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John Hume’s life provides lessons for addressing Palestine-Israel conflict Five years after his death, the empathy, analysis and laser logic of Hume’s approach to achieving peace in Ireland apply to the Middle East today

John Hume’s life provides lessons for addressing Palestine-Israel conflict

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This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Day Ten: Leave Social Media A social, not just technical, toolkit There are a lot of posts out the on the internet that will teach…

It's time to #ChuckZuck! Join us this month by deleting one of your Zuckerverse accounts -- #Facebook, #Instagram, #WhatsApp, #Oculus or #Threads -- and spread the social movement to #reclaimcontrol from #toxictech !

Here's how to disentangle: www.optoutproject.net/social-media...

TRANSITION? WHAT TRANSITION?

Wind and solar, pet hates of the populist right, will meet >90% of global electricity demand growth to 2026, helping renewables topple King Coal's reign as the world's top power source

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Go for a long walk people. It will do you the world of good. Epic stuff here from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social

‘We are doing it with a heavy heart:’ Israeli rights groups accuse government of genocide | CNN Leaders of B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel say they’re taking this step because “Denial is what allows these atrocities to continue.”

A grim, truth-telling interview of two decent people, standing up to their own society and calling out its crimes

“Leaders of B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel say they're taking this step because "Denial is what allows these atrocities to continue.”

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The Great Distractor — Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy James Bridle

On the day that Ofcom releases a report advising the UK's broadcasters to work more with YouTube, maybe worth revisiting this piece on the roots of the attention economy, and what it means for children's media, as well as much else: www.mediatechdemocracy.com/all-work/the...

📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it

A healthy, non-predatory social media world is possible. Here is a four minute video introducing the fediverse: news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-vi...

Image credit: Iain Masterton

💥The Bernat Klein Studio has been saved! This morning the coalition of Scottish heritage organisations secured the property at auction with a winning bid of £279,000.

The studio will now be restored and brought back into public use, creating a new venue for creative arts in the Scottish Borders.

French government adopts bill for restitution of colonial-era objects – The text will be submitted for a vote in the senate on 24 September

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Exclusive | White House Seeks Payments From Other Universities—Including Harvard—After Columbia Deal Sets Precedent The Trump administration is in talks with several schools about future funding following allegations of antisemitism.

"The administration is in talks with several universities, including Cornell, Duke, Northwestern and Brown... The White House hopes to extract hundreds of millions of dollars from Harvard, in a deal that would make Columbia’s $200 million payment look like peanuts"

The god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90 The Estonian composer’s music of simplicity, spirituality – and silence – is universally appealing and enduringly rewarding. We pay tribute ahead of his milestone birthday

The god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

"If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?”

A screenshot of my "Walking Method" Arena channel, featuring thumbnails of each resource

We're going to start doing hiking interviews for our Library Field project, so I created a "Walking as Method" Arena channel www.are.na/shannon-matt...

Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽

So glad that journalists are finally waking up to the reality of what has happened at the #Bartlett in the wake of the Howlett Brown Report. #UCL

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Some very valid questions being asked here by Paul Finch regarding the aftermath of the Howlett Brown Report. #Bartlett staff have been asking similar questions for some time without reply.

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Very sad news. I love Brian’s work, which vibrates between the transcendent and the hallucinatory. A sad loss to the Art world.

Netanyahu’s War | David Shulman Engineering a second Nakba and annexing the occupied territories are integral parts of Netanyahu’s war against the State of Israel’s democratic institutions, its social solidarity, and above all the…

David Shulman on the second Nakba, now in full gear in the West Bank

The Most Powerful Medium Has No Rulebook Video is the most consequential medium of our time. So why do we still lack the tools to cite, dissect, and challenge it like we do with print?

"The real project of this administration is to sever the public from reality itself — to plunge Americans into a TV-led and TV-fed collective psychosis."

The Dennis Hopper Photograph That Caught Los Angeles The actor stopped at an intersection, took out his Nikon, and made history.

Sometime between the fall of 1963 and the late summer of 1964, the actor and photographer Dennis Hopper stopped at an intersection in L.A., took out his Nikon, and made history.

© HAARETZ 'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes Nir Hasson, Yaniv Kubovich and Bar Peleg Jun 27, 2025 6:03 am IDT

IDF officers and soldiers tell Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present.

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Rethinking the Interstates A four-part article series about how the Interstate Highways — a monument to federal technocratic expertise — might be reimagined for an era defined by climate crisis.

Sixty nine years ago today, President Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act, authorizing construction of the Interstate Highway System.

A new series in Places considers how the Interstates — the largest public works project in US history — might be creatively adapted for the 21st century.

Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month The U.S.-backed system for food aid in Gaza is a “tactical intervention in humanitarian wrapping,” per an Israeli professor.

Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month
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Iconic and emotional set by #Anohni and the Johnsons at #Glastonbury, interspersed with clips of climate scientists mourning the loss of the Great Barrier Reef.

Shots of set by #Anohni and the Johnsons at #Glastonbury.

Shots of set by #Anohni and the Johnsons at #Glastonbury.

Spellbinding set by #Anohni and the Johnsons at #Glastonbury.

Kathleen Jamie | At the Canongate Wall The Canongate Wall is a feature of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Designed by Soraya Smithson...

‘Stone suits the poetry. Or perhaps it’s the other way round. I think poetry suits stone, more than it suits paper, certainly more than it suits a screen. The poetry releases something latent in the stone.’

New: Kathleen Jamie visits the Canongate Wall in Edinburgh.

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