Dr Saad having a sad because the Nobel Laureate is a woman who doesn't smile prettily enough for his liking
Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026)
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15 outlets published 249 articles about Jason Arday, but there appears to be a partial media blackout regarding Dr Lola Salem, Michael Gove's ex-girlfriend, who has been suspended from Oxford University after being charged with possessing indecent images of children. jamradio.uk/news/2026/10...
Lola Salem denies indecent-image charges | Jam Radio
Oxford academic Dr Lola Salem denies indecent-image charges. Her recently reported separation from Michael Gove is a separate matter.
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David Brooks is a notoriously bad judge of who’s a Nazi
driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · 2d ago"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
Help please
Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · 13h agoSince losing my husband in the war, I’ve been raising our four children alone. Every day is a struggle to provide them with the food and essentials they need. 💔 I’m just asking for a chance to give my children a better life.🙏❤️🩹 #Gaza #HelpGaza chuffed.org/project/siri...
Main thing I’ve gotten from this trip to Europe is that a lot of leftwing discourse — “content” — on social media is not a good use of people’s time A lot of “call out” and not enough of “being in community”
Frankfurt for Ukraine e. V. schreibt "Wer unsere Arbeit weiterhin unterstützen möchte, kann dies gerne mit einer Geldspende tun. Jede Unterstützung hilft uns, unsere humanitäre Arbeit für die Ukraine fortzusetzen." Wer ein paar Euro entbehren kann, findet die Bankverbindung hier:
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Frankfurt for Ukraine – Hilfe mit Sachspenden Wir helfen den vom Krieg betroffenen Menschen in der Ukraine Humanitäre Katastrophe in unserer NachbarschaftSchwere Zerstörungen in Städten wie Irpin, Cha...
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Pope Leo XIV called the death penalty “an attack” on human dignity a day after senior Church officials pointedly condemned the decision by the U.S. Defense Department to live-stream the execution of the convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
Pope criticizes death penalty after Hegseth announces public execution
Pope Leo XIV called the death penalty “an attack” on human dignity a day after senior Church officials condemned the Pentagon’s plans to live-stream an execution of Nidal Malik Hasan.
washingtonpost.com
Berlin-based writer @ckliu.com reads from 'The Xiezhi', a surreal short story that interrogates class, published in our latest Solidarities issue. To read the full story, get a copy of Wasafiri 127: Solidarities here: buff.ly/bwPCKol
UN condemns Coco Gauff abuse and warns: ‘Black female athletes are being targeted’
UN condemns Coco Gauff abuse and warns: ‘Black female athletes are being targeted’
The United Nations’ human rights office has condemned the racist abuse of Coco Gauff and called for solidarity to help push back against racism and sexism
theguardian.com
PowerOutage.com now showing about 600K customers without power from #Isaias, including nearly 400K in Florida Panhandle and another 200+K in Alabama.
PowerOutage.com - Track, record, and aggregate power outages
Discover the latest power outages and outages in your area with PowerOutage.com. Track, record, and aggregate power outages to stay informed and prepared.
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If you're in Colorado and need help...
CZEdwards@czedwards.bsky.social · 2d agoThis was a remarkably useful cheat sheet for us:
And I hope the dream collections I'm gathering about how fascism, climate change, AI & LLM's and our shifting relationship to mortality - will be valuable to someone someday even if people think dreams are nonsense now.
Collective Dreaming | An archive of collected dreams
An archive of collected dreams about shared realities and about dreaming as a community process
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huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city
WH Press Pool Reports@whpresspool.bsky.social · 2d ago“But what I try to remind people is, look, this is a guy who committed, in my view, the worst terrorist attack on American soil outside of 9/11, the people that he was meant to treat, the Army soldiers that he was meant to treat for mental illness and other problems, he took them at their (3/4)
This is why you don't shoot into people's cars all willy-nilly. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
ICE didn’t know 5-year-old boy was in car when officer fired, Mullin says
Federal authorities said Oscar Belgal used his car to ram government vehicles and endanger officers.
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‘In a nearby bar, some of the gendarmes were getting coffee. A few hours earlier, they had been beating teachers, parents and other adults who’d formed a human chain to protect student demonstrators.’ Brian Ng at the student protests in Paris, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/oc...
Brian Ng | Among Schoolchildren
There were still several gendarmerie vans parked near Lycée Hélène Boucher in the 20th arrondissement at noon on...
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From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can’t stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.
How a defunct white supremacist state became a cult favorite on the Right
From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can't stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.
motherjones.com
"Wir werden Rechtsextremisten nicht noch einmal in unsere Synagoge lassen" 🥺✊🏾
Zentrum für Politische Schönheit@politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 3d agoBREAKING: Jüdische Studierende (JSUD) verwehren dem Neonazi & "Landtagsvize" Tillschneider den Zugang in die Synagoge von Halle.
YOU ARE AN ELECTED OFFICIAL. STOP TELLING PEOPLE NOT TO BE NUMB AND TELL THEM WHAT YOU PLAN TO DO.
"What are we, a bunch of BROWN people?" This is white people doing white people shit. Y'all had picnics under our hanging bodies but sure ok. It's like the Taliban.
Eric Levai@ericlevai.bsky.social · 3d agoNow THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
MVP ON AND OFF THE COURT 🔥 A’ja Wilson brought the looks all season long on her way to her fifth Kia WNBA MVP award! #KiaMVP | #WNBASeason30
I’ve heard Pillay speak a lot but this interview stays with me because of its running thread of living up to the trust placed in you by a community, beginning with going to college on funds raised by her poor neighbors, who, she notes, would surely have loved to see their children go to school too
Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 3d agoShe’s had key roles helping construct international law as a body that tries to regulate violence against people, from serving on the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda to helping establish sexual violence & rape as war crimes. This is good, concise insight from her into some of her work:
"Despite his name, he actually ran on a ticket for a center-left, social-democratic party"
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 3d agoVoters in the Peruvian town of Queropalca have chosen their new mayor: Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores.
"Glory to the youth" Seen in Paris during the ongoing student uprising across the country.
Born on this day in 1823, educator, publisher, lawyer and abolitionist, Mary Ann Camberton Shadd Cary. Born in Delaware, she moved to Canada after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 passed. During the Civil War, she moved back to America and recruited Black soldiers. anticolonialhistory.com/event/189/
Come ask Amy anything about her coverage of Kristan Hawkins and the anti-abortion movement!
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Amy Littlefield@amylittlefield.bsky.social · 2d agoI spent months following Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life and one of the country’s most influential anti-abortion leaders, for a profile and doc for @motherjones.com and @revealnews.org Lots of fascinating details didn’t make it into the piece. Head to Reddit to ask me anything!
it's 100 percent not my problem that when i say something, you misinterpret it, and then get mad at what you think i said. and i promise 95% of you, i don't give enough of a shit about you to be upset about your inability to comprehend basic text.
Oh yes, we did....https://lw-pad.hosting.uni-hildesheim.de/p/r.98ca437026de7601b0b9e449c96fc70d
