Paul Robeson was a canary in the coal mine long before Jeremy Corbyn My article in @thecanaryuk.bsky.social on #PaulRobeson's birthday, ahead of a sharing of Paul Robeson's Love Song for #mayday 2026. #peekskill #kenosha #blacklivesmatter #antisemitism #itwasascam www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Mothin Ali calls out spineless Starmer for dragging the UK into the Iran war and then repeatedly lying about doing so

i swear this gov is a TV show. the head of intelligence got hacked and used his real name for a porn account. the head of dept of war accidentally texted war plans to a journalist. and now former head of homeland security grappling with husband's secret cross-dressing double life in anti-LGBTQ admin

How on EARTH does a former human-rights lawyer have nothing to say about this?!

bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b... Peter Jukes reports on more revelations about the transatlantic right-wing network, and why the Government is withholding key information on the former Prime Minister’s role Peter Jukes 24 April 2023

Just yesterday the Netanyahu govt adopted a law to hang Palestinians who commit certain crimes in the West Bank but not Israeli settlers who commit the same crimes. Why are we sending a blank check of billions of $ to a govt that pursues these & other blatantly racist policies?

This is a massive and unconstitutional voter suppression effort aimed at giving Trump the power to create a list of who is allowed to vote by mail. We know where this will go -- the targeting of Democrats for mass disenfranchisement. We will sue and we will win.

Thank you @vickyblake.bsky.social and @ewanmg.bsky.social for fighting this fight on behalf of all UCU members.

The Certification Officer has issued his decision in Blake & McGaughey v UCU. My initial response is here: vickyblakeucu.uk/2026/03/31/t... I urge members to read the full ruling rather than relying on the summary emailed to all members by HQ today. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69cbcb...

Ministers are reportedly exploring how to cancel dangerous spy-tech firm Palantir's contract to handle NHS data after over 150k people joined me in calling on them to break the contract. Join us - together we can kick out Palantir out of our NHS: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

‘Battle of the titans’: Trump’s distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall

Does AI risk repeating colonial erasure on a digital scale? A new article in Times Higher Education draws on research by @jeater.bsky.social funded by the British Academy, exploring how AI’s training data and linguistic norms reflect the Global North’s historical dominance. https://bit.ly/4sE53qF

Following the recent raid on Westminster Meeting House various folks who were arrested by the police had computers and phones siezed by the police. This included children’s computers. Phil is trying to raise funds to give 10 grants of £150.00 towards replacement devices. @quaker.org.uk

IRS investigations into abusive tax schemes dropped by 63% last year. That's because the Trump administration fired a ton of employees from the department responsible for investigating wealthy tax cheats. When the rich get richer while we struggle, it is ALWAYS by design.

🚨New report out today.🚨 If we want fewer families facing homelessness, we need to be honest about what works... and what doesn’t. Our new report looks at the evidence behind housing policy and why social housing is key to ending the housing emergency. 🗝️ Read the full report: shltr.org.uk/ifWuB

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

This campaign is about hope vs hate. United, we can make sure Greens defeat Reform.

🚨2-month-old Juan Nicolás was "choking on his own vomit" in a TX ICE prison with a recent measles outbreak—with no doctor there. After a short hospitalization, and still sick, ICE deported him to Mexico. "Measles & tuberculosis-infested detainment," - @pabloreports.bsky.social tells us ⬇️

What would a typical worker earn today if their wages had grown as fast as CEO pay over the past 50 years? Take a guess and watch this video to find out.

Essential reading for conservation scientists & ecologists (in fact anyone doing science across borders!) 🌍🧪https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70227?af=R Remote-control science is an internet-enabled form of "parachute" science FWIW, I see a lot of this in AI and macroecology research

We're being subjected to a deluge of medieval anti-science claptrap from the right-wing press. Meanwhile, anti-vax attitudes are rising and measles is back. Their opinions are not just "hot takes" – they're wrong and dangerous.

“As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto ‘Ignorance is Strength,’ this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal gov't has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths,” she wrote. “It does not.”

What Wes Streeting ISN'T telling you... 🧐

The implication of the BT piece is that Farage’s “Movement” is directly funded by that network. If that’s true, it’s much nastier. He should be having to defend his position to every newspaper and talk show. They should be demanding his resignation. *crickets*

Farage‘s connection with Epstein appears to be more directly financial than Starmer’s, but it seems uninteresting to the political press. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

‪Will, Ian, Maddie and Aleks are to be released following a hearing this morning.‬ ‪Julija Brigadirova was granted bail but is not released due to being on remand for an Instro Precision action in June 2024. Julija is the only one of the Instro10 held on remand.‬ ‪Free them all.‬

BREAKING: ALL OF THE FILTON24 ACQUITTED OF AGGRAVATED BURGLARY The Filton24 defendants have been formally acquitted of aggravated burglary, after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) today offered no evidence for the charge. Support the Filton24 here: chuffed.org/project/filt...

Sorry this is "unemployment fears" at the same time as they are pushing AI to take people's jobs, which is obviously something that will start with the entry level jobs that young people need? CAN THEY NOT THINK. #Labour #Starmer

Universities: what has happened to the Secretary of State dispute? A long, but important, read for anyone in @ucu.org.uk revsoc21.uk/2026/02/18/u...

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

On a day tens of millions of Americans are more sure than ever before that the leader of our nation is a serial sexual predator who's either a pedophile or aiding and abetting pedophiles, the idea that his party is investigating Spanish lyrics they don't understand is a near-alien level of weirdness

‘We feel kinda bad when a solo bird shows up’: Canada sees its first European robin – but how did it get there?

Huh, maybe the revolution will be televised

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Shakespeare knew - a plague on both our houses - here and in the US ❤️ Ian McKellan

take this in

UCU members have a right to a free + fair election, and a working union. Under Grady, members have seen: 📉over 10% real pay cuts, for lecturers, senior lecturers 🔻union membership+density plummet over 5% ✊UCU staff doing 4 strike ballots 🏳️failure to protect branches+job security So we need change.

Key point from Fiona Hill at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk event this evening about the Trump presidency, both domestic and foreign: “This is not a normal time and we should not rationalise and analyse this into normalcy”

Umm, so we “need” to take Greenland to “protect it from Russia”… The same Russia he just asked to join his “peace board”? Do I have that right?

Phang: If the Trump/Bondi DOJ continues this charade of Halligan presenting herself as a U.S. attorney—even though a federal judge has found that she was unlawfully appointed—indictments like this for carjacking and attempted bank robbery could potentially be dismissed.

Today we honor Dr. King by remembering that his legacy wasn’t comfort or quiet it was courage, sacrifice, and resistance in the face of injustice. He knew progress is never handed down; it’s pushed forward by ordinary people who refuse to accept inequality as normal.

A person‘s attractiveness increases by a minimum of 58% when they support their local bookstore, café, theatre, bakery, and library.

The Black Panthers in Philadelphia have initiated armed community defense initiatives to counter ICE kidnapping raids within the city. (January 15, 2026) ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏾

Maybe we should stick to a message this simple.

i don’t think it’s appropriate that old people are my age

Europe may begin selling U.S. assets in response to a new conflict with the US—a move that could trigger a dollar collapse, Bloomberg reports. Deutsche Bank analysts warn Washington’s key vulnerability is living off global financing—and Europe may decide it no longer wants to bankroll the U.S.

My Republican colleagues must take notice: The U.S. cannot base foreign policy on whether or not a president gets a prize. This is pathetic. It is petty and dangerous narcissism — behavior we might expect from a spoiled child, not the leader of a democratic nation.

Poetic