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Sveriges Radio: Kaffeodling i skuggan av träd kan bromsa avskogningen
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/9118605
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/9118605
Kaffeodling i skuggan av träd kan bromsa avskogningen - Ekot
Att odla kaffe i skuggan av träd kan minska avskogningen i tropiska områden, enligt forskare vid Stockholms universitet.I Etiopien växer kaffe ibland inne ...
www.sverigesradio.se
February 15, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Sveriges Radio: Kaffeodling i skuggan av träd kan bromsa avskogningen
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/9118605
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/9118605
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From the @newlinesmag.bsky.social archives:
Egypt was the seat of an ancient civilization, and today's Egyptians increasingly celebrate it. But the pharaohs were not Muslims — and, for some, that is a problem, writes @maegdi.bsky.social
Egypt was the seat of an ancient civilization, and today's Egyptians increasingly celebrate it. But the pharaohs were not Muslims — and, for some, that is a problem, writes @maegdi.bsky.social
How Egypt's Heritage Became a Political Battle
Islamic, Pharaonic or both? That's the dilemma facing Egyptians as they look to the past for a new sense of national identity.
shorturl.at
February 5, 2026 at 9:14 PM
From the @newlinesmag.bsky.social archives:
Egypt was the seat of an ancient civilization, and today's Egyptians increasingly celebrate it. But the pharaohs were not Muslims — and, for some, that is a problem, writes @maegdi.bsky.social
Egypt was the seat of an ancient civilization, and today's Egyptians increasingly celebrate it. But the pharaohs were not Muslims — and, for some, that is a problem, writes @maegdi.bsky.social
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@barackobama.bsky.social: "When I was POTUS, I suppose I could have simply unilaterally ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."
February 14, 2026 at 5:42 PM
@barackobama.bsky.social: "When I was POTUS, I suppose I could have simply unilaterally ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."
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When an immigration agent shot a man in the leg last month in Minnesota, the Trump administration rushed to sell a version of events that demonized the wounded man. It was the latest instance of the U.S. government providing an account of a shooting that later proved questionable or outright wrong.
How ICE Failed to Justify the Shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis
The collapse of the Trump administration’s version of events in the case was only the most recent instance in which officials gave an account of a shooting that was later contradicted.
nyti.ms
February 15, 2026 at 12:00 AM
When an immigration agent shot a man in the leg last month in Minnesota, the Trump administration rushed to sell a version of events that demonized the wounded man. It was the latest instance of the U.S. government providing an account of a shooting that later proved questionable or outright wrong.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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Democrats' demand that Stephen Miller is fired as a condition of voting for ICE funding is one of the smartest moves they've made under Trump.
Miller is a loathsome figure who I imagine has rock-bottom likability numbers. Democrats should try to raise his public salience as often as possible.
Miller is a loathsome figure who I imagine has rock-bottom likability numbers. Democrats should try to raise his public salience as often as possible.
January 28, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Democrats' demand that Stephen Miller is fired as a condition of voting for ICE funding is one of the smartest moves they've made under Trump.
Miller is a loathsome figure who I imagine has rock-bottom likability numbers. Democrats should try to raise his public salience as often as possible.
Miller is a loathsome figure who I imagine has rock-bottom likability numbers. Democrats should try to raise his public salience as often as possible.
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Farage fawned over Trump for a decade. Begged to sit at his dining table and ride in his gold lift. Played the presidential tribute to him as his LBC intro. Said he'd be great for Brexit.
Trump’s reign was never in Britain's interests.
But Farage didn't care because it flattered his fragile ego.
Trump’s reign was never in Britain's interests.
But Farage didn't care because it flattered his fragile ego.
January 20, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Farage fawned over Trump for a decade. Begged to sit at his dining table and ride in his gold lift. Played the presidential tribute to him as his LBC intro. Said he'd be great for Brexit.
Trump’s reign was never in Britain's interests.
But Farage didn't care because it flattered his fragile ego.
Trump’s reign was never in Britain's interests.
But Farage didn't care because it flattered his fragile ego.
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A large replica of a sexually suggestive birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein, featuring a drawing of a naked woman’s torso and what appears to be President Trump’s signature, was placed on the National Mall overnight on Sunday.
A Birthday Card Replica From Trump to Epstein Appears on the National Mall
An oversize card reproduces a suggestive birthday greeting from 2003, released as part of a congressional inquiry. President Trump has denied that he signed it.
nyti.ms
January 20, 2026 at 10:30 PM
A large replica of a sexually suggestive birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein, featuring a drawing of a naked woman’s torso and what appears to be President Trump’s signature, was placed on the National Mall overnight on Sunday.
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Danish intelligence accuses US of using economic power to ‘assert its will’ over allies.
Danes have it right. The US is not a reliable ally. It is using tariffs & military threats to secure dominance.
Europe needs closer economic & military cooperation.
Danes have it right. The US is not a reliable ally. It is using tariffs & military threats to secure dominance.
Europe needs closer economic & military cooperation.
Danish intelligence accuses US of using economic power to ‘assert its will’ over allies
The US also listed as a threat due to its growing interest in Greenland, which is vital to America’s national security
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Danish intelligence accuses US of using economic power to ‘assert its will’ over allies.
