Jan Chamier

BBC Verify also analysed several videos from the scene, concluding that none of the available videos showed Alex Pretti holding a gun in his hands. Although we continued to reference these videos regularly in our posts and key points, after further review of the page as a whole, we acknowledge that once we had this analysis, we should have placed more consistent and explicit emphasis on the fact that it contradicted the accounts given by the federal authorities

Although we later obtained and published the family's full statement on our second live page, we also acknowledge that we were late in publishing the full statement, which included strong criticism of the administration and accusations against the agents who shot him, as well as clearly disputing the suggestion that he was holding a gun when he was shot.

In short, while pointing out that breaking news with conflicting perspectives involves publication of competing accounts, pending clarification, BBC accepts it was slow to adjust once it became clear that only one side was engaged in to truth. Key paras in long email here …

Day after Alex Pretti killing I complained to BBC about presentation of White House statements and evidence as equivalent. Duty of balance doesn’t extend to complicity with clear lies, I said. BBC could and should report WH making false statements as a *fact of the story*. Today I got response …

Screeching 180 from Reform leader Farage who’s gone from Trumpian “Bomb the Islamists” to “We cannot get involved directly in another foreign war, we don’t have a Navy, we can’t even defend our own military base in Cyprus” overnight.

He’s seen the polling showing the public don’t support the war.

Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof.

That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy.

The dealer needs to keep you addicted.

Love this cool, smiling girl facing off the furious little racist 😎

This picture was taken in 2017 of Saffiya Khan confronting racists at a racist rally organised by the English defense league..... picture is as powerful now as it was then.....

Oooh yesss!

No. The world is afraid of what you might do, but that’s not the same thing.

This is either a crisis or it isn't. And if it is, you should probably be prioritising the things that can have a positive impact within months rather than decades.

Happy to see @drjamesehansen.bsky.social on here!! Definitely a must follow for anyone who cares about/wants to understand climate change and the worsening climate crisis!

Trump's last stand. He's going to HELL in a hand cart and is quite happy to obliterate most of the world on his way out. Some legacy.
The man who burnt the world.

We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.

This godforsaken idiot piece of shit.

The Dow is down 3000 and gas is up 42 cents a gallon in just 9 days.

Putin has got something on him. Trump’s terrified of upsetting him.

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He'll make sure it's quid pro quo, and smile.

Don’t think most of us ever thought it was. Zelenskyy looked angry but statesmanlike, the Americans came over as entitled, bullying know-nothings.

Post from the Maine Wonk asking whether JD Vance or Donald Trump thanked Ukraine after a tweet noting the U.S. is deploying Ukrainian drone interceptors to fight Iranian drones in the Middle East despite previously cutting off Ukraine’s weapons.

Who has the cards now?

Your daily reminder according to Brexiteers the EU has been going to fail for 11,816 days.

UK-EU SPS Agreement - Legislation in scope To cut red tape and costs for importing and exporting with the EU, the UK will align with EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) legislation.

UK government releases list of 76 EU laws that it says UK will align with under food standards treaty with EU www.gov.uk/government/n...

Certainly shares the cognitive bias about his own competence 😄

Sounds like a pretty toxic relationship to me - one side exercises coercive control and the other has to avoid conflict at all costs. For little or no benefit.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD…

Can we STOP with this ‘special relationship’ BS

And also…can we wake up to the treachery of our right wing press?!

🇬🇧 Starmer: "This really sad feature, in many ways, of a conflict like this, which is some people will try to use it to divide communities in this country, and tear people apart."

"And we mustn't let that happen."

Love that Trump is so dense he doesn’t understand that you can’t just sever trade with Spain…

Why?

Altogether now…

Because Spain is in the EU

Handy, that…

Danny Kruger was was at it yesterday- these people have a cultural bias against renewable energy.

"This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis."

- Professor Helen Czerski

Lovely face 😻

A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.

Just another Monday…

A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.

📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap

🏺 #MosaicMonday