It's white supremacy and rugged individualism and patriarchy and guns. That's why we have mass shootings. We live in a dystopia of our own creation and call it freedom.

Jean-Marie Le Pen once sued daily newspaper Le Monde for defamation, arguing it was unacceptable to call him a war criminal and a torturer. A civil court ruled that it’s not defamation if it’s true. That only works, of course, if and when the judiciary accepts to fulfill its role in a democracy

In 2020, during an emergency UNGA debate, OHCHR chief Michelle Bachelet addressed the crowd: “if we’re not anti fascists, then what are we?”

“A Portland Police Bureau assistant chief said in court recently that federal police were “instigating” some of the clashes between officers and protesters outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland.” www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

War ravaged Los Angeles (people eating burritos at the park), war ravaged DC (national guard made to clean up the sidewalks), war ravaged Portland (people drinking coffee in bookstores). The war is against ordinary movement and social normalcy. This said, being slightly less transparent would work

A head of state addressing the UNGA , after a genocidal other announced his crime to a room of delegates, dares call out said genocide, demands an immediate peacekeeping operation and enjoins US troops to disobey Trump’s orders. The US retaliates by revoking his visa. Again: a head of state

Yesterday I was making this argument on the radio and arguing we need proper sentencing guidelines and the legal dude who disagreed with me called me "the other lady".

Some of you may remember I spoke about my best friend being assaulted by an ICE agent inside a Manhattan courtroom, as she was accompanying one of her students to his immigration hearing. This is the same man.

The abdication of the judiciary didn’t start in 2024, but is the culmination of years and years of undermining its independence and the rule of law in general. Controlling the Courts - and designing them to ensure no opposition - is a core feature of an authoritarian state

I’m not sure what could be more depraved than forcing a population undergoing genocide to listen to the announcement of their impending death, an announcement made at the UNGA no less, adding insult to injury. And yet, this is what Israel is doing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Donald Trump, get your jackbooted goons out of my city - @wyden.senate.gov, 2020

The absence of amplification of this truly bothers me. MSF has always been on the ground even when others had to leave, and continued their operations even in horrific and abject conditions, their entire staff facing immediate risk of death. They are humanitarians by definition and by recognition.

🚨 MSF FORCED TO SUSPEND ACTIVITIES IN GAZA CITY 🚨 Our clinics are now encircled by Israeli forces. There are continued airstrikes & tanks advancing closer & closer to our healthcare facilities. This is an intolerable level of risk for our @msf.ca staff. I am outraged, and you should be, too.

We have lost Assata Shakur, an irreplaceable voice. “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

An old BBC clip of Saddam gathering party leadership to conduct a purge of opponents and people whom he perceived to lack personal loyalty to him. www.bbc.com/news/av/worl...

Instant migraine. apple.news/ABPFZMwCIQDi...

Microsoft has now ruptured its ties to Israeli forces, blocking access in response to the mass surveillance of Palestinians. Unit 8200 violated their terms of service by storing the data on the Azure cloud. Microsoft requested an external inquiry on data usage www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Five hours apart

France has launched a new postage stamp to mark the 75th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights, saying "A beautiful philatelic tribute to our Europe, more than ever steadfast in its commitment to the rule of law, to democracy, and to human rights". www.coe.int/be/web/porta...

Earlier this month, a federal appeals court overturned the decision to close the South Florida detention facility (“alligator Alcatraz”) despite the reports of widespread abuse. Now, two thirds of its 1,800 inmates are somehow no longer in the ICE database

French daily @liberation.fr calls Trump’s speech at the UNGA “grotesque”, “underneath its appearance of non sensical delirium. (…) Trump is a profane against the international order, so only brutality remains.” Nothing to add.

Motifs « flous ». Mais des constantes. Sur quatre attaques au couteau à l'école : - Trois enfants sur quatre (!) font référence au nazisme - Tous souffrent de troubles psy. Curieusement, aucun ministre ou éditorialiste pour l'agiter. Bien plus facile & payant de parler d'« ensauvagement »...

The situation in Gaza continues to worsen. The displacement of people from Gaza City is untenable for the few hospitals left, stating there is “not enough of anything”. Some facilities see hundreds upon hundreds per day, the vast majority children. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Jesse Watters just called for the bombing of the UN on national television. FCC? Nothing? Crickets? Got it.

Yes the appointment of an interlocutor is performative gaslighting by UK Gov who have presided over the resurgence of loyalist paramilitarism, backed by the state and wholly protected by a web of enabling state agents & PSNI facilitation. However Naomi Long as Justice Minister has failed. [1/n]

Interesting: France recognised, as part of the Palestinian state, Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem. This is a de facto recognition of the occupation itself. It also calls for a fourth UNPKO, this time for Gaza (it’s been time). www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Someone who is voting against acting on a genocide and supporting a Nazi national funeral is attempting to lecture the room on morality. The point on hospitals is correct. Everything else isn’t.

