Alice Goodman

Trans people poured their hearts into this consultation. The EHRC won't even bother to read them.

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

"Artificial Intelligence will have an impact ten times greater than that of the Industrial Revolution," says somebody whose only knowledge of the Industrial Revolution must come from Artificial Intelligence.

I still think that the patron saint of parish priests ought to be S. Jean Vianney’s *successor* as Curé d’Ars, though.

WHEN IS IT NOT SMALL BOATS WEEK THO??
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When is it wealth inequality week, eh?? WHEN DOES THAT COME AROUND?

Important (if depressing) to remember that the kind of authoritarian race-baiting expressed by Jenrick on Today (eg presenting all refugees as sexual predators and promising to deport all of them) was taboo in British politics for decades. Yet I doubt any Tory will publicly criticise him

There’s always a song:

You better look before you leap, still waters run deep
And there won't always be someone there to pull you out
And you know what I'm talkin' about
…

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine, there's gotta be a little rain sometime

I want the Forbidden Pierogies so bad.

Gradual Orange to yellow gradual fading background with black lettering for the message provided.

It's funny to think that my preference for urban living in areas with dense, mixed-used, walkable neighborhoods, multi-family housing, small businesses, and diversity probably stems from Sesame Street. Like an early education in Jane Jacob's urbanist theories.

Revealed: How foreign billionaires pump millions into British politics The Elon Musk-shaped hole in Starmer’s Election Bill

🔴 NEW: Foreign billionaires are using UK companies to pour millions into British politics — legally.

We found £6m+ in political donations from UK firms owned by foreign nationals — people who can’t vote in Britain.

New on Democracy for Sale (🧵)

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-h...

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

'e can’t put a date on Doomsday, but by looking at the 5,000 years of [civilisation], we can understand the trajectories we face today – and self-termination is most likely,” says Dr Luke Kemp at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge.' 1/2

Ursula K. Le Guin on Growing Older and What Beauty Really Means “There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment.”

Ursula K. Le Guin on getting older and what beauty really means www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/21/u...

NBC's Ken Delanian confirming my reporting.

That Kamala interview was heart breaking because it's one of the few times that I've ever seen a national political figure say the system is broken and that trying to work within it to change things probably wont work.

Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much

The other day, I visited an exhibition that left me speechless.
It shows women who lost their sons and husbands in the war.

I’m sharing part of it with a poem that played during the video.
I added English subtitles. For you.

Please watch. And share. So others can see too.

We are losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has helped educate, inform, and entertain millions of Americans.

Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.

Just peachy to have Justin Webb on #r4today insinuating that asylum seekers arriving by small boats are largely criminals and sex offenders.
Such an irresponsible, Daily Mail-style prejudice in his questions and assertions. This isn’t journalism. It’s scaremongering for the far right. Shameful.

@safety.bsky.app
Why has Mira of Kyiv (@reshetz.bsky.social) been suspended?

My info is that she is a local news reporter. I have never seen a post that violated Bluesky rules.

Her voice is important to bring Ukrainian news to the broad audience.

#NAFOarticle5

The crucial question right now, for diaspora Jewish organisations and groups who are involved with Israel, is: are you OK with a Kahanist Israel?
Sadly, for the clear majority of mainstream organisations, the answer is yes.

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.

Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.

Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling (RNS) — ‘We think that it’s not a matter of if, but just a matter of when, the Supreme Court will overrule Obergefell,’ said Mathew Staver, head of Liberty Counsel.

And so it begins...

Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling [Obergefell v. Hodges]

#Kyiv 💔

@safety.bsky.app
Please don’t turn into a yet another social media where prominent Ukrainian accounts are taken down just because there’s a sufficient amount of accounts wanting to shut them down.

So, back doing a little bit of work down in Spain before congés. Been here a lot this year

This is a remarkable country. Here are five reasons to love Spain:

α. Spain was a dictatorship and basically a theocracy in living memory. Yet it has built a vibrant liberal democracy and healthy society

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b.The University will define "male" and "female," for the purpose of all practices, policies, and procedures adopted and implemented by the University for any athletic opportunity, event, competition, category, program, or activity designated for women, consistent with the definitions adopted in Executive Order 14168, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Jan. 20, 2025), and Executive Order 14201, Keeping Men out of Women's Sports (Feb. 5, 2025).

this is brown, adopting a definition of gender rooted purely in discrimination and politics, not science, certainly not morality. whatever else they think they got from this agreement, this is horrible.

NEW: Inside the race for AI capacity.
The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed.
ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

God bless you, Sr Judith, and thank God for your nonsense detector.