I’m glad that the Nazi tattoo is a line for people but just to be clear, “It’s women’s fault if they get raped” should have been.

My (British) girlfriend finding out I’m not old enough to be president yet, with absolute outrage: “But there’s no upper age limit?!”

Immigrants are… a) almost uniformly not allowed access to public funds; b) charged doubly for using the NHS (immigration surcharge and tax); c) and required to make more than £41k and pay upwards of £10k/pp by the time they’re granted ILR. What part of that is not earning their right?

If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?

This is so obviously true. It’s also – not for nothing – bonkers stupid as a policy. The reason the data shows so many foreign grads don’t transition to employment visas “as intended” is because Labour has made it even more difficult – and even more EXPENSIVE!!!! – to sponsor workers.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

livin’ that champagne life 🍾

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

i should go to sleep so i’m rested for another day of The Horrors

Lots of men really think that being punished or even embarrassed for sexually exploiting teenage girls is a great injustice, and that actually sexually exploiting them is somewhere on the spectrum between “okay” and “pretty cool.”

Good heads up especially for media: do not take a bunch if correlations by motivated actors seriously. If they don’t preregister their hypotheses and data, chances are the results are spurious and cherry picked

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

This @reutersinstitute.bsky.social piece about how new algorithm-driven tools are degrading the welfare system in India – as well as the original reporting it rounds up – should be required reading for anyone covering government, policy or tech. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/how-journali...

a very good thread on this industry

be real nice if DC had an actual hometown newspaper at the moment

I assume we’re going to do a whole round of “Britain’s girls are falling behind!” now, then. Oh wait, we’re not? No way. Who would have thought? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

In April, the House of Lords quietly stopped requiring peers to declare their non-financial interests. This is – quite frankly – an outrageous move to further obscure the personal interests of an almost entirely unaccountable legislative body. news.sky.com/story/house-...

Just saw a guy riding down Kentish Town Road, wired headphones in, having a full-on job interview. How could people ever hate this city?

If you have experienced this my DMs are open

Exclusive: Government poised to approve medical visa scheme for sick Gazan children observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

"The myth persists because there’s always a market for anti-feminist backlash...The 'crisis' doesn’t seem to be that boys are doing particularly poorly of late. It seems to be that girls are finally being rewarded in the form of college attainment and more equal pay for their efforts."

In the Times, Jessica Grose finds that many of the claims about boys’ supposed backslide in education in Richard Reeves’ blockbuster masculinity-crisis book “Of Boys and Men” are empirically unfounded:

I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like. I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.

Andrea Gibson, a master of spoken-word poetry who cultivated legions of admirers with intensely personal, often political works exploring gender, love and a personal four-year fight with terminal ovarian cancer, has died at 49.

Just read the Sullivan op-ed because I hate myself xx

You couldn't ask for clearer evidence that puberty blockers being banned for trans kids is a political decision than what is happening with weight loss drugs.

🚨🚨 Come work at @theobserveruk.bsky.social with me and @ktriley.bsky.social !! Its a great team and we're really excited to start working on bigger data projects with... you? observer.co.uk/about-us/car...

I cannot emphasize enough how needlessly cruel the UK immigration system is to ordinary people who want a family life together and aren't well-off already, and anyone wanting to make it worse should be shunned.

🚨 We're hiring a Data and Graphics Reporter for my team at The Observer 🚨 My DMs are open for any questions or you can send me an email at [email protected]. observer.co.uk/about-us/car...

🚨NEW 🐢 DATA PROJECT🚨 @chefboibex.bsky.social, @seitarowhite.bsky.social and co spent months building a database of climate scepticism and misinformation, as well as an interactive tool that shows you how that information spreads online. And you can (finally!) find all of it here: torto.se/4j0NNY4

@chefboibex.bsky.social @ktriley.bsky.social and others have been working on an incredible new tool to track climate misinformation online. Check it out here @tortoisemedia.bsky.social

If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

Oh, hey. This seems like as good a time as any to remind everyone of the project we launched on the Lords back in November... www.tortoisemedia.com/intelligence...

We're hiring for the new Observer! None on my team yet, but happy to answer any questions I can regardless. DMs open! www.tortoisemedia.com/careers

I spent my afternoon going over as many British newspapers published in the last three days that I could access to document just how Trumps hatred of trans people has embolded people in the media. Since Friday, I found nine articles about trans people across three papers:

committees.parliament.uk/committee/29... 👀👀👀

Note that anyone can email the snitch line, [email protected]. So if you’ve got any, uh, thoughts or information you’d like to share about this initiative, fire off that email today!

Please Lord our God do not send us another pandemic.

I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.

A wonderful, insightful chart from yesterday's Sensemaker by @chefboibex.bsky.social (with data by @seitarowhite.bsky.social)

Occam’s Razor on Rotherham, Rochdale, etc. and the years of inaction has always been that the police and those in power don’t take the abuse and sexual assault of women and girls – especially otherwise marginalised girls – seriously.

During our traditional Xmas Eve Eve gingerbread house decorating party last night, my bff’s sweet baby angel boyfriend (a born and raised Coloradan) was so hysterically unprepared for how much more candy the two of us (born and raised Midwesterners) could consume than him. I’ve never felt so proud.

I look forward to reading the Nieman Lab predictions every December, but @andreafaye.bsky.social's contribution from this year's collection is so good and so spot on that I think anyone who works in journalism needs to go and read it right now: www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/brea...

Really interesting piece from @tortoisemedia.bsky.social but I can't get over just how close the US is to Syrian incarceration rates

And another new one from @catneilan.bsky.social and @chefboibex.bsky.social – this time with more detail, including a list of all the peer shareholdings they were able to uncover and verify for the first time through their reporting.