James Greenwood-Reeves
@jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social
aka Alice Aforethought. Lecturer in Law, University of Leeds. Social Justice, Violent Protest, Pride and Drag, Raging Lefty 🏳️🌈
https://lawsadrag.org.uk/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7253-9676
https://lawsadrag.org.uk/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7253-9676
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It's December, which means it's time for James' A Christmas Carol Quotes Advent Calendar!
In keeping with the moral Dickens' tale, each one is a thinly veiled stab at certain political actors who simply must do better
In keeping with the moral Dickens' tale, each one is a thinly veiled stab at certain political actors who simply must do better
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DOJ releases the Donald J. Trump Jeffrey Epstein Files.
December 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
DOJ releases the Donald J. Trump Jeffrey Epstein Files.
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"We cannot give up because we need to save what we still can." This is a mantra for the times we live through. Every little bit that you can do now will save lives further down the line. Hope defeats despair.
It is certainly too late to preserve what we were given to us when the oldest living human on earth today was born. That’s now gone for at least 500 years.
But we cannot give up because we need to save what we still can.
But we cannot give up because we need to save what we still can.
December 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"We cannot give up because we need to save what we still can." This is a mantra for the times we live through. Every little bit that you can do now will save lives further down the line. Hope defeats despair.
What this tells me, more than anything else, is that Gen Z Republicans are disgusting
From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
December 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
What this tells me, more than anything else, is that Gen Z Republicans are disgusting
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"An academic discovers a paper attributed to him that does not exist has been cited 42 times" is a sentence with an actual referent in 2025.
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"An academic discovers a paper attributed to him that does not exist has been cited 42 times" is a sentence with an actual referent in 2025.
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Imagine the editor who spent their summer editing around the Nazi salutes only to be told this news today
December 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Imagine the editor who spent their summer editing around the Nazi salutes only to be told this news today
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The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
December 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
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🧵 With recent direction to the FBI to treat Queer organisations as domestic terrorism, I know there are many LGBTQ ppl looking for options. There are two Irish paths. One is to apply for further education, the other is to look at whether you qualify for Irish citizenship by descent. Here’s more info
December 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🧵 With recent direction to the FBI to treat Queer organisations as domestic terrorism, I know there are many LGBTQ ppl looking for options. There are two Irish paths. One is to apply for further education, the other is to look at whether you qualify for Irish citizenship by descent. Here’s more info
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i need you to hold some fucking solidarity and intersectionality in your heart because by god you are not surviving this hellscape otherwise. "none of us are free until all of us free" means you too asshole, so build coalitions with other marginalized people now
December 19, 2025 at 7:04 AM
i need you to hold some fucking solidarity and intersectionality in your heart because by god you are not surviving this hellscape otherwise. "none of us are free until all of us free" means you too asshole, so build coalitions with other marginalized people now
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"Academics should use their knowledge to make the world a better place... If not, what is the point of us? To paraphrase Toni Morrison, in the face of global injustice, climate catastrophe, and the heat of racial injustice, THIS is precisely the time when we must go to work."
One of the arguments I make here is that Black women academics, especially, often have our academic credentials disregarded (implicitly and explicitly) if we mention, even in the slightest way, how our discipline reproduces inequality – structurally or conceptually.
folukeafrica.com/activist-or-...
folukeafrica.com/activist-or-...
Activist or Academic or Both? The Quandary of Scholactivism for the Minoritised in the Ivory Tower
What makes a scholar an activist, & can an activist be a “proper” scholar?
folukeafrica.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"Academics should use their knowledge to make the world a better place... If not, what is the point of us? To paraphrase Toni Morrison, in the face of global injustice, climate catastrophe, and the heat of racial injustice, THIS is precisely the time when we must go to work."
Did someone mention the limits of nonviolent protest?
That's as good an excuse as any to plug "Justifying Violent Protest" - ask your library to order it, or maybe even treat yourself to a weird little christmas present!
www.routledge.com/Justifying-V...
