Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 9h‘Culturally British by my standards’ is one of the most chilling phrases uttered in British politics. Entirely unsurprising to me who it’s from. 53785198
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialJorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 6h🚨 Just in: The US has sanctioned the ICC. "We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate," Marco Rubio said in a statement.reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace PrizeThe Trump administration has long been hostile to the court and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges. 87432236
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 7hRepublicans would rather your children watch a man get killed than a drag queen read 502819610
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialOliver Grimm @grimmse.bsky.social · 11hGiven her former work as a judge at the ICC, and her accusation of Israel having committed "four acts of genocide in Gaza", I hope this won't re-awaken Trump's appetite to destroy the ICC. 88414
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17hI am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now. 10264556012020
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11hThis is a really serious piece of investigative work. Thank god someone is doing it. 8315124
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 23hTurning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW. 531925539
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Is it good when you admit your military strategy is timed to elections? 1636276
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialZeteo @zeteo.com · 08/10/2026"You think the Saudis want to give up their land to Israel?" A former Israeli intelligence official tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that parts of the Arab world now see a 'Greater Israel' as a valuable neighbor rather than a threat, a claim Mehdi pushes back on hard. 🔗: zeteo.com/p/october-7-... 25920
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It's because the phrase is used to identify those loyal to the in-group, and identify those members of the out-group who need to be targeted and attacked. 46527140
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Curious question: has anyone compiled a decently large sample somewhere of the white supremacist and Nazi imagery used in social media by official Trump administration accounts (esp. official department accounts, rather than individuals)? 1135938
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I am thinking because 'white house staffers regularly post Nazi-themed propaganda (because they're all little groypers)' is a thing a lot of very online people know, but I might find it useful to be able to point to a collection to prove the point to less online people. 027315
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior 8583791272
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The government has declared datacentres “nationally significant infrastructure projects” that can be forced through the planning system. This means getting preferential access to water. Yet it has no idea what they're used for. Our dwindling supplies might be prioritised for nudifying celebrities. 929074
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialKevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk · 08/10/2026Not only a fringe view currently being aggressively promoted for desperate reasons, it’s not even an interesting talking point as most pub conversations settled this decades ago. Less than 16% support for the (nonsensical in the case of Englishness) race essentialist view. Boring as well as nasty 1318331
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialIan McClellan @ianmac.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The BBC has announced it will be cutting a raft of Radio 4 programmes including the long-running consumer and social affairs show You and Yours. The social sciences show Thinking Allowed will also be cut along with arts and ideas programme Free Thinking… 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and YoursThe corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts. 373
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialyaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 08/10/2026usually every bigotry is either The Animalistic Subhumans Are Coming For Our Women or The Scheming Puppeteers Have Secret Control Of All Of Society. transphobia is fun because it is, in this regard, nonbinary 413321
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialZeteo @zeteo.com · 08/10/2026ICE Jailed a Rabbi For Protesting Israel. Now He Can’t Observe His Faith Officers told an anti-Zionist Orthodox Jew they ‘don't care’ about his need to pray away from a prison toilet. 'First Draft' from @premthakker.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/ice-jailed...zeteo.comICE Jailed a Rabbi For Protesting Israel. Now He Can’t Observe His FaithOfficers told an anti-Zionist Orthodox Jew they ‘don't care’ about his need to pray away from a prison toilet. Plus: Trump gets angry over two advisers leaving the country for a major payday. 412356
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I’d question when Reform/Farage closed their ‘investigation’? Reform’s latest accounts, published last week, talk about keeping £440k plus VAT aide in relation to ‘two proposed defamation claims’ A week later Farage is talking about ‘aggressively’ pursuing journalists behind undercover sting… 2427
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialSean Kemp @seankemp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yep, when I catch up with other former Lib Dem Spads we just sit around cackling about how we destroyed the Tories by making them compromise on key issues. ‘Wow we totally screwed their electoral chances for a decade’ we say as we laugh into our drinks. 1321834
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialGuy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires I discovered via an FOI request that DEFRA’s commitment in the National Adaptation Programme to run a “wildfire risk programme” since 2023 “was not brought into effect”. #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...theguardian.comRevealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfiresFOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear 18348190
