The only excuse for this mindset is that the truth is too unbearable. It is no less grotesque and unforgivable for that.
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The only excuse for this mindset is that the truth is too unbearable. It is no less grotesque and unforgivable for that.
"What we're seeing now is the most horrific stage of Israels starvation campaign... Israel has been using aid as a way to bait civilians & has been killing civilians who have been seeking aid..." Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Where’s Rosie Holt? @rosieisaholt.bsky.social
Certain people seem far more concerned that the Afghans were provided with asylum in the UK, rather than the somewhat larger issue of an data leak which put approximately 100,000 at increased risk to their lives and the MoD covering it up. We continue to abandon people needing safety.
The final nail in the coffin would be for this woman to be prosecuted for disclosing information on the Epstein file and sent to jail for life with Ghislaine.
Cummings, Pollard…people who had power and influence.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... From Sotomayor's dissent:
Do not enter the sea.
Enfin !
Consider this ‘defence’; if a murderer is in a school, it is justified to blow up that school and kill the children not to neutralise any threat or to achieve any military objective but purely to punish the murderer.
I did not want to watch it; I forced myself to and it should be obligatory watching. The BBC decision not to air it is terrifying & shocking, particularly in light of Israel’s refusal to allow the media, including the BBC into Gaza or its prisons. www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
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Full-blown militarized raid on horseback, military tactical vehicles, and soldiers on foot with a perimeter set around McArthur Park. Looks like a big show of force by ICE/Border Patrol.
More than the entirety of the former budget of Trump abolished USAID to be spent on detention centres alone. A nationwide apparatus of camps capable of deporting 1million people per year (with no due process).
What % of this £billion allegedly paid to “households with a foreign national in them” is paid to Brits? No doubt he knows the answer to that question... Utterly malign, as he well knows.
“Households with foreign nationals”???? Current Tory spiel: “don’t go partnering up with no foreigner - like…it’s not right” so you’ll be lose benefit entitlements…Incoherent, racist, nationalist nonsense, as we’ve come to expect.
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So true. Chris Mason relishing his utterly pointless and mostly ridiculous script.
Jenrick and Hannan are tweeting in their classic careless and obnoxious form, putting people’s lives at risk. What they don’t perhaps realise is that so called ‘lefty’ judges are very much the exception; mostly judges are ultra-conservative to the benefit of the incumbent Government.
“They’ve had 14 years to get ready for government” - 😂
This is the Home Office behaving exactly as intended: The visa fees paid by a grieving widower to bring his wife to the UK are kept. Despite the face that she literally died before she made it to UK soil. We need to rip this broken institution apart.
Silencing of dissent, and intimidation against those who are thinking of speaking out.
We could have predicted that fascism would not return with goose stepping and black uniforms but in the form of a pretty smiling blond wearing baby blue…
So let’s break all taboos that render us civilised, for example not hitting our children, not enslaving or exploiting the vulnerable & needy, not assuming those who are different in some way are a threat or lesser. Let’s go back to our worst selves.
My test; replace the word Muslim with Jew - rightly Goodwin would not be given airtime.
Like the BBC interviewing the French National Front on the Today programme this morning about how it will deal with ‘the boats’ when it gets into power.
The heat causes me to repeat…
We knew MAGA meant harming other countries: “it’s not enough to succeed, others must fail” etc…This, however, is a direct attack on the world as a whole - including on future generations.
The GOP bill is much worse for wind and solar than clean energy experts expected. Many were scrambling today to understand exactly what the additional tax on wind and solar means -- and how much it will slow investment. From me and Evan Halper: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Orban banned it, so even more people turned out
More and more like the mafia every day.
Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."
this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
A man with 5.1 million followers.
“The absence of any reasoning made it impossible to understand the majority’s thinking.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
#NowListening Brahms, Penderecki & Hindemith: Chamber Works Boris Kucharsky (violin), Hugo Haag (viola), Thomas Carroll (cello), Gorka Plada Girón (piano) #NewReleases2025 194/
Inadequacy seems to be the common theme.
Boris Kucharsky is in my view one of the most magnificent violinists playing today; listen to his entry in Brahms third movement. Thomas Carroll is of course an incredible cellist. Gorka is a brilliant young Spanish pianist & and I should tell you that the violist is my son. This is his debut album.
