leischa.bsky.social
@leischa.bsky.social
Trade unionist. South African via Scotland. Based in Geneva.
Lovely article. The most important step to tackle the gender pay gap, equality and a host of other problems in society is adequate paternity leave.
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I'm taking eight months' paternity leave – and it's changing my relationship with my children | Ilyas Nagdee
I’ll never tire of witnessing many ‘firsts’ for my second-born, but this is a luxury that should be afforded to everyone, not just those who can pay for it, says author and researcher Ilyas Nagdee
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Lovely article. The most important step to tackle the gender pay gap, equality and a host of other problems in society is adequate paternity leave.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It's good to see the @financialtimes.com taking a firm stand against Elon Musk's claim that censoring child porn is an attack on freedom of speech.
These bad faith free speech warriors need to be put in their place.
www.ft.com/content/b681...
These bad faith free speech warriors need to be put in their place.
www.ft.com/content/b681...
Curbing sexual deepfakes is a moral imperative
Musk has mischaracterised the dispute with the UK and others over indecent AI images as censorship
www.ft.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:41 AM
It's good to see the @financialtimes.com taking a firm stand against Elon Musk's claim that censoring child porn is an attack on freedom of speech.
These bad faith free speech warriors need to be put in their place.
www.ft.com/content/b681...
These bad faith free speech warriors need to be put in their place.
www.ft.com/content/b681...
January 13, 2026 at 11:15 PM
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another die.
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another die.
January 13, 2026 at 11:12 PM
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another die.
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another die.
This is an excellent and hopeful read from Thomas Piketty.
Project 2025, from nightmare to reality thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/p...
Project 2025, from nightmare to reality thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/p...
Project 2025, from nightmare to reality
The year 2025 was marked by the Trump shock: an unprecedented wave of extreme brutality, unapologetic nationalism, and unrestrained extractivism that shook the world as never before since 1945. To …
thomaspiketty.wordpress.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:10 PM
This is an excellent and hopeful read from Thomas Piketty.
Project 2025, from nightmare to reality thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/p...
Project 2025, from nightmare to reality thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/p...
This is a great podcast from the Mining and Energy Union in Australia.
What was it like to fight apartheid as a South African mining union leader?
meupodcast.com.au/episodes/wha...
What was it like to fight apartheid as a South African mining union leader?
meupodcast.com.au/episodes/wha...
What was it like to fight apartheid as a South African mining union leader? | The Mining And Energy Union Podcast
Mining unions played a key role in bringing down apartheid in South Africa. We meet one mining union leader who was at the coal face of the struggle.
meupodcast.com.au
January 13, 2026 at 9:28 AM
This is a great podcast from the Mining and Energy Union in Australia.
What was it like to fight apartheid as a South African mining union leader?
meupodcast.com.au/episodes/wha...
What was it like to fight apartheid as a South African mining union leader?
meupodcast.com.au/episodes/wha...
Thought for the day.
January 11, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Thought for the day.
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I spoke with the head of Greenland's largest labor union about the Trump administration's threats over annexation
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘We are not for sale’: chair of Greenland’s top labor union rebukes Trump’s call for annexation
Exclusive: SIK leader Jess Berthelsen rejects Trump claim that the US needs Greenland for ‘national security’
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:52 PM
I spoke with the head of Greenland's largest labor union about the Trump administration's threats over annexation
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Needs to be done "right now" as a matter of urgency.
No delays.
X, Grok, xAI shouldn't just be banned the companies and Musk should be sanctioned.
And while you're at it, kick US troops and Palantir out of the UK.
No delays.
X, Grok, xAI shouldn't just be banned the companies and Musk should be sanctioned.
And while you're at it, kick US troops and Palantir out of the UK.
Musk’s X could be banned in Britain over AI chatbot row
Sir Keir Starmer brands deepfakes on social media site ‘disgusting and not to be tolerated’
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January 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Needs to be done "right now" as a matter of urgency.
No delays.
X, Grok, xAI shouldn't just be banned the companies and Musk should be sanctioned.
And while you're at it, kick US troops and Palantir out of the UK.
No delays.
X, Grok, xAI shouldn't just be banned the companies and Musk should be sanctioned.
And while you're at it, kick US troops and Palantir out of the UK.
I reckon a lot of ICE agents are veterans. What US troops used to do to Iraqis, they are now doing to Americans.
Empire has come home.
Empire has come home.
January 8, 2026 at 8:22 PM
I reckon a lot of ICE agents are veterans. What US troops used to do to Iraqis, they are now doing to Americans.
Empire has come home.
Empire has come home.
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We all use flawed, problematic platforms and products; it's unavoidable. But X is something else altogether. It's astoundingly evil. Almost none of the usual excuses apply any longer. Get the fuck off of it.
January 8, 2026 at 6:01 PM
We all use flawed, problematic platforms and products; it's unavoidable. But X is something else altogether. It's astoundingly evil. Almost none of the usual excuses apply any longer. Get the fuck off of it.
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This is one of the coolest fucking things I’ve ever seen
An old school anarchist hacker who goes by Martha Root infiltrated a nazi dating site, got all of their into onto okstupid.lol, and THEN SHE DELETED THE ENTIRE SITE LIVE WHILE DRESSED AS THE PINK POWER RANGER.
hero.
An old school anarchist hacker who goes by Martha Root infiltrated a nazi dating site, got all of their into onto okstupid.lol, and THEN SHE DELETED THE ENTIRE SITE LIVE WHILE DRESSED AS THE PINK POWER RANGER.
hero.
January 5, 2026 at 10:45 PM
This is one of the coolest fucking things I’ve ever seen
An old school anarchist hacker who goes by Martha Root infiltrated a nazi dating site, got all of their into onto okstupid.lol, and THEN SHE DELETED THE ENTIRE SITE LIVE WHILE DRESSED AS THE PINK POWER RANGER.
hero.
An old school anarchist hacker who goes by Martha Root infiltrated a nazi dating site, got all of their into onto okstupid.lol, and THEN SHE DELETED THE ENTIRE SITE LIVE WHILE DRESSED AS THE PINK POWER RANGER.
hero.
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Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.
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The US is an empire in decline.
Its attack on Venezuela is just the latest morbid symptom.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Its attack on Venezuela is just the latest morbid symptom.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s new world order is being born – and Venezuela is just the start | Owen Jones
The US president has been quite clear that Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Greenland are in his sights. We must believe him, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:56 AM
The US is an empire in decline.
Its attack on Venezuela is just the latest morbid symptom.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Its attack on Venezuela is just the latest morbid symptom.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is a geeat piece. Always worrying when the FT is to the left of the Labour Party.
Excellent piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social. UK citizenship is a right for those who qualify, not a privilege. If you have it, you are entitled to the full protection of the British state - at home and abroad. What you believe and what you say are entirely irrelevant. Anything else is despotism.
Threatening to strip someone of their citizenship is no joke
That this Labour government seems to find Alaa Abdel Fattah’s predicament a laughing matter is unconscionable
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:17 PM
This is a geeat piece. Always worrying when the FT is to the left of the Labour Party.
How utterly depressing.
Influencers and OnlyFans models dominate US ‘extraordinary’ artist visas - www.ft.com/content/8816... via @FT
Influencers and OnlyFans models dominate US ‘extraordinary’ artist visas - www.ft.com/content/8816... via @FT
Influencers and OnlyFans models dominate US ‘extraordinary’ artist visas
Work permits increasingly being awarded on basis of online reach, favouring content creators
www.ft.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:42 PM
How utterly depressing.
Influencers and OnlyFans models dominate US ‘extraordinary’ artist visas - www.ft.com/content/8816... via @FT
Influencers and OnlyFans models dominate US ‘extraordinary’ artist visas - www.ft.com/content/8816... via @FT
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This is beautiful from @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple
When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:42 PM
This is beautiful from @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Elon Musk is such a creep.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot blames safeguard ‘lapses’ over child sexual images - www.ft.com/content/0747... via @FT
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot blames safeguard ‘lapses’ over child sexual images - www.ft.com/content/0747... via @FT
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot blames safeguard ‘lapses’ over child sexual images
Grok generated sexually explicit images of minors in recent days that have been shared on social media platform X
www.ft.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Elon Musk is such a creep.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot blames safeguard ‘lapses’ over child sexual images - www.ft.com/content/0747... via @FT
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot blames safeguard ‘lapses’ over child sexual images - www.ft.com/content/0747... via @FT
This is a really touching story.
The Gaza bookshop that refuses to shut - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
The Gaza bookshop that refuses to shut - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
The Gaza bookshop that refuses to shut
As bombs fell and famine took hold, Samir Mansour kept delivering books
giftarticle.ft.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
This is a really touching story.
The Gaza bookshop that refuses to shut - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
The Gaza bookshop that refuses to shut - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down.
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A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way | George Monbiot
From merrily dismissing climate science, to promoting irresponsible health claims, the podcast was an unintentional warning for our times, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...