Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

1/ Each Summer, @katemac.bsky.social & I write a essay with a different focus on political economy of Climate Don't miss our trilogy over last 3 summers Global Boiling: Scorched Earth: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo... Uninsurable Earth: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

🚨Finally published: How does the US Military enlist AI researchers in war? @siree.sh, Lucy Suchman and I examine 7k US Military grant solicitations for AI research, and show how even "Basic Research" enlists researchers in a warfighting agenda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

✊ Respect to the folks from No Tech For Apartheid. Let's keep going, make it impossible for those designers, engineers, managers to ignore what the tech they build is being used for. #israel #palestine #gaza #ai #tech

Paraguay to the World Cup audience:

BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds Lloyds have debanked the Canary with no warning or explanation, putting the outlet in severe financial crisis www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Had a great conversation on the digital welfare state (across three continents). Thanks @themaybe.org for getting this great group together to discuss accountability concerns in public sector digitalisation.

Of all the idiotic and irresponsible ideas this government has come up with this must take the cake. A self selecting group of people massively undertrained and under prepared to evaluate what are often nuanced and complex situations for asylum appeals. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Labour has closed more safe routes, including family reunification than Tories did They haven't opened new safe routes, they have rejigged existing ones to put the onus of sponsorship on individuals and community groups rather than the state Work and study routes exclude families. 1/3

Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. In earlier incarnation, he supported the Iraq invasion; was chairman of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. What next?

"A breast feeding baby was shot by a quad copter through the head" Yesterday the UN commission of inquiry published a report detailing how Israel deliberately targets & kills Palestinian children

"Drs told us many of the amputations they had to carry out on babies/very young children were without anaesthesia.. you can imagine the agony those children went through" The UN commission of inquiry has published a report on how Israel deliberately targets Palestinian children

Poster, "London 2026 AD this is all in the air", by Montague B Black, 1926

This is absolutely deranged. He is promising genocide in Lebanon to ‘avenge’ the death of an illegally-invading soldier.

IGC Navy has closed the Strait of Hormuz, warning all vessels to not attempt to cross, following Israel’s refusal to withdraw from and strikes this morning on Southern Lebanon.

liberal democracies will never be safe with musk this powerful—they must unite to break him my latest with @newrepublic.com c/a @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2119...

NEW: Across Africa, the State Department has demanded access to health data for millions of people as a condition of giving countries billions of dollars in aid needed to address HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other illnesses.

The decision to go ahead with this 'debate,' even after Robinson is questioned under anti-terror laws, following his return from Moscow where he helped stoke racist riots on the streets of the UK, is utterly shameful from the Oxford Union bylinetimes.com/2026/06/17/p...

I continue to be struck by how few Cabinet ministers and ex-ministers the impacts + implications of this complex 8-tier settlement policy - esp the sheer scale of Commonwealth voters who risk losing legal status in 2028. Is it remigration by stealth - or by mistake? ukandeu.ac.uk/unsettled-st...

Keir Starmer keeps referring to the consultation as evidence for why the social media ban isn't a last gasp by-election gambit in his answers to the press. The consultation had 116,211 responses to 54 questions. The government has published a single percentage of answers to just two questions

breakthrough news with another angle, reporting that the walkout was organized by SJP and No Tech for Apartheid

X is continuing to give impunity to racists using unlawful n-word and p-word slurs, despite its legal obligations. The Guardian reports on early findings from @britishfuture.bsky.social real-time testing of the efficacy of its May 2026 commitments to Ofcom www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

There's a Genocide happening in Gaza. Our Government is arresting pensioners for holding cardboard signs that say "I support Palestine Action." And Andy Burnham - labours apparent last hope - won't even acknowledge what's really happening.

Yeah, burning 27 families out of their homes because of their race is bad. But at least they weren't holding a Palestine Action placard.

Governments claim risk profiling systems help identify potential criminals or fraudsters but in practice they reinforce discrimination & inequality. A new @amnesty.org report shows how their use in law enforcement, social security & migration violates human rights. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

“The blockade aims to undermine the example of anti-imperial resistance and internationalism that Cuba has cultivated for more than six decades.” In our brand new issue AMERICAN POWER, Lourdes Regueiro and Claudia Marin write on US aggression in Cuba. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/soc...

The United Nations warns that tighter US sanctions on Cuba have led to a spike in infant mortality and plummeting survival rates for child cancer patients

For this sort of thing to happen, you need an environment where it is at least tolerated and very often celebrated. You need racist outbursts to be written up as "reasonable issues". You need politicians to normalise hatred and intolerance.

X owner Elon Musk has reposted his Sept 2025 call that pre-emptive inter-ethnic violence (civil war) is necessary for 'self-defence "Elon Musk was always right "You either fight back, or you die."

In the past hour, Musk agrees w/ and boosts posts saying that: - The UK govt has no "value or legitimacy" - The price of "diversity and multiculturalism" is white people getting beheaded in the street

Elon is an existential threat to democracy around the world. He is set to become a trillionaire this week and can use that money to prop up far right fascist movements across the world. Governments need to treat him as the threat that he is. Sanction and divest him of his property.

This is a pogrom, incited and instigated by Elon Musk. This is now the second set of pogroms incited by Elon in the UK in 2 years.

will lowe ever get near high office? idk, not the point musk is the richest man on earth, his site is poisoning the minds of virtually our entire political class, rhetoric the bnp would have skirted is now mainstream, there are race riots & houses on fire *as i type this* bsky.app/profile/polp...

X and Elon Musk has been a threat to public order for nearly two years. The government has taken no action.

Multiple homes and vehicles on fire. Loads of properties having their windows smashed. Cars being stopped and their passengers skin colour checked. Reports of people being forced from their homes in multiple locations. Masked men roaming the streets. Journalists threatened.

In the year from 1 April 2025 to March 31st 2026, there were 533 crimes involving knives in Northern Ireland. The next set of figures is due to be released on the 25th June. Knife crime is not uncommon in NI. The attack in Belfast yesterday is being reported through the prism of far right rhetoric

An impartial journalist might contextualise the Belfast knife attack with *evidence*: 282 knife offences every day on average & foreign born nationals under-represented in violent crime. Chris Mason spoke instead of right wing *narratives* of migrants, borders & crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

Client-Side Scanning is a terrible and destructive idea which will make exactly nobody safer. To pretend this is done 'for the kids' is disingenuous and ignores years of careful research on what makes online spaces actually safer.

I cannot emphasise strongly enough how precisely on point this thread is. Scale and pace and just the two single numbers that explain everything. Data centres have puttered along nicely for decades prior, with near-zero problems because they were small and gradual enough to manage impacts!!

I will obviously do a proper thread later of the big new UN report into AI environmental impacts but here is the link if anyone wants to have a look unu.edu/inweh/collec...

Breaking: Heat Emissions from Data Centres Massively Eclipsed by Hot Gas from AI Shill and Former British PM, Tony Blair

The jokes just write themselves at this point

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Violent flag-shagging racists deliberately run someone over. Fixed that headline for you, Guardian.

NEW: Mayo Clinic, the massive U.S. hospital network, is using what it describes as “Ambient Listening” to record patient interactions with nurses, including in emergency rooms, then using AI to process that collected data.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

The companies building surveillance tools in conflict zones are playing central roles in our lives The militarisation of tech is reshaping our townsquares