The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.
Please take the train! I did it to Hamburg - a bit slow in Germany but the rest is fast!
open.spotify.com/album/3BlWNi... #NewReleases #nowlistenibg #classical #classicalmusic
Hope you can also listen to this - also released today. open.spotify.com/album/3BlWNi... #NowListening #classical #classicalmusic
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman” - Virginia Woolf
I can see it’s august 2021 but no less interesting for that!
"Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern… the whole world is a work of art… there is no Shakespeare… no Beethoven… no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself." - Virginia Woolf blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Ordered. Looks fascinating. Congratulations.
At last - the full release of my son’s debut album I hope you can find the time to listen to it without distraction. Please do share, review and enjoy. Such an endeavour! open.spotify.com/album/3BlWNi...
More than 450 million Europeans. 29 countries. 1 shared freedom. In 2025, we mark 40 years since the Schengen Agreement was signed. This landmark event has reshaped how over 450 million Europeans live, work and travel.
Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...
"They took her in a car, in essence kidnapping her ... I met another young woman whose husband has quite literally disappeared" -- Newsom shares harrowing details of specific cases of ICE terrorizing immigrants in California
Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
Many congratulations.
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A concert combining birds and music, you say? Who on earth could possibly have programmed such a thing? Perhaps a bird-loving conductor? Saturday, 14th June, Brent Symphony Orchestra. Bird-based music by Respighi, Rautavaara, Kodaly and Sibelius. Do come! www.ticketsource.co.uk/brentsymphon...
#fascism
The single from my son’s debut album has just been released full release 20 June open.spotify.com/album/4IfNHv...
The president exists in a dystopian fantasy world with no connection to reality
Posted on X for the first time in months…it seems to have a good new filter!
This is absolutely beautiful. A debut album from one of the most gifted young musicians I have had the joy to listen to last year.
the viola player. The artwork is by my husband/his father , Philippe Haag, who is an artist.
"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees
Thank you so much. I am listening to it a lot as you can imagine.
Yes - it was quite a long haul - recorded two years ago now when he was 21. It is a stunning album.
The single from my son’s debut album has just been released full release 20 June open.spotify.com/album/4IfNHv...
New angle from the Telegraph.
Yes. Wasn’t sure about the reversal - but the couples were very good - all the acting was very good.
Highly recommend Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridge Theatre, London. Utterly joyous and moving. What we need now.
So true.
Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
🔥 Oh, well played…
I wish them both the worst.
CJEU, LGBT rights/rule of law Advocate General's opinion: Hungary's restrictions on LGBT materials breached EU law; also a free-standing breach of Article 2 TEU (values of the EU) - Hungary has "significantly deviated from the model of a constitutional democracy" curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
He’s a Brit - not an Israeli as far as I know.
Has Col. Richard Kemp, ex COBRA and JIC, taken Israeli citizenship?
#MeNeither
A stunning writer - so important and moving. Won’t forget “A boy’s own story” and “beautiful room is empty”.
That’s me too. #?
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Yes well if everyone has guns…
It is absolutely terrifying. I dread to think what will happen when Americans start fighting back.
Really! How amazing. I certainly agree. He was everything - a crazy fast game player, a running companion, a bark at the postman and a snooze by the fire dog. And even in his old age, he is a sweetie.
Screamingly funny.
We are only 5 months into this. It is only going to get worse.
Kissing the pebbles.
Well it made me laugh - just the writing is funny.
Going a bit senile now but keeps fighting - loves life so much.
Are you still posting there?
We have a cross created by mistake: Jack Russell and dachshund. He is still with us 17 years now - an utterly unutterably wonderful dog; playful, loyal, fast, fun, not smelly and does not shed and just impossible to imagine our family without him.
So so sorry.
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This is unbelievable. The man is apparently a lawyer…but does not have the first clue about the most basic rules of our profession.
The USA as self-parody.
Trump annonce la suppression de toute protection fédérale concernant des dizaines de milliers de km2 de nature sauvage en Alaska. Livrant aux forages & à l’exploitation minière les toutes dernières zones sauvages encore intactes du pays. Avec Trump, mépris des humains & de la nature vont de pair.
Love to see a community come together when ICE Nazis show up to their neighborhood and send them packing ….👏👏👏👏 South Park neighborhood of San Diego