megan
@meganmay.bsky.social
Green Party, Unite the Union, feminist organiser. Pro abortion pro trans pro sex work decrim. She/her
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Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
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Oh no, my mountain of free money is slightly smaller than I would have hoped! To the papers!
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Oh no, my mountain of free money is slightly smaller than I would have hoped! To the papers!
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November 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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this is so deeply upsetting to read, for many reasons. the takeaway isn’t jus ‘prosecute influencers’ but why there is such deep distrust of medicine and obstetric care- we know the rates of obstetric violence are horrifying, maternal mortality & morbidity is shocking; & so deeply racialised. 1/
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is so deeply upsetting to read, for many reasons. the takeaway isn’t jus ‘prosecute influencers’ but why there is such deep distrust of medicine and obstetric care- we know the rates of obstetric violence are horrifying, maternal mortality & morbidity is shocking; & so deeply racialised. 1/
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This is a tough read, but it's important to remember the conditions that allowed this movement to grow: Industrialised medicine that's rife with misogyny and racism, the worst maternal death rates of any rich country, unpredictable and high health insurance costs, and 'sovereign' bullshit.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM
This is a tough read, but it's important to remember the conditions that allowed this movement to grow: Industrialised medicine that's rife with misogyny and racism, the worst maternal death rates of any rich country, unpredictable and high health insurance costs, and 'sovereign' bullshit.
An excellent article and pretty emotionally difficult to read at various points. Massive well done to the journalists who worked on this.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
An excellent article and pretty emotionally difficult to read at various points. Massive well done to the journalists who worked on this.
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my jaw is on the floor and yet im completely unsurprised. trump’s only political conviction is that he loves a handsome winner
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
my jaw is on the floor and yet im completely unsurprised. trump’s only political conviction is that he loves a handsome winner
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Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
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Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
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VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
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French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
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NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
As ICE descends on Charlotte, faith leaders draw on other cities' actions to aid immigrants
(RNS) — As many as 500 people, a mix of clergy and other volunteers, have appeared at the training sessions on how to counter ICE.
religionnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
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The Greens are winning the support of around half of 18 to 24 year olds.
Reform are on 5%. So much for young people's turn to the right!
And the Young Greens now have 40,000 members - the biggest youth and students wing in British politics
Reform are on 5%. So much for young people's turn to the right!
And the Young Greens now have 40,000 members - the biggest youth and students wing in British politics
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The Greens are winning the support of around half of 18 to 24 year olds.
Reform are on 5%. So much for young people's turn to the right!
And the Young Greens now have 40,000 members - the biggest youth and students wing in British politics
Reform are on 5%. So much for young people's turn to the right!
And the Young Greens now have 40,000 members - the biggest youth and students wing in British politics
This may be a controversial take but I don’t think the abhorrent racist things that Farage said as a child are very important. He says abhorrent racist things now as an adult. That is the actual problem.
‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school
A former friend and others who were at Dulwich college with the now Reform UK leader speak of his behaviour
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This may be a controversial take but I don’t think the abhorrent racist things that Farage said as a child are very important. He says abhorrent racist things now as an adult. That is the actual problem.
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One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads
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What this underlines for me: we cannot frame "identity" in opposition to "the material" in politics when identity defines who belongs, and therefore who can engage in collective struggle for common material gains.
I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
What this underlines for me: we cannot frame "identity" in opposition to "the material" in politics when identity defines who belongs, and therefore who can engage in collective struggle for common material gains.
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Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Shabana Mahmood is wrong
Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government
www.newstatesman.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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“We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them".
How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration
How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them".
How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration
How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration
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Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say."
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say."
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
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“If Labour don’t do this, we’ll get a Reform government”
Trans people, disabled people, migrants, people of colour and people seeking asylum already have a Reform government.
You just want to feel superior to those who like the idea of Nigel Farage as PM.
Trans people, disabled people, migrants, people of colour and people seeking asylum already have a Reform government.
You just want to feel superior to those who like the idea of Nigel Farage as PM.
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“If Labour don’t do this, we’ll get a Reform government”
Trans people, disabled people, migrants, people of colour and people seeking asylum already have a Reform government.
You just want to feel superior to those who like the idea of Nigel Farage as PM.
Trans people, disabled people, migrants, people of colour and people seeking asylum already have a Reform government.
You just want to feel superior to those who like the idea of Nigel Farage as PM.
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Leaving refugees in 20 years of limbo; ripping up human rights protections and stopping families from reuniting.
The Government isn't addressing hatred and division - it's giving in to extremists.
The Government isn't addressing hatred and division - it's giving in to extremists.
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Leaving refugees in 20 years of limbo; ripping up human rights protections and stopping families from reuniting.
The Government isn't addressing hatred and division - it's giving in to extremists.
The Government isn't addressing hatred and division - it's giving in to extremists.
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I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...
Asylum and returns policy statement
This policy statement sets out significant reforms to the UK’s asylum and returns policy.
www.gov.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...
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I see Shahrar Ali has turned to approvingly sharing videos from "British Pariot", attacking GPEW for being too pro-migrant, and attacking @zackpolanski.bsky.social for being too critical of Trump.
A striking example of how transphobia is a gateway drug to the far-right.
A striking example of how transphobia is a gateway drug to the far-right.
November 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I see Shahrar Ali has turned to approvingly sharing videos from "British Pariot", attacking GPEW for being too pro-migrant, and attacking @zackpolanski.bsky.social for being too critical of Trump.
A striking example of how transphobia is a gateway drug to the far-right.
A striking example of how transphobia is a gateway drug to the far-right.
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i think maybe the issue here was having ‘factional lines’ to split things across in a party that was about 5 minutes old
November 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
i think maybe the issue here was having ‘factional lines’ to split things across in a party that was about 5 minutes old