Shahmina Alam spends her days glued to her phone.
Along with her parents, she’s waiting for news of her brother Kamran Ahmed, a Palestine Action-linked prisoner hospitalised for a second time on Monday due to his hunger strike.
Report: Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, says "a senior British government official" threatened to withdraw funding & support for the court if arrest warrants against Israeli leaders were pursued.
The official is understood to be the former PM, David Cameron.
The British chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, has accused a senior British government official of threatening to withdraw the UK's funding and support for the court if he pursued arrest warrants against Israeli leaders…
Peak Human: What We Can Learn From the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages by Johan Norberg, 2025
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One thing I'm a little worried about is how right-wing media and political figures are trying to leverage Newsom's posts. Let me explain. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hf7ez…
Newsom doesn't actually care about trans kids. That's just a fact. Those posts were made mostly just to troll the right. The right... has responded to the "Sorry your daughter hates you, Elon" post with a LOT of rage, which is going to be used to further target trans people.
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
Ondanks een door de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump gemeld bestand, beschuldigen de buurlanden Cambodja en Thailand elkaar zaterdag van wederzijdse aanvallen.
We don’t win back democracy by fucking around fighting other voters. We win by making this a class war. Phenomenally rich people are using everyone. Tax them into submission. We could buy schools, hospitals, roads, fishing ponds, public hunting land, hiking trails, public buses, healthcare, skate parks and dirtbike tracks, you name it. We just all need to realize that Zuckerberg and Musk are full of shit and won’t leave, and if they do, we still win.
The way the reactionary centrist crowd over on X has fulsomely embraced Richard Hanania -- sure he was a white supremacist his whole career but, folks, he semi-apologized! -- is so f'ing gross. I lack the words to capture how gross it is.
√ Repeal § 230 √ Pass KOSA √ Regulate AI/Algorithmic SM (no child accounts) per AU model √ Mandate basic (non-screen based) #MediaLiteracy Ed for all K-8 students...before screens (per Finnish model)
...these are all basic firewall-style measures to try and stop the Big Tech firestorm of techno-feudalism that's razing our society.
Don't believe the #tech industry hype about how any this harms free speech (it doesn't). What it does is prioritize safety, sanity, and Democracy over profits. 🖖
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