Dr. Jenny Alexander

Beautiful piece of journalism on the heartbreak of one family caught in the rising tide of anti-refugee rhetoric and policy

Wow - interesting how he misses out an age group there. He says Epstein wasn't interested in 11-12 year olds and under, then he says Epstein was interested in 16, 17, 18 year olds. The DOJ indictment in the Southern District of New York refers to 14 and 15 year old victims - i.e. children.

UK folks - Every Doctor does important campaigning work about keeping the NHS public - please donate to their latest work, exposing the possible return of private finance initiatives under Labour, if you can

I'm really interested in it - @nationaltrust.org.uk have stopped posting on X (good for them) but I did see posts on Instagram reminding members of the importance of voting and they seem to be growing their TikTok

WTF!!!

I am furious and aghast about it too!

Indeed - in 2018/19 the previous Conservative Govt banned Martin Sellner, Austrian far right leader of Generation Identity from entering the UK because of his dangerous far-right views, including being a proponent of "remigration", yet six years later, "remigration" is A-OK with Tory hopefuls?!

Important piece about Republican disinformation passed off as "bad memes" #polcomm

Thanks for trying - digital dark ages indeed!

Wow I hope someone downloaded it!

To have people you love simply being disappeared to ICE sites... feels, in protean form, so chillingly akin to the systematic disappearances under the Videla dictatorship in Argentina

The de-recognition and othering of trans and enby people in the US and UK is one of the most shameful and appalling elements in our turbulent backlash times

Amazing reporting - chaos monkeys trashing the public service machine...

‘Very disheartened’: trans actor Chanel Stewart speaks out as Disney changes her Pixar character to be cisgender Studio says ‘many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline’

Documenting LGTBQ+ representational backsliding (the retrenchment of "progressive" neoliberalism) is a sadly necessary task in the present era - I missed this from Disney at the time: www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That. While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...

The anti-science announcements on autism were always about messaging, with a side of prioritizing belief over information. That’s why RFK Jr. cut the research doing what he claimed he would do—replacing it by drawing conclusions from inconclusive studies.

www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

Shocking to see and solidarity with those staff. No nation or its people is immune to democratic backsliding. For Hannah Arendt there is ever present danger of the disempowerment of the people in representative democracy, making them susceptible to autocratic elites cloaked in populism.

Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous

I'm in the "Guardian" writing about Judith Butler and the new McCarthyism: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI will make our lives better, they said...

Just deleted my account - so done with GenAI content theft and this new T&Cs identity theft

"The slide toward competitive authoritarianism in America depends, crucially, on acquiescence — on the idea that people are unwilling to bear the costs of standing up to each individual attack on liberty before they can combine into true authoritarian control over society"

Important work here - I fear we are sleepwalking towards a hostile take-over of British democracy by US techno-fascism

a group of soldiers are lined up in a row wearing helmets and armor Alt: Clip from Starship Troopers (satirises fascism) of a soldier saying "I'm doing my part"

Oh great, the make Starship Troopers reality timeline

More AI theft incoming - but at least there's an opt out!

WTF - always read the smallprint!

Great post on how gotcha social media virality is the goal

The arc of the political economy of social media bending the algos towards... whatever their billionnaire owners want to bend them towards

He cast himself as a wizard in his sycophantic job application aka that MAGA kids' book The Plot Against the King, but I'm not seeing the wiz here...

Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide

The chief judge of the Rwandan genocide tribunal has concluded, after studying the evidence exhaustively, that the Israeli government and military are committing genocide in Gaza: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

"Social media, as currently built, leads users to take extreme political positions and demonise the opposing side. This makes constructive engagement difficult, allows outlandish conspiracy theories to flourish, and promotes demagoguery over deliberation."