Sara Alsherif
@sarahalsherif.bsky.social
Into tech, gender and human rights.
Fighting tyrants know no borders; it's not only my job; it's my lifestyle.
And in case you are wondering 'Views are my own'.
لا للمحاكمات العسكرية للمدنيين
Fighting tyrants know no borders; it's not only my job; it's my lifestyle.
And in case you are wondering 'Views are my own'.
لا للمحاكمات العسكرية للمدنيين
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MISSING: Closing tax loopholes for private jets, taxing airplane fuel, a frequent flyer levy.
Why does the Chancellor have such a blind spot for anything that might tackle the excesses of the aviation industry? #Budget
Why does the Chancellor have such a blind spot for anything that might tackle the excesses of the aviation industry? #Budget
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
MISSING: Closing tax loopholes for private jets, taxing airplane fuel, a frequent flyer levy.
Why does the Chancellor have such a blind spot for anything that might tackle the excesses of the aviation industry? #Budget
Why does the Chancellor have such a blind spot for anything that might tackle the excesses of the aviation industry? #Budget
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Our client, a parent to a young child, just reached out, clearly terrified about her status. This panic and fear is being felt across so many families right now. People’s anxiety and mental health are suffering at the hands of our Gov. This is not fair.
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Our client, a parent to a young child, just reached out, clearly terrified about her status. This panic and fear is being felt across so many families right now. People’s anxiety and mental health are suffering at the hands of our Gov. This is not fair.
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Growing @greenparty.org.uk membership 📈
Growing the pressure on Labour to tax extreme wealth fairly 📈
Growing the movement to make hope normal again 📈
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Growing the pressure on Labour to tax extreme wealth fairly 📈
Growing the movement to make hope normal again 📈
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Watch as Rachel Reeves brands Greens leader Zack Polanski a 'keen hypnotherapist'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Growing @greenparty.org.uk membership 📈
Growing the pressure on Labour to tax extreme wealth fairly 📈
Growing the movement to make hope normal again 📈
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Growing the pressure on Labour to tax extreme wealth fairly 📈
Growing the movement to make hope normal again 📈
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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I'm old enough to remember Labour suspending its own MPs who voted to scrap the two-child benefit cap ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I'm old enough to remember Labour suspending its own MPs who voted to scrap the two-child benefit cap ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Israel launches major assault in West Bank city as helicopters shoot at homes - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-launches-major-assault-west-bank-city-helicopters-shoot-homes
Israel launches major assault in West Bank city as helicopters shoot at homes
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a> forces launched an extensive military assault on the northern occupied West Bank city of Tubas on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Troops stormed <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a> homes in the early morning hours in the towns of Tammun, Tayasir and Aqaba, turning several houses into temporary military barracks. Residents were forcibly removed from their homes.</p>
<p>Israeli forces also closed roads and erected earth mounds, obstructing the movement of people across the area.</p>
<p>According to local media, Apache helicopters were seen flying over the city, reportedly firing arbitrarily at civilian homes.</p>
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November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Israel launches major assault in West Bank city as helicopters shoot at homes - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-launches-major-assault-west-bank-city-helicopters-shoot-homes
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Great to hear Rachel Reeves acknowledge that "there are many reasons why people choose to have children then find themselves in difficult times. The death of a partner. Separation. Ill health. A lost job. I don’t believe that children should bear the brunt of that."
So why should migrant children?
So why should migrant children?
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Great to hear Rachel Reeves acknowledge that "there are many reasons why people choose to have children then find themselves in difficult times. The death of a partner. Separation. Ill health. A lost job. I don’t believe that children should bear the brunt of that."
So why should migrant children?
So why should migrant children?
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Digital surveillance in Kashmir acts as a character certificate — based on social media activities, journalism or human rights work, making its way into the files of the CID.
For women, the consequences (& harassment) are gendered. Read on GenderITorg: genderit.org/feminist-tal...
@apc.org #16Days
For women, the consequences (& harassment) are gendered. Read on GenderITorg: genderit.org/feminist-tal...
@apc.org #16Days
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Digital surveillance in Kashmir acts as a character certificate — based on social media activities, journalism or human rights work, making its way into the files of the CID.
For women, the consequences (& harassment) are gendered. Read on GenderITorg: genderit.org/feminist-tal...
@apc.org #16Days
For women, the consequences (& harassment) are gendered. Read on GenderITorg: genderit.org/feminist-tal...
@apc.org #16Days
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📣 Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls and the start of the #16DaysofActivism.
No one should flee violence and abuse only to face further harm on their journeys to safety or again in the UK.
But this is the reality for many refugee women.
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No one should flee violence and abuse only to face further harm on their journeys to safety or again in the UK.
But this is the reality for many refugee women.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
📣 Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls and the start of the #16DaysofActivism.
No one should flee violence and abuse only to face further harm on their journeys to safety or again in the UK.
But this is the reality for many refugee women.
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No one should flee violence and abuse only to face further harm on their journeys to safety or again in the UK.
But this is the reality for many refugee women.
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No bark. No bite.
The ICO has shied away from enforcing data laws one too many times.
Yesterday over 70 groups and experts joined ORG's demand for an inquiry into the regulator.
Evidence shows that enforcement goes down, breaches go up. We say enough.
www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
The ICO has shied away from enforcing data laws one too many times.
Yesterday over 70 groups and experts joined ORG's demand for an inquiry into the regulator.
Evidence shows that enforcement goes down, breaches go up. We say enough.
www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
70+ organisations and experts demand action over failing ICO
Over 70 civil society organisations, academics and data protection experts have urged the Chair of the Select Committee for Science Information and Technology to open an inquiry into the collapse in…
www.openrightsgroup.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
No bark. No bite.
The ICO has shied away from enforcing data laws one too many times.
Yesterday over 70 groups and experts joined ORG's demand for an inquiry into the regulator.
Evidence shows that enforcement goes down, breaches go up. We say enough.
www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
The ICO has shied away from enforcing data laws one too many times.
Yesterday over 70 groups and experts joined ORG's demand for an inquiry into the regulator.
Evidence shows that enforcement goes down, breaches go up. We say enough.
www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
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We're so lucky they're here
What a week in hospital taught me
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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A record of meetings held in 2020 seen by Declassified suggests that Britain’s attempt to remove Venezuela’s government has been guided by an interest in the country’s vast oil resources.
www.declassifieduk.org/secretive-uk...
www.declassifieduk.org/secretive-uk...
Secretive UK team met in Venezuela to promote British energy interests
A record of meetings seen by Declassified provides further evidence that Britain’s attempt to remove Venezuela’s government is guided by an interest in the country’s vast oil resources.
www.declassifieduk.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
A record of meetings held in 2020 seen by Declassified suggests that Britain’s attempt to remove Venezuela’s government has been guided by an interest in the country’s vast oil resources.
www.declassifieduk.org/secretive-uk...
www.declassifieduk.org/secretive-uk...
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So @alexvitale.bsky.social, who wrote THE END OF POLICING (which I cite heavily in my forthcoming book THE OVERSEER CLASS), has been tapped to join Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s Transition Team to work on “community safety issues.”
This is an extremely promising development.
This is an extremely promising development.
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
So @alexvitale.bsky.social, who wrote THE END OF POLICING (which I cite heavily in my forthcoming book THE OVERSEER CLASS), has been tapped to join Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s Transition Team to work on “community safety issues.”
This is an extremely promising development.
This is an extremely promising development.
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Germany uses the excuse of the ’ceasefire’ which Israel routinely violates to sell weapons to Israel again. Israel is being rewarded for committing genocide by the country that pretends to have learned from the holocaust.
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Germany uses the excuse of the ’ceasefire’ which Israel routinely violates to sell weapons to Israel again. Israel is being rewarded for committing genocide by the country that pretends to have learned from the holocaust.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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States must do more to counter and investigate tech-facilitated gender-based violence against women journalists.
Read our briefing to find out how.
Because silencing women journalists threatens the right to information for all of us.
#NoExcuse #EquallySafe
www.article19.org/resources/in...
Read our briefing to find out how.
Because silencing women journalists threatens the right to information for all of us.
#NoExcuse #EquallySafe
www.article19.org/resources/in...
Investigating tech-facilitated gender-based violence against journalists - ARTICLE 19
States just counter online threats to women journalists so they can safely exercise their rights to freedom of expression and gender equality.
www.article19.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
States must do more to counter and investigate tech-facilitated gender-based violence against women journalists.
