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Israel bombards areas across southern Lebanon in latest truce violation Raids hit hills and valleys as Israeli military keeps up pressure, it says, to force Hezbollah to disarm.

Raids hit hills and valleys as Israeli military keeps up pressure, it says, to force Hezbollah to disarm.

👀↪️THE LOOKING BACK AMIDA↩️🤨

Much like Christmas, it always feels as if the autumn colours will never arrive...

...but just like that they're gone and it doesn't feel like there was enough time to enjoy them🥹

#momiji #maple #紅葉 #Kyoto #京都 #autumn #autumnrain #Eikando #永観堂

How come the media isn't reporting what is going on in universities? The implications of this (and this is just 1 of many universities doing the same) are terrifying. For the local populations, for the towns affected, for the next generation, for research & development, for the future! #academicsky

"Migrants who came to the UK on skilled work visas in 2022-23 will make a net contribution of £47bn to the public finances over their lifetime, according to new estimates from the government’s Migration Advisory Committee."

Not surprising, but some observations (1/n)

www.ft.com/content/10da...

Trump went to Moscow in July 1987 at the invitation of the USSR - all expenses were covered by the Soviet government and upon returning, the bankrupt Trump unexpectedly received loans from 16 banks and,without bargaining, bought The Plaza Hotel at 1988 for $407.5 million a record price for a hotel.

Parliament goes into recess in 6 days time. Before MPs break up for Christmas, we want to send all 650 MPs an incredibly important message. The NHS must be their top priority this winter🚨- please click here to help- 402 to go…🤞

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I just read that trump claimed
82% of Ukrainians demand a peace settlement.

No.
That’s a lie.
A Ukrainian is speaking.

What will be the cost of Keir Starmer’s new medicines deal with Donald Trump? British lives | Aditya Chakrabortty More than £3bn that could have been used for UK patients will go to big pharma for its branded products, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hidden by the bullying billionaires who control most British media and intimidate the rest and the government the NHS is under serious attack. The health and life chances of most of us are undermined whilst attention is focused on folk devils,migrants, disabled..

Great Western Railway NOTICE. It is forbidden for vagrants, beggars, itinerant musicians and females of doubtful reputation to enter these premises.

FFS, just go ahead and ban ALL the best people, why don't you.

Pity they missed out on Terry Pratchett's 'ladies of negotiable virtue.'

U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

Rick McKee

Yes, it’s really this bad. Trump wants to create a ‘Core 5’ with Putin, leaving Western Europe and Ukraine out in the cold

I’ve worked in public libraries for 20 years, today was the first time we’ve had to tell someone they couldn’t bring their chainsaw in the library.

And go to the library on my holiday

Starmer is lobbying Europe to join him in watering down the ECHR. This illiberalism will harm us all | Steve Valdez-Symonds The prime minister and his counterpart in Denmark want a concerted effort to weaken human rights across Europe. This isn’t pragmatism – it’s cruelty, says Steve Valdez-Symonds, refugee and migrant rig...

“It is the Brexit playbook:…
It did not work then and it will not work now. Because once you agree that rights are the real obstacle, you have already handed victory to those who want rid of them altogether.”

Important read on blaming the ECHR for govt failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg "Nearly 60% of Russian regions have hole in their budgets over 600 billion roubles": Russian paper.

One Russian paper today: ““We will not agree to a truce because we need the capitulation of Ukraine.” Meanwhile: “Nearly 60% of Russian regions have a hole in their budgets of over 600 billion roubles, almost 11 times more than in 2022.” #ReadingRussia

Utterly chilling reporting from the Prospect and NY times on trumps war in the Caribbean
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/w...

Maybe Donald Trump is worried about being tried at the ICC for piracy? 🙃

it's always about oil, isn't it?

bsky.app/profile/fina...

Please listen and share.
An 11 year old boy gave testimony today at the European parliament in Strasbourg, there was not a dry eye in the house.

Roman Oleksiv was almost killed in a Russian missile strike in Vinnytsia. His mother did die in front of his eyes.
#RussiaIsATerroristState

That's easy for you to say.

We made these because we’re fed up of politicians pitting NHS patients and staff against one another. We’re on the same side- and we need to hold politicians to account 👇💙

Our Charter isn't just a petition. It's a movement. 💙

We created it to show politicians: people care about the NHS. You should too.
It's our core values—what we're fighting for:
✊ Public ownership
🏥 No privatisation
💰 Patients over profits
⚕️ Support for NHS staff

👉 bit.ly/SignEDNHSCha...

The Racial Code Miles, a successful lawyer, is mistaken for the waiter at a networking event. Femi is on the verge of breakdown having been consistently overlooked for promotion at her university. Nigel's emails, rep...

'This is racism. It is not about the overt acts of random people at the fringes of society. It's about the everyday. It's the loaded silence, the throwaway remark, the casual comment or a 'joke' in the workplace.'

www.penguin.co.uk/books/444010...

The Swiss Government has rejected using Palantir saying it presents devastating security risks.

Why are we using it?

Continent-sized "islands" found inside Earth are 100 times taller than Mount Everest Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous regions, often referred to as "islands," which are the size of continents.

Continent sized Islands inside earth. Now, this is interesting.
www.earth.com/news/contine...

Interesting that the BBC will call National Rally "Far Right" (in an article about Bardella meeting Farage) - when they would never use that term for Reform. Their policies are very similar. If anything Reform's are more authoritarian.

I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.

Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings Silicon Valley radicalization escalates

March to barbarism

Billionaire member of the “PayPal Mafia”, co-founder of Palantir wants public executions.

Not content with profiteering, exploitation, wants public hangings.

Who will they hang - poor, homeless, hungry, people falsely convicted?

Too much money creates insanity.

Labour as a government is fundamentally racist and xenophobic. Yes, you absolutely can say that a Reform or Conservative government would be worse for people, but you're still arguing over which flavour of racism you are prepared to swallow for a quiet life. 1/7