The hero of Bondi: Ahmed el Ahmed, a 43 year old fruit shop owner from Sutherland. He grabbed the gun off one of the terrorists shooting at Jews during a Hanukkah celebration. Ahmed was then shot in the leg and shoulder by another terrorist. He’s being treated in the hospital and expected to be OK.

🚨 🚨 🚨 You no longer risk just your own data and safety when visiting the US, you will also risk that of all your business and personal contacts. Also know that all these data (including your DNA!) will be shared or sold off to Trump cronies in dubious industries, who will further commodify them.

Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned. Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored

Good Trouble 🔥

BANNER BRIGADE Every Friday 3:00-4:30 pm CST Shady Grove Rd & I-240 overpass #BannerBrigade #IndivisibleMemphis

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

ICE continues to assault, harass, & harm Americans. In Minneapolis, incompetent tax payer funded ICE hit a pedestrian & pepper sprayed civilians from their vehicles. This happened after ICE decided to go up & down a street demanding to see people's IDs, caused chaos & injuries, & then left. #Pinks

A piece I wrote a long time ago to acknowledge the 50th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. www.alexandrastein.com/undhr.html

77 years ago #OnThisDay 'men and women from every country and every culture, every religion and worldview, came together to agree that some values were shared and should forever be protected as rights for all.' @andrewcopson.bsky.social #HumanRightsDay2025 andrewcopson.com/2024/12/cele...

ICE stormed a residence hall at Augsburg University, detained an undergrad, and aimed rifles at students and staff then admitted they had no warrant to be on campus. This is state violence. This is terror. And this is exactly what Trump’s America unleashes on our communities.

It’s quite disturbing that the debate is almost completely about the legality of the second strike, whereas it seems quite clear that the first strike was illegal too.

I love soccer and I remember each World Cup with great intensity and always so much look forward to the next. But FIFA that was disgusting, even more disgusting than usual, and now I just can’t. And won’t.

Anyone noticed how UK media is a lot less obsessed with Farage’s alleged antisemitism than Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism? Odd that.

Holocaust survivors: “Those who hope to lead our country should never divide people by race or religion. Antisemitic hatred must never be normalised. This moment is about moral responsibility.” https://bit.ly/4pPHU2W

Ladies and Gentleman.. I give you … Raaaandy Rainbow 🌈 HHS..🖕🏻 Enjoy… #SheShed

It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says: "The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order." That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories. How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?

I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on. Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello…. “The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.” www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Corporate giants chose profits over people—Target gutted DEI, Home Depot let ICE hunt workers, and Amazon is bankrolling this regime. Cool. Let’s hit pause and show them our power. Not one purchase. Not this week. Not from us. Shop Local instead! #WeAintBuyingIt

this is abhorrent

This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’. It’s Russian.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

Hard agree. It’s ugly and unconscionable

“My NHS colleagues and I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Johnson no longer mentions them at all.” Hard hitting and necessary on the government’s covid complacency from @drrachelclarke.com observer.co.uk/news/...

Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record. @independentsage.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

No single person, especially someone with zero expertise, should be able to just change the CDC website on a whim. The fact that federal health and science pages are no longer trustable is a catastrophe for public health and democracy.

Rachel Johnson defending her brother on @lbc.co.uk currently just blamed the "statest establishment" for the failures. "He's getting all the blame and none of the credit" and "he did his best." Really Rachel? Well his best was appalling. This wasn't a gold club tombola. It was a pandemic.

Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆

Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.

Can we now finally stop with “the Danish Model”?

Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.

“to use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. I’m lost for words, frankly” Lord Dubs www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...

Labour should just merge with Reform already 😒

People arriving here by small boat are desperate, often traumatised. Latest figures are 68% of boat arrivals granted asylum (see link) The idea of the govt stripping people of their valuables & then hawking it off literally makes me sick to my stomach migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...

Labour Party pivoting to this sort of things. Literal Nazi shit

Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...

This by Mahmood is frankly not only disgusting, but also massively disingenuous. It equates seeking asylum with illegality, there's nothing illegal about seeking asylum no matter the route. It ignores that Labour's policies penalise those in need of protection, and plays to hard right rhetoric.

This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I hate this policy so much. It's simply morally wrong. I wrote this a few months ago about how emotional it was seeing a refugee I once hosted get his citizenship and, finally, be safe and welcomed. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Compulsory “voluntary work” is slavery and honestly, the volunteer work I do needs earnest care and compassion and you can’t order that from people

TGC: Shincheonji: The Cult of Lee Man-hee Spreads in Africa africa.thegospelcoalition.org/article/shin...