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13 April 1936 | Dutch Jewish girl Saartje Schnitzler was born in #Rotterdam. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 22 August 1942 deported from #Westerbork with her mother Betje & siblings: Alida, Isidor, Joseph, Leonardus, Louis. After the selection they were murdered in a gas chamber.

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All activity on X helps Musk, I wrote this to explain how. Please repost and share everywhere with people that are still using X, we need to educate them about how harmful it is. #HandsOff #TakeDownX

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Soundtrack for the week ahead:

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Entire UK media: "Clearly, at this time of economic crisis, the UK must scale back its clean energy ambitions..."

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I assumed this was an unfair headline masking a difficulty someone was having (eg a house that she didn’t want and couldn’t use but was struggling to sell). But no, it is exactly what it says it is. “…this has meant we have to put it on the market”: you mean the policy is working as intended?

submitted 19 hours ago • 45 comments

Aside from the horrible ethics, scrapping aid commitments is guaranteed to increase migration from the global south. A political vicious cycle.

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Heinous. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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@davidallengreen.bsky.social after Canada, the UK is best placed to profit from Trump's onslaught on US universities we've seen action in Germany, France, Scandinavia, Canada not a whimper here

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That didn't take long. Great work oligarchs!!

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What comes of being steeped in populist grievance rhetoric. Labour is terrified of seeming 'elitist' by intervening - yet the university sector is one of the last economic engines in post-industrial cities across the UK. As we see in the USA, performative anti-intellectualism hurts everyone.

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We're backing those asking for real protections for our marine havens. Take a look at this. act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...

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Mom tries to comfort her daughter after they survived a Russian missile strike on Sumy this morning. Heartbreaking.

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AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

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“These demands to remove & restrict books are not the result of any grassroots or popular sentiment…The majority are now originating from well-funded, organised groups and movements…” Sounds familiar to anyone who’s been dragged into UK culture wars too. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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Crazy idea for Labour: why not just enact policies you actually believe in, rather than attempt 4D political chess.

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800 words from @rentouljohn.bsky.social blaming UK steel's problems on #netzero, without a scrap of evidence. The Telegraph would be proud to publish this tosh; @the-independent.com should be embarrassed. www.independent.co.uk/voices/briti...

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British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding

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Reminder to social democratic parties from @jvanslageren.bsky.social - SDs are wasting their time seeking to draw in far right voters. There are three broad voting blocs - left, right and far right - and voters move often within them, rarely between them.

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This era of mass grift—driven by one of the most corrupt administrations in American history—isn’t just a crisis. It’s a massive opportunity for the Democratic Party to lead an unapologetic, system-wide anti-corruption campaign.

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The headline more or less says it all. 🌰🌍 news.mongabay.com/2025/04/fund...

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'Working towards the Murdoch.'

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Nature Bluesky - is there any early data on whether this drought Spring is seeing a revival in insect numbers following last year's washout Spring? What are you seeing? @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @davegoulson.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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"This week, the usual anti-net zero commentators have come out strongly against Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) dependence, peddling the false narrative that recycled steel is low quality & reliance on EAFs will be an economic setback. That’s simply not true. EAFs can make any kind of steel..."

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I just think that to avoid catastrophic climate change we’re going to have to develop and deploy ways to make steel that don’t involve releasing carbon emissions, so if we’re going to nationalise a steel company that should be at the top of the to do list.

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Pathetic from Paul Weiss. Young lawyers! This is NOT the example to follow. Capitulation in the face of blackmail? Who wants that sort of lawyer acting for them?

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“Pierre Poilievre likes to present himself as a regular guy focused on Canadians’ bread and butter concerns, but the reality is he’s a well-connected shill for the industry that’s undermined Canada for decades and is preventing our transition off fossil fuels.” An editorial by @taylornoakes.com.

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Rufo's real genius was recognizing how many people in elite spaces are so enormously self-loathing they'll offer him every opportunity they can to lie straight to their faces

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Climat : un accord inédit mais insuffisant pour décarboner le transport maritime

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just to echo this, some industry analysts see transition speeding up heres one that argues fossil fuels are highly traded, renewables much less so. With trade under threat, there will be a dash to renewables for security reasons, not climate change concerns www.carlyle.com/global-insig...

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It would be easier to report on the GOP and its minions for their anti-Christian behaviour.

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Despite weeks without rain, our peatlands are still nice and wet below the surface 🩵The peat and sphagnum mosses act like a giant sponge, slowly releasing water and reducing the impact of drought. It was nice to see bees making use of this water supply today 🐝

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Pam Bondi is a criminal. www.rawstory.com/kilmar-abreg...

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"The Treasury is driving this false wedge between homes + nature...but we have been working with housing developers for years + years in harmony...good companies want nature around the new-builds. It improves...mental health...reduces flooding, provides shade." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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This would be utterly disastrous not just for climate research, but this data is very interwoven into the fabric of our economy. As the story notes, farmers and fisheries depend on it. It is crucial to the insurance industry.

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I very much fear that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is dead. In which case, the Trump regime murdered him.

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