Scrapping of Berlin swimming day for Black children becomes latest in long list of race-linked pool rows www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... via @ashifakassam.bsky.social @theguardian.com

Scrapping of Berlin swimming day for Black children becomes latest in long list of race-linked pool rows

Rightwing voices seize on plans to offer Black children an exclusive afternoon at an outdoor pool in the German capital

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Iberian orca known for ramming boats seen with suspected gunshot wounds - @ashifakassam.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Iberian orca known for ramming boats seen with suspected gunshot wounds

Marine conservationist says deliberate attack would be ‘act of extreme cruelty’ against endangered population

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Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · last mo.

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

I'm sharing this story, which I came across with a @journalismfund.bsky.social grant. Thank you, Fatima, for sharing your courage 🙏🏽 Thanks, Adoratrices and the UCRIF in Valladolid 🙌🏽 And to @ashifakassam.bsky.social + @tomlevitt.bsky.social for your great support! www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘Why are you doing this to me?’: how one woman survived two years of slavery on a Spanish farm

Fatima left her family behind in Morocco for seasonal work in Spain. But the dreams of a better life quickly turned into exploitation, squalid conditions and violence

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So happy to share this piece by @ashifakassam.bsky.social for The Guardian on my work on Spain's first trans political org! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Revealed: history of Spain’s fearless 1970s trans-rights political collective

Pioneering activists risked arrest and imprisonment amid lingering persecution after Franco dictatorship

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Nato leaders agree not to mention World Cup to Donald Trump to avoid irritating him

Nato leaders agree not to mention World Cup to Donald Trump to avoid irritating him

As alliance gathers in Ankara, European leaders have an informal strategy to try to keep US president on side * Europe live – latest updates Nato leaders have informally agreed not to mention the football World Cup to Donald Trump for fear of irritating the US president at a crucial time for the military alliance. Officials said European leaders had discussed in the sidelines of the summit in Ankara how to keep Trump on side amid concerns he could further destabilise Nato with threats over defence spending. Continue reading...

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VEEERRRRY punchy statement by UEFA on the reversal of the American red-card suspension. And quite right, too. "We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision." www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

UEFA statement on the Balogun case

Statement on decision related to Folarin Balogun

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‼️Se cumplen 11 años de la entrada en vigor de la #LeyMordaza. Reclamamos al gobierno y a los grupos parlamentarios que cumplan su compromiso de revertir las vulneraciones de los derechos a la libertad de expresión, reunión e información ¡Abrimos hilo! #DerogaciónLeyMordazaYa

“There is a more substantial body of evidence now than perhaps ever before about the harms and the addictive qualities of social media. But I would say that science is not entirely settled, we’re still learning.” By @ashifakassam.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Social media bans go global: big tech faces a reckoning after Australia’s crackdown

As a host of countries move to rein in social media use by children, could this be technology’s big tobacco moment?

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from my own perspective this is one of the greatest harms done by this government and plotting a course to reverse this damage is must be a very priority in our speech and our activism

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Stephen Miller was reportedly the driving force behind the DOJ's recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care

‘A point of resistance’: the Normandy village that said ‘non’ to Pete Hegseth: US defence secretary cancelled appearance at D-day event in Langrune-sur-Mer after protest by residents. Reporting by @ashifakassam.bsky.social & @kimwillsher.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘A point of resistance’: the Normandy village that said ‘non’ to Pete Hegseth

US defence secretary cancelled appearance at D-day event in Langrune-sur-Mer after protest by residents

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‘Factory of lies’: what will #PéterMagyar do about #Hungary ’s state #media ? #Journalists brace for sweeping reforms after years of pro-government control under #ViktorOrbán By @ashifakassam.bsky.social and @floragaramvolgyi.bsky.social share.google/CUfWd3DdFlYA...

‘Factory of lies’: what will Péter Magyar do about Hungary’s state media?

Journalists brace for sweeping reforms after years of pro-government control under Viktor Orbán

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Relatives of, sanctioned individuals and entities linked to RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, aka Hemedti, have amassed a £17.7m property portfolio in Dubai

Sudan paramilitary leaders acquired £17.7m property portfolio in Dubai, investigation reveals

The RSF leadership, accused of committing genocide, used UAE as a ‘safe haven’ for family members and their wealth, records show

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Join our team! We are looking for a Communications Officer. Deadline: 11 May. Apply: www.edf-feph.org/vacancy-comm...

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."

Trump’s ‘ #racist hate speech’ and #migration crackdowns violate #HumanRights UN panel says Watchdog ‘disturbed’ by president and US political leaders’ use of dehumanising language to target #migrants @ashifakassam.bsky.social share.google/DZBm7Jfs5ahq...

Trump’s ‘racist hate speech’ and migration crackdowns violate human rights, UN panel says

Watchdog ‘disturbed’ by president and US political leaders’ use of dehumanising language to target migrants

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I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

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VERY IMPORTANT. The Paul Foot Award is free to enter, insanely credible and career-enhancing and judged impeccably fairly and on merit. This is how to enter www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/pau...

Padraig Reidy@padraigreidy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hacks! You have just six days to enter the Paul Foot Award. Get moving!

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports

Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

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“It’s a choice to ensure zero abortions." Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape.

US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say

Ex-official calls transfer of unaccompanied girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape, a human rights violation

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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September

Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

Greenland: @ashifakassam.bsky.social on imperial claims and geopolitical rhetoric dominating over indigenous voices www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Trump’s Greenland threats open old wounds for Inuit across Arctic

Demand by US that it take control of Arctic island is for many a reminder of troubling imperial past

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“Despite the enormity of what had happened, the one thing everyone could agree on was that the people of Adamuz had done all they could to help,” writes @swajones.bsky.social from Adamuz, Córdoba. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘We had to remove the dead to get to the living’: train crash shocks Spanish town

People in Adamuz rushed to help when two trains smashed into each other and say they will never forget what they saw

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is it normal for encyclopedias to include “skin tone” or just when they’re generated by a white nationalist’s ai?

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Colombian President “does have to watch his ass” - Trump just now at presser Also says Maduro will be brought to New York