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Musical instruments found within King Tut’s tomb.
December 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Musical instruments found within King Tut’s tomb.
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Trump says he’s appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as “special envoy” to Greenland.
Landry has previously expressed support for Trump’s plan to invade Greenland.
Landry has previously expressed support for Trump’s plan to invade Greenland.
December 22, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Trump says he’s appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as “special envoy” to Greenland.
Landry has previously expressed support for Trump’s plan to invade Greenland.
Landry has previously expressed support for Trump’s plan to invade Greenland.
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A public service (immigration enforcement) makes normal life impossible.
The right wing tells a story about undocumented immigrants exploiting America, but the truth is closer to the opposite. They perform the tasks we won't while we systematically deny them health care, retirement, or normalcy.
The right wing tells a story about undocumented immigrants exploiting America, but the truth is closer to the opposite. They perform the tasks we won't while we systematically deny them health care, retirement, or normalcy.
December 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A public service (immigration enforcement) makes normal life impossible.
The right wing tells a story about undocumented immigrants exploiting America, but the truth is closer to the opposite. They perform the tasks we won't while we systematically deny them health care, retirement, or normalcy.
The right wing tells a story about undocumented immigrants exploiting America, but the truth is closer to the opposite. They perform the tasks we won't while we systematically deny them health care, retirement, or normalcy.
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“There is desperation among Palestinian villagers and farmers as they watch the takeover of their lands at a pace never seen before… The Israeli onslaught has all but vanquished a free Palestinian existence in the West Bank.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Land Grab: Inside Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank (Gift Article)
Israeli seizure of Palestinian lands in the West Bank, often brutally, has accelerated, raising doubts about the prospects of a peaceful solution to the conflict.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“There is desperation among Palestinian villagers and farmers as they watch the takeover of their lands at a pace never seen before… The Israeli onslaught has all but vanquished a free Palestinian existence in the West Bank.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Today, Gaza has largely left the headlines. But "hell on earth" is not repaired by a ceasefire, let alone one where hundreds have been killed.
@yara-asi.bsky.social
dawnmena.org/the-ceasefir...
@yara-asi.bsky.social
dawnmena.org/the-ceasefir...
The Ceasefire Still Enabling a Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza
In reality, while the bombing has slowed, much of what the ceasefire accomplished merely relegated Gaza to old news, much as how escalating violence and land seizure in the West Bank over the past few...
dawnmena.org
December 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Today, Gaza has largely left the headlines. But "hell on earth" is not repaired by a ceasefire, let alone one where hundreds have been killed.
@yara-asi.bsky.social
dawnmena.org/the-ceasefir...
@yara-asi.bsky.social
dawnmena.org/the-ceasefir...
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Great in-depth Article in NY Times today about Netanyahu regime backing Israeli settlers who are driving Christian and Muslim Palestinians from their land to create Jewish only settlements. Ethnic cleansing in real time: Here is gift link to read: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Land Grab: Inside Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank (Gift Article)
Israeli seizure of Palestinian lands in the West Bank, often brutally, has accelerated, raising doubts about the prospects of a peaceful solution to the conflict.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Great in-depth Article in NY Times today about Netanyahu regime backing Israeli settlers who are driving Christian and Muslim Palestinians from their land to create Jewish only settlements. Ethnic cleansing in real time: Here is gift link to read: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Despite all the noise about “mass exodus”, 51% of African emigrants move within Africa. Only 3% of the African population lives outside their home country, compared to 8.5% of Europeans living outside theirs.
publications.iom.int/system/files...
publications.iom.int/system/files...
December 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Despite all the noise about “mass exodus”, 51% of African emigrants move within Africa. Only 3% of the African population lives outside their home country, compared to 8.5% of Europeans living outside theirs.
publications.iom.int/system/files...
publications.iom.int/system/files...
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On Wednesday, December 10, a delegation of Buddhist monks from the Huong Dao Temple in Fort Worth, Texas, crossed through Jackson, Mississippi, on a 2,300-mile sojourn to Washington, D.C.
