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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

The rhetoric of “Hamas uses human shields”has been an all-purpose “get out of caring about civilian casualties” card for the IDF since the start of the war.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Has any one else noticed an increase in the phenomenon of deputy district judges and recorders jumping through hoops to avoid determining applications they have said they find difficult for (frankly) spurious reasons?

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Shona Murray @shonamurray.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Every moment of this horror is beyond comprehension

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Also, the claim "Africans were active in the slave trade" here is completely decontextualized. No one disputes that happened in some cases. What is relevant is how the right brings that up completely out of context to avoid reckoning with systemic racism and Jim Crow in the US.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Watching events in Gaza in the last few weeks, I’ve increasingly been reminded of the quote from the film Gandhi: “Whatever moral ascendancy the West once held was lost here today. India is free, for she has taken all that steel and cruelty can give and she has neither cringed nor retreated.”

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 24/05/2025

I cannot get my head round the pain that seeing 9 of your 10 children killed must involve.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The idea that any form of Judaism as practiced today - Orthodox, Reform, or otherwise - reflects "authentic Judaism as practiced for thousands of years" is a complete nostalgic fantasy, just as most imagined claims for complete continuity between modern identities and ancient history tend to be.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Keep asking these questions, Peter Alexander. Bravo.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Make this make sense. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Sam Vimes @samvimes6.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

There is nothing in life so precious as the memories that we make with loved ones. To see somebody realising that their memories are being robbed from them reaching out and clutching onto their partner looking for reassurance and love hits like a hammer. #Dementia

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Stephanie Harris @mllesharris.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Really hoping that Springsteen adds a cover of Peter Gabriel’s Biko to his set list.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Delighted to have acted for the Charity Commission in the Batmanghelidjh judicial review. I have been surprised by the Good Law Project’s press release describing the outcome. Those interested may find it helpful to read the order made by the court and compare it with the GLP press release.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Well I have slept on it. But I can‘t get over it. "Island of Strangers“ is a horrible thing to say. And honestly, as someone who spends her professional life trying to see the British side, constantly agonising whether I am too harsh or judgemental, I am deeply upset today. (I don‘t live in 🇬🇧.)

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

If you wouldn't accept "we are at risk of becoming an island of strangers" from Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage you probably shouldn't accept it from Keir Starmer. Don't pretzel yourself trying to explain why it's ok from the guy in the red tie.

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Jemma Forte @jemmaforte.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Well done Labour Anyone who thought you represented real change now despises you. Anyone who didn’t, still won’t. People who weren’t that convinced but hoped for the best are out of patience. You’ve managed to turn off everyone. Quite the achievement!

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

2025: Keir Starmer suggests that pressure on housing and public services is because of migrants 2020: Keir Starmer, "Poor housing, poor public services are not the fault of the migrants, they're political failure"

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The House of Representatives is struggling to pass the Senate-passed and GOP leadership-backed Antisemitism Awareness Act, because far-right House Republicans are concerned it will mean they could be called antisemitic for saying Jews killed Jesus: punchbowl.news/article/poli...

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Big hurdles for the Antisemitism Awareness Act

After a messy Senate markup last week, Hill Republicans are facing a real struggle to pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Red blade = the Dark Side. I don’t make the rules.

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This week the @thespectator1828.bsky.social podcast had a fantastic advert for @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social by Michael Gove. Well worth a listen. Frankly, if I weren’t happy where I was and if I was willing to routinely defend the underdog pro bono or at legal aid rates, I’d be tempted to join.

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Chambers of horrors, the ‘Dubai-ification’ of London & the enduring obsession with Diana

This week: the left-wing radicalism of Garden Court

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Alongside what doesn't look like a big swing between the parties nationally, this seems like quite a remarkable result?

Screenshot showing Pierre Poilievre has lost his seat to the Liberal candidate, with the Liberal vote share up 19% and the Conservative vote share down 6%.

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

It's not rocket science.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The juxtaposition between Republican enthusiasm for wide Presidential immunity and their enthusiasm for arresting judges for acts taken in their own court houses is proving fairly illuminating.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I’m rather envious of the criminal bar tradition of “case dinners”. We don’t have these at the property bar (or may be I just don’t get invited). Have case dinners always been something unique to crime or is this something that just withered on the vine for the civil bar.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 26/04/2025

The marathon is tomorrow. Still plenty of time to sponsor me via the big donate button at BillableHour.org. But it’s time for the story of my lowest marathon moment. /1

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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Norwegian trade delegation to their minister, confused: He keeps mumbling "I just want a taste"? Minister, decisively: It's a small price to pay. Trump [baffled and angry, looking at a huge gift basket of lutefisk, rakfisk, and pickled herring]: What the fuck is this?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Had the opportunity to share this article with my students this afternoon, and a few of my Jewish thought it was the funniest story they had seen in days.

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BLUEY Bluesky @monkeybrennan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Yeah. Imagine some guy who was clearly guilty getting off because the trials took too long and he was elected president!

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

This is deranged. Jan. 6 defendants were repped by one of the best public defender offices in the U.S. They were more likely to be released pretrial & got comparatively light sentences. SCOTUS threw out a bunch of convictions, which almost never happens. They got gold-plated due process!

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

An unsurprisingly well written article on the For Women Scotland judgment, its implications and consequences and misconceived responses to it. www.thetimes.com/article/f89e...

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Ill-informed challenges to Supreme Court decision help nobody

Citizens should be involved in debate about law reform, but questioning the legitimacy of the judgment on misconceived grounds is irresponsible

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Would it be normal for a wealthy American to just be walking around with $3k in cash? I seldom carry or use cash myself. I either pay with a card or my phone. That seems common amongst my friends here in London. I am curious as to how far this would be considered to be odd in the US.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I didn’t know a great deal about Pope Frances whilst he was alive. Having read a great deal about him today, I realise that was my loss. My thoughts are with those who mourn his passing.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Trump’s internal monologue right now: “A lot of people are saying that I would be an excellent Pope. Possibly the best Pope. If I were Pope I could unify all of Christianity within 24 hours. Christ might come back too. I would be the best Pope - after all the Church has a lot of real estate.”

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 21/04/2025

It’s time to retire the phrase, “when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold” on.ft.com/3RoUozD The US, not others, will feel most pain from its economic mistakes

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The US, not others, will feel most pain from its economic mistakes

[FREE TO READ] America is not the powerhouse it once was

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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Bertrand Russell on Fascism - “first they fascinate the fools - then they muzzle the intelligent” ….

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 19/04/2025

I’m actually from a tiny (<2000) town in semi-rural PA where the biggest employer when I was growing up was the state prison. So I can speak to this one with a lot more authority than this author. It’s got almost *zero* to do with abstractions like their “ way of life”. I can tell you what they say…

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

May and Johnson knew all of this and yet pushed ahead with Brexit. Not doing so would mean them admitting that Russia had successfully interfered in the referendum - that it had carried out an attack on the UK and won, hands down.

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Sam Vimes @samvimes6.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

For the Americans thinking "They should just accept it".... lets say Mexico invades and occupies Texas. Bombs schools, hospitals, Kidnaps your children to raise in Mexico. Russia then makes a deal with Mexico, without you, to give up Texas and just forget it ever happened. Would you?

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Reading stuff like this makes me rather pleased to live in the UK with our King-in-Parliament and unwritten constitution but deep seated values, and not that “shining city on a hill” that has talked so much about freedom and liberty but for so many of whom that just meant freedom for white people.

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

So why are we in the UK allowing Palantir - closely allied with Musk’s DOGE - access to our NHS data?

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