Time with the Big Ride for Palestine is always time well spent.

Useful to compare this to Labour's flagshop transport proposal - the Lower Thames Crossing - while asking yourself: Who will benefit, in what parts of the country, and at what environmental cost?

Watch but do listen. Smart commentary about London, but relevant far beyond….

No one better suited to serve on this board than Sir Tony Blair.

Takes literally 2 seconds. Do this.

As a resident of Birmingham, I would like to thank @rachelshabi.bsky.social for writing this balanced and clarifying piece about Birmingham's Macabi Tel Aviv fiasco.

Supporters of the IDF's conduct in Gaza - my MP, for example - were clearly comfortable with the people of Birmingham being subjected to chants such at “Why is there no school in Gaza? There are no children left there.” But I am grateful to Craig Guildford for sparing our city that experience.

Picked up my copy of @thewaroncars.bsky.social's Life After Cars today at @vocebooks.bsky.social. If you live in the Birmingham area, you should get your copy there too!

Thank you @kateesthersmith.bsky.social, @apeikeumolu.bsky.social, @sallytuckett.bsky.social, @aishadjelid.bsky.social, and @sethrockman.bsky.social for such an excellent roundtable this afternoon on Plantation Goods!

At least I have a headline image for my "American Empire" class, I guess....

Again it is something that people in previous eras have commented on but I still find it just astonishing to witness in my own: fascism is somehow the natural ideology of loser men, just all of our most pathetic and contemptible instincts rendered into a worldview.

this is pathetic to a degree i didn't realize was possible

i think gavin newsom fucking sucks and if you ever try to guilt me into voting for him i’ll scream

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

Looking forward to @sethrockman.bsky.social public lecture on Plantation Goods tomorrow. 6pm at BRIG cafe. @johnmunro.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/publi...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. takes a spin on Fire Island, New York in 1967 Happy #BicycleBirthday, Dr. King! January 15 (1929-1968)

Tomorrow!

What's happening is a siege and they should respond accordingly.

Concrete barrier modal filters could be one form of nonviolent resistance to the racist occupiers. ICE free superblocks. If they can't drive their SUVs into a neighborhood, their kidnapping capabilities would be curtailed. Mayors could surely authorize this. #AntifascistTacticalUrbanism

In other words: they're coming - shelter those neighbors we know this racist occupying force will be looking to take away. Fascism has fully arrived in the US, and Reform and its allies want this for the UK too.

AI use is disqualifying if and only if you are an obstacle to power. Great social tech here.

Birmingham resident here. I suspect that most people in this city were, like me, grateful that our city would not be subjected to these chants. I'm also not shocked to see that senior members of this Labour government feel differently.

Really looking forward to tomorrow’s roundtable on Plantation Goods with @sethrockman.bsky.social @aishadjelid.bsky.social @sallytuckett.bsky.social @apeikeumolu.bsky.social @johnmunro.bsky.social All welcome! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/round...

There's a long history of bikes as tools of resistance. And for good reason!

A conversation not to be missed.

After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas. ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.

I fully support their decision to live. They have already succeeded in exposing beyond doubt the UK Government’s pathological loyalty to a genocidal state. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Merci, Mayor Hidalgo.

“'She was full of heart and never defined by malice. She was an extraordinary mother, devoted, fiercely loving. ... A poet, musician, and lifelong learner — she moved through life with wonder and a drive to create and understand the world around her.'” #ReneeGood www.startribune.com/renee-good-f...

A conversation not to be missed.

The image of people wandering among black body bags looking for the corpses of their missing loved ones is just devastating.

Democrats need to get more comfortable using terms like: paramilitary, state terror, secret police, occupation, and ethnic cleansing. Then the hard part is that they actually need to take action commensurate with those threats.

Asking the ICE agent beating a guy up on the pavement to hold still so I can scan his QR code that he was required to wear instead of a badge that can simply be read

Science shows that reducing air pollution prevents e.g. asthma attacks, hospital admissions, chronic disease and premature death. If you ignore these benefits and only count the costs to industry, you can see that human life has no value. Clean air is not negotiable.

I'll be blogging twice a month for the rest of the year, so now's the time to subscribe. I will not be asking for your money, but I *will* tell you about upcoming book events as they appear! buttondown.com/cutterham

This week sees the release of @netflix.com's new adaptation of Agatha Christie's 'The Seven Dials Mystery'. 🔍 Interested in the context of one of Agatha Christie's first espionage thrillers? Also set in 1920s London, historian @tricksterprince.bsky.social's book is a great companion read. #booksky

He has been very clear that Nigel Farage wants to initiate racist terror squads snatching foreign-looking teenagers off the streets here in Britain too. It boggles my mind the free ride Reform gets in the media despite saying yes they want a UK ICE!!

Reason everyone stopped hearing about the Proud Boys is they all got jobs at ICE

The sad punchline to @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social's banning of people without cars from recycling centers is the idea that this exclusion is on safety grounds. Harder to picture a safer space for pedestrians and cyclists in all of Birmingham.

Elected officials have to stop posting like bystanders who have no power.

Man telling women about a "lifetime of reading the signs"

Just look at that young man in the hoodie. I remain in awe at the courage people are showing in the face of these cowards.

Also sobering: Keir Starmer is Prime Minister and his main political strategy is to normalize Nigel Farage's ideology.

Tony Blair and Keir Starmer both make a good fit for this board.

I find all these videos very inspiring, and it's remarkable how *quickly* everyone responds and how many people have whistles on them. Can you imagine how dispiriting this must be for the gormless idiots who think Twitter is the real world and signed up for ICE

Pedestrianize School Streets.

Worth noting that although tellingly embraced in this article, the idea of a nation's "love affair with the car" is itself an artifact of car culture ideology. @thewaroncars.bsky.social has a good episode on it....

This is what Reform wants for the UK. And Labour's strategy is to move toward Reform.

Good idea. Everyday antifascism.