Phil W. 🍉(FCCT)🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 🇪🇺

One of the reasons it's so interesting to live in the EU

Two days late but sending good wishes all the same!

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I dig the phrase "People of the Global Majority" instead of "People of Color," because it's (a) more accurate; (b) less white centering.

Thank you, Rosemary Campbell-Stephens!

PORTRAIT. "Une résistance musicale" : pourquoi Bad Bunny, la superstar portoricaine qui va enflammer la mi-temps du Super Bowl, ne fait pas danser Donald Trump L'artiste de reggaeton, au sommet des écoutes mondiales en 2025, se produira lors de la finale du championnat de foot américain. Mais la défense de son île natale et son opposition à la politique migr...

"Une résistance musicale" : pourquoi Bad Bunny, la superstar portoricaine qui va enflammer la mi-temps du Super Bowl, ne fait pas danser Donald Trump www.franceinfo.fr/culture/musi...

Donald Trump is pursuing regime change – in Europe | Jonathan Freedland The US made it clear this week that it plans to help the parties of the European far right gain power. Keir Starmer and his fellow leaders have to face this new reality, writes Guardian columnist Jona...

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Time to wake up, Europe!

Compared to 2014, more children go on holiday and have clean clothes but less live in well-heated homes. Why?

‘I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did’: the intersex campaigners fighting to limit surgery on children What should be done about the small proportion of babies born with genitals that are neither typically male nor typically female? Many of those affected believe parents and doctors are often too quick...

There is no blueprint for how to live in a body that is not easily definable as male or female, so people (..) pick one side or the other- or have it picked for them(..)- which doesn't always work.

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Mamdani shows a different way is possible The New York mayor’s resounding victory is a warning to Trump and his own party’s old guard

“London and New York, two of the west’s largest, richest, and most diverse cities are now run by Muslim men, both of them elected on the ticket of left wing, pro-LGBT, pro-multicultural parties…The victory is a reminder of the fundamental weakness of Trumpism, Faragism, and the politics of hate.”

Avion de chasse, couronne et largage d'excréments... La réponse en vidéo de Donald Trump au mouvement "No Kings" qui a mobilisé des millions d'Américains Le président des Etats-Unis a diffusé sur son réseau social une vidéo générée par l'IA pour répondre aux très nombreux manifestants qui ont défilé contre lui samedi un peu partout dans le pays, rallié...

Avion de chasse, couronne et largage d'excréments... La réponse en vidéo de Donald Trump au mouvement "No Kings" qui a mobilisé des millions d'Américains www.franceinfo.fr/monde/usa/pr...

No heart is too hard for love’s light to reach. 🌟🌈 #HeartToHeart #LoveHeals #KindnessMatters

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

No words.
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Enjoying international cuisines makes people more tolerant, UK study finds Frequent and varied eating found to reduce likelihood of perceiving immigrants as ‘cultural or economic threats’

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I am a passionate consumer of cuisine and can only encourage you to do the same!

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Untitled, 2009

by Kerry James Marshall

The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran | Owen Jones Israel is the main source of terror and instability in the Middle East. But the west continually turns away from this reality, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The west’s facilitation of Israel’s atrocities relies on treating Arab and Iranian lives as worthless.

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This is the America I know.

Big breaking news

The reported appointment of Gilbert, a former chief inspector who oversaw the scathing governance review of Ofsted after Ruth Perry's death, will be welcomed by the sector

She won't be afraid to hold Ofsted to account over their disastrous report card plans

At least @eddavey.libdems.org.uk is posting on here and speaking up for people's rights.

Thousands of Israelis join violent, racist march through Jerusalem’s Muslim quarter State-backed flag day march shut down Palestinian life in Old City to celebrate Israel’s 1967 occupation of East Jerusalem

The past is being weaponised by biblically motivated settlers to displace Palestinians, demolish their homes and recreate their vision of a renewed pseudo-ancient Israel- Danny Seidemann, Israeli attorney

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AI in Education: a teacher's view.
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#Naqba

@angelabrowne.bsky.social this reminds me of our conversation the other day. ♥️

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“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm

We need to look #islamophobia in the eye.

A worshipper is murdered in a French mosque. How can this be ‘just another crime’? | Rokhaya Diallo Islamophobia is rampant in France. Official denial, even of the word itself, is driving the hatred, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

Had you heard about Aboubakar Cissé?