ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers theonion.com/ice-ope...

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

Istanbul. Over 2 million people joined the demonstration.

I have written a 121 page memoir of my mother called CAPE CARE. You can read it on our website, or more easily download it as a pdf there. I hope you like it. It's dear to my heart. annebonnypirate.org/2025/03/24/c...

In November The New Press will publish The Sexual Politics of Capitalism: A Global History, 1980-2025, by Nancy Lindisfarne and me, in hardback and as e-book. (Link to the publisher in the comments.)

Here is a new article by Nancy Lindisfarne and me. It begins: "Let’s clear up some confusions. Trump and Putin are not negotiating with each other. They are on the same side. They are two of the most important leaders of a global alliance of far-right racists." annebonnypirate.org/2025/03/03/t...

Gandamak, Maiwan, and now Afghaninstan defeat England in Lahore by eight runs in the last over. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...

A new article by me: "Trump is Cutting HIV Drugs for 20 Million People, but he can be Stopped." annebonnypirate.org/2025/01/29/t...

this is so true

Here's a new short read by Nancy Lindisfarne and me, called "Jimmy Savile, Boris Johnson and the Slow Burial of the Commission Inquiry into Sexual Abuse." It's a timely article, since Musk has been calling for a public inquiry into gang abuse in Britain. annebonnypirate.org/2025/01/15/j...

Nancy and I have just published a short article on "Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Savile and the Wall of Silence". annebonnypirate.org/2025/01/15/m...

Over the weekend Nancy and I published a post on "The Archbishop of Canterbury, Elon Musk and Sexual Abuse in Britain." There we argued that cover-ups of child abuse are not exceptional events in Britain. annebonnypirate.org/2025/01/11/t...

Nancy Lindisfarne and I have written a new article on The Archbishop of Canterbury, Elon Musk and Sexual Abuse in Britain. We argue that what connects the two stories is a wall of silence about all abuse in Britain, enforced from the top down. annebonnypirate.org/2025/01/11/t...

Heart breaking. Clear, and I think entirely right. spectrejournal.com/the-enemy-of...

Brilliant short punchy piece by Taiwo. He says join the people who do something to fight in the real world, not the people who encourage you to be your identity.

Israel fears Assad's fall could embolden protesters in Egypt and Jordan - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-fears-assads-fall-could-embolden-protesters-egypt-and-jordan

excellent piece, carefully researched, uses the example of one valley in Nuristan to explain why the Americans lost and the Taliban won

The easy way to understand gender theory, "Sing Along Gender Theory: Sometimes it Takes Balls to Be a Woman," an article by Nancy Lindisfarne and me. annebonnypirate.org/2015/03/30/s...

I had my first date with Nancy 29 years ago. As I left she gave me the manuscript of her book ofstories about Damascus. When I got to the story about the prisoner being released from Saidnaya prison and taking a taxi home to his family, I cried and I knew she was the one. 29 years ago.

it's over www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/w...

Agence France-Press, the French news agency, reports that Assad's troops have left Homs. The Syrian Human Rights Observatory confirms it. I think that's it. If true, and I think it's true, it's all over for Assad

useful thread

Hama in Syria has just fallen. It is the fourth largest city in Syria. More important, it is the city where Assad's father in 1982 bombed a popular revolt, killing about 40,000. This is of enormous symbolic importance and it opens the road from Aleppo to Damascus.

This is how it’s done.

Barricades in the South Korean National Assembly set up to block the military from entering so that lawmakers could vote to end President Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law.

useful background on the unfolding coup in South Korea

Brilliant, detailed, up to the minute, eloquent, by someone who knows what is happening in Syria. Hope is dawning. qunfuz.com/2024/12/01/h...

I watch Syria, I read all the people who reject religion in politics, and I know that the two great political leaders of my American youth were a Baptist preacher, Dr. King, and an imam, Malcolm X. And I know that the great killings of the 20th century were done by secularists.

Great news to hear that 16 political prisoners, including my friends @rogerhallam.com & @larchmaxey.bsky.social have been granted the right of appeal. Just Stop Oil supporters & Defend our Juries will be there in support

Women and men detainees in the Tarek Bin Ziad the formerly Assad-held prison in Aleppo are being released by rebels. #Syria

an article from Anne Bonny Pirate by our Nancy on Conversations about Gaza on the bus. annebonnypirate.org/2024/03/18/c....

an article by me on Working Class Ecosocialism annebonnypirate.org/2023/12/01/w....

A long read by me on Euripides, Women and Slavery: Gender Transgression in Ancient Greece. Classicists seem to like it. annebonnypirate.org/2022/01/20/e....

In a survey by the Israeli government, two thirds of American teens said they sympathized with the Palestinian people, four out of ten said that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, one third said they sympathized with Hamas, and 84% said that Israel has a right to exist.

wise and succinct

A statement by trans rs21 members on Trans Day of Remembrance 2024: This Transgender Day of Remembrance, we hold the Palestinian liberation struggle in our hearts and minds alongside the thousands of trans siblings who have been killed around the world.

A long read by Nancy Lindisfarne and me from two years about a struggle against sexual harassment in the anthropology department at Harvard, Raya Sarkar's list of sexual predators in Indian universities, and the strike over sexual harassment at Columbia. annebonnypirate.org/2022/02/13/h...

is this correct?

An article by me about climate breakdown and social collapse theecologist.org/2019/may/08/...

interesting and useful

There are many valid explanations for the success of the far right around the world. But much of it comes down to this: The right has realised that anything is possible, while the left has persuaded itself that nothing is possible.

Most Texas school board candidates who support book bans lost their elections

Alex Jones’s Infowars conspiracy site was auctioned to pay off the nearly $1.5 billion awarded to the Sandy Hook families for defamation. The Onion have just bought it. Genius.

The Afghan government (the Taliban) and local NGOs have been admitted to the COP in Baku with observer status. This article I wrote for The Ecologist about an international climate conference in February at an Afghan university explains why this is important. theecologist.org/2024/mar/08/...