One of my protest photos, taken in Belfast in June 2024, was selected for an exhibit at the Vox Populi gallery in Philadelphia titled “we make the road”. Tonight, it will be on sale to benefit the WEB Dubois School of Abolition. 6-9pm! You can acquire this print and other artworks. On until 29 March

Say what you want about Macron, you can’t argue with his position. War does, very much in fact, have devastating consequences for peace

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez has refused the use of its domestic bases by USAF: www.lexpress.fr/monde/europe...

The repercussions of Starmer’s alignment are so dangerous for the UK he might have become the first one to breach his own nat sec threat assessment

European far right, hardline influencers and their media allies - here, the editor in chief of far right weekly Valeurs Actuelles - are stuck in Dubai

A loss that’s hard to put into words, especially on a day like today. Rest in power, Paul

Sadly, this is about the next election. He’s laying the groundwork to declare his election “emergency” to change rules and argue to courts they can’t question his national security judgment in war time. And if the Court does, he’s preparing to say that’s beyond their constitutional powers.

I don’t think Altman should use absolutes in the position he’s in www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This statement clearly indicates that Israel grants itself - and has always granted itself - the right to do anything it considers necessary anywhere, at anytime, with full US support, and zero need for external validation let alone scrutiny. It’s the US’ choice. Does it have to be ours?

Iranians, already living under chokehold of sanctions, bullets of a police regime, now experience Israeli + US bombing in what has been described as an initial phase. Unsure of the relevance, atp, of mentioning that jus ad bellum doesn’t allow for preemption. Jus in bello doesn’t cover this either:

Netflix France shouldn’t retire Black Kkklansmen just now imo.

“Common sense”. The rage

As a break from The Horrors and the collective dissociative state we’ve all been in - and yes I will write about the judgement in the proscription of Palestine Action, I’ve decided to share what contributes to approx. 20% of my blood pressure currently: the humbling experience of shipping a parcel

Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them. www.404media.co/government-l...

Outside of the Greenland threats and the kidnapping of Maduro, our Global North states have treated the US like the partner it’s always been: no retaliatory tariffs, no diplomatic pressure, no review of intelligence agreements, just tut-tutting at Davos while the regime does this to its people

NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.* A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”

Why so many calls to impeach Trump a third time?

“What has anyone in power, at all, done to attack the structures and attitudes that allowed them to happen? We’ve known about Epstein’s world for so long.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Being on the SSCI necessarily comes with deepened insight, but as @attackerman.bsky.social outlines, this departs from most precedent - and the last time, we had no idea what we would be facing shortly after. Heed the five alarm fire warning. www.forever-wars.com/ron-wyden-on...

Was not expecting this from France but here we go everyone

@mayorofchicago.bsky.social continues to show extraordinary leadership. At a time when the rule of law is all but entirely eroded and executive function is consolidated to a dangerous extreme, refusing to move the needle and standing by codes of conduct takes integrity. Mayors take note

Two HRW employees that make up the entirety of the organization's Israel and Palestine program are stepping down after the leadership blocked a report that deems Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees the right of return a "crime against humanity." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

ice is killing americans and democrats are still voting for trump's nominees

Horrifying and unnerving. DHS sent an administrative subpoena to Google for this retiree's records and even sent armed agents out to his house for the "offense" of writing the following completely anodyne email to a federal prosecutor using an email address he found via Google.

Josh Shapiro is not cutting the mustard. unfit for leadership at any level www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

And now, prosecutors want to question Musk. He is not summoned - this would be under audition libre, he is not under arrest - and I suspect the world’s first trillionaire won’t exactly cooperate. Will Trump attempt to threaten French prosecutors the way he did over Le Pen’s appeal trial?

Follow live reporting here as French cybercrime prosecutors, in collaboration with EuroPol, are currently conducting a raid of Twitter France’s offices, following a long investigation on fraudulent data extraction and abuse of algorithms - as well as extending to Twitter’s AI bot, Grok

QUB should have removed the bust and the name plates when Giuffre first testified. The fact it endured that long after we knew should be a source of shame.

