A year of USAID was $32 billion. So roughly next Wednesday. Monsters.
This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)
Given that the UK's position in the last 50 years is that settlements are illegal and Israel cannot annex the West Bank, banning trade with West Bank settlements is really the absolutely minimal ask. It's pathetic that it hasn't happened.
I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure this is how you get 9/11: the sequel
Yanar Mohammed is one of Iraq’s most prominent women’s rights activists and established the country’s first shelters for survivors of domestic violence and trafficking. She was assassinated outside her Baghdad home when two gunmen on motorcycles opened fire in the morning.
The chairman of the Board of Peace bombed the Gandhi hospital. Process that.
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60 years ago today, Ghana's military overthrew president Kwame Nkrumah.
The UK Foreign Office conducted a covert propaganda campaign to help remove him, declassified files show.
www.declassifieduk.org/top-secret-d...
Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.
pretty good petition this for the uk to rejoin the creative europe programme.
www.openpetition.org/uk/petition/...
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
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More than 36,500 people were killed during Iran’s January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history, according to classified government documents reviewed by Iran International.
iranintl.com/en/202601255198
It’s 1:04 am in Kyiv and siren went off because Russia is attacking us with drones .
Hate the beginning of the siren , that loud first note and when it starts rising, crawling through your bones and muscles. it’s the most disgusting part. It gets under your skin. I was told once that it’s by design
This took me about 45 seconds.
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
A hunger striker is said to be ‘at imminent risk of death’ due to 59 days without food while on remand in prison.
Kamran Ahmed was transferred to hospital from HMP Pentonville in north London in the early hours of this morning
metro.co.uk/2026/01/07/h...
music has undergone a revolution though. it can now be made with the sound of bombs falling on venezuela. it's no longer impressionistic. ethics are embedded which radically bends the form. (I find it more helpful to think about it as a rendering or reorganisation of time.)
fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US
uh holy SHIT?
NEW: A Russian family whose son volunteered to fight in the Russian army against Ukraine recently adopted seven children from occupied Zaporizhia Oblast. 🧵(1/9)
Read more: isw.pub/OccupationUp...
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uk tour coming up this week with @momokogill.bsky.social
london TONIGHT! then brum, bristol, sheffield
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
don't try and make it perfect for everyone. just make it awesome then nobody cares about adding a mixer before or after etc
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
Remembering the 369 refugees who drowned in Lampedusa exactly 12 years ago today. I can never forget the 22 years old Yohanna who gave birth as she was drowning, her body was later found with an ombilical cord attached to her baby. #NeverForgotten #ForeverInOurHearts #PeopleNotNumbers #Lampedusa
every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
