Normally you wouldn’t increase the likelihood of US casualties by announcing something like this ahead of time, unless you are bluffing to use it as a negotiating ploy, you are stupid, you don’t really care about the troops, or all three.
They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
This week we celebrated the launch of Reading Wars by Don Herzog! 📚🎉
The event featured Don Herzog, Larry Kramer and Nicola Lacey, chaired by Devika Hovell. The panel explored the heated, even murderous, political struggles over who gets to read and what they get to read.
Where sheep may safely graze 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
He should go to Belfast and say to the rioters he’s with them in wanting to be Irish and see how well that goes down. Fu**w*t…
VERY obviously, physical punishment of children a terrible idea.
But given the manosphere / conservative embrace of regressive parenting, this message key👇
Children hit by parents more likely to bully others & struggle in school: www.theguardian.com/education/20... via @ucl.ac.uk @theguardian.com
Absolutely agree. The problem with X doesn’t stop at nudification tools, child porn and AI slop, it’s the deliberate destruction of democracy and security in our country.
Ron Filipkowski
Abby Innes
@robertshrimsley.bsky.social: ‘It would also be right to be outraged at the case of Chas Corrigan, a British construction worker who murdered a Saudi student in Cambridge, stabbing him in the neck. But you probably haven’t heard about it since it doesn’t fit the zeitgeist’ www.ft.com/content/3fa9...
LSE Press
The UCL study also found physically punished children were more likely to struggle in school
The government has wide ranging powers to combat the actions & influence of foreign state and those who ‘assist a foreign power in carrying out activities against the UK.’
They should use them.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
We are closing @goldperc.bsky.social after 12 years. Here I reflect on the times and what we made of them www.goldperc.uk/project_post...
Paul Kelly
There is a remarkable scale of the celebration, glorification and excited encouragement of violence on the X platform. It is probable that most of it is not incitement in law [though there will be examples that are] but the nature + pace of dissemination makes it a major national security risk
