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More than 200 journalists have now been killed by the IDF in Gaza.

And so many journalists here haven’t expressed a single sliver of solidarity or outrage about it.

Just been told they were throwing people out of houses last night over Ravenhill area.

They are 'patrolling' areas and harassing people they deem a problem.

They protect nobody but their drug dealing, child abusing mates.

FFS.

He didn't "kick off".

It's not a "jibe".

He said, with dignity and restraint, what we were all thinking - that Al-Obeid didn't just "die" - he, like tens of thousand of other innocent civilians, was killed by Israel as part of its ongoing programme of ethnic cleansing.

The tactics at play here are the patrol group gathering outside a house with the police arriving shortly after, under the implicit threat if the PSNI don't remove the occupant that person/house will be attacked. Last night's accusation was locals claimed the house was a brothel.

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

Irish lawyer quits European rights watchdog after being told Gaza ‘out of our mandate’ Michael Farrell warns European body will lose respect if it does not address what is ‘certainly a genocide’

Irish lawyer quits European rights watchdog after being told Gaza ‘out of our mandate’

Anyone who belongs to any minority group needs to be aware that what is being done to trans people can and will be done to them. In a decade we have been stripped of our rights to exist in public spaces by a press campaign and a well funded lobby.

Families with no recourse to public funds are trapped in hardship Half of low-income families with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) are falling into destitution — going hungry, with no safety net to catch them.

Half of low-income families with no recourse to public funds are falling into destitution 📢

We need urgent policy change so that anyone experiencing hardship in the UK has a place to turn for support.

Read our latest briefing:
www.jrf.org.uk/deep-poverty....

Beige jumper on a white background, the front panel shows harold holding a spear under an archway (scenes from bayeux tapestry)

Beige jumper on a white background, the focus is a sleeve with an image of a tower and halleys comet overhead in blue, gold and red

Beige jumper on a white background, a tree motif on a sleeve in blue, gold and red

🧶 bayeux tapestry jumper is finished, blocked and sewn up! Please don’t ask me about weaving in ends I don’t want to talk about that right now. Probably my favourite thing I’ve ever knitted ever #showmeyourknits #knitsky #knitting

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*that employ nobody AND do cloud computing for genocide

Fossil fuels, data centers, genocide, food, nature etc are all connected. So If you're working on energy systems, humans rights, genocide, data centers, privacy, etc keep working away, cause everything is connected.

So concerned about protecting women and girls...

🌏Last month, following a request from the UN General Assembly, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave a unanimous Advisory Opinion on climate change.

🧵A few key takeaways from us:
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PS: You may have read this story already. The BBC ran a version of it yesterday

We shared our FOI docs with their reporter and press office.
Their response? To publish the story - our story - without even notifying us.

A £6bn public broadcaster selling out a tiny investigative newsletter. Nice. 😔

Labour homelessness minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent, The i Paper can reveal trib.al/E59gUNW

Help please!

It is soon time for my annual lecture on legal blogging and social media.

Can you please offer any links or examples of legal commentary on a blog or social media account which you have found especially useful.

In particular, anything which has changed your mind on something?

I even sent it to some of my MLAs!

Limits to the UK Supreme Court’s Reach: Northern Ireland, the Windsor Framework and Trans Rights Introduction The judgment in For Women Scotland (FWS) Ltd v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 (‘FWS’) has sent a great many sectors across the UK scrambling to find out what, exactly, they are …

Didn’t change my mind, but this from @anuragdeb.bsky.social @aoifemod.bsky.social @sylviademars.me and @colinmurray.bsky.social was a standout for me. Brilliant, clear writing on the complex relationship of the case with post-Brexit NI:

administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/l...

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’

This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

The Communities brief covers some of the most critical elements for people living in difficult circumstances (benefits, homelessness) and the responsibility to address those issues at a systemic level via social inclusion. The Minister has chosen to focus instead on drag queen's reading Dear Zoo,

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More drag queens. More story times.

Met arrested woman after Facebook posts about ex-partner – a serving officer London force sent three officers at 4.45am, who put her in the back of a van and seized her phone and computer

Woman arrested after dissing cop ex-partner on Facebook www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

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This is the best analysis I've seen of what happened in Maguiresbridge last week. Family annihilation is not an example of losing control or "snapping", it is the ultimate expression of control.