Avril Lee

We are appealing for help to find a missing woman from Shepherd's Bush. Mary Lou, 22, was last seen earlier today wearing cream leggings and a cream coat. Please report sightings by calling 999 and quote CAD 5901/14Mar.

A message from Afghan woman to everyone who stands with us- "Thank you so much for your kind and heartfelt words. Your support and solidarity truly mean a lot to us. Knowing that people in different parts of the world see us and care about what Afghan women and girls are going through gives us strength and hope. I am an Afghan woman. My name is Nura and I am 26 years old. Like millions of other women and girls in Afghanistan, I grew up with dreams and hopes for my future. We wanted to study, work, build our lives, and live with freedom and dignity. Today, life has become very difficult for many Afghan women. Many of our rights, opportunities, and freedoms have been taken away. But despite all these challenges, we are still holding on to hope for a better future. We believe that one day Afghan women and girls will again be able to study freely, work, walk outside without fear, and build a life based on their own choices. I also kindly ask you to raise your voice with us and stand with Afghan women. Your support can help bring attention to our situation. Since many of us are not allowed to work, continuing our education has become very difficult. We especially need support for internet access so we can keep learning and studying online. Messages like yours remind us that we are not alone and that the world has not forgotten us. Thank you for standing with the women and girls of Afghanistan and for keeping hope alive."

🚨 Famous Iranians are being kidnapped for opposing the Islamic Regime. Retired national footballer Rashid Mazaheri posted a video, calling Khamenei “Satan” and condemning the Regime’s massacre of 53,000 protesters. Then, he disappeared. Islamic Republic agents raided his home, kidnapped him, and seized vast amounts of personal property. That was 17 days ago. His wife has been begging for his return, and exposing the Regime herself for taking her husband. There has been no official response from the Islamic government, as they have a long history of extrajudicial detentions and executions. It isn’t just the Iranian women’s football team. It isn’t just Rashid. There are countless other innocent Iranians being silenced by the Islamic Regime. No one is safe. Not the Iranian women’s football team. Not Rashid Mazaheri. No one.

Please dear pals look out for our beloved friend Bramble 🐾 he is missing in SO45 4LP He is on medication so needs to be found asap. We all miss him so much and want him back safely with his mum ❤️🏡❤️

The DOGE deposition videos have been banned on YouTube and they're being suppressed here as well. Elon Musk hates free speech

One of the DOGE staffers leading Elon Musk’s DEI purge of the US government says he believes it was appropriate for inexperienced twenty-somethings to be cancelling millions in government grants. Click the link in bio for more 🔗

3 massive Chinese fishing trawlers are plowing through Southern ocean following whale feeding routes These vessels can haul around 10 tons of krill an hour, taking the food that whales rely on Decades of fighting whaling, only for China to show up and empty whales’ food instead

ICE did it again - released a detainee far from her home without notifying her family. Three days after having an ankle monitor put on by ICE, 31 year old Daphy Michel was found unresponsive at a bus station. She died later that day. Daphy was seeking asylum in the US. Her brother lives in the US and has TPS status. She had a hearing scheduled for April on her immigration case. Her brother was waiting to hear when she would be released so he could bring her home. ICE hasn’t answered questions from Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 about when Daphy arrived at the ERO Pittsburgh office, when she received the ankle monitor, how long she was in custody, and where & when she was released.

ICE detain business owner—steal $21,000 in cash. He was driving to bank to deposit cash from his business—where locals wire money to relatives in Latin America. Now faces deportation with no way to recover the money. "We're told there's no body cam—no way to track it," lawyer explained. Pio Figueroa says that ICE only feeds detainees 2 times a day—and the conditions inside detention center cause many to get sick. The incident occurred in Russellville, Alabama.

Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by US analytics software company Palantir. A coalition of human rights, health and patient organisations, and unions sent out the plea to NHS trusts by email bmj.com/content/392/bm…

@bmj_latest Apropos: 'NHS joint chair 4 major hospitals Matthew Swindells pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform while also advising company ft.com/content/6c5486… via @ft

Let me get this straight… OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit. Open source. For everyone. “To benefit humanity.” Then he raised billions of dollars. Then he closed the source code. Then he converted to for-profit. Then he scraped the entire internet without asking anyone. Then he used YOUR writing YOUR art YOUR code to train his models. Now he’s on stage saying you’ll pay HIM to access intelligence. Just like a water meter. He stole all of your data. He built the product with your work. And now he’s going to bill you to use it… Corporate greed has reached an all time high, and they’re not even hiding it anymore…

