Alexander Cockburn: harpers.org/archive/1982... It is - literally - beyond parody.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

"Qesser Zuhrah has been refusing food for almost 2 months now" #C4News last night. The first time I've seen the mainstream news cover the Palestine hunger strikers.

Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

GB News are putting more overt racism in an unregulated online space (though the TV Channel itself did broadcast Lucy White saying that anybody who wants to practice Islam in Britain should leave Britain for a Muslim country) bsky.app/profile/jim....

Not sure this tell me much one way or the other abt the larger political/societal debates about AI. But this fascinating science. Working of scientists believes they're now able to decode or understand the language of sperm whales using AI/LLMs. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.

Not my Your Party

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'

Peter Thiel's constant finger-pointing about the antichrist is starting to come off a bit suspicious

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

These reports the Government could revalue council tax bands F, G and H don't make sense to me. Here's what could actually be going on:

We published a calculator that lets you play with mansion tax design buff.ly/RVNtCyK A 1% tax on £2m+ raises £2bn. But, as ever, there are costs and trade-offs.

Especially for the 1Ls out there, preparing for their 1st set of law school exams, I wrote this post back in 2007 about how to get a good grade on a law school issue spotter. The post, "Bad Answers, Good Answers, and Terrific Answers," is available here: volokh.com/posts/116838...

Excellent piece in the @lrb.co.uk by @crookedfootball.bsky.social about the Labour government's asylum plans www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

I also strongly had the impression from various Sources that the Labour team really thought The Market was crying out for Sensible governance, and faced with the overwhelming evidence of how Sensible they were the animal spirits would flow carrying investment along with them. It was magical thinking

this is excellent

New: this app lets ICE track vehicles and owners across the country. ICE uses phone to scan license plates, add to a database of billions of records. Thomson Reuters then enriches that with marriage, voter, other info. Can predict where a car will be in the future www.404media.co/this-app-let...

generally speaking, 'safe and legal routes' preclude asylum seekers. it refers to resettlement pathways for refugees (recognised as such by UNHCR) living in refugee camps. the rhetorical move is to leverage the moral force of resettlement to delegitimise in-country asylum applicants

Turns out the temporary alliance between "writing stuff" and "meaning stuff" was good actually

Just to say, I am a supervisor here: UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world Natural Language Processing www.responsiblenlp.org/2026-student... If you are reading things like this and planning PhD project, do reach out: www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

Trump slaps Antifa with its first-ever foreign terror label, in move that explicitly cites NSPM-7. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-slap...

Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News. GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Read this thread in its entirety. And then realize that there are individuals in the US who not only approve of what ICE is doing but they also relish with glee about that kind of inhumane treatment to other human beings whose only “fault” is being a different skin color and race to theirs.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

The last 15 years of HE policy in the UK: Gov: act like you're in a market! universities: OK Gov: not like that!

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New from 404 Media: CBP has quietly launched a facial recognition app for local cops to do immigration enforcement. Scans their face, tells cops whether to contact ICE about this person or not. A truly rapid expansion of ICE's facial recognition app to local cops www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

As LLMs manufacture a form of scholarship, presentation doesn’t mean what it used to. D&S's Ranjit Singh looks at how this threatens the open-access research repository arXiv, how its founder is fighting to sustain its credibility, & what researchers can do to help. datasociety.net/points/on-ar...

investment in telerobotics is primarily driven by immigration policy

tomorrow belongs to me

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

'Net migration will fall very sharply in future years... Any political benefit the government may gain from this fall in immigration could be jeopardised by the economic damage that it causes'. Some eye watering estimates here from @jamesbowes01.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...

it blows my mind that anyone is still pretending like trump is anything but a dictator, here is steve bannon talking about how they, in clear and certain terms, intends to install trump as president in 2028

Call for papers for a workshop on Economic Aspects of the Constitution: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...

what exactly are university managers doing, when they put pressure on staff to dedicate months of their time applying for these?

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

The Trump administration had high hopes that its compact would be accepted by every university. Alas, it appears that every university rejected the administration except for its safety school. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org. Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...