Dr. Jami Rogers

Two years after the Gaza war began, one Palestinian family shares their story of loss Over 67,000 Palestinians have been killed, a third of them children, in Israeli attacks since the war began two years ago. One Palestinian family shares their story of loss.

And this with reporting from Gaza www.npr.org/2025/10/07/n...

Held hostage in Gaza for 491 days, an Israeli man recalls how he survived in new book Eli Sharabi survived 491 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza following the Oct. 7, 2023 attack. Sharabi speaks with NPR's Leila Fadel about his book, "Hostage."

Some powerful stories on NPR this morning marking the anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on Israel.

www.npr.org/2025/10/07/n...

Gas was $1.13 per gallon, and I was in third grade

Amazed this is still going ahead - basic and obvious problem is that essentially everything local government does now is for the poor. You can’t move it around without really hurting poor people somewhere!

It is also deeply unhealthy to have local govts who don’t provide many visible/valuable services for most residents (because they lack the resources). Encourages distrust and populism - “what am I paying my council tax for? The council does nothing for me.”

I have only just twigged that the Macbeth the RSC is doing is in The Other Place and not the main house. I was staring at my diary going, 'That can't be right; Measure won't have finished'...

Duh.

No wonder it's sold out...but why is it so sodding expensive then?

It is my momento mori style obligation to remind you that this is not just coming to the uk but is it is already here.

And remember - no politician or councillor in the UK has the right to "ban" any book from being held in a public library. The only reason a book can be removed is if it's incurred penalties under the law, whatever lame publicity stunts Reform cllrs may try.

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

The Guardian or NYT or whoever posted that article has deleted it as well...or detached my quote. Wankers.

Prison leavers to be trained for theatre work in bid to boost talent pipeline Ex-offenders will be trained to work in theatre as part of a new initiative aimed at filling an ‘entry-level staff shortage’ in the sector and increasing diversity off stage

Fine, but what about prioritizing the humanities in education/society??? Front Row just last night talked about local councils cutting the after school programme pipeline into the arts!

Prison leavers to be trained for theatre work in bid to boost talent pipeline
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Last night, as part of Eléonore Ozanne's Harvest Moon project, 11 Bristolian women joined groups all over the world to walk our 25 separate cities by moonlight. The biggest moon of the year was splendid - she was showing off frankly - and our laughter rang out across Bristol as we drifted through it

Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate Misprinted wrappers pulled from Manchester goodie bags after derision on social media

Well played everyone! 'The error was met with derision on social media, with one person writing: “I’m hearing Wispas about Kemi’s leadership.”'

Another tragic accident.

Stephen Lawrence’s father says killer should name others before parole considered Neville Lawrence, 83, is preparing for David Norris, now 49, to appear for first time to plead for his freedom Stephen Lawrence’s father says one of his son’s killers should name the other members of the gang who murdered him before being considered for parole. Neville Lawrence, 83, is preparing for David Norris to appear before a Parole Board for the first time to plead for his freedom. Continue reading...

Stephen Lawrence’s father says killer should name others before parole considered

Thatcher sounding like Zack Polanski here

WWTD?

Ancestor worship - a comfort for a distressed tribe?

Thing is, if you’re a lawyer and a Tory - maybe you’re even a Tory peer - and you fail to speak out very clearly and publicly against this stuff, you’re signalling for all to see that you’re at best comfortable with fascism and the destruction of the rule of law

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hey - sorry about the paywall. Here's my take, which I wrote back when news of the deal with Weiss was originally reported: ericdeggans.substack.com/p/giving-pol...

Social Security Administrator Frank Bisignano is named to the newly created position of IRS CEO Frank Bisignano has been named CEO of the IRS, adding to his role as Social Security Administration Commissioner.

Never in Social Security’s 90-year history has a commissioner held a second job.

But it always takes less time and effort to destroy something than to build and maintain it.

The Trump administration is allowing Social Security to rot through sabotage and neglect.

Trump is now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act to bully courts into letting his illegal military occupations proceed unchecked by rule of law.

Inventing a fake crisis wholesale to bulldoze what's left of constitutional restraints: Unhinged despotism.

Okay, then. Make him invoke it.

The Murdochs don't want yet more lawsuits, which they'll lose and have to pay massive damages.

He can have a coin when he's dead.

He wants a coin, then there's something he can do to put us all out of our misery

NEW: The militarization of American cities isn’t happening with a parade of tanks. It’s a slow drip of troop deployments that are probing courts’ willingness to give unlimited deference to the commander in chief — and testing workarounds when they don’t.

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I think when the second Civil War starts?

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

@marketwatch.com
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What a mild way to say "this is against the law and has been anathema since the founding of this country."