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I stole this from FB! 😆😆🇨🇦

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Can’t believe nobody wants to go to a soccer game to be kidnapped by ICE

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The more I look into Thomas Frank and Brentford, the more I realise what a huge and arrogant risk the Tottenham board are taking by sacking the one man who has proven he can succeed here **despite** the dysfunction at the club. Frank, a great coach, had the support of a high functioning club. 1/

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Right On...

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They don’t believe in any gods and can’t read the Bible. How can they possibly do the morally correct thing?

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I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."

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‘Mind-blowing’: inside the highest human-occupied ice age site found in Australia

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30k catholics go to see Pope Leo. "Christians have an obligation, he said, to reject language or activity that demonizes and degrades the dignity of others, that pretends that some persons are unworthy to be connected to us.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

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Father's Day morning is always a tricky time for Boris Johnson.

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Newcastle United's owner has a journalist executed for reporting on the dictator's family's corruption. Howay the lads. cpj.org/2025/06/saud...

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Another journalist murdered for investigating the Saudi royals. Every single player or manager who chooses to work in their stupid league for the big money should be thoroughly ashamed. Every single one.

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The latest thoughts from my desk this chilly winter Monday. An Australian flavour to this one but with some ideas that may be interesting. Flu down under is a July thing. virologydownunder.com/flu-down-und...

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A survey showed 72% of respondents in Australia said they didn’t trust U.S. President Donald Trump to act responsibly in global affairs, just edging out the 71% who said they didn’t trust Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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As UN climate talks begin this week in Bonn, @hrw.org calls on governments to commit to ambitious national plans for a fossil fuel phaseout- with clear timelines. Without bold action now, COP30 risks falling short on delivering a credible response to the climate crisis.

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In other news, Saudi Arabia, which has done as much as anyone to ensure the financial success of Club World Cup for FIFA, has executed a journalist, who was tried in secret, and sentenced to death over what activists say were tweets critical of the regime.

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#THFC www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Australia exports gas to Japan and South Korea. They have cheaper gas than us. 🧐

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Bravo.

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Britain is moving combat jets and other military aircraft to the Middle East after Iran threatened to strike UK military bases in the region and launched a new wave of overnight missile strikes on Israel ⬇️

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I’m horrified by the shootings targeting Minnesota lawmakers, including Senator John Hoffman and State Rep. Melissa Hortman. Violence is never the answer. Never. I'm holding everyone affected by this attack in my heart.

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No one cares, though. Prepare for your (grand)kids to die prematurely. They will, you know. #ClimateCatastrophe

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Maybe you should work out how to make idiots turn up to **vote** against dictators. Frankly, turning up after the fact is anticlimactic.

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