I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵
The BBC openly endorsing racism here.
This is a shameful ‘apology’ @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social The thought for the day commentator was absolutely right.
🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Another humanitarian group – this time, Doctors without Borders – concludes Israel is deliberately killing the very people it has been starving by shooting them as they queue for aid.
Its report is titled: "This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing." www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...
A teen trapped in Gaza who has been accepted to study at the University of Glasgow has launched a fundraiser in a bid to get him to Scotland
🗣️ 'No safe shelter, no peace – just broken homes and shattered lives. But we are still here. Still holding on. Still hoping for a way out'
This needs shared far & wide!
Reform DO NOT care about women & girls. 1 in 5 reported crimes is domestic abuse
Yet, Reform controlled, Kent Council voted down a motion on preventing violence against women & girls
This letter from multiple domestic abuse organisations
@reformexposed.bsky.social
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...
David Lammy says the "widespread loss of life" of aid workers in Gaza is a travesty.
Who killed them, David?
And who's supporting, arming & helping them while they murder the aid workers, David?
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is calling on every single leader in the world: DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO GET FOOD & WATER INTO GAZA RIGHT AWAY. Even if it takes bypassing the reports, meetings, endless conferences, parliamentary sessions, UN sessions, and all the other regular diplomatic channels that have led nowhere. Just do it. Genocide must not be allowed to continue while we all watch. We must not allow mass starvation in Gaza. We cannot wait any longer. IF YOU HAVE POWER, USE IT. HISTORY WILL DEMONSTRATE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS.
DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO GET FOOD AND WATER IN TO GAZA.
This is from Lemkin Institute begging..... we are all begging.
Such a beautiful (and beautifully written) tribute.
Is there a publicly available list of papers/researchers for this conference anywhere? Would love to have a read through the research on this (and a couple of the others you’ve posted). Thanks.
Fascinating! On the persuasive urge to 'do your own research' - often urged in environment of distrust, can be helpful - but also connected to conspiracy theories and reinforcing existing biases.
Welcome in! I seem to remember they tell you to expect about three months. Ours was a spouse visa journey so don’t know if that makes any difference.
Obvs i appreciate we’re just one data point, but anecdotally heard similar from others.
Par for the course for Immigration Office. Their answer is consistently ‘we can’t tell you’. Tbf the naturalisation decision was very fast for us (about three weeks). But that came after 3 visa applications over 6 years (as it has to), all of which took a lot longer. ILR is the big one, really.
Credit to @katemossewriter.bsky.social for using her time on Radio 4 this morning to fully represent.
✅ women in leadership
✅ ai danger
✅ refusing to engage in nonsense gossip
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Do you have a mailing list we can join?
Timely (again). Thank you!
"The dignity of each human person and the pursuit of the common good are concerns which ought to shape all economic policies."
Pope Francis
Easter hope.
I wrote about why Republicans - and Trump specifically - often beat Democrats on messaging because they understand the politics of schemas and how to use them more effectively, while Democrats search for the best facts, but often lose the battle of perception: www.forkingpaths.co/p/schemas-an...
Gaza mourns beloved photojournalist Fatima Hassouna killed by Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-photojournalist-fatima-hassouna-killed-israeli-strike-mourns
This is high art
what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...
This will be great! Proud to be hosting !
#CriticalLanguageAwareness #TeamEnglish #Edusky #ThinkingForwards #Collaboration #HE & #Secondary 👍🏼👏🏽
British comic book creator Becky Burke is still being held in a USA detention camp, without news of release or repatriation bleedingcool.com/comics/briti...
