Elspeth Van Veeren

"Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”

ALWAYS give to Sameer Project. They're in Gaza, they're Palestinian, and they provide with dignity and respect.

Gazans often say that it's generally best to donate to individual fundraisers, that prominent orgs are nowhere to be seen in Gaza!--Except the Sameer Project which is consistently active.

This is a matter of life and death. Please do not stop sharing or donating.
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Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants.

This is horrifying beyond words.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Banner at parliament

The rain didn’t stop us. UCU joined tens of thousands in London today, marching in solidarity with Palestine and calling for an immediate ceasefire.

The message is clear: end the occupation. Free Palestine.

#FreePalestine #CeasefireNow

Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp. This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.

"The Nazis... imagined their targets would self-deport. Once the myth of self-deportation collapsed, they turned to more punitive measures. On Tuesday, Noem similarly noted the Everglades camp was meant to frighten immigrants into self-deporting. 'If you don’t,' she said, 'you may end up here.'"

This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:

“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

📺 Missed our recent FOIA research methods workshop? You can now stream the full recording, including contributions from Aiden Clarkson, Kevin Walby & Hannah Richards.

Stream here: buff.ly/aX3VI3r

#SPINEvents #FOIA #OpenAccess

Expert historian of the Constitution: “Once a constitutional crisis becomes an endemic condition, the term no longer usefully describes our collapsing system….we live in an era of constitutional failure when the relevant institutions cannot fulfill their responsibilities.” Fr @jrakove.bsky.social

This administration wants to eliminate gender studies departments while simultaneously constantly reminding us of the need for them

Think It’s Impossible to Find Community at Work? Try Joining a Union I went from “just thinking of myself to really caring so deeply about all of my colleagues.”

For young people starting at a new job, making friends can feel anxiety-inducing. One way to make it easier? Joining or forming a union.

Five young people working across industries and across the country share how organizing helped them find community and changed their relationship with work. ⤵️

🕵️‍♀️ F is for Five Eyes – the latest post in our A–Z of Secrecy series by Dr Lydia Morgan (University of Birmingham). Learn about the historically important intelligence cooperation alliance of the UK, US, AUS, CAN & NZ.

Read here: buff.ly/fBLEGOK

#SPINBlog #FiveEyes #Secrecy

Masked Terror At this point, we have all seen the videos.

One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

so it seems the take away is that if you have a Spotify sub, you’re paying for military technology development?

Trump's reason for withdrawing from the Iran deal...

He was humiliated last weekend. This weekend he bombed someone.

My guess is there is a relationship between those two events.

✊🥂Huge congratulations to the whole @newcastleucu.bsky.social membership and team. Compulsory redundancies withdrawn. Sends a message to university management everywhere. Just shows what you can do with organisation, solidarity, and right on your side.

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

📝 SPIN is delighted to share an essay by Politics & IR student Shae Miles: The Age of Innocence and Ignorance: Exploring the ‘silencing of the past’ in US foreign policy. This was written as part of Shae's excellent work on the University of Bristol's US Foreign Policy unit.

Read: buff.ly/lXhvUsp

Stimulating and interesting essay, esp. how secrecy informs the narrative reconstitution and replenishment of American exceptionalism across time; a 20C redux of manifest destiny is (re)produced via secrecy.

Well worth reading!

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

Do not let JD Vance on Bluesky! BLOCK NOW

@jd-vance-1.bsky.social

a close up of a man in a suit and tie making a funny face . ALT: a close up of a man in a suit and tie making a funny face .

Wait, they played CCR's Fortunate Son? Oh, the irony. An anti-war song about being sent off to war while the rich kids got to stay home.... for a military parade of an entitled jack ass who dodged going to war. Amazing.

Oh goody. Some poorly designed research conducted by a private agency for Ofcom that suggests ‘the manosphere isn’t that bad really.’ 😒 🤦🏻‍♀️ 😡 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Update: We've removed the paywall for all ye who enter.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

It’s here. No more is it fascism yet? It’s here