My tummy hurts and I'm mad at the government.
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Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors.
This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
AUSA Sheri Mecklenburg: "I would never ask you to charge somebody if I didn't think there was probable cause … I don't charge people unless I'm absolutely sure."
Global brands ‘likely’ using mineral that funds rebels accused of atrocities in DRC, investigation finds
We need accountability for the victims of this pogrom and for all of those in the media and political establishment that have actively enabled them. We also need the UK government to get off the Nazis' favourite platform, X.
bsky.app/profile/seth...
If this is what she did in a high-profile case, imagine what she did in low-profile cases with poor defendants and far less oversight. For decades. And she was considered a “good” prosecutor. I hope every single other case she ever worked on is reopened.
"The movement we need would reject the right of anyone to profit from illness, debt, borders, disaster, surveillance, or war. It would refuse the world tech oligarchs are building... It would treat the wealth accumulated by billionaires and the corporate heist class as stolen life."
I wrote about the Trump DOJ’s criminal investigation of E Jean Carroll, a grim merger of two trends: Trump’s weaponization of the federal government against his personal enemies, and the use of the justice system to punish sexual violence victims.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In our @forbes.com feature, we discuss how showing that Black supervisors matter makes a case for two things:
1. Improving how Black workers are viewed overall
2. Disrupting discrimination against Black people at work
In other words, a win-win. #blacksky #news #forbes
Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene
