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"The Peace President."

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Today russian forces carried out FPV drone strikes on Kozacha Lopan and Ruska Lozova in Kharkiv region, killing two people and injuring another local resident — local authorities report.

Deliberate terrorism again.

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Fantastic GDF video complete with bears, eagles and haunting lyrics www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1ln... @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Imagine loving the racism Musk’s X provides & encourages so much that you can’t call out its creation & promotion of child sex abuse images…
I have a horrible feeling that it really is that simple.

Police urged to investigate Elon Musk and X after deepfake scandal

Ed Davey said at a press conference today “I think is there is a case for a criminal investigation into Elon Musk and his platform”

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On my way to beautiful (and Christmassy) Edinburgh… for the @midwiferyforum.bsky.social maternity and midwifery festival tomorrow!

Baroness Hale on her stupendous, eye-opening life in the law: ‘People are capable of treating tiny children very, very badly’ She was the first female president of the supreme court, causing a ruckus when she ruled against Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament. Now she has written an insider’s take on the UK’s underfunded, overwhelmed justice system

Baroness Hale on her stupendous, eye-opening life in the law: ‘People are capable of treating tiny children very, very badly’

Gazprom Neftekhim oil refinery in Salavat, Bashkortostan, Russia🔥🔥🔥

.. Fantastic commentary!!

Been a while since I had this much fun in the studio. Apart from during Mystery Hour, of course. Not sure they made this cut but there at least two occasions when I nearly lost it completely.

Trump's state visit: James O'Brien's alternate commentary YouTube video by LBC

James O'Brien: Royal commentator...

I forsee an additional career for our fab James O'B!!

The Kimmel video: "The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

Fired By The Post The Washington Post said it fired Karen Attiah over comments she made about white men in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Status has learned.

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men."

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

'Donald Trump is an inconsistent, unreliable, vicious bully.'

@mrjamesob.bsky.social is not looking forward to the President's state visit, but 'what can you do' when he's one of the 'most powerful people in the world'.

Lab tests show Alexei Navalny was poisoned in Russian jail, his widow says Alexei Navalny's widow called for the laboratory results to be published, adding "we have the right to know" how her husband died at a Russian jail in February 2024.

The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said two independent laboratory tests on biological samples taken from her late husband show he was poisoned before his death

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Greetings from Kyiv
and my little paradise
embroidered with bookshelves.

Warcoffee is strong today.
russia attacked the cities of Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia,
and Kyiv Oblast.

Ed Davey has written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join him in condemning Elon Musk's remarks yesterday

I bring you the beauty and culture of Ukraine.
I show you what I see
and share what I learn.

Thank you for listening.
Not everyone can.

BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Crash Bang Wallop: The Sound of Words Michael Rosen and Dr Catherine Laing discuss words that sound like their meanings.

8pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4

👂Second Chance👂

Crash Bang Wallop: The Sound of Words
Word of Mouth

Michael Rosen and Dr Catherine Laing discuss onomatopoeia and other words that sound like their meanings.

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Amol Rajan: Do you condemn Musk's words on Saturday?

Jacqui Smith: "Absolutely I do. Those words were wrong & they were dangerous… For Elon Musk to talk about violence in our political system… is wholly unacceptable."

Good to hear a minister speak out at last. This should have happened much sooner

Have you booked???

Clues to Alzheimer Disease in the Newborn Brain This Medical News article discusses a new finding that healthy infants have high blood levels of the protein p-tau217, a key biomarker for Alzheimer disease.

A recent study showed that newborns have high levels of p-tau, a biomarker for #Alzheimer disease.

Understanding how infants clear the protein could help prevent aggregation, which leads to #neurodegeneration in adults.

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Maternity & Midwifery Hour – S17 Ep2

Wed 24 Sept | 19:00 UK
Sharing the News That a Baby Has Down’s
Syndrome – Supporting Families

Speakers:
Varshali Swadi & Bev Insch, Down’s Syndrome Scotland
Hosted by Sue Macdonald
Join live: shorturl.at/deGcZ

Doctor’s ‘dangerous’ vaccine claims at Reform UK conference to be examined by GMC Aseem Malhotra was criticised by Starmer at PMQs after linking king’s cancer to Covid vaccine at party conference Comments by a controversial doctor who used a speech at Reform UK’s conference to link Covid vaccines to cancer in the royal family are being examined by the General Medical Council (GMC) amid mounting condemnation of him by senior medics. The regulator, which is charged with upholding professional standards in UK medicine, is also progressing with an investigation into Aseem Malhotra, currently an adviser to Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F Kennedy, over a previous claim. It may consider whether to stop or limit his ability to work as a doctor in the UK in the interest of protecting the public. Continue reading...

Doctor’s ‘dangerous’ vaccine claims at Reform UK conference to be examined by GMC

Jules, this is Brian. Listen, I'm on an airplane that's been hijacked. If things don't go well, and it's not looking good, I just want you to know I absolutely love you. I want you to do good, go have good times. Same to my parents and everybody, and I just totally love you, and I'll see you when ..

Big news day. Two important reports on maternity services launched today:

No 10 files raise questions over whether Tory donations were legal A foreign billionaire who met then-PM Boris Johnson at Downing Street was described in an official log as a

No 10 files raise questions over whether Tory donations were legal

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GMC examines doctor’s Reform speech linking vaccines to royal family cancer Medical bodies and prime minister condemn Aseem Malhotra’s ‘pseudo-science’ remarks at party conference

Years too late. Incredible that the GMC - whose entire raison d'être is upholding professional standards in UK medicine - has allowed Aseem Malhotra to spew out his toxic, dangerous, anti-scientific disinformation for so long.

Regulatory failure at its worst.

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