Gwyneth Lonergan

On the eve of Sukkot and the 2nd anniversary of October 7th, we pause to mourn and share in the pain of the family and friends of those murdered and taken hostage two years ago in the Hamas-led attacks, some of whom have still not returned home.

1. "Boriswave" is an invention of the online extreme right.
2. Those people came here legally, paying huge fees to do so, to fill essential roles.
3. They won't get ILR unless they apply, jump through hoops, & pay more fees.
4. The Times is reporting on them as a criminal burden on society.

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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RIP

UPDATE: Live feeds from several Global Sumud Flotilla ships are now *dropping* as several sources indicate Israeli ships are approaching the flotilla The flotilla is carrying 500 volunteers from 45+ countries trying to break Israel's siege of Gaza & aid starving Palestinians

UPDATE: Live feeds from several Global Sumud Flotilla ships are now *dropping* as several sources indicate Israeli ships are approaching the flotilla

The flotilla is carrying 500 volunteers from 45+ countries trying to break Israel's siege of Gaza & aid starving Palestinians

Bordering/mothering online book launch Launching Bordering social reproduction by Rachel Rosen + Eve Dickson, and Borders, Citizenship, + Pregnancy by Gwyneth Lonergan.

Anyway, for more on why immigration controls are a massive reproductive justice issue, sign up for my joint book launch with Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/borderingm...

Only the migrants who can have children while meeting these conditions can be trusted to produce the next generation of self-actualising, autonomous UK citizens.

But seriously, during the research for my book, I spoke to a few women who planned their pregnancies around visa requirements.

So Israel is classifying Plumpy'Nut as a luxury...

Reform ‘proudly embracing’ anti-abortion politics, experts warn Campaigners accuse party of ‘fast becoming the political refuge for anti-abortion hardliners’

"But it’s not just abortion, it is part of a larger anti-rights issue"

Reform has seen a few anti-abortion folks join them, but this broader anti-rights ideology includes racist, anti-immigration, anti-trans, anti-LGBTQI approaches and actions. 1/

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Another person dies trying to cross English Channel Almost 900 migrants are thought to have crossed the Channel on Saturday Simon Jones and Adam Hale 28 September 2025, 12:59 BST Updated 2 hours ago Another person has become the latest migrant to die while trying to cross the English Channel, amid a surge in illegal crossing attempts this weekend. The body was found on Sunday morning on a beach near Boulogne-sur-Mer in northern France, according to the AFP news agency, with their age and nationality not yet known.

They were a child, that's been confirmed for hours and as of 16:52 BBC still hasn't updated.
Nobody, absolutely nobody, risks a child's life crossing one of the world's busiest shipping routes if they see a genuine alternative. Labour needs to provide safety alternatives
www.bbc.com/news/article...

So, basically, you have to work all the hours God sends to pay thousands and thousands of pounds in visa fees, and the health surcharge, etc.... and then find MORE hours for volunteering.

'Crazy': Home Office leaves Syrian family 'in the dark' on asylum claim for two years A SYRIAN family was left for nearly two years without any update from the Home Office on their asylum claims, The Sunday National has been told ...

The deliberate asylum claim back log and it’s many pernicious effects

www.thenational.scot/news/2549876...

Palestine: MSF forced to suspend activities amid intensified Israeli offensive in Gaza City | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ... The relentless Israeli offensive in Gaza City has forced Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend essential medical activities in the area due to the rapidly deteriorating sec...

🚨 MSF FORCED TO SUSPEND ACTIVITIES IN GAZA CITY 🚨

Our clinics are now encircled by Israeli forces.

There are continued airstrikes & tanks advancing closer & closer to our healthcare facilities.

This is an intolerable level of risk for our @msf.ca staff.

I am outraged, and you should be, too.

Will the contract for ID cards be going to Palentir I wonder? To put our data into the hands of Peter Thiel so he can increase his ££$billions?

How much will that cost the taxpayer (when we could be spending money on youth clubs to stop young people becoming tribal and stabbing each other)?

Confirmed: Assata Shakur has joined the ancestors.

cubaminrex.cu/es/nota-de-p...

Anyway, it's a good thing I never got around to shredding all of the documents proving residency for every month of the last two decades, and if this policy goes through, you should definitely start collecting that info too, even if you were born here and have never even left for a holiday.

I was chatting to the registrar after my citizenship ceremony last year, and she asked if *I* had heard anything about the e-visas replacing BRPs. I showed her the emails I had gotten from the Home Office. She knew it was coming, and would affect her job, but had received no further information.

Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...

Seems like a good time to remind people that Canada Post will deliver any piece of mail to federal elected officials for FREE.

