As Yvette Cooper pushes forward new laws to make it harder for child refugees to get safe passage to join their parents in the UK, here's a picture of her from 2020 campaigning for the complete opposite.
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As Yvette Cooper pushes forward new laws to make it harder for child refugees to get safe passage to join their parents in the UK, here's a picture of her from 2020 campaigning for the complete opposite.
I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
The Rock is definitely prepping for the role of a lifetime in a Michel Foucault biopic
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
I feel like losing my mind every time we do another round of Covid discourse because I live in Bergen county NJ, I saw the freezer trucks full of dead people with my own two eyes
If you grow up among working people, you know they/we HAVE FUN, MAKE ART, GET LAID, and EXACT VENGEANCE! Hence this year's bc X HKU Film Club, "Dreaming, loving, killing: Working people seize the means of expression"!!! We'll start with Kieślowski’s Camera Buff: cinema.com.hk/tc/movie/det...
Yes, it's great, these bc X HKU Film Club screenings always sell out fast!
Thank you to everyone on Bluesky who helped me program this year's bc X HKU film selections!
Here is my more sober description of the series, one befitting a university lecturer, if you care!!!! www.instagram.com/p/DN2yOb2WKM...
If you grow up among working people, you know they/we HAVE FUN, MAKE ART, GET LAID, and EXACT VENGEANCE! Hence this year's bc X HKU Film Club, "Dreaming, loving, killing: Working people seize the means of expression"!!! We'll start with Kieślowski’s Camera Buff: cinema.com.hk/tc/movie/det...
his accomplishments in the last year include killing millions of people, pissing off the entire left and then half of the right, blowing up several rockets and making sure everyone knows what he jacks off to and somehow a mf still thinks he's taking them to mars
When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault
My councilwoman @janeese4dc.bsky.social put out a plea to neighbors to not order food delivery because of law enforcement targeting delivery drivers.
I've got enough cool young Gen Zs (and whatever comes after them) calling me their mom that I'm confident that's who I am for now
Taylor Swift is so depressing. Let's dream bigger than this
told a boy how old I am and he dropped his cigarette 😎
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.
Respect
I know so many journalists of color who have been accused of bias whenever they report on their own communities—no matter their level of experience as expertise—and would not have been treated "like a human" by the members of this housing development.
one additional thing to point out here: the NYT is pandering to a readership that primarily sees this as a “compelling conversation,” rather than a normalization of white supremacy that has real, dangerous consequences for people who are not white
Why did she say something transphobic? (Fuck all the way off with this Collider)
Happening right in front of us
Trump is literally telling you that he's willing to go full fascist and is open to implementing martial law to stay in power. The establishment is still suffering from cowardice and a failure of imagination.
Look at this cat getting a Bar mitzvah
Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)
Kitten Season is so hard. Please help all your friends in rescue. This little litter was found cowering at the side of a road. They were possibly following their mama who was leading them to a new location and got lost 💔
I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it. — alexis de tocqueville
I knew he ordered the destruction, I did not know he personally participated in it. Even the worst villains usually delegate dirty work to their subordinates. This is despicable.
Real talk (reel talk?): BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.
A tweet from a sitting member of Congress calling for a violation of the Constitution would have sparked days of outrage in the pre-Trump era. We can’t normalize this dangerous cult.
Just had a literary festival try to assuage my concerns about their workshop with a “decolonially trained AI” by assuring me the AI isn’t getting paid for their session, as if my concern was grounded in the pay scale for the robots
The Dog Show: never have I seen so many dogs. There were dogs as big as buses and dogs as small as indoor fireworks; professional dogs slumming in the sticks, daffy family dogs grinning ear to ear, a bulldog with a man who resembled a bulldog, and girl gangs fussing over their dogs between rounds.
Leftists simply don't understand politics. The way to win is to immediately promise Newsom your vote three years early without asking anything in return. This is called leverage.
