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Tonight on BBC1 and #iPlayer and followed by #TheDeathOfStalin

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Exclusive Interview: Peter Capaldi on seeing Simple Minds at the Mars Bar and the sound of Glasgow in the early 1980s that has influenced his second album, to be released this month. www.glasgowworld.com/whats-on/mus...

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Trump thinks he humiliated Zelensky. He humiliated the United States of America. And he made the world a much more dangerous place. Mob boss foreign policy will not work. The Trump-Putin axis fully came out of the closet today.

submitted 3 days ago • 78 comments

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

submitted 3 days ago • 201 comments

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

submitted 5 days ago • 1188 comments

The Government is siding with big tech over British creativity. Today is the FINAL chance to respond to their consultation on AI and copyright. Let's make sure creators' voices are heard. Guidance below 👇 #MakeItFair #PayTheCreator www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

submitted 6 days ago • 57 comments

24 February 1903 | A Pole, Józef Ignacik was born in Jadowniki. A postman. In #Auschwitz from 5 April 1941. No. 11262 He perished in the camp on 9 August 1941.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

All pretences dropped now. The US government has shifted its allegiances to Russia, and the entire basis of our security, tied as it was to an illusory special relationship, has just gone overboard. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 7 days ago • 69 comments

🎙️ Today is World Radio Day, but audio drama is under serious threat! 🎙️ Please sign and share our petition to save audio drama at the BBC. Let’s reach 10,000 ✍️👇 www.change.org/p/save-audio...

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh, 1895, Lilian Murray became the first female dentist to qualify in the UK. She initially tried to enrol at the London Dental School but was refused entry to the building in case she distracted male students & was interviewed on the pavement instead! #InternationalDentistDay

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The nine councils – Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Thurrock, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Surrey facing local election delays are all located in deregulated Special Economic Zones. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

Very excited amidst all this grim news that tonight we are launching the first annual National Humanities Lecture, delivered by the splendid @davidolusoga.bsky.social, speaking of the urgent importance of public humanities and public history.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Peatlands are critical ecosystems which contain more carbon than all the world’s forests... despite covering just 3% of the global land surface. But new research shows that vast areas of the UK’s peatlands, are, due to climate change likely to become unsuitable for peat accumulation.

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

Discover women illustrators in twentieth-century Britain in this new story from @artukdotorg.bsky.social 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto... Inc. Jessie M King, Sylvia Pankhurst & Hannah Frank Image: 'Spring Frieze' by Hannah Frank (1908–2008) © the artist's estate, from the GWL collection.

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✈️ Bats, newts and a third Heathrow runway – what on earth are we doing? Government announcements about a third runway at Heathrow and relaxing environmental constraints on development are a huge cause for concern By Mary Allen

submitted 30 days ago • 10 comments

Exclusive: Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the US government human resources agency locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials reut.rs/3CuCEPs

submitted 31 days ago • 150 comments

Understand what's just happened here. Deregulation on steroids. The UK government has officially handed over its powers of governance to corporations. When will people truly understand what this means for their families, their communities and public services? www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...

submitted 31 days ago • 27 comments

"Brexiteers promised freedom, prosperity, and sovereignty. Instead, we’ve been left with economic decline, political isolation, and a diminished future. On this painful anniversary, we must confront the harsh reality: Brexit has failed. The numbers don’t lie." ~AA bylinetimes.com/2025/01/31/b...

