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Journalist, editor, consultant, occasional DJ Formerly of @the_newarab, @AlJazeera RTs≠endorsement brownsellj@gmail.com PGP key: http://bit.ly/2epcjnk

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NASA eyes March 6 to launch 4 astronauts to the moon on Artemis II mission The four astronauts heading to the moon for the lunar fly-by are the first humans to venture there since 1972. The ten-day mission will travel more than 600,000 miles.

The four astronauts heading to the moon for the lunar fly-by are the first humans to venture there since 1972. The ten-day mission will travel more than 600,000 miles. n.pr/3MGDDRF

20.02.2026 19:46 — 👍 240    🔁 48    💬 14    📌 8

The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.

14.11.2025 21:47 — 👍 5760    🔁 1105    💬 139    📌 134

We must reveal all the terrible secrets of our elites! ... no, that's too many secrets, put some back

14.11.2025 12:45 — 👍 690    🔁 67    💬 7    📌 3
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Donald Trump was President when Epstein died and Donald Trump is on the Epstein list. Let’s talk about it.

12.11.2025 23:38 — 👍 2603    🔁 874    💬 122    📌 39
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/

12.11.2025 19:00 — 👍 9268    🔁 2165    💬 81    📌 83

Palestine's Official Selection for the 98th Academy Awards.

Other showings and all information on the official website

www.watermelonpictures.com/films/palest...

14.11.2025 22:02 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.

The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

10.11.2025 11:29 — 👍 2426    🔁 592    💬 164    📌 38

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture--

which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

05.11.2025 16:17 — 👍 1051    🔁 227    💬 22    📌 16
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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

05.11.2025 23:09 — 👍 31508    🔁 15019    💬 1053    📌 1003

Our country is still not close to being a true autocracy, in the mold of Russia or China. But once countries begin taking steps away from democracy, the march often continues. We offer these 12 markers as a warning of how much Americans have already lost and how much more we still could lose.

31.10.2025 21:47 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly The digital habits that defined youth are transforming old age

Something approaching a moral panic has taken hold in many countries over the impact of digital technology on young people. Yet a less-noticed explosion in screen time is happening within a different generation

24.10.2025 15:20 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

And at only £500 a flag, a great demonstration of how fiscally prudent and financially sensible these people are.

24.10.2025 15:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And in so doing re-enforces the sense in which the current bout of flag-flying isn't a symbol of shared belonging but a political, and, here, an explicitly party political, statement.

24.10.2025 13:32 — 👍 101    🔁 33    💬 10    📌 2

Mae gobaith.

24.10.2025 01:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

24.10.2025 01:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is the announcement being streamed anywhere?

24.10.2025 01:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

I was just going to bed...

24.10.2025 01:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can anyone at the Caerffili Caerphilly count give any clues as to how far off they are from announcing?

24.10.2025 00:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Men only want one thing and it's disgusting:

Caerphilly result before 3am

24.10.2025 00:41 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

The only people still denying Israel's genocide are Nazis, whether they accept the label or not. They will never be forgiven or forgotten. Never given a moments peace

17.09.2025 06:33 — 👍 41    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

In June, a Democratic state rep in Minnesota was murdered, and a state senator was shot.

And a couple of days later, Trump said he wouldn't phone Gov. Walz, calling him "whacked out" and "a mess"

10.09.2025 21:21 — 👍 3283    🔁 1181    💬 36    📌 23

Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.

10.09.2025 20:14 — 👍 3033    🔁 919    💬 21    📌 33
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Trump team ends $18m program designed to ID domestic terrorists before they attack Administration is axing an $18 million program designed to identify and prevent attacks committed by individual perpetrators, an increasingly growing trend in domestic terrorism

anyway

10.09.2025 20:19 — 👍 720    🔁 263    💬 14    📌 7

They are forcibly detransitioning people. They are denying life saving abortion care. They used the lifeless body of Adriana Smith as an incubator without her or her family's consent. They are denying millions vaccines which prevent deadly & chronic illness.

These too are violence.

10.09.2025 20:18 — 👍 509    🔁 171    💬 1    📌 0

"Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty."

Charlie Kirk

10.09.2025 19:54 — 👍 5741    🔁 1559    💬 312    📌 110

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

10.09.2025 19:40 — 👍 43709    🔁 10062    💬 1799    📌 610

Looking forward to the President who pardoned rioters that attacked Congress weighing in on political violence never being acceptable.

10.09.2025 19:49 — 👍 4184    🔁 853    💬 95    📌 26

Right-wing Americans claiming there’s no place for political violence a day after they were celebrating the attempted assassination of the Hamas delegation is on brand.

10.09.2025 19:59 — 👍 19    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

the equivalent of Soviet broadcasters playing Swan Lake

18.07.2025 03:24 — 👍 2704    🔁 399    💬 55    📌 13
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Pen-blwydd hapus Gruff Rhys! 🎂 🥳 🎈

... a anwyd ar y dydd hwn yn 1970 (55 mlynedd yn ôl).

Ef yw prif leisydd a gitarydd y band Super Furry Animals. Cafodd ei eni yn Hwlffordd, Sir Benfro.

cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruff_R... #aydh

18.07.2025 06:45 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0