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Kellie Walton

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Musical prodigy Charles Yang breaking into a heart-rending and soulful cover of Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come.'

Yang is an American violinist, composer and singer, and a graduate of the Juilliard School.

#music #blues #vocals #soulful

09.10.2025 09:15 πŸ‘ 183 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 9

This.

17.05.2025 07:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was both a criminal lawyer and also worked dealing with care cases (where I saw the very worst end of child sex abuse) for about 25 years

White British people nearly always populated the dock. Mostly (but not exclusively) male.

Where’s Jenrick going to ship them?

I want answers.

05.01.2025 23:13 πŸ‘ 284 πŸ” 110 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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β€œYes, it’s a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Amos Goldberg, Israeli Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
(Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)

04.12.2024 10:29 πŸ‘ 3408 πŸ” 1520 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 79
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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Screenshot of an Irish Times article from 2011 with the headline "University in talks with Egypt over future of ancient mummy"

Screenshot of an Irish Times article from 2011 with the headline "University in talks with Egypt over future of ancient mummy"

Screenshot of an Irish Times article from 2003 with the headline "UCC keeping 2.3 tonnes of uranium in basement store"

Screenshot of an Irish Times article from 2003 with the headline "UCC keeping 2.3 tonnes of uranium in basement store"

The fact that UCC hid a 3000-year-old mummy under the floorboards of a lecture theatre on a campus where two and a half tonnes of uranium rods were being stored in a basement nearby and DIDN'T end up with a zombie-pharaoh apocalypse is both a mystery and endlessly disappointing

18.11.2024 09:17 πŸ‘ 2488 πŸ” 684 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 57
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Tech firm Palantir spoke with MoJ about calculating prisoners’ β€˜reoffending risks’ Exclusive: Rights group expresses concerns as it emerges US spy tech company has been lobbying UK ministers

They already have our medical records,now Palantir (run by Peter Thiel) want to get into the predict-when-people-might-commit-a-crime business.Thiel’s protege is JD Vance. Apart from that, have a lovely Saturday. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

16.11.2024 09:17 πŸ‘ 701 πŸ” 204 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 10

I finally deactivated my account on the bird site and deleted the app off of my phone. Better late than never.

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