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Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars Health and societal ramifications of extreme hunger will reverberate long after the war is over

“This is not about a formal famine declaration or a special number of trucks or meals. It’s about Israel’s attempt to starve #Gaza indefinitely without the rapid mass death from starvation... This... cannot last... though the consequences of starvation can.'

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Unanimous (!) Advisory Opinion on climate change obligations from the International Court of Justice.
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

"Last year, the Knesset approved a similar motion for the agenda opposing a Palestinian state that passed 68-9."

Incredible how long American discussions of Israel/Palestine centered the theoretical logistics of a 2-state solution, ignoring the expansionist/genocidal project happening on the ground

a rough translation of the final sentence: “Since AFP was founded in August 1944 we’ve lost journalists in conflicts, and have had wounded and imprisoned co-workers, but none of us have any memory of having to watch a colleague die of hunger.”

Cover image of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work combined with following text "Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery—working harder, doing overtime, and learning to hustle. To paraphrase...

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Actual madness.

On the relationship between trans politics and disability In the aftermath of the decision in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers  USCK 16, many disabled people sought to give practical

David Renton explores the British move to redefine trans identities as a disability: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/16/o...

The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.

No Hearing, No Harm? Rethinking Jurisdiction and Protection in UAE v Sudan On 5 May 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) removed the case of UAE v Sudan from its docket, declaring it “manifest” that it lacked

Responding to the ICJ's quiet refusal to hear the genocide case in UAE v Sudan, Babu and Garimella explore the consequences of the ICJ placing procedural exclusion above interpretive scrutiny: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/15/n...

CfP: TALS Academy in Advanced Legal Research Applications close 23 August 2025; Workshop 8-12 December 2025. The Transnational Association of Legal Scholars (TALS) is a group of legal

The Transnational Association of Legal Scholars has reopened its Academy - this is a week-long, intensive, online training for a selected 16 grad students. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/14/c...

How to Reanimate Rotting Brains in the Age of AI As artificial intelligence (AI) seeps into our daily lives, its impact on our thinking capacities is becoming increasingly clear. AI is replacing our

Tim Christaens: 'AI has been a project of absorbing and atrophying human skills from its inception.' criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/14/h...

Una Mullally: Keir Starmer was quick to condemn Kneecap, but strangely silent on Moygashel There is something rotten about leveraging an expression of long-standing culture and tradition to deliver a contemporary declaration of racist hate

Keir Starmer was quick to condemn Kneecap, but strangely silent on Moygashel. There is something rotten about leveraging an expression of long-standing culture and tradition to deliver a contemporary declaration of racist hate:

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

1. Yesterday, 86 people were arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."
They are the opposite of terrorists. They were protesting *against* terrorism. 🧵

Reflections on the Proscription of Palestine Action VX Photo/ Vudi Xhymshiti Remember that we are living, writing, waking up, sleeping, lamenting, breathing, resisting, and working amid

Tanzil Chowdhury explains the process by which the direct action protest group 'Palestine Action' was deemed a terrorist organisation and proscribed, showing how activists sought to challenge and resist the massive state overreach criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/10/r...

Resisting Neocolonial Genocidal Hyperreality: A Middle Eastern Voice Amidst the intellectual and political tumult surrounding the genocide of the Palestinian people, this essay seeks to foreground and amplify a marginalised

"We aim to intervene in ongoing debates which often fail to grasp the lived realities of the people in the Middle East, the ongoing genocide can only be understood when placed within the broader history of neocolonial mass violence & indigenous resistance" criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/10/r...

Illegality and Law-full-ness A week before the 13th Berlin Biennale’s opening in June 2025, a social media account took to criticizing Biennale curator Zasha Colah’s contention, made

Stacy Douglas explores the difference between legally-articulated censorship and a more amorphous political culture of fear, discipline, and obedience in the German debate around censorship of palestinian-supporting speech and art. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/08/i...

Now let’s do universities!!!

2022 headline where Priti Patel announced using jetskis to catch Channel migrants

2025 headline specifying that Cooper's cooperation with French coastguard involves employing... what? jetskis. and nets.

2025 headline specifying that Cooper's cooperation with French coastguard involves employing... what? jetskis. and nets.

Remember back in 2022 when we had a demented & useless Home Secretary in Priti Patel who wanted to deploy jet skis to catch migrants in the Channel in nets?

LOL so good that the grown ups are in charge now, right?
... Right @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social?
What an utter sick joke.

The proscription of Palestine Action should be seen alongside a wider, continuing narrowing of protest freedoms. The National Security Act 2023 being just one example.

Under the National Security Act, the facilities of practically every single arms company that supplies Britain’s defence establishment – including all those that Palestine solidarity protests have targeted – are now a “prohibited place” netpol.org/2024/05/09/e...

Rod Stewart was an Enoch Powell fan back in the day!

Racist then…

There is a direct line between the impunity with which Trump and MAGA politicians tell lies about immigrants’ supposed criminality and the way these establishment Democrats feel complete license to smear a Muslim politician with false allegations and insinuations about antisemitism

Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.

DJ Provai in his trademark tricolour bally, and a t-shirt saying "WE ARE ALL PALESTINE ACTION", an hour before Kneecap plays Glastonbury 2025.

1 hour to go.....

Budapest Pride goes ahead, defying Orban threat of 'legal consequences' Tens of thousands have gathered for the LGBTQ march in Hungary's capital, despite a police ban and warning from PM Viktor Orban.

“Tens of thousands have gathered for the Budapest Pride march, defying Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's legal threats against LGBTQ rights activists.”

Solidarity with everyone marching at Budapest Pride today. It’s beautiful to see so many people resisting authoritarian politics.

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I am so proud of my branch right now, and I want everyone to remember that NOTHING is ever over until you decide to roll over. It is always in your power to keep a fight going and to win.

IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid ***

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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