Ruth Watson

My suffragette-era great-aunt caused raised eyebrows and mutterings when seen 'riding astride a bicycle' in Cramond.

We have come so far.
We can achieve so much more.

#Women #Cycle

Kennedy Center dealt another blow as National Symphony Orchestra leader quits Historic performing arts center was plunged into turmoil when Trump purged more than half of the original board, replacing them with Republican supporters

Kennedy Center dealt another blow as National Symphony Orchestra leader quits amid Trump takeover

Corruption and grift courses through Trump's administration.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Repressive régimes attack #journalism

Israel has slaughtered hundreds of Palestinian #journalists

Now turns it attention on foreign reporters.

EU businesses' lobbying effort to water down pay transparency law fails

'Bullying masquerading as strength': Obama attacks Trump at Jesse Jackson memorial ‘Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions, another setback to the idea of the rule of law, an offence to common decency.’

Barack Obama lashed out at President Donald Trump for conducting an "assault on our democratic institutions" as he paid tribute to the late civil rights activist Jesse Jackson.

"Every day, you wake up to things you just didn't think were possible."
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Human rights court orders reparations for forced sterilisation case in Peru Inter-American Court of Human Rights says Peru must pay family of woman who died as a result of forced sterilisation.

Inter-American Court of Human Rights says Peru must pay family of woman who died as a result of forced sterilisation.

NEW from me: Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Here Are The Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein

🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

With every new development in this story I am even more gobsmacked that Epstein and his co-conspirators escaped accountability over and over and over again. There's more to come from my investigation. Stay tuned.

a fat tub of orange shit in a suit with a red tie, mocking a person.

This was the moment right here. The moment that, if people had any basic levels of empathy or any shred of morality, that Trump should have been done.

Instead, he and the other corrupt and evil people he surrounds himself with have pushed and pushed and taken what the want with no consequences.

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

At the moment, for every 100 English & Welsh voters intending on voting Reform at Westminster, only 72 Scots are doing likewise. Combining with the Conservatives it's 66 for the right. That's still a lot of votes, but it's still a huge relative gulf in backing that makes a meaningful difference.

This Obama eulogy of Jesse Jackson is genuinely great

Obama on Jesse Jackson: "The message he sent to a 22 year old child of a single mother with a funny name, an outsider, was that maybe there wasn't any place, any room, where we didn't belong"

it's always nice to be reminded of how incredible a public speaker Barack Obama is. here's part of his eulogy of Jesse Jackson

Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

In interesting thread, giving a small glimpse into #Russian talking points.

‘Only Nazis ban books’: on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New College

"It took a half century to build New College into a sanctuary of independent thought and less than a year to destroy it."

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Were they, aye?
#EpsteinFiles

Obama is giving a truly inspirational eulogy at Jesse Jackson's celebration of life.

It's Shakespearean. Supreme. @barackobama.bsky.social

Behind all of the headlines, are little girls who were raped and brutalised

#EpsteinFiles

I'm old enough to have had measles as a child. I remember my mum, a nurse, and my dad, a doctor, hovering by our dimly lit beds, anxiously checking us

I breastfed my babies until they were 13 months old and able to get the MMR

My friend's baby caught measles at 9 months and has life-long problems.

I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.

Measles is not 'worse than expected'.

Measles is as bad as expected. That's why the vaccination programme is in place.

Measles is an awful disease #VaccinesWork

Russia sending election operatives to Hungary to prop up Orban, media reports Sergei Kiriyenko, a powerful Kremlin aide, has reportedly been tasked with overseeing the Russian operation in Hungary, applying the same set of methods deployed during Moscow-backed meddling in Moldo...

Russia is sending election operatives to Hungary to prop up Orban. The dirty tricks to support Putin’s puppet in the EU will be off the chart.

Per WHO, an estimated 100 000 people have left the city of Tehran.

Israel's conformist thinking on Iran has swallowed Netanyahu's opposition 'There Is No Opposition and No Coalition,' Wrote Opposition Leader Yair Lapid This Week, Showing How Much the Country Has Become an Isolated Echo Chamber, Feeding Itself Justifications for Israel's Wa...

I agree. The Israeli "opposition" is just as culpable and just as blind. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

✝️ A Holy War Against Iran? Mehdi on the Republican religious nutjobs pining for Armageddon in the Middle East. Plus: the latest on the Iran school bombing and, for once, a disgraced Republican is shamed into quitting politics.

"The Real Religious Fanatics Behind the Iran War"

They're not in Tehran, they're in Washington DC. I bring receipts in my lede piece for today's First Draft morning newsletter from Zeteo.

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