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submitted 1 day ago • 126 comments

A suspected bomb exploded Friday outside the Athens offices of Hellenic Train, Greece’s main railway company. There were no immediate reports of injuries

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Sorry, what?

submitted 1 day ago • 963 comments

Xi: “You don’t have all the cards.”

submitted 1 day ago • 679 comments

Call me skeptical, but I don't think putting a pause on retaliatory tariffs on Saint Pierre and Miquelon, The Falkland Islands, Fiji, Norfolk Island, and Chad is going to counteract the over 100% retaliatory tariffs on our biggest trading partner, China. Seems the markets are being a bit silly.

submitted 3 days ago • 313 comments

My fave history book of 2025 (so far) is @moudhy.bsky.social’s Between Two Rivers. It’s so beautifully written, so compassionate, so enthralling — it’s a joyous ode to studying ancient Mesopotamia, written by a wonderful scholar. And her audiobook is great too 👍 www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0D1GRSJ8...

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

So very, very bad at this part of the job. It's April 10th. That's tomorrow. And it's in all the bookshops I've visited in London already. (So you can buy it.)

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

submitted 4 days ago • 270 comments

Thousands of New Yorkers work — then go home to shelters. They can’t afford apartments, despite some earning $50,000 or more.

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

Ope.

submitted 6 days ago • 522 comments

Trump says he’ll use revenue from tariffs to “offset” more big tax cuts. Those tax cuts will disproportionately benefit wealthy Americans and big corporations. But revenue raised from tariffs will be coming disproportionately from average working people. See how this works?

submitted 8 days ago • 218 comments

Friends, ‼️Please help spread important topic far&wide: A coalition of prominent faith leaders sent a letter to President Trump&Secretary of State Rubio,urging them to make the safe return of the almost 20,000 Ukrainian children abducted by Russia a precondition of any ceasefire or peace agreement

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

I find it outrageous as well.

submitted 10 days ago • 1136 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump's tariffs include a 10 percent levy on the uninhabited Heard and McDonalds Islands, an Australian territory in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean. The icy archipelago has zero residents -- other than many seals, penguins and other birds. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

@AJEnglish: Jewish students chain themselves to the gate of Columbia University, protesting the detention of Palestinian graduate Mahmoud Khalil for his activism in support of Palestine on campus. 🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/1r5OeJTm66

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments