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Men. Let's talk prostate cancer.
Reflections on my own diagnosis. I’m lucky. My cancer was caught early because I arranged a simple blood test.
Read on. www.linkedin.com/m/pulse/lets...
Reflections on my own diagnosis. I’m lucky. My cancer was caught early because I arranged a simple blood test.
Read on. www.linkedin.com/m/pulse/lets...
WHY THANKSGIVING IS ALSO A NATIONAL NATIVE DAY OF MOURNING blog.nativehope.org/what-does-th...
The History of Thanksgiving from the Native American Perspective
The real history of Thanksgiving from the Native American perspective tells a different story than you may know, making it a complicated holiday for many.
blog.nativehope.org
November 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
WHY THANKSGIVING IS ALSO A NATIONAL NATIVE DAY OF MOURNING blog.nativehope.org/what-does-th...
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Last month, @theguardian.com framed this historical event project the same way; minimizing the years of archival work, the interviews etc it took to be able to do this.
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Last month, @theguardian.com framed this historical event project the same way; minimizing the years of archival work, the interviews etc it took to be able to do this.
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
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🚨Now on 86,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 90,000 tonight!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
🚨Now on 86,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 90,000 tonight!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
WTF. ‘Trump to hand Putin Ukraine’s occupied territories
US president sends envoys to Moscow with peace plan that recognises Russia’s war gains’
<enough of this. Enough of Trump.
US president sends envoys to Moscow with peace plan that recognises Russia’s war gains’
<enough of this. Enough of Trump.
November 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
WTF. ‘Trump to hand Putin Ukraine’s occupied territories
US president sends envoys to Moscow with peace plan that recognises Russia’s war gains’
<enough of this. Enough of Trump.
US president sends envoys to Moscow with peace plan that recognises Russia’s war gains’
<enough of this. Enough of Trump.
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Defence Committee
Oral evidence: Afghan Data Breach and Resettlement Schemes: committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...
Oral evidence: Afghan Data Breach and Resettlement Schemes: committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Defence Committee
Oral evidence: Afghan Data Breach and Resettlement Schemes: committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...
Oral evidence: Afghan Data Breach and Resettlement Schemes: committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...
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Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
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Mapping Deportations: What 58 Million Removals Reveal about the History of the U.S. Immigration System
New deportation data project shows that immigration control is not neutral but a racial boundary-making system built across years of policy decisions.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/mapping-de...
New deportation data project shows that immigration control is not neutral but a racial boundary-making system built across years of policy decisions.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/mapping-de...
Mapping Deportations: What 58 Million Removals Reveal about the History of the U.S. Immigration System
Over two centuries of deportation data and restrictive laws show that immigration enforcement is not a neutral process but a racial boundary-making system built across decades of policy decisions.
austinkocher.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Mapping Deportations: What 58 Million Removals Reveal about the History of the U.S. Immigration System
New deportation data project shows that immigration control is not neutral but a racial boundary-making system built across years of policy decisions.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/mapping-de...
New deportation data project shows that immigration control is not neutral but a racial boundary-making system built across years of policy decisions.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/mapping-de...
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Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
Index on Censorship has today published a new report entitled Breaking encryption is legally and practically unworkable which sets out our position on why governments should not break end-to-end encryption (E2EE).
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/11/new-...
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/11/new-...
New report: Breaking encryption is legally and practically unworkable - Index on Censorship
Publication sets out our position on why governments should not break end-to-end encryption (E2EE), widely used to protect dissidents
www.indexoncensorship.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Index on Censorship has today published a new report entitled Breaking encryption is legally and practically unworkable which sets out our position on why governments should not break end-to-end encryption (E2EE).
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/11/new-...
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/11/new-...
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📽️WATCH: Putin vows to fight until Ukraine gives up land as peace deal stalls
Putin vows to fight until Ukraine gives up land as peace deal stalls
Putin vows to fight until Ukraine gives up land as peace deal stalls
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
📽️WATCH: Putin vows to fight until Ukraine gives up land as peace deal stalls
EU MEPs adopted a non-legislative report calling for the introduction of a "harmonised EU digital minimum age of 16 for access to social media, video-sharing platforms and AI companions, while allowing 13- to 16-year-olds access with parental consent."
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
Children should be at least 16 to access social media, say MEPs | News | European Parliament
MEPs are calling for ambitious EU action to protect minors online, including an EU-wide minimum age of 16 and bans on the most harmful addictive practices.
www.europarl.europa.eu
November 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
EU MEPs adopted a non-legislative report calling for the introduction of a "harmonised EU digital minimum age of 16 for access to social media, video-sharing platforms and AI companions, while allowing 13- to 16-year-olds access with parental consent."
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
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Meanwhile in Australia… x.com/dittloff4sen...
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Meanwhile in Australia… x.com/dittloff4sen...
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Also next Thursday - Advocate-General's opinion on how to assess credibility of asylum claims from women/girls who say they would face persecution on grounds of their belief in sex equality - curia.europa.eu/juris/fiche....
November 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Also next Thursday - Advocate-General's opinion on how to assess credibility of asylum claims from women/girls who say they would face persecution on grounds of their belief in sex equality - curia.europa.eu/juris/fiche....
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🍊👑♥️🇷🇺
Via @michaeldweiss.bsky.social
Polish cartoon
“The peace talks were attended by Ushakov and Witkoff.”
“And from the American side?”
Via @michaeldweiss.bsky.social
Polish cartoon
“The peace talks were attended by Ushakov and Witkoff.”
