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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 6h

Judge blocks Trump’s attempt to send National Guard troops to Chicago
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Judge blocks Trump’s attempt to send National Guard troops to Chicago

Well President Trump might be celebrating his peace efforts abroad - but at home he's fighting Democratic rivals around the country as he tries to step up his federal crackdown from Memphis to Portlan...

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 8h

#ClimateChange ➡️ #PublicHealth

🚨...epidemiologists estimate heat fatalities by calculating excess/unexpected deaths during a severe hot spell. Eg: the 2022 heatwave in #Europe ➡️ ~62k heat-related excess deaths, while this summer 16k more people died prematurely. The US chooses not to know...🚨

Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · 9h

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 9h

#LestWeForget #Sudan #TheNobel

🕊️ #Peace is not just an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice 🕊️- as true 350 years later as when #Spinoza wrote. Thoughtful writing as ever from @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social.

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 10h

🚨🚨 #THIS

Gershon Baskin גרשון בסקין غرشون بسكين @gershonbaskin.bsky.social · 12h

www.alquds.com/en/posts/196...

Times: The Gaza agreement was ready a year ago.

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Sam Kiley @samkiley.bsky.social · 11h

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Trump has been lavished with praise for delivering peace in Gaza – but did he really?

Donald Trump has been feted for his diplomatic role in the Gaza peace plan, but does the evidence stack up, asks world affairs editor Sam Kiley

www.independent.co.uk

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 13h

@zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk @greenbenali.bsky.social @northdevongreens.bsky.social #ICYMI

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 13h

#Gaza #Latest

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 15h

Gaza update at 11.30am UK time:
- a ceasefire has gone into effect 90 minutes ago
- Israel has moved to its Phase 1 withdrawal line (but still occupies >50% of the Strip
- the IDF has pulled out & is standing down some reserve units
- aid deliveries set at 600 trucks a day

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 15h

Nestle quietly exits global initiative to reduce dairy methane emissions

#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Nestle quietly exits global initiative to reduce dairy methane emissions

www.latimes.com

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 13h

👏 Calling opposition to #genocide antisemitic is always ignorant & sometimes wicked. My willingness to fight antisemitism, leads me to stand against emerging fascism, and the #genocide that the far-right #Israeli government has unleashed👏 @tonybooth1.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Anti-protest proposals put free speech at risk | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to the proposal to give police further powers to curb ‘cumulative’ protests, in response to actions by the proscribed group Palestine Action

www.theguardian.com

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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 2d

We fasted for 25 hours in front of houses of parliament for Gaza Then we stopped. Not an option in Gaza or Darfur. But important to show where we stand on genocide.

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 15h

🕊️ #MariaCorinaMachado 🕊️ #TheNobel

*The committee commended Machado as a “brave and committed champion of peace” who “keeps the flame of #democracy burning during a growing darkness”*

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16h

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

Leader of country’s opposition receives award after scrutiny surrounding committee and comments by Donald Trump

www.theguardian.com

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 16h

#Wealth ➡️ #WhatsInAWord

The gap widens. Time for #LVT #LandValueTax to help restrain the UK's obscene property price inflation...

Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 16h

Passive wealth accumulation – where wealth increases due to rising asset prices – has been responsible for more than half the increase in average family wealth between 2010-12 and 2020-22.

Read more about what's been happening with household wealth in Britain in our latest report ⬇️

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Chart showing estimated mean change in family wealth per adult over preceding two years, by type of wealth accumulation: GB

Since the start of the 2010s (2010-12), passive gains have accounted for 53 per cent of the growth in average family wealth, with the remaining 47 per cent coming from active accumulation.

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 16h

😡😡 #CSA 😡😡

Thanks to Richard, Graham and Simon for sharing their stories in this outstanding report by @cathynewman.bsky.social. @channel4news.bsky.social approached #SteveCoogan’s management but 👀 they declined to comment 👀.

#RecommendedRead

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Exclusive: ‘The Penguin Lessons' author accused of historic sexual abuse

Survivors call on Lionsgate to withdraw Steve Coogan film adaptation and for film royalties to be donated to charities, writes Cathy Newman.

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

#PublicTransport #WayToGo

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 1d

A call for more rail investment in west Wales, including the reopening of a line closed to passengers over 70 years ago, received unanimous backing from Carmarthenshire councillors

Councillors back call for more rail funding and reopening of line

Richard Youle, local democracy reporter A call for more rail investment in west Wales, including the reopening of a line closed to passengers over 70 years ago, received unanimous backing from Carmart...

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

Hi Mabel! I can't vote, sorry, as I live across the (eastern) pond but I wanted you to know that I support you 🦴

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

@josiah.writes.news

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨 #CSA

Excellent report! Thanks @cathynewman.bsky.social and all participants 🙏🏼

@axrenton.bsky.social #ICYMI

Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 1d

Exclusive: A Channel 4 News investigation reveals shocking allegations the author of The Penguin Lessons - a memoir turned into a hit film starring Steve Coogan - abused boys at a school in Dorset in the 1970s

📩 Read the full newsletter from Channel 4 News:
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Exclusive: ‘The Penguin Lessons' author accused of historic sexual abuse

Survivors call on Lionsgate to withdraw Steve Coogan film adaptation and for film royalties to be donated to charities, writes Cathy Newman.

channel4news.substack.com

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 1d

Peace in Middle East is ‘unpredictable’ – former Israeli hostage negotiator

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Peace in Middle East is ‘unpredictable’ – former Israeli hostage negotiator

We spoke to the former Israeli hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin.

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent, informative interview. Thanks @gershonbaskin.bsky.social and @krishgm.bsky.social.

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

Get well soon 🌿

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Gershon Baskin גרשון בסקין غرشون بسكين @gershonbaskin.bsky.social · 1d

blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-can-begin...

The Blogs: We can begin to breathe again: Initial thoughts on this morning’s developments

A quick take on the end of the war from my backchannel perspective: It could have been done long ago; Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 3d

I sat on the Defend our Juries protest as a Jew opposing genocide and antisemitism countering the absurd insult that to oppose genocide is antisemitic. @defendourjuries.bsky.social @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social @owenjones.bsky.social @jewishvoice.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

Bravo!

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 1d

Tim Crosland offers a first-hand account of his recent treatment by police and reflects on what these escalating clampdowns mean for democracy and justice in the UK.

- @BylineTimes

youtu.be/VeGEKQ1SLRI

Meet the Ex-Goverment Lawyer Arrested under the Terrorism Act...

YouTube video by Byline TV

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 1d

#TheNobel

(no, not that one...)

#LiteratureMatters

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

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