Day 1

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Iced.

Murdered in Minnesota

By the US Government

January 2026

She is fast!

Absolutely stellar #archeaology at #FlagFen - a remarkable 3,500 year old Bronze Age site. I’d wanted to go here for years and it didn’t disappoint even on a chilly February afternoon.

Interior of reconstructed prehistoric roundhouse mid construction...roofing material waiting to be added

"Do we go around houses, or do houses go around us?" (Mario Mertz) #FlagFen #Fenland

Colour photo of an excavated, preserved tree stump of an oak that grew in the Early Bronze Age

The preserved stumps of oak trees survive below the Flag Fen post-alignment. Part of a submerged forest, these trees belong to a Early Bronze Age terrestrial landscape that pre-dates the rising groundwater table that turned these low-lying contours into a fen embayment. #BogOaks #Fenland #FlagFen 🏺

Green Party MP, Hannah Spencer, holding a sign which says: I signed the letter... Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community NION logo NotInOurName.org.uk

A big thank you to Hannah Spencer MP for signing our letter and standing in clear support of the trans+ community.

Like Hannah, many women from across the political spectrum have joined the 101,000+ UK women who have already signed our letter - Women in support of the trans+ community.

Careful of these when you're foraging wild garlic (which they grow amongst) the garlic is delicious, but these will give you a stomach ache.

I like the journey from a Welsh Abbey to the Vatican, heir to the Roman Empire.

It’s always lovely to see Domination out in the wild!

Trump schedules controversial drilling auction in Alaska wildlife refuge The Trump administration has officially scheduled an auction for the rights to drill in a controversial spot: a wildlife refuge in Alaska. The auction, in which companies will be able to bid for th…

It just never ends. The Trump administration has officially scheduled an auction for drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Companies can bid for the right to drill in ANWR starting June 5.

Green Party 'increase election ambitions after Polanski surge' The Green Party says it wants to 'give Birmingham hope again' after a tough couple of years for the city

We're making hope normal again right across England and Wales.

20 days today - help end Rip Off Britain.

Vote Green.

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Wow in less than 24 hours, your voices got Hydro Flask to join the Save the Forest Service movement!

Boarding-house novels – a few of my favourites from the shelves A few weeks ago, I posted a list of some of my favourite novels set in hotels, featuring much-loved modern classics such as Vicki Baum’s Grand Hotel, Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac and Elizabeth Tay…

And here’s my boarding house novels piece. #BookSky 💙📚 #FilmSky

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A graphic of the article headline, with the logo for People at the top followed by the headline, "EXCLUSIVE: singer Gaelynn Lea as people assume she must be miserable because of her disability: 'I have an awesome life'. Then there is a picture of of Gaelynn Lea playing her violin on a stage at the bottom of the graphic

Woo-hoo!!! 🥳 Thank you SO MUCH to People Magazine for writing about my memoir, the perception of disability, and my music! I am so excited that the book is finally out in the world... Thank you to the many lovely people who are helping to spread the word! ❤️

Read it here: people.com/singer-gaely...

Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

If evangelicals think Pope Leo is too”woke” just wait until
they hear about this fellow called Jesus.

Archway at Dawn. This morning's photo from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.

He’s completely insane, but you already knew that. Yes, it’s real. Praise be to Allah.
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Page 193 of The Phantom Tollbooth

‘You wouldn’t like it much anyway. Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.’

#booksky

Just a gentle reminder: you don’t have to read fast, finish the longest book or have the prettiest shelf, if reading bring you peace, you’re doing it right.

I’ve given Bert the day off! I’m here until 4pm - Sally

National general strike 5/1/26!

#Yachtgate

Journocide Targeting journalists and killing them with impunity isn't just a war crime, it's a warning of what comes next

NEW: It’s a journocide. Israel admits to targeting & killing three more journalists & making up false evidence.

Journalists in the west have a moral responsibility to speak up. The blowback from this impunity is coming next for us all.
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The Guardian view on Israel’s death penalty: capital punishment is always wrong. This new law is doubly so | Editorial Editorial: Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks deemed terrorism face execution – while settlers enjoy impunity despite soaring West Bank violence

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Its application to residents of the occupied Palestinian territory would constitute a war crime,” said the UN’s human rights chief, Volker Türk.

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

Meanwhile, the international press is using Israel’s fake language & euphemisms. These are all headlines from the international media. It’s not a ground operation’ or a ‘security buffer zone’. It’s an INVASION. These are war crimes.
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NEW: Lebanon is Gaza 2.0. That’s what Israeli ministers are saying in their own words. Believe them.
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The banality of evil. Like Eichmann just doing his job.