Read our briefing to find out how.
Because silencing women journalists threatens the right to information for all of us.
#NoExcuse #EquallySafe
www.article19.org/resources/in...
Read our briefing to find out how.
Because silencing women journalists threatens the right to information for all of us.
#NoExcuse #EquallySafe
www.article19.org/resources/in...
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NEW: Louisiana’s governor eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those arrested before.
Then he tossed those rules aside for one group: undocumented immigrants. Why? To have them deported.
Then he tossed those rules aside for one group: undocumented immigrants. Why? To have them deported.
Louisiana Made It Nearly Impossible to Get Parole. Now It’s Releasing Prisoners to Deport Them.
Gov. Jeff Landry eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those already in prison. Then he set all of that aside for one group: undocumented immigrants. Why? To have them deported.
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: Louisiana’s governor eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those arrested before.
Then he tossed those rules aside for one group: undocumented immigrants. Why? To have them deported.
Then he tossed those rules aside for one group: undocumented immigrants. Why? To have them deported.
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Israeli settlers, escorted by police, storm Al-Aqsa mosque - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-escorted-police-storm-al-aqsa-mosque
Israeli settlers, escorted by police, storm Al-Aqsa mosque
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November 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Israeli settlers, escorted by police, storm Al-Aqsa mosque - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-escorted-police-storm-al-aqsa-mosque
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Making these changes retroactively is a fundamentally unethical thing. Moving the goalposts. It’s cheating
At least 160,000 people have been granted refugee status over the past five years. It now seems they are intended to be caught by the Government’s plans to make refugees wait up to 20 years for settlement - even for those just months away from ILR
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Making these changes retroactively is a fundamentally unethical thing. Moving the goalposts. It’s cheating
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How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Two children have been killed every day in Gaza since the so-called ceasefire began.
Why has this disappeared from the headlines?
The genocide never ended — and our government is still complicit.
End all arms sales to Israel, now.
Why has this disappeared from the headlines?
The genocide never ended — and our government is still complicit.
End all arms sales to Israel, now.
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Two children have been killed every day in Gaza since the so-called ceasefire began.
Why has this disappeared from the headlines?
The genocide never ended — and our government is still complicit.
End all arms sales to Israel, now.
Why has this disappeared from the headlines?
The genocide never ended — and our government is still complicit.
End all arms sales to Israel, now.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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At least 160,000 people have been granted refugee status over the past five years. It now seems they are intended to be caught by the Government’s plans to make refugees wait up to 20 years for settlement - even for those just months away from ILR
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
At least 160,000 people have been granted refugee status over the past five years. It now seems they are intended to be caught by the Government’s plans to make refugees wait up to 20 years for settlement - even for those just months away from ILR
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
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Despite warnings in our report, today's release of the UK Nuclear Regulatory Review is littered with unsubstantiated claims and recommendations touting AI "as a powerful tool" and "cost-effective" to be used for safety and licensing without noted risks or caveats. This trend has now reached the UK.
Problem: AI needs massive amounts of power to thrive. Nuclear makes lots of power. Nuclear takes a long long time to do safely.
Proposed solution that I'm sure will have no unpleasant consequences: Use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants.
Proposed solution that I'm sure will have no unpleasant consequences: Use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants.
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Despite warnings in our report, today's release of the UK Nuclear Regulatory Review is littered with unsubstantiated claims and recommendations touting AI "as a powerful tool" and "cost-effective" to be used for safety and licensing without noted risks or caveats. This trend has now reached the UK.
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Five employees of the Tunisian Council for Refugees will go on trial today amid a broader crackdown on civil society groups in Tunisia. They face up to 23 years in prison if convicted of the unfounded charges. www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
Tunisia: Abusive Prosecutions of Refugee Group
Five employees of the Tunisian Council for Refugees will go on trial on November 24, 2025, amid a broader crackdown on civil society groups in Tunisia.
www.hrw.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Five employees of the Tunisian Council for Refugees will go on trial today amid a broader crackdown on civil society groups in Tunisia. They face up to 23 years in prison if convicted of the unfounded charges. www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
And then they will be "Migrants" 😂
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
And then they will be "Migrants" 😂