Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

Merry-merry, Bluesky!!!!

The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery." 🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Tired of being an underpaid academic in the UK? Become a terf and then sue everyone!

Oh hell no. Put aside the obviously nefarious reasons for making them public - The amount of work that goes into course design and building a syllabus is immense… and the uni claims ip?!?

Truly a miracle I make any progress on my writing….

It can't be a reference to our successes in Court because, as this thread points out, we have won every single case we have taken on trans rights this year. I think it must mean that The Times doesn't like our politics. Well, that's true and something to be proud of. bsky.app/profile/good...

Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.

This is so sad

What I’m getting is: ‘racists want the right to be racist, so we need to protect that for democracy’ They think the majority of people are racist. They also think this is fine.

Tis the season

What I’m wearing to the #bluesky Christmas party

Eleni Frantziou and Anurag Deb: Direct Effect, Disapplication, and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: Still Together in Northern Ireland after Dillon? ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/04/e...

Happily the ‘especially young men’ has not gone unnoticed by most 👀 Get new comms people, Capt.

Leavitt’s citizenship comments clash with SCOTUS Karoline Leavitt: “You’re either a U.S. citizen or not — You can’t be a U.S. citizen & a citizen of another country.” The Supreme Court: It ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it.

Don't be fooled by their claims to be 'heartbroken'. The decision both @womensinstitute.bsky.social and girlguiding have made to exclude trans-women and girls from their organisations is not required by law. The law may be frustratingly unclear in this area, but it is clearly *not that*.

Our final Discussion for 2025 is coming up - 11 December, featuring Marie Newhouse. Draft and link will be sent out shortly!

"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor of the House of Representatives, and we know that's the case." This is a flat-out 100% lie from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and he knows it. Impeachment resolutions are privileged, they can force a vote at any time.

This can’t actually count as breaking news. Do people actually care about this? Or is the media desperate for a ‘Your Party’ v ‘Reform’ showdown because they want to ignore @greenparty.org.uk ?

Separating parents from children, even in the middle of a natural disaster. Shabana Mahmood's Home Office is the same as Suella Braverman's Home Office, is the same as the one that gave us the Windrush scandal

I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.

I’d say this is unbelievable, but then I’d have to ignore the past 10+ years of how the BBC has bent over backwards both-siding things to the benefit of the corrupt.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Any university that formally adopts AI into its institution can no longer claim to have any form of sustainability pledge. (Lookin at you, @ox.ac.uk)

This is soul crushing to bear witness to.

Burn

‘Your words are not your children’ -Prof. Benjamin Daise (my first phil professor)

I think this means that too many Labour MPs now own £1.5mn houses. Since they think of themselves as ordinary people it follows that a tax that hits them will hit “ordinary people”.

It’s now clear that information on U.S. government websites can no longer be trusted. It’s both heartbreaking and infuriating to see how quickly this administration has undermined science, public health, and the credibility of our scientific institutions.

RIP Mani youtu.be/3QLMS0QsPF0

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

40 years ago today our debut album Psychocandy was released. Thank you all for buying it over the years. We ran a competition to win Third Man Records test pressing of Psychocandy. Congrats to life-long fan Chris who won a copy. 40th Anniversary reissues themarychain.com/home

“This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats.” WEIRD! and also YOU DON’T SAY!

BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation" As opposed to doing what with their children??

Nick Timothy, Tory MP most responsible for the Windrush scandal, gives Mahmood his support

Two pearls of wisdom from one of my favourite phil profs who marked up a draft of mine in red marker so badly I thought I was going to barely pass the Phil of Science grad seminar he was convening only to find on the last page that the work was ‘tracking a low A’.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

I think those of us who voted Green imagined this.

The problem isn’t the rights. The problem, for the right, has always been that the ECHR treats immigrants as humans. It’s staggering to see Labour succumbing to this bullshit.

Christ in heaven…. (That’s all I got)

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

…should probably be titled: *This* Shutdown is Over

fuck this headline

Many congratulations to the United Kingdom for winning the prestigious 'Fossil of the Day' award at COP30 for screwing over workers. climatenetwork.org/resource/sol... h/t @amywestervelt.bsky.social

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

1 million views: Virginia speaks about her abuse by Epstein/ Maxwell. youtu.be/LNLQmpT4oQ0?...