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When it comes to Palestine, for over a century Britain has been duplicitous and mendacious, says Shlaim in his latest book.

Prof Avi Shlaim has some words.

As the Gaza famine death toll rises, UK imports of Israeli fruit and veg have soared - £51.3m in just three months, up from £29.1m.

While Palestinians starve, Israel’s agricultural exports to Britain are booming.

Full story by ‘Slicker’ in the latest issue.

35% Trump tariff? Canada just quietly picked up their potatoes and went out through the side door to find a better customer. Americans, enjoy your limp fries 🤣

I’m starting to think it was a bad idea to elect a big dummy like this to be President.

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American Eagle's controversial ad campaign is all over the news and everyone's algorithms.

But you know what they're not talking about?

The brand’s glaring 'D' rating on Stand.earth’s Fossil Free Fashion Scorecard... 🧵

Counterpoint to the AHA Committee: it is NOT OUR JOB TO TEACH AI literacy. It is our job to teach students history, critical thinking; how to interrogate and analyse sources, primary and secondary; how to write and weave historical narratives; how to communicate history to the public and more.

At least, during the awful McCarthy era, the right wing president was a decent, reliable, honest, non-criminal.

Unreal.

In yet another one of the Trump administration’s distraction tactics from their failure to release the Epstein files, they invited someone guilty of statutory rape with a 16-year-old to the White House.

‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet

“There is a problematic underlying approach in how UNEP operates, which is to consider that the people who created the problems, benefited from the problem, have lied about the problem and their responsibility about it for years and decades, are trustworthy partners to solve those problems.”

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Excerpt from Ursula K. Le Guin's essay, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction: "If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what have you, and then take it home with you, home being another, larger kind of pouch or bag, a container for people, and then later on you take it out and eat it or share it or store it up for winter in a solider container or put it in the medicine bundle or the shrine or the museum, the holy place, the area that contains what is sacred, and then next day you probably do much the same again—if to do that is human, if that's what it takes, then I am a human being after all. Fully, freely, gladly, for the first time. Not, let it be said at once, an unaggressive or uncombative human being. I am an aging, angry woman laying mightily about me with my handbag, fighting hoodlums off. However I don't, nor does anybody else, consider myself heroic for doing so. It's just one of those damned things you have to do in order to be able to go on gathering wild oats and telling stories. It is the story that makes the difference. It is the story that hid my humanity from me, the story the mammoth hunters told about bashing, thrusting, raping, killing, about the Hero. The wonderful, poisonous story of Botulism. The killer story. It sometimes seems that that story is approaching its end. Lest there be no more telling of stories at all, some of us out here in the wild oats, amid the alien corn, think we'd better start telling another one, which maybe people can go on with when the old one's fin-ished. Maybe. The trouble is, we've all let ourselves become part of the killer story, and so we may get finished along with it. Hence it is with a certain feeling of urgency that I seek the nature, subject, words of the other story, the untold one, the life story.

This thread very much reminds me of Ursula K. Le Guin's essay, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction an essay that encourages us to tell a new story of humans and our relationship with the each other and the world around us.

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World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...

Screen shots of the 2 page face sheet found at the link provided in the post.

NEW FACT SHEET from my team, Concerned Health Professionals NY, on the health harms of the zombie pipelines Trump is pushing our governor to permit.

A snap to compile because WE ALREADY DID THE SCIENCE FOR THE FIRST TIME THESE PIPELINE PERMITS WERE DENIED.

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Nails the core of the gov't/public disconnect: "All the decisions we made had trade-offs,” he says. "We should have spoken more openly about them. The broader reflection is, does our political discourse allow enough space for honest conversations?”

Ah well.

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How Trump's campaign of hatred against migrant "invaders" is fueling potential violence "There's nothing normal about any of this."

Reminder: Six years ago today, a gunman motivated by hatred of immigrants carried out a horrific massacre in Texas. The demagoguery and ideology he cited had been pushed heavily by Donald Trump. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Organizations sound alarm as gender equality department faces 81% budget cut OTTAWA — Organizations working to advancing gender equality are sounding the alarm as the federal department for women and gender equality, WAGE, faces a potential budget cut of just over 80 per cent.

It may be your last, he is cutting all services for Women and Queer people:

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🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “Every Republican at every level of government should be challenged, even running for dog catcher… They should be challenged fighting for health care as a human right for every American… let them know there are consequences for taking away people’s health care…”

PepFar was initiated in 2003 by George Bush & Dr Fauci to get HIV meds to HIV+ people throughout the world
Since then it has saved some 26 million ppl.
ButTrump shut it down inJan- killing 60,000 people so far.God knows how many babies are being born positive, sick and no meds

Official White House video.

I s—- you not.

Trump’s tariffs are a humongous back door tax on US consumers and they’re part of a massive transfer of wealth to the rich.

All surviving former IDF Chiefs of Staff, Mossad directors, Shin Bet Chiefs and Police Commissioners have issued a joint statement warning Israel that Netanyahu is leading the nation to unprecedented defeat. (Restart Israel)

Opinion | What to Do When the President Acts Like a Five-Year-Old?

Excellent analysis and insightful perception, worth your attention:

What to Do When the President Acts Like a Five-Year-Old? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in

This is a very clear historical and current summary, and utterly damning. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Since Israel cut off aid in March _to try to force Hamas to give up hostages_, Israel’s effort to install its own distribution system has been marred by chaos and casualties while hunger has increased. Scores have been killed as Gazans rushed to get food.

This was never the purpose, and it's obscene to keep repeating the lie this far into a premeditated atrocity.
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