🤩Solidarity is beautiful and powerful!

Well done to the people of Peckham who stood up for people in their community.

Together we can make a difference - we can show up for welcome & care over hatred & division.
theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

Our communities are stronger then the desperate hate being churned out against asylum seekers by this government!

No to locking people up on the prison barge, no to dragging people off to detention and most of all we need an end to the cruel threat of Rwanda deportations.

It is inhuman and inhumane to detain other human beings for administrative convenience. Vital thread from Jennifer:

Election day! Don't forget that the government's commitment to Stop The Votes means you have to take ID to the polling station. See here for a list of acceptable forms of ID (big ugh, yes):

electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-ele…

They came here in the hope that they could be safe and rebuild their lives.

And the most powerful people in the country are tweeting videos of them being handcuffed and dragged away.

Because they think it will make them popular.

This is where we are. This is who we are now.

And here's the article that summarises everything: opendemocracy.net/en/freedom-of-…

Fellow data access nerds (and anyone who has to engage with gov't about personal data rights)! Read this from my brill colleague Jenna Corderoy. It's bleak, vital reading. Improving data access should be a priority for the next government and Jenna sets out exactly why and how.

I've been wanting to do this investigation for openDemocracy for a long time, so here it is - an investigation into the state of Subject Access Requests, where individuals have the right to access their personal information: cdn2.opendemocracy.net/media/document…

I remember it taking months, years, for Columbia University to investigate or take action following acts of racial or sexual abuse on campus.

Yet an encampment of students & faculty, protesting one of the great crimes of our age, is met with a swift, violent, carceral response.

🚨‼️For anyone who has already been detained and is in need of urgent advice, charities have asked me to share details of their helplines.

For those in Brook removal centre or Tinsley IRC:
0800 389 4367 Gatwick Detainees

For Heathrow IRCs: 0800 587 2096 Detention Action

For all his flaws, Humza Yousaf’s brief stint followed 2 leaders whose lengthy time in office ended in disgrace before separate criminal investigations. It is sadly predictable to see how quickly and thoroughly he is being monstered for being unable to diffuse their time bombs.

If the other guy was in the White House right now you just know we’d be getting email blasts from Chuck and Nancy with this footage and “Our democracy is in peril, will you chip in…”

Look at all those unfathomably straight lines on the map and then listen to this man, a Minister of the crown. Of course he doesn’t know much about the majority world - it’s never been an entry requirement for his fetid little emperors’ club.

Minnie is, hands down, one of the best people I’ve ever worked with. This is such an exciting time for @praxis_projects and its work has never been more important. What brilliant news for Praxis and for the sector!

You cannot in good conscience run on a platform that says 'democracy is on the ballot this November' while calling for state and federal law enforcement to violently arrest student protestors on campuses.

Petition filed in Supreme Court by Common Cause & CPIL for court monitored SIT into the #ElectoralBonds scam. EB data suggests:
• Quid pro quo- kickbacks & bribes for contracts
* Money laundering- donations by loss making & shell companies
* Extortion and regulatory inaction

Please identify 3-5 SMART goals for your work, which is uniquely hard to measure and subject to circumstances beyond your control.

As my employer - Columbia University University - calls armed riot police into campus to smash a peaceful protest against a genocide, we must all speak out. My former students have been arrested. I'm proud of you. History will be too. Remember what I said in our first class last year:

Spent the night in A&E with my 3yo in anaphylaxis which was terrifying.

Thanks to the wonderful staff at Royal Free London he’s up, giggling and roaring this morning.

Horrified by the parking attendant shouting “GET THE APP AND PAY NOW” at a visibly distressed parent and child.