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialJohn Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I think this is a good example of how transphobia is used to police the bodies and appearance of all women, as it is at its heart a misogynistic form of gender essentialism which punishes anyone considered outside the norm. 052
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026UAE may halt UK investments after Manchester City guilty verdict. The 'rule of law', not blackmail must prevail. Over 100 individual breaches of the Premier League Rules. It filed misleading accounts at Companies House. There are questions about whether Manchester City circumvented UK taxes.theguardian.comUAE may halt UK investments after Manchester City guilty verdictPremier League’s actions would ‘have an influence on the bilateral state relationship’, Emirati officials said 66857246
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026he's so breathtakingly stupid 2265952
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 02/10/2026Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more) 22872295
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialJosh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 01/10/2026They’ll be restaging the Nuremberg trials before long at this rate 59419
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just had to check 813332
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Seems bad. 1020325
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialOz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Russia has bombed a school basically every single day this week, so for those people who say "if this was happening in Ukraine, it would be on the front pages every day", how many times have you seen that on the front page of even one of your national newspapers this week? Zero. 6797231
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialWesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s important that Google Earth/Maps has done this, but worth noting that so far the updated 2026 imagery is only of southern Gaza—the imagery of northern Gaza is still from before the final destruction of spring-fall 2025, giving the impression that large areas of Gaza City and Jabaliya are… 523670
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialNick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026hey is the strait open yet 481158165
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.social404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned404media.coHow Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance ProgramHow the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program. 6213651083
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much 321356162
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"We deserve to be told the truth..." 3840470
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialCNN @cnn.com · 29/09/2026Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. cnn.it/4huSk5M 69460277
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There is a genuine incomprehension amongst many journalists and politicians that anyone might care sincerely about Palestinians or seriously object to their indiscriminate slaughter. The natural human response to this genocide is something they simply cannot understand. 24567183
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialLong John Dipshit 💀🎃 @wokeoaf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“It’s not going to improve people’s lives here is it?!” I dunno man I’ve been watched children get murdered for three years straight now, it probably would improve our mental wellbeing if we stopped running cover for the murderers and maybe tried to do something about it 831659
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialJohn Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We no longer see most of the bodies of dead refugees who drown trying to cross oceans. When our press talk of irregular migration, it’s usually to magnify the voices of the right wing, spreading fear about ‘fighting age men’. 083
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialBaltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 27/09/2026‘Golden arches theory’ is still not aging well, as this McDonalds warehouse burns in Ukraine after a Russian attack. Let’s talk about this. Thomas Friedman came up with the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention in the 90s, arguing that countries with McDonalds don’t fight each other. 🧵.. 1114343
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialAlex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Who Wants To Be A 2.3Millionaire 141
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet 17189281751
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Anyone who believes this bunch of con artists represents their interests is either a billionaire or seriously misinformed. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/outr...leftfootforward.orgOutrage as Reform-run council votes to shut 10 nurseriesMembers of the public shouted “you should be ashamed” as Reform councillors approved the plans 40775301
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026BREAKING: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned.politico.comPOLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring accessThe Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri... 1532283915
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialMichael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Netanyahu to deliver defiant UN speech while facing protests and political isolation He should not be making a speech. He is a war criminal with a warrant out for his arrest. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/…theguardian.comBenjamin Netanyahu to deliver defiant UN speech while facing protests and political isolationPrime minister will ‘highlight Israel’s achievements’ as he heads towards his toughest re-election challenge 0106
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action 8698221
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign. 884015697
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic. 984460968
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026rip annie dillard 1134431141
Reposted by @felix--bs.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Energy bills are expected to go up 25% £442 in January They are already 40% higher than in France and about 60% profit Before Thatcher privatised them we had some of the cheapest Energy in Europe Now we have the most expensive in the world Even before it goes up another 25% 11270140
