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Would you be ready to deal with a crisis? If the answer is no, don't know or possibly maybe, perhaps we can help... Come join us on 17 Sept when I'll be sharing loads of useful tips on how to protect your reputation and your communities when a crisis hits.
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Four women participate in an online writing course

Super writing workshop this morning. Loved hearing all their stories and seeing their creativity in action. Excellent work, everyone! #WritingWithImpact @agendacomms.bsky.social

Rex is a most excellent meeting facilitator 🐶

Why does populism flourish when people feel economically and culturally under threat? And what civil society can do about it?

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Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study Amplifying misinformation is now part of radical right strategy, says Dutch study of tweets by MPs in 26 countries

Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study

Amplifying misinformation is now part of radical right strategy, says Dutch study of tweets by MPs in 26 countries

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

P.s. See if you can spot the moment when my perimenopausal brain decided to empty itself mid-conversation and become a deep, dark void of nothingness 😱😭🫣🤯

Trump's strategy to flood the zone; selling a positive vision of Europe; countering far-right narratives - we covered a lot of ground last night. Huge thanks to Stephanie Quintao for joining us and giving us the perspective of Democrats Abroad. 🧠💪🌹

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#Trump #Europe

Are you looking for new ways to counter the harmful narratives being pushed by the far-right?

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Anger, fear, nostalgia: Why German voters back the far-right AfD party Many supporters are unsettled by turbulent modern times and yearn for a return to a stable past. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Possibly one of the most important lines in this article comes right at the end...

'Mr Rothmund, the researcher, said that this “dynamic of exclusion of AfD voters”, including relative moderates, can in turn lead to their “further radicalisation”.'

www.straitstimes.com/world/europe...

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’ Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’

If you have to be in a country to claim asylum, and there are no safe and legal routes into the UK (other than from Ukrainian and Hong Kong), does this effectively mean that most refugees are to be barred from becoming citizens? Or have I missed a key fact?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Has Starmer Blown up his Brexit Reset? Thoughts on Labour's craven AI surrender, Trump's green light for bribery and the latest ominous signal on US support for Ukraine

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Sun reporter visited parents of aid worker killed in Gaza before they knew of his death A reporter for The Sun visited the parents of a British aid worker killed in an airstrike in Gaza before they had been informed of his death.

With doorsteps in tragic circumstances timing is everything, and sadly on this occasion The Sun got the timing badly wrong pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

Climate Wins Are Happening, You Just Aren’t Hearing About Them | Atmos Research shows we’re drawn to bad news. Still, there are hard-fought climate victories worth celebrating in the United States and beyond.

Climate Wins Are Happening, You Just Aren’t Hearing About Them

Research shows we’re drawn to bad news, and President Trump’s actions only amplify the noise. Still, there are hard-fought climate victories worth celebrating

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...and the more disillusioned they become in green initiatives. So in a way, this "crew" has already been successful. To protect the green deal, we need more funding, more people, more time, more profile, more stories of how it changes lives and livelihoods for the better

Resisting this "crew" is taking up the time, energy and resources of environmental groups across Brussels. A massive distraction when efforts should be being spent on actually delivering the change that is so desperately needed. And the less change that happens, the fewer results the public see...

Thanks to Donald Trump, post-Brexit Britain must now strengthen its ties with the EU Europe in a decade’s time will be vastly different from the one the UK left in 2020, say Dominic Grieve and Caroline Lucas – coupled with the risks presented by the new US president, Britain needs to ...

Thanks to Donald Trump, post-Brexit Britain must now strengthen its ties with the EU

Donald Trump’s return to the White House signals a new and uncertain chapter in global affairs.

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The Big Idea: how do our brains know what’s real? From seeing things to hearing voices, there’s a finer line between hallucination and reality than you might suppose When did you last hallucinate? “The visionary tendency is much more common among sane people than is generally suspected,” wrote the…

The Big Idea: how do our brains know what’s real?

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social is parroting Reform UK's immigration messaging. Here's why that's a huge mistake...

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Super Bowl halftime show dancer displays Palestinian, Sudanese flags during Kendrick Lamar performance The NFL said "no one involved with the production was aware of the individual’s intent.”

A performer who was part of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show was detained by security after waving the Sudanese flag and Palestinian flags together with the words “Sudan” and “Gaza” written on them toward the end of the performance, the NFL says.

A person stands on a black car holding a green, black, red and white flag with the words “Sudan” and “Gaza” on it. Dozens of people are dancing onstage nearby. Photo credit: Emily Kask for The New York Times.

A protester unfurled a combined Palestinian and Sudanese flag on the field during Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime performance. The NFL said in a statement that the person was part of the 400-member field cast. nyti.ms/3CVV6Au

Protestor holding up a Palestinian flags. Reads “Sudan and Gaza”

The only thing I know about the Super Bowl is this.

Exclusive: Trump's Paris AI summit delegation won't include AI Safety Institute staff, sources say The U.S. delegation to a major artificial intelligence summit in Paris next week will not include technical staff from the country's AI Safety Institute, two people close to Washington's plans for the event and a third source briefed on the matter told Reuters.

"The U.S. delegation to a major artificial intelligence summit in Paris next week will not include technical staff from the country's AI Safety Institute, two people close to Washington's plans for the event and a third source ... told Reuters." www.reuters.com/technology/t...

Some federal health websites restored, others still down, after data purge While some information has been restored, scientists are still alarmed over the removal of data. It's not clear what has changed, and some pages remain offline.

For more on this story, see NPR (which is also in the Trump/Musk attack list)
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

www.straitstimes.com/world/united...

Trump and Musk are attempting to dismantle the information ecosystem that helps to protect America's people. But its people are resisting 💪💪

Excellent news - the "Fox News" style French TV channel CNEWS has just *lost* its legal case against our friends & allies @slpng-giants-fr.bsky.social

France's highest court confirmed that asking advertisers not to fund media hate is not a "criminal offence", so the case had no basis🎉

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library