The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?” Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."

Oh no, my mountain of free money is slightly smaller than I would have hoped! To the papers!

this is so deeply upsetting to read, for many reasons. the takeaway isn’t jus ‘prosecute influencers’ but why there is such deep distrust of medicine and obstetric care- we know the rates of obstetric violence are horrifying, maternal mortality & morbidity is shocking; & so deeply racialised. 1/

This is a tough read, but it's important to remember the conditions that allowed this movement to grow: Industrialised medicine that's rife with misogyny and racism, the worst maternal death rates of any rich country, unpredictable and high health insurance costs, and 'sovereign' bullshit.

An excellent article and pretty emotionally difficult to read at various points. Massive well done to the journalists who worked on this.

my jaw is on the floor and yet im completely unsurprised. trump’s only political conviction is that he loves a handsome winner

Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right? Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.

it's enjoyable. i'm enjoying it www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...

Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)

NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews. At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...

The Greens are winning the support of around half of 18 to 24 year olds. Reform are on 5%. So much for young people's turn to the right! And the Young Greens now have 40,000 members - the biggest youth and students wing in British politics

This may be a controversial take but I don’t think the abhorrent racist things that Farage said as a child are very important. He says abhorrent racist things now as an adult. That is the actual problem.

One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads

What this underlines for me: we cannot frame "identity" in opposition to "the material" in politics when identity defines who belongs, and therefore who can engage in collective struggle for common material gains.

Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government. Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

“We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them". How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration

Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say." But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question

“If Labour don’t do this, we’ll get a Reform government” Trans people, disabled people, migrants, people of colour and people seeking asylum already have a Reform government. You just want to feel superior to those who like the idea of Nigel Farage as PM.

Leaving refugees in 20 years of limbo; ripping up human rights protections and stopping families from reuniting. The Government isn't addressing hatred and division - it's giving in to extremists.

I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...

I see Shahrar Ali has turned to approvingly sharing videos from "British Pariot", attacking GPEW for being too pro-migrant, and attacking @zackpolanski.bsky.social for being too critical of Trump. A striking example of how transphobia is a gateway drug to the far-right.

i think maybe the issue here was having ‘factional lines’ to split things across in a party that was about 5 minutes old

An absolute 🤯 at every level

The only Legitimate Concerns about asylum seekers are concerns for their well being and safety. For a rich country like ours to incessantly whine about these people as if we are their victims is perhaps the single most pathetic spectacle in British politics over the past quarter century.

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)

We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers. "Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."

If you’re based in Scotland, please stand in solidarity with sex workers by coming to Scotland for Decrim’s protest outside Scottish Parliament next Tuesday. Sex workers and allies will be there protesting Ash Regan’s dangerous Nordic model bill.

It’s soggy as hell outside today, why is the UK so damp.. 😭

Our ancient texts have been forgotten by the community

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Everyone deserves to be housed in a community, not a camp, and the sound of gunfire and explosions are just one of the many ways that accommodation at Crowborough is utterly unsuitable for people seeking sanctuary. #CommunitiesNotCamps www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Morgan McSweeney assuring Starmer that no No 10 staff briefed against ministers:

COMMENTARIAT: Streeting is statemanlike, a man of the people. He has really impressed me today. STREETING: If anything, nurses get paid too much! They're like a Mexican cartel!

Just leaving this here www.thenational.scot/news/2545164...

I’ll be speaking at this event on the 27th Nov on behalf of Decrim Now - please come along if you’re a trade union member! Trade union support is a key part of the fight for sex workers’ rights. We need your help in order to win decrim and protect sex workers’ safety, health, and rights.

This is honestly one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever read. “Goodman and Clay believed that letters were the least reliable of the three cues, and that as people became better readers, they no longer needed to pay attention to all the letters in words.” This is literally not what reading is

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

Is sex work a trade union issue? Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective. 27/11/2025 7-8:30PM Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...

When Rosie Duffield is in on it I think we can safely say the anti-phone campaign in Brianna's name is actively at odds with tackling transphobia

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Farewell then Tim Davie. Under his watch the BBC whitewashed genocide, had the BBC News website resembling a “migrant crime” X account, boosted trans hate and the right wing STILL hate him. Quite an achievement

lol she got his ass and he knows it

It's pretty obvious that incitement to violence (ostensibly a police matter) is OK with this government as long as the targets are trans. Unless the message is that you can say whatever you like online with no consequences

"Life changing policies" 1. You'll be poorer 2. Or destitute or dead, if you're disabled 3. If you're already poor, we're upping the likelihood that your kid will die 4. We're arresting your gran for terrorism, if she survived winter 5. Make Britain racist & queerphobic again! 6. Ban the trans