"These are the Frame Wars, you're in them." #FD2D @jenmercieca.bsky.social

Much of the Government's intention for cutting PIP and UC is to motivate people to find a job But cutting social security can't 'incentivise' people into jobs that don't exist New @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis shows there are simply too few jobs for the Government's argument to hold

BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

TW: suicide/self-harm A coroner has warned that overstretched prison staff have become "hardened" to incidents of self-harm at a women's prison with one of the worst records of inmate deaths in the country The report to the Ministry of Justice highlighted a lack of staffing By me, for Private Eye

BBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scraping https://on.ft.com/45wFAHq

Referring to events in Ballymena as "disturbances" is a euphemism too far. We are witnesses to a pogrom. And it behoves us to say so, loud and clear. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings

We all know his favourite character is Thénardier (very enterprising man, he likes money and I like money etc). Though he would say Javert #LesMis

Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

🔴I wrote about the anti-raids protests in LA and whether anything similar could ever take place in Britain. With the rise of Reform and the ramping up of Labour's enforcement activity, we ignore what's happening there at our peril. open.substack.com/pub/notanoth...

once again I must tap my own sign

As they say, a picture paints a thousand words

Brass Eye was not media training, pack it in

The essays in the new federal hiring process are designed to avoid any objective metrics, and easily gameable by AI. They make it more difficult to assess political bias, and so millions of job applicants can reasonably assume they did not get a job because they lacked MAGA credentials.

In a nutshell, the majority decision amounts to "Your uncertain immigration status (bc of the state) means your life in the US is so unstable you can't possibly have settled properly here, so it's fine for you to go back to a country you last saw as a toddler"

A group of women in Kenya rebelled against trading sex for a fisherman's catch to sell. They got their own boats, had success — but in past years have faced floods and now fears about HIV medications.

Walk on fare for two from London to York at 4pm on a Monday: £345*. "Demand pricing helps smooth overcrowding and gives us all a better railway!" Peak trains:

The cruelty is the point, from the top down

Putting this underneath a huge great headline containing the big ending spoiler is honestly hilarious

The National Association of the Deaf says the White House's failure to provide ASL interpreters during press briefings leaves some deaf and hard of hearing people without information.

It would seem that many reporting on the AG's comments re the dismantling of international law in the 1930s don't actually know the context for the ECHR. This is a failure of accurate and honest reporting

I know my former colleagues would not contemplate these actions lightly, it speaks to their anger at being ignored when they've said these cuts will harm PA. They're the experts and should be listened to. Solidarity with them all

NUJ members at PA Media have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion of no confidence in the leadership of the veteran company’s editor-in-chief Jack Lefley and have given an indicative vote in favour of strike action over “destructive" restructuring… www.nuj.org.uk/resource/vot...

I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

Pour one out for journalism and media studies, among the subjects somehow deemed unimportant enough to be cut even farther by a Labour government.

Gen Z, a much maligned and panicked-about generation, are behind a remarkable collapse in weekend violence. Great reporting from @fransham.bsky.social www.economist.com/britain/2025...

NUJ PA chapel expresses ongoing dismay over management’s position on job cuts. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/pa-...

Duncan Campbell, celebrated Guardian crime reporter, dies aged 80

Solidarity with former colleagues fighting these short-sighted and harmful proposals. It benefits no-one to have the PA news agency diminished, & the proposals will lead to a drop in quality (and potentially revenue, as customers look to reduce subscriptions for a lesser service)

Unless the Government change course, a presumption of anonymity will soon be granted to firearms officers involved in criminal proceedings. JUSTICE & @nujofficial.bsky.social wrote to the Home Secretary expressing deep concern over this – here’s why... 1/4 justice.org.uk/presumption-...

“Our work is not yours to give away”. The NUJ joins 100s of signatories calling on Keir Starmer to enforce copyright law. Transparency requirements must call on AI firms to inform copyright owners of works used in their models. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform Chair Zia Yusuf Accused of ‘Power Grab’ Through New Constitution Farage’s right-hand man has been accused of awarding himself sweeping, unchecked authority within the party. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

In case anyone missed it, there's a CONCLAVE

Presumption of anonymity for firearms officers poses grave threat to public interest journalism, say NUJ and JUSTICE. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/pre...

This is fantastic work by @milesklee.bsky.social documenting the way ChatGPT can cause users’ mental health to deteriorate quickly into catastrophic delusions. This technology never should have been released to the public and that was obvious from day 1 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Quite something to see Leonard McNae's name in the roll of NUJ Members of Honour @nujofficial.bsky.social @nctj.bsky.social

This from Jenrick is his usual mix of unnerving, far too online, ham fisted and actively bullshit - in reality there were 4 tweets (ones commemorating Sikh, Bengali, Tamil and Nepali New Year) and 4 tweets celebrating Easter:

No way SpaceX (or anyone) could create a "Golden Dome" missile shield for the US. Israel's Iron Dome works (mostly) because Israel is a small area—America is not—and it shoots down smaller, shorter-range projectiles. When Iran launched, Iron Dome couldn't stop it. Boondoggle to grift billions.

This is not remotely what the law intends, and discriminates against trans people. The Supreme Court is quite clear they also have protection from discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. What a mess

Family and friends of a Venezuelan migrant living in Texas say officials sent him to an El Salvador mega-prison because he had an autism awareness tattoo, thinking that the tattoo was proof he belonged to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE. (President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)

As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”. The man is a fraud.

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

Dr Shoo Lee concludes his remarks on the Lucy Letby case as he began, by expressing sympathy for the families of the babies who she has been convicted of killing or trying to kill.

BBC News - Family court pilot to support abuse victims expanded www.bbc.com/news/article...

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.