@checking-in.bsky.social
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i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
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In filing a claim against the BBC he probably won’t win, Donald Trump is trying to exert leverage so the broadcaster’s executives capitulate, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.
Donald Trump v the British Broadcasting Corporation: the battle begins
The president filed a claim this week more about exerting leverage than legal niceties
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In filing a claim against the BBC he probably won’t win, Donald Trump is trying to exert leverage so the broadcaster’s executives capitulate, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.
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Meet two heroes of our times.
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Meet two heroes of our times.
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If this is a moment when you feel like helping courageous Ukrainians to stay alive, here is one way to do so.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action
Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...
www.help99.co
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If this is a moment when you feel like helping courageous Ukrainians to stay alive, here is one way to do so.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
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This is wonderful! Its a chance to put a smile on the face of these children that have had so much taken from them. It can also show their parents at home and fighting on the front, that we care and support them ❤️
So there’s a website called Deer Of St Nicholas which posts Christmas wish letters from Ukrainian children who had their childhood stolen by the war, anyone can pick a child and get them their present and it’s that time of the year again to achingly scroll it for hours again
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This is wonderful! Its a chance to put a smile on the face of these children that have had so much taken from them. It can also show their parents at home and fighting on the front, that we care and support them ❤️
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These strikes on boats in the Carribean are normalising the claim from the US Right that it is acceptable for a President to deploy American military units as extrajudicial death squads
There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.
Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
October 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
These strikes on boats in the Carribean are normalising the claim from the US Right that it is acceptable for a President to deploy American military units as extrajudicial death squads
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Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action
Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...
www.help99.co
October 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
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oh it's time to post the Tetris story again. (short version: reporter goes to cover early e-sports, discovers that his wife is, unknowingly, the greatest Tetris player in the world)
archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
September 30, 2025 at 4:42 AM
oh it's time to post the Tetris story again. (short version: reporter goes to cover early e-sports, discovers that his wife is, unknowingly, the greatest Tetris player in the world)
archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
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I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
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This how the framing is going.
That a president has no power in the US constitution to do a thing is now being recast as the president having “no explicit power”.
Subtle, devious, dangerous, treacherous shift.
Sad and bad to see NYT adopting this spin on a headline.
That a president has no power in the US constitution to do a thing is now being recast as the president having “no explicit power”.
Subtle, devious, dangerous, treacherous shift.
Sad and bad to see NYT adopting this spin on a headline.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
August 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This how the framing is going.
That a president has no power in the US constitution to do a thing is now being recast as the president having “no explicit power”.
Subtle, devious, dangerous, treacherous shift.
Sad and bad to see NYT adopting this spin on a headline.
That a president has no power in the US constitution to do a thing is now being recast as the president having “no explicit power”.
Subtle, devious, dangerous, treacherous shift.
Sad and bad to see NYT adopting this spin on a headline.
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😢The youngest person killed in the Russian strike on Kyiv was not even three years old, she died in the house with her mother.
In the photo 24-year-old Nadiya and her two-year-old daughter Angelina.
She was born under Russian shelling in October 2022 and died from Russian shelling in August 2025.
In the photo 24-year-old Nadiya and her two-year-old daughter Angelina.
She was born under Russian shelling in October 2022 and died from Russian shelling in August 2025.
August 29, 2025 at 11:04 AM
😢The youngest person killed in the Russian strike on Kyiv was not even three years old, she died in the house with her mother.
In the photo 24-year-old Nadiya and her two-year-old daughter Angelina.
She was born under Russian shelling in October 2022 and died from Russian shelling in August 2025.
In the photo 24-year-old Nadiya and her two-year-old daughter Angelina.
She was born under Russian shelling in October 2022 and died from Russian shelling in August 2025.
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Trump 2028 isn’t a joke. Donald Trump doesn’t believe the rules apply to him, and he’ll do anything in his power to hijack a 3rd term.
Wake up, America. You will not have a country if Trump rigs this election.
Wake up, America. You will not have a country if Trump rigs this election.
August 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Trump 2028 isn’t a joke. Donald Trump doesn’t believe the rules apply to him, and he’ll do anything in his power to hijack a 3rd term.
Wake up, America. You will not have a country if Trump rigs this election.
Wake up, America. You will not have a country if Trump rigs this election.
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I have signed this petition alongside more than 200 of my colleagues demanding Israel allow the foreign press into Gaza immediately with no restrictions.
