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Manar al-Qasem Abu al-Hijaa Khatib and her two daughters Hala and Shada, and their relative Manar Diab Khatib, killed by a direct hit of an Iranian missile on Tamra, Western Galilee.

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An incredible line for an article opener:

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Rarely so neat an encapsulation of who will pay the price of Netanyahu's behaviour vs who is salivating over it

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God help us all.

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NEW: Car bonnets are becoming a half-centimetre higher every year, driving road safety fears. This #carspreading trend where supersized SUVs crowd out space in towns and cities is also leading to cars that are more dangerous in a crash. 🧵

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Ow. Let’s hope.

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Just a reminder that the anti-trans panic was always the first wave of a war on women. We've been saying it for years. It's not an accident that Bell v. Tavistock went for Gillick (or that Bell's lawyer was an anti-abortion lawyer).

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There’s still time to join my survey of indispensable, obscure, weird & wonderful poets’ resources next week, so get in there. www.northseapoets.com/events/how-t...

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Goodness. It will take so long to establish a new order for supporting scholarship & research in the US, even after the Trump monstrosity.

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🧵 My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life. In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously wounded. 1/n

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Why you should care: no more crabs, lobster, oysters, mussels. An acidic ocean means at some point shellfish struggle to make shells

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Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

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Washington Post at 19:30 GMT Tuesday: so far, 100 arrests in Los Angeles, 96 of which are for failing to disperse. No protestor violence.

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Really, it is the case.

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Yes. Exactly like that.

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This is from 22:00 UK time, Monday night. 50 arrests in total. Riots? Out of control? What do you think. Clip is from WaPo.

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"This isn't aid. It's a mouse trap." - important, harrowing piece this:

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Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

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The latest. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it: "These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I recently heard a high-profile pundit argue that the Trump movement cannot be Fascistic as -its supporters don't wear uniforms; -Trump dislikes foreign wars; -he hasn't tried to amend the Constitution. It's a dangerously complacent view, that misses the sheer gravity of the current situation. 🧵

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A Russian disinformation operation has created over 300 fake videos impersonating more than 50 major news organisations this year. Ahead of the US election, it's attempting to sow division, claim the vote will be rigged and depict the US as a country near collapse. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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A viral video with the logo of Saudi outlet Al Arabiya falsely claims President Zelensky's bought a $3.2m flat in Dubai's Burj Khalifa for his mother. The video is fake. It's likely the work of a Russian disinformation operation that imitates major news outlets to spread fake news about Ukraine.

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on.ft.com/45iPYm5 How Gaza’s food queues turned into kill zones Gift link

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Over the last few months, we've seen the rise of a new tool for misinformation: AI-generated satellite imagery. This one, for instance, claims to show damaged Russian aircraft after Ukrainian drone attacks. But it's AI-generated, as evidenced by physical anomalies and asymmetrical features.

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Michael Rosen: 'I suppose if we were wondering who's in charge of what's going on in Gaza, then the US's veto tells us. Most of the world wants it to stop. The US doesn't want it to stop. So it doesn't stop.'

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Israel and the west are to blame for the genocide but not one country bar Yemen came to the material aid of the Palestinians and it has come down to a handful of activists on a crowdfunded sailing boat to be the world's moral conscience. Horrifying moral rot open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...

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If you’ve read about the Unbound/Boundless scandal, you’ll know that quite a few authors are owed significant amounts of money. If you want to support them in a small way, it would be brilliant if you signed up to their newsletters/blogs etc, or bought any of their non-Unbound books. 1/n

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Good grief.

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The Israeli airforce and bulldozers demolished 100 multi-storey buildings in Gaza over the last 72 hours.

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Oh god. Look at this.

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The Middle English Text Series (METS) has been a boon for Arthurian studies. Recent cuts to NEH grants have severely hindered its ability to continue. Read more and donate here: metseditions.org/donate .

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