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
We don't talk enough about how any contact at all with the criminal punishment system can destroy your life. The arrest, the court dates, missing work and other associated costs etc... People who aren't proximate to this really have no idea.
finally watching small axe and I really appreciate that all the racists are ugly and the allies are cute
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
Also, why the hell would I be mad at someone for living in a rent stabilized apartment??????? Everyone should be able to live in rent stabilized housing!!!! That’s the whole point!!!!! OMG!!!!! I’m going to snap!!!!!!
Imagine showing this headline to someone who just woke up from a 10 year coma.
If your book is in this database of published material that was plagiarized without permission to shovel into the maw of AI (& it most likely is--I just checked & mine was there), add your information (title, publisher, ISBN number) to this attorney form to be part of a future class-action lawsuit.
Former Cuomo Aide: Why I Joined the Democratic Socialists of America By Lindsey Boylan In the middle of a torrential downpour and unrelenting heat in New York, I made my way to a storied Gothic revival church serving Brooklyn Heights for almost a hundred years. What I found inside that night…
Mass revolt from queer authors in the UK after a major LGBTQ+ writing prize longlisted a self-proclaimed TERF. 11 authors and 2 judges have withdrawn from the Polari Prize. One of those withdrawals, that of June Thomas, is newly confirmed by our reporter, @evanurquhart.bsky.social. Read more here:
The job of policing is to keep people in their designated spaces. They’re at the National Mall to signal that the mall is understood as a place for particular people.
Climate change, fascism, AI—none of these are happening in a vacuum. I’m so tired of the reporting that makes them all seem like an unstoppable wind blowing through. We’re here. We exist. We The People are going to keep working to organize, to educate, & to make change in the direction of justice.
Just saw someone call the military occupation of DC a distraction, and that’s it, the it’s a distraction people have lost it. We should wait until the bulldozer is running over your house and all chime in with “isn’t there something else we should be talking about”
As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.
fascist troops marching through our streets dont keep anyone safe and we dont need advice about crime from a guy with a rape charge and dozens of fraud convictions — stay strong and stay free dc 🥖
Minor note but look how unhappy I look working for him here
Read this very carefully: *61%* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 weeks*
Trump and his ilk are scared because they can't handle competition. They aren't smart, charming, or disciplined enough to hold their own in an open market. If the US achieved an even playing field after centuries of giving breaks to straight white men, those Immortan-ass Joes know they would lose.
This is just deeply depressing: women who spoke up during #MeToo often found their lives upended, as powerful men used defamation suits to target them, e.g. Roy Moore is still suing many of his accusers. What Happened to the Women of #MeToo? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Today alone, I learned that the latest version of ChatGPT cannot reliably answer how to spell the word blueberry… And on a far more serious note, AI told a man to replace table salt with sodium bromide, thereby poisoning him. My job is to teach critical thinking skills, and boy are they needed.
A Chicago woman went to immigration court. Her case was dismissed; she and her infant were taken by federal agents who turned her over to contractor MVM. They spent five days confined at the Sonesta O'Hare hotel without communication to the outside world. My first byline at @injusticewatch.org:
if there's one thing I know about rich New Yorkers it's that they love the bus
The FBI has ousted at least two top officials, including its former acting director, in what insiders say is the latest purge of leaders targeted by Trump’s right-wing supporters.
This is wonderful. Thank you!
My latest: I wrote about my journey to put on 20 pounds of muscle as a woman. And how my life changed because of strength training/bodybuilding.
Remember when a woman filed a lawsuit in 2016 against Trump alleging she was raped by him when she was 13 years old in 1994, at Jeffrey Epstein's home?! This was years before Epstein was investigated and arrested again in 2019 and the M.O. lines right up. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Record-breaking black rain: hongkongfp.com/2025/08/05/w... And it'll only worsen with climate change: hongkongfp.com/2025/08/05/m... Photos: HKFP. #climatecrisis
This week, Democrat members of Congress are going to Israel on a trip that will likely include a meeting with Netanyahu. It is, of course, AIPAC-funded. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/08/...
