As Margaret Atwood said, "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them".

"without transparent guidance from the OfS.'" Why can't vice chancellors make their own decisions based on - I dunno- values and ethics? Or perhaps from their frame, a risk assessment. What are they paid for?

There are whole university service departments, employing significant numbers of skilled, professional people, spending their time on bids which fail 60 - 80% of the time, at least...

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

Fox News is going all-in on manufacturing consent to murder liberal white women:

Being “disrespectful of law enforcement” is not a crime, and is not something that American citizens should be summarily executed for by masked men in unmarked cars.

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

Breaking: NYT now says *six* federal prosecutors in Minnesota have just resigned over the Justice Department's push to investigate the widow of Renee Good and the department's reluctance to investigate the ICE agent who shot Good, according to people with knowledge of their decision.

A sobering thought: were Nigel Farage to become Prime Minister then the terrifying scenes from Minneapolis would become terrifying scenes here.

If you're waiting for a hospital appointment, this is not unique to the UK. Short thread🧵 1/4

Sending jack-booted thugs to invade American cities. Unilaterally launching wars and plundering foreign nations. Suspending funding for states that voted against him. Trump is the "big government" nightmare Republicans have always warned us about. And yet they're silent.

Breaking News: A judge ruled that construction could resume on a large wind farm off Rhode Island, after the Trump administration halted the project.

"But more fundamentally, ICE is violence-prone because its main purpose has become theatrical. Under present leadership, ICE is less a law-enforcement agency than it is a content creator." David Frum www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The Court will have to grapple w/ the fact that there is no singular "biological sex" but a constellation of which chromosomes are just 1 part. This will be the first time the wider public is exposed to this as well. As I wrote in 2012's "Transgender Dinosaurs" it's the face of the future. 2/2

Before Trump, law enforcement were trained to behave professionally. At a traffic stop they would start with words such as "Mam, may I see your drivers license and registration." ICE evidently trains their goons to start a stop with screamed profanity, quickly followed by violence.

Can you even imagine the terror felt by this resident as government agents barge into her home with guns?

Reform UK, which says it represents “change” from Conservative failures, has so far accepted defections from: - A disgraced Tory minister sacked for tax-dodging - Disgraced Tory vice chairman suspended for racism - Disgraced former minister suspended for abandoning constituents for a reality TV gig

There's always a tweet - Nadhim Zahawi edition #Racist #Farage #Reform #PoliticsLive bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Sir Paul Nurse is an impressive scientist but what the Royal Society needs is Dorothy Bishop to take the helm and clean the place out. Fellows who bring the Society into disrepute need tougher action than himpathy. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

US vetoes most Ethiopian athletes for the World Crosscountry Championships in Florida by denying their visas. Ethiopia will be unable to record a team result in either the U20 men’s or U20 women’s races, ending its 44-year medal streak. I’m sure the Olympics and World Cup are going to be fine. 😡

The UK should offer to send troops to Greenland as part of a joint NATO operation under Danish and UK command. If Trump is serious about security, he'd agree to participate and drop his outrageous threats. Tearing the NATO alliance apart would only play into the hands of Putin.

Episcopalians going *hard*

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

You may teach Plato, but you may not teach THAT Plato. www.ms.now/opinion/plat...

A week ago the Telegraph published a piece purportedly ahead of a report of the Tax Payer’s Alliance. Except, the report has not appeared. So this was all false: a press release without a report. This is what fake news really looks like.

Excellent work everyone: if we redouble our efforts, I’m sure we could get the statutory Resigned In Disgrace period for members of our irremovable, permanent ruling class down to less than two months.

Also, its illegal to discuss gender in some American universities now.

I'm trying to remember who it was complained that the difference between a college and a prison was that in a prison you weren't required to buy and read books written by the wardens and the governor.

Not hollow; it’s consistent, wrote a book on it bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

“We are in the final stages of a complete decoupling of truth and rhetoric. The administration’s lies are not meant to be believed in any traditional sense. The Trump administration is not trying to fool you. They are asserting dominance over reality itself.”

whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

The immigration doom loop in full swing. Chasing the xenophobes is a doomed strategy both economically *and* politically. (1/3) archive.ph/pyVLg

Babbage! thou shouldst be living at this hour.

hey so this is actively happening currently here. one of the Indigenous patients i work with was stopped by ICE on lake street this morning & was asked if he's mexican. i've also been made aware of folks who know a red laker as well as a few ogalala who've been scooped up by ICE recently as well.

This is absolutely insane - and absolutely terrifying. 'Accept our hate-speech and CSAM generator into the heart of your discourse or we will try and bankrupt you'.

Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute

What happens when you ask teenage girls what they want in parks? They tell you. They ask for places to sit together, to feel safe but not watched, to be active without competition and to connect with nature. They are not unrealistic. They are just not usually asked. Always ask. #MakeSpaceForGirls

Lynda Blackmon Lowery, who at age 14 was beaten by police trying to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, has passed away at age 75. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez: "Many of our immigrants neighbors are picked up simply by moving their cars. Help your neighbors take out the trash, because there are many reports of neighbors being kidnapped when they're taking their trash out."

The rich aren't the only ones guilty of vilifying the very idea of taxes. The idea that taxes are bad and tax cuts are good is corrosive and it's crept into every layer of our society. It's stupid, harmful, selfish, and makes life worse for everyone.

The addressee of Dr. Peterson's email, Dr. Sweet, who was the conduit of these complaints. You cannot make this stuff up. The cowardice of so many academics just blows my mind. 😭 Dr Peterson, otoh, absolutely rules.

JD Vance accuses the slain Renee Good of perpetrating "an attack on federal law enforcement, an attack on law and order, and attack on the American people" "That woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation," he adds, repeatedly referring to her as "that woman"

Officer Fanone, seriously assaulted and wounded by the J6 mob, must be sick to his stomach. JD Vance and the utter hypocrisy of talking about stopping incitement of violence towards law enforcement officers.

PEN America condemns educational censorship at Texas A&M after a professor is told not to teach Plato, a foundational thinker in the study of Western philosophy, merely because his writings discuss questions about love, gender, and human identity. pen.org/press-releas... #censorship #highereducation

One thing I didn't fully appreciate until I sat on a jury and reviewed body cam footage for myself, is how cops yell contradictory instructions at people like "Don't move" "Put your hands up" "Get the fuck out of here" "Keep your hands where I can see them" etc. all screamed at your face with guns

'The higher the traditional indicators like citation counts and impact factors are for African scholars, the lower their score for local relevance and community impact. The globally accepted metrics punish what matters most, while blocking African scholars’ career progress.'

Will this sycophantic dilettante ever quit? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...