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Five million World Cup ticket requests since Thursday - Fifa Fifa says five million World Cup ticket requests have been made, despite coming under pressure from supporters' groups critical of its

BBC News - Five million World Cup ticket requests in one day - Fifa
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Colombia v Portugal most popular; that'll freak US Homeland Security
Average monthly salary is just over $1000

Its actually 3.30 am on Saturday, December 13th!

Ugh
Today could be Friday, Saturday, or even Sunday.So engrossed in reading about Pearl Harbor convinced was Sunday December 7th.At one stage in the past 24 hours ot could've been 6.30 am or 8.30 pm
Methinks need to go back on meds if can find them😠😠
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Four EU States Push “Plan B” as Brussels Struggles to Finalize Long-Term Ukraine Funding A new split has emerged inside the European Union over how to finance Ukraine’s budget in the coming years, after Italy, Belgium, Malta, and Bulgaria jointly urged Brussels to slow down on its flagshi...

ALL the latest FACTUAL updates from Brussels and beyond

Four EU States Push “Plan B” as Brussels Struggles to Finalize Long-Term Ukraine Funding

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Private firm brought in as stopgap measure after dramatic cuts in flying hours at Baldonnel Due to a significant understaffing issue in Baldonnel, the Irish Air Corps was forced to adopt a five day week service.

A private company will employ some former Irish Air Corps personnel to act as nighttime airfield controllers in order to keep the military flying, The Journal has learned.
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Transgender care waiting list to close due to resourcing concerns The National Gender Service (NGS), which provides healthcare for transgender adults, is closing its waiting lists due to a lack of resources, Prime Time has learned

Ireland: Transgender care waiting list to close due to resourcing concerns.

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

It is very difficult to think of anything Trump has done this year that does not denigrate the USA’s staunchest allies and delight their once shared enemies, most obviously Vladimir Putin. And apart perhaps from Mark Carney, Western politicians are not rising to the unprecedented challenge he poses.

The Telegraph Graham Linehan My trans critics are cowards. Yes, Ardal O'Hanlon - that includes yOu I expected more from my friend of 25 years. But he would rather condemn me than fight for the rights of women and girls

I expected more from Ardal. I never thought he would intone the catechism. "I still get on great with everyone," he said in a recent interview with The Times, "though I haven't seen much of the show's creator, Graham Linehan, and am baffled as to why he got involved in the culture wars. I feel sorry for him - he's entitled to his opinions, but the way he presented them made it confrontational. When I read that, I phoned him immediately. When people betray me, I always make the mistake of phoning them straight away. My heart was thumping in my chest as I found his number and gave him a faux-polite, "Hey Ardal, how's it going?". My anger was already boiling. I knew exactly what he would say - the exact same things Bill Bailey said when I phoned him, the exact same things Amelia Bullmore said when I wrote to her. I knew, and I phoned anyway, because I can't help myself. And when he started reading from the same script as all the others, I lost my temper. At some point, Ardal said, "I just disagree with you."

I would have said all this to him on the phone, but I was so angry I could not get any of it out. In fact, at one point I said, "You're on my f--ing s--t list." Ridiculous, of course, but unfortunately true. Like Father Ted at the Golden Cleric Awards, I keep a tally of every person who took the easy path and watched me twist in the wind. I can't help it. I remember them all. Tim Heidecker saying I'd gone down a "rabbit hole". David O'Doherty, who didn't have the guts to speak to me. My own brother-in-law publicly calling me insane. Adam Buxton, Jon Ronson, Richard Herring, Stewart Lee. People who knew me, people who had my phone number, people who could have asked, people who assumed the worst because doing otherwise would have exposed them to the same treatment I was receiving. In condemning me, to use Douglas Murray's line, they raise a little flag outside their home so the mob will pass them by. And every time one of them hands a journalist another little quote - another "baffled," another "sorry," another "he's awful, but I hope he's okay" - they get to carry on with their lives while mine gets smaller. None of them

Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬

He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!

