COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: CPJ calls for immediate rescue of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, trapped under rubble in southern Lebanon cpj.org?p=583367 @pressfreedom.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #journalismisnotacrime #pressfreedom
"Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli forces 'pursued' journalists Zeinab Faraj and Amal Khalil by striking the house where they had taken shelter...a Lebanese Red Cross ambulance was then obstructed and fired upon while attempting to evacuate the wounded, including being hit with a stun grenade."
One of my favourite things in the world. I’ve seen many, but this one is spectacular. Thanks so much for posting.
So this Earth Day we'd love to encourage everyone to try adding more plant-based meals to their diet. Designating one day a week is a great way to start! www.earthday.org/actions/plan...
“I think that he (Morgan McSweeney) said to the Prime Minister don’t worry about that I can sort this out and was railroading it through treading on process” Emily Thornberry Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee tells Sky’s Sophy ridge
An image containing a post from Isabel Oakeshott complaining that the press are reporting on her boyfriend’s tax dodging accompanied by various reports about his tax dodging.
'Richard Tice’s girlfriend is very annoyed that the free press she champions, despite having emigrated to a dictatorship without one, is investigating her boyfriend for stuff she says people who aren’t her boyfriend, like Angela Rayner, should resign over.'
You couldn’t make it up. 🤦🏻♂️
Not much time left, alas.
Brill. 🤣🤣
Thanks for expressing the mental gymnastics, aka cognitive dissonance, necessary for this kind of (mis)reasoning, in exactly the right way.
Me too. But they (do they still exist?) and their ilk will always find something about the EU to disdain.
In the context of UK PMs resigning before their term is up, @aphclarkson.bsky.social makes the interesting observation "... that the supposedly fractious Italian system has had less Prime Ministers serving for longer on average than the UK system since 2007."
It just goes to show how deep the exceptionalist attitudes in Britain run.
Don‘t you despair sometimes, Niall?
Meanwhile, methane turbines set up by Musk to power the plant emit:
- cancer-causing formaldehyde
- nitrogen oxides linked to heart + breathing conditions + increased hospital admissions
People's water stolen, air choked, to feed the ravenous appetite of AI:
share.google/JeHWTbHB2PcK...
A water recycling plant Elon Musk promised to build in Memphis to offset the huge amount of local drinking water Grok's data centre devours has been postponed indefinitely.
Apparently, Musk considers drinking water for local people less of a priority than increasing computing power for Grok👇🏾
Amid the war in Iran, food insecurity is rising
Our climate columnist Tim Smedley argues that we need to move away from fossil-fuel fertilisers and towards regenerative agriculture
REMEMBER THIS?! 👇
The Iran war is damaging America's influence around the world and exacerbating tensions with countries already whipsawed by Trump's second term — an erosion of power that could be tough to reverse as U.S. adversaries such as China take advantage.
Absolutely brilliant.. and I understood every word of it! 😂
#IranWar
#TrumpIran
@timothysnyder.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @katiecouric.bsky.social
You can watch the moment on iPlayer here. From 6m and 10s into the programme.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
For those unsure of the controversy around Hoyle. The speaker whose father helped found labour friends of Israel in the 1950's.
It's no wonder people have lost faith in impartiality when the corrupt are the leaders & calling out lying carries more consequence than lying.
The headline is – Anti-Islam influencer Valentina Gomez blocked from entering UK for far-right rally.
What the Guardian has missed is that Gomez is a Russian propaganda mouthpiece who is rabidly anti-Ukraine, anti-NATO and parrots the Russian antivax script.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
🎯 I support @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu suggestion of a new EU-led mutual defence treaty org for nations outside the EU.
However, an EU security council & army need to be EU only,
as the incl of non-EU partners would leave EUs def vulnerable to their vetoes.
Join EU to join EU army & SC.
🇪🇺⚔️
#EUdef
Should this EU veto thing not be overhauled so that another Hungary can‘t happen?
which matches the 1 decade decline Southern Meridional Overturning Circulation. ( SMOC) and which matches the breaking of the ocean food chain over a decade ago: substack.com/@ogredragon/...
Atlantic Ocean sensors confirm a consistent two-decade decline in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Data from four mooring arrays across the western boundary verify a weakening transport signal below 1,000 meters, validating concerns of long-term circulation shifts.
