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If someone lobs a brick through your front window, in most parts of the UK the best you will get from the police is a polite response, a crime number so you can claim on insurance, and no action. Hold up a sign calling for an end to genocide, and you’ll get arrested

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/18/man-arrested-in-glasgow-for-holding-sign-allegedly-supportive-of-palestine-action

Man arrested in Glasgow for holding sign allegedly supportive of Palestine Action

Arrest under the Terrorism Act happened after the man refused to stop displaying the sign when asked by police

The Guardian

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Steve Williams 23h ago

Here’s Dad’s Guardian obituary.

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/mar/07/obituary-peter-williams

#photography #filmphotography #commercialphotography

Peter Williams

Obituary: He was one of the finest photographers working in advertising and editorial photography

The Guardian

Steve Williams 23h ago

“If the answer to Britain’s first Black female MP parsing the lived experience of racism is to suspend her and confect another political controversy, then the message is that you may not ever say anything difficult at all”

Another day, another reason to be ashamed of Starmer.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/18/diane-abbott-britain-race-conversations-minorities

The Diane Abbott row shows how impoverished Britain’s conversations about race have become

We should be able to discuss the different ways in which minorities are racialised in a thoughtful – and sometimes confronting – way, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye

The Guardian

Steve Williams 1d ago

Big day for wholemeal noodles; Inducted into my Chow Mein hall of fame.

They don’t get the same Smokey wok char, but a nice nutty boost.

Such a simple meal. But, much like Italian dishes, just let a few good ingredients shine, for the win.

Steve Williams 1d ago

the roamer 1d ago

Roamer, the Lady Joan Mastodon said to me. My trusted friend and adviser. I know you must leave. You go with my blessing. Roam. Plant the hashtags, our cause depends on them. When you encounter scrapers, slay them. When you encounter the Great Algo, stay out of his way. Listen to the toots around you and make your own toots resonate with them. Boost the beautiful and unique. Forgive our fellow tooters who visit DarkSky: they know not what they do. Our cause is good: free, self-determined expression. We will prevail. The Great Algo is strong now but he will vanish. Fare thee well, Roamer, she said. Roam.

#JoanMastodon #hashtags #boosting #resonate #noScrape #MastodonCulture

Steve Williams 1d ago

Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco 2d ago

Barbara Jordan—a Black woman from Houston’s Fifth Ward—crossed every line drawn to keep her out: the color line, the gender line, the sexuality line, the Mason-Dixon line. And when, 49 years ago this week, the nation asked who would speak for America in crisis, she answered. With conviction. With the Constitution. And with a voice they never forgot.
1/ 20 #history #politics #histodons #blackandwhite
#photography #blackmastodon
Image: Barbara Jordan DNC keynote speech, NYC, July 12, 1976. AP.

Steve Williams 1d ago

Jason Lefkowitz 2d ago

"There’s an incorrect belief that the Epstein case is somehow separate from the real concerns facing America, a conspiracist concoction untethered to reality. But it’s actually about the policy issue I’ve probably spent more time writing on than any other in my career in journalism: the two-tiered system of justice and accountability in America, and the impunity we afford the nation’s elites."

https://prospect.org/justice/2025-07-15-jeffrey-epstein-is-policy-issue/

#USPol