No stamp necessary!

Just a reminder in case you, oh I dunno, wanna send your elected officials a sternly worded letter a day for a year or something.

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin - The Berliner Three Cameroonian Berliners from a century ago were key figures in Berlin's black history, remembered for their fight for self-determination.

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...

Sanction Israel now.

A few months into Donald Trump's presidency, widely considered to be the most right-wing administration the US has yet seen. And yet: Robert F Kennedy Jr, an anti-vaxxer, alternative medicine enthusiast and long-term environmental activist, scion of liberal aristocracy, is the Health Secretary. Tulsi Gabbard, who grew up on surfing and yoga, a former Sandernista (a Fellow of the Bernie Sanders Institute!), is director of national intelligence. Kash Patel, from a Gujarati immigrant background, a former guest on Aaron Mate's "anti-imperialist" Grayzone YouTube channel, is now the head of the FBI. His director Dan Bongino was a regular guest on Infowars. JD Vance, once a recommended author in every highbrow liberal outlet in America, who compared Trump to Hitler in 2016, is the Vice President. And of course Elon Musk, a long-time Democratic Party donor, who has previously endorsed Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Andrew Yang (and his proposal for a universal basic income), and Robert F Kennedy (as well as Kanye West) for president, is... well who knows exactly what his job is.

The image of the rabbit hole or the pipeline works well for two reasons. Like the concept of "diagonalism" or "tendril theory” ( @nberlat.bsky.social ), it captures the sense in which politics is not a neat linear left-right spectrum, but that fascism pulls people towards it from various places. The image also works well because it captures the way that diagonalism works as a process. Many analysts have looked at how internet culture generates dynamics that move people politically deeper into the hole or further along the pipe, as they stop trusting their previous sources of information, "do their own research" and find increasingly radical icanc confirmed by new information sources.

The pipeline (or perhaps network of pipelines) which Callison and Slobodian focus on is Covid conspiracism and alternative health, the "crunchy to far right" pipeline that many commentators belatedly noticed since 2022 (although it has a far longer history.). Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social has analysed how this plays out in the UK, focusing on the conspiracy theorists of the British right-wing TV network GBNews, many of whom come from a New Age background. “These new forms of populism have taken all of the counter-culture of the 1960s 70s and 80s and moulded it into some new form, a grotesque caricature of anti-establishment, denuded of any political analysis, and leaning heavily into critiques of state power and media power with no conception of capital. This is a Hippy Grotesque, Dead Heads in a post-truth fever-dream.” The term "conspirituality", the fusion of conspiracy theories with new spiritual movements, also captures this.

If you’re following the insane medical claims made last night by Trump, RFK and Dr Oz, and are curious about how alternative health faddism got entangled with far right ideology, you may want to read my recent essay on diagonalism:

leftrenewal.org/webinars/gid...

We’re proud to support Black Maternal Mental Health Week 2025, led by The Motherhood Group.

This year’s theme: Make Black Mothers Visible. Together, we can change maternal health outcomes.
#MakeBlackMothersVisible #BMMHW2025 #TheMotherhoodGroup

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women "This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.

"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Bluestockings Cooperative Bluestockings Cooperative: Established in 1999, Worker-Owned since 2021. Located at 116 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002. One of NYC's only queer, trans, sex-worker run bookstores.

Everyone, I wanted to let you know about the sad news that despite everyone's best efforts Bluestockings will close at the end of the year: www.bluestockings.com - I want to thank every single person who sent books to them through my book drive [will share more later]. A tremendous loss to NYC.

Period app firms express shock at police checks of women’... New UK police guidance suggests officers can check menstrual-cycle tracking apps after pregnancy loss

Your reminder to delete that period tracking app

"Senior executives at leading menstrual-cycle tracking apps said they are “in disbelief” at new UK police guidance that suggests officers could check women’s phones for the apps after an unexpected pregnancy loss"

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Gaza student hoping for Glasgow PhD in urgent plea as family blocked from entering UK A student from Gaza hoping to study in Scotland has issued a plea to the UK Government urging them not to "make her choose" between her…

Speaking from Gaza, Manar Al Houbi told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show she was informed just days before her evacuation from Gaza that her family would not be allowed to come with her – despite the Labour Government allowing other students' families to enter the UK.

I love In Our Time and I expected so much better.

One of the many reasons AI sucks. Literally none of these things are true.

Always interesting who people are willing to sacrifice

The corporations/billionaires are not only crushing the opposition but remolding formerly time-honored institutions into something unrecognizable. There’s a reason Trump’s 2nd state visit involved King Charles 👑 entertaining numerous corporate heads from across tech, media, and business. 💰💷💶