Rachel Bernhard

Erm... maybe the Greens want to look into *why* he left Corbyn's office before celebrating this too much.

This article was amended on 5 March 2026. An earlier version said low-skilled workers would “receive immediate access to welfare and social housing” if Labour did not make them wait longer to apply for settlement. In fact, settlement status only gives people the eligibility to apply for welfare and social housing, it does not give them instant or automatic access to such benefits. This has been clarified. From breaking news to huge investigative proje

Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing".

Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

Make no mistake, today’s carnage was designed by two corrupt wannabe dictators (Trump & Netanyahu) to kill a third brutal dictator in order to keep the first two in power. This had nothing to do with Democracy in any way, shape or form.

911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents.

Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress.

Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg.

My report:

I am devastated to hear of the passing of Nurul Amin Shah Alam. He was a refugee of the Rohingya genocide living in Buffalo, New York. Border Patrol agents wrongfully detained him and dumped him on the street in brutal winter conditions. Blind and walking with a cane, he died trying to get home.

Docs from July 2021 vs Oct 2025 seem to show that ICE eliminated over a dozen exams previously required by ERO officers, including:

- Judgement Pistol Shooting
- Determine Removability
- Encounters to Detention
- Detention to Removal
- Criminal Encounters

Article published in Private Eye magazine, number 1669, 20 February 2026. The article reproduces an article published in Slicker’s In The City column on 30 March 2009

Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers dismissed Private Eye as “an absolute rag of a publication”

Perhaps it was because @privateeyenews.bsky.social was publishing articles like this about Lord Mandelson's links with Epstein as long ago as March 2009!

I hope we can find a way out. Anyway, if you read this with some sense of recognition, here’s a hug. I hope we get our heads above water soon. 10/10.

It’s not a good system. It fosters overwork, just-in-time work, reactivity rather than proactivity, and above all what I’ve come to call the “perma-crisis.” Worse, striking or withdrawing labour hurts only the people I care about—my students, my colleagues—not the administrators or uni. 9/

…not to mention dozens of rec letters, referee reports, and so on.

I don’t have a punchy takeaway, but when I look at these numbers, when I feel how tired I am when I wake, I see I’m drowning. Lecturers teaching 10x the students I do are drowning. MPs are drowning too. 8/

Some of the activities here are core components of my job: meeting students, teaching, etc. But all this sits atop a vast amount of stuff that is also my job but not captured here: marking (in 2025 I marked 502k words of theses, essays, and exams); research (2 papers in 2025, book in 2024),… 7/

What to take away? For starters, those are hefty numbers for someone who has no staff to assist. One can also see quickly how being ill for a week creates a backlog that is hard to catch up on: see queuing theory—e.g., response time for emails might remain double forever if I don’t do overtime. 6/

Note again:
- the events don’t account for hours (some of these events are 3-hour classes, others all-day talks with several individual meetings, while others are 30-minute office hours appointments)
- they don’t account for informal meetings (e.g., staying after a class to answer questions) 5/

Meetings, classes, seminars, compiled from my work-only Google calendar:
2025: ~416 events (lower as I was not teaching in the fall and stopped being a seminar organiser)
2024: ~780 events
2023: ~552 events

Numbers again rough without formal reports in Google calendar… 4/

Note that this
- misses work-related emails sent to my personal email (common with coauthors, former students, etc.)
- does not count calls, texts, etc.
- already includes a lot of automation (my students book meetings with calendly, receive zoom links with that booking, etc.) 3/

Work inbox ONLY—
2025: ~6576 emails received
2024: ~5724 emails received
2023: ~4332 emails received

Work emails sent (perhaps somewhat analogous to casework)—
2025: ~1344 emails sent
2024: ~1092 emails sent
2023: ~996 emails sent

Numbers are rough as outlook is hard to do reporting in. 2/

A serious problem. I’ll add that things are similar for professors—and will be increasingly so as funding and staff for higher ed are slashed. Here are my numbers for email (counting inbox only; all listservs, events/calendar, routine reports etc. filter into other folders) and meetings: 1/🧵

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Not enough people are talking about the fact that the GOP’s disenfranchising SAVE act would disproportionately risk the voting rights of approximately *69 million* married women in the US.

Read that again.

69 MILLION married women.

See details from 19thnews.org in the reply below.

What's next? Encouraging people to vote?

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Jeffrey Epstein survivors speak out
#SuperBowl #SuperBowl2026 #SuperBowlXL

"I was 14"
"I was 16"
"I was 16"
"17"
"14"

"There are about a thousand of us"

"It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows"

"It's time to shine a light into the darkness"

"Release all of the Epstein files"

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

Let’s chat!

This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.

www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

Martinez ends her testimony with this:

"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."

A rich woman's world? Wealth and gendered paths to office
doi.org/10.1111/lsq....
Paper in @lsqjournal.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @rivb.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow @aeggers.bsky.social and Marko Klašnja