Photos: Buddhist Monks On Nationwide Walk For Peace Pass Through Jackson
A group of Buddhist monks from the Huong Dao Temple in Fort Worth, Texas, traveled through Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday.
buff.ly
December 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
On Wednesday, December 10, a delegation of Buddhist monks from the Huong Dao Temple in Fort Worth, Texas, crossed through Jackson, Mississippi, on a 2,300-mile sojourn to Washington, D.C.
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I did not enjoy listening to this clip. Esp as a parent parts of it feel almost unbearable to hear. That’s why I’m encouraging you to watch and listen to this
“The Israeli soldiers had rigged [a] can of food with an explosive.”
American surgeon Irfan Galaria tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the Israeli military’s brutalization of children, and what he witnessed while working at Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital.
Watch: zeteo.com/p/i-did-not-...
American surgeon Irfan Galaria tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the Israeli military’s brutalization of children, and what he witnessed while working at Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital.
Watch: zeteo.com/p/i-did-not-...
December 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I did not enjoy listening to this clip. Esp as a parent parts of it feel almost unbearable to hear. That’s why I’m encouraging you to watch and listen to this
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Hundreds of underage girls married off and hundreds more children kidnapped as U.S. foreign aid cuts contribute to surge in violations against persecuted Rohingya children.
Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts
Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Hundreds of underage girls married off and hundreds more children kidnapped as U.S. foreign aid cuts contribute to surge in violations against persecuted Rohingya children.
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Incuriosity about the past, and an unlimited willingness to reinvent the wheel, is one of the most puzzling intellectual pathologies
December 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Incuriosity about the past, and an unlimited willingness to reinvent the wheel, is one of the most puzzling intellectual pathologies
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Nigeria’s long delayed Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is set to be rescued by thousands of AI-driven, solar-powered streetlights that turn it into a revenue-generating asset. They’ll double as distributed AI data centres.
AI Streetlights to Rescue Nigeria’s Coastal Highway - African Business Innovation | Sustainable Development & Social Responsibility
Nigeria’s long-delayed Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway could be transformed into a self-financing smart infrastructure corridor through the deployment of AI-driven, solar-powered iLamp streetlights. Pro...
africabusiness.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Nigeria’s long delayed Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is set to be rescued by thousands of AI-driven, solar-powered streetlights that turn it into a revenue-generating asset. They’ll double as distributed AI data centres.
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A recent study concludes that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live.
(Published July 2025)
(Published July 2025)
“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A recent study concludes that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live.
(Published July 2025)
(Published July 2025)
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A Chinese dissident filmed Uyghur detention sites and then released the video on YouTube after fleeing China. He sought asylum in the US. Now the Trump admin wants to deport him to a country with strong ties to China.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
He Recorded China’s Detention of Uyghurs. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him to Uganda.
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A Chinese dissident filmed Uyghur detention sites and then released the video on YouTube after fleeing China. He sought asylum in the US. Now the Trump admin wants to deport him to a country with strong ties to China.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
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The abrupt moves left aid workers and communities with no time to find other sources of funding, food or medicine. Political appointee Tim Meisburger told senior USAID staff that the strategy was “shock and awe.” (He declined to comment) 6/x
December 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The abrupt moves left aid workers and communities with no time to find other sources of funding, food or medicine. Political appointee Tim Meisburger told senior USAID staff that the strategy was “shock and awe.” (He declined to comment) 6/x
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SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “We have to pray not only with our lips but with our actions… Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade, without doing all we can to stop it, is broken and in need of moral repair.”
December 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “We have to pray not only with our lips but with our actions… Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade, without doing all we can to stop it, is broken and in need of moral repair.”
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Look at the lengths that my incredible @propublica.org colleagues @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy went to in order to report this story.
Please take a moment to read what they found about the effect of USAID cuts on the world's most vulnerable people: www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Please take a moment to read what they found about the effect of USAID cuts on the world's most vulnerable people: www.propublica.org/article/usai...
December 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Look at the lengths that my incredible @propublica.org colleagues @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy went to in order to report this story.
