“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911
"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
A photograph of the 6 titles shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025. The books are stood on their side on a wooden table with wood panelling backdrop. The six titles photographed are: Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, And the Walls Became the World All Around, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing (Granta) Evelyne Trouillot, Désirée Congo, translated from French (Haiti) by M.A. Salvodon (University of Virginia Press) Maylis Besserie, Francis Bacon's Nanny, translated from French (France) by Clíona Ní Ríordáin (The Lilliput Press) Krisztina Tóth, My Secret Life, translated from Hungarian (Hungary) by George Szirtes (Bloodaxe Books) Liliana Corobca, Too Great A Sky, translated from Romanian (Romania) by Monica Cure (Seven Stories Press UK) Han Kang, We Do Not Part, translated from Korean (South Korea) by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House UK)
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
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An independent UN commission has concluded that Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Three siblings sit on the ruins of their home, just moments ago flattened by Israeli bombs in Gaza.
They cry over the memories once hanging on their walls and dreams lost with their last shelter.
Elon Musk « x@elonmusk•6h Remigration is the only way Steve Laws @Steve_Laws_•18h Go anywhere in the UK and look around, you'll just see foreigners everywhere. It's truly sickening the damage that has been done to our nation and our people....
Steve Laws & @Steve_Laws_ X.com Epping is everywhere. 12:02•8/29/25 • 275K Views Elonmusk All Britain is Epping @Steve_Laws_ Keep highlighting this Elon, we appreciate it.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
Too relatable
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.
By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
The best books for summer 2025: our critics’ top picks. Sarah Moss, Joseph O’Connor, Wendy Erskine, John Banville, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and other authors and reviewers choose their top reads for the holidays
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"The soldiers film people fighting over the aid, and once it’s finished, they throw teargas to disperse the crowd. I saw displaced people who couldn’t get any aid picking pasta from the sand.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."
Photo of statement
“We will not be silent in front of the man-made humanitarian catastrophe that is taking place before our eyes in Gaza.”
A joint statement from Ireland, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Malta and Slovenia.
You know that if the New York Times is reporting this, then the situation is extremely dire. Palestinians have been saying for months that famine is happening due to Israel’s siege. That is a war crime, Israel is the agent, the US is the sponsor, and American taxpayers are rendered complicit.
"…physical book retail in Ireland is hugely important for Irish publishers & Irish authors & Irish culture…"
So grateful for all the Irish booksellers I've met the last few years, & bookshops I've spent so much time in over my life. They need support. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Val Kilmer tweeting I once tickled Lou Reed. I regretted it for the longest while as he spoke to me few times after that dinner. But I'm glad now. He needed it.
RIP King
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
we are living under fascism right now
“We’ve seen over the past couple of days over 200 children killed.”
Rosalia Bollen, a UNICEF communications specialist says an immediate ceasefire is the most critical measure that can be taken to save the lives of children in Gaza.
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If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media.
But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.
I had noted the lack of Irish presses, but didn’t catch the almost total lack in the top 25 - I do wonder if we looked at a list from 1975 to 2000, what would the share be like?
Lilliput did do the initial hardback of the Spinning Heart, though it was published in the UK in hardback and the paperback here after. Think I counted 17 in the entire list of 100 which were originated or first published in Ireland, although almost all of those went on to a UK press after
