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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 3h

The #US–#UK Tech Prosperity Deal promises major US investment to boost Britain’s #AI ecosystem.

Yet in pursuing scale, the UK may be trading sovereignty for dependence on American tech firms, writes Isabella Wilkinson (@chathamhouse.org).

www.justsecurity.org/121723/us-uk...

Trading Sovereignty for Scale? The Costs of the U.S.–U.K. Tech Prosperity Deal

The US-UK tech deal may have prematurely — but not irreversibly — sacrificed British AI sovereignty to a coalition of frontier US AI labs.

www.justsecurity.org

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3h

I fear that schools being willing to drop diversity programs without a fight shows how flimsy their commitment to inclusion was in the first place. People fight for things they truly believe in.

Victor Ray, a sociology professor at the University of Iowa who studies race, said in an email that OSU’s decision to interpret federal guidance in this way “reflects the real pressure universities face as the Trump administration and Republican legislators attack higher education.”

But, Ray added, it may also be exposing the true colors of many universities that were broadcasting their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion when it was politically expedient to do so just a few years ago.

“The swiftness with which these organizations have complied with legally dubious orders shows that their commitments to diversity were often paper-thin before this administration’s pressure,” he said. “In many cases, administrators with existing qualms about diversity, perhaps going too far, now have political cover to take anti-equitable actions.”

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Dylan Kerrigan @rumagin.bsky.social · 26m

Gary never came back to address or ever mention this bad take of his. just moved on and forgot about it. white privilege really is a kicker.

Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 15d

You won't stop Reform by calling their supporters racist

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1h

"[E]ven with a ceasefire, Israelis remain committed to Jewish supremacy."

"[G]lobal movement for an arms embargo, cultural boycott, and economic sanctions must continue."

"Israelis will not end the occupation and apartheid on their own."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide #EthnicCleansing

A ceasefire must not stall Israel's growing isolation

Trump aims to restore Israel's legitimacy after two years of genocide. But as long as Jewish supremacy persists, so should sanctions and arms embargoes.

www.972mag.com

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 4h

“I do not respect Netanyahu — the killer of children.”

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said in a speech

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Remember, according to the Republican Justices, it's okay to gerrymander for party advantage, not racial advantage. It's an unknowable distinction, but one that allows the Republicans to okay racist gerrymandering under the guise of political gerrymandering.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1h

GOP’s labor market policy is market protectionism for white men.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 2h

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 1h

This is not good for anyone. There is no good reason, besides fiddling with net migration statistics, to do it.
Has @10dowingstreet.bsky.social even bothered to explain why was this done?

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Shorter UK graduate visa to be introduced in January 2027

Six-month cut in amount of time people can stay post-study has been fiercely opposed by universities

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1h

Whereas Pete simply barfed out a nonsensical word salad when asked about specific policy planks, ie recognizing Palestine and suspending aid to Israel, Booker directly alleged that asking whether Netanyahu was a criminal or not was "a hot and loaded litmus test" and he claimed it was unfair to ask.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3h

White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 1h

I thought I couldn't hate Starmer and McSweeney any more than I already do, but here we go. Paul Holden (author of 'Fraud', a book which would put the entire Labour right in prison - in a just world) talking about a dying Jewish woman hounded to her grave by these warmongering maniacs. 41m09s.

Could THIS Bring Starmer Down? w/. 'THE FRAUD' author Paul Holden

YouTube video by Owen Jones

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your weirdo friend @yourweirdofriend.bsky.social · 1h

That's a good question. I think we're all discovering that countries have been operating like businesses and not the co-ops they actually are. We have let "business leaders" and people with generational wealth tell us we should elect them to office because they're natural leaders. They're grifters.

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Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 3h

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

tinyurl.se/crR

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Dylan Kerrigan @rumagin.bsky.social · 4h

Lady does not gaf. Hope she can stay safe. CW: video has lots of swearing

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LawrieBhoy 🍀 @lawriebhoy.bsky.social · 7h

Carol malone. “Migrants should speak english”.

Zack Polanski. “ I agree, we should give them some help to learn the language and help them integrate”.

Malone. “ NO. NO. NO. WHY SHOULD WE HELP THEM LEARN ENGLISH AND INTEGRATE!!!!!!!!”

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 18h

Indeed.

The government has chosen to prioritise reducing (skilled, legal, for work) migration over growth and hence over improving public services.

No economic rationale - but even worse, no political rationale either.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

One mistake Labour made in their first year is loading quite a few new costs onto business all at once. They are risking doing something similar on immigration, I think.

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Konner Knudsen @penzerker.bsky.social · 13h

Just as a reminder. Deployment of this (and similar) toxic gas agents were banned from use in war 100 years ago by the Geneva Protocol! But we are allowing cops to use it on a bunch of peaceful protestors because "dear leader" doesn't like their "tone"

It is absolute madness.

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 23h

I’ve got a short piece up in The Conversation on the catastrophic flooding in Southwest Alaska from ex-typhoon Halong and the challenges of recovery work. #akwx #ExtremeWeather #Alaska #AlaskaSky

theconversation.com/typhoon-leav...

Typhoon leaves flooded Alaska villages facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience

‘As the storm approached Alaska, everything went sideways,’ leaving people no time to evacuate and little time to prepare. An Alaska meteorologist explains what happened and the challenges ahead.

theconversation.com

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 7h

It's the Lord Denning defence - "despite the incontrovertible evidence, this can't be true, because if it were I and others would have to change our worldview, which no sensible person would regard as acceptable."

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 19h

For Danny Finkelstein, the systematic and deliberate massacres of civilians, and the use of mass starvation as a weapon, is the fault of Hamas and some unnamed individuals - as opposed to him and his fellow apologists.

archive.ph/CaNZH

And yes, there rose in Israel a war coalition, including vengeful and obnoxious individuals seeking the eradication of neighbours they saw as enemies.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 19h

Finkelstein has still not apologised for accusing me, and other Jews who criticised Israel's atrocities, of being "antisemitic trolls", nor indeed has he withdrawn this absurd and morally bankrupt claim.

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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 11h

The Trumpanyahu Administration Is Already Sabotaging The Ceasefire
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-trumpa...

The Trumpanyahu Administration Is Already Sabotaging The Ceasefire

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

www.caitlinjohnst.one

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 9h

#GMB: "Ceasefire on the brink. President Trump threatens to disarm Hamas violently as it fails to hand over all the bodies of dead Israeli hostages & carries out public executions in the streets"

Notice no mention of Israel continuing to murder Palestinians in Gaza.

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