Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

"We will not accept attempts to roll back hard-won rights or to set workers against one another. Trans people are not the problem; inequality, discrimination, and sustained underfunding of public services are. Dividing workers only weakens our collective strength.” This union knows what’s what.

It’s an indication of how successfully Paul Marshall & others have radicalised our politics that far right propaganda like this, promoting “remigration” of ethnic minorities, is now on sale in supermarkets.

AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment | Nesrine Malik

Durham County Council, run by Reform, pulled £2,500 from Durham Pride. But the Durham Miners Association, mindful of the support from LGBT communities during the miners strike, stepped in and, along with other Unions made contributions to make this year’s Durham Pride bigger than ever before. 🏳️‍🌈💪❤️

A whole dissertation could be written in political science, history, or sociology on what's wrong with that website.

We've joined 40 organisations telling the ILO to take their groundbreaking opportunity to protect workers rights by adopting the new convention on decent work in the platform economy and ensuring that the text provides robust protections. pvcy.org/ILCletter

Such an excellent and withering piece. The massive chilling effect that Starmer and Mahmood have had on high skill / high pay migration needed calling out.

We know that people-run systems are bad at age identification, so what could go wrong turning that over to the type of system that has repeatedly been shown to be racist? www.helenbamber.org/resources/la... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

According to the BBC “Unaccompanied child migrants are processed through the care system rather than the asylum system, which can make it easier to stay in the country.” Which is clearly nonsense. It also claims assessment use “X‑rays and MRI scans.” Also nonsense. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great piece from @harshawalia.bsky.social that is not only about how NOT to abolish ICE, but also what it would take to really abolish it. Highly recommended. 1/

Congrats to @picumofficial.bsky.social! Wonderful organisation

They’re going to start arresting attorneys who defend immigrants.

Semiotic anthropologist here w/alt-text! As I tell students & everyone who will listen: One of the great lessons of anthropology is that we built this. All of it. And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built. We can & must build differently.

"ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an ‘alarming’ rate, an AP investigation finds"

Important article by Charles Davis on the upcoming neo-nazi cesspit that is the Portugal 'remigration' summit. (Featuring a quote by yours truly!). Consider supporting independent journalism and giving @theredoubt.net a subscription, donation, or follow!

“It will act as a blank cheque for anyone who wants to further narrow what men and women should look like - leading to increasingly polarised gender policing in bathrooms, changing rooms and public spaces across the country.” Our full analysis of the new EHRC code of practice 👇

Were constantly told by the forestry industry that commercial plantations are good for carbon when undisturbed native forests are so much better

Together with @petefussey.bsky.social and @daragh.bsky.social we are releasing "Pushed into the Shadows: evidencing digital surveillance chilling effects and the erosion of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association” 1/ www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

Today’s the anniversary of the passing into law of Section 28 in 1988, the first homophobic legislation in a century. Politicians and media said it was our own fault, told us to shut up and give up. We didn’t. Dont you dare give up now on trans people.

Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking". (Info in alt text.)

"Asking Burnham to outline his cogent political programme is like asking my cat, who came from a shelter near the Etihad, whether she supports Man City. You’re asking about something she has no interest in and that forms no part of her life."

The Onion print ads are true genius. There should be a coffee table book of these.

I believe England can do this.

As I've repeatedly been saying - claiming you're improving people's rights but doing so by deliberately excluding certain groups from those rights and thus suggesting they're not 'people' (people born overseas, trans people, the disabled) is a day one fascist trick. I won't vote for it, who would?!

New Amnesty International analysis: 4 UK newspapers published 17,000 articles on ‘trans issues’ in 5 years, averaging 9 articles a day Reporting overwhelmingly excludes trans voices & amplifies anti-trans perspectives ‘Trans issues’ elevated to top-tier political debate, despite low public salience

If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

Most of Britain thinks net migration is still rising — when it has actually fallen by more than three-quarters From our new 2026 @britishfuture.bsky.social study of public attitudes to immigration, published online here www.britishfuture.org/britain-thin...

Latest data due tomorrow but your regular reminder: net migration is *plunging* without these plans being enacted.

And, after a lot of procedural back-and-forth, the climate justice resolution was adopted 🎉 Fantastic to see such widespread support

The vote on the UN climate justice resolution should get underway a little after 8pm UK time (3pm NY) and can be watched on UN Web TV (webtv.un.org/en) — or follow the thread by @duycks.bsky.social

The AI Resist List is LIVE 🎉 Co-built by @weandai.bsky.social, @dairinstitute.bsky.social, @karenhao.bsky.social, @refugeelab.ca this database highlights global efforts to challenge AI, and how we can resist, refuse, reimagine, and reclaim its power from Big Tech. Check it out www.airesistlist.org

deeply resent that this is being referred to as an “evolution” of Google Alerts—an actually useful tool, like fucking Search once fucking was

Ha, ha, ha! This is brilliant. Agree with every word, and not only because it has a righteous pop at Reeves. Also underlines key point, in order for there to be a way to be masculine, some boys & men aren't going to cut it, no matter how many ways/types we add. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/07...

Going to think about this every time people say reparations are impossible.

fascinating

Nice reminder to what remains of the Starmer project that there might be an easier way of "winning over Reform voters" that doesn't entail bragging about robbing refugees of their personal possessions in militarised detention centres.

The PEPFAR program saved lives at home and around the world. It has had a demonstrable, positive impact on the lives of millions. It did ground breaking research on an illness that killed far too many, undermining societies and cultures. It is the best of us. And these bastards killed it.

"What is now under debate is not simply Strasbourg’s migration jurisprudence, but the resilience of the post-war assumption that human rights protections exist precisely to constrain state power at politically difficult moments." www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...

Final text of the Political Declaration of Council of Europe member states on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and migration, adopted today in Chisinau, available now: rm.coe.int/pdf/09125948...

​“A landmark Federal Court ruling that the exclusion of a transgender woman from a female-only app constituted unlawful gender identity discrimination has been upheld on appeal.” This is very welcome news from Australia! Excluding trans women from platforms designed for women is discrimination. 🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇺

Good read. I find it extremely presumptive when people include their AI notetakers in meetings without first asking (I decline and refuse), and I'll boot them from meetings if possible. Why? Notetakers keep a copy of your meeting's audio and transcript (security risk!). Also, AI gets things wrong!

"In an unprecedented intersection between immigration law and the Scottish Parliament, a foreign-national Student visa holder has been returned as a member of the Scottish Parliament in the May 2026 Scottish Parliamentary election. Q Manivannan, an Indian citizen, has been…" — Free Movement

This is unforgivable. We know that people returned to Myanmar face torture, death or conscription. It's well documented, not just from previous refoulment flights from the US but also the many refoulment returns by Thailand. Heartbroken. Angry.

“Gunshots were reportedly heard at the Senate on Wednesday evening, May 13, 2026, as tensions rose following developments related to Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa’s arrest.“ This is insane! Honor the ICC arrest warrant and send the mass murderer to The Hague.

This. And now they’ve denied visas to some players on the Iranian team. Not the stuff of a dream World Cup.

King's Speech content latest. Here is what is being reported on the immigration bill. I still think they'll use the rules (not a bill) for 'how you qualify for settlement'. The restrictions on Article 8 will need a bill though. All very grim. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Happy birthday to Margaret Calvert, designer for much of the UK road signage system. 90 today! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...