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1. To understand Iran's protests it's striking to juxtapose images of the young, modern women killed in Iran over the last week (Mahsa Amini, Ghazale Chelavi, Hanane Kia, Mahsa Mogoi) with the images of the country's ruling elite, virtually all deeply traditional, geriatric men.
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To put into context what is happening in Ukraine right now, every analyst I know is in a state of disbelief at just how quickly Ukraine is advancing. They keep saying “there’s no way they’ve made that much progress”, only to see visual conformation of that progress hours later.
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I’ve been thinking about this piece for a year. There’s so much more I could say. The only thing that matters is that Martha should be alive today…
‘We had such trust, we feel such fools’: how shocking hospital mistakes led to our daughter’s death
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The letter is addressed to @GEOgovuk , and signatories include and many more. 3/
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Holy shit
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In case you didn’t know KAREN CARPENTER wasn’t just a Drummer, she was a really freakin’ great one.
None other than Buddy Rich seriously rated her.
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The UK’s first support and reporting service for East and Southeast Asians is here!
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When we let nature be nature amazing things can happen.
Protect nature in all its forms. #ActOnClimate
#ClimateAction #climate #energy #nature #rewilding
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Wrote about Sir Salman's understandable desire to escape being seen through the prism of *that* book. Hoping for his swift recovery. 🙏🏿
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Roy Hackett, UK civil rights icon, has died. He was of the leaders of the Bristol Bus Boycott in '63 & overturned a ban on Black drivers & conductors working on the city's buses + more. "I was born an activist," Mr Hackett once said. #Jamaica #Windrush theguardian.com/society/2020/a
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Thankful that decades of determined campaigning by the Liverpool-born children of deported Chinese seamen has finally received the recognition they deserve: that the treatment of their fathers and their families was racist and coercive.
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Huge, if long overdue, vindication for the families that have campaigned for justice for so many years. The Home Office admits the deportations of Chinese seamen who served in the British Merchant Navy in WWII were coercive and “racially inflected”
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Exclusive update to my long read: Home Office admits for the first time Chinese seamen with British families were "coerced" into leaving in "racially inflected" secret deportation programme in 1945-6 theguardian.com/world/2022/aug
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Be a part of musical history by entering our Blue Vinyl Prize Draw! You could win a special edition vinyl from 10 incredible artists, with all proceeds being donated to our Children's Emergency Fund. Enter here until 10th Aug: bit.ly/3uuh9Xx
#UnicefBlueVinyl
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Here's a 1-minute video showing--in the words of visualization hero --the "compared to what" factor for today's amazing image. Thanks to the for making this possible, and . I only wish and had shown the image this way!
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Replying to @AlyssaAGoodman and @NASAWebb
And you can zoom on the first one (SMACS 0723) interactively here in @WWTelescope: web.wwtassets.org/specials/2022/
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We admire Sir Mo Farah’s courage to speak out on his childhood trauma and experience of being trafficked as a young boy. 1/3
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Utterly disgraceful exit speech … selfish; self-centred, narcissistic, poor me the victim, no regrets, no fault, no mistakes, no apology, no resignation.
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Here’s how the abortion laws affect pregnant women who want their babies. For those still refusing to see how this affects ALL women, read Chloe’s story:
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The dangers of climate change are mounting so rapidly that they could soon overwhelm the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt unless greenhouse gas emissions are quickly reduced, according to a UN report by 270 researchers from 67 countries.
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You guys, this was written by one of my students! I mentored her and saw this book right at the very beginning of its journey. I am so proud of . This book is so beautiful and it'll make an incredible TV show. Gemma Chan. The makers of Stranger Things. PIM!
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Netflix and Shawn Levy's 21 Laps are staying in the supernatural business.
21 Laps and Gemma Chan will produce a new story about a British-Chinese family with the secret ability to time travel, with Chan also attached to star: thr.cm/c571nVa
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. is teaming up with 's 21 Laps to adapt 's upcoming debut novel THE MOON REPRESENTS MY HEART as a limited series for .
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Netflix and Shawn Levy's 21 Laps are staying in the supernatural business.
21 Laps and Gemma Chan will produce a new story about a British-Chinese family with the secret ability to time travel, with Chan also attached to star: thr.cm/c571nVa
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A lot of people, especially on days like yesterday’s SCOTUS rulings, ask me about hope.
Now is the time to stick together. Some thoughts from last night’s Q&A:
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What a woman. You never know what you’re made of until you face massive adversity - and most of us never really have to. But is made of very, very special stuff.
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I myself have wondered why refugees didn't stay in European countries and have travelled on. So I asked them.
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1. Those of us who oppose the Rwanda plan are sometimes asked what our alternative is. The idea that the only possible response to small boat arrivals is to ship some of them to Rwanda is self evidently absurd. There are plenty of alternatives. 🧵
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The Rwanda flight on the anniversary of Grenfell says everything about the direction we’ve traveled in the last five years
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Russia has a hunger plan. Vladimir Putin is preparing to starve much of the developing world as the next stage in his war in Europe. 1/16
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The situation I've witnessed on the ground in Afghanistan is terrible. Children are close to death from starvation.
The port of Odessa must be opened to prevent Putin from starving the world - and the UK should lead the world by convening an emergency food summit with the UN.
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Media studies should be mandatory at school.
Teach everyone about who owns what newspaper/TV channel, what their mandates are & whether they pay tax.
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Exactly, but will they remember the logic of "don't negotiate with terrorists"? Putin always creates crises with violence and then demands concessions to help "solve" them. Making concessions only encourages him to keep doing it.
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The Kremlin is using food supplies as a stealth missile against developing countries.
This is driving up food prices, pushing people into poverty, and destabilising entire regions.
Russia is solely responsible for this food crisis.
Despite its campaign of lies.
@UN #UNSC
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Let the countdown begin!⏰ There are just seven days until England and The World XI go head-to-head in this year’s for UNICEF. A game of football that raises money to give children around the world the right to play.
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