That's as good an excuse as any to plug "Justifying Violent Protest" - ask your library to order it, or maybe even treat yourself to a weird little christmas present!
www.routledge.com/Justifying-V...
December 19, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Did someone mention the limits of nonviolent protest?
That's as good an excuse as any to plug "Justifying Violent Protest" - ask your library to order it, or maybe even treat yourself to a weird little christmas present!
www.routledge.com/Justifying-V...
That's as good an excuse as any to plug "Justifying Violent Protest" - ask your library to order it, or maybe even treat yourself to a weird little christmas present!
www.routledge.com/Justifying-V...
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"3.5% rule" "60% of nonviolent protests succeed"
You may have heard these cited as fact. But they stem from a single dubious source.
In the first in a series @thefreeradical.org debunks these, showing how they're propaganda to erase the power of militant, riotous revolt and peddle passive protest:
You may have heard these cited as fact. But they stem from a single dubious source.
In the first in a series @thefreeradical.org debunks these, showing how they're propaganda to erase the power of militant, riotous revolt and peddle passive protest:
Liberation is a Riot, Part 1: Debunking the Sanitized Nonviolence Myth
Based on shoddy research, bad history and outright lies, status quo propaganda portrays a sanitized version of ‘nonviolent’ protest as the only option, to damaging effect. It’s time to debunk it, and ...
transnews.network
December 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"3.5% rule" "60% of nonviolent protests succeed"
You may have heard these cited as fact. But they stem from a single dubious source.
In the first in a series @thefreeradical.org debunks these, showing how they're propaganda to erase the power of militant, riotous revolt and peddle passive protest:
You may have heard these cited as fact. But they stem from a single dubious source.
In the first in a series @thefreeradical.org debunks these, showing how they're propaganda to erase the power of militant, riotous revolt and peddle passive protest:
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“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
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periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.
December 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.
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Okay so yes the gov is wrong to do this but I don’t hear about these twice daily briefings from the lobby, I hear about constant Westminster gossip that they’re often creating rather than actual accountability. If the lobby wants access maybe the lobby should be doing its job in the first place
The lobby is much maligned but these twice daily briefings are essential scrutiny because questions can be asked from any outlet - no matter their politics - on any topic to the No10 spokesman who must stay in the room until everyone is finished. Government fear this somehow!
December 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Okay so yes the gov is wrong to do this but I don’t hear about these twice daily briefings from the lobby, I hear about constant Westminster gossip that they’re often creating rather than actual accountability. If the lobby wants access maybe the lobby should be doing its job in the first place
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If you live in Leeds, and feel like getting really angry, think about all the money the UK government has wasted on absolute bollocks in the twenty years since the Leeds supertram was cancelled -- because likely costs had escalated from £500 million to £1 billion.
December 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
If you live in Leeds, and feel like getting really angry, think about all the money the UK government has wasted on absolute bollocks in the twenty years since the Leeds supertram was cancelled -- because likely costs had escalated from £500 million to £1 billion.
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New post that I hope anyone who cares about human rights/the rule of law reads. If the UK Govt can use a 30 year old threat of terrorism to conceal the release of *outline* information about its agents' connection to murder, it really can act with impunity:
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/18/a...
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/18/a...
Anurag Deb, Colin Murray and Gabriel Tan: Legacy Issues: In re Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [2025] UKSC 47
Introduction It is a rare case where the UK Government initiates a judicial review against an independent public body. The Thompson case is just such a case. The Secretary of State for Northern Ire…
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December 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New post that I hope anyone who cares about human rights/the rule of law reads. If the UK Govt can use a 30 year old threat of terrorism to conceal the release of *outline* information about its agents' connection to murder, it really can act with impunity:
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/18/a...
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/18/a...
