We all deserve more ease. That's really it.

Quick hit on why Orban’s electoral defeat dealt a blow to the global anti gender movement www.opendemocracy.net/en/orban-hun...

Found this in the archives. Just imagine.

It’s genuinely staggering how little substance there is to today’s instalment of the BBC’s attempt to create a national crisis out of a few unproven allegations of immigration fraud 1/

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“The Spanish government has announced a plan to legalise the status of undocumented migrants, a measure expected to benefit at least half a million people.” This is great news from Spain! 🇪🇸 It’s possible for governments to refuse racist politics and provide greater security for people who migrate.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

2 in 5 international health workers are considering leaving the UK - many because they no longer feel welcome amid hostile rhetoric. New findings from @unison.org.uk show settlement changes would be a disaster for patients, staff & the British public alike. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Universities in Europe have become key enablers of the continent’s border regime. Our hidden gem of the week unpacks the‘border-industrial-academic complex’ entangling academia, the security industry, and state power. By Mark Akkerman at @tninstitute.bsky.social buff.ly/Jr1WvIc

IF ENDNOTES ARE WORTH READING THEY WOULD BE FOOTNOTES TATTOO IT ON ME

Constantly having to write letters to the government explaining that some LGBT asylum seekers are also Christian and the fact they believe in God doesn't mean that they're lying about their sexuality, and so they really cannot be sent back to countries with The Death Penalty for homosexuality.

Pro life thats a lie, you don’t care if women die, indeed

ICE has detained over 6,200 children during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to recently released numbers analyzed by the Marshall Project. Advocates warn trauma from detentions will cause kids lifelong damage.

When has the pope ever made me laugh before now, I can't think of it.

🇭🇺 Hungarian elections: ‼️Viktor Orbán congratulated Péter Magyar

People in Myanmar sacrifice a lot for one family memher to study in UK. They have done nothing wrong or illegal but UK govt revokes their study visas. Please sign this petition to revoke the UK ban on study visas for Myanmar students petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7631….

Adaptation at ~1.5°C of heating. “Cooling centres” will become the norm in many *many* places globally. Bangkok: www.bangkokpost.com/... 1/2

"You cannot hope to benefit from a “shared history” with someone if you completely refuse to entertain, even for a second, just what their experience of that history was." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m watching the new essential film, Ghosts in the Machine, featuring many esteemed colleagues of mine, and noting how many of the great men scientists making claims about the ability for machines to mimic humanity also denied the humanity of women in myriad ways.

I’m grateful someone looked into this. For me, hardbacks cost too much, are too heavy and big for reading or carrying around, and take up too much room on the shelf. I resent having to wait for the paperback.

Some good news!

my cat after i go pspsps:

New — I wrote about the terror and loss of the last few days, mostly so we don’t forget. www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-iran...

I very rarely do petitions, but please sign this one. Reverse the visa brake on Study Visas for citizens of Myanmar. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

"Under a 10-20 year system, a worker would spend a decade or more in which their entire immigration status — and [thus] their family’s home, their children’s schooling, their right to remain — depends on maintaining the goodwill of a single employer. That is a structurally coercive relationship."

Setting aside the reparations debate (complex, not one that we should dismiss) the idea that you ban every citizen of say, Jamaica, because its govt's policies, shows that REFUK isn't a serious party. But the USA shows us that unserious parties can be in govt. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I’ve spent the last year investigating how the UK's broken employment tribunal system lets rogue bosses evade justice. But this is the craziest case,by far. A restaurant chain that lost 21 tribunal claims over several years, yet never paid a single one🧵 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

ICYMI: The Olympics scrapped “gender verification” testing after years of evidence showed it was scientifically flawed and caused harm - now it's back

Silvia Federici is one hundred percent wrong about the witch trials (not even a weak argument: her work is based on utter fantasy) and Caliban and the Witch has done incalculable damage to the discourse around this topic, especially in left-wing circles.

NEW: The government has asked its new employment rights watchdog, the Fair Work Agency, to reduce regulatory burdens on business. This is at a time when the UK has among the fewest labour inspectors in the OECD & workers face billions of pounds in unpaid wages. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Oh, word? Copilot is for entertainment purposes only? So it was several billion dollars and multiple cross-sector privacy and consent violations all for a gag, then? Neat-o, Microsoft. Real keen.

Lifted the paywall on this piece as the next refugee crisis is already underway. open.substack.com/pub/nicolake...

Free-to-read from @mekongreview.com's February 2026 issue! Nathalie Chi on the scapegoating of bamboo scaffolding in Hong Kong's Tai Po fire, and how international media outlets that adopted that framing were letting the authorities off the hook too easily: mekongreview.com/cultural-mis...

Also true of research in general, where serendipity is often the source of discovery

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

In case you missed it: Asylum hotel accommodation unlawful where it fails basic standards of adequacy | Zaki Sarraf

The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As in this story about marriages quickly falling apart after one partner turned to AI for relationship advice: futurism.com/chatgpt-marr... Or this story about AI's reinforcement of delusional/harmful ideas facilitating domestic abuse, harassment, and stalking: futurism.com/artificial-i...

A new study found that sycophancy is a pervasive function of leading chatbots, which are likely to give users bad/antisocial advice when asked about real-world interpersonal conflicts -- warping users' judgement and promoting dependence. futurism.com/artificial-i...

14 Mexicans have died in US immigration custody under the DT regime. Mexico plans to take diplomatic & legal action against the US through US & OAS mechanism. (Anyone else thinking of Avena right now?) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...

5/ This is a far bigger fuel, fertilizer, food crisis for Asia and Europe than it is for the US. "Farmers in Thailand have been waiting in long queues to secure diesel, fearful of missing the rice harvest due in the coming weeks" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

North/South migration diplomacy laid bare as the UK & Rwanda dispute in The Hague. My latest @bordercrim.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi... @mollyquell.bsky.social @lizziedearden.bsky.social @fionaadamson.bsky.social @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social @hhesterm.bsky.social

In a joint letter Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni and Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen call for increased EU coordination on migration in response to the human tragedy caused by the war in the Middle East, portraying forced displacement as an issue of containment and security. www.ansa.it/english/news...

“.. even if the conflict is wound down within weeks, fertiliser disruption alone would cause US food inflation to rise from around 2 per cent to 4 per cent year on year. If fighting drags into the summer, she warns, the increase could reach double digits.” www.ft.com/content/27e0...

This thread is important technopolitical pedagogy for the current moment

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

All European countries with abstentions lol cowards

The bill passed both houses, no surprise, & India is degraded once more. 'Trans men, trans non binary persons and trans women who are not kinner-hijra will NOT be legally recognised as trans anymore! Bill passed without community or NCTP consultation. Calls to differ to select committee ignored.'

New analysis shows state policies to stop small boat crossings are driving deaths in the Channel. Border policing doesn’t save lives - it forces people into deadlier routes. It's clearer than ever: deterrence policies don't work. We must open safe routes now. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...