Historic: Italy is on strike, disrupting business as usual & protesting complicity in Israel’s genocide & apartheid against Palestinians, bringing major cities to a halt. Hundreds of thousands are demonstrating across 80 cities & towns, from south to north, blocking roads, ports & railway stations.

brilliant news from Italy

Glasgow city centre today. Massive and joyful gathering counter-protesting a much smaller far right rally. (We also had the best music and dance moves...) No pasaran! Refugees are welcome here!

This is a beautiful piece - and I'm so proud of what we do at Bylines... giving a voice to more and more people who otherwise would not be heard on their own terms. Please read. 👇

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

This is of course deeply upsetting on its own terms; also, we should absolutely be worst-case-scenario contingency planning for how we are going to resist this kind of thing when it comes to UK universities.

Some songs still resonate... For more, listen to our playlist, We Are Hope Despite The Times (found.ee/rem-wahdtt) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxCz...

890 people have been arrested for demanding an end to genocide in Gaza. To call them “terrorists” is beyond disgusting. Shame on you and this Labour government for criminalising solidarity with the Palestinian people, while continuing to sell arms to Israel that fuel genocide.

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history. And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

Stipe reveals the lyrics like it's the end of the world

This is precisely what this decision will do. It will absolutely render women and children radically unsafe, and closes YET ANOTHER safe and legal route. All so that a far-right mob are appeased and a far right discourse is fully entertained, in all sense of that word.

Another day, another utterly shameful cruelty against refugees announced. Recognised refugees - so people granted the long term right to stay in the UK because they have escaped real danger - will face new barriers to reuniting with spouses & children safely in the UK #r4todat

Out now! In this book I explore struggles for reproductive rights & liberty in postwar France - telling a different story about the era of sexual liberalisation & legal reform, avoiding a celebratory narrative but looking at persisting injustices and inequalities. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup. "Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."

Trump’s new motto as seen on his new MAGA merch: ‘Trump was right about everything’ Not even original See Mussolini’s motto below: “Mussolini ha sempre ragione” = Mussolini is always right.

'the protests will continue until the PM stops treating migrants as a burden' - Dani Garavelli

I don't know about you but I've had about enough of mainstream media & politicians legitimising racist anti-asylum protests that terrorise refugees & communities. I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...

#OTD 20 August 1976, a group of mainly South Asian workers led by Jayaben Desai, walked out in protest against their treatment at the Grunwick photo processing factory. The dispute became a critical moment for trade unionism and social change. #GenderHist www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe. ⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️ She was there before Little Richard, Johnny Cash & Elvis Presley swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars.

Students, think about punctuation! 😂

NEW UK’s first transgender judge seeks rehearing of supreme court case on biological sex www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Movement

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

End the genocide, free Palestine Big, angry but hopeful rally in Glasgow today

EXCLUSIVE: There are calls for the UK Government to launch an investigation after radioactive water 'leaked into a Scottish loch' from a nuclear weapons base

I am undone. The scale of losses is ever more unfathomable. The best minds and reporters assassinated one after another with utter impunity Rest in the peace you were never granted on earth Ana’s. Your reporting was courage beyond courage

A scandal. Keep our lochs clean!

There are many more sex offenders protesting outside asylum hotels than living inside them

Loch Lubnaig in the Trossachs, Scotland - the perfect swimming loch ❤️

In a major development, the Uppsala Declaration has inspired a similar initiative by German academics. The "Verweigerung aus Gewissensgründen [Conscientious Objection]" was made public today at uppsaladeclaration.se/germany/ #uppsaladeclaration

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Shaimaa has a funded place at Edinburgh to study for a PhD with me, but is stuck in Gaza due to Home Office restrictions. I'm proud of her for speaking about her situation on TV and grateful to reporter Paris Gourtsoyannis for covering her story. news.stv.tv/east-central...

The far right terrorising asylum seekers in hotels love to spread the lie they’re worried about the risk of sexual assault. But here’s the truth: Two in five men arrested for last summer’s riots had been reported for domestic abuse. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

SOS! The crew on 'Handala' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. Antonio La Picirella is a citizen of Italy. Email and Tag the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation NOW: Email: [email protected] X: @ItalyMFA_int and @Antonio_Tajani

‘People have seen through him and he’s not welcome’: Scotland tees up for Trump visit www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Today, we remember and celebrate Janey Godley.

By @bareleft.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: An anti-Donald Trump protest is being planned near his mother's birthplace in Lewis. The US president is set to arrive in Scotland tomorrow ...👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2533794...

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Again - the reason the Irish government/nationalists in Northern Ireland wanted a reference to the ECHR in the Good Friday Agreement is that the European Court of Human Rights had held the UK accountable for human rights abuses in NI - whereas "domestic UK and common law principles" had not

It's utterly mad. These people are the opposite of terrorists. THEY WANT PEACE. The police know they're not terrorists. The government knows they're not terrorists. Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘The residents knew the drill. They have seen it all over the West Bank. In late May, the same thing happened in Maghayer al-Dir.’ Yigal Bronner on the forced resettlement of the village of al-Mu’arrajat, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

One of the most beautiful songs of the 1980s (with Mike Mills' underrated but essential backing vocals)

The northern Irish loyalists who built a bonfire with effigies of refugees are a disgrace. Their racism is state-sponsored not only in that they received council funding for their event, but in the daily legitimation of 'stop the boats' xenophobia by the UK government.

The Council of Europe Commissioner For Human Rights ‘is concerned about the current climate for trans people’ in the UK'. northwestbylines.co.uk/news/equalit...

How Britain privatised itself into failure Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong Review by John Cole @yorkshirebylines.co.uk