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For those who still refuse to acknowledge anthropogenic climate change speak to a wine maker in France. Ask why we dug up generation old vines to plant new varieties in the past few years. Ask why the terroir has changed catastrophicly in some areas.

There is a bookshop in Rabat that measures five feet by five feet. Inside it, every morning since 1967, sits a man reading. His name is Mohamed Aziz. He is 72. He was orphaned at six, pulled out of school at fifteen because he couldn't afford the textbooks, and decided to have his revenge. The revenge was this: he opened a bookshop and taught himself to read in seven languages, one book at a time, with no teacher and no classroom. Arabic. French. Spanish. German. Italian. English. He discusses Dostoevsky the way other men discuss football. He has read more than five thousand books. open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/p/…

After killing her, Iran’s security forces stormed the morgue, sexually abused, and sent the images to her husband as a weapon of terror. Today in a deeply disturbing case, Ahmad Khodaei, husband of Salehe Akbari, an Iranian nurse who secretly helped wounded protester during the January uprising, has reportedly attempted suicide following months of pressure, threats, and alleged abuse by Iranian security forces. Ahmad had sent me all the evidence the psychological torture he endured, and the details of how his wife was shot directly to my Instagram. Today, I was shocked to learn that he has attempted suicide. Akbari, a nurse and outdoor enthusiast, was shot dead inside her home during a raid by security agents. Ahmad was beaten, detained for 11 days, and repeatedly threatened to remain silent about what he witnessed. Khodaei said that after killing his wife, agents later accessed her body in the morgue and committed acts of sexual abuse, sending him images in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to psychologically torture him. The couple had been helping injured protesters seek medical care, avoiding state-run hospitals out of fear of arrest. Days later, their home was targeted. Following his release from detention, Ahmad have faced ongoing harassment and intimidation. The sustained psychological pressure have driven him to attempt to take his own life. His current condition remains unclear. This is what a brutal regime does when it fears its own people. Salehe and Ahmad were a young couple in love, their lives filled with hope, their days filled with purpose. They were saving the lives the wounded. And for that, she was shot in her home. He was detained, threatened, and psychologically broken. The world cannot look away. #IranMassacre

Turns out, the Russian hoax was actually a thing, and it is far worse than anything MAGA was trying to hide. Explain to me how Trump is not owned lock, stock, and barrel by Putin and how you all voted to sell out the country to a broke-down gas station dictator.

You’re not polygamous ,you just need two people to love you at the same time because your parents didn’t.

How the fuck does the Director of the FBI go missing? What. The. Fuck.

(to his credit, T***p has kept very quiet about the "assassination attempt" in Butler PA. likely, he is embarrassed about its staginess & doesn't want to draw any more attention to it. among numerous theories is the theory that it was "staged" but not rehearsed & much went wrong, not least that it looked so awkward, amateurish.)

Oh my gd. Terrorist attack in Kyiv right now .man is just shooting everyone on the street . Already 4 people killed. Not that far from city center. People just lying there . Oh my gd. #BREAKİNG

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"the strait of hormuz is open" "the strait of hormuz is closed" "wait they're opening it again" "the strait of hormuz is actually closed this time" europeans having no idea just enjoying the weekend:

This is what I’m talking about. Public sentiment is worse than Europe and it’s because of this very thing. Europe has proper regulations and has done some incredible things in datacenter innovation with renewables and heat recycling for example. Finland and Sweden are innovating to use datacenter heat to reduce the cost of heating for residents.

Yet they stay and they sing together long after the final whistle. It's just a loss, after all, and only by a goal. Unioner ALWAYS stand together. Respect! #fcunion

The Green Party plans to put a Rent cap that will deliver £18bn back to the 4m renters every year. What a great policy.

