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Ellie Chowns asks the PM if he'll publish the legal advice the govt received on the initial US/Israel attack on Iran.

Keir Starmer says no, he won't.

he is actively dying

Literally

Keir Starmer is just like a temu version of Tony Blair

No, Shabana Mahmood, people seeing failing state support and crumbing infrastructure don't have either legitimate concerns or a legitimate grievance against immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers.

They have a legitimate grievance against governments.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

I just keep thinking how the taxes that my immigrant self pays every month are funding Starmer’s little pet project of sending military support to Israel and the US but don’t get me access to benefits 🫠🫠🫠

Israel has closed all the crossings into Gaza and reimposed total siege.

Apparently Israel/US are targeting Iranian lefties' homes, so as to leave no opposition to the princeling.

Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei could be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say In the run-up to the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Saturday, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency assessed that even if Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the operation, he would...

In the days leading up to today's attacks, the CIA "assessed that even if Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the operation, he could be replaced by hardline figures from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

At this point, it’s a conscious choice to ignore the harm their policies are doing, both to migrant communities and to their electoral prospects - suggesting it’s an ideological commitment, at least for Mahmood. Also disingenuous to conflate the planned change to settlement with ‘illegal migration’

is it called operation lion’s roar because trump is the same deep orange shade as scar from the lion king

White House officials believe 'the politics are a lot better' if Israel strikes Iran first As the administration mulls military action in Iran, officials argue it'd be best if Israel makes the first move.

The precise relationship btw US imperial interests and Israeli territorial expansion and regional hegemony is often complex and then, sometimes it’s v clear

imo everyone should read the essay from Salvage in the tweet below and also read this longer essay about opposition to war: www.academia.edu/64028197/Int...

I totally understand the impulse to point to elite illegality but Rob lays out why that isn't as effective as it feels like it is/should be.

Israel attacks southern Lebanon in latest ceasefire violation The Israeli military says it is attacking Hezbollah sites but civilians and infrastructure are repeatedly targeted.

The Israeli military says it’s attacking Hezbollah sites but civilians and infrastructure have been repeatedly targeted

So Israel is launching a "preventive" strike on Iran and also announcing a state of emergency, because they expect Iran to respond to their "preventive" strike by launching missiles. So like... what's being prevented here?

they voted for a woman is a tradesperson, who is led by a leader who is Jewish and gay but Reform say they lost because of Islamists lol

personally there’s definitely pressure in my relationship to vote a certain way because like if I found out my partner was a xenophobic capitalist that would be the end of the relationship and pretty sure he feels the same way so yeah

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This looks so fantastic!!

The ties that bind On the women who raise us and the world they make for us

Your morning read.

about family and ramadan and what we lose when people we love die.

Making and Unmaking Archival Methods - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Cris van Eijk about making and unmaking archives.

Anyway, I was on @oxfordcsls.bsky.social's Talking About Methods podcast this month ranting about exactly this, if anyone's interested:

frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/making-and-u...

Revealed: The true toll of female suicides with domestic abuse at their core Exclusive: Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 6.5% of the true number of cases in England and Wales

www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Suspected victim suicides have outstripped homicides for the last two years, according to the Domestic Homicide Project. I suspect that if we’d been looking for longer, this would have been the case for longer. 💔

Protect girls at all cost The thing that is terrifying about all of these stories (besides the men in them, and the fact that many are good men who just do not seem capable of basic empathy and care) is the fact that most of u...

your daily dose of feminine rage

findingwordsforthoughts.substack.com/p/protect-gi...

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We have begun to commission abortion services in Northern Ireland, BUT we still don’t have all the services in the regulations. For more information on abortion in Northern Ireland visit our website.

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"The govt have been completely shamed in court & I'm proud the entire Green MP group all voted against proscription of Palestine Action"

@zackpolanski.bsky.social on the high court declaring the proscription unlawful

Roses are red
but that's implicit
fight back against fascism
or else you're complicit

This morning the High Court found that the government's decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was unlawful. Explanation and analysis from @finishedloading.bsky.social and me below.