I've spent a lot of time in former British colonies & the formerly colonized often speak 2,3,4 languages & I've become convinced that many pedantic English speakers police others' grammar bc of an insecure rage that they only speak one language yet must feel superior to their multilingual inferiors

Over and over again the story is the same. Building social housing works, building renewable energy works, building schools and hospitals works. Government can do good things. The Thatcherite consensus of mewling self-imposed incapacity is wrong.

This largely assumes that the British people with the most political purchasing power have any sense of self awareness or humility. on LBC the other week the journalist went to one of the UK's most affected towns post Brexit, and everyone he interviewed said they'd vote Leave again

Absolutely disgusting.

just going to reiterate this. if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...

Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May. Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...

column on the mansion tax refugees www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The bird people of Lake Manchar: surviving in a vanishing oasis

Please stop surveiling your neighbors 🙏

With a few quibbles, this neatly lays out what I've said about the us economy for a while - it is a high wage, high cost, high risk economy. There are people there earning 2x their European equivalents who are three missed paychecks away from absolute financial ruin.

10. I am disturbed to see the (Bari Weiss!!!) Free Press circulating, without reflection, amongst Palestine supporters as THE definitive frame of Mamdani—who authored the end bill to stop letting nonprofits raise $ for IDF & got arrested for Gaza within a week of 10/7/23—as a sellout on Gaza.

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

"Flora" has been working in Watsonville CAs raspberry harvest for the last 15 years. "My salary is based on a "piece rate" basis. I have to move extremely quickly to make as many boxes as possible as the extra money makes a big difference in supporting my family." #WeFeedYou

New from 404 Media: Congress demanding answers on ICE's new facial recognition app 'Mobile Fortify'. App taps into an unprecedented no. databases, uses the same system as when people enter/exit the U.S. Now turned inwards. Directly in response to us revealing the app www.404media.co/congress-pus...

UK can't afford to help old people with winter heating but wants to subsidise failing LLM industry just at the point everyone has started to realise their product is basically crap www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The new left party must be different: member-led, shaped by the people it serves, honouring and learning from the past, and building the future. Me in the New Left Review: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Butch women, women who have had double mastectomies and others who don't conform to femininity are being increasingly challenged in women's toilets in the UK, after the Supreme Court ruled on what it means to be a woman.

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Many, many, MANY studies show that the cumulative costs of harassing homeless people—cops, prison, jail, etc—are much more expensive than just housing them and providing income, and that doing those things helps people get to the point where they’re not in crisis any longer. We choose cruelty.

Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...

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Seeing a lot of racist pinkwashing bullshit about Muslims and homosexuality and it’s a good time to share how I was on the gay marriage beat for a decade and racist gays never believed me when I shared how US Muslims favored equal LGBT rights (52%) over Christian evangelicals (34%)!

It’s really obvious that a whole bunch of people on this website were not alive or not not old enough to remember how all of media and the powered elite treated the election of Obama. Americas “moderates” have always been foaming at the mouth racists and bigots who abhor true positive change.

I am old enough to recall as far back as 2018 when Cooper sported a suffragette rosette. A reminder that the suffragettes, unlike Palestine Action, actually planted bombs and destroyed property.

In 2003, anti-war activists broke into RAF Fairford to stop US bombers heading to Iraq. Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes. Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same. The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.

I think it all comes down to the fact that none of you non-immigrants have ever cared about immigration policies - especially for non-EU immigrants - until now, when it could be used as a political point to feel smug about. And it fucking sucks.

There is no longer any version of this available via a .gov archive, but you can still access it via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Here's a link to the URL as it appeared on December 31, 2024. web.archive.org/web/20241231...

BREAKING: French dock workers in Fos-sur-Mer refused today to load machine gun ammo destined for Israel's army

Intervention — "Concrete Anti-Imperialism vs Geopolitical Binaries in the India–Pakistan War" by Antipode's very own Ayyaz Mallick antipodeonline.org/2025/05/29/c...

This Hanif Abdurraqib essay is the most spectacular encapsulation of how I also feel these days. I recognize the Joke, and I relate to the framing of the heart instead of the hope as the thing keeping me going. What a beautiful gift this essay is. www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

“I am part of a support group made up of people who’ve gone through periods of wanting to die and who, like me, are constantly working through how to actively engage with a world that can feel relentlessly untenable.” Hanif Abdurraqib on the uses of despair. nyer.cm/RWqO9fW

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

I’ve been getting this all week at the other place, and at root it is just: to a certain type of person, every time they see someone who isn’t white doing *anything* - living in a house, sitting on a bus, having a job - then that is a direct and treasonous theft from them, and from the fatherland.

Americans eat a lot of chicken, but I don't think they know the physical toll it takes on workers to process all of it. I spoke to poultry plant employees in Delaware about how this work has permanently warped their bodies: thefern.org/2025/05/no-m...

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening. That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk. Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

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If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there. (Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...

Climate impacts means lower yields and less land for food in the future, but what can we do? How do we provide healthy food using fewer inputs, less land, less capital etc? I argue that biophysical limits mean we'll likely go much more plant based in this keynote 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2nl...

Solar farms can host up to three times as many birds as crop fields, study shows theprogressplaybook.com/2025/03/22/s...

British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding