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Found out today there's a good guy Dexter mosquito that doesn't drink blood but whose larvae feed on other mosquitoes

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

London Councils Face Losing Half Their Share Of Children's Services Funding Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of funding for children’s services halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government gran...

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants.

By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying' On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

wtf is wrong with these people

4 Channel 4 News * @Channel4News X.com The prime minister has described plans for pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the UK today as 'un-British' and has called for them not to go ahead. Students from several universities are expected to gather in London and other cities.

The whole world watched Britain pretending to believe the UN aid agency was a terrorist organisation, then we all watched as UNRWA was replaced by criminals firing machine guns at starving people trying to get bags of flour, while press and politicians pretended not to understand what was happening.

GB News comment about LGBTQ+ including 'paedos' in breach of Ofcom code A GB News presenter saying “full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons” at a church would “include paedos” breached the Broadcasting Code, Ofcom said.

We're pleased that the loathsome comments carried by GB News, which equated being LGBT+ with being a paedophile, have been found in breach of the Ofcom code, following 71,000 complaints collected by @goodlawproject.bsky.social. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

Israel deports Greta Thunberg and 170 other Gaza flotilla activists The activists were detained when Israeli forces intercepted boats trying to breach its naval blockade of Gaza to deliver aid.

Why the fuck does this say deport instead release? The BBC is somehow getting worse www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Something so uniquely evil about the Bill Maher show which, as well as the host and the content, probably also has something to do with the set design

BREAKING: Over 100,000 people in Tel Aviv are protesting war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and his illegal genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

A person wearing a sling (me) shows two very scratched forearms.

Spent yesterday evening in the ER after a bike crash, and the NHS was absolutely spectacular. Triaged in 3 minutes; drugged in 5; X-rayed in 10, all with a waiting room filled with Saturday drunks. The Health Service is a wonder of the world.

"It's Thatcherism on steroids - this is incredible, cutting and slashing public expenditure, doing all the things he's done….. That's leadership... He is amazing." Nigel Farage "[Milei] is the 'chainsaw-wielding, bushy-sideburned wild man of Hayekian free-market thinking'. He hailed Milei for giving Argentina 'the economic medicine it needs' through drastic spending cuts." Boris Johnson "Britain needs shock therapy. A Milei-style approach would mean radical surgery. First: stop the bleeding. Slash wasteful public spending. Shut down unproductive agencies and quangos... We need to aim for a primary [surplus." Jacob Rees-Mogg "Milei is the template." Kemi Badenoch "Javier Milei rightly tells the elite [at the] awful WEF the facts of life - socialism and state intervention tends to make people poorer." Richard Tice

As Argentina’s economy starts to rapidly unravel, let’s never forget the comments by our own politicians.

Ta.

Alice having a pint

Manager Alice Sharpe needed a drink by the dugout as she watched us exit the Women's FA Cup 9-0.

Choo Choo! 🚂

I was having a lovely weekend - bit drunk with friends friday, hungover brunch, did some writing, went to the theatre - and ten minutes on the internet this morning has been enough to me realise I was only in a good mood because I hadn't looked at the news. We are so fucked. Turbofucked.

LEC LBC @LBC X.com 'Now is a time to put our swords down and support our neighbours.' Former Home Secretary @AmberRuddUK thinks it's 'un-British' to go to the protest in support of Palestine Action tomorrow.

Case in point here: Rudd had to resign because the Home Office was deliberately ignoring evidence of people’s right to live in Britain, so that they could deport them. The press sympathised with her because it was Theresa May’s fault but didn’t attack the PM, in case they accidentally toppled her.

Tweet from Pippa Crerar, Political Editor, The Guardian: Shabana Mahmood: “The right to protest is a fundamental freedom in our country. However, this freedom must be balanced with the freedom of their neighbours to live their lives without fear. “Large, repeated protests can leave sections of our country, particularly religious communities, feeling unsafe, intimidated and scared to leave their homes.  “This has been particularly evident in relation to the considerable fear within the Jewish community, which has been expressed to me on many occasions in these recent difficult days. “These changes mark an important step in ensuring we protect the right to protest while ensuring all feel safe in this country."

For a decade liberals have told the Jewish community that the Left are "Holocaust deniers"(O'Brien '18), wants to "reopen Auschwitz"(Heffer '19) that you should have a "suitcase ready" (Hodge '18). Now the fear that was stoked is used as a argument to abolish the right to protest.

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration

ICE is the Sturmabteilung of Trumpian fascism, characterised by racial profiling, flagrant lawlessness, and sadistic violence. The fact that Badenoch wants that for us is a shocking illustration of just how extreme and sinister her politics are.

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Not "extremes". ONE extreme. There are no front-line governing politicians in the USA, UK or most other places promoting Stalinism.

And it is not extreme to be wholeheartedly in favour of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law.

They’re worried about the prospect of being arrested and transported to the Hague during a family holiday to Spain in 2032, and they are correct to be worried about that.

On #bbclaurak Penny Mordaunt claims some Trade Unions are "openly antisemitic"

And what a pathetic response from Labour MP Lucy Powell: "its not something that I recognise".

One does so hate to be seen agreeing with one's own boss, but here we are...

So the Tory Party dies as it lived, fully intent on poisoning our society and political system

Please stop damaging things until we can kick you out.

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Zohran Mamdani: “If Netanyahu comes to deliver a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next year while I am mayor, I will move to honor the ICC arrest warrant issued in The Hague against him — just as I would against Putin."

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again...

'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

#bbclaurak: "How are you planning to curb these protests?"

Shabana Mahmood: "I'm specifically going to amend parts of the Public Order Act that will enable the police to place greater restrictions & conditions on protests"

RAF Gaza flights still shrouded in secrecy: MOD admits they happen but withholds numbers - AOAV The Ministry of Defence admits RAF surveillance flights over Gaza since December 2023 but refuses to disclose their scale, while AOAV’s investigation suggests hundreds of sorties closely coincided wit...

RAF Gaza flights still shrouded in secrecy: MOD admits they happen but withholds numbers

New for @aoav.bsky.social

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Exclusive: Zimbabwe abuse victims suing Church of England He is described as the most prolific abuser associated with the Church of England. Now, as Cathy Newman reports, John Smyth's victims in Zimbabwe are taking legal action.

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