Danes have it right. The US is not a reliable ally. It is using tariffs & military threats to secure dominance.
Europe needs closer economic & military cooperation.
Danes have it right. The US is not a reliable ally. It is using tariffs & military threats to secure dominance.
Europe needs closer economic & military cooperation.
Is this really the end of the love affair between #Salah and #Liverpool ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I5L...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I5L...
♫ SALAH: GOODBYE LIVERPOOL? | Football Song
YouTube video by Music Football
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December 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Is this really the end of the love affair between #Salah and #Liverpool ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I5L...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I5L...
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🔴 The Rapid Support Forces have been accused of a “flagrant violation of international humanitarian law” after more than 30 children were killed in a drone strike on a nursery school.
Read the full story here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/sudan-rebels-strike/
Read the full story here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/sudan-rebels-strike/
December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🔴 The Rapid Support Forces have been accused of a “flagrant violation of international humanitarian law” after more than 30 children were killed in a drone strike on a nursery school.
Read the full story here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/sudan-rebels-strike/
Read the full story here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/sudan-rebels-strike/
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Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
If Labour want a fairer society, they must argue for it
Labour must make the political argument: taxes are the critical downpayment we all pay to live in a fairer society.
It now seems all but certain that direct taxes will rise in the forthcoming Budget...
renewal.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
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Whit?!
🚨🚨Breaking and bad #EU news: Lawmakers in @europarl.europa.eu agreed today to exempt more companies from green reporting rules after the center-right, right-wing and far-right groups allied to pass the EU’s first omnibus simplification package. #omnibus 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/epp-...
www.politico.eu/article/epp-...
EU conservatives vote with far right to approve cuts to green rules
The outcome highlights the EPP’s willingness to abandon its traditional centrist coalition allies.
www.politico.eu
November 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Whit?!
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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Thieves steal ancient Roman-era statues from the national museum in Syria
Via Ghaith AlSayed and @bmroue.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/syri...
Via Ghaith AlSayed and @bmroue.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/syri...
Thieves steal ancient Roman-era statues from the national museum in Syria
Thieves have broken into the National Museum of Damascus and stolen several ancient statues from the Roman era.
apnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Thieves steal ancient Roman-era statues from the national museum in Syria
Via Ghaith AlSayed and @bmroue.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/syri...
Via Ghaith AlSayed and @bmroue.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/syri...
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
I think he was Danish
Bjorn Andresen, a Swedish actor who as a teenager played an ailing composer’s object of unrequited desire in the 1971 film “Death in Venice,” but who resented being objectified by the film’s director who called him “the most beautiful boy in the world,” has died at 70.
Bjorn Andresen, Reluctant ‘Most Beautiful Boy,’ Dies at 70
At 15, he played the muse to an ailing composer in Luchino Visconti’s film “Death in Venice.” He later said he’d felt sexualized by the director.
nyti.ms
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I think he was Danish
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The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be White South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world.
Trump sets 7,500 annual limit for refugees entering US. It’ll be mostly White South Africans | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be White South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previo...
www.cnn.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be White South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world.
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“He’s just Andrew..." | Virginia Giuffre’s family on Andrew losing “Prince” title
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM-rxvgxvx0
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM-rxvgxvx0
"No longer a Prince” | Virginia Giuffre’s family respond as King strips Andrew's title
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
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October 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“He’s just Andrew..." | Virginia Giuffre’s family on Andrew losing “Prince” title
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM-rxvgxvx0
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM-rxvgxvx0
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October 31, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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We needed to see what was before our eyes in 2016. This is why I wrote "Road to Unfreedom."
www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Did a $10M bribe break the soul of America? | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, an inside look at who really went to “No Kings.”
www.inquirer.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We needed to see what was before our eyes in 2016. This is why I wrote "Road to Unfreedom."
www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Tump is totally unhinged. Aren’t you embarrassed, America ?
October 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Tump is totally unhinged. Aren’t you embarrassed, America ?
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"Freedom of speech has a point. It is there so people can speak truth to power. Often that truth is spoken first by young people."
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
Gaza and Protest
Why freedom of speech matters
snyder.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Freedom of speech has a point. It is there so people can speak truth to power. Often that truth is spoken first by young people."
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
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One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.
Listen for dangerous words.
October 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.
Listen for dangerous words.
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"In recent weeks, Reform leader Nigel Farage has learned for sure what he must have already assumed:
that nothing he says about the treatment of refugees, however far beyond the bounds of acceptability it may go, will get challenged by Keir Starmer."
that nothing he says about the treatment of refugees, however far beyond the bounds of acceptability it may go, will get challenged by Keir Starmer."
Starmer’s moral cowardice on refugees
The Labour leadership is tacitly accepting, and reflecting, Farage’s perverted notion of patriotism
bylines.scot
September 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"In recent weeks, Reform leader Nigel Farage has learned for sure what he must have already assumed:
that nothing he says about the treatment of refugees, however far beyond the bounds of acceptability it may go, will get challenged by Keir Starmer."
that nothing he says about the treatment of refugees, however far beyond the bounds of acceptability it may go, will get challenged by Keir Starmer."