Steve Crawshaw

Trump told Palm Beach police chief ‘everyone’ knew about Epstein, Maxwell was ‘evil’ The new information comes as Ghislaine Maxwell was summoned to appear Monday before a Congressional committee.

Breaking: Trump told Palm Beach police chief 'everyone' knew about Epstein and 'evil' Maxwell www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

I felt very sorry for my (extremely tolerant) editor when I was writing a book on war crimes & justice in the past couple of years and every email (approaching & past print deadlines) was: „I am so sorry but… (this) just happened?!” Needed a long lie-down after it finally went to press

Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services

The best Epstein account I’ve read so far: about the place of the women in those men’s world

great piece by @svdberg.bsky.social & colleagues listing some of the extraordinary moves by Trump to block & destroy justice for all time. Extraordinary that European govts which created #ICC remain almost silent at his judicial vandalism, even now

Off Air with Jane & Fi Fresh from their new Times Radio show Jane Garvey and Fi Glover keep the mics on, grab a cuppa and say what they really think – unencumbered and off air. If you want to contact the show to ask a quest...

What a treat to take part in live show (and then be part of 4 Feb Off Air podcast, 35mins in) with iconic Jane Garvey & Fi Glover, discussing justice themes. Great conversation and… glad themes seem important to others, too.

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband

these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly

www.ft.com/content/608a...

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

Loved doing this!, conversation about so many things & coming back to essentials: why justice matters, how we can make it happen. (Updated paperback: 5 Feb)

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

The past few days have confirmed for me something I’ve long believed: the American political system is terminally fucked, but the American people are not.

Most Americans want to live in a democracy in which everyone has a decent life—the fascists in this regime represent a dying minority.

Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE

This a great thread. From Russia to Iran, the parallels are unmissable

Vermont’s Republican guv—who I vote against every time, even tho he gave my kid a prize for their world peace in French poster in fifth grade—has more spine than many national Democrats.

At least we know that while federal agents are killing people for using cell phones and the country is going to shit, Trump was working hard playing golf, hosting a screening for Melania’s movie, and rage-posting about his ballroom.

I spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.

The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.

It leads on "sharply contested narratives"

It has a dramatic skew to the US government

It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

"Trump’s speech was so contemptuous of America’s most important allies that everyone I have spoken to who heard it came away suggesting that it marked the end of an era. How could Europeans ever rely on America as an ally if the American people could elect a man like Trump?"

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Patel wanted to disclose the identity of British agents in pursuit of a photo-op!

Per capita, Denmark had more soldiers killed in Afghanistan than the United States did.

Would someone ask Farage or Badenoch or any of our flag-draped tabloid editors what they would say to the families of the 457 British soldiers who gave their lives in Afghanistan?

“I haven’t been able to find any wind farms in China”

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu.

Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

This was/is a magical & fascinating series, worth re-watching. It was/is important without today’s political context, but also of huge relevance in so many other ways for today