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The Mill
1 day ago
🎶 Read your briefing in full here, which includes info on Nahum McLean's latest performance, as well as access to a limited number of free tickets to a concert at St Ann's Church this week.
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Wigan’s ‘national hero’ steps into the spotlight
Robert Forrester, who blew the whistle on the toxic river scandal, speaks to The Times
https://manchestermill.co.uk/wigans-national-hero-steps-into-the-spotlight/
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Adam Serwer
1 day ago
The Palestine Festival of Literature has launched an online publication, and the intro essay is worth your time.
www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...
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It’s Not Complicated
The mainstream media failed the public during the genocide in Gaza. The Key's editor-in-chief shares her vision for what comes next.
https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-journalism-palestine-objectivity-legacy-media-genocide-bias-gaza
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nicole froio
about 22 hours ago
My first piece for
@globalvoices.org
-- a part of my We Are Noor feminist journalism fellowship -- on the Brazilian far right and how they weaponize legal abortion:
globalvoices.org/2026/03/07/h...
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How far-right ‘fear tactics’ affect girls seeking legal abortion in Brazil
Fighting a resolution to ensure access to legal abortion for girls under 14 is the latest example of abortion rights being used as a political tool by conservatives in the country
https://globalvoices.org/2026/03/07/how-far-right-fear-tactics-affect-girls-seeking-legal-abortion-in-brazil/
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Angelica Jade Bastién
2 days ago
I would not be the writer I am without this man’s support since I was a freelancer with a wild dream. Please consider checking out a lil something that catches your eye from his great bookstore.
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London Review of Books
4 days ago
‘Eight kilos of gas did not change our reality. It did not end the war or remove the fear. But it brought back something we were close to forgetting: what it feels like to live a normal day, even if only for a few hours.’ Hassan Ayman Herzallah in Gaza, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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Hassan Ayman Herzallah | Eight Kilos of Gas
For months, I had watched our pile of firewood shrink. We didn’t burn it to keep warm but reserved it for cooking....
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/eight-kilos-of-gas
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Ian King
2 days ago
Your weekend match is here, lovelings, and this week's featured a BOAT. Find out when I've previously used boats to get to a match before and why Gosport Borough fell flat against Sholing in a Southern League derby here.
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Match of the Weekend: Gosport Borough 1-2 Sholing - Arms Spread Wide on the Starboard Bow
A walk through a city that I've not seen that much of before, a local derby between two teams fighting over one play-off place, and a BOAT TRIP, you say?
https://unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/match-of-the-weekend-gosport-borough
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Musa Okwonga
2 days ago
Reminder that much of this would not be happening if cowardly/greedy states and institutions had frozen or seized the assets of a few key people several years ago.
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Musa Okwonga
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Tribune
4 days ago
The National Gallery’s outsourcing and poor treatment of staff is driving its BAME workforce into poverty and precarity. Their union says this amounts to discrimination against black and brown workers.
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Segregating the Arts
The National Gallery’s outsourcing and poor treatment of staff is driving its BAME workforce into poverty and precarity. Their union says this amounts to discrimination against black and brown workers...
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2026/03/art-workers-against-segregation/
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Sam Lewis (she/they) 🌈
3 days ago
today’s International Women’s Day theme is “balance the scales”, and the
#Matildas
have become an example of what that looks like in football. but this
#AFCWAC
has shown us how much further Asian football still has to go to address gender inequality.
football360.com.au/internationa...
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International Women’s Day asks us to 'balance the scales': What is football's role in this?
Column: International Women’s Day asks us to “balance the scales.” This Women’s Asian Cup shows just how far football still needs to tip them.
https://football360.com.au/international-womens-day-asks-us-to-balance-the-scales-what-is-footballs-role-in-this/
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Beautiful switch of play and weight of kick from Smith.
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London Review of Books
5 days ago
‘The Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, which El Mencho built, imports more weapons and military hardware, kidnaps and traffics more people and has a larger presence in the licit economy than any of its rivals.’ Forrest Hylton on Mexico after Mencho, from the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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Forrest Hylton | After El Mencho
For years, rumours of the death of Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho, were legion, but none proved true...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/after-el-mencho
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Tribune
5 days ago
The Right to Food Commission is bringing together trade unionists, community organisers, tenants’ unions, and NGOs to document the crisis driving hunger in modern Britain — and to build a new movement to end it.
