There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Jason’s got the juice. Let’s go, Georgia!

Every one of these, very welcome, decisions in the US also serves as a painful reminder that, if you are a trans kid, the UK is the most hostile place in the whole Western world. Fuck Labour.

Whether it’s Donald Trump stealing $1.7 billion from the treasury to share with his friends or Hillary Clinton using a private email server to share risotto recipes with her friends, there’s plenty of inappropriate sharing on both sides.

I cannot think of any other policy area (apart from maybe capital punishment but let’s not go there) - for which there is evidently extremely high, if fickle, popular support - that would get so cavalierly dismissed like this. There is a childish debating tactic here. But it’s not from Streeting.

I'm looking forward to meeting up at Two by Two before @ecprgender.bsky.social . This is one of my favourite spots in Newcastle!

Today's workshop is off to a great start! @eoghancunningham.bsky.social presents work on the impact of context order for summarisation tasks and information recovery in LLMs.

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Minority groups brace for surge in racism after Reform UK election gains

Excellent/interesting analysis from @patrick-pme.bsky.social as ever - and consistent with my view on what has been happening in terms of individual-level behaviour. Using 2024 as the baseline tells a slightly different story (at least last time I looked at the data on Friday) so worth some caution.

We know surprisingly little about how voters use AI to engage with politics. S. Yousefi, @benmtappin.bsky.social and @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social @lsepbs.bsky.social find AI use for political information is widespread and may already be shaping UK elections @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

Read this #OpenAccess article by Daniel M. Smith, Alexandra Cirone, Dawn L. Teele, Gary W. Cox, and Jon H. Fiva in APSR, "Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems"

Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization

British politics is resembling the rest of Europe: • Multi-party competition has replaced two-party dominance • Challengers are on the rise, esp. the populist right • Political realignment centres on identity politics (incl Brexit) But FPTP is poorly suited to this fragmentation

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

There's continued discussion of where Reform's support seems to be emerging. Based on survey of Scottish voters 1-2 weeks ago from Survation seems to tell a complicated story. The plurality are former Scottish Tory voters or report not voting previously for the Scottish Parliament in 2021.

In Havering it is looking like the Conservatives will record their first ever zero seat win.

Note that there's been no threat to sue over this statement. I know I would be suing for tens of millions if I was innocent.

It’s been only 8 days since the Supreme Court’s VRA ruling. Republicans in Florida and Tennessee have already passed new congressional gerrymanders for 2026. Alabama is on the verge of doing so, and Louisiana will follow within days. Mississippi and South Carolina are actively debating it too

Isn't this an impeachable offense? I know, get in line, but I don't think a president should be able to destroy an industry just because he gets a lot of money from oil companies and he didn't like seeing wind turbines near his golf course in Scotland.

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The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

We’re in the worst energy crisis since the 70s. Jet fuel prices are spiking. Flights are getting cut. Here’s a modest proposal: Emergency luxury fuel surcharge $1,000/gal for private jets. Buy fuel abroad? Pay by the mile to land. You want to burn through an energy crisis in style, pay for it.🧵

With barely a week until the election it remains the case that *not a single Scottish Labour candidate* has signed the ECT Scotland pledges. None of them have backed a ban of conversion practices at Holyrood. Last election over a third of them did. endconversiontherapy.scot#/holyrood26/...

The Scottish Labour Party under Anas Sarwar is currently more anti-LGBTQ+ than the Scottish Tories were in 2021 under Douglas Ross. Back then nearly 10% of Conservative candidates backed a ban. This year *no* Scottish Labour candidate has.

The world economy has been thrown off-kilter because we can't afford to support our fossil fuel addiction and Trump is vandalizing alternative energy at taxpayers' expense.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Something shocking and out of the ordinary is happening in the UK. While in most comparable countries, healthy life expectancy is rising, here it is plunging steeply. Q. So what marks us out? A. 47 years of extreme neoliberalism, culminating in austerity. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

Iris Duane and the @scottishgreens.org on both ballots in Kelvinside and Maryhill

@fabiennelind.bsky.social kicking off the second plenary at @comptext.bsky.social 2026 on AI and Sustainability

@comptext.bsky.social 2026 plenary on failure in academic research and careers

To end a fantastic visit to Glasgow, Zack joined @ross-greer.bsky.social @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social and our candidate @hollybruce.bsky.social with dozens of volunteers to take our campaign out in the sunny Southside! 💚

The General Meeting of the COMPTEXT Association is now in the books. Our officers (@jamespcross.bsky.social, @fabiennelind.bsky.social, @zdgreene.bsky.social and @miklossebok.bsky.social) and chief organiser (@chrisguarnold.bsky.social) reviewed current affairs and fielded questions from members.

The Annual General Meeting is under way at #COMPTEXT2026 – you can still make it and make your voice heard!

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Our article in @apsrjournal.bsky.social is about the travails of majoritarian mayoral elections for Women's Representation. Lets get PR & RCV in the USA! @rcvmd.org @rcv123.org @rcvmontana.bsky.social @maxberger.bsky.social @fairvote.bsky.social @fairvotewa.bsky.social @fairvotemn.bsky.social

This tanker will take some turning around but there’s a serious wrench at the tiller here.

“One report (found) that only 8 percent of users actually double checked an AI’s answer. Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80 percent of the time — a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”

tapping the impeachment sign goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/what-makes...

"We also have cisgender men as unit helpers and activity advisers, and there’s never been any objection to any of these men being involved in Girlguiding events.” Transphobia is a men's rights movement in drag.

This isn’t journalism. This is creative writing by fascist sycophants.

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there's a lot here on being seen, understanding concerns, & so on considerably less on questions like 'will care be available?' or how those decisions are being made bsky.app/profile/polp...

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

It ended the practice 30 years ago after its own internal report said was scientifically flawed, discriminatory, and a cause of emotional trauma www.wearequeeraf.com/olympics-end...

This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event). However.... apnews.com/article/ioc-...

Anti-trans legislation and the architecture of a coordinated campaign of elimination: a data-driven analysis of the most sustained legislative assault on a minority population in modern American history. www.thedissident.new... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

When you finally wonder if maybe you’ve contributed to a moral panic that has led to the most extreme assault on minority rights since Jim Crow