Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

i know my account hasn’t been much fun lately but in my defense *points at every single fucking thing*

On #HolocaustMemorialDay

I dont know who needs to be reminded of the below but ...
#HMD26

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

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

No one writes like @adamserwer.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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It’s been so busy you almost forget we now run Venezuela. 🤡

@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2056...

DHS Says Critical ICE Surveillance Footage From Abuse Case Was Actually Never Recorded, Doesn't Matter Court records reveal the incredibly sad state of ICE's evidence retention systems.

New: DHS now says that two weeks of missing surveillance footage from ICE's Broadview Detention center isn't "missing," it was never recorded in the first place and thus can't be produced in an abuse lawsuit. An utter shitshow:

www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...

Body cams are definitely going to fix this.

Don’t want to be a downer or anything, but the Doomsday Clock has moved four seconds closer to midnight.

Alexandra Bell, President and CEO of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists which maintains the clock, said it was due to a “global failure in leadership” and an “Orwellian approach to governance.”

Matt Goodwin’s fall into the abyss How a once respected academic embarked on a “sad, depressing journey of radicalisation”

If you want to know what actual political academics think of Matt Goodwin you can read quite a lot of their thoughts in this profile of him I wrote in 2024 (free with registration)

www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-m...

The administration that spent the first half of 2025 telling us there was nothing wrong with coordinating literally classified war plans on Signal now is saying that it believes it’s a crime to post publicly available information on Signal.

I see an outright racist is running in a by-election and I humbly suggest that is exactly the term we all use

I reported back in *August 2024* that Goodwin had left the university of Kent. And that the supposed emeritus title he used was nothing of the sort. Since then he’s only hid a part-time title from a private for-profit university. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-m...

This is who Reform are putting up to represent a parliamentary seat in one of Europe's most diverse major cities

This five year old is still in jail

Screenshot of an X.com post by Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) reading, “Patricia and Mark McCloskey brought weapons to a protest. They were honored as keynote speakers at the 2020 RNC.” Below is a photo of a man holding a rifle and a woman aiming a handgun, standing outside near a light-colored building.

Kash Patel this Sunday: “You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines, to any sort of protest that you want."

we’re right about ai too

Breaking NBC:

Family members of two Trinidadian men who were killed in a U.S. boat strike in October have sued the U.S. government — accusing it of wrongful death and extrajudicial killings.

The lawsuit is the first of its kind to be filed against the Trump admin.

This is how the BBC is reporting Matt Goodwin's selection as Reform's candidate in Gorton and Denton.

He's not an academic. He holds no academic position and hasn't done for quite some time.

Niall Ferguson quits Stanford free speech role over leaked emails British historian resigns after urging ‘opposition research’ be done on a leftwing student

I am always obligated when Niall Ferguson is mentioned to point out that he encouraged some of his students to go after another student whose politics he didn't like. One of the most unethical things I've ever seen an "educator" do.

www.theguardian.com/media/2018/j...

Matt Goodwin was my university tutor. I’ll have a few things to say about him over the coming weeks.

One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings.

This can't be "reformed"

Man jailed for 1997 sexual assault on 13-year-old near Blackwood A judge says Richard Downey

#DNA and #forensics are great. What's not so great? Not that it took 29 years to solve this case (that's awful) but his DNA was matched in Feb 2022. It then took FOUR YEARS to prosecute/convict/imprison this sex offender EVEN WITH the DNA match. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

From Viz, three years ago: The Brexit Opportunity Detector.
Still looking.

UK loses WHO status as measles-free after rise in deaths and fall in jab uptake UN health body says Britain is one of six countries in Europe and central Asia where disease has become re-established

Farage did this.

He did this when he spread misinformation about vaccines.

He did this when he allowed vaccine deniers into the Reform conference.

He did this when he allowed vaccine deniers to stand as Reform candidates.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I read that "Why Gen Z doesn't like Harry Potter" article and trying to imagine someone writing 70 years ago a "Reasons Gen X are ignoring Biggles" article for the Times

I know now why my builders insisted on starting Jan 5th. They can turn around 1st Feb and say how incredibly ahead of schedule they are (even with several days work rained off) because January was 9 weeks long. So my "3 month" job will take 2... because... January.