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Jessica Simor KC

@jmpsimor.bsky.social

Barrister, environment, energy, public law, human rights. Visiting Prof LSE & Goldsmiths.

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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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 608    ๐Ÿ” 112    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 111    ๐Ÿ“Œ 22
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"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

22.07.2025 06:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 132    ๐Ÿ” 106    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Whereโ€™s Rosie Holt? @rosieisaholt.bsky.social

21.07.2025 23:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Certain 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 241    ๐Ÿ” 68    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cummings, Pollardโ€ฆpeople who had power and influence.

17.07.2025 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Lifting the District Courtโ€™s 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.
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The President must take care that the laws are faithfully
executed, not set out to dismantle them. That basic rule
undergirds our Constitutionโ€™s 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.

Lifting the District Courtโ€™s 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 Constitutionโ€™s 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:

14.07.2025 19:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5721    ๐Ÿ” 2496    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 507    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1405
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Do not enter the sea.

14.07.2025 17:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Enfin !

11.07.2025 15:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Consider this โ€˜defenceโ€™; 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 134    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Gaza: Doctors Under Attack A forensic investigation into Israeli military attacks on hospitals in Gaza

I 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 Israelโ€™s refusal to allow the media, including the BBC into Gaza or its prisons.

www.channel4.com/programmes/g...

10.07.2025 23:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 52    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Pay for doctors Resident doctors As a resident doctor youโ€™ll earn a basic salary, plus pay for any hours over 40 per week, a 37 per cent enhancement for working nights, a weekend allowance for any work at the weekend...

www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-role...

09.07.2025 18:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

07.07.2025 18:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3000    ๐Ÿ” 1283    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 587    ๐Ÿ“Œ 205
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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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 68    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

What % of this ยฃbillion allegedly paid to โ€œhouseholds 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œHouseholds with foreign nationalsโ€???? Current Tory spiel: โ€œdonโ€™t go partnering up with no foreigner - likeโ€ฆitโ€™s not rightโ€ so youโ€™ll be lose benefit entitlementsโ€ฆIncoherent, racist, nationalist nonsense, as weโ€™ve come to expect.

07.07.2025 15:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@yarotrof.bsky.social

02.07.2025 18:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7821    ๐Ÿ” 3449    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 890    ๐Ÿ“Œ 362

So true. Chris Mason relishing his utterly pointless and mostly ridiculous script.

02.07.2025 23:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jenrick and Hannan are tweeting in their classic careless and obnoxious form, putting peopleโ€™s lives at risk. What they donโ€™t perhaps realise is that so called โ€˜leftyโ€™ judges are very much the exception; mostly judges are ultra-conservative to the benefit of the incumbent Government.

01.07.2025 22:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œTheyโ€™ve had 14 years to get ready for governmentโ€ - ๐Ÿ˜‚

30.06.2025 23:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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.

30.06.2025 08:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 551    ๐Ÿ” 188    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
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Silencing of dissent, and intimidation against those who are thinking of speaking out.

30.06.2025 19:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 50    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We 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 blueโ€ฆ

30.06.2025 17:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 91    ๐Ÿ” 44    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

So letโ€™s 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. Letโ€™s go back to our worst selves.

30.06.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My test; replace the word Muslim with Jew - rightly Goodwin would not be given airtime.

30.06.2025 15:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 241    ๐Ÿ” 55    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Like the BBC interviewing the French National Front on the Today programme this morning about how it will deal with โ€˜the boatsโ€™ when it gets into power.

30.06.2025 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The heat causes me to repeatโ€ฆ

30.06.2025 15:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We knew MAGA meant harming other countries: โ€œitโ€™s not enough to succeed, others must failโ€ etcโ€ฆThis, however, is a direct attack on the world as a whole - including on future generations.

29.06.2025 08:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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GOP is on verge of sweeping victory in bid to gut clean energy economy The Republican controlled Congress is poised to score a major victory for President Donald Trump by repealing green energy incentives that Democrats passed in the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022.

The 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...

28.06.2025 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 181    ๐Ÿ” 110    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 29

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