Obama's photographer, Pete Souza is "disappeared' from X. Just after I'd written about how a mega-wealthy, Trump-supporting social media platform owner could try and tilt US politics in his hero's favour prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united-s…

Politicians need to call out what we’re witnessing: straight up racism & Islamophobia. For too long, the media & political establishment have normalised Islamophobia & anti-migrant rhetoric. This is the direct result. We need a mass movement to challenge & defeat this fascism.

Now Elon Musk is endorsing Tommy Robinson. NB: this platform is one of the channels in which he is breaching the High Court injunction he is currently running away from

So let me get this straight. The way to avert the rise of the far right is to give them everything they want.

I don’t think I’ve felt as overwhelmed by the state of the country in a very long time. I know there are people right now facing serious risks to their lives but everyone take care of yourselves. It’s so heavy to witness all of this, the violence, the years of depraved rhetoric

What are the police doing in this video? I’ve been on peaceful protests with a *much* more aggressive police presence than this. How is this being allowed to happen?

I would just add to this: Labour’s hands are not clean on matters of fostering cultures of xenophobia through 20th century to present day.

Watch: this is how British racism operates. It’s the violent thugs in the street, but it is also the casualness of a lie, the historical amnesia, the othering, the bluster, the polite surface. x.com/tedgbooth/stat…

As a black Muslim woman that wears the hijab, I can’t agree more. Very worried about my safety

From 2014 to 2019 UK universities spent "nearly as much as the entire cost of staging the 2012 Olympics" - primarily on improving estates. VCs "see their legacy as a shiny building". Why have UK universities become more indebted over time sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

It feels like the Dems FINALLY figured out how to weaponize all their Humanities majors.

Groundhog Day … austerity didn’t work under the Tories & it won’t work under Labour either

“Rachel Reeves is planning to raise taxes, cut spending and get tough on benefits in October’s budget amid Treasury alarm … about … the poor state of the public finances.” Full blown austerity, hitting the poorest hardest, then. Some Labour Party. theguardian.com/business/artic…

Update on Queer History, Black British History & Black British Literature @ Goldsmiths. There’s a lot of emotion & exhaustion to process. Thank you to everyone who’s supported, written about, studied in & enabled these programmes. The work is never over. timeshighereducation.com/news/queer-his…

If this is you, do drop Taj a line

Just saw ‘Beyond The Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music’ on its final weekend on a sold out day- an absolutely outstanding exhibition curated by Dr Aleema Gray. Many congratulations to everyone who has played a part in bringing this outstanding project together.

#ICYMI: UK politicians, public figures, and media outlets are fuelling racial hatred, a new United Nations (UN) report has warned. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

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