Happy Tax Day.

you know the way "why did the Roman Empire fall" and "what are the causes of the First World War" are big questions that sort of function like Rorsharch tests, allowing people to debate ultimately inexplicable moments in history? "Why did no one stop Trump" a decent future shout for the third.

It's just an objective fact that Republicans like it when mothers die. It's been a core policy plank of the GOP my entire life.

A year of USAID was $32 billion. So roughly next Wednesday. Monsters.

This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)

Given that the UK's position in the last 50 years is that settlements are illegal and Israel cannot annex the West Bank, banning trade with West Bank settlements is really the absolutely minimal ask. It's pathetic that it hasn't happened.

I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure this is how you get 9/11: the sequel

Yanar Mohammed is one of Iraq’s most prominent women’s rights activists and established the country’s first shelters for survivors of domestic violence and trafficking. She was assassinated outside her Baghdad home when two gunmen on motorcycles opened fire in the morning.

The chairman of the Board of Peace bombed the Gandhi hospital. Process that.

60 years ago today, Ghana's military overthrew president Kwame Nkrumah. The UK Foreign Office conducted a covert propaganda campaign to help remove him, declassified files show. www.declassifieduk.org/top-secret-d...

Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.

pretty good petition this for the uk to rejoin the creative europe programme. www.openpetition.org/uk/petition/...

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

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More than 36,500 people were killed during Iran’s January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history, according to classified government documents reviewed by Iran International. iranintl.com/en/202601255198

It’s 1:04 am in Kyiv and siren went off because Russia is attacking us with drones . Hate the beginning of the siren , that loud first note and when it starts rising, crawling through your bones and muscles. it’s the most disgusting part. It gets under your skin. I was told once that it’s by design

This took me about 45 seconds.

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

A hunger striker is said to be ‘at imminent risk of death’ due to 59 days without food while on remand in prison. Kamran Ahmed was transferred to hospital from HMP Pentonville in north London in the early hours of this morning metro.co.uk/2026/01/07/h...

I think analysts specifically, and society more broadly, underestimate how much white supremacy and belief in conquest and racial hierarchy motivate the decisions of this administration. Like yes its "neo-royalism," yes its oil, but also its white supremacy.

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

uh holy SHIT?

good! www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

NEW: A Russian family whose son volunteered to fight in the Russian army against Ukraine recently adopted seven children from occupied Zaporizhia Oblast. 🧵(1/9) Read more: isw.pub/OccupationUp... Other Key Takeaways ⬇️

uk tour coming up this week with @momokogill.bsky.social london TONIGHT! then brum, bristol, sheffield

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!

a really awful story. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Remembering the 369 refugees who drowned in Lampedusa exactly 12 years ago today. I can never forget the 22 years old Yohanna who gave birth as she was drowning, her body was later found with an ombilical cord attached to her baby. #NeverForgotten #ForeverInOurHearts #PeopleNotNumbers #Lampedusa

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Israel starves 13 more Palestinians to death, kills 89 since dawn aje.io/5169f3

Israel bombed a hospital. Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded. Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV. Read that again. Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.

"The most compelling thing about Momoko's voice for me is actually the way she builds and shapes her backing vocals. It’s like working with an orchestra rather than a soloist." New Herbert/ Momoko album is choice. open.substack.com/pub/andybeta... @matthewherbert.bsky.social @momokogill.bsky.social

@matthewherbert.bsky.social has joined forces with @momokogill.bsky.social to produce a warm and inviting collection of downtempo dancefloor-affiliated tunes that highlight the latter's inventive approach to percussion and her sensual, soothing voice. #electronica #musicreview t.ly/ETLM5

There's much talk of UK arms exports to Israel - which is of a very limited scope. There's no talk whatsoever of UK arms IMPORTS from Israel. In 2024, according to SIPRI, Israel was the second largest supplier of arms to the UK - 6.9% of total imports.

En “Clay” @matthewherbert.bsky.social‬ ha encontrado una forma de poner la electrónica al servicio de un propósito esencialmente orgánico, conectivo, que se pueda tocar, y en eso también tiene mucho que ver la presencia de Momoko Gill a la batería. ✍️ @drubiofps.bsky.social‬

"The social breakdown that we are witnessing, the degrading of human beings, is not a byproduct of the harm that Israel is inflicting. That’s the central element of the crime: destroying Palestinian society." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The #OST for ‘Hot Milk’, featuring original music by @matthewherbert.bsky.social is now available on all streaming platforms. The film starring Fiona Shaw, Emma Mackey and Vicky Krieps, is in cinemas across the UK, Latin America and Germany. #mannersfaber #musictalentagency #composer #filmmusic

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HOT MILK soundtrack composed by Matthew Herbert has been released. Find out more here: entertainment-factor.blogspot.com/2025/07/hot-... #music #soundtrack #soundtracks #originalscore #filmscore #newmusic #hotmilk #matthewherbert @matthewherbert.bsky.social

i made a new album with @momokogill.bsky.social which has just come out on strut records. listen below x accidental.co/herbert-momo...

All day today I was struggling to find words about the horrific attack on Dnipro. I still have no words, so here's numbers.😕 17 killed. 279 injured, including 27 children. Damaged over 30 educational institutions. 8 medical institutions. Numerous homes. A passenger train.

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

Imagine spending your whole life cos-playing and fantasizing about fighting the federal government sending troops in against its own citizens only to root for the government when the moment finally arrives

Haaretz’s Yaniv Kubovich reports that Israel plans to seize 75% of Gaza and relocate more than 1,3 million Palestinians in the upcoming offensive, ultimately forcing the entire population into three military zones with food supplies strictly controlled by GHF/Israel. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

This is a view from the surface of Comet 67P. The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice. The dots moving in the background are stars.