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How did John Oliver become the moral compass of the US? | Arwa Mahdawi He and other late-night hosts are rare voices when it comes to honest discussion of Gaza and Trump – which says something frightening about our public discourse, writes Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

👍to Guardian US & the stalwarts in the media for saying what the whole world is thinking but what too many USers are too lazy, ignorant or morally muddled to grasp. The wrong people are being cancelled. This happens when you vote for fascism & a felon.
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Milan appeals against ‘grotesque’ move to rename airport after Berlusconi City authorities take case to Lombardy regional court in effort to block initiative by Matteo Salvini

Isn’t this a case like another unworthy, the talentless Trump’s, expecting to be given the Nobel Peace Prize? Surely there have to be limits to unruly, unholy ambition?
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‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’

Before you condemn marches in support of Palestine Action, you should read this piece.The deliberate & protracted starvation of the people of Gaza is a vicious, vile war crime that already indelibly stains the Israeli cabinet, the illegal settlers & the IDF.
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How to know if you’re living in a dictatorship We're already seeing signs of creeping fascism, and it could get much worse.

On Inauguration Day, I listed 12 signs that would indicate we were living in a dictatorship. One of them was: "Fictional government statistics." Today Trump fired the commissioner of labor statistics because her bureau's numbers didn't match his lies.

Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report The president implied that the BLS commissioner, longtime federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."

In today’s news, the village’s head idiot has fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for… doing math and reporting the results. We can only assume he plans to replace McEntarfer with someone who won’t do the kinds of math that hurt his feelings.

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Opinion | Brennan and Clapper: Let’s Set the Record Straight on Russia and 2016

Setting the Record Straight on Russia and 2016 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Thank you!

Beware the blizzard of lies: US advice on how to handle Farage’s Trump tactics Pro-democracy campaigners suggest ‘pre-buttal’ is more powerful than factchecking in fighting falsehoods

Learn from the experts how to handle our lying, money-grubbing, 21st century little hitlers who reject democracy and aim to strip our humanity, by replacing it with autocracy, one human right after another.

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Do we know yet whether The Lump has been invited to Balmoral and/or to Dumfries House?

Nobel Peace Prize for Francesca Albanese and the doctors of Gaza Netanyahu just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize. Let’s show that the world thinks - Francesca and Gaza doctors deserve it instead!

It’s Nobel Prize time! Please support real peacemakers for the Peace Prize, Francesca Albanese and the brave doctors saving lives in Gaza. Please sign the petition.
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Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life’s essentials now a deadly peril Karam al-Ghussain, 9, and Lulu, 10, were fetching water from a nearby distribution station when an Israeli strike hit it, and them

This is blatant. This is brutal. This IS genocide.
It’s not just one more inexcusable and unforgivable murder that Netanyahu’s Triumvirate will call a mistake. Don’t be a Pontus Pilate. This is humanity’s business. Be a human. Be tough. Please read the whole piece. .👇

Pentagon Strips Harvey Milk’s Name From Navy Vessel

The Pentagon has stripped Harvey Milk’s name from a naval vessel that honoured his struggle, his humanity & his achievements & now he’s been assassinated a second time by a VILE administration. Jesus would have wept as these (so-called Christian) nationalists gloat.
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Petition: Increase funding for people with Parkinson’s and implement the "Parky Charter" We want the government to take the decisive five steps set out in the Movers and Shakers' "Parky Charter" and to fulfil the Health Secretary’s promises.

By signing the Parky’s Charter, you’ll help everyone affected by Parkinson’s Disease and for all those not yet affected by it. 😘. A loved one, a family member, a friend, a colleague, a teacher, a local hero, a neighbour... please share.

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Republicans have included 300 MILLION in the budget for......Trump's golf trips.

You heard that right. But there is no money to feed hungry kids school lunch. #TrumpsBillWillKill

Also it does seem unfair that, when ICE teams behave like terrorists, any witnesses to their actions, or harmless citizens harmed, can’t identify them by sight. It’s almost a licence to kill or a get-out-of-jail card.

A most thought-provoking piece on a dilemma for Denmark, one of the few countries that I consider to be a proper “grown-up.”

The world order is at high risk now that the topsy-turbulent USA has
catapulted itself into the naughty corner, reserved for thugs. Just saying…

This should go viral!

They can’t help themselves—they only speak in shouting mode. They’re also serial complainers, with a worrying loss of recent memory.

As for The Francois, nobody with a reasonable level of intellect should be taking this troublesome twerp seriously. Even for his former fans, he’s yesterday’s man.

Private Eye NUMBER CRUNCHING £9bn Boost to the UK economy by 2040 due to UK-EU deal, according to the government £100bn Brexit's economic cost to the UK economy per year, according to OBR estimates

Christ… red lines are so expensive.

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I can only repeat the war cry of a bus driver, taking me from Milan to Pavia, in 2001, when he learnt my suitcase had been slashed in the baggage area.

“Bastardi!”

Use it to ‘nuke’ the stress you feel in your own country.

If politicians are thieves, call them out.

“A huge shift is happening. The diversity of opinion in the Jewish community is becoming increasingly clear.”

Read here about why I felt compelled to resign from the Board of Deputies.

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Worth following 👇

I see that Daniel Grossman is on BlueSky. Easy to find and well worth support and a follow.

Hey, Daniel, and welcome to BlueSky. I’m full of admiration for your principled resignation from the Board of Deputies. I wish you well and love the support you have received from a wise grandmother. Kudos.

Thanks for sharing this excellent article which nails Trump’s narcissism. He was always vain, power-crazy, greedy, boastful, self-important and, more obvious recently, a convicted felon, but I am still gobsmacked that enough Yanks voted for the surly, fascist-leaning loser a second time round.

Let’s reflect on “Fred” Goodwin’s “bringing the honours system into disrepute” as seen in today’s @Guardian. I can think of others undeserving of honours, e.g. the buffoons rewarded for Brexit.

Who is your nominee for unworthy honours’ recipients? Mine is Fingers Jenkyns.

This is a vital beach in a protected area in Albania, and it’s under threat. Don’t let the insane craze of the Trump family to enrich themselves, deprive us of one of Europes’ last untouched natural resources.
Please read, share, & support PPNEA @ppnea. Thank you!

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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war

BREAKING: The EU's former top diplomat, Josep Borrell, has accused Israel of perpetrating genocide in Palestine, and “carrying out the largest ethnic-cleansing operation since the end of the second world war."

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