Europe already more than embraces its ongoing (i.e. not only legacy) colonisation of the american and australian continents, i.e. "you guys"! 💀

for the night crowd

"Egyptian authorities have reportedly detained more than seven Sudanese women working in traditional beauty services in the El Hussein district of Cairo and held them for nearly two weeks without families being able to contact them or informed of their location" www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...

We joined 87 other organisations in a statement condemning the EU's proposed Deportation ("Return") Regulation, because increasing surveillance, policing, and racial profiling will only fuel racism and a far-right agenda. The statement: buff.ly/FbcfD1I The @theguardian.com article: buff.ly/Xu3a1sd

Unsurprisingly, the EU's supposedly “new and innovative solution” to migration is a re-packaged and previously rejected one. Read more in the article by @freylindsay.bsky.social: buff.ly/yGtueHB

Tomorrow, 17 February, at 7pm, Bríd Doherty, Associate in our team, will speak at a @streetskitchen.bsky.social Public Meeting at St Michael's Church, Camden, on the extensive issues facing those experiencing homelessness in the borough

“A Sudan Tribune investigation reveals that thousands of disabled Sudanese in Darfur camps are being left behind. With aid systems failing to account for their needs and rugged terrain blocking access to food and water many are forced to trade rations just to survive“ sudantribune.com/article/310777

“At least 28 people were killed in a drone strike on a market in Sudan's North Kordofan State on Sunday. The Emergency Lawyers group warns the death toll may rise as both the army and RSF escalate the use of UAVs in populated areas” sudantribune.com/article/310775

Today's quick update [Feb 16]: - SAF drone strikes on Alsunut, West Kordofan; civilian deaths and casualties reported. - SAF drone strikes on Nyala, South Darfur. - Sudan Tribune: at least 28 people killed in drone strike on Sodari, North Kordofan yesterday. #KeepEyesOnSudan

UK overseas aid cuts will be the steepest of any G7 country this year - outstripping those of Trump administration - so we can hand more money to US military corporations. www.ft.com/content/ad52...

New evidence in the case of Omar Benguit, who has spent 23 years in prison for murder, suggests he was framed by police, BBC Panorama has found www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Remaining stages of the Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill scheduled for 23 February www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69966

- RSF drone strike on a power station in Alrahad, N. Kordofan (black). - SAF drone strike on Adekong, W. Darfur (purple). - RSF shelling on a school in Dilling, S. Kordofan. - 2 ppl reported killed in RSF drone strike on Altina, N. Darfur yesterday (orange). #KeepEyesOnSudan

Today's quick update [Feb 15]: - Sudan Doctors Network: 3 people killed and 7 others injured in RSF drone strike on a hospital in Sennar (red). - SAF drone strike destorys RSF air defense system in Abu Zabad, West Kordofan (blue). #KeepEyesOnSudan

Arundhati Roy joins Shashi Tharoor, Kangana Ranaut in list of ‘casteless’ upper-caste Indians theprint.in/opinion/pov/...

Reminded (ta Jonathan) I received harsh criticism for thinking of folks imprisoned without the transnational clout of Roy. I remain true to an ethics of abolition politics, but got read as someone wanting Roy behind bars. Yet, Roy’s promoting her memoir & Umer Khalid & thousands are still in jail.

Yes 😪 And while this is going on, the Germans are banning Sudanese filmmakers from even entering the country www.screendaily.com/news/acclaim...

NOT having a go at filmmakers, Aseem told Payal Kapadia at Cannes it must be great to get respect from western filmmakers, and she replied "it's not all about western approval" ❤️ But the parade of non-western non-east-Asian films at Berlinale, Cannes, Venice submitted for colonial approval? You know

And she didn't even pull her film out did she, after all of this twitter.com/chhabs/statu...

Sorry, but this is important. Anyone following what's transpiring in Germany (and most of us are), esp the official position of the German state & institutions, is definitely aware of severe reprimand for speaking up for Gaza. Why accept an invite to Berlinale in the first place? Walkout PR stint?

And it blew up about Berlinale two years ago didn't it. "Anticolonial" film critics like some at Film Comment handwringing about whether they should be there or not, and here we are again. Don't know. Probably just worked up how so many are idolising her for this, but they do all the time don't they

The west wilfully ignores Arundhati Roy's excision of Dalit voices when schooled on her marginalisation of Dr Ambedkar (one of the greatest intellectuals from India). She chose to suppress the episode in her memoir. Her withdrawal from Berlinale is fine -- we'll take it without lionising her.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen as big of a disconnect between the scale of a crisis and the scale of media coverage in my life” niemanreports.org/sudan-civil-...

Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person. Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines: zinelibrary.org

It's more relevant asking why those in the film industry are going to Berlinale in the first place isn't it, especially after two years ago. It's the most complict of the "big" film festivals, which is really saying something. We're reduced to celebrating those who pull out? ⚰️

"More than 6,000 people were killed in just three days when Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city of el-Fasher last year, according to victims and witnesses cited in a UN report" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More than 40,000 claimants have waited over a year for a WCA reassessment www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69956

“Sudan’s pharmaceutical industry faces a crisis as war losses exceed $1 billion. With 85% of factories impacted and specialized staff fleeing, strategic medicine stocks have plummeted to under 20%. Leaders are calling for urgent state support to restore production“ sudantribune.com/article/310622

‘Proposals to change settlement rules would pull rug from under migrant workers, inc in social care who provide dignity and comfort to our loved ones, often in difficult conditions and for low pay. The govt must uphold its promises - we cannot simply change rules halfway through an agreed process.’

Today's quick update [Feb 12]: - RSF drone strike on Alkurgul, South Kordofan; 2 people reported killed and 4 others injured. - SAF drone strikes on Zalingei, Central Darfur. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Hi friends 👋🏾 if you can, PLS consider contributing to this Sudanese refugee mother of 2 struggling to raise funds for her daughters’ schooling. I beg you, even the smallest contribution can help 😭 gofund.me/cca54bb5b #KeepEyesOnSudan #mutualaid

And not being a Black woman.

People with learning difficulties ‘could be collateral damage’ if assisted dying bill becomes law #AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide www.disabilitynewsservice.com/people-with-...

Cuts to disability benefits for those who cannot work ‘is recipe for greater hardship’ and ‘will put lives at risk’ #BenefitCuts #UniversalCredit @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @disrightsuk.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/cuts-to-disa...

One in five assessors have not had vital safeguarding training, despite years of DWP deaths #DWP #Safeguarding #DeathsByWelfare #Maximus #Serco #Ingeus #Capita #Atos www.disabilitynewsservice.com/one-in-five-...

Council admits discrimination after DWP ‘migration’ left disabled couple with £1,500 tax bill #DWP #CouncilTax #UniversalCredit @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/council-admi...

📄👀 Our infographic shows the number of hospitalisations and positive tests compared to last week for each virus. If you want even more detail, read the full report: 🔗 www.gov.uk/government/s...

🆕 Norovirus data: activity remains high but has stabilised in recent weeks 🔗 Full report: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-norovirus-and-rotavirus-surveillance-reports-2025-to-2026-season

Alongside more than 100 MPs, peers and union leaders, we have written to the Home Secretary demanding she immediately halt her 'earned settlement' reforms. These proposals will only inflict harm on families, communities, public services, and the economy. They must not pass.

My lovely friend Jaki is featured in this episode of Made in China, a BBC Sounds podcast in which Eva Brookes explores her identity as a transnational adoptee. Its really good. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Today’s quick update [Feb 11]: - RSF drone strike on a quranic school in Alrahad Abu Dakna, North Kordofan (red); 1 student reported killed and 18 others injured. - RSF drone strikes reported in Tandalti, North Kordofan (blue). #KeepEyesOnSudan

We're proud to join 20+ organisations to call out the extreme harms caused by the UK-France 'one in, one out' deal.⁣ ⁣ For one person to reach the UK safely from France, another must endure a dangerous journey, be denied safety, & then subjected to detention & forced removal.⁣ ⁣ tr.ee/0IhVJj 1/2

"A private jet touched down in Shannon Airport. Onboard were Palestinian deportees from the US, their wrists and ankles shackled. "It’s not that the Irish state doesn’t want to involve itself with this depravity – it doesn’t want to acknowledge it" www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...

The thing that really gets me is how far these failures get felt. Why do they handle all neurology for all of east Anglia? It's a single point of failure. We need a dispersed system that's closer to people in their communities. Not a mega hospital that treats us like statistics.

I hope they are ruthless - but deep down I know it won't scratch the surface. I've been under their care for 10 years. It was poor at the start and worse now. No way to prove it ofc but really feel like negligence from addenbrookes has made me more disabled. share.google/9KJmTj2GRCnR...