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
waitaminute...
BREAKING: Gov. Greg Abbott (R) just asked the Texas Supreme Court to remove Rep. Gene Wu (D) from office by Thursday — for joining a walkout to block the GOP’s redistricting power grab. If Abbott succeeds, no Democratic lawmaker is safe for protesting. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social
it's cool to see something and know that you, personally, may die a couple of years early because of it
Are there any peculiarities of recommendation letters for PhD programs I should know about? I'm new to writing them and don't want to make my beloved students look stupid for using me
As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.
A now-public video from 1992 shows Trump and Epstein socializing at Mar-a-Lago during a party that reportedly included cheerleaders and other women brought in for the two men and their friends.👇
the onion 2 months ago
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
We're trying to clear out our storage unit on Atlantic Avenue because the cost has ballooned. I hope someone has a good lead for you!
"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest
The second is the Hong Kong film "The Way We Talk," which was recommended by @katereilly.bsky.social and features @leungmingkai.bsky.social doing cinematography. It's an excellent examination of language and the way society treats deafness as something to be "cured." www.flixist.com/nyaff-2025-r...
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Wooo haha! I hope you enjoyed the film!
And what good is that kind of miserly, self-serving empathy? I'd argue that's not empathy at all.
I'm thinking about films that came out in the last 2 years that were socially engaged and concerned with marginalized communities. Few of those films' creators spoke up on behalf of Palestine, or Sudan, or Ukraine, or demonstrated compassion for anyone outside of their narrow zones of interest. ...
As more and more artists publicly speak out on behalf of Palestinians, I want to thank filmmakers Jun Li and Neo Sora for publicly supporting Palestinians when doing so was lonely and especially dangerous. ...
"...touching more people" Excellent phrasing, sir. Really helping the public forget the sexual harassment allegations
This fall will be the first big stress test for US clothing retailers. Trump announced his first big round of tariff hikes on April 2 ("Liberation Day"), after most stores received their spring/summer deliveries. It's an open question how they will handle fall/winter deliveries with 10-145% tariffs.
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
Trans athlete bans always get used to police cis women's bodies. The athletes affected by this are disproportionately Black. There's a direct through line from this stuff to racism.
This is genuinely the news every day
I keep referring people back to this because it keeps coming up. People ask me how long things this regime does will be allowed or tolerated and I keep asking “by whom”? Dad is not getting home later. The most charitable view of SCOTUS is that they have decided to be hands-off…. /1
Three House Democrats backed by millions from the crypto industry are urging other Dems to support a Republican-led bill to deregulate crypto. Josh Gottheimer, Ritchie Torres, and Don Davis wrote a letter asking Dems to vote for this bad crypto bill. substack.perfectunion.us/p/after-rece...
Tonight – Tuesday, July 15 – watch Anocha Suwichakornpong's ดาวคะนอง By the Time It Gets Dark, shot by @leungmingkai.bsky.social, at @eflux.bsky.social screening room in Brooklyn. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/decision-m...
Tonight – Tuesday, July 15 – watch Anocha Suwichakornpong's ดาวคะนอง By the Time It Gets Dark, shot by @leungmingkai.bsky.social, at @eflux.bsky.social screening room in Brooklyn. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/decision-m...
"It’s time to just accept that some people like having sex with kids and focus on the fantastic things we’re doing to win back the respect of the world." — Donald Trump theonion.com/trump-urges-...
New Yorkers who have never been abused are seeing what it is like to have a monster in your life relentlessly try to bury you. Other New Yorkers, survivors, have been living with this truth from the beginning. Cuomo is just a perfect manifestation of such monsters in our era.
These are amazing, thank you so much for the titles and for telling me about them
Yeah, I really have to watch it! Thanks again
Amen!!!! Thank you
I love Broadcast News so much. I still haven't seen Paterson! Thank you
Thank you!
They would! Thank you!