If you’re following the insane medical claims made last night by Trump, RFK and Dr Oz, and are curious about how alternative health faddism got entangled with far right ideology, you may want to read my recent essay on diagonalism: leftrenewal.org/webinars/gid...

We’re proud to support Black Maternal Mental Health Week 2025, led by The Motherhood Group. This year’s theme: Make Black Mothers Visible. Together, we can change maternal health outcomes. #MakeBlackMothersVisible #BMMHW2025 #TheMotherhoodGroup

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Everyone, I wanted to let you know about the sad news that despite everyone's best efforts Bluestockings will close at the end of the year: www.bluestockings.com - I want to thank every single person who sent books to them through my book drive [will share more later]. A tremendous loss to NYC.

Your reminder to delete that period tracking app "Senior executives at leading menstrual-cycle tracking apps said they are “in disbelief” at new UK police guidance that suggests officers could check women’s phones for the apps after an unexpected pregnancy loss" observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Speaking from Gaza, Manar Al Houbi told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show she was informed just days before her evacuation from Gaza that her family would not be allowed to come with her – despite the Labour Government allowing other students' families to enter the UK.

I love In Our Time and I expected so much better.

One of the many reasons AI sucks. Literally none of these things are true.

Always interesting who people are willing to sacrifice

The corporations/billionaires are not only crushing the opposition but remolding formerly time-honored institutions into something unrecognizable. There’s a reason Trump’s 2nd state visit involved King Charles 👑 entertaining numerous corporate heads from across tech, media, and business. 💰💷💶

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"There can be no doubt that states are bound under the Genocide Convention, which Israel is violating, to take action now." HRW's Omar Shakir discusses this week's UN Commission of Inquiry report and the growing consensus among experts about Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza:

Great report on the state of Black Maternal health from @commonshealth.bsky.social led by Chair @paulettehamiltonmp.bsky.social It calls for change across England’s maternity services and demands the voices of Black women are heard. You can read the report here ⬇️ t.co/ACKYNJ1zg8

It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Still time to register for this webinar/book launch! #AcademicSky

Read @jonnydarling.bsky.social's latest thoughts on #asylum housing, from @theconversation.com @geogdurham.bsky.social

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

You look at The Verdict or Bulworth or Indecent Proposal, and as different as those performances are, they're all informed by their own specific perspective on how a preposterously pretty man moves through the world as he approaches late middle age. They're are all, to an extent, ABOUT that.

I watched Sneakers for the umpteenth time last weekend. An amazing cast for what is basically a fun heist movie. RIP and thanks.

At Maternity Action we’re committed to making sure everyone can understand their #rights. We've translated key information on #maternitypay & rights into 13 languages. 📘 Access the translated resources here: 👉 maternityaction.org.uk/maternity-rights-information-translated Please share.

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

The misogynistic comments about Diane Abbott, the longest serving Black MP, recounted with glee by Paul Ovenden are utterly despicable. The fact that the Party knew about this and swept it under the carpet until it was reported in the press, is unforgivable.

Important to remind ourselves of this as we hear and read words like "revelations" and "emerged" in respect of the Ovenden resignation. It has in fact been common knowledge for years that (a) this is the culture in that faction of the party, and (b) that Starmer is largely indifferent to it.

I'll be on Times Radio today at 3 pm discussing AI, the riots and the wider mainstreaming of racism and the far right @lancasteruninews.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/radio?msocki...

Hilarious response in the @telegraphnews.bsky.social to this video, riddled with inaccuracies (whoever said anything about death squads?!) I’ve submitted a complaint about falsehoods & requested an op-Ed for right of reply - which was, of course, not offered to me in advance of publication🤷‍♀️

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

Me on 'free speech' & the far right in #UncommonSense @thesociologicalreview.org Free speech has long been how the far right gets whitewashed & mainstreamed, something we're seeing play out in the response to the murder of Charlie Kirk & @ the 'Free Speech Rally' www.buzzsprout.com/1940580/epis...

What we are seeing on the streets and in policy is really scary. I'm seeing many on the left - political figures, commentators, activists and academics - argue that we must address economic inequality to stop the far right and rising tide of fascism. 1/

"you can draw a line directly from Kirk’s work attacking academics to the Trump administration’s all-out war on American higher education, an assault on the right to speak freely and dissent."

🚨PLEASE SHARE🚨 #Missing 12 year old from #Winnipeg #Manitoba #Canada Raymond is described as EYES: Brown HEIGHT:5'4" WEIGHT: 70lbs, thin build #MMIM #MMIWG #EveryChildMatters #RedDrumAlert #MMIMB www.aboriginalalert.ca/missingperso...

Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...

UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

A beautiful, moving essay on resistance from Joan Scott www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

This situation is an extreme case, of course - and full solidarity to Claire & every other colleague in Kent and Greenwich - but I feel Claire's post is a perfect encapsulation of a very broad problem: it's so hard to do your best work for people who regularly show they hold you in utter contempt.

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

The 9th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now 🚨 It covers: • The extensive operations across Africa; • Plans to use development aid as leverage for deportations; • Budget proposals with more external control and less democratic scrutiny; And much more. Read here: buff.ly/K5esfCb

I saw this segment this morning, and it was awful. Locals complaining that no one consulted them about having asylum housing on their road - who gets a veto on their neighbours? - and complaining that the presence of people seeking asylum 'changed the character of the area' (wink, wink)

When in @greenparty.org.uk we talk about Gaza or taxing the super rich, there's often one person who asks "why is this a Green issue?" The same forces who are protecting wealth and power (& the military complex) are the same people that are destroying our climate & nature.

oh my goodness I am delighted to find that this AI-dodger actually works THANK YOU

RIP Ken Dryden. I haven't spoken to them today, but I can only assume my parents are in deep mourning.

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

NHS physiotherapist Rachael Moses, who has been working in Gaza, confirms she's seen what other volunteer medics have also reported, that Palestinians have patterns of injuries suggesting Israeli soldiers are playing a game where they shoot victims in different parts of the body each day #GMB

Just for a second, take a step back, and remember that these are the actions of a 56 year old man towards a 17 year old girl.

we need a label for UK politicians who endlessly "empathise" with fascist concerns - let's try a US one my latest with @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

Which departments are Oxford and Cambridge doing to be encouraged to close, then? Or is it only the rest of us who will be expected to identify our — doubtless market-oriented — specialisms?

Solidarity with every immigration lawyer working round the clock to get these in before the deadline. Heroes, every one of you.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him