The House Republicans are barbaric. Absolute barbarians.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

If you care about homelessness after the big Supreme Court decision in Grants Pass, read this story. By @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social and Ruth Talbot

whatever you do don't smell your over ear headphones

I respect and appreciate Jolyon, this is not on him. But so much loaded language here: "black-market" (wildly misrepresentative), "trans hormones" (hormones. period. the same we all have), "self-medication" (linking with substance abuse). "Long term harm," "suboptimal" leave out a LOT and mislead.

the coup to remove Mossadegh was a British plan executed by the CIA-imperialists gonna imperial

Keir Starmer and UK can't say no to US--their entire administrative infrastructure is tied up by US tech.

Did anyone have a bet on whether we would bomb an elementary school?

Hannah Fucking Spencer!

and how is the guardian so irrelevant in printing 'how labour can win' articles re: Gorton?

As someone who grew up on (white) teen movies, I was struck by how much that Patel scene looked like something straight out of a spec script in the 1980s. The racialized minority over performing nationalism as white frat boys clearly broadcast to everyone but him that he is not really one of them.

Lie back and think of England

lie back and think of england.

my wife texted IT HAS HAPPENED to the group chat and it wasn't about what i hoped it was about and i'm very disappointed and we have revised our group chat style manual

Watched ‘Zone of Interest” last night for the first time. All I could think about was this. Local @idahodems.bsky.social need to do something about their state leadership. The Boise Bubble isn’t going to. Just like the GOP won’t hold Epstein predators accountable. www.npr.org/2023/12/22/1...

happy new year!

Israeli forces abducted five Palestinians at dawn today while they were attempting to cross a military checkpoint west of Nablus in the northern West Bank.

I watched last night and these are three of the smartest people on the planet from whom I have learned a lot. If you listen, you'll learn too.

This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services. Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you. Please do keep sharing! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Nice to have some good news. The Palestine Action ban was transparently and cynically confected, a nasty little piece of political chicanery. Yvette Cooper, Keir Starmer and his entire government should feel deep shame, but I don't doubt they'll contest the decision.

UNITE HERE Local 1 seeks an Organizing Apprentice to be based in Madison, WI. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @unitehere.org

BREAKING - WE HAVE WON! Following a successful Judicial Review brought by Huda Ammori, and a sustained campaign of defiance by defend our juries leading to almost 3,000 ‘terror’ arrests, the ban on Palestine Action has been ruled unlawful in the courts.

#UK: We welcome the High Court ruling that the proscription of #PalestineAction as a terrorist group was disproportionate. We raised concerns at the time that such a sweeping designation threatened free speech & protest. Since then, thousands of peaceful protestors have been detained. 1/3

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

High Court has ruled that the ban of #PalestineAction under terrorism legislation is unlawful 3 senior judges said that the group’s activities had not crossed the very high bar required for it to be deemed a #TerroristOrganisation www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/palesti...

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Fuck this Labour government

UK High Court rules gov't classing Palestine Action as a terror organization was unlawful! Massive vindication!

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

This is a pogrom

which prime minister brutally assaulted Virginia Guiffre?

I just came from a deeply-informed talk about these supposed guardrails. They’re nonsense.

The US is deporting people back to certain death. There is blood on the hands of ICE. www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-abductio...

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

And they say romance is dead.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Solidarity with the people of Cuba as US imperialism begins yet another starvation siege

Super Bowl Sunday: spike day for incidence of domestic violence in the US.

anyone remember the Panama Papers?

This is almost certainly an undercount. Inquests into deaths can often take years. Even obvious suicides are often ruled as accidents due to cultural and religious norms. Further, many families may not be supportive and their trans identity may not have been known outside of friends.

“A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare…” The political attacks on healthcare for young trans people has horrific outcomes. Trans youth deserve to thrive. 🏳️‍⚧️

we've been doing it since the founding mate (chattel slavery, prisons)

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

"Understaffing" is an untreatable symptom of mass incarceration. The reality is that prisons lock up so many people that they can't find enough guards to staff the facilities – and, ultimately, incarcerated folks suffer the most from it.

Devil warns of heat wave.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

children. the word everyone can't seem to find is children. not underage girls, underage women: CHILDREN.