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Abhorrent. “The soldiers film people fighting over the aid, and once it’s finished, they throw teargas to disperse the crowd. I saw displaced people who couldn’t get any aid picking pasta from the sand.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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BBC 6 Music News tells me Musk wants to set up a ‘centrist’ party. Is great replacement theory centrism now? Btw almost all stories on 6 Music heads were about immigration - Labour can’t get down asylum hotel costs; Pam Bondi clip. Barely a single story about an actual news of a real world event

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Whoever was responsible for designing the Historic Scotland information board at Wideford Hill Cairn deserves a medal for it.

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What’s more worrying than these councillors’ youth is that the one in charge of adult services has posted racist messages & believes depression isn’t real, & the student in charge of children’s services thinks his experiences in life are representative of clients’. new.basw.co.uk/about-social...

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Who knew! Poison! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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🚨 New: 'Shocking' scale of Labour’s Big Tech ties In its first 6 months, Labour ministers and top officials met with tech giants an average of six times a week. We’ve got the documents. 🧵 New on Democracy for Sale with @lucasamin.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-s...

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Five years today, the statue of Edward Colston was pulled down in Bristol. Boris Johnson accused protestors of trying to "photoshop" the past and "lie about our history". I'm reposting below a thread I wrote at the time: on history, memory, and how we decide who to celebrate in our public spaces.🧵

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‘In Paris, the Buffonian fear of degeneration encouraged plans for rounding up vagrants in labour camps and expelling Blacks and mixed-race people from France.’ David Todd on racism during the French Enlightenment: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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When your larynx is also your bollocks

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Deeply powerful words from Ahdaf Soueif on the ongoing hunger strike of her sister, Dr Laila Soueif, on the possibilities of hope, and on why we must all call for #FreeAlaa www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

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They're doing it on purpose now surely?

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I'm full of the cold so my defences are weakened which is why I'm now watching And Just Like That. Which is worse than my cold.

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Many of the federal workers being forced out by Trump are Black women who spent decades building a career of government service, only to see those careers shattered in a sudden purge. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social

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In finally admitting that they're trying to take away our rights, they're also admitting that we have exercised these rights for years -decades- and there hasn't ever, ever been an issue with it

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6 June 1897 | A Scottish woman, Jane Haining, was born in Dunscore. A Church of Scotland missionary in #Budapest. In #Auschwitz from 14 May 1944 No. 79467 She perished in the camp on 17 July 1944. Haining was recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.

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I'm delighted to reveal the cover of my new book, Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland. It will be published by @headlinebooks.bsky.social on 11 September. Available to pre-order here: linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHo... If you are happy to share this post, please, I'd be grateful.

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Oh my god, they're asking the kids to choose.

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King: hey uh King: where's elon? Barker: why? do you want him here? King: NO King: no i mean King: he's usually here King: it's not like him to not show up Poe: we moved the campfire without telling him King: that usually doesn't stop him

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Abs gutted to have been offline for a couple of hours and missed two high agency males engaging in phallocentric discourse

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oh is this just a distraction? is that it? a distraction? for rubes? are you the smartest little birthday boy in the whole applebees? is that it? are you three steps ahead? with your mind chess? in your little birthday boy suit? do you have it all figured out? are you mommy’s special buddy?

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Men are too emotional to use social media

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O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.

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The kids are fighting!

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On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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great to barely even use this hyperbolically

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My favorite part is that Elon wrecked his companies with a Nazi salute for NOTHING. LOL! Great stuff.

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"HAVE YOU EVEN SAID THANK YOU?"

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"I never thought those leopards would eat the faces of people like me."

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So he's just likened Russia invading Ukraine to two kids fighting in a park and 'you have to let them fight it out'. THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO STOP IT WITH A PHONE CALL

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ONE WEEK TO GO...We have pushed the big, red, 'PRINT' button on this year's programme and we can't wait to share the rest of our 2025 line up with you - it's going to be a blast! Tickets on sale at noon on Thursday 12th June - bloodyscotland.com/whats-on

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Today is polling day in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election. Katy Loudon has shown she would be an outstanding MSP. This is now a two-horse race between the SNP and Farage. #VoteSNP to stop Farage and to build a better Scotland. Vote @katyloudonsnp.bsky.social today.

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“America actually is, at present, an occupied country. . .To the extent that this statement is complicated by the fact that those in power were elected, their conduct in office seems not to be what many of their voters were led to expect or would have chosen.” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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Just writing a paper about this pair, Thomas Dawodu and Ferdinand Leigh, the first Africans to train at Kew Gardens. Come hear their remarkable story at Gardens & Empires conference, British Library, June 27-8, & online: events.bl.uk/events/garde... @sathnam.bsky.social @eicathomefinn.bsky.social ‬

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This is not a drill—#Cymera25 kicks off TOMORROW ‼️ We're so excited to see everyone in Edinburgh and online. Find our full programme, plus buy tickets, day passes or weekend passes on our website: www.cymerafestival.co.uk

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