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![The events of the Northern Ireland conflict must look very distant to the UK Supreme Court; a persistent irritant as it attempts to grapple with the latest controversies. It is not as if the Court is not aware of the underlying problem, describing the delays faced by the Thompson family as ‘profoundly disturbing’ (at [18]). But, unlike the courts in Belfast, which are confronted with the daily effects of these failings, the Supreme Court continues to accept that it is in the UK Government’s sole purview to address these issues, and to deny any effective role for the judicial authorities in overseeing security determinations.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wdliniy55nabrxbk5n4zdhr6/bafkreicrboqhikkkp2c6dr5gisv4qj6llurnjrywqrrfd7pi5zd3gorepm@jpeg)
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This thread sets out our initial response to the Levy Review 👇.
Today the findings of the Levy Review into adult trans healthcare have been published.
We’re still digesting the report in full, and will be discussing its findings with trans-led organisations.
We’re still digesting the report in full, and will be discussing its findings with trans-led organisations.
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This thread sets out our initial response to the Levy Review 👇.
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This week I spoke in a Westminster Hall debate on transgender healthcare.
I raised concerns shared with me by residents, including the lack of NHS support when turning 18 and access to puberty blockers.
If you need support or want to share your experiences, please get in touch, my door is open.
I raised concerns shared with me by residents, including the lack of NHS support when turning 18 and access to puberty blockers.
If you need support or want to share your experiences, please get in touch, my door is open.
December 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This week I spoke in a Westminster Hall debate on transgender healthcare.
I raised concerns shared with me by residents, including the lack of NHS support when turning 18 and access to puberty blockers.
If you need support or want to share your experiences, please get in touch, my door is open.
I raised concerns shared with me by residents, including the lack of NHS support when turning 18 and access to puberty blockers.
If you need support or want to share your experiences, please get in touch, my door is open.
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Arrests for terrorism-related offences are up 660% from last year after Palestine Action was banned
news.sky.com/story/terror...
news.sky.com/story/terror...
Terrorism arrests soar by 660% after Palestine Action ban
Official figures show 1,630, or 86%, of the 1,886 arrests for terrorism-related activity in the year to the end of September 2025 were linked to supporting the group.
news.sky.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Arrests for terrorism-related offences are up 660% from last year after Palestine Action was banned
news.sky.com/story/terror...
news.sky.com/story/terror...
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Now, will the newly appointed EHRC Chair Mary-Ann Stephenson apologise for funding her witch hunt against Stonewall?
With £1,000,000 now spent Allison Bailey loses again.
December 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Now, will the newly appointed EHRC Chair Mary-Ann Stephenson apologise for funding her witch hunt against Stonewall?
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If you want to know what it was like for Jews to be kidnapped in broad daylight by their governments and that then to become just normal life, now you know.
An immigrant driver from India is arrested by border patrol at the O’Hare rideshare lot. He said he has never committed a crime in 11 years in the United States: “oh my God no”
December 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If you want to know what it was like for Jews to be kidnapped in broad daylight by their governments and that then to become just normal life, now you know.
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Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Vicente Gonzalez joined Republicans in voting to criminalize trans health care.
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
clerk.house.gov
December 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Vicente Gonzalez joined Republicans in voting to criminalize trans health care.
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
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Starter or dessert ... ?
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TikTok video by Ed Greenwood
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December 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Starter or dessert ... ?
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#sketch #comedyvideo #shorts #funnytiktok #relateable #relatablecontent #dinner #diningout #restaurant #entree #revenge
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#sketch #comedyvideo #shorts #funnytiktok #relateable #relatablecontent #dinner #diningout #restaurant #entree #revenge
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How to describe a hunger strike without using the words hunger strike.
Very interesting choice of words.
Very interesting choice of words.
David Lammy, the justice secretary, has refused to meet lawyers for eight protesters refusing food while they await trials scheduled for months away
Palestine Action hunger strikers ‘set to die unless minister acts’
www.thetimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
How to describe a hunger strike without using the words hunger strike.
Very interesting choice of words.
Very interesting choice of words.