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#openwaterswimming #Gibraltar #thalassophile #atheist #literature #MUFC 🇬🇮 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇮🇱 🏳️‍🌈 🏊🏻
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Kristi Noem must resign.

And if she won’t, she must be held accountable and impeached by Congress.
January 27, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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On #HolocaustMemorialDay, we remember and acknowledge the victims of genocide throughout history – including the six million Jews murdered by Nazis during