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It would really be worth getting officials and community groups to look at the Sicily example. After two anti-Mafia judges were murdered there was a huge public backlash. People being extorted need to know that the state authorities are behind them and will act swiftly and decisively

Has DOJ any research to say where this is happening? Specific areas and groups?

‘No Mafia’ memorial museum - Palermo, Sicily

Sign in shop window indicates the business doesn’t pay protection money

@naomilong.bsky.social there are lessons to be learnt from Sicily where they have an anti-mafia museum and shops have stickers saying they won’t pay ‘Pizzi’ - protection money. Ending extortion requires a whole society approach and civic courage

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Four female figures with bent strained necks supporting a stone sarcophagus- from Florence, Italy

European leaders be like… after Davos
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Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

Remember what happened after Boris did that?

A cartoon of a news report. The picture shows a government official doing a press conference flanked by goons. The headline reads “A man attacked federal bullets with his body” Underneath the picture is a quote saying “those bullets had families”

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Our children have the most powerful educational device ever invented in their pockets - and for most it will be essential in their careers. Shameful that we can’t come up with something better than this reactionary ban.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Why is the UK media not reporting this? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social #Minnesota

Dear politicians - the 13 year olds you ban from social media now will be voting in the 2029 elections. You wan them to make informed decisions? How are they supposed be o inform themselves? #SocialMediaBan

Get Rachel running some elections. The way she organised them transfers at the end was incredible #TheTraitors

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

The inevitable consequence of the hard Brexit the DUP insisted on.

NOW - Musk: "My prediction is there'll be more robots than people... everyone on Earth is going to have one and going to want one... who wouldn't want a robot to... watch over your kids, take care of your pets... we are in the most interesting time in history." 4:08 PM Jan 22, 2026 223.8K Views

Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids?

The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.

Have we stopped talking about how perverse this test is in the first place? Gamed by the middle classes to heap advantage on the already advantaged

So on the one hand the @ukgovernment.bsky.social is empowering young people by giving 16 and 17 year olds the vote (and allowing 14 year olds to register) and then proposing banning the under 16s from social media? It is a misguided and disproportionate idea and could be hugely counterproductive

This! We need to be talking more about this.how obscene wealth perverts politics and much else @politicsinaction.bsky.social @sci-belfast.bsky.social

What a truly bizarre headline- it is hardly a competition!

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

The widely reported statement about restricting the feature to subscribers was a hallucinatory answer by the AI Grok - not a statement by the company itself

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Any tips out there @bsky.app for making the platform work for a small charity that has left the dark place?

And now Italy too

Fantastic - well done Rory!

Horrible news - incredibly distressing.

Let’s talk about relationship and sexuality education.

Let’s talk about relationship and sexuality education. RSE is important because it: respects the rights of children; promotes a better understanding of diversity and inclusion; helps children to keep themselves safer in the digital world; provides reliable, accurate and timely age-appropriate information; promotes the use of appropriate language; and helps children to recognise inappropriate behaviour and touch. Department for Education 2023 Info for Parents

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helps children to keep themselves safer in the digital world;
provides reliable, accurate and timely age-appropriate information;
promotes the use of appropriate language; and
helps children to recognise inappropriate behaviour and touch.

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