A shocking new BBC documentary reveals that during last year’s #Georgia protests, the government used water cannons laced with a chemical agent against protestors. It’s yet another reminder of why we must keep a close eye on what’s happening in Georgia: youtu.be/z4-koO916Gk?...

👉🏿I am going to try the KAOUDT Full Bodie Red Light and I will let you know about my experience and results RT Honest Review of the Kaoudt Full Body Red Light 2 youtu.be/KHif3oIOfeM?... via @YouTube

Winter warmer in the woods: a sizzling sauna and cool, cosy cabin deep in a Sussex forest

"A lot of Americans looked at Trump's Great Gatsby party and thought, 'This guy really doesn't get it'," says NYT journalist Mark Landler. "He hasn't reduced the price of eggs, and every time he's asked, he says he has, that prices are lower" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/trum...

Why millions of peppercorn-sized beads washed up on this popular beach. https://cnn.it/4rxygE0

Comment penser en « bandita » ? « Philosopher en féminisme, c’est penser ensemble à partir de soi »

Failure to diagnose treatable male infertility leading to unnecessary IVF, experts say

Starmer to back Rachel Reeves over Budget black hole row – latest

👉🏿‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more

Yesterday’s #OilSpill in #VenturaCounty has us asking, how many more spills in CA will it take before we fully commit to reining in this industry? Officials say about 420 gallons of oil spilled into a tributary of Sisar Creek. We will continue to fight this industry. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/43jNMst

👉🏿The Makropulos Case review: Ausrine Stundyte is magnetic in exhilarating – and funny – Janáček staging

Breaking news: Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae star whose lead role in the 1972 cult-movie sensation “The Harder They Come” helped introduce the genre to a global audience, has died. He was 81.

Jimmy Cliff has crossed the last of his many rivers. RIP to a maestro. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/a...

Piscine versus The Best Hotels, 1982 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5099

Musicians jailed for singing anti-Kremlin songs ‘flee’ Russia

Last night we announced the winners of the Freedom of Expression Awards at a ceremony in London, hosted by @rosieisaholt.bsky.social and presenters DPM David Lammy, @biancajagger.bsky.social, @katemaltby.bsky.social & others. Learn more about the winners: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/11/winn...

In just 31 days, 81 forcibly disappeared persons appeared before the prosecution after varying periods of enforced disappearance. What about the total number of disappeared persons since 2013? #FreeThemAll #Egyptian_hell @unhumansecurity.bsky.social @volker_turk @biancajagger.bsky.social

Jim Ryan's letter is not just surreal and troubling; it provides a series of deeply sobering lessons—about the perils facing public universities today; about what it means to "work with" this Department of Justice; & about what leadership does (and doesn't) entail at this especially fraught moment.

There have been at least 154 cases in which federal district courts have issued preliminary relief against a Trump administration policy. Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:

“If you speak out in defense of judicial independence only to protect judges (or justices) who rule the way you want them to, then I respectfully submit that your definition of judicial independence is bollocks.” Me in today’s “One First” on the Trump administration’s “war” on lower-court judges:

The Pentagon is withdrawing hundreds of National Guard troops from Chicago and Portland just weeks after Trump sent them there over the objections of state & local leaders www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

👉🏿 Indigenous lands must be recognised as part of climate policy, says Brazilian minister Sonia Guajajara tells Cop30 the rights of traditional communities must be maintained in the face of exploitation by the mining industry

President Trump's aid cuts are disproportionately hitting women and girls: forcing them to drop out of school or leading them to die in childbirth or perish from cervical cancer, or to marry as young teens. That's what I found in the field: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...

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“Farage nudges the conversation without any accountability or evidence. Throws claims out there, to see what happens.” Did Farage cross a line when he made false claims about migrants eating swans in the UK?

Dama is married to a U.S. citizen and was beginning the process of applying for a green card, and had his asylum application pending when he was detained by ICE in June

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff says his office has documented more than 500 cases of abuse in immigrant detention centers, including the abuse of pregnant women and children.

« Je n’ai pas peur » : l’ex-chef du FBI James Comey inculpé, une première concrétisation des promesses de vengeance de Trump

👉🏿 In this image you can see two gun rights advocates seating behind a wall of bulletproof glass, at a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

Dear Lord, thank you for the gift of a new day. May all that I do today be done with love and for your glory. #MorningPrayer

👉🏿The swelling of shame over Gaza Netanyahu’s security cabinet has voted to escalate a war that experts increasingly agree is genocidal. Where is the action to stop it?

Prices are rising, job growth is slowing, and analysts are predicting stagnant economic growth — largely due to Trump’s tariffs, his attempt to take over the Fed, and his deportations. I fear that America is headed towards the dread trap of stagflation.

👉🏿We need to learn the lesson of enough. Please watch this important video

👉🏿 I agree with Zack Polanski that the UK government is not just complicit – they are active participants in the genocide that Israel is perpetrating against the Palestinian people ⁦‪@ZackPolanski‬⁩ Source: Green Party

As a disabled person who’ll have to be unmasked for a procedure in 2 weeks, I’d be so grateful if folks who don’t usually mask considered pitching in to help curb this surge. N95s work best but if what you’ve got is cloth, popping it on to go into the grocery store is way better than nothing! Ty<3

NEWS: ICE's Chantilly office is a "black box" where conditions are increasingly dire, attorneys & a relative of person detained tell @msnbc.com - 1 meal a day = a single burrito - some 40-90 ppl crammed into room, sleeping on concrete - Some held as long as 7 days www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/v...

My family’s news from this spring: Elon fired my sister the day she learned she has breast cancer. Here’s a bit of what it’s been like for her as one of the civil servants fighting to preserve our public services, at the same time that she’s fighting for her life.

Texas hasn't received FEMA aid yet. The callous disregard from officials is shocking. I hope Texans remember this in 2026. Ultimately, it seems the priority is enriching the wealthy using funds collected from struggling individuals.

Xi to host Putin and Modi as China presents rival front to US on.ft.com/41uVY8B

Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life. Read more:

Your voice matters. You have the right to say what you think, share information and demand a better world. You also have the right to agree or disagree with those in power, and to express these opinions in peaceful protests. Today, and every day, we must #ProtectTheProtest ✊

🚨 Today we have launched the ‘Breaking up with Big Tech’ briefing which calls on governments to rein in the power of big technology companies in order to protect human rights. amn.st/63326f4SHp

It’s been 3 years since the UN issued a report on China’s serious human rights violations in the Uyghur region. Yet many Uyghur families remain separated, silenced, and searching for justice. Governments must act now to end repression in the Uyghur region and ensure a process for accountability.

Wael Al-Dahdouh continued to report on the genocide in Gaza after his wife and children were killed by Israeli forces. He is an award-winning Al Jazeera journalist with over 27 years of experience covering Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

700+ arrested. 70 charged with terrorism-related offenses for holding a placard. Amnesty International calls it for what it is: absurd and unlawful. We can't let this go unchallenged. Sign the letter: www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/end-...

“With the world’s attention focused on Gaza, the situation in the West Bank is sliding toward another crisis,” Jon Finer writes:

We're still here: Afghan women refugees find freedom, voice through football reut.rs/3JHL4WJ

A devastating new milestone: key indicators confirm that conditions have officially reached famine levels in the #GazaStrip. Our colleagues are on the ground doing everything possible to deliver for children in #Gaza, despite the immense challenges. Follow us for humanitarian updates. #promoted

Wow: French President Emmanuel Macron just called out Trump at a major press conference with the German Chancellor 😳

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