Sad and disturbing news. Almost certainly linked to illegal persecution of these amazing birds.

Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.

I’m convinced that the antivax movement will look like an absolute act of stupidity to historians. The US willingly reintroducing measles is just baffling…

Raise your hand if you're surprised. Still good for these conclusions to be shared.

“The report states that Hegseth should not have used Signal and that senior Defense Department officials need better training on protocols.” - Inspector General Obvious

Epic victory for Mamdani. Some glimmers of hope.

We need more people like Samir Zitouni in this country, showing selflessness and courage in the most extreme circumstances. I hope he can pull through and recover from this horrific attack.

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

This ongoing charade by the speaker of the house, where he continues to come up with yet more lame excuses not to swear this lady into congress, is a disgrace.

NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago. So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year? Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share! 1/

Man Still Trying To Find Right Work-Anxiety–Life-Anxiety Balance https://theonion.com/man-still-trying-to-find-right-work-anxiety-life-anxiet-1819575766/

Gavin Newsom with the receipts!

29 'missing' Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015. Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology #Yorkshire raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/04/2...

Paul McCartney did not see this coming...

Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.

Trump randomly decides to send troops to Portland based on something he saw on TV last night. No, really.

Mornin, @thehill.com

Trump is scared of the TV comedians. And so he should be: they can see right through his BS and regularly call him out for the ridiculous things he says and does. But this move is dangerous authoritarian censorship.

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

The US broadcast media giants have bowed the knee to Trump with barely a whimper. Pathetic..

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

So much history in a single chart. It is wild to think that in 1800 about 10 per cent of light in the UK came from whale oil. Time to reread Moby Dick to re-familiarize yourself with the joys of whaling. Source: buff.ly/N405ZSx

‘The King Lear in I Am the Walrus? That came from John Cage’: Paul McCartney on the Beatles’ debt to great avant-garde composers

I missed this in February - a chilling paper in The Lancet looking at life expectancy at birth in Gaza from 2017 to 2024. #genocide quantified. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02810-1/fulltext

Solar wow!

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Stop worrying about seed oils, Emily Oster writes. There’s no good evidence they are harmful. “Given the poor state of health in the United States, we desperately need better nutrition data. Scientists need to stop producing and amplifying so much flawed research.”

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.

To be fair, I’ve heard some terrible jazz that might have required a police presence in my time.

The view from the International Space Station as an aurora meets the sunrise in space.

And again...

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel’s war in Gaza. Read the full list of known names of children killed in the war: wapo.st/4o4Tc3k

First Montagu’s harrier chicks born in UK since 2019 take flight

Finally, a promise to actually do something.

France will recognize an independent state of Palestine in September at the U.N. General Assembly, President Emmanuel Macron said. “The urgent need today is to end the war in Gaza and to rescue the civilian population,” Macron wrote on X. wapo.st/45jiof3

President Trump was informed by Pam Bondi in the spring that his name appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files, three people with knowledge of the exchange said. It was not clear what those documents were, or in what context the president’s name was raised. https://trib.al/zLNCcDd

A shocking description of exactly how the sickening violence plays out against people from Gaza who are becoming increasingly desperate for food.

Fucking hell, how much more of this chaotic violence until something changes?

First Israel bombs hospitals, then schools, now churches. It's obscene. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Is this what it means to make America great again?

Oh please do, that would be hilarious!

Thousands of common dolphins 🐬 are being killed by fishing vessels in EU waters. 🇪🇺 This barbaric practice is dismissively called 'bycatch' by the fishing industry. ✍️Sign our petition & join 555,000 people calling for an end to this needless slaughter www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...

To escalate military violence in the middle east, or not to escalate military violence in the middle east, that is the question. And taco Don doesn't have a clue.

Hey MAGA, I don’t remember your “no new wars” melon hued messiah running on going to war with Iran. Maybe I missed it.

"Trump demands Tehran’s ‘unconditional surrender’". With all his years of experience of the Art of the Deal, the master negotiator plays his ace move. FFS.