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It’s curious that the people that insisted SCOTUS would never overturn Roe v Wade and abortion rights advocates claiming otherwise were alarmists, are now the same people insisting that LGBTIQ activists’ legal strategies have been too “aggressive” in advocating for the rights of transgender people.

submitted 10 hours ago • 19 comments

And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail in Jamaica. Do you get it yet?

submitted 10 hours ago • 85 comments

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign… guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

submitted 10 hours ago • 433 comments

There is no justification whatsoever for the US or UK to provide any support, material or diplomatic, for Israel's attack on Iran. It is a war of aggression, clearly contrary to international law.

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

ICE protecting Americans from this criminal mastermind who was brought here at age 8 so he and his mom could escape violence in Honduras

submitted 10 hours ago • 17 comments

“By injecting a staggering $869bn into fossil fuel financing in 2024 alone, the world’s largest banks fund the climate chaos... Governments must step in & take urgent action to hold financial institutions accountable for their role in the #climatecrisis” - @davidxvx.bsky.social‬

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I forgot my favourite David Goodhart story! When I pointed out in my LRB review of "The British Dream" that he'd got some facts wrong, he emailed me to complain that "80% of the facts in the book are accurate"...

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

SCOOP: The funding behind the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been murky. Now, top US officials are "forcing" USAID to approve up to $210 million to it. Israeli forces have killed hundreds of Palestinians near GHF sites. Per docs, GHF anticipates $1 BILLION+ from other unnamed "Government Donors."

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

NEW: Data shows that as of June 15, fully 30% of all people arrested by ICE and sent to detention had NO CRIMINAL RECORD. 11,763 people in detention as of last Sunday had no criminal record and were arrested inside the country by ICE -- an increase of 4,000 people in two weeks!

submitted 11 hours ago • 45 comments

After sitting on this film for months, the BBC finally announce they won't broadcast it after its Director says Israel is committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in Gaza (they are). BBC says this isn't impartial because "Israel has denied accusations of war crimes" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 15 hours ago • 38 comments

Reminder that @nytimes.com is a material asset in the fight to purge trans people from society and subscribing to it, materially, contributes to that effort.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

What’s GBNews’s role here? Why has a national TV channel allowed to become a vector of racism?

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Proscribing Palestine Action will move a group that uses criminal damage to reject violence - the violence of states like Britain and Israel - outside the rule of law, into the opaque unaccountable world of "counter-terrorism". Everyone must mobilise to prevent this.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

I can't believe it needs to be said, least of all to a Labour Government, but we should be tougher on genocide than peaceful protest against genocide.

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

Again: one of these groups espouses very extreme views on the use of massive violence against entire civilian populations, and the other does not.

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

As an illustration, I just debated a young "thinktank researcher" who said the fall in white British % was concerning, not for racist reasons, because we wanted to think that people we passed in the street had a "familial connection" to the country. Seriously, who the fuck thinks like this???

submitted 12 hours ago • 38 comments

Man, talk about the apple falling far from the tree

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

Respectfully, this ain’t it. We don’t need to sugarcoat our history, which includes the FBI (!) assassinating Black radicals in their sleep, to condemn ICE. And we don’t need to sugarcoat ICE’s specific history to do this. The demand was abolish ICE more than a few weeks ago for a reason.

submitted 13 hours ago • 11 comments

Don’t look away. Since the start of the Israel-Iran war 7 days ago, over 400 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, many shot while seeking food. It's unconscionable that Netanyahu has not allowed international orgs to resume food delivery. The weaponization of food must end.

submitted 14 hours ago • 31 comments

The head of the leading intergovernmental watchdog for nuclear energy and atomic weapons has confirmed that the agency has not found “any proof” of an effort to obtain a nuclear weapon by Iran, lending yet more evidence contradicting Israel’s “self-defense” narrative for its war on the country.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I don’t see this mentioned at all about Andrew Cuomo. He’s on Netanyahu’s legal defence team for his ICC claims. nypost.com/2024/11/25/u...

submitted 14 hours ago • 31 comments

“Israel says it’s trying to stop us from getting a nuclear bomb. But Iran respects international conventions on its nuclear program. Meanwhile, Israel has nuclear bombs — and doesn’t allow international inspectors in. They are the last people who should be giving an opinion on this.”

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“The buzzing of drones and military aircraft above our heads doesn’t stop. For 20 months we heard these sounds in videos from Gaza. Now they’re above our heads. … Our story isn’t separate from theirs.” -Mitra, in Tehran (Interviewed by @alexshams.bsky.social) truthout.org/articles/im-...

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Jesus Christ, Bill de Blasio is cooking here. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 13 hours ago • 31 comments

Adriana Smith was brushed off when she went to the hospital in pain She was braindead within hours That was in February. Doctors performed a c-section on her on Friday. They kept her on life support for months in order to avoid violating Georgia's abortion ban ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

submitted 18 hours ago • 30 comments

🚨🚨 Breaking: preliminary leak from report of @eudiplomacy.bsky.social suggests that #Israel has breached its human rights committment in the EU-Israel association agreements due to its actions with respect to #Gaza. / 1 www.politico.eu/article/isra...

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Still thinking about how six justices claimed that laws targeting transgender kids aren't sex discrimination. Skrmetti is part of the larger GOP project to redefine who gets to be a full citizen under the 14th Amendment. increasingly, the answer looks to be conservative white men and embryos.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

sensational

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The Supreme Court's bias toward corporate interests is persistent, pervasive, and exhaustively documented. But it is still extraordinary to hear a sitting justice bluntly call it out and castigate her colleagues for consistently twisting the rules in favor of big business. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 13 hours ago • 49 comments

turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...

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Literally, this position logically breaks down to this: believing Palestinians have a basic right to exist is antisemitic. He’s not wrong that the left has objections to that.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Huge implications from this: Microsoft cut off the email of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, because of his work on Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/t...

submitted 14 hours ago • 34 comments

this is not why the bbc dropped the documentary. this is the excuse they gave. the absurd pretence. i wish we had a news media class in this country that understood their role in society.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

An almost textbook example of how laws passed with good intentions to deal with heinous terrorist acts are gradually used to increase police powers for general law enforcement and to suppress of dissent.

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🚨BREAKING: We’re deeply concerned at the use of counter terrorism powers to target protest groups. This is the latest in a succession of measures taken by the UK government to clamp down on protest in the UK.

submitted 14 hours ago • 18 comments

the future of the democratic party is this old guy who sucks

submitted 18 hours ago • 116 comments

This is a great piece - anti-prejudice norms matter. Making it career ending to say racist things was a valuable social development. One of Musk’s most insidious effects is corroding this as politicians on the right mistake the voice of DavePatriot789 for the voice of a kingdom.

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

Gideon Levy: "The mass killing in Gaza.. over 100 people every day, all of them innocent people, all of them waiting for food. This goes on, the apartheid goes on, the occupation goes on..."

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Not terrorism: bombs in pagers, setting off car bombs, kidnapping people in international waters, deliberate starvation of millions, murdering those starving people queuing up for food, indiscriminate bombing campaigns that slaughter thousands of people. Is terrorism: spwaypaint my aeropwane 😭

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

We are witnessing the first livestreamed genocide in history. Those who facilitate these crimes against humanity should face accountability — not those who have the humanity to oppose them. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments