Patrick Lee Hughes

Film school dropout. Buveur d’encre. All opinions are my own.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The next Prime Minister should steer clear of Starmer’s shameful legacy.

That starts with ending arms sales to Israel, imposing real sanctions, and establishing a public inquiry into Britain's complicity in genocide.

My article for @AJEnglish.
https://t.co/fhL0KbjJm1

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Andy Burnham’s attempt to be prime ministerial seems to have worked as calls grow for him to resign

[Henry Schulman BLUE CHECK MARK @hankschulman]

In honor of today's dedication of the Obama library, I'd like to say that I'm looking forward to the opening of the Trump library. My January, 1994, issue of Penthouse got lost in the mail and I want to see what was in it.

[Patrick Lee Hughes @Bookpimp1]

@redemmas Terrific news. Congratulations!

[Red Emma's @redemmas]

We published a book!

https://t.co/6NOEvJocC1

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

My special skill is making a footballer score simply by leaving the room.

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

I loan it out in June.

[Pluto Press @PlutoPress]

Psychoanalysis is having a resurgence in popularity—but it is not helping patients navigate the harm of modern-day capitalism.

From the Clinic to the Streets argues for a new, liberatory psychoanalysis, out now: https://t.co/cqQ3IqKV37

[Pluto Press @PlutoPress]

Essays on the terrifying new political formations damaging our world

Looking for weaknesses in the terrifying rise of the right? Read Backlash, out now:
https://t.co/fnRfDXPAUz

[Pluto Press @PlutoPress]

“Black anarchists must be revolutionary community organisers, and not just idle intellectuals. We have to build living projects in our Black communities”

Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, author of Anarchism and the Black Revolution, writes for Freedom News:
https://t.co/UalRsjNcSW

[Pluto Press @PlutoPress]

Essays on the terrifying new political formations damaging our world

Looking for weaknesses in the terrifying rise of the right? Read Backlash, out now:
https://t.co/fnRfDXPAUz

[Pluto Press @PlutoPress]

“This is not just a moral failure, but a legal one too”

@JessicadenOuter, author of The Forest Fights Back, writes for @nowthenmag:
https://t.co/wghcO7P28h

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

Today is Nakba Day, a day of remembrance of the atrocities, ethnic cleansing and forced displacement Palestinians suffered at the hands of Zionist forces which led to the creation of Israel:

30+ massacres committed by Zionist militias killing at least 15,000 Palestinians.

530 Palestinian villages destroyed, over 750,000 Palestinians forced to flee the ethnic cleansing and the state of Israel declared on 78% of historic Palestine🇵🇸.

By the end of 1948, two-thirds of the Palestinian population were exiled.

Here is a recounting of one of the worst massacres during the Nakba; the Deir Yassin Massacre, in which Zionist forces threw children into ovens.

[Asante @realtalktruthD]

BREAKING🚨 A man was choked to death by ICE guards and DHS hid his body at a military base to block the autopsy.

His name was Geraldo Lunas Campos. When the county medical examiner finally performed an autopsy, the conclusion was devastatingly clear: his death was ruled a homicide.

But here is the detail that should make your blood run cold.

When another man recently died at that exact same ICE facility, DHS didn't call the local medical examiner. Instead, they moved his body to a nearby U.S. Army base.

And that Army base is now flat-out refusing to release the results of the autopsy.

This was revealed by Senator Dick Durbin in a horrifying congressional hearing about the explosion of deaths in ICE custody under the Trump administration.

At least 17 people have already died in ICE custody in just the first three months of this year alone. Many of them died from easily treatable illnesses.

911 logs show ICE facilities are completely overwhelmed, ignoring basic human rights.

But moving a body to a military installation to dodge a local homicide investigation? That isn't just negligence. That is a coordinated, state-sponsored cover-up.

They are operating mass detention facilities with zero accountability. They are treating human beings like they are disposable. And when their guards cross the line, they use the full weight of the federal military apparatus to hide the evidence.

We are watching human rights abuses happen on American soil, funded by our tax dollars. We must demand the autopsy report.

Share this. Do not let them sweep these deaths under the rug.

[The Shovel @TheShovel]

“They Looked Iranian”: Security Footage Shows Trump Negotiating With White House Patio Umbrellas for Six Hours

https://t.co/IBdGhvQ2jd

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽‍♀️

Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

Make u think

[Robert Barnes @barnes_law]

We're at the "hide the coffins" stage of the war.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

@SkyNews Fixed it for you.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Everyone’s missing the real story here.

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses need human data annotators to train the AI. When you say “Hey Meta” and ask the glasses to analyze something, that video gets sent to Meta’s servers, then routed to Sama, a subcontractor in Nairobi, Kenya. Workers there manually label objects in your footage. They see everything you recorded, intentionally or not.

7 million pairs sold in 2025 alone. Every single pair generates training data that flows through human eyes in Kenya. Workers told Swedish journalists they see people undressing, using bathrooms, having sex, and accidentally filming bank card details. One worker said “we see everything, from living rooms to naked bodies.”

Meta’s automatic face anonymization is supposed to protect people in the footage. Workers say it fails in certain lighting. Faces that should be blurred are sometimes fully visible. The person you recorded without knowing? A stranger in Nairobi can identify them.

Buried in Meta’s terms of service is one sentence doing enormous legal work: the company reserves the right to conduct “manual (human) review” of your AI interactions. That’s the legal cover for routing intimate footage from Western homes to a $2/hour labor force operating under NDAs, office surveillance cameras, and a strict no-questions policy. Workers say if you raise concerns about what you’re seeing, you’re fired.

This is the same company, Sama, that TIME exposed in 2023 for paying Kenyan workers $2/hour to label graphic content for OpenAI while being billed at $12.50/hour per worker. Workers described the experience as torture. Sama ended that contract, then pivoted to labeling Meta’s glasses footage. Same workforce. Same rates.

Meta markets these glasses as “designed with your privacy in mind.” The privacy design is a tiny LED light on the frame that most people don’t notice. The data pipeline behind it routes your bedroom footage to a contractor with a documented history of worker exploitation, failed anonymization, and union-busting lawsuits.

And the next generation of these glasses? Meta is planning to add facial recognition. The same system that can’t reliably blur faces in training data wants to start identifying them on purpose.

The LED light on the frame is doing about as much for your privacy as the terms of service nobody reads.