Good news is in short supply right now, but this is genuinely such good news. So pleased to hear this for Alaa Abd el Fattah and his family who have campaigned so hard, after so many long years suffering in prison. #freealaa www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The Cour de Cassation has rejected Eric Zemmour’s final appeal: the French far right politician is now definitively convicted of incitement to racial hatred and racially aggravated speech, from a Right Convention speech in 2019. Your move, Naomi Long. www.franceinfo.fr/politique/er...

With my wonderful colleagues @atlaswomen.bsky.social we drafted, in our personal capacity, an open letter of support to Francesca Albanese in response to sanctions, as well as members of the Palestinian delegation and ICC officials. Sign if you’re in the profession! openletter.earth/unacceptable...

i mean there’s a guy from a Dutch far-right group sitting in custody right now on terror and weapons offences and another foiled neo-Nazi attack on Eurovision 2020 where the guy planned on using chemicals like cyanide and ricin but ok tweede kamer nltimes.nl/2025/09/19/d...

In Gainesville, TX, a little girl named Jocelynn was taunted and her bullied by her classmates. They insisted she had to be called “an illegal”. They claimed ICE would be coming for her and that she deserved it. That she and her family had to leave the country. She took her own life. She was 11.

A judge dropped the state terrorism charges

FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting. 13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments

The retaliation was never going to be fully related to the murder of Charlie Kirk. It follows a well trodden path for which we should have received some accountability and drastic legislative reform. Alas. By, as usual, @attackerman.bsky.social www.forever-wars.com/the-war-on-t...

The Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories has issued its 72 pages long legal analysis of submitted evidence supporting the charge of genocide against Israel. Full document here: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Charlie Kirk was killed by a white kid from a Trump-supporting Mormon family. So what networks exactly are we talking about here

Lovely to hear at 8 in the morning on a Monday so passing it on: the national shame that is Conor McGregor is no longer running for president

🆕🇪🇺 The EU must amend and activate the Blocking Statute to shield Palestinian NGOs and others from US sanctions. If it truly stands for the rule of law, the EU cannot let these draconian measures obstruct the pursuit of justice for Israel’s crimes at the ICC. Our statement: mezan.org/en/post/46772

We @soclawireland.bsky.social issues a statement of solidarity with members of Al-Haq and members of the Palestinian delegation to the UN in response to the US sanctions issued against them for their collaboration with the ICC investigation

I am heartbroken by the passing of Conor Gearty. He and I often crossed paths, namely on the subject of security and human rights, and always held funny, lively, and affirming conversations. He was one of our best, and will be so dearly missed.

Let the BelTel connect the dots the PSNI isn’t: Payne, one of those white supremacists patrolling the streets for non-white folks to assault in the name of protecting women and children, was convicted of attempted murder of a 14yo boy. Amongst other things www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

PSNI used extraordinary resources supporting the Home Office in immigration raids on delivery workers at precisely the moment vigilantism was exploding. PSNI don't serve marginalised groups. A functioning political system would have challenged PSNI resources on a Yvette Cooper deportation fantasy.

Please pin this post because a) that’s the correct take, forget ideologist think tanks and b) the preservation of ECHR membership is a constant battlefield that isn’t likely to let up anytime soon

For 13 months the PSNI has issued the same statements. For 13 months the PSNI has claimed its inaction was attributable to “evidence gathering at the scene”. For 13 months the PSNI has let such vigilantism fester. It seems the inevitable will need to happen www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

It is worth paying attention to the fact that the UK is arresting protesters in the *hundreds* - 857 yesterday in London alone - in the enforcement of the proscription of Palestine Action. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK Gov’s criminalisation of support for Palestine Action is untenable, morally and politically. It feels close to criminalising CND in the 1980s. Time for Gov to admit it is a mistake and back down.

For each extremist group perpetrating violence along discriminatory lines - racial, gender, political - we will find the same running threads. For each pithy slogan supposedly justifying that behaviour we will find the same patterns of behaviour. Again and again www.thedetail.tv/articles/one...

For each extremist group perpetrating violence along discriminatory lines - racial, gender, political - we will find the same running threads. For each pithy slogan supposedly justifying that behaviour we will find the same patterns of behaviour. Again and again www.thedetail.tv/articles/one...

Without a new Independent Paramilitary Assessment, the Justice Minister & PSNI can downplay the role of armed paramilitary groups that have 12,500 members. The old assessment captured only the paramilitary landscape of 2015. Paramilitary ops have expanded & encompass white supremacist terror. [2/n]