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An Egyptian court on Tuesday ordered the closure of Mada Masr and the confiscation of its equipment, and fined editor-in-chief Lina Attalah three million Egyptian pounds (around $54,000) which is the maximum penalty.

PSA: I suspect a few colleagues - producers esp - will be reaching out today and tomorrow. Happy to chat, but can you please text ahead? I never, ever pick up calls from new callers or private numbers. For security (malware) and peace of mind (hate calls.) Thank you 🙏

A fellow at the London Centre for the study of Contemporary Antisemitism. I guess voicing disapproval about settlers who literally tried to kill you is a form of antisemitism

I spent the summer in Boston at the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) researching the role of the US in Irish constitutional politics. They just released a Q&A I did as a wrapped up the visit: cis.mit.edu/news/tracing... Thanks again to the team there for being so welcoming!

No one. Absolutely no one. Our Italian-English bilingual toddler: "O Madonna! 🤌 Hadafahm? 🤔 EE-AI-EE-AI... YO 😎"

is Britain full or not, i can never remember

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Angel tube station is absolutely cooked and might have to close, Transport for London's maintenance backlog is causing big trouble. (And other stories.)

Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.

Oh, man. Obviously, we all knew Ori was very ill—he battled cancer publicly, with the courage, integrity and candour he became so known for. But the news still stuns, somehow. One of the best and bravest voices our era brought to the fore. We'll only miss him more and more as it wears on.

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Just the Israeli culture minister reposting Abraham’s statement on X and saying “don’t return to Israel, you aren’t wanted here. Traitor”

Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published

Got a piece in this weekend's New Statesman on some of the least helpful reactions to NAZA, such as:

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

This is a very interesting new resource, The Register of British Slave-Traders. 'The Register focusses on the individuals who sought to profit from the enslavement of over 3 million African men, women, and children, whose identity was – for the most part – erased from the historical record.' 🗃️

Always had Sheeran down as a gifted songwriter who is trying real hard to keep his public persona apolitical - but this isn't neutrality. It's a political stance as unequivocal as Macklemore's, except Ed doesn't appear to have the guts to articulate it out loud.

she deleted this once she realized that based on the time difference she was implying that schoolchildren in Scotland knew about 9/11 before it happened

I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia

Israeli journo: unlearns all he was raised to believe, puts body on the line, reveals inner workings of genocide, faces lynch mobs. You, a diaspora / general audience spectator clicktivist, whose experience of sacrifice is an awks at family dinner: "Are we really applauding the bare minimum 😤"

Israeli journo: unlearns all he was raised to believe, puts body on the line, reveals inner workings of genocide, faces lynch mobs. You, a diaspora / general audience spectator clicktivist, whose experience of sacrifice is an awks at family dinner: "Are we really applauding the bare minimum 😤"

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

This is it. If Burnham’s Labour doesn’t stop the ongoing assault on migrants/asylum seekers/refugees and trans people, the far right will not be defeated. Keeping Mahmood is insulting.

Listen, I agree there’s loads of good signs re Burnham, but taking a firm pro-immigration stance should be a basic requirement for an ostensibly progressive politician. And sorry for being biased here as an immigrant myself. Mahmood made me want to leave the UK and keeping her is incredibly hurtful.

Worth adding some numbers to this. The British press decided to make trans rights into an issue. It just wasn’t an issue before. This was a top-down decision. shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

Just realised this will be my son’s fifth prime minister and he’s 6.