The board that fired him? Replaced. The safety team that questioned his priorities? Dissolved. The nonprofit structure that was supposed to keep mission above profit? Restructured. The employees who wanted to speak out? Silenced — or bought out. x.com/rcbregman/stat…

Thé news that Russia has been invited to show at the Venice Biennale is truly shocking. Thousands murdered in Ukraine - yet the Biennale authorities turn a blind eye to the dead children and mothers. Shame on them! They are a disgrace to the art world. theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/11/eu-…

In his deposition, DOGE employee Justin Fox said he used AI to tag DEI grants to cancel — without ever instructing the AI on what DEI is. Among the grants terminated was a $350k grant to replace an aging HVAC system at the High Point Museum in North Carolina. The AI flagged it because the grant stated, ‘Improving HVAC systems enhances preservation conditions for collections, aligning with the goal of providing greater access to diverse audiences.’

She kept finding women in laboratory photographs from the 1800s. Then she read the published papers—and every single woman had vanished. Someone had erased them from history. Yale University, 1969. Margaret Rossiter was a graduate student studying the history of science. She was one of very few women in her program. Every Friday afternoon, students and faculty gathered for beers and informal conversation. One week, Margaret asked a simple question: "Were there ever any women scientists?" The faculty answered firmly: No. Someone mentioned Marie Curie. The group dismissed it—her husband Pierre really deserved the credit. Margaret didn't argue. But she also didn't believe them. So she started looking. She found a reference book called "American Men of Science"—essentially a Who's Who of scientific achievement. Despite the title, she was shocked to discover it contained entries about women. Botanists trained at Wellesley. Geologists from Vermont. There were names. There were credentials. There were careers. The professors had been wrong. But Margaret's discovery was just the beginning. Because as she dug deeper into archives across the country, she found something far more disturbing. Photograph after photograph showed women standing at laboratory benches, working with equipment, listed on research teams. But when she read the published papers, the award citations, the official histories—those same women had disappeared. Their names were missing. Their contributions erased. It wasn't random. It was systematic. Women who designed experiments watched male colleagues publish results without giving them credit. Women whose discoveries were assigned to supervisors. Women listed in acknowledgments instead of as authors. Women passed over for awards that went to male collaborators who contributed far less. Margaret realized she was witnessing a pattern that stretched across centuries. Women had always been present in science. The record had simply pushed them aside. She needed a name for what she was documenting. In the early 1990s, she found it in the work of Matilda Joslyn Gage—a 19th-century suffragist who had written about this exact phenomenon in 1870. In 1993, Margaret published a paper formally naming it: The Matilda Effect. The term captured something that had been hidden in plain sight for generations. Once you knew the term, you saw it everywhere. Her dissertation became a lifelong mission. For more than 30 years, Margaret researched and wrote her landmark three-volume series: Women Scientists in America. She examined letters, institutional policies, individual careers. She gathered undeniable evidence that women in science had been consistently under-credited and structurally excluded. Her work faced resistance. Many dismissed women's history as political rather than academic. Others insisted she was exaggerating. Margaret didn't argue emotionally. She presented data. Documented cases. Patterns repeated across decades and institutions. Eventually, the evidence became undeniable. Her research helped restore recognition to scientists who had been erased: Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray work revealed DNA's structure—credit went to Watson and Crick. Lise Meitner, who explained nuclear fission—omitted from the Nobel Prize. Nettie Stevens, who discovered sex chromosomes—received little credit. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered stars are made of hydrogen—initially dismissed. And countless others whose names had nearly vanished. Margaret changed the narrative. Science was no longer just the story of solitary male geniuses. It became a story of collaboration that included women who had been written out. The Matilda Effect became standard terminology. Scholars used it to examine how credit is assigned, how authors are listed, who receives awards, who gets left out.

Global military expenditure just hit $2.7 trillion - in a single year. According to @UN estimates, ending world hunger by 2030 would require $93 billion annually. That means we spend almost 30 times more every year on killing each other than on making sure everyone eats. Numbers don't lie. Our priorities do.

A Threads user named Laushi Liu posted dashcam footage from his Tesla Model 3 on Sunday, March 8, showing the vehicle on “Full Self-Driving” mode at 23 mph near West Covina, California. In the video, the car approaches a railroad crossing where barriers have just come down — and drives straight through them. The timing is almost poetic: this video drops the day Tesla is supposed to finally hand NHTSA the data from its FSD violation investigation, after two deadline extensions. We’ll be watching to see whether Tesla actually delivers, and what that data reveals about just how common these railroad crossing failures really are.

in his own words

Trump's Fish and wildlife is introducing a rule to let oil and gas companies kill polar bears and walruses for five years.