10 effective things citizens can do to make change in addition to attending a protest Once a democracy starts to erode, it can be difficult to reverse the trend. What does it take for democracies to bounce back from periods of autocratic rule?

10 effective things citizens can do to make change in addition to attending a protest

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Planning Against Palestine • Protean Magazine In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation.

In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire," Alberto Toscano writes on the genocidal plans for the "redevelopment" of Gaza in the wake of ethnic cleansing. Trump, Curtis Yarvin, Blair, and other elites are scheming for accumulation and dispossession.

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Hi Robert. Good to hear from you and hope you’re doing well. We spend time with our 2 granddaughters, plus trips to the Drs and try to stay creative musically and visually, you inspired me. I’ve been interviewed by the EU for a conference on bringing generations together!!!

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Promotional poster for BCU’s Creative Computing Diploma. The bold yellow headline reads “CREATE COMPUTE LIFT-OFF!” followed by “Diploma in Creative Computing” and “Elevate your degree with BCU’s new one-year programme.” The background shows a stylised figure wearing a VR headset, blending into colourful digital art and floral elements. The lower half explains that the diploma combines VR, AI, 3D scanning, coding, and design thinking, and is open to BCU students between their second and third year. A QR code and URL are provided for registration, with a deadline of 1st August.

Creative Computing Diploma at Birmingham City University kicks off this September for students from any programme who’ve completed their second year. Register interest by Friday to be offered a place. www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/dipl...

Trump destroys our source of information about jobs. This is beyond irresponsible. He hates facts. He rejects truth. He doesn't want the public to know what's really happening.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the crown jewel of knowledge about jobs and the economy.

Trump has destroyed the credibility of this extraordinarily important source of information.

This should alarm everyone. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-destroys-our-source-of-information

BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party

BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

💊The NHS is battling "medieval" levels of untreated illness in some of Britain's poorest communities – at a cost to the health service of about £50bn a year, or the same as the defence budget.

My big read from Barrow, Blackpool, Burnley and Blackburn:

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

There's no place for institutional finance in rental markets. It's a predatory extraction machine that robs the poor and middle.

But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

This week the Lancet published landmark research investigating the death toll of Elon Musk's dismantling of USAID.

14 million lives projected to be lost by 2030.

That's over 2.4 million dead men, women & children a year.

Thanks to one man's venality & cruelty.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Crockett: We have more billionaires in the United States and any other country but the total number is 83. 83 people in this country have more representation than the hundreds of thousands that are about to lose their health care as well as their snap benefits

AOC: Trump has insisted that this bill does not cut Medicaid. He has also said he doesn’t think I’m a smart person. It doesn’t take a smart person to know when you are being lied to. President Trump, you are either being lied to, or you are lying to the American people.

THANKS TO TRUMP’S TARIFFS, THE U.S. IS NOW IN A RECESSION.

Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.

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