Less than 11 months to midterms
Republicans must be approaching the " go no go" moment for disentanglng themselves from Trump if the want to salvage anything from the elections

'Not sure I want him': Commentator predicts GOP will run from Trump President Donald Trump is set to campaign across the country to promote his economic record, but MS NOW commentator John Heilemann predicts that Republican lawmakers facing reelection in 2026 will wan...

After his speech in Pennsylvania - not a lot of folks want to stand with him

'Not sure I want him': Commentator predicts GOP will run from Trump www.alternet.org/trump-2026-m...

National Trust sues to stop Trump’s ballroom construction The organization, which is charged by Congress with historic preservation, is seeking to halt construction on one of the president’s priorities.

The lawsuit I didn’t know I was waiting for. 🙏 gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4oRY378

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.

Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.

Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

Iran Arrests Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi, Foundation Says The activist was temporarily released from prison last year while recovering from surgery.

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, a prominent human-rights advocate, was arrested at a public event on Friday, according to her foundation.

COVID Vaccines Slashed Kids’ ER Visits by 76 Percent, Study Finds A report published by the CDC reaffirms the effectiveness of COVID vaccines at preventing severe disease in children

www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...

I'd worry more about the biological weapon in her nappy 😂😂😂

Zelenskyy at the literal front line and Kobakhidze right next to Putin.

Kobakhidze hasn't even visited the occupation line in Georgia, ever.

And regime mouthpieces call Zelenskyy a coward & a clown.

Don’t let the Georgian scenario happen to Ukraine - the Trojan horse takeover.

When your appearance with Trump has to be blocked out for your own protection

The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot These are the facts: plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapse, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Had issues with Monbiot in the past, but this article is a very important read.

Demographics are much, much more important than we think, & fascist Farage trying to make an issue out of immigration - with cowardly Keir letting him - will harm us all.

TLDR: We NEED immigration.

Is #2 optional? Say yes!

Barrister confirms trans ‘exclusion is not mandatory’ after discrimination case The UK’s first out non-binary barrister has emphasised that “nothing in the current law makes [trans] exclusion mandatory”.

Non-binary barrister is very clear that excluding trans people is not mandatory.

This means that if you exclude trans people you are doing it voluntarily and because you want to.

If you want to exclude trans people you will be held responsible for your actions.

Gwan Leo ye good (God?)thing!

#OtD 10 Dec 2006 former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, died. His regime, supported enthusiastically by the UK and US, saw thousands of radicals, trade unionists and others rounded up and executed, with tens of thousands more jailed and tortured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8182...

Russia’s air defenses have a Flamingo missile-sized weak spot, report suggests Ukraine's domestically produced cruise missiles could help deal a devastating blow to Russia's air defense production, enabling increasingly effective long-range drone strikes against other targets in...

The report from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), titled "Disrupting Russian Air Defence Production: Reclaiming the Sky," identifies "significant vulnerabilities" in the production process of several of Moscow's most important air defense systems.

Hey. If you're using Gmail, you've been automatically opted in to allow Gmail to access your private messages to train AI. This is obviously a violation of your privacy + security & another way for people to further spy on marginalized folks. You can disable this by turning off Smart Features.

Stanley Baxter: Scottish comedian with a gift for sketches, mimicry and song The actor and impressionist, known for comic parodies and his love of dressing up, was one of the biggest stars of the 1970s and 1980s.

BBC News - Stanley Baxter: Scottish comedian with a gift for sketches, mimicry and song
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Lavish big budget productions that were perhaps a bit sophisticated for me as a child but which always contained pieces that really made me laugh
RIP

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

The only guarantee of peace in Europe is a Ukrainian victory over russia.

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Europe must prepare for war with Russia, NATO chief warns "We must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured," NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned.

⚡️ Europe must prepare for war with Russia, NATO chief warns.

"We must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured," NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned.

Theres so much conflicting info in this from Deadley Wesley that I get the impression he's starting to realise hes screwed up royally and looking for an avenue to save himself.

Trouble is, hes in an alley, the exits are blocked at boh ends, and the pitchforks are descending.

Reeks of desperation