The Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza was organizing public screenings of World Cup matches for families across the Gaza Strip. According to Dropsite News, the IDF killed the committee’s public relations director in a strike shortly before today’s Egypt-Argentina match.

The Government Estate Nature Plan has been published – revealing the first official map of all central government land, and that 37% of the public estate is being protected & managed for nature (thereby counting towards the 30by30 goal). Thread 1/ assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a3ce5...

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave

TY @theguardian.com for naming the cause of this trend!! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What do these companies have in common? -Block -Citigroup -Coinbase -CVS -Dominion Energy -Disney -Halliburton -Hasbro -HP -Kohl's -Live Nation -Palantir -Paypal -PG&E -Southwest Airlines -Tesla -United Airlines They all paid a lower effective income tax rate than you: zero.

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

Folks in Vancouver, Canada, pull up for this crucial symposium on Legality and Impunity in Times of Crisis, organized by Brenna Bhandar, Jon Goldberg-Hiller, and Isabella Pojuner.

excited to announce 'legality and impunity in times of crisis' at UBC later this month. speakers will be discussing political and legal forms of impunity in the current international (dis)order. if you're in so-called vancouver, register to attend here: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...

excited to announce 'legality and impunity in times of crisis' at UBC later this month. speakers will be discussing political and legal forms of impunity in the current international (dis)order. if you're in so-called vancouver, register to attend here: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Something to be said about politicians and pundits taking AI developers' apocalypse preaching more seriously than decades of very good climate science

wait until he finds out economics was built on the assumption that people are wrong

If the Iranians really want to fuck with us they should offer to open the straights in return for Trump’s resignation.

Wish I’d had this video when I taught Marx earlier this afternoon

There are 214 House Democrats. Let's see how many go on record for removal.

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Interesting from @javierblas.bsky.social on Odd Lots that "East of Suez" and "West of Suez" is still the clearest way to think of world petroleum markets. Long shadow of empire.

Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya on how UK teachers are resisting the repression of Palestine solidarity in classrooms.

It's really difficult to properly express how nuts this is. Meta's 2.2 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel plant was already world-leading bad. Now they're adding 5.2 EXTRA gigawatts on top. So SEVEN NEW FOSSIL FUEL PLANTS for one data centre. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

An extremely urgent edition of: to keep functioning, society must discourage baldface lying, especially by authorities

How can this go on for another 3 years?

Pretty amazing to hear the Environment Secretary, Emma Reynolds, launching the Land Use Framework, say: “A thousand years ago William the Conqueror commissioned the Domesday survey… understanding our land is the first step towards better managing it.” Nice mention of geographer Dudley Stamp too!

The first-ever Land Use Framework for England has been published. I think it is the most far-sighted plan for England's land since the Second World War. Here's my thoughts on what it does (& doesn't) do: 1/ www.gov.uk/government/p...

Really necessary set of essay about this moment: www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47192

NEW Land and Expand - how Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence What a close reading of public domain documents tells us about two concerning contract awards Detailed post by me, following-up on my FT column emptycity.substack.com/p/land-and-e...

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

some good news today! if the amendment passes on feb 25th, it would help halt the most severe forms of criminalisation of roadside ways of life practiced by gypsy-traveller and roma communities, as is custom. thanks to @fft.bsky.social @libertyhq.bsky.social @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social for your work

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Mandelson sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up his advisory firm, Global Counsel, including how to target potential new clients such as the Chinese government. www.ft.com/content/13d2...

Somebody should invent a socioeconomic system which is good at allocating resources

FT exclusive Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor discussed ways round restrictions on his making investments while an official UK trade representative and shared official documents from the role with Jeffrey Epstein, files released by the US Department of Justice show www.ft.com/content/6b2f...

guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story

The fossil fuel companies are insisting they're not interested in increasing oil extraction in Venezuela but their investors / shareholders don't seem to believe them

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Let me sum up the reaction of the German government: International law applies when our enemies violate it, it’s that simple.

Is your local NHS trust using Palantir software? Find out and tell them what you think ⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/ql1k

Hello Bluesky! I do policy and politics at Good Law Project and I want to talk about it here. Mostly thinking about trans rights, big tech, and the far right. I would love to hear from anyone with similar interests/obsessions/millstones...

NEW RESOURCE WITH @streetskitchen.bsky.social Info cards to support people who are being criminalised for experiencing homelessness and poverty, for example under ‘anti-social behaviour’ laws. Share with your networks and download the info cards ⤵️ www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/advice_infor...

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

Goodwin's palpable disgust for black and brown people is, of course, a colonial inheritance. But the "national" prosperity that made Britain's welfare state possible is in no small part a colonial inheritance too, plundered from places like Africa and south Asia. He might show a little gratitude.