Last week I wrote to Coventry City Council about their £500,000 contract with Palantir. Palantir is a partner in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, collaborates with ICE in the US & is embedded in our NHS. Coventry (& the NHS) must divest from genocide & protect jobs, services & data.

It doesn’t even make it to the front page anymore in this new age of crazy. The US is now extralegally killing people in international waters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al

You can find the full list of Bellingcat-built tools on our GitHub: github.com/bellingcat And video guides on how to use some of those tools within our YouTube Tech Series: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Couldn't make the lecture so really enjoyed this by Lyndal Roper: about the Peasants' War, but also about popular history writing and why it needs to be more creative and less constrained by chronological narrative www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWPM...

Now is the time to start calling it the Epstein Ballroom

How many places to loll about in the sun does a cat need….🙂?

Belatedly getting round to reading this from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and it really is a brilliantly concise summary of quite how significant and exciting the clean tech transition is becoming. It remains beyond weird this stuff is not more widely understood. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What the fresh hell is this?!

I had a wonderful conversation with two of my heroes, adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown, on one of my favorite podcasts. About hope, change, climate, power, stories, survival, solidarity. Warning: laughter, singing.

Anthem for summer ‘25: Still Pigeon’s Adrenaline. open.spotify.com/track/2sjGPy...

Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.

School holidays should be a time to celebrate, not a time of risk. I’m launching Holiday Hope, a new £6m programme providing young people with something to do, something to aspire to and something to eat. We're giving young people the support they need to be safe and to thrive.

That describes today. And yesterday and the day before…

Kemi Badenoch says she wants to be Britain’s Javier Milei. What could possibly go wrong? #r4today

We’re in a polycrisis—ecological breakdown, geopolitical conflict, inequality, democratic erosion. Yet 75% of UK unis still don’t teach ecological economics (@rethinkecon.bsky.social). Time for change. Explore our Ecological Economics programme @universityofleeds.bsky.social → tinyurl.com/4y6ru3ha

Wired rules. Just an incredible group of journalists who are completely meeting the moment. And you can subscribe for $2 a month, which is insane www.wired.com/story/a-new-...

Travelling soon? Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

(If you're a UK based historian, or just History-curious, and don't know about the IHR, you are missing a treat). Over 50 fortnightly seminars (most also available online) during the academic year, and much more. Visit the Institute and its library if you're in London. And it's free. 2/2

🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London. We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

current mood…

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

every library should have its own fox

Rain, finally! Feel like doing a little raindance open.spotify.com/track/373NEz...

It is worrying to see the attempted normalisation of the ‘we are doomed’ climate narrative. Such narratives are tactics to facilitate the continuation of activities driving climate change. It is never too late to act. It is never too late to protect as many people and places as possible.

way to go girl.

Scientists identified the best flower mixes to attract bees and hoverflies – - appealing to the human eye and helping pollinators thrive

Even Vanya thinks its too hot!

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.

Palantir, who Keir Starmer went to show his support for in Washington DC? Palantir, who Wes Streeting wants to hold your confidential healthcare data? That Palantir? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Cambridge-associated people, please keep signing/sharing this letter against Lord Browne's candidacy for Chancellor. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

DEAR LORD LET THIS WORK.

It is more than a little awkward to realize that I had two books come out this year, a fact due more to different schedules and timelines of publishing than some prodigious productivity. The Double Shift from Verso... www.versobooks.com/products/292...

YUP.

Er werd altijd gedacht dat Tesselschade Roemers geen Latijn kenden. Fleur Speet en Pieta van Beek ontdekten deze maand dat ze gedichten schreef in die taal. neerlandistiek.nl/2025/06/zij-...

I hope you had a great #Solstice yesterday! The Nebra Sky Disk is considered to be the oldest known depiction of cosmic phenomena, dating back to ca. 1600 BC. On display at Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle. 📷 me Further information: www.landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/en/nebra-sky... 🏺

Creative…love it! www.threads.com/@thehalfwayp...

If you're a country in the Middle East, why wouldn't you do everything to get a nuclear weapon after witnessing what US and Israel did to Iran which DID NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON? It's all escalation by the dumbest people ever. Diplomacy worked but Trump and Netanyahu blew it up.

The US attacks on Iran, quite apart from anything else, are a disaster for nuclear non-proliferation efforts. Even if you reach a negotiated settlement with the Americans, you can't trust them not to rip it up immediately and start bombing you within a decade.

I struggle to believe this one is real

Watch this ICE officer casually raise their rubber-bullet gun to shoot an unassuming Australian journalist in the back from behind as she does a standup at the LA protests. Now consider again who the “lawbreaking terrorists” are in this situation. bsky.app/profile/dell...

With the escalating attacks in Los Angeles on our free speech rights & right to assemble/protest, I am sharing some resources. First, our protest rights guide @freepress.bsky.social in English & Spanish! www.freepress.net/sites/defaul... www.freepress.net/sites/defaul...

15% of people hit by these things are permanently injured. 3% die. they are so dangerous and they are used so recklessly! www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

Trump regime ICE forces assaulted and kidnapped a mother on her way to pick up her children from school, this is what they are doing all over the country. #StopICE

People need to understand something. There is no DOJ, FBI or DOD. There are entities—the DOJ and FBI—run by Trump’s personal attorneys, who see their agents as a weapon for Trump to wield against his enemies, and there is an alcoholic who’s been open about wanting a white Christian fascist nation.

(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP DECLARES L.A. RESIDENTS TO BE IN “REBELLION AGAINST THE AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES” This declaration may well be a prelude to martial law. He’s illegally federalized the Guard in California and this looks very like the pretext he was waiting for.

We @protectdemocracy.org have been saying for years “in the modern era, authoritarianism doesn’t come with tanks in the streets. It’s harder to see coming than that.” Well, we were wrong. Trump’s tanks are here. We are frogs in the water, and it’s already boiling.

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🚨 Hot off the press: the June 2025 @emodir.bsky.social Newsletter (that I compiled with Francesco Quatrini) is out and packed with updated on new #publications, #CFPs, #fellowships, and more! 📩 Don’t miss it! #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern #16thC #17thC #18thC

I didn’t know I needed this. Or rather, Dutch politics needs this!