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Feed the Movement
The Right to Food Commission is bringing together trade unionists, community organisers, tenants’ unions, and NGOs to document the crisis driving hunger in modern Britain — and to build a new movement...
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2026/03/feed-the-movement
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🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩
5 days ago
For my contribution to
#WomenWritersWeek
at
@ebertvoices.bsky.social
I wrote a look back at the film industry 100 years ago – the arrival of synced sound, the death of Valentino, Gilbert and Garbo, and more – and what we might be able to glean from its storied history.
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To the Film Industry in Crisis, A Look Back At Hollywood In 1926
What were people watching a century ago, and what does that say about where the industry goes now?
https://www.rogerebert.com/women-writers-week/to-the-film-industry-in-crisis-a-look-back-at-hollywood-in-1926
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We can’t let the far right do the things they’d want to do in government… because it means I don’t get to do them myself.
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Jewish Currents
6 days ago
"Part of me threatens to concede that what is lost cannot be retrieved, that history moves forward with or without our consent. Another part refuses to simply move on, to abandon what has been taken. Ramadan strengthens that refusal."
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Ramadan’s Rhythm of Refusal
In Gaza, the holy month reminds us that loss is not time’s only path.
https://jewishcurrents.org/ramadans-rhythm-of-refusal
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Joanna Blackhart [They/Them]
7 days ago
*sigh* oh god damn it. my storage unit is due again. i need $200. any assist would be greatly appreciated ♥
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Support Joanna Blackhart
Support Joanna Blackhart
https://ko-fi.com/joannablackhart
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South Africa today.
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India today.
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New Zealand today.
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Ian King
7 days ago
This morning on UD, time to let rip on the absolute shambles that Spurs have been for a longer amount of time than they ever needed to be.
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The Occasional Spurs: The Likelihood of Going Down is Considerably Greater Than 1 in 20
It's not that I'm some sort of Tottenham soothsayer, it's more that this outcome has been telegraphed since the end of last season.
https://unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-occasional-spurs-the-likelihood
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The Mill
8 days ago
Plus: The Brit Awards rundown, which was hosted in Manchester for the first time in its history; the latest on the by-election, as Farage calls the result a "victory for cheating"; and the Iranian rally in the city centre following US-Israeli strikes. Read it here:
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Exclusive: The MEN are at it again
Plus: Reform cry foul in Gorton and Denton
https://manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-the-men-are-at-it-again/
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Tony Evans
8 days ago
An attempt to put criticism of Arsenal into perspective "They dominated the line of scrimmage..."
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Arsenal Dominated The Line Of Scrimmage...
An assessment of the Gunners, what constitutes boring football and praise for the game's counter-revolutionaries
https://open.substack.com/pub/tonyevans92a/p/arsenal-dominated-the-line-of-scrimmage?r=16pivz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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The Mill
8 days ago
We're well over halfway, with more than 280 pledges already! Leeds deserves high-quality local journalism, and you can help us ensure the city gets it⬇️
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A 17 year old Black girl, who all of English football should be gassed about, is already having to consider this type of stuff 😞🫠🙄🤬
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James Butler
11 days ago
Wrote up the by-election, the Green victory and the conferences for Labour at the
@lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
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Franklin Leonard
11 days ago
Had a conversation with this guy Ryan Coogler on behalf of
@theankler.com
youtu.be/4IZ8xJUEhlQ?...
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Ryan Coogler & Franklin Leonard on How ‘Sinners’ Became the Director's Most Personal Film Yet
YouTube video by The Ankler
https://youtu.be/4IZ8xJUEhlQ?si=OUXO1jlvZoFvRddQ
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Ian King
9 days ago
Your weekend match is here. Horsham vs Southend United in the quarter-finals of the FA Trophy. Nearly but not quite, for the home team.
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-weeken...
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The Weekend Match: Horsham 1-2 Southend United - Wrong Coat Saturday
With a packed ground and a club just a couple of rounds from their first ever Wembley trip, rumours of the death of the FA Trophy may have been slightly over-exaggerated.
https://unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-weekend-match-horsham-1-2-southend
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The Conversationalist
11 days ago
February Book of the Month 📚 “The Mixed Marriage Project” interweaves historical research that might leave you wondering whether anything really changes in these United States. Read why we picked it ⬇️
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February Book of the Month: “The Mixed Marriage Project” by Dorothy E. Roberts
A memoir interwoven with historical research that might leave you wondering if anything really changes in these United States.
https://conversationalist.org/2026/02/26/february-book-of-the-month-botm-pick-the-mixed-marriage-project-by-dorothy-e-roberts-memoir-interracial-relationships-dating-history-research/
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stacia l. brown
11 days ago
that being said, here's my latest.
stacialbrown.substack.com/p/chromebooks
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London Review of Books
10 days ago
‘Unesco’s preliminary damage assessment for cultural properties in Gaza has so far verified damage to 157 sites since October 2023.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social
on the Gaza war’s damage to Palestinian culture and heritage, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
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Selma Dabbagh | Countercurrents
When the Taliban blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas in March 2001, the destruction was writ large in newspaper headlines and...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/countercurrents
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London Review of Books
10 days ago
‘Tehran used to move faster at this time of year. People spoke with more confidence and even the smog seemed less suffocating. But this year the city is on pause.’ Raha Nik-Andish on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
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Raha Nik-Andish | Waiting for War
Usually the last days of February are filled with anticipation of the Persian New Year holiday, Nowruz. People shop for...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/waiting-for-war
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Grace 🏳️⚧️
11 days ago
keir starmer can't have an answer to the green party because he's never once bothered to think about why someone who previously supported his party would vote for them.
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Jessica Luther
11 days ago
Fine. I've started a newsletter. For now, it will mainly be weekly updates on what I'm up to -- what I'm working on, what (if anything) I've published, what I'm reading, that kind of thing. Maybe if there's something I'm dying to blog about, I'll do it. We'll see!
www.patreon.com/cw/jessicawl...
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Sp❤️rts | Patreon
A newsletter about sports
https://www.patreon.com/cw/jessicawluther
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A win by 4K?? I thought this was meant to be going down to the wire? Sidebar: Kinda wild the Conservatives got less than 1K votes and we don't really mention it 🤷🏾♂️
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Showing how absurd the neutral athlete notion was, and is, for Russian athletes.
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Clint Smith
13 days ago
Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.
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The Trump Administration Can’t Kill Black History Month
We don’t need permission from the government to commemorate a complex past.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trump-administration-black-history-month/686130/?gift=8tkYvrgDvkjlMpU1Vl1Rh2kSCEmeSbh2n57IdPJZKSQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Robert Daniels
14 days ago
Last night I went to the
@musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
to see LIFE WITHIN THE LENS, a rich programme curated by Tyler Balentine that featured seven shorts by Black creatives. Read my thoughts on the night via
@ebertvoices.bsky.social
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Life Within the Lens Celebrates Black Filmmaking | Features | Roger Ebert
On a program this week at the Music Box in Chicago that spotlighted filmmaking for Black History Month.
https://www.rogerebert.com/features/life-within-the-lens-celebrates-black-filmmaking
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Ian King
13 days ago
I've been meaning to write something about Bluey for at least the last couple of years, and I've finally gotten around to it.
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Single Parenthood & I: Daddy Putdown
The Australian cartoon series Bluey has touched the world in place that you'd never expect children's television to be able to reach.
https://unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/single-parenthood-and-i-daddy-putdown
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Ayesha A. Siddiqi
13 days ago
please join me in supporting this family, if just 20 people give $50 this family will have met their goal in time to be reunited !
chuffed.org/project/1699...
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Two Years of Separation. One Chance to Be Together Again
For two and a half years, my life has been divided between hope and distance.
https://chuffed.org/project/169913-two-years-of-separation-one-chance-to-be-together-again
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The rains have finally stopped! Wait, it’s 16 degrees in February?
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United Voices of the World
14 days ago
🚨 The Battle of the Tips Continues. Restaurant staff at Harrods are taking the company to the Employment Tribunal tomorrow. 🧵 🔗 Read more >>
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Jewish Currents
19 days ago
After Israel's systematic erasure of an entire academic ecosystem, Gaza's students and teachers are taking extraordinary steps to reclaim their right to learning. Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi reports
jewishcurrents.org/education-ca...
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“Education Cannot Wait”
Gaza’s decimated universities are trying to build an improvised academic life under siege.
https://jewishcurrents.org/education-cannot-wait-gaza-universities-reopen
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The Atlantic
14 days ago
“Recent years have been boom times for language that is inarticulate on purpose,” Megan Garber writes, but a certain meme from 2016 may be this era’s ultimate innovation:
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The Meme From 2016 That Explains 2026
The more turbulent the times, the more tempting it is to [gesture around at everything].
https://bit.ly/3OxqtqG
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