The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos motherjones.com/politics/2025/…

Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS thecrimson.com/article/2025/3…

Please donate to legal fees and other expenses for Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts grad student abducted by ICE because of an op-ed in a student newspaper. I've heard confirmation her legal team is aware of and supports this effort: chuffed.org/project/justic…

In an unprecedented move mimicking Trump's crackdowns in the U.S., Germany is moving to deport four foreign residents for alleged participation in pro-Palestine protests. Hanno Hauenstein reports with The Intercept. 972mag.com/germany-deport…

The people behind the Canary Mission.

Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, gave birth to their first child today, a baby boy. From her statement: “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud. ICE and the Trump administration have stolen these precious moments from our family…”

Today is a terrible day. Today my heart is bleeding more than ever before. Six families were erased in a few hours. I cannot believe how a journalist can sit on their seat in a TV studio and not talk about these families. I do not know why they should be called journalists. Tag

ATTENTION HACKNEY RESIDENTS🚨🇵🇸 THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION *Hackney’s Labour Council has refused to listen to you and end its complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. *So it’s time to replace them with people who will. #HackneyVotesPalestine2026 Short thread follows...

Multiple Waymo vehicles set ablaze here in LA

8 years. 2,922 days since our loved ones were taken from us. Still no justice. Now they're demolishing the Tower. Trying to erase history. But we will never forget. Walk with us tonight at the Silent Walk to show those responsible we won't stop until justice is served.

I can’t in good conscience continue to work for Reuters given their betrayal of journalists in Gaza and culpability in the assassination of 245 our colleagues.

MA in Black British History has been suspended at Goldsmiths UnivLondon. The Programme Convenor was neither informed of the impending suspension of the programme in September prior to the decision being communicated to offer holders, nor included in the decision-making process.

September is a new year.

Racial terrorism works in the UK. Case in point: summer '25 proved that the racist riot of summer '24 achieved their political aims. They have been rewarded to the point that overt and even violent bigotry has now been re-mainstreamed. And the Labour PM doesn't condemn it.

Size of the far-right march today in London is worrying — ought to be a wake-up call re the urgent need for anti-racist and anti-fascist organising. But this is driven in large part by *official* bipartisan racism, pandering to hotel riots, state incitements over small boats etc.

This is beyond horrifying. New data shows Israel has killed over 680,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Among them: • 380,000 infants under 5 • 99,000 children over 5 That’s 479,000 children murdered by Israel. Israel isn’t “defending itself.” It is wiping out Palestinian life.

I was delighted to be joined by Alan Finlayson for the London Review of Books's On Politics. Talking digital right (and online left), the champions of I egalitarianism, print and social democracy, Farage as influencer and... whether the internet is just right-wing.

I saw zohran mamdani at a grocery store in brooklyn yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.