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cathleigh.bsky.social
@cathleigh.bsky.social
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Like many, I've fled "x". Looking for a fresh start. My interests are sports (rugby and tennis), liberal politics, and TV and film
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luckytran.com
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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wulfhelm.bsky.social
Current state of UK political discourse.
September 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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washingtonpost.com
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.

“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.

Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn
July 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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tomdannenbaum.bsky.social
Do not look away.
hearing the same story from all the patients I've treated and operated on. Their families, and indeed medical and nursing colleagues of mine in Gaza who have been to these food distribution points to get food for themselves. And the story is the same from all of them - they're being shot by Israeli soldiers or by quadcopters which are the remote drones being controlled by the Israelis and they're been shot in multiple different body parts. And there seems to be a clustering of different body parts on particular days. So one day, they're coming in having been shot in the abdomen. Another day they're coming in having being shot in the head or the neck. Last Saturday we had four young teenage males, all who came in at the same time, having been shots in the testicles. So there's a very clear pattern and it's almost as if a game is being played that today it's gonna be the head, tomorrow it's going to be the abdomen and these injuries are devastating. I had a 12-year-old boy die on the operating table the other day from a bullet. He'd been shot by an Israeli soldier at a food distribution point and had been shot through the aorta. So appalling injuries the like of which I would never have imagined could have happened if I were not seeing this with my own eyes. it's terrible, the malnutrition. This is my third trip to Gaza. I've called this out on both my previous trips, but it's much worse now. And I've seen it in many of the adult patients I've been operating on. They're coming in malnourished, so their ability for their tissues to heal is severely impaired. And we're operating on sometimes very major injuries, but injuries which they'd have a very, very high chance of surviving with appropriate surgery if they were not malnourished. And of course, we've got no nutritional support to give them in hospitals. On the paediatric and tend to care unit, the lack of feed is dire. On the neonatal, I mean, they've been four premature babies who've died in recent weeks, purely because of malnutrition. Their mothers were too malnourished to breastfeed them and there was no formula feed to give them. And formula feed is being denied, they're not getting any formula feed in. Some of my American medical colleagues had brought formula feed into Gaza but it was all confiscated at the border. The malnutrition I'm seeing is terrible and children and adults are dying as a result of it.
July 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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barackobama.bsky.social
More than 16 million Americans are at risk of losing their health care because Republicans in Congress are rushing to pass a bill that would cut federal funding for Medicaid and weaken the Affordable Care Act.
July 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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jdportes.bsky.social
Every day, another deliberate massacre of starving civilians.

Silence speaks louder than words.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Witnesses describe ‘horror’ after Israeli forces fire at Palestinians waiting for aid trucks
At least 51 people killed and hundreds wounded in Khan Younis as they sought food supplies, says Gaza health ministry
www.theguardian.com
June 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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lewisgoodall.com
Gaza community kitchens say food is running out after two months of Israeli blockade.

“We used to receive more than 100 trucks every week - trucks of food parcels and hygiene kits. Now we don't have anything.”

UN warns of starvation if blockade holds.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Gaza kitchens warn food running out after two-months Israeli blockade
Many Palestinians depend on community kitchens, but one says they have only two weeks of supplies left.
www.bbc.com
May 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
cathleigh.bsky.social
Oh Grigor, how did we go from multiple match points to this? #MMOpen
April 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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snellarthur.bsky.social
The gloves were always off, but they care a lot less if we know about it.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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robfordmancs.bsky.social
Roald Dahl wrote this letter about losing his daughter *39 years ago*. RFK, and the politics he promotes, will inflict this unimaginable pain on many parents, if they get their way.
March 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.

A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Effectively as a punishment for winning an Oscar, this Palestinian director was beaten in front of his home. Instead of helping him, the Israeli army arrested him, blindfolded him and forced him to sleep under a freezing air conditioner www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Hamdan Ballal: Oscar-winning Palestinian director released from Israeli detention
No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal released a day after he was attacked by settlers and detained by Israeli forces
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
cathleigh.bsky.social
This was such a great interview with Rafa by Andy Roddick. Very cool to hear some of the technical and tactical explanations.
Also it made me really miss Rafa (I may have teared up when he did his trademark left eyebrow raise 😭 😂)
youtu.be/_SvPnVAJyVI?...
The Rafa Nadal Interview | Served with Andy Roddick
YouTube video by Served with Andy Roddick
youtu.be
March 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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shaunlintern.bsky.social
You can send donations yourself direct to ukraine here: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ #SlavaUkraïni
Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
war.ukraine.ua
February 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
cathleigh.bsky.social
SuperSport is showing some of Rafa's old grand slam finals and I'm sitting here re-watching the Aus Open 2012 final. Watching the 4th set tiebreak, knowing exactly how it ends, but still clenching my fists 😭
November 25, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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thetennisletter.bsky.social
2000:

14 year-old Rafa Nadal was the flag bearer at Davis Cup when they 1st won it.

2024:

38 year-old Rafa standing with his teammates at Davis Cup in his final tournament.

A nation forever changed because of his efforts.

That 14 year-old had no idea how important his legacy would become.

🇪🇸❤️🇪🇸
November 19, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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thetennisletter.bsky.social
Babolat made a new custom bag for Rafa Nadal’s retirement.

“Rafa Nadal & Babolat since 1995”

“1250 Babolat racquets and 0 broken”

22 Grand Slams.

36 Masters 1000.

23 ATP 500.

10 ATP 250.

This is so special. 🥹

(via Babolat IG)
November 18, 2024 at 6:24 PM