I urge my colleagues to join me in signing it below:
freedomtoreport.org
I urge my colleagues to join me in signing it below:
freedomtoreport.org
Freedom To Report : Gaza Mission
media enquiries: [email protected] Instagram The Issue What’s happening in Gaza today reveals a far broader crisis: the erosion of press freedom as a pillar of democracy. The people most directly...
freedomtoreport.org
August 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I have signed this petition alongside more than 200 of my colleagues demanding Israel allow the foreign press into Gaza immediately with no restrictions.
I urge my colleagues to join me in signing it below:
freedomtoreport.org
I urge my colleagues to join me in signing it below:
freedomtoreport.org
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VIDEO: 🇫🇷 Inside Europe's last military pigeon loft
The French military last relied on homing pigeons during the war in Algeria from 1954 to 1962, but the country is still home to Europe's last military pigeon loft, located near Paris
The French military last relied on homing pigeons during the war in Algeria from 1954 to 1962, but the country is still home to Europe's last military pigeon loft, located near Paris
August 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
VIDEO: 🇫🇷 Inside Europe's last military pigeon loft
The French military last relied on homing pigeons during the war in Algeria from 1954 to 1962, but the country is still home to Europe's last military pigeon loft, located near Paris
The French military last relied on homing pigeons during the war in Algeria from 1954 to 1962, but the country is still home to Europe's last military pigeon loft, located near Paris
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I disagree that Europe had 'no other choice' but to sign the 🇪🇺🇺🇸 🇬🇧🇺🇸 surrender deals with Trump.
But even if this were true, how can Europeans be content with such a situation?
This continent needs an independence revolution. Here's how to get there:
But even if this were true, how can Europeans be content with such a situation?
This continent needs an independence revolution. Here's how to get there:
An eight-point plan to free Europe from American dominance
A world where Europeans don't have to call Trump "daddy" is possible, but it requires urgent and confident action. Here's how we get there.
davekeating.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I disagree that Europe had 'no other choice' but to sign the 🇪🇺🇺🇸 🇬🇧🇺🇸 surrender deals with Trump.
But even if this were true, how can Europeans be content with such a situation?
This continent needs an independence revolution. Here's how to get there:
But even if this were true, how can Europeans be content with such a situation?
This continent needs an independence revolution. Here's how to get there:
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If you're wondering about the NYT's reporting of starvation in Gaza, remember, they've always been like this
August 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
If you're wondering about the NYT's reporting of starvation in Gaza, remember, they've always been like this
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Why has French President Emmanuel Macron decided to formally recognise Palestine at the UN General Assembly in September? 1/
Big news. Macron says France will recognise a Palestinian state. He will do this formally at the United Nations GA in New York in September
July 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Why has French President Emmanuel Macron decided to formally recognise Palestine at the UN General Assembly in September? 1/
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Trump: It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion
Powell: I’m not aware of that.
Trump: It just came out
Powell: You just added in a third building
Trump: It’s a building that’s being built
Powell: It was built five years ago.
Powell: I’m not aware of that.
Trump: It just came out
Powell: You just added in a third building
Trump: It’s a building that’s being built
Powell: It was built five years ago.
July 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Trump: It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion
Powell: I’m not aware of that.
Trump: It just came out
Powell: You just added in a third building
Trump: It’s a building that’s being built
Powell: It was built five years ago.
Powell: I’m not aware of that.
Trump: It just came out
Powell: You just added in a third building
Trump: It’s a building that’s being built
Powell: It was built five years ago.
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They are gearing up for the Maxwell pardon in exchange for exonerating Trump play. Gotta make her sympathetic first though.
"She deserves to be out. And maybe she never deserved to be in there in the first place" www.mediamatters.org/greg-kelly/n...
Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Ghislaine Maxwell: "She just might be a victim. She just might be. There was a rush to judgment."
www.mediamatters.org
July 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
They are gearing up for the Maxwell pardon in exchange for exonerating Trump play. Gotta make her sympathetic first though.
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Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.
July 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.
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A Palestinian mother in Gaza: “My children have become skeletal, skin and bone. Even the slightest effort makes them dizzy. They are asking for food, and I have nothing to give. I can’t lie and say I’ll bring them something when I know I won’t be able to.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
A Palestinian mother in Gaza: “My children have become skeletal, skin and bone. Even the slightest effort makes them dizzy. They are asking for food, and I have nothing to give. I can’t lie and say I’ll bring them something when I know I won’t be able to.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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