The US has fallen

All strength, solidarity and gratitude to those who came out in #Glasgow to disrupt the racist fuckwits and show joyous and immoveable resistance. The outnumbered fash managed to make the balaclava look downright pathetic

Someone has realized they can sell rich idiots pieces of paper reassuring them that negative press stories are all lies www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine ft.trib.al/TS7SOJp

Just set up a FIFA fantasy football team for the #WorldCup26 to get in the spirit of everything. Colour me surprised when they try to get your consent for SAUDI ARAMCO to contact me as a result. Beware, be warned

If this report is correct, that is a worrying development.

🚨 unbelieveable 🚨 why did NSO Group think they could do this, and get away with it? 🤔

Your regular reminder. Free expression (both online and off) is not like learning to drive or drinking a pint. You don't get access to it when you become an arbitrary age. Under 16s have free expression rights making any ban a far more thorny and complex issue than presented.

Two Romanian nationals have been found guilty of stabbing a journalist from broadcaster Iran International on behalf of the Iranian regime in an attempt to "silence" him www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:

George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi. And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face." Then he lied about it. www.npr.org/2026/06/04/n...

The Justice Department is investigating George Santos for insider trading on Kalshi.

#HongKong: We are deeply concerned by reports that two performance artists, Chan Mei-tung and Sanmu Chan, have been arrested by police for showing up in Causeway Bay ahead of the Tiananmen Square anniversary tomorrow. We call for their immediate release: hongkongfp.com/2026/06/03/h...

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

The latest reminder of how moribund some of the UK's political reporting can be. We all had fun with the Cameron fucking a pig's head story but we know not to trust Lord Ashcroft's biographies I mean come on!! brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/desert-isl...

A crystalline demonstration of the petty power wielded by tech magnates like Meta www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.

Please check out & share this incredible new digital humanities archive w/ interactive map, the Black Church Burning Project. blackchurchburningproject.org It exists to identify & document every Black church & congregation that was burned, bombed, or otherwise attacked during the Civil Rights era.

Can't think about the recent Farage story without thinking of Scooby Doo. He is annoyed about the donation being leaked not grappling with the issue of the donation itself

I was in court last month monitoring this hearing. This is the only way it should have ended up but we cannot forget the cost, emotional turmoil and time this litigation has swallowed up. www.the-londoner.co.uk/we-won-our-d...

Oh Lammy, do not threaten us with a good time "I will be bringing forward [anti-SLAPP] legislation as soon as time allows" "As soon as time allows" though is a cursed phrase! parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

Feels darkly on-trend for a state that targeted Daphne Caruana Galizia and delayed justice for her murder to be entering into a partnership with the sort of orgs that gleefully are killing journalism www.euractiv.com/news/maltese...

🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...

In April, Crispin Odey dropped his £79mn #libel claim against us. This is the inside story of how Odey’s battle to reclaim his reputation backfired. It's about the brave women who spoke out against him — and the new allegations the two-year legal saga unearthed. www.ft.com/content/edbe...

From Hungary to France, financial strains, political influence, and growing restrictions on press freedom are ever worse in Europe, the general secretary of the European Federation of Journalists, Ricardo Gutiérrez, tells EUobserver in an interview.

BAN THE PERVERT GLASSES

The King's Speech is nearly upon us. For everyone who has been threatened or dragged through court for speaking out, we will soon find out whether the government has moved to #StopSLAPPs

Amidst all the political turmoil, at today's King's Speech, I have one question - Will they protect public interest speech and British courts from legal bullies? Will they #StopSLAPPs? Stay tuned...

#Belarus: Writer and journalist Andrzej Poczobut spent over five years imprisoned for speaking truth to power. We welcome his release and urge authorities to free all unjustly jailed. Read our full statement with @penbelarus.bsky.social and Polish PEN ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/belarus...

Happy election day to everyone who celebrates. Here is the most important democratic tradition of this country #DogsatPollingStations

Deeply saddened about the end of @knowledgefight.bsky.social although I understand the reasons to call It quits. It is a colossal achievement of humour & rigorous analysis, something that is seldom seen elsewhere. For years I have listened and been absorbed by it and it will be sorely missed.

Knowledge Fight was and remains one of the all-time great podcasts. It is the rarest kind of thing: a show that entertains while having a real-life impact. Dan and Jordan helped defang and neuter elements of a powerful propaganda network. Excited to see what both do next.

"Bigots, Blackmail and Billionaires" should be Reform's new slogan for this reprehensible and grotesque pitch. Treat them with the contempt they deserve

Reminder that the "populist" elite-driven reactionary right is often no different to a criminal racket or organised crime. We have seen it with Trump and we will see it with Reform

Who wants to fund my remake of Footloose where the town has banned dancing due to its obsession with MAGA and are banning dance after wiping out books from the libraries and bookshops?

Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was hospitalized after collapsing in prison. Her family says her condition has deteriorated since a March heart attack. n.pr/4w4QoY5

The most important use of single quotation marks in modern reporting

“We need to have the courage and vision to support the Jewish community without destroying a fundamental and necessary right.” Read Jo Glanville’s latest for Index on why banning pro-Palestinian protests in the #UK is no solution to antisemitism: www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/05/bann...

Zambia's Ministry of Information suddenly "postponed" RightsCon over "thematic issues" and concerns regarding some of the proposed speakers

A very welcome development and hopefully a signal of a change in direction in Hungary away from isolating, targeting and discrediting journalism. Too early to know for sure but am very relieved for @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social

The European SLAPP Contest returns tonight! Bringing attention to the abusive legal threats targeting public interest speech all across Europe. This year, three UK cases are nominated 🏆 Find out more ⬇️ antislapp.uk/2026/04/28/t...

NEW: we caught 🇨🇳Chinese hackers... again. Twist: they're hacking journalists & activists, but we suspect they're private contractors. State repression... with a profit margin. Thread + how to protect yourself 1/ By my colleagues @citizenlab.ca + @icij.org citizenlab.ca/research/how...

I can't express how dangerous this is for satirists, whistleblowers, survivors, victims of crime and their advocates. Pseudonymity is a vital guarantor of free expression. Pretty sure the ECtHR has something to say about this...

We talk about the enshittification of the web but can we also use it to discuss @ryanairofficial.bsky.social's decision to get rid of the net pockets on the back of the chair? Utterly bonkers

It’s hard to believe that #PussyRiot member Olga Borisova began her career in #Russia as a police officer. Read her extraordinary journey from policing to political dissent ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sorry Babs but the Patel Effect is more potent - not only amplifying the original story but reinforcing it with more sources

“Democracy cannot thrive if such conduct continues.” Index’s @nikwilliams.bsky.social , quoted in @petergeoghegan.bsky.social’s investigation on how the Labour Together-linked PR firm destroyed evidence of its campaign against journalists ⬇️ democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-tog...

Firstly, let's break down the nationalities which Labour are planning on paying France to deport, most likely in these circumstances, to countries they fled from considering systems are already in place for France to return them to another EU country. 2/ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

How might AI influence the next elections and what should we be watching for? Join us tonight for our online AGM, followed by a panel with Dr Paul Reilly (UofG) and Dr Digdem Soyaltin-Colella (UofA). Book your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-misinfo...