this has blown up and people keep chiming in to suggest that the existence of unhoused people riding transit all day for free is a problem that has to be solved before others can take advantage and that's blatantly untrue; zero fare reduces conflict and increases ridership, which make transit safer
🧵More than a few Bluesky people have been defending Starmer's Sun piece, saying this is "only rhetoric", which is fine because the piece upholds the UK's commitment to net zero. Here's why such claims are objectively false.
ICYMI: yesterday, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer penned an oped in The Sun titled "I will not sacrifice Great British industry to the drum-banging, finger-wagging Net Zero extremists."
The Atlantic running a hit piece on critiques of settler-colonialism viz. Palestine and it erases Edward Said. The article should be retracted, but its EIC was literally an IDF prison guard, so we’ll get more of the same
Here's Timothy McLaughlin's review of @kimatiwagner.bsky.social's book
"Yet it is unclear how much longer it will be operational, though a New York Times report said it could be dismantled early next month. According to the Times, the pier has only completed 10 full days of operations since it was opened" www.timesofisrael.com/us-built-pie...
Dock, meant to assist with delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, faces uncertain future after series of complications turning project into costly boondoggle
For Palestinians to be counted in the official health ministry death count 2 things have to happen: 1. There has to be a recognizable body 2. There has to be someone left to recognize them The actual numbers are much worse than the official count because too often these criteria aren’t met.
