We were never consulted on Palantir gaining access to our health data. But we've since made our views known. And in just 4️⃣ DAYS, MPs will debate activating the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. Tell you MP to do the right thing 👇 www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...

Excellent Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social interview with 'Empire of AI' author Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social – Especially insightful for Ireland, where abject political & media capitulation to misleading big tech & AI promises continues to be the norm. drilled.media/news/drillin...

AOC: Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly the data and privacy of the American people—keeping track of everything that they say and do. And sending it to a militarized government. 

I’m excited to deliver this talk next week! Book to join us and think together about #Feminist #Cities for all.

👋Our next Justice Futures seminar is on Tues 24th at 12 noon (UK time). Online. The talk examines the lived experiences of feminist, Black, and LGBTQIA+ human rights defenders in Brazil as they navigate routine violence and shrinking democratic space. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sccjr-just...

#poetry #palestine

Despite attempts by Trump to claim otherwise, the U.S. military was responsible for killing at least 175 in a strike on a school in Iran.

‘I stand with Iran. Unequivocally. Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power’ Arundhati Roy ✊ m.thewire.in/article/book...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Obstinate clinging to counterproductive cruel policies. It’s not immigration that cripples public services, it’s ultra wealthy elites sucking up all resources for unbelievably gross luxury living. Immigration decline starving caring services of staff

Immigration officers "conspired together to steal cash from migrants on small boats" and "worked together to take money and share it out". This is symptomatic of an immigration regime that encourages the degradation and exploitation of people seeking safety www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Book to join us for the Bristol screening of 'No Release' on 18th March with @monish.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-release...

A new era of blatant white supremacist/fascist propaganda. Definitely has a terrifying/atrocity/demonic ring to it… How embarrassing for the American people to see more junk published by the “department of state”.

Powerfully written! The sector is not just stretched, it’s rigged & dismantled- set up to fail families with extortionate rents & some profiting from the slow erosion of stability, dignity and childhood. Yes to social & affordable housing!

Announcement: Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti will join Lambros Fatsis as a Guest Editor for our upcoming issue: Towards an Anti-racist Anti-Criminology. Publishing: March 2027. All info here: www.criminologicalencounters.org/index.php/cr... @mattiasdebacker.bsky.social @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social

"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?" Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

An ICE detainee is the victim of “homicide” according to an autopsy report, and he is just one of 3 deaths in 44 days at this Texas ICE detention facility. I've got the latest details, including DHS' efforts to silence and deport the eyewitnesses to this homicide. youtu.be/lcLnJ9GF7dw?...

The last time the government released figures on numbers of US military personnel in Britain (January 2024) they disclosed 13,437. But this only covered seven US bases. The government has just said "approximately 11,000" are here, but refuses to provide numbers at each base.

The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff. Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for. This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...

"[M]asked agents apprehended 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in his driveway on Tuesday...[the agent] led him to the door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.”

3,000 people have read our @environmentalpol.bsky.social article in its 1st month online The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest - a repertoire of repression With @crossdale.bsky.social, C Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social & T Franco Brotto

When “Operation Raise the Colours” started attaching flags to lampposts, you couldn’t analyse it in the media without the reply, “it’s just people innocently expressing national pride”. Now the same people are travelling to France to intimidate refugees. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Brilliant Brighton welcomes visitors, but who wants to come and see us looking like an oppressive police state? Sussex Police, with no legal basis, has put live facial recognition vans on our streets. As MP, I will stand up to its unlawful use, and vote against this intrusive tech in Parliament.

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

The punitive populist race to the bottom goes on www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Precisely! This was homicide, committed by ICE, and supported by Trump, showing his routine disregard for human life.

Cruel & inhumane- it shows how atrocities go ahead in plain sight at the hands of ordinary people, including those in bureaucratic jobs - presumably someone pressed send on the letter. Thinking of his family.

Any news outlet that values truth should state unequivocally that US government officials are lying when they say that Renee Nicole Good tried to harm the ICE thug who killed her. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Young people turning 20 this year will have been aware of literally nothing but cuts and communities forced into hardship for their whole lives. My new year wish is for austerity to finally be shown the door. www.theargus.co.uk/news/2573870...

Epstein seems to have been relegated down the news agenda.

Infrastructure in UK cities after several years of cuts is an absolute embarrassment. Today I saw a child and an elderly person fall in icy pavements, and a working age neighbour off with a foot injury. At best, this shows a systemic short sighted way to govern. Another reading is deadly neglect.

New article! The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression by @crossdale.bsky.social @berglundoscar.bsky.social Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social & Tie Franco Brotto. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Netanyahu’s extremist government continues to colonise the West Bank, while his Western supporters and ‘peacemakers’ continue to treat him as if he isn’t a war criminal. www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Anyone interested in the rise of techno-authoritarianism/broligarchs and why they're targeting Europe, I've stumbled on this great resource. Use it. authoritarian-stack.info cc @francescabria.bsky.social

#Spycops officer who deceived woman showed ‘sadistic tendencies’ spycops, inquiry told. Report from yesterday's moving, harrowing testimony from 'Alison' about how undercover Mark Jenner abused her for 5 years. Jenner himself gives evidence next week. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

After the Home Office introduced a new Crime and Policing Bill amendment to create a criminal offence of protesting outside the home of someone in public office, Netpol asked how many arrests had already been made for such protests, justifying the need for another new law. This data does not exist

🌟 Our Christmas Fundraiser is LIVE 🌟 From now until 9 Dec, every donation made to INQUEST via @biggive.bsky.social will be matched at no extra cost to you. We need to raise £30,000 so we can continue supporting families bereaved by state failures & neglect. Donate & share bit.ly/inquestbg25

How does the UK treat peaceful protesters who stood up against genocide? Even the most conservative reading can see these are political prisoners. Sometimes it’s hard to remember we are in the year 2025… Dystopian! Sister of Palestine Action-linked prison hunger striker says she fears for his life

Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving. A "step in the right direction" according to the PM. Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today I asked the Government why it is creating an authoritarian toolkit 👇

Hope leads to action. Stop listening to paralysing pessimism. Keep believing with an open mind that another path is possible.

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion. This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more! www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Labour’s awful migrant policies are helping pave the way for the racist far right. And they are also building a gold-plated shed at the end of that road - full of tools for a far right Govt to oppress us all. 🕵️ Digital ID database 📸 High St facial rec 👨‍⚖️ Removing trial by jury

Since May, Israeli soldiers and American subcontractors have killed nearly 3,000 Palestinians seeking aid, according to a September tally by Gaza health officials. interc.pt/4rm9o1G

Possibly the best book I read in 2025 - Slobodian’s “Hayek’s Bastards” powerfully deconstructs far-right ideologies about hard-wired borders, culture and money! Everyone should read this book

Migration policies in the UK seem to be constantly seeking more ways to create misery - an ongoing battle of threats against the human rights. Christopher Bertram hit the nail on the head. ‘Core Protection’ - really well explained. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

The UK should be more than embarrassed, not only about the disproportionate & inappropriate response to solidarity/activists, but also about the horrendous conditions imposed, especially the extremely long wait for a trial - inhumane novaramedia.com/2025/11/11/p...

In Harrietsham, Kent, the council is unable to put up Christmas lights because far right activists have fixed flags to the lampposts. They say they are also unable to remove the flags as they don’t own them or the lampposts. They’ve asked whoever put them up to please take them down.