When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you." That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

Extended conversation with Liat Beinin Atzili, an Israeli American high school teacher who was held hostage in Gaza for 54 days after being seized on October 7, 2023. Her story is the focus of the new documentary Holding Liat, directed by Brandon Kramer.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

just seeing the words “I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act” feels revelatory actually??? especially with Senate Dems considering INCREASING their budget you’ve gotta hope at least that if they’re not listening to us, they’re listening to the angry House reps who know where their offices are

I don't need to watch someone get murdered in cold blood to understand that ICE is a fascist police force that should be abolished.

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

London spent at least 3 centuries building the largest Empire in human history, with informal hegemony over much of the Middle East and South America. It took about 3 decades for this to seriously unravel once local populations collectively decided to get the British out.

"Snowstorms are isolating displacement camps in northern and northwestern Syria from nearly everything. Tents packed tightly side by side, blanketed by a layer of snow, turn into cramped spaces that cannot keep families warm."

Iranian security forces have opened fire on protesters in Lordegan.

European Court of Human Rights questions UK govt on 2019 decision to remove Shamima Begum’s UK citizenship, asking how it complies with UK responsibilities to victims of trafficking. Begum went to Syria in 2015 at age 15 and married ISIS fighter. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

May this be the year Gazans find safety and the international protection to which they’re entitled. May Adham see the future he deserves.

That rare thing, a sensible article in the Times

Hawkish article published today by Israel Hayom as the deadline for the disarmament of Hezbollah has passed. www.israelhayom.com/2025/12/31/i...

Might become the kind of person who gets angry about fireworks displays being too woke, as a bit.

The govt is undermining itself and making a Farage government more likely by doing awful things to trans people, disabled people, immigrants, Palestinians, democratic protesters, the environment, the creative industries, pensioners, many of their own MPs and (until recently) children in poverty.

FACT OF THE DAY. 1 January 1973. UK officially became a member of the European Economic Community (EEC). The Daily Mail was very enthusiastic about Britain’s entry at the time.

Lovely fireworks celebrating our amazing city. Moving back here was a highlight of this year ❤️

Flipping BBC assuming we are all out socialising when in reality we are sat on our holes, glass in hand, tapping our devices waiting for the next distraction from our hollow, lonely, mediocre lives just like we have been the last 30 years. Yes, I’m fine, why? Happy New Year. #HNY #NYE

“Nearly the entire legal & economic policy staff of the Heritage Foundation is departing” in a “rebuke of Heritage President Kevin Roberts in the wake of his refusal to retract an Oct video defending Tucker Carlson for conducting a friendly interview w/ … [anti-Semite] Nick Fuentes.” 12/22/25…1/

Netanyahu, the Trump administration and others on the global right are drawing renewed inspiration from a Greek city-state mythologized for its militarism. @ishaantharoor.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

It seems to be the clear position of Charlie Downes - the campaigns director of Restore Britain - that Kemi Badenoch "is not British and never will be" as it is dependent on ancestry.

There we all were thinking that being on our own was what Brexit-loving papers such as The Mail craved.

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

Full story is here. It is a difficult read, particularly if you have struggled with this or dealt with the suicide of a loved one. Take care of yourselves: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

Enabled by UAE: “Between 30,000 and 100,000 people may have been killed in six weeks, with 60,000 as a plausible midpoint. That pace of killing would be unrivaled since the Rwanda genocide of 1994…the death toll in El Fasher in less than two months may be comparable to that in Gaza over two years.”

NEW: Just three months after the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA held its AmericaFest 2025 confab last weekend. @joelowndes.bsky.social reports on the tensions within the organization — and the American right. newlinesmag.com/reportage/ch...

My contribution would be this: these men often look at white working class men as fonts of authentic American masculinity and position themselves near it as if it provided something they believe they lack. It’s akin to appropriating blackness. All the cred but none of the injury of class.

This is ridiculous. There clearly has not been a 660% increase in terrorism in the UK over the past year. How much is it costing the criminal justice system to arrest and prosecute all these people for the crime of wearing a t-shirt or holding a placard? news.sky.com/story/terror...

As we mark 15 years since the Arab Uprisings, the voice I miss most is Bassem Sabry. If you do one thing this week, read this beautiful reflection by his dear friend @dalezzat.bsky.social for @timep.bsky.social. In it, she brings to life why what he stood for then, matters today. More than ever.

An open letter to Zarah Sultana about her advocacy of pro-kremlin neo-stalinists. @anticapitalistmusings.com @simonpirani.bsky.social @gemmaclark.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @neilmackay.bsky.social @ukrainesol.bsky.social @qunfuz.bsky.social heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...

Our new schedule for the Winter Term - now corrected. Thursdays 4pm. All welcome!

I've written this open letter to Keir Starmer & @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social because, though I am desperately worried about NHS patients over the next 5 days, I know this strike by resident doctors is a desperate act of last resort. Please read.

Good piece from @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social on how an increasing number of young people continue to live with their parents. Includes research from Emily Grundy FBA www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Frances Wyatt was the matriarch of a prominent Chartist family and a mainstay of the City of London Female Charter Association. Her story is one of many to feature in Chartist Lives, out now in hardback, paperback and as an ebook #BookSky #C19th #History www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y

Hanukah protest at the Foreign Office, London, tonight

I’m not making free content for a website owned by a guy who thinks my family existing is a form of genocide against white people, which is why I’m not going back to that place.

Ahmed al-Ahmed, who bravely disarmed one of the gunmen in the horrific Bondi Beach attack, is originally from Idlib, Syria.

Those tree hugging hippies in Hungary now lead the world in the share of electricity generated from solar with almost 25% of their electricity coming from solar in 2024. A remarkable leap from just 7% five years ago.

Incredible investigative reporting by Mada Masr on how a network of businessmen reaped over $1 billion “coordinating” the entry of goods into Gaza over the past 2 years in a system under complete Israeli control that profits from Palestinian starvation www.madamasr.com/en/2025/12/1...

A+ trolling from Zelenskyy

Half of people arrested by police in London who did not have an ADHD diagnosis tested positive on an ADHD screening test after arrest, driven by 60% positive tests among those arrested for drugs offences (for other offence types it was <20% positive).

America is a mafia state running a protection racket in the interest of the boss, not the people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... bsky.app/profile/john...

After more than a decade of war, Syria’s tourism industry is taking its first steps toward recovery, with visas on arrival returning for the first time in years. The sector is still only trickling in, but signs of change are beginning to appear in local markets and hotels:

I feel like it's always worth remembering that Deleuze began his career as a disciple of Sartre, and only broke with his master over what he saw as an abandonment of existentialism in favour of humanism.

🚨 NEW: Figures with violent pasts are gravitating to the British Democrats, a fascist political party seeking to embed itself within the growing anti-migrant protest movement. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/11/v...

Academics going out of their way to deny genocide/ systematic war crimes/ atrocities in Gaza are like the cranks in the research group who did the same for Syria.

In Britain, five political prisoners awaiting trial for supporting the banned protest group Palestine Action have been hospitalized due to deteriorating health as a result of hunger strikes.

Details on the Trump Ukraine peace plan in this Ukrainian media report zn.ua/eng/trumps-n...