🇺🇸 🇻🇪 Le président américain, Donald Trump, a déclaré samedi que les forces américaines avaient capturé le président vénézuélien, Nicolas Maduro, après avoir lancé une "attaque de grande envergure" contre le pays sud-américain.

🇭🇰 An outpouring of grief swept Hong Kong on Saturday as thousands paid their respects and laid flowers for the 128 people killed in one of the city's deadliest fires, marking the start of an official, three-day mourning period.
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This Is the World’s Biggest Animal Migration—and Few Outsiders Have Seen It Six million antelope storm through a pocket of Africa that’s nearly impossible to get to, but the Journal caught them on camera. “The entire planet should be amazed that this exists.”

Wow, I’ve been to South Sudan but I would absolutely love to go back to shoot this spectacular event

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100% agree…. No timewasters please

We Are Dust We are dust in pain. The light shines through us as through wave-spray, dust of water breaking, or the falling rain.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Last year was the deadliest year for migrants, with nearly 9,000 people dying worldwide, the United Nations said on Friday, calling the "tragedy... unacceptable and preventable". u.afp.com/SwdD

Charts showing average salary of all occupations in Australia by gender. in 96% men have a higher salary.

With news of the gender pay gaps in Australia worth remembering that in 96% of all occupations, men earn more than women. Ninety six. (Including, of course, midwives)
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✅Measles was declared eliminated in U.S. in 2000 due to the measles vaccine.

📍Today, Mexico has issued a warning to avoid traveling to the U.S. because of measles outbreaks in Texas and 7 other U.S. states.

Heard this throughout my life

Sterling K Brown, what an actor #paradise

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Now, like any time, is a good time to mention that if you want to read about Ukrainian literature in English, @chytomo.bsky.social is now on Bluesky!!

White House will decide which journalists get access to it in an unprecedented step Journalists and media critics warned that White House control of the press pool threatens the foundations of a free press.

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Associated Press sues White House officials over press access ban The wire service’s journalists have been banned from White House events since Feb. 11 over the organization’s use of the name Gulf of Mexico.

“The Constitution does not allow the government to control speech… Allowing such government control and retaliation to stand is a threat to every American’s freedom.“

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It happened so fast, I didn’t realize until just now that Bluesky has blown past 31 MILLION active users!! 💨 🦋
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Excellent use of data and graphics #USAID

🇨🇳 En Chine, la virile danse du lion s'ouvre aux femmes.
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Donald Trump pauses tariffs on low-cost parcels in US-China trade reprieve Repeal of ‘de minimis’ exemption had sparked turmoil at US customs and postal service as shipments piled up

Donald Trump pauses tariffs on low-cost parcels in US-China trade reprieve

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Wait, what???

Good story by Will Patterson

Good read

A black and white print that shows a cross section of soil with a potato plant growing in it. The text reads "They tried to bury me. They didn't know I was a potato."

Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped.

“Without treatment, virus levels in people with HIV will spike, hobbling the immune systems of the infected and increasing odds they will spread the virus to others.
Interrupted treatment may lead to the emergence of resistant strains that can spread across the world”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

Photo taken on January 25, 2025 shows Uzma Naveed (R), an outreach coordinator, and social worker Jeffrey Andrews (L) speaking to ‘John’ (C) at the Christian Action Centre for Refugees in Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong. US President Donald Trump's executive order to suspend all refugee admissions and halt the US asylum programme, signed hours after taking office, has left adrift dozens in the Chinese city approved for US resettlement. (Peter Parks / AFP)

US President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Jim Watson / AFP)

After 13 years in Hong Kong as a refugee, "John" received plane tickets that would grant his family new lives in the United States—only for them to be snatched away with a stroke of the pen by President Donald Trump.

AFP breaks the story: www.yahoo.com/news/us-boun...

The WASPs did an incredible job ferrying warplanes around the world to where they were needed. They flew every kind of plane, from P-51s to B-29s, across oceans and arctic wastes. 38 of them lost their lives doing so.

a man with a lanyard around his neck is dancing ALT: a man with a lanyard around his neck is dancing

Watching subreddits banning X links

Good 🧵

Lip Sync: Creature Comforts (Original Short) YouTube video by Creature Comforts

Re-visiting one of my all-time favorite Aardman animations, #CreatureComforts, using unscripted vox pox

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MERON ESTEFANOS | A CONVERSATION ON ERITREA WITH THOR HALVORSSEN | OFFinJOBURG YouTube video by Oslo Freedom Forum

For more on the plight of migrants in Libya, the one person on this earth who has dedicated most of her life to assisting, raising awareness about and even rescuing migrants in Libya and stranded off its coast....Meron Estifanos, journalist and heroine, is an essential follow @meron.bsky.social.

Important thread, #pleaseread