The values of our trade union movement are justice, equality, and fairness, which we expect to be upheld by our university and those who publicly represent it. It is evident that Senator George J. Mitchell fails to meet these standards, and so all links must be removed." 5/5

"We welcome the decision of Queen’s University Belfast to remove Senator George J. Mitchell’s name from the Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. 2/5

In response to the news that @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social has cut ties with Senator George J. Mitchell, following new information that suggests he remained in contact with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, we have released the following statement. 1/5

The Cut, a mag focused on fashion editorials and entertainment, published a guide to assisting MN during ICE raids: signposting to fundraisers, supporting volunteering for school and grocery runs, legal observer training. Immigrants are “sheltering in place”. Those events should shock us more

Pretty was a RN tending to critically ill veterans. As part of his community work, and the love he had for his city and neighbour, he tended to a woman who had been pepper sprayed by ICE. Even once he was on the ground, the agent kept shooting 8 more times. This is about vengeance.

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The CJEU recently ruled that Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal no longer qualifies as a court under EU law. This is one of the EU’s most decisive legal responses to the capture of Poland’s judiciary under the PiS. Our @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social and @profpech.bsky.social unpack the ruling 👇

Tony Blair was already an absolute lack of self-awareness. This is simply unreal

The cumulative wealth of the 12 billionaires worldwide is “more than the poorest globally, ie. more than 4 billion people”. You’re not poor or struggling because of immigrants or asylum seekers. You’re poor and struggling because 12 people are hoarding unimaginable wealth.

Just like Starmer wading into contradictory waters, NATO feels tied to US membership more than it does stonewalling the absolutely abject planned invasion of Greenland. Surely someone knows the difference between effective diplomacy and a fawning response.

Starmer, asked what he thinks of Trump’s plan to invade Greenland, states he is committed to the strength of the US-UK relationship, and that in times of turmoil, this is an important step to keep a “close ally”. Somehow the UK was part of the joint statement, denouncing US threats.

This is where we are at now

Marine Le Pen, currently undergoing her appeal trial for misuse of European funds and fraud, is now claiming that it was the fault of the EU for not having the appropriate safeguards that would have detected her fraud sooner. Remarkable. www.rtl.fr/actu/politiq...

“We’re going to train the neo-Nazi who joined ICE in deescalation tactics” says the Democratic consultant who is entirely fine with ICE taking your children and putting three in your forehead

This should be a much bigger news story, a much bigger area of interest, esp since to this day we do not know where/who the non intervention orders came from. How do we commit to accountability and transparency when families are terrified to call the police and feel their only option is to leave

Beyond the double standard, it’s the dismissive approach to both radicalisation and the very serious issue of child criminal exploitation. No threat assessment; no effort to disarm and disband; even PEACE funding goes to “community leaders”. We have accepted paramilitarism as part of our ecosystem.

Prosecutors want the military judge overseeing the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay to designate 1/11/2027 as the start of jury selection. Three of his four predecessors have declined to set a trial date so far out. A rundown on why it's not as simple as it sounds...

Queer bookstore Violette and Co, in Paris, was the subject of a search conducted with 5 uniformed police officer and a judge from the prosecution’s office in Paris. The book in question was a children’ colouring book was titled “from the river to the sea”. www.nouvelobs.com/bibliobs/202...

Having a brain injury is frankly humbling. What do you mean I have loose motor skills now?

Ah so they’re just moonlighting as Proud Boys. Can carry their activities so much better with a 50K signing bonus

Really wasn’t worth it for the US to threaten to issue sanctions against French prosecutors regarding Marine Le Pen’s appeal trial considering she just admitted she indeed committed fraud with public funds. But she says she didn’t intend to - I find that odd, fraud requires some work. anyway.