I left Labour altogether. It’s just too much. The transphobia, the xenophobia, etc. Not in my name!!

Who needs international law, huh?

During the holidays, really @plos.org? 🤬

There's not much left of the rule of law if organisations can be financially bullied into not asserting their legal rights. goodlaw.social/sb50

A one man study in persistence of personality: Farage’s alleged behaviour as an adolescent is entirely consistent with that of a formed Callous and Unemotional personality. Farage stood in front of his infamous poster when he was 52 years old. He wants you to judge - judge him.

'utmost regret and sadness’ feels like cheap PR to me. Say you agree with it or fight back any potential legal action threat!

If you still don’t use VPN in 2025… Why?

Matrix multiplication is not easy to understand. Even looking at the definition used to make me sweat, let alone trying to comprehend the pattern. Yet, there is a stunningly simple explanation behind it. Let's pull back the curtain!

They support fascist ideas; They agree with historical fascism; They join fascist demonstrations; They believe in racist and supremacist ideas; But no one wants to call them what they are.

It’s appalling that a former human rights lawyer is saying this nonsense. The level of misinformation coming from the Prime Minister is shocking - and no journalist will ever challenge it!! 🤬

Starmer is uniting the country… Against him!!

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

In case it needs restating, autism isn't caused by Tylenol, or vaccines, or woke parents or whatever. It's not a disease, and it doesn't need curing. Eugenicists and fascists love to think of ways to eradicate us because they are unwilling to understand us. But we will outlive them.

Another day, another white person telling me how I should deal with racists.

i feel like labour saying "they can't do it to EU citizens" and not say anything reassuring about non-eu people on visas is not a thing to be chilling out about tbh. like ok cool, it "doesn't cover all foreign born nationals". what about the rest of them?

Yes, you can and should argue that Reform’s new policy would lead to an economic crash that could resemble a full-on depression, not just recession. But you should also be able to straightforwardly say it’s *wrong*. Not that it should matter but: It’s not even bad politics to say that!

Over last few weeks I realised that the easiest way to be blocked by - self proclaimed - progressive types is talking about how pervasive white supremacy is. As a whole ‘whiteness’ will not want to be challenged in its ways and privileges. Even those who say ‘not me’ will react when challenged…

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

Have they left already? 🍊

I find these two men (particularly these two) telling us their approved version of parenting - deeply sinister. I hope their christofascist, MAGA-flavoured manoeuvrings backfire so dramatically, in our secular, progressive country, that they rue the day they decided to tell us how to live our lives.

During a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center last March, I was confronted with an environment of fear, uncertainty and discrimination which struck me as a troubling moral issue that also raises serious safety concerns. Read all about it here: www.thespacereview.com/article/5060/1

Updating Apple things... It's always a great day!!

There's no excuse of ignorance any more. Every single person on that fascist march knew who Tommy Robinson was and every single one of them knew why they were there. This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.

luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.

Freedom for me but not for thee…

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

Republicans, in earlier eras, would have absolutely lost their collective sh*t if another country had the temerity to try & tell us how to run our own domestic courts & sought to impose international penalties on us for doing that.

Brazil also just sentenced a 4-star general to 26 years. It is hard to emphasise how relevant that is in terms of South America, particularly considering the US-sponsored dictatorships from the 60s and 70s. The sentence was also given by a civil court!

Bolsonaro just got sentenced to 27 years and 3 months for attempting a coup!!

Dear friends from other countries: please join the Brazilians as we celebrate this groundbreaking decision.

Rule of law!!

Now watch and learn, US. That’s how you deal with tinpot dictators… You are welcome.

"O que há de inédito nessa ação penal é que nela pulsa o Brasil que me dói. A presente ação penal é quase um encontro do Brasil com seu passado, seu presente, e seu futuro" - Cármen Lúcia

I really expected more of an international community response to this outrageous move from Washington.

If your empathy has a rather restrictive colour palette, it’s not empathy; it’s white supremacy.

This. Too many people on both sides of the pond are saying ‘he engaged in civilised debate’ or ‘he was a good person’. It simply wasn’t true.

I have two professor colleagues who have faced threats and harassment due to the organization Charlie Kirk built, and they were not alone. We can denounce and loathe political violence without hagiography for its victims. This is dangerous nonsense.

We should indeed condemn political violence but that requires honesty on where that violence is coming from. One thing we can say for sure is that violence is not being promoted by the feminist, LGBT and/or black movements.

It’s possible to condemn violence without naturalising the opinions of a white nationalist who think someone like me should not exist - or at best be a slave.

Alguém manda uma peruca que presta pra esse senhor…

The Labour government's response to a summer of open racism, including physical attacks and the demonisation of some of its own Cabinet, has been to hide. 'Anti-racism' is something you actually have to do, not something you are. Seriously, why can't people like this hear themselves?

They also cannot understand that you don’t need to be punched in the face for it to be racism…

Reform is backed by the spivviest and most regressive sections of capital. It wouldn't serve the interests of much of capitalism.

Professor universitário é dose né

Nigella’s take on Brazil’s best…

The only country to have left the ECHR in this century is Russia... and they were expelled. Is that really the example you want Britain to follow?

There are some incredibly vital issues at this moment in time that go beyond like, oh we disagree on marginal tax rates but we can still be friendly. Trans rights are one of those issues. Trans rights are human rights and those are not negotiable. (see also: genocide; fascism. not unrelated!)

I really don't think it should be tenable for Labour government ministers to have still remained mute about such a visible, vocal rise of racist abuse in our country by this rally on 13th September, being held by Tommy Robinson, with the proactive support of Elon Musk, the radicalised X owner