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!

submitted 32 days ago • 163 comments

they are really going to blame black people for every little thing that happens aren’t they

submitted 32 days ago • 515 comments

"Days before Donald Trump’s inauguration... an article appeared in the US magazine The Atlantic: ‘How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days’. Trump’s name doesn’t appear at all in the piece by Timothy Ryback, a historian and an authority on 1930s Germany. But joining the dots is not difficult."

submitted 33 days ago • 24 comments

1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them. It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests. I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights. Find the EO here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 32 days ago • 233 comments

President Trump just shut off funding for law enforcement, farmers, schools, veterans, and health care.  We are working diligently to reverse this, but we are preparing for every outcome to help Minnesotans weather this storm. Minnesota needs answers. We’ll see Trump in court.

submitted 34 days ago • 677 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 35 days ago • 1092 comments

'Announced on Holocaust Memorial Day, the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades. Users can view letters, pamphlets and photographs that record the rise of fascism in Britain and Europe.' Link: www.whlcollections.org/index/

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Eighty years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.

submitted 35 days ago • 27 comments

25 January 1930 | A Polish Jewish boy, Icek Cymbler, was born in Będzin. He was murdered in a gas chamber in #Auschwitz most probably during the liquidation of the Będzin ghetto in 1943.

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Through the blizzard of edicts, see Trump for what he is: an autocrat reaching for limitless power -Jonathan Freedland www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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25 January 1925 | A Polish Jewish woman, Blima Leipziger, was born in Königshütte (today Chorzów). During the war she lived in Sosnowiec. She was deported from the ghetto there to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

submitted 37 days ago • 19 comments

How Russian Information Warfare Primed the World for the Tech Autocracy of Trump and Musk “Money and information are the twin tactical nukes of modern politics” according… https://bylinetimes.com/2025/01/25/how-russian-information-warfare-primed-the-world-for-the-tech-autocracy-of-trump-and-musk/

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

With Nigel Farage and Reform UK again calling for the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights here is a reminder of why joining Russia and Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR is a very very very bad idea youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY?...

submitted 37 days ago • 84 comments

As a result, there will be more unwanted pregnancies, more women & girls who have suffered rape will be forced to bear children, & more lives ruined. But Trump doesn't care. #Shame www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Trump comes for the scientists www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01... Trump has cancelled almost all US government medical research. He's also cancelled communication on current medical crises. Mistrust of science is a fascist trait. It looks like the people of the USA are going to suffer for it.

submitted 37 days ago • 14 comments

A violent criminal? A threat to society? A danger to democracy? No, no and no. This is someone being punished again and again for giving a damn about humanity and the living world. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 37 days ago • 221 comments

Musk, Zuckerberg, and the death of Fact.

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

Firing independent watchdogs is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Removes another obstacle to corruption and abuse of power www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 37 days ago • 153 comments

“The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires Congress to receive 30 days’ notice of any intent to fire a Senate-confirmed inspector general…” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 37 days ago • 828 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 38 days ago • 1360 comments

by the way, the David Lynch Foundation gives out scholarships to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault survivors who want to learn transcendental meditation as part of their healing journey. here is the link to apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 38 days ago • 4 comments

Harris beat Trump 54% to 43% among voters ages 18-24. Harris beat Trump 53% to 45% among voters ages 25-29. Harris beat Trump 51% to 45% among voters ages 30-39. Trump to Fox: “I won youth by 36 points.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/p...

submitted 39 days ago • 1094 comments

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #322: Don’t be afraid of failure. Every artist you’ve ever heard of has tried and failed countless times. Failures show you’re trying new things, taking risks, learning. Failure is a necessary step on the road to success.

submitted 38 days ago • 8 comments

You might be thinking now's a good time to join @greenparty.org.uk It's easy: join.greenparty.org.uk www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

A vote for this bill is a vote for a liveable future & I urge every single MP to join me in passing this historic piece of legislation. Those who vote against must look to their consciences & ask why they're prepared to squander this historic opportunity #CANBill www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 38 days ago • 39 comments

Wonderful story. Deservedly on the front page.

submitted 38 days ago • 31 comments

If true, what Labour front bench is doing is unforgivable. The #CANBill is essential & has backing of huge number of experts, scientists, unions & enjoys cross-party support. If backbench Labour MPs ever consider rebelling against leadership on anything, let it be this - a liveable future for all 👇

submitted 38 days ago • 102 comments

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

submitted 41 days ago • 2213 comments