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Bill Gates has liquidated his climate policy and advocacy organization, laying off dozens of staff in Washington, Brussels, and elsewhere. It’s another giant retrenchment for the billionaire, who had already slashed his climate grant budget last month. heatmap.news/climate/brea...

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Can we skip to the Ewok Celebration scene please? 😫

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Quelques jours après la création de Carmen de George Bizet naissait Maurice Ravel. Comment faire écouter du neuf lorsqu’il s’agit de parler de Ravel ? En remontant à ses origines bien lointaines, le 10 novembre 1668, rue du Monceau Saint-Gervais à Paris ➡️ https://l.francemusique.fr/7t9

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So government funding is literally set to end on the Ides of March.

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here’s the thing: why wouldn’t you treat every dumbass idea as potentially worthwhile when a month later you can just go “oopsies” and no one holds you accountable for giving credence to stupid shit?

submitted 9 days ago • 212 comments

80,000... Can we hit 100,000?

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In November, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant for starvation crimes. In addition to disputing jurisdiction, Israel denied the facts, claiming it has allowed sufficient humanitarian access. Several States Parties said they won’t arrest Netanyahu. Now this. 1/2

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Wow! 😲 Over 12,000 signatures in 48hrs! 82% of us want water in public ownership. 🚰 Steve Reed won’t even allow this as an option in the biggest water review since privatisation. 🤯 Show him he’s wrong. Let’s get to 20,000 in the next 48hrs. Sign ✍️ weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...

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Yes! Please vote for Munira! Not only is she most certainly America's best teacher, she's also my cousin. americasfavteacher.org/2025/munira

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This is a terrific read. #WeDontKnowHowLuckyWeAre "We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It: Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life" Charles C. Mann www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

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We have reached North Korean levels of sycophantry. From NY-24’s Claudia Tenney 👇 tenney.house.gov/media/press-...

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BAFTA nominees Clarence Maclin & John ‘Divine G’ Whitfield were denied entry into the UK to attend the awards ceremony because of their past criminal records. Both are nominated for the screenplay for ‘Sing Sing’ with Maclin also nominated for best supporting actor. deadline.com/2025/02/sing...

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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Louisiana Department of Health says it will no longer promote mass vaccination

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Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“

submitted 29 days ago • 592 comments

In particular the provisions in the Refugee Convention on facilitation of citizenship by refugees are not limited to apply only to refugees who entered lawfully.

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

Breaking....

submitted 28 days ago • 19 comments

I used to look forward to @tribunemagazine.bsky.social arriving. I’ve written for them. But no longer, after publisher Bhaskar Sunkara backed Trump’s attack on DEI. I will keep my subs for now as I wait for articles taking a different position. Maybe next edition? tribunemag.co.uk/author/leste...

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Today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Had he lived, today Abraham would be 216 years old and 95 feet tall.

submitted 28 days ago • 36 comments

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

submitted 29 days ago • 1184 comments

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

submitted 28 days ago • 231 comments

"Elon Musk wakes up lying. He goes to sleep lying. And frankly, I don’t think he understands the laws of this country.” Ilhan Omar slams Musk after he falsely accused her of breaking the law online. Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social’s full interview w/ @ilhanmn.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/ilhan-omar...

submitted 28 days ago • 10 comments

#MosaicMonday Not all mosaics are Roman. Some are Pringles.

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Booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna of the Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem, have been arrested. Books about the conflict have been confiscated, and the store ransacked. Here's a short LRB piece by Mahmoud M about selling books to foreign journalists www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/no...

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I reckon it’s time to open Joanna Southcott’s box.

submitted 34 days ago • 12 comments

Tapirs are excellent creatures. The world doesn’t seem as bad when you’re watching a newborn tapir and its mother.

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The Proud Boys organization no longer controls the trademark, “Proud Boys”, and is now “barred from selling any merchandise with either its name or its symbols without the consent of a Black church in Washington that its members vandalized.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

submitted 36 days ago • 827 comments

A huge loss for Ismaili Muslims. The Aga Khan IV, Leader of the Ismaili Muslims, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...

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history friends, Walsall Leather Museum is at risk. Being the granddaughter of a Walsall leather worker, this breaks my heart. Intangible cultural heritage is hard to define, therefore very easy to destroy. We can’t see another heritage site disappear. Please sign; www.change.org/p/halt-the-p...

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Ceci n'est pas une perceuse.

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His sinister, surreal vision of America made him a leading counterculture auteur — with movies such as "Blue Velvet," "Wild at Heart" and "Mulholland Drive," and the groundbreaking TV series "Twin Peaks."

submitted 55 days ago • 38 comments

My favourite was having dinner with a bunch of Oxford ornithologists. "Braveheart was RUINED for me about halfway through. Everyone knows black-headed gulls didn't nest inland in Scotland until the 1950s"

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Flour fortification with folic acid is happening. About time 👍 #PublicHealth www.gov.uk/government/n...

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This is, as ever from @himself.bsky.social, thought-provoking and important: if democracy works on the basis of robust criticism of one another's views, then the problem is less that a few people have erroneous/dangerous ideas, and much more that social media makes those ideas appear dominant.

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You might not think you're in the 1%, but "the richest 1% – about 77 million people, including all those earning more than $140,000 (£114,000) a year – are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution each year as the poorest half of humanity."

submitted 61 days ago • 69 comments

More than 500 million passenger journeys have been made on the Elizabeth line in its first two and a half years, making it the single busiest railway service in the UK, according to new Transport for London data released today

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Gaza death toll has been significantly underreported, study finds. As of October, the number of Gazans killed by violence was thought to exceed 70,000, the study said, based on the estimated underreporting rate. www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/m...

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"America should offer to buy Scotland from the Scottish, not English. And it would probably be a good deal to make every one a multimillionaire in exchange for the territory. Trump should rescind all threats and instead name a price--my column" Nah probably wouldn't get a run in The Economist...

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Your mosaicists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should 🦕🦖

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Appalling. 77-year-old climate protestor, Gaie Delap, has been recalled to prison over Christmas because her wrists are too small for a tag to be fitted. @goodlawproject.bsky.social are supporting Gaie to challenge this cruel decision. Here's how you can help👇 goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

submitted 81 days ago • 61 comments

Meanwhile this is one of the items removed from the spending bill due to Musk's revolt:

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Via Politico: The Times reports that Iain Anderson — the boss of lobbying firm Cicero who quit the Tories to back Labour last year — has been made a non-executive director at the Department for Business and Trade. Not a good look, to say the least.

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Decades-long political pressure to avoid studying or speaking out on Palestine within academia make it harder to fairly resolve Title VI complaints today. My blog post here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/title-v...

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@NourNaim88 posts:🚨Journalist Mohamed Baalusha was killed in an Israeli airstrike Despite sustaining severe injuries, he regained his strength & returned to work under harrowing conditions. He was known for his fearless reporting, incl. exposing the massacre of premature infants at Al-Nasr Hospital.

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