RUSSIA FELL FOR THE BAIT! In an incredible display of tactical chess, Ukraine just proved that quantity is sometimes the perfect mask for quality. While Russian gunners were busy burning through ammunition to stop a 24-drone swarm over Sevastopol Harbor, they missed the real threat. A solitary FP2 drone—flying low to the ground and exploiting a gap in the radar—patiently waited for the perfect moment to strike. The target? A multi-million dollar Ka-27M "Helix" helicopter. Despite intense electronic jamming, the Ukrainian pilot manually guided the drone into the helicopter’s fuselage, destroying the high-value naval asset in seconds. This surgical strike has left the Black Sea Fleet paralyzed and questioning their own "impenetrable" air defense. The hunter has become the hunted. Is any Russian asset safe anymore?

i work full time in westminster and have a masters degree from cambridge, but i still claim universal credit. if rent controls were a thing, i wouldn’t be spending 75% of my salary on my rent and i wouldn’t have to claim housing benefit to afford to live 🏡

82 years ago today, two young men crawled out of a woodpile in occupied Poland and began walking — straight into the unknown. One was just 19. The other, 26. For two endless years they had endured the unimaginable inside Auschwitz — the worst place on earth. They had seen selections, gas chambers, and crematoria running day and night. They had counted the trains, the souls, the murdered. And they refused to stay silent. Their names were Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler. Vrba had stood on the Judenrampe for months, watching train after train arrive, memorizing the horror no one outside was supposed to know. Wetzler had worked in the mortuary, witnessing the machinery of industrial murder up close. In early 1944, they learned the Nazis were preparing for the slaughter of nearly 800,000 Hungarian Jews. New rails, new killing facilities — everything was being scaled up for mass murder on an unthinkable scale. They could not wait any longer. On April 7, 1944, they slipped into a hidden cavity inside a massive woodpile, surrounded by petrol-soaked tobacco to confuse the dogs. They lay there for three terrifying days and nights as SS guards and search parties hunted them. On the evening of April 10 — exactly 82 years ago — they finally emerged and began their journey. They walked 80 miles over eleven harrowing nights through hostile territory. Moving only in darkness, hiding by day, crossing rivers, guided by stars, sustained by the quiet bravery of Slovak peasants who risked everything to help them. On April 21 they reached Slovakia. There, they dictated the first detailed eyewitness report of Auschwitz — 33 pages of precise, devastating truth: layouts of the gas chambers, capacities of the crematoria, transport-by-transport death counts. They estimated 1.75 million Jews had already been murdered. The Vrba-Wetzler Report reached the Vatican, Allied intelligence, and Jewish leaders. But it sat for weeks while the world hesitated. Then, in June 1944, it broke into the Swiss press. Public outrage followed. Roosevelt, Churchill, the Swedish king, and the Red Cross applied pressure. On July 9, Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy ordered the deportations stopped. Because of their courage, the remaining 200,000 Jews of Budapest were spared deportation. Those lives were saved. Vrba and Wetzler risked everything because they believed the truth still mattered — that if the world only knew, it would act. They were right. Their report became one of the most important documents of the 20th century, entered into evidence at Nuremberg. It stands as eternal proof that two ordinary young men, armed only with memory and unbreakable will, can pierce the darkness and change history. Never forget the price they paid to speak. Never again should the world look away.

I've written to the Health Secretary calling for the NHS to break with Palantir. This isn't a normal company. Palantir's close ties to the genocidal Israeli military should rule it out of any public contracts.

The trip from Vienna main station to Nürnberg main station according to this display takes 5 sexually transmitted diseases and nine minutes, because in German "Std." is the abbreviation for "hour" but the stupid computer thought "Std" was English.

GOOSEBUMPS. #FCUWOB | #fcunion

We may be witnessing the first complete shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz in history. Iran has turned back 20 vessels. The US Navy blockade has turned back 23 more. 43 ships stopped. Two merchant vessels hit by gunfire. Britain says it’s still not open. Iran says the US sabotaged the ceasefire. Trump told Phoenix it was done. 20% of the world’s oil supply is now effectively frozen. Trump started a war to distract from Epstein. This is where we are.