The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*

And this is why we should never refer to killings, massacres or other atrocities as 'tragedies'. A 'tragedy' is an unfortunate but unavoidable event for which no-one is to blame - that is the definition. To call the inevitable result of deliberate policy a 'tragedy' is a denial and a whitewash...

The rest of the world should absolutely boycott the World Cup and boycott the Olympics. At minimum.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

Just a screenshot from one of the best films ever made (M, 1931).

Make it viral.

The events of 5 years ago today mark one of the darkest days in US history. A sitting president encouraged a coup against our government—attempting to overturn a free & fair election. The absolute shame & criminality of that attempt will never be forgotten No matter how hard they try to erase it.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.

“ACE IN THE HOLE” (1951) dir. Billy Wilder Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall 🎬 Paramount Pictures 🎞 #FilmNoir

It. Is. Murder.

Congratulations Dr Tulsiani!

Very happy to graduate from @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social after passing my Viva with zero corrections! (With the help and support of a lot of scholars, family and friends!)

Traditions that sustained the Inuits for many generations in some of the world’s most hostile conditions are vanishing along with the ice. Ben Taub reports from the most remote settlement in Greenland. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2irCnd

While campaigning, Zohran Mamdani frequently noted that New York is the richest city in the richest country in the history of the world, and that its government could do more for the people who live here. Tonight, he was elected mayor.

The premise of “Bugonia” sounds like a sci-fi thriller, but the film is much more interested in the human condition—and in having very long conversations about it, Shirley Li writes:

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Privileged and honored to be speaking tonight at Wembley Arena at the Together for Palestine (@T4Plive) concert, alongside some big names from across the world, at 7pm UK time. You can watch live on YouTube. www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...

‘Prejudice against the disabled was still so widespread that in 1980 a Frankfurt court ordered the reimbursement of the cost of a hotel to a tourist who had been upset by the presence of a group of guests with cerebral palsy.’ Richard J. Evans on German eugenics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Cuomo: I am now running on affordability. Also Cuomo: there is no “real answer” on affordability.

British forces’ role in suppressing the Arab Revolt (1936-9) by training and brutalising Israeli forces to target civilians in Palestine is hardly known of in the UK: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it

1/3 The untold story behind National Service. From 1949 - 1963, two million British men did military service mainly to retain control over British colonies, because “Indian independence in 1947 meant that Britain no longer had the huge Indian Army at its disposal”. www.nam.ac.uk/explore/what...

1/3 Quick round up of blogs contesting nationalist right wing historical revisionism in last two years: 1. Slavery & colonialism were not irrelevant for Britain’s economic development: blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofe...

If what Musk is posting about Trump tonight is true, it begs the question of why he was happy to sit on this information while he was in government. I know many people are enjoying this cage fight, but what a sickening display of the morals behind this grotesque political alliance.

China is the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter, emitting twice as much as the United States. But now there’s been a key shift: China’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen even as energy demand has gone up. This milestone is "ahead of schedule." from @vox.com via @climatedesk.org

Brilliant job there Labour - your voters think you're anti immigration (while they're pro) and reform and Tories think you're pro immigration (while they're anti)

this is such a good article

this so unbelievably awful i can't imagine what those parents are going through

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

“Sinners,” the new film from the writer-director Ryan Coogler, is an unabashed vampire movie—and a strange, profound spectacle, David Sims writes: https://theatln.tc/uXXvtdY6

In 2024, Paris banned cars from its city center to make room for cyclists and pedestrians with remarkable pollution reduction as a result. Earlier this year, Parisians voted to create even more car-free zones in the city. Visual: The Washington Post

It's Publication Day for my article tracing Black women in famous British art. 'Black Modernist Muses in Jacob Epstein's Art' Read full article here👇🏾 doi-org.eux.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961... image: 'Roma of Barbados' Fitzwilliam Museum/Jacob Epstein @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social

A clear war crime, among many. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

In 1885, in one of the most gruesome episodes of racial terror in U.S. history, a white mob killed at least 28 Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming, and burned down the town’s Chinese quarter. @michaelluo.bsky.social writes about the little-known atrocity.

An estimated 1.5 billion people—roughly one in every five human beings—speak English, making it the most widely used language in the history of humanity. Some researchers worry about what we’re losing with its expansion.

“Morality is of no interest when there is a real-estate deal to be made.” David Remnick writes about Donald Trump’s declaration that two million Palestinians in Gaza should be forced out of the Strip.

“The point is not a policy fight, it’s an execution. They are killing one agency to terrify a thousand others.” Susan B. Glasser writes about Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s takeover of the White House, and the dismantling of the U.S.A.I.D.

Many of my US friends say that they are coping by not turning on the news. I understand it and don't blame them but I guess this is also how descent into authoritarianism works - most people, understandably, just concentrating on getting by in their lives and in their local community.

Whoever claims that this Nazi salute was accidental is....mistaken. His body language: Biting his lip. Slapping his chest. "I'm doing it! I know some of you hate it! But I love it. So there!"

There was no other director like him, and it's kind of a miracle that he was able to do all the wild, weird and strange work that he did, for as long as he did, and mostly with studio money. RIP. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

David Lynch with his first painting (Christmas, 1963).

I’m watching ”Hook”—which is charming and nostalgic. With Robin Williams as Peter Pan. Perfect. But then I remembered that Robin Williams had died. And the movie became strangely sad and poignant at the same time.

Drake, who said Kendrick Lamar abuses his wife and that Kendrick's best friend fathered his child and that Kendrick was molested, has filed a defamation suit for the lyrics in Not Like Us. Boy.

Bert Hardy, Chinese Seamen, 1942

What is it about Americans invading other people's countries and then for decades after making films about the hardship their soldiers sufferered? (h/t Frankie Boyle). 'Shoot and cry' is the literal blueprint for every single war-movie since Vietnam... youtu.be/JER0Fkyy3tw?...