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a white pittie mix with large brown patches stands in a veterinary environment. her tail is blurry indicating active wagging, and she looks at the camera with squinted eyes and pushed back ears. she holds her front right leg up so it doesn't touch the ground. that leg is splinted with blue and white bandages.

two x-rays of the pittie's broken leg. from the top view, the break just looks like a slight fracture. but a side view shows both the radius and ulna snapped in half and positioned in a disconnected state.

Mandarin, the white and brown pittie mix, lays on an x-ray table with her front legs out in front of her and her chin resting on a green foam block. she's taking this quiet moment as an opportunity to rest her eyes.

This is Mandarin. She was found as a stray with a broken leg, making it painful to walk. Her leg has been splinted until she can get surgery to repair the bone. Then she'll need laser therapy to help retain mobility. You can donate to her care below ❤️‍🩹

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You showed those schoolgirls

Israeli forces now dropping leaflets on Beirut effectively threatening to turn Lebanon into Gaza & telling people to disarm Hezbollah. Warnings going around not to scan the QR code & open the link for safety reasons. #lebanon

Sally is on the ground #Beirut

Traditional English paper approach to portray the Taoiseach as a King of the Paddies with whom we were all proud.
Political difference being unknown in the quaint holiday destination to their West.

Lebanon | People are sheltering in the open air, by the roadside, along the shoreline, living under the sound of warplanes overhead, fearing for their lives and the safety of their loved ones Civilians, whether they leave or stay, are protected under international humanitarian law and have the right to return to their homes once its safe to do so. Read the full statement from the ICRC Head of Delegation in Lebanon:

Lebanon | People are sheltering in the open air, by the roadside, along the shoreline, living under the sound of warplanes overhead, fearing for their lives and the safety of their loved ones

Read the full statement from the ICRC Head of Delegation in Lebanon: ms.spr.ly/63328Ql4sY

Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied.

But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

This is the company the UK government has embedded in the nation’s services. Seriously, fuck everyone who is excusing this.

Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center

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What a world

Four Killed in U.S. Refueling Aircraft Crash in Iraq, Military Says U.S. Central Command said four crew members were killed when an American KC-135 refueling aircraft went down Thursday in western Iraq. The aircraft had been flying with a crew of six, Centcom said, and rescue efforts were under way. “The circumstances of the incident are under investigation. Howeve

Breaking: Four crewmembers died in the crash of an American refueling aircraft in Iraq, the U.S. military said.

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Redress schemes for Post Office Horizon scandal have serious failings, MPs find Committee says thousands of victims still waiting for compensation and ‘face unacceptable delays and inadequate offers’

The redress schemes for victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal have “serious structural failings”,

Thousands still waiting for compensation.

11500 claimants paid £1.48bn so far from public purse

No contribution from Fujitsu; PO execs, lawyers, accountants, advisers who covered up the scandal.

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one.
My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
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Government must stop hiding the inconvenient truth on our environment I am an environmental campaigner and formerly an award-winning environment correspondent. I'm bringing this case to win greater transparency on vital environmental issues.

The government is breaking the law by concealing vital information which would help solve our biggest environmental problems

Really important legal case from my friend and former colleague Ben Webster

Do support if you can!

www.crowdjustice.com/case/governm...

Iranian school was on U.S. target list, may have been mistaken as military site The strike on an Iranian elementary school killed at least 175, many of them children, raising questions as to whether the military’s use of AI-enabled targeting was a factor.

All this talk of advanced AI targeting and the U.S. still fired a Tomahawk at an elementary school where an outdoor playground has been visible on Google Maps since 2017 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Tweet from Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz: Justice has been done. I welcome the decision of the Chief Military Prosecutor, Major General Itai Ofir, to close the Sde Teiman cases against IDF soldiers and to cancel the indictment against them. This trial was born in sin by the previous Military Advocate General, using a blood libel against IDF soldiers and criminal investigation methods, and I am glad that justice has been done and the trial has been canceled. The role of the IDF's legal system is to protect and safeguard IDF soldiers who engage heroically in war against cruel monsters, and not the rights of the terrorists of Hamas. I am convinced that the decision will lead to a new path.

The Defense Minister of Israel says it was "blood libel" to go after Israeli soldiers caught on camera raping a Palestinian.

It's awesome that people still like to say that this is some liberal democracy with an independent justice system that holds people accountable

Complete impunity.
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perhaps the problem is with the legislation itself ? We have experience in NI @thedetailtv.bsky.social

The new orders now covers the south of the Zahrani River - almost the whole of Lebanon's south.

Maybe Trump's war will finally wean us off our oil dependency In the 1970s we had no choice but to queue for petrol. In 2026 there is a host of alternatives — the war in the Gulf should be the final push we need to renewables

“The simple truth is that fossil fuels were only ever cheap if you ignored the vast collateral costs of political violence. corruption, environmental wreckage & #climate breakdown”.

My op-ed in today’s Irish Examiner.

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Trump Doonbeg ballroom plans stalled by sole objector voicing concern about impact on rare snail A report lodged with the planning application said the proposed ballroom ‘will have no impact on Vertigo Angustior, and no mitigation or further action is required’.

Plans by the Donald Trump-owned Trump Doonbeg resort in Clare to construct a ballroom have been stalled by a sole objector living in Longford.

The objector pointed to what he describes as the marked deterioration of the 2mm Vertigo Angustior snail at the site.
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Russia earned €6bn from fossil fuel exports since start of Iran war, data suggests Figures from thinktank show Russia received extra €672m in revenues from oil, gas and coal during March so far

The key beneficiary from Trump's War on Iran is Russia: Figures from thinktank show Russia received extra €672m in revenues from oil, gas and coal during March so far. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Israel’s renewed war on Lebanon is about more than just Hezbollah After violating the ‘ceasefire’ 10,000 times, Israel is once again pounding Lebanon as its enduring thirst for war drives ever expanding ambitions.

Israel’s renewed war on Lebanon is about more than just Hezbollah

After violating the ‘ceasefire’ 10,000 times, Israel is once again pounding Lebanon as its enduring thirst for war drives ever expanding ambitions.

By Elia Ayoub

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Just not my children they won’t be dying for the good old US of A

I am delighted that the High Court has ruled in my favour on the key issues in the libel case brought by Raffi Berg.

The court rejected the claimant’s interpretation of the article and ruled that it expressed an opinion based on stated material.

The grim irony of Labour’s anti-immigrant rabble rousers Shabana Mahmood has morphed from a liberal into a mini-despot

"They tell us it is to improve race relations and social cohesion, to placate implacable white “patriots” over and over, to create a happy, clappy, multiracial Britain. Say, do, fail, repeat." @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social

"If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up", wrote Mahmoud Darwish.

Walid Khalidi did just that, to the very end.

A moist poignant and fitting obituary by @ibishblog.bsky.social

EU and UK demand Israel stop surge in West Bank settler violence Six Palestinians have been killed during attacks by settlers in the West Bank since the start of Israel's war, the UN says.

The European Union and United Kingdom, which have largely done nothing at all to hold Israel to account and swear off ever doing anything to hold Israel to account, demand that Israel stop its land theft in the West Bank, or else the EU and UK will do nothing some more.