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Beautiful project to map receding glacier in mountains bordering Uganda and Congo www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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At least 27 killed in Israeli bombing of shelter in Gaza City, rescuers say

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Fox News anchor tells us to plant Victory Gardens to fight a Trump’s tariff war except when we last did that we were fighting Nazis and, well www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2KaoNw8/

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The Grinch who stole Easter. "Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest cocoa producer, has been hit with levies of 21 per cent." on.ft.com/3XKgfFj

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Last month we hosted Leye Adenle at Stars on Moon Lane. This month: 17 April: @chikodili.bsky.social & Irenosen Okojie are in conversation at #MoonLaneInk 7-9pm - Free and open to all. #BlytheSpirit #StarsOnMoonLane #London

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The last time I did an even with Irenosen it was for the Caine Prize in 2020. This is long overdue! I love her!

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Many thanks Brittle Paper! @brittlepaper.bsky.social

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NEW: EU giving away 36,000 free train tickets for 18 year olds to travel around the bloc this summer over a month. Aim is to help EU citizens get to know other countries in the bloc. Details here. Applications can be made from today until 16 April. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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Last month we hosted Leye Adenle at Stars on Moon Lane. This month: 17 April: @chikodili.bsky.social & Irenosen Okojie are in conversation at #MoonLaneInk 7-9pm - Free and open to all. #BlytheSpirit #StarsOnMoonLane #London

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Prices are up. The market is down. 401k’s are in the tank. Social Security and Medicare are under attack. Donald Trump has broken every campaign promise he made – except one. Tax cuts for billionaires. Arriving right on schedule.

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"You can't lead the people if you can't love the people." We're all with you, @booker.senate.gov

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Cory Booker's speech is not just legendary for its length, but the content is breaking down every 'egregious' abuse of power in the US right now. More power to Cory. Who else will stand in the way? And who else will do the right thing? The time is now.

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BREAKING: I'm placing a hold on President Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney in DC. For the past few weeks, Ed Martin has been a one-man wrecking ball. Threatening political opponents, firing public servants, and using his office to chill free speech. His nomination must be blocked.

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If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

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You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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This is shocking, an egregious overreach by #MetPolice. Westminster #Quaker Meeting House is a place of peace, of worship & community. To be invaded so aggressively is a violation of the space AND of the right to freely assemble. #HomeSecretary & #PoliceCommissioner must respond. @quaker.org.uk

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"We are deeply concerned about the shrinking space for civilians in Gaza." The UN Human Rights Office has accused Israel of violating international law by forcibly displacing Palestinians in Gaza under “mandatory evacuation orders”. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/819rg7

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‘Wasn’t Musk supposed to be busy getting humans to Mars by 2025? Kimbal Musk told his older brother that owning Twitter would be a “pimple on the ass of what should be your impact on the world”.’ Deborah Friedell on what Elon Musk did to Twiter: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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ICE has arrested Iranian national Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral candidate studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama. He was arrested at home at 5 a.m. Tuesday. As with some of the others who've been disappeared, unclear why he was detained. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a reason they won’t stay dead and buried.

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Donald Trump’s instructions to his team are to attack Jeffrey Goldberg and The Atlantic and not, as one source described it, to “produce a scalp” by firing any members of his Cabinet, Isaac Stanley-Becker and @jonlemire.bsky.social report: theatln.tc/tem2cpGG

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Judge orders participants in Signal chat group blunder to preserve all messages

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Trial a subscription to The Bookseller and access unlimited industry news, book charts and previews for £1 per week 📖 Subscribe today 👉 www.thebookseller.com/bolog...

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Welcome to the first issue of Volume 9 of The Johannesburg Review of Books! johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/03/25/t...

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how hard is it to message “rfk jr had his brain eaten by worms and wants to bring back diseases only pirates used to get”

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If £95,000 A YEAR isn't enough for you - you shouldn't be in politics.

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"Silence is not just complicity; it is consent. And so, the bombs keep falling, and the Palestinians remain what the world has allowed them to become: numbers." — #AJOpinion by Hassan Abo Qamar ⤵️

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We are condemned to an eternity of decline. We'll spend our lives being told by politicians they need to cut some more, claiming this time prosperity will come. We have to save ourselves from this nightmare 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I definitely would not ask you to watch a booklaunch, but please just go to minute 26.08 on this if you're at a loose end, because I think Prof Tim Jackson makes the most profound point cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...

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Wasn't at a loose end but thought this recommendation is spot on. The Care Economy & Prof Tim Jackson talks alot of sense. Thanks @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social - it has helped late in the night when worry is at its worst.

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Today, I just can't. Back to my desk. Marking essays & Student presentations. That is all. #ThoughtPolice #JustEducateEveryone

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Good Law Project has now filed in the High Court its claim on behalf of over fifty claimants for GDPR breaches by Reform UK. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

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The 2025 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction shortlist. Did your favourites make the list? Let us know which ones you’re moving to the top of your TBR pile!

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Here's the things. You can't install Signal on federal devices. Ergo, this entire chat was being carried out on PRIVATE phones. So not only does the APP not have the proper security, the DEVICES don't either.

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"The sat nav says it's this way." "But that's a cliff!" "The sat nav's never wro - aaaaargh ...." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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💙🧦 #WildSocksForMECFS Awareness @BatemanHorneCenter 🧦💙 Millions of people live with ME/CFS, a debilitating disease that urgently needs more research, better care, and greater awareness. Penguin socks 🐧 because @BatemanHorneCenter is a beacon for #pwME #pwLC even in the #SouthernHem 🩵

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n 2015, Dr. Bateman vowed to wear wild socks until we had a biomarker for ME/CFS. These socks are a symbol of hope & resilience. Watch the video for the full story! Celebrate 10 years of BHC, donate $10, & raise awareness for ME/CFS! 🔗 loom.ly/d4vXRFI #WildSocksforMECFS

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"Trump is a symptom of the underlying problems within America, which are many and deep. The country is rotting from inside out." @ottoenglish.bsky.social with @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social pod.fo/e/2bddce

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“There was something familiar and maybe a bit comforting about the universal sense of shock: What took place yesterday was a rare pop-up scandal in the Trump era that brought bipartisan recognition of a massive mistake,” @markleibovich.bsky.social writes:

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Wasn't at a loose end but thought this recommendation is spot on. The Care Economy & Prof Tim Jackson talks alot of sense. Thanks @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social - it has helped late in the night when worry is at its worst.

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By all means Mike should call for a federal investigation into how this happened.

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Reasons to be cheerful. Spring is here and so is the latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social Subscribe to find out “What the papers don’t say.”

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“How bad will things get before you don’t have elections anymore? And at that point can you really stop what is happening?” An expert on modern Turkey talks about the country’s declining Democracy and whether it is a model for Donald Trump’s America.

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"Nearly 50 percent of all students remember to bring pencils to class, and the rest are making do with crayon nubs they find wedged in the carpet. It’s fine. Is a manifesto any less radical in burnt sienna? What about in sentence fragments?"

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