The Israeli military has again used US-funded bombs to turn the land occupied by the 55 Lebanese villages into a landscape of total desolation, systematically destroying entire villages and reducing to rubble houses, places of worship, hospitals, schools and precious cultural heritage.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has said that Ireland will seek compensation from Israel after a school co-funded by Irish Aid was demolished by settlers in the occupied West Bank earlier this week jrnl.ie/7022442

Council bosses’ pay reaches record highs as council tax rises, community centres, and libraries face cuts across England | Karen Reeve

who lobbied the government on this. Despite this setback, the campaign for a comprehensive arms embargo on Apartheid Israel is not going away, and to those who voted it down, we will remember you when you and your colleagues come looking for votes, whether in the upcoming 🧵4

When will these men be properly investigated and prosecuted!?? The only person in jail for any of this is a woman (agreed horrific and complicit) but who else did the abusing and who killed Epstein? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

news.artnet.com/art-world/hu... The Library of Ashurbanipal was to the ancient Greeks and Romans what the Library of Alexandria is to us today: a lost archive of unparalleled, almost mythical proportions. Ashurbanipal collected texts on every subject, from astronomy to medicine.”

"We've built a rapid response network to stop ICE detention centers before they start. Receive immediate alerts if a facility is planned for your community and help lead the local fight to stop it..." gtfoice.org

You may not know that the Greek one euro coin of today is adorned by the same motif as the silver tetradrachm of Athens from the period 425-400 BCE. Original post

Truth!

JOURNALIST: “Mr. President, do you regret all the lying you’ve done to the American people?” TRUMP: “😳🦗🤐” Every credentialed “journalist” with access to these briefings should be asking real questions like this one. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😎💙😎

75 MPs have signed a motion calling for Israel to be sanctioned for their War Crimes. It's time, lets get Israel sanctioned.

Now's a great time to join us! join.greenparty.org.uk

Three disasters in three years: Brazil’s deadly floods show women are ‘the first to die’ when extreme weather hits

In any case they are a colonial conquest off the coast of Argentina and should be either returned to Argentina or given independence which would allow islanders self government and better relations with their nearest neighbour. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN FILES, RELEASE THE UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES!

Reza Pahlavi gets tomato soup thrown on him in Germany by an angry Iranian. The German Government refused to met Pahlavi at his speech as he is deemed too radical. He has previously called Donald Trump's bombing of Iran as 'humanitarian aid' and urged them to 'finish the job'.

Trump wants to investigate everything except his assassination attempt and Epstein.

An agribusiness in North Carolina confiscated immigrant workers’ passports and visa documents with the explicit goal of trapping them in their jobs, according to a class action lawsuit filed Friday. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reports. prospect.org/2026/04/22/n...

The GOP gerrymandering gamble is looking to be a bust — or at best a draw — for the president, after Democrats fought back with their own redistricting efforts

I remember smog alerts in the late 80s and early 90s, when the skyline of downtown L.A. was often hidden by a thick, brown layer of smog. Then came tougher regulations and our air quality improved

Now that Farage has ditched the £ for crypto, presumably he won’t object if the UK does the same and joins the €.

ALSOBROOKS: I have the recording. I can play it RFK Jr: I do not believe that every Black kid should be re-parented on a wellness farm and I have never believed it ALSOBROOKS: Well you said it, sir, I have the video RFK Jr: I'd have to see the transcript

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In other news, Jeffrey Dahmer apologizes to the people he ate ...

The Epstein Files are trending at #1 again. Good work, Bluesky! 🦋 👏

Best to avoid canned tuna! Because of overfishing and the exploitation of workers. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

WTF! This is horrific! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Liz Cheney/Adam Kinzinger Against Trump

Effing well about time!! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Trump’s ICE started DRC third-country removals last week with 15 people from Latin American countries. And we sent an Iraqi interpreter who had helped US military to Rwanda last year. There is no bottom. gillianbrockell.com/breaking-ice...

These people should have NO PLACE running any data systems in the UK, especially our NHS! Dangerous fascists making money from the death industry. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"We're not just in the Premiere League now. We're going for the title!" So proud of @mothinali.bsky.social - amazing discussion with Mark Steel! 💚🥰 youtu.be/A0J4B_36hRM?...

Sounds absurd but this is actually the situation the world is in. Long live renewable energy and the trial and imprisonment of rapists.

Yes! The Mandelson scandal now feels like a media campaign & smoke screen for the deeper issues of war, authoritarianism and the disaster of a neoliberal global economy serving greed trade addicts at the City & the billionaire 1% destroying lives, water, soil, biodiversity, education, health etc.

Unusually honest politician. He actually discusses the issue rather than the repetitious spin replies.

BREAKING NEWS: Zia Yusuf Reluctant to Apply Same Standards to Richard Tice as Angela Rayner Shock! #politicslive

Decades of Israeli planning, placing all the “right” people in the right places, in all the right countries has brought us here. Watch more here: youtu.be/gKboWQHtgr0?...

polanski is just holding starmer to the same standards starmer held sunak to. i can't understand why labour thought they'd get a different set of rules.

Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them

This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.

#WATCH | Israeli army sets fire to the homes of residents in Southern Lebanon. Burning down civilian homes to the ground because all they want is destruction and occupation.

Of COURSE he's insider trading. He's a crook, he's ALWAYS been a crook, he's using the presidency to make billions. He ran to stay out of jail, to make money and to feel powerful, because that's what a narcissist like him gets off on. It was never about helping people.