The Russians have launched over 20 missiles in the last 20 minutes at Kyiv. Multiple explosions and fires reported throughout the city.

It’s making everything worse

In addition to global warming itself, we now have financial incentives to start fires

More than a quarter of American adults have a daily gambling habit, 42 percent of bettors have said they spend more than they should, and a majority of men ages eighteen to forty-nine have an active account with an online sportsbook.

What did they sacrifice their lives for? A billionaire narcissist’s decision to launch a war no one asked for and to continue a war no one wants?

More than two years after her arrest while attempting to protect students against police violence at the break-up of UC Irvine’s Gaza Solidarity encampment, the UC Irvine administration continues to subject Tiffany to unfair and costly disciplinary procedures. sites.google.com/view/withdra...

Absolutely monstrous. Textbook war crimes. And the Gulf is very dependent on water desalination plants. Iran can still do more damage in retaliation to American war crimes than anything it’s done so far. If no one stops Trump we are quickly heading into unprecedented territory.

The wildfires in Ontario have turned the air poison. These AQI values are a risk to everyone, not just the “vulnerable” The eugenicist mindset of leaving high risk people by the wayside is why we don’t have clean indoor air or better mitigations Disability justice saves lives

Again Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of terrorism and sedition (before pardoned by Trump) as well as gun crimes and an act targeting a black church, plus garden variety fraud, claims he was given entrance to the UK. Tho his buddy likely snuck across Ireland’s open border.

"Turnout for the election was the second lowest since the role was created in 2012, with just 17.14% of the electorate" Reporting elections without turnout is not only inaccurate, it plays a key role in the mainstreaming of far right parties making them look far more popular than they really are...

#OtD 15 Jul 1907 Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer, was publicly beheaded in her home village, Shanyin, at the age of 31 for her involvement in the Anqing Uprising, a plot to overthrow the Qing Dynasty stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8678...

Desalination plants are being targeted again. Iran hit one in Kuwait hours ago.

EXCLUSIVE: How one racist tweet about a hotel housing asylum seekers set in motion fascist protests, a government crackdown on couriers, and the eviction of the hotel's residents. www.vashtimedia.com/fascists-v-t...

So that’s TWO ex-wives, two daughters and an immediately family member that he physically abused and/or threatened. Just an insane story

The kind of shit that makes your blood boil. "The third time Anna Liedtke was subjected to an illegal strip-search in Israeli detention, female prison guards forced her on to her knees, covered her mouth to stop her screaming and raped her" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

“failure by FIFA to uphold its own human rights standards” sportandrightsalliance.org/fifa-a-world...

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

We’re rapidly approaching a situation in which it becomes legally hazardous to express any criticism of “gender critical” views. The combination of well-funded lawfare and well-funded media moral panic is extremely dangerous to free speech for everyone, as well as obviously to trans people’s rights.

As someone who’s actually read Mein Kampf, this does actually read like it’s from it

Pivoting to video so many times as an industry that we're all just turning into those large spinning cones of gyro meat digiday.com/media/inside...

TIL that the planned US embassy in Jerusalem is built on stolen land belonging to Rashid Khalidi among others pca.st/episode/c51f...

You can write an entire doctorate on the choice of people being platformed here - and, just as crucially, who is absent. Once again, we see ‘the economy’ from the perspective of bosses as the default. The world is literally burning. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"There's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth." Probably not a good sign when federal officials sound exactly like abusive husbands

UN experts expressed serious concern over reports that more than 7,400 people are victims of a systematic pattern of arbitrary detention, collective expulsion and trafficking at the Tunisia-Libya border and in Libya, since at least June 2023: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.

There’s this huge field of broad beans in Brighton that is not being harvested, they’re just rotting. Does anyone know why?

I’m interested in any political imagination for accountability. It has to be proactive & retroactive. It has to be spectacular. And, ideally, it would leave so many of them broke that it actually becomes a deterrent. Being poor is truly all they care about not because they don’t care about prison.

🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage pocketed £2.3 million in income and donor gifts during his first two years as Clacton’s MP - equivalent to £22,000 a week. 📝 New @desmog.com report 👇🏻

I hope the college students who protested the US-funded massacre of Palestinian civilians, while being vilified by their universities and politicians and even the president, understand that they are actually having an impact, just much slower than they hoped

@distributeaid.org's logistics coordinator for our Levant response took @ayoub.bsky.social's Lebanon course earlier this year and found it incredibly valuable! Highly recommend if you've been involved in fundraising / aid efforts for Lebanon, or have an interest in the region.

Aight folks there are still 3 spots left for the class on modern Lebanese history and politics, with a new focus on regional dynamics. This will be my 4th class this year. If you’re interested reach out directly or just follow the link below

Feels like one of those events marking the end of an era. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...

Posted while First Nations communities in Northern Ontario are literally being incinerated and the skies above Canada’s biggest cities are glowing orange

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Lauren Underwood is the most mainstream of mainstream Democrats and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. If she is voting for the Massie amendment, then it is a sign of a larger shift in the party. #IL14

George Lucas never read anything about the Luddites

I’m convinced Hegseth is just an AI that Judith Butler created to demonstrate that Gender is a social construct

Rather sick of hearing from that disgusting bigoted hatemonger, how about we try and raise up some trans folks instead? If you are trans and are an artist, writer, gamedev, musician, or creative of some variety? Reply below with links to your work(s)! Only one rule - strictly no generative AI.

Same nonsense over and over and over and over again. The UK's welfare spending is among the worst in the West. There is no benefits crisis. There's a poverty crisis. Labour can either get rid of these people or see its party get rendered permanently irrelevant.

🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...

One thing that's surreal about the Trump admin is that it's the easiest argument for why History matters to the present, for all the wrong reasons

here it is from their own mouth. fucking hell

Ahead of the game tonight, if / as needed.

In Northern Ireland, lawyers, community workers, & advocates who support migrants are being targeted by far-right groups. Our new report out today, “Locals Only,” details these threats. @cdsherrard.bsky.social @amanda.ie @finucanecentre.bsky.social www.humanrightsfirst.org/library/new-...

Last week there was a joint session by the NI Affairs and Home Affairs committees into the recent riots in Belfast. Davy Beck (PSNI) said "this is the third year in a row" of "atrocious violence and racism." The initial protest calls "had a clear anti-immigration and extreme right-wing theme."

Your reminder that most of the region including basically all of the US' allies relies on water desalination plants for most of their water. If Iran decides to be as barbaric as the US, the consequences would be catastrophic

Good overview of the Far Right actors involved in last month’s pogroms in Belfast. Neo-Nazis, a convicted murderer, a Far Right agitator with potential connections to British intelligence etc None of this is a secret. They’re comfortable enough being out in the open in 2026.

Jesus. 35 UK universities quietly- without debate - joined the Ministry of Defence’s “Battlefield Alliance” which seeks to “reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security” They’re destroying the social sciences and humanities while militarising the institutions