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'We're doomed': Mayer Hillman on the climate reality no one else will dare mention
theguardian.com/environment/…
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In 2014, a woman accused Russell Brand of assault. A court then banned her from ever talking about it, even to the police. She had no lawyer; there was no proper trial.
It's hard to believe so here, for the first time, is a copy of the injunction: taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/11/07/…
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Thank you, members of the Dublin Civil Defense, for rushing to help victims of the attack in Kraków. Dear Irish friends, we are grateful for your courage, responsibility, and compassion.
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What will the historians of the future judge us for?
We look back on the Romans and shudder at what they considered entertainment: throwing people to the lions while crowds cheered.
But what are we doing right now that the historians of the 22nd century will call a moral catastrophe?
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I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
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Wow, 12 years ago, the High Court issued a lifelong injunction, a gagging order, against a woman who made allegations against Russell Brand, stopping her discussing her claims with anyone. The court made no attempt to determine the veracity of the allegations.
youtu.be/TlJHtEgb9pI
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To understand what's at stake, take a look at this brilliant diagram (h/t Bloomberg) with Nvidia at the dead heart of the AI bubble. I wrote this exactly a year ago when only @GaryMarcus & @edzitron aside from niche business press were talking about it
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Has the the human race not invented secure, portable, quickly constructed housing?
🚨HORRIBLE: Around 70,000 displacement tents across Gaza have been flooded, leaving thousands of families exposed to the harsh elements.
Floodwaters have also damaged shops, cafés, streets, and already-damaged buildings sheltering displaced families, compounding the suffering caused by Israel’s genocidal war.
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Shappi Khorsandi says Russell Brand’s behaviour was an “open secret” in comedy circles and people were warned not to be alone with him.
Interviewer: “Russell Brand has always said he’s only had consensual sex. What do you make of that?”
Shappi Khorsandi: “I would be curious to know what consent looks like to him. Because what consent looks like to him seems to be very different to what consent looks like to the women.”
She recalls a woman who spoke to her about an encounter with Brand years earlier.
Shappi Khorsandi: “She called it rape. And I don’t think Russell understands that what he regards as consent isn’t consent in the law.”
The interviewer then asks about Brand’s claim that the women who came forward had “reimagined” their encounters.
Shappi Khorsandi: “I think that’s a lot of projection. It feels to me like Russell’s worked really hard at reimagining and reframing what happened. That reimagining belongs to him.”
“The fact Russell Brand was a predator, everyone knew. People were advised to not be alone with him.”
“When you’ve been assaulted, when you’ve been raped, however long ago it was, your body still feels it. Your body tells you what you have been through. It’s not your mind imagining it.”
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Zionist Politician Susan Hall gets dogwalked by Zack Polanski leader of the Green Party on Antisemitism & Zionism
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The images of kids submerged in freezing floodwater, in flimsy tents that won't survive another winter, make me SICK.
I think of Primo Levi’s words that every European learns by heart at school - only to forget when entering politics or diplomacy.
The shame of our time.
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Ok. Less than 20 Dáil sitting days left this year to get this promise kept. A STATE APOLOGY FOR THALIDOMIDE SURVIVORS
Can anyone help us
GET IT DONE 💔🙏
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The unbearable about Gaza is seeing our governments inflict conditions of certain death and destruction on an undesirable population, with no recourse, and knowing these conditions are being normalised for all of us. Just witnessing the past 4 years has been a waking nightmare.
Ms. Rachel: “Can we take a second to think about how if we were freezing cold in tents and they were flooded and our babies were going to freeze and there’s a government, the Israeli government, that won’t let the warm supplies through so more kids are gonna die and we’re just like, all the nations, all the people, all the leaders, just like yeah that’s gonna happen again. You and I should not be ashamed that we are loud and we are constantly saying stop”
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There are approximately forty @ThalidomideIre survivors still alive - they have lived every day facing challenges most people never have to face. Decades waiting for State apology that provides supports is inhumane. Apology promised by @SimonHarrisTD in 2026. #NoMoreDelays
Tánaiste says he’s keeping his promise for the apology this year on @rtenews “This Week” @RTENewsPaulC
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From @RTERadio1 This Week: rte.ie/news/2026/1108/159843…
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When someone says: "I don't know how to help"?
But all I'm asking is for people share and leave a dot.
chuffed.org/project/help-gha…
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For last 24 hours I’ve seen footage of horrific scenes from Gaza, just absolute human misery. Yet..it’s not there on any news outlet’s home pages, not discussed on our witless political shows. We’re just going to ignore it? Is that the plan?
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You will know you are victorious as a political leftist when your ideas are coopted by the mainstream and you are given zero credit while still being vilified.
