The only excuse for this mindset is that the truth is too unbearable. It is no less grotesque and unforgivable for that.
28.07.2025 10:29 โ ๐ 608 ๐ 112 ๐ฌ 111 ๐ 22@jmpsimor.bsky.social
Barrister, environment, energy, public law, human rights. Visiting Prof LSE & Goldsmiths.
The only excuse for this mindset is that the truth is too unbearable. It is no less grotesque and unforgivable for that.
28.07.2025 10:29 โ ๐ 608 ๐ 112 ๐ฌ 111 ๐ 22"What we're seeing now is the most horrific stage of Israels starvation campaign... Israel has been using aid as a way to bait civilians & has been killing civilians who have been seeking aid..."
Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Whereโs Rosie Holt? @rosieisaholt.bsky.social
21.07.2025 23:06 โ ๐ 37 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 0Certain people seem far more concerned that the Afghans were provided with asylum in the UK, rather than the somewhat larger issue of an data leak which put approximately 100,000 at increased risk to their lives and the MoD covering it up. We continue to abandon people needing safety.
16.07.2025 15:58 โ ๐ 241 ๐ 68 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 1The final nail in the coffin would be for this woman to be prosecuted for disclosing information on the Epstein file and sent to jail for life with Ghislaine.
17.07.2025 08:49 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Cummings, Pollardโฆpeople who had power and influence.
17.07.2025 08:31 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Lifting the District Courtโs injunction will unleash untold harm, delaying or denying educational opportunities and leaving students to suffer from discrimination, sexual assault, and other civil rights violations without the federal resources Congress intended. The majority apparently deems it more important to free the Government from paying employees it had no right to fire than to avert these very real harms while the litigation continues. Equity does not support such an inequitable result. * * * The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them. That basic rule undergirds our Constitutionโs separation of powers. Yet today, the majority rewards clear defiance of that core principle with emergency relief. Because I cannot condone such abuse of our equitable authority, I respectfully dissent.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
Do not enter the sea.
14.07.2025 17:55 โ ๐ 31 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Enfin !
11.07.2025 15:32 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Consider this โdefenceโ; if a murderer is in a school, it is justified to blow up that school and kill the children not to neutralise any threat or to achieve any military objective but purely to punish the murderer.
11.07.2025 11:52 โ ๐ 134 ๐ 30 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 0I did not want to watch it; I forced myself to and it should be obligatory watching. The BBC decision not to air it is terrifying & shocking, particularly in light of Israelโs refusal to allow the media, including the BBC into Gaza or its prisons.
www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
Full-blown militarized raid on horseback,
military tactical vehicles, and soldiers on foot with a perimeter set around McArthur Park.
Looks like a big show of force by ICE/Border Patrol.
More than the entirety of the former budget of Trump abolished USAID to be spent on detention centres alone. A nationwide apparatus of camps capable of deporting 1million people per year (with no due process).
08.07.2025 06:10 โ ๐ 68 ๐ 27 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 2What % of this ยฃbillion allegedly paid to โhouseholds with a foreign national in themโ is paid to Brits? No doubt he knows the answer to that question... Utterly malign, as he well knows.
07.07.2025 15:53 โ ๐ 29 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โHouseholds with foreign nationalsโ???? Current Tory spiel: โdonโt go partnering up with no foreigner - likeโฆitโs not rightโ so youโll be lose benefit entitlementsโฆIncoherent, racist, nationalist nonsense, as weโve come to expect.
07.07.2025 15:34 โ ๐ 38 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0@yarotrof.bsky.social
02.07.2025 18:55 โ ๐ 7821 ๐ 3449 ๐ฌ 890 ๐ 362So true. Chris Mason relishing his utterly pointless and mostly ridiculous script.
02.07.2025 23:01 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Jenrick and Hannan are tweeting in their classic careless and obnoxious form, putting peopleโs lives at risk. What they donโt perhaps realise is that so called โleftyโ judges are very much the exception; mostly judges are ultra-conservative to the benefit of the incumbent Government.
01.07.2025 22:07 โ ๐ 41 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0โTheyโve had 14 years to get ready for governmentโ - ๐
30.06.2025 23:06 โ ๐ 35 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1screenshot of guardian article
This is the Home Office behaving exactly as intended:
The visa fees paid by a grieving widower to bring his wife to the UK are kept. Despite the face that she literally died before she made it to UK soil.
We need to rip this broken institution apart.
Silencing of dissent, and intimidation against those who are thinking of speaking out.
30.06.2025 19:21 โ ๐ 50 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0We could have predicted that fascism would not return with goose stepping and black uniforms but in the form of a pretty smiling blond wearing baby blueโฆ
30.06.2025 17:39 โ ๐ 91 ๐ 44 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 2So letโs break all taboos that render us civilised, for example not hitting our children, not enslaving or exploiting the vulnerable & needy, not assuming those who are different in some way are a threat or lesser. Letโs go back to our worst selves.
30.06.2025 17:12 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0My test; replace the word Muslim with Jew - rightly Goodwin would not be given airtime.
30.06.2025 15:52 โ ๐ 241 ๐ 55 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 3Like the BBC interviewing the French National Front on the Today programme this morning about how it will deal with โthe boatsโ when it gets into power.
30.06.2025 15:48 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0The heat causes me to repeatโฆ
30.06.2025 15:44 โ ๐ 31 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0We knew MAGA meant harming other countries: โitโs not enough to succeed, others must failโ etcโฆThis, however, is a direct attack on the world as a whole - including on future generations.
29.06.2025 08:32 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1The GOP bill is much worse for wind and solar than clean energy experts expected. Many were scrambling today to understand exactly what the additional tax on wind and solar means -- and how much it will slow investment.
From me and Evan Halper:
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...