“And from the American side?”
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
🍊👑♥️🇷🇺
Via @michaeldweiss.bsky.social
Polish cartoon
“The peace talks were attended by Ushakov and Witkoff.”
“And from the American side?”
Via @michaeldweiss.bsky.social
Polish cartoon
“The peace talks were attended by Ushakov and Witkoff.”
“And from the American side?”
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The UK Government's #digitalID scheme "is provisionally forecast to cost £1.8 billion in total over the next three years", according to OBR obr.uk/efo/economic...
Fair question from Commons SITC chair @chionwurah.bsky.social MP … committees.parliament.uk/committee/13...
#govtech #vfm #opengov
Fair question from Commons SITC chair @chionwurah.bsky.social MP … committees.parliament.uk/committee/13...
#govtech #vfm #opengov
November 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The UK Government's #digitalID scheme "is provisionally forecast to cost £1.8 billion in total over the next three years", according to OBR obr.uk/efo/economic...
Fair question from Commons SITC chair @chionwurah.bsky.social MP … committees.parliament.uk/committee/13...
#govtech #vfm #opengov
Fair question from Commons SITC chair @chionwurah.bsky.social MP … committees.parliament.uk/committee/13...
#govtech #vfm #opengov
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'Russia wants to drive a wedge between Poland and Ukraine, deepen the already extreme political polarisation in Poland, and empower domestic forces hostile to the European Union' writes Sławomir Sierakowski.
Is Russia's Hybrid War on Europe Becoming Conventional?
From arson attacks on civilian targets to the recent bombing of a rail line between Warsaw and Ukraine, Russian provocations inside Poland are intensifying. By stoking anti-Ukrainian and anti-EU sentiment, the Kremlin hopes to empower the "useful idiots...
www.rusi.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
'Russia wants to drive a wedge between Poland and Ukraine, deepen the already extreme political polarisation in Poland, and empower domestic forces hostile to the European Union' writes Sławomir Sierakowski.
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We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
This article is more than 2 months old
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
This article is more than 2 months old
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
This article is more than 2 months old
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
This article is more than 2 months old
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes.
Keep out: what flags mean to community NHS workers
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes
centralbylines.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes.
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Australian Government will “not be intimidated by threats, not be intimidated by legal challenges” … brought by Aussie teenagers who don’t want to be censored
https://alecmuffett.com/article/128385
#SocialMedia #australia #censorship
https://alecmuffett.com/article/128385
#SocialMedia #australia #censorship
Australian Government will “not be intimidated by threats, not be intimidated by legal challenges” … brought by Aussie teenagers who don’t want to be censored
It’s the response from the Australian Government that tells you what they really think of the young people they claim to be protecting: Teens launch High Court challenge to Australia’s …
alecmuffett.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Australian Government will “not be intimidated by threats, not be intimidated by legal challenges” … brought by Aussie teenagers who don’t want to be censored
https://alecmuffett.com/article/128385
#SocialMedia #australia #censorship
https://alecmuffett.com/article/128385
#SocialMedia #australia #censorship
London.
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
London.
London.
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
London.
Good.
Australia's landmark social media ban for children is being challenged in the nation's highest court, with two teens alleging the law is unconstitutional as it robs them of their right to free communication.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Australia's landmark social media ban for children is being challenged in the nation's highest court, with two teens alleging the law is unconstitutional as it robs them of their right to free communication.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Australia social media ban: Teens challenge law before High Court
They argue the law - which will block users under 16 from having social media accounts - is unconstitutional.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Good.
Australia's landmark social media ban for children is being challenged in the nation's highest court, with two teens alleging the law is unconstitutional as it robs them of their right to free communication.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Australia's landmark social media ban for children is being challenged in the nation's highest court, with two teens alleging the law is unconstitutional as it robs them of their right to free communication.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Scoop: We obtained vast amounts of European mobile phone location data from data brokers. It was allegedly collected for advertising purposes only, but can be used to spy on high-ranking EU officials & NATO staff in Brussels. The Commission is 'concerned' & issued new security guidance to its staff.
Databroker Files: Targeting the EU
Precise locations and revealing movement patterns: the mobile phone location data of millions of people in the EU is up for sale. Collected supposedly only for advertising purposes, this data can also...
netzpolitik.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Scoop: We obtained vast amounts of European mobile phone location data from data brokers. It was allegedly collected for advertising purposes only, but can be used to spy on high-ranking EU officials & NATO staff in Brussels. The Commission is 'concerned' & issued new security guidance to its staff.
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EXTREME GRAPHIC CONTENT
#BBCNews - Russia's Wagner group accused of killing civilians in cold-blood in Mali
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#BBCNews - Russia's Wagner group accused of killing civilians in cold-blood in Mali
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Russia's Wagner group accused of killing civilians in cold-blood in Mali
Refugees have given the BBC a harrowing account of atrocities committed by the Russian paramilitary force.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
EXTREME GRAPHIC CONTENT
#BBCNews - Russia's Wagner group accused of killing civilians in cold-blood in Mali
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#BBCNews - Russia's Wagner group accused of killing civilians in cold-blood in Mali
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It’s the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. ♀️
The #EU, a signatory to the Istanbul Convention, is committed to eliminating gender-based violence – and #CJEU has confirmed that women exposed to such violence may be granted international protection.⚖️🛡️
The #EU, a signatory to the Istanbul Convention, is committed to eliminating gender-based violence – and #CJEU has confirmed that women exposed to such violence may be granted international protection.⚖️🛡️
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM