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Graph from NetBlocks showing the network connectivity in Afghanistan, from September 25, 2025, to September 29, 2025. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Afghanistan's connectivity remains stable at around 100% throughout most of the time period, with a sharp drop on the after of September 29. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 14% and 14%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red circle highlighting the decline at the end of the period.
⚠️ Update: Live metrics show internet connectivity in #Afghanistan has now collapsed to 14% of ordinary levels, with a near-total nationwide telecoms disruption in effect; the incident is likely to severely limit the public's ability to contact the outside world
29.09.2025 13:47 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1Still testing.
Three Russian MiG-31 jets entered Estonian airspace without permission and stayed there for 12 minutes, Estonia says.
Reform leader of Nottinghamshire council bans all communication, including by officials, with the main local paper. Nottingham Post/Nottingham Live ban also includes BBC-funded local democracy reporters.
www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...
Trump is threatening to send the National Guard into Baltimore.
Where’s Stringer Bell when you need him?
Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund is divesting from 11 Israeli companies due to concerns related to Gaza and the West Bank, Reuters reports.
11.08.2025 20:54 — 👍 585 🔁 106 💬 24 📌 8
A photo of Anas Al-Sharif and his Al Jazeera colleague Mohammad Qrere in their press bullet proof vests looking at their phones. Both are reported killed. Photo credit to Motassem A Dalloul.
BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
@markthomasinfo.bsky.social
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Smile less, talk more, let them know what you’re against and you are for and DEMAND our voices are heard - Even if we are 800 miles from Westminster - we just need to speak LOUDER
#stornowaypeaceforpalestine #ceasefire #imforpeace
Some people deny reality because they’re confused.
Some deny it because they’re scared.
Some because they’re angry.
But then there’s something deeper, something more organised.
Something I call disordered denial.
Ex-McKinsey partner who advised opioid maker Purdue Pharma sentenced to prison reut.rs/439hCQT
22.05.2025 22:35 — 👍 116 🔁 25 💬 5 📌 6🧵 This is a perfect example of how disordered discourse reshapes democratic politics, not by policy failure, but by the performative targeting of identity. Let’s unpack what’s happening.
22.05.2025 17:31 — 👍 2863 🔁 879 💬 82 📌 73
phone networks down, newsrooms going dark in Spain and Portugal, so a bar owner holds up an analogue radio still transmitting during the huge power outages (Sandra Montanez/Getty Images)
28.04.2025 12:33 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Morning
24.04.2025 05:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Heather Cox Richardson says in her speech: "Revere simply offered what he could to the cause: engraving skills, information, knowledge of a church steeple, longstanding friendships that helped to create a network. And on April 18, he and his friends set out to protect the men who were leading the fight to establish a representative government. The work of Newman and Pulling to light the lanterns exactly 250 years ago tonight sounds even less heroic. They agreed to cross through town to light two lanterns in a church steeple. It sounds like such a very little thing to do, and yet by doing it, they risked imprisonment or even death. It was such a little thing…but it was everything. And what they did, as with so many of the little steps that lead to profound change, was largely forgotten until Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used their story to inspire a later generation to work to stop tyranny in his own time. What Newman and Pulling did was simply to honor their friendships and their principles and to do the next right thing, even if it risked their lives, even if no one ever knew. And that is all anyone can do as we work to preserve the concept of human self-determination. In that heroic struggle, most of us will be lost to history, but we will, nonetheless, move the story forward, even if just a little bit. And once in a great while, someone will light a lantern—or even two—that will shine forth for democratic principles that are under siege, and set the world ablaze.
The great @hcrichardson.bsky.social from her speech on the 250th anniversary of the lighting of the lanterns in Boston’s Old North Church. Read this excerpt to the end and you will be rewarded. Read it aloud and it gets better. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-18-2...
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Some days The Cow Chat is better than others.
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More v bad news for Ukraine at the hands of the Trump admin. FT reporting US has cut off intelligence sharing. US intelligence co-operation has been essential for Ukraine’s ability to identify and strike Russian military targets. Washington cutting Kyiv off at the knees.
www.ft.com/content/c58f...
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27.02.2025 18:54 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Zelenskyy says he’s ready to sign the minerals deal with the US.
02.03.2025 21:44 — 👍 60 🔁 11 💬 31 📌 2The trip I got to take to Finland schools to see their media studies curriculum in action was absolutely amazing.
The curriculum there starts early and then continues in the form of adult education that is very affordable. It's part of what inspired me to start @darktimesacademy.bsky.social
The SNL Cold Open was based on the Trump tantrum with Zelensky, with Mike Myers doing a brutal take on Elon Musk www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpO...
02.03.2025 08:43 — 👍 502 🔁 137 💬 23 📌 24Times Square, New York City. #3E #EndImpunity #StandWithUkraine
01.03.2025 22:48 — 👍 7264 🔁 1378 💬 76 📌 56
Mark, can you share this please:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Full recording.
Calm until Vance steps in.
The Washington Post Opinion Editor has quit after owner Jeff Bezos demanded the section be focused on Personal Liberties and Free Markets.
26.02.2025 15:30 — 👍 216 🔁 41 💬 15 📌 5
Morning 🙌
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Leaders from Egypt, Jordan and other Arab states met in Saudi Arabia to discuss alternative plans for Gaza's future than the one laid out by President Trump, which calls for displacing Palestinians.
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The US State Department is forcing all of its employees to cancel subscriptions to any Trump-unfriendly media.
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