Please take a moment to read what they found about the effect of USAID cuts on the world's most vulnerable people: www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Please take a moment to read what they found about the effect of USAID cuts on the world's most vulnerable people: www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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West Africa’s regional bloc, ECOWAS, to cut air transport taxes to bring down one of the world’s highest air travel costs. African flights are the most expensive globally, driven largely by excessive taxes, fees and levies that often exceed the base ticket price.
ECOWAS to cut air transport taxes in bid to lower cost of air travel in West Africa | Africanews
ECOWAS Member States will abolish air transport taxes from 1 January 2026.
www.africanews.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
West Africa’s regional bloc, ECOWAS, to cut air transport taxes to bring down one of the world’s highest air travel costs. African flights are the most expensive globally, driven largely by excessive taxes, fees and levies that often exceed the base ticket price.
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After a peace accord signing in Washington, the costs of #Congo’s war are mounting – Rwandan-backed #M23militia seizes Uvira and 200,000 people flee. But plans to bolt the Kivus onto the Lobito Corridor and US‑backed copper‑cobalt ventures move ahead.
africa-conf.com/trumps-peace...
africa-conf.com/trumps-peace...
Trump’s peace deal unravels as M23 seizes strategic eastern city
Hopes for an historic reset linking security to a US-backed minerals and infrastructure deal have been overshadowed by fresh fighting displacing 200,000 people
africa-conf.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
After a peace accord signing in Washington, the costs of #Congo’s war are mounting – Rwandan-backed #M23militia seizes Uvira and 200,000 people flee. But plans to bolt the Kivus onto the Lobito Corridor and US‑backed copper‑cobalt ventures move ahead.
africa-conf.com/trumps-peace...
africa-conf.com/trumps-peace...
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Africa’s tragedy is structural: Predatory elites, tribalised politics, and the total collapse of any legitimate monopoly on violence ensure that extremists of every stripe flourish while moderates are exterminated. External patrons aggravate the problem.
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Africa’s tragedy is structural: Predatory elites, tribalised politics, and the total collapse of any legitimate monopoly on violence ensure that extremists of every stripe flourish while moderates are exterminated. External patrons aggravate the problem.
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One man held in the Hinds County jail system has been in jail for 18 months on drug charges without an indictment and has no attorney to move his case along, according to court records reviewed by The Marshall Project - Jackson.
Dozens Locked in Hinds County’s Jails Without an Indictment—Some for Over a Year
At least 60 people arrested in Hinds County have been jailed in its detention facilities for over three months with no indictment filed against them.
buff.ly
December 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
One man held in the Hinds County jail system has been in jail for 18 months on drug charges without an indictment and has no attorney to move his case along, according to court records reviewed by The Marshall Project - Jackson.
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If this report is true then ICE essentially attempted this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskato...
December 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If this report is true then ICE essentially attempted this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskato...
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At least 60 people arrested in Hinds County have been jailed in its detention facilities for over three months—including at least five for more than a year—with no indictment filed against them and no pathway to a trial in sight.
Dozens Locked in Hinds County’s Jails Without an Indictment—Some for Over a Year
At least 60 people arrested in Hinds County have been jailed in its detention facilities for over three months with no indictment filed against them.
buff.ly
December 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
At least 60 people arrested in Hinds County have been jailed in its detention facilities for over three months—including at least five for more than a year—with no indictment filed against them and no pathway to a trial in sight.
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The EU has slapped a fine on Musk's X because it is untransparent and supports deceptive practices. Nothing to do with "censorship."
December 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The EU has slapped a fine on Musk's X because it is untransparent and supports deceptive practices. Nothing to do with "censorship."
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If only Biden had spent more time complaining about the real problem -- immigrants, who bring obvious and easily demonstrable benefits to US society -- instead of minor issues like everyone dying of an infectious disease or losing their jobs and homes.
December 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If only Biden had spent more time complaining about the real problem -- immigrants, who bring obvious and easily demonstrable benefits to US society -- instead of minor issues like everyone dying of an infectious disease or losing their jobs and homes.