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AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

KNEECAP FÓGRA: THIS WEDNESDAY AT 2PM THE BRITISH HIGH COURT WILL DELIVER ITS JUDGEMENT IN THE APPEAL MADE BY THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS AGAINST THE DECISION OF THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE COURT JUDGE WHO DISMISSED THE CASE AGAINST MO CHARA. AT 2.15 ON WEDNESDAY (11ᵗʰ MARCH) WE INVITE MEDIA TO COME TO CONWAY MILL IN WEST BELFAST FOR A PRESS CONFERENCE. WE WOULD LOVE TO ALSO SEE SUPPORTERS OUTSIDE THE MILL. WE ARE FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR THE IMMENSE SUPPORT WE HAVE RECEIVED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD DURING THIS ENTIRE WITCH-HUNT, ESPECIALLY THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO GATHERED IN LONDON. WE HAVE ALWAYS SAID WE WOULD FIGHT THEM IN THEIR OWN COURTS AND WE WOULD WIN…LET’S SEE IF WE HAVE FREE PALESTINE FREE THE 6 COUNTIES

Wednesday 2.15pm - Conway Mill, West Belfast, Ireland 💚🤍🧡

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Trump suggests US could end Iran war soon, as UAE and Turkey intercept more missiles The US president tells CBS News that the

lardass is planning a news conference this evening where he will claim "victory" and begin looking for a way out.

He knows he fucked up but he'll be er admit it.

We can't let him get away with this. There was no immediate nuclear threat.

😡😡😡

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spiderking23 @spiderking232 X.com All pornography is bad. As someone who is still somewhat caught in its grip, it is a despicable evil, a very blight on the human condition that should be utterly eradicated. It does to your brain, your conscience, and morality, the same thing smoking does to your lungs. › TheConservativeFurry @ConservFurry99.2d Apparently liking feral dragon art is zoophilia. Never mind the fact that dragons are mythological creatures. That is obviously irrelevant information. LOL x.com/FishermanCho/s... 10:36 PM • 3/6/26 • 6K Views 20 Relevant v ~ 348 贝 23 View quotes >

Friendly reminder self-reported “porn addiction” is correlated with personal guilt over using porn, statistics suggest self-identifying “porn addicts” are actually consuming porn at a relatively normal rate — they just feel uniquely bad about it due to their religious values

West Ham, you'd imagine PL future still likely to be in jeopardy for them when the game comes around.

it is very important to have the correct ratio of online vs offline and inside vs outside hobbies

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

Green Party say 'Hannah Spencer won't be silenced' after Manchester violence Hannah Spencer, Gorton and Denton's newly-elected MP, was ushered into a police car amid the unfolding chaos

The reason the middle-class media has not reported Hannah Spencer being attacked by right-wing transphobes is that it needs to preserve the nice, coffeee-round-the-kitchen-table, middle-class view of transphobia, not the thuggish fascist reality.

Taxpayer on the hook as Housing Minister leads Irish delegation at international property conference in France - Social Democrats It is highly inappropriate that the Minister for Housing is attending an international property conference in France this week aimed at enticing more vulture funds to Ireland, according to Social Demo...

Highly inappropriate that Housing Minister is attending an international property conference in France aimed at enticing more vulture funds to Ireland.

The Irish taxpayer will be partially footing the bill.

Minister should be focusing on delivering more social and affordable homes in Ireland.

ESPN Beefs Up Sports Coverage With Six Washington Post Journalists ESPN Beefs Up Sports Coverage With Six Washington Post Journalists

an incredible get for ESPN, and a ridiculous unforced error for Bezos and Murray variety.com/2026/tv/news...

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

Disappointing .... I'd expect better from the Brazilians. As the spiritual home of MMA, I'd expect better striking and kicking skills from them 🤣, that was almost complete handbags, with a couple of sly digs thrown in.

As the world seems to be teetering towards an unnecessary global conflict, the return of Franz Ferdinand is an ominous omen.

[Untethered capitalism just doing its thing. Definitely doesn't have to be this way: we built it, we can change it...]

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

But, rather than receiving a formal invite to meet Trump, Farage was in fact invited to Mar-a-Lago by a member of the club, according to multiple people briefed on the matter They said Farage had hoped he would be able to catch Trump for a conversation as the US president was scheduled to travel to Mar-a-Lago that evening. However, Trump had a change in his itinerary and decided to stay instead in Doral, about an hour`s drive away The Reform leader's failure to secure an audience with the US president underscores a weakening of ties between the two populist leaders who famously formed a close friendship in the vears before and after the 2016

Massive humiliation for Farage, who tipped off the UK press that he was flying to Florida to have dinner with Trump... only for Trump to decide he had more interesting things to do when Nigel arrived.

Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now).

This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5

It's actually profoundly similar to the way that eugenicist anti vaccine organisations worked to disrupt messaging around COVID (and previously MMR)

Amazing how much damage one malignant narcissist can cause.

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Friendly reminder that you don't always need to bring quiet people "out of themselves" or try to get them to "loosen up" at social gatherings, some of us are just naturally a bit more reserved and introverted and silently plotting the downfall of our enemies and that's okay 💖

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

YouTube video by TheCoralVEVO The Coral - Dreaming of You (Remastered 2021)

The Coral - Dreaming of You (2002)

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Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.

Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.

The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.

The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out.
I am amazed by the limited news coverage.

Look at these big brave cis men, harassing a woman in their fight to protect women.

Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…

I did a semester abroad in 2003 during the Iraq war and I was grilled (and yelled at) everywhere I went about George W Bush and American politics, and it was good for me. I learned a lot. Opened my eyes to how the world sees the US. I hope this person learned something.

#MOT #ALAW

Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.

Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.