It's time to resocialise politics... www.instagram.com/reel/DR-no8q...

People, women have been screaming this at you for literal centuries. Any other women out there do the "keys between your fingers" thing? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most

Per my last post- this is also true. It's not that the law doesn't matter, it's just that it isn't a sentient being. It is enacted by, adhered to by, ignored by and undermined by people. When those people are doing all of those from with the Oval Office, it's real bad

This is how he'll attempt to stay in power or throw the midterms. The law is only as strong as the people who uphold it

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Donald Trump boasts that he ended the war between “Azerbaijan and Albania". Azerbaijan and Albania have never been at war together.

The decimation of local news in the US and here in the UK is a disaster for democracy

They are attacking the Police again, at the 'peaceful march'. Imagine if Pro Palestine supporters did this (they never do), they would all be instantly in jail.

Absolutely correct, except to say that it matters very much what the motivations were and that we document them. Because if we have to live through this information warfare, someday an accurate historical record may help our future selves learn from these moments. A quaint concept these days.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Objective data show BBC & ITV bias. Reform featured in 49 bulletins between January-July 2025 whereas Lib Dems(with 72 MPs) were in 18% of bulletins, with 35. Reform referenced in nearly 1 in 5 ITV News At Ten bulletins, but 6% for Lib Dems www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

‘Hyperpartisanship‘ stokes distrust and radicalisation: opponents become “enemies” and those with different worldviews become “traitors”, @katiepruszynski.bsky.social writes for @uk.theconversation.com 👇 theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...

New from me on the fairly awful events of the last 24 hrs and where it goes from here. #CharlieKirk theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...

Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist who pushed the racist Great Replacement Theory. Kirk was vociferously anti-LGBTQ. Kirk's final words were to besmirch Black people. Stop this revisionism. People who say bad things don't deserve to be murdered, but they also don't deserve to be praised either.

New from me on the fairly awful events of the last 24 hrs and where it goes from here. #CharlieKirk theconversation.com/charlie-kirk...

I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Re today's fatal shooting: 'Under the changes in HB 128, which went into effect on May 7, individuals who are 18 years old or older and have a current Utah concealed weapon permit (CWP) may carry a weapon on campus, including in an “open” fashion.'

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Also, this is what is wrong with the cable news formula. Even when they know nothing, they must fill the air and so they fill it with speculation. We don’t know why this terrible shooting happened. It’s dangerous to speculate motives or politics. Please stop.

100%. And equally inevitable will be the torrent of fake accounts set up on every platform to create content that will "prove" them right.

This is the only line to take.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

The far right has been looking for a reason to commit mass political violence and it’s extremely important to unite around the principle that all political violence in America is unthinkable and unacceptable.

Currently on holiday in #Lyon, which is in the midst of a fierce summer of extreme heat (by European standards). Whilst trying to stay cool and see through the suncream sweat, I've seen a city at work trying to protect its people from the dangers of global heating. A small 🧵...

Crime has been falling in DC year on year. This is a man in need of a big, showy display of power- and to remind his followers (wavering ever so slightly on the Epstein issue) why the world beyond MAGA is terrifying and only he can save them. All lies. All designed to polarise and divide.

I had so much fun recording this- frankly we could have spent hours more chatting about the potential of candidates like @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and how cities may hold the key to a calmer, more socialised politics.

Another fascinating duo of guests joining us on this episode to discuss @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's rise in #NYC and whether we need a #wealthtax on the super rich Thanks @katiepruszynski.bsky.social and @qurbanist.bsky.social Listen to #urbanradar now ...

When I pointed out King’s will lose 90% of its AHRC student-led places under the new scheme, I got piled on by the AHRC Chair claiming I was wrong and scaremongering. It wasn’t quite 90%. This year King’s students got 27 AHRC student-led scholarships. Next year they’re giving us 3. So 89% then.

The hubris of this guy. Get out of the way. youtu.be/CUIT5c-EIK4?...

Just wait- they'll be busy prepping the lie that there is evidence of the files having been destroyed by the previous admin...

All you need to know about the importance of air conditioning for climate change summers via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

I don’t think Americans should have to endure physically painful and degenerative manufacturing jobs in a deliberately regressed economy just because there’s a moral panic over masculinity.

In the end it doesn't matter much if it's real or fake. The target audience will believe it either way.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Ugh the scaffolding holding up the Supreme Court is really very on the nose. www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme...

The EU needs to lead on sanctioning Musk and X for the structural embedding of anti-Semitism into Elon's AI.

Stop it before I get all West Wingy in my dreamy hope of what politics could be... And the dude doing the little fist pump because he was so stoked to meet him...

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

Rs beating Dems to "no tax on tips" is a fascinating study in this. Why wouldn't the social justice/labor party pick up an idea from the Vegas culinary unions? Why did Trump steal a march on them? Some of the answer is Dems, but not Trump, get asked "how will you pay for it?" But it's a rich topic

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👇 ding ding ding. But also that we have forgotten that we can be critiqued about our decisions or opinions without it representing an attack on our value as a person.

Ted Cruz : i came home as soon as i heard Press : Ted Cruz : Press : on your orig- Ted Cruz : on my originally scheduled flight yes

For god's sake. FIFA is such a grubby, craven organisation.

looking after your mental health: narcissistic Looking after billionaires' wealth: altruistic

The America Party. If nothing else (and there's plenty else), it's the most facile name ever. I called my childhood teddy bear Teddy. But I was 2.

This is the ultimate lie of the right. The majority of those claiming govt assistance do work. A lot. They just get paid peanuts because their sacred cows- the wealth creators- use the govt to subsidise atrocious wages and cream off huge profits.

Finally one of those "Nigerian prince" scam emails found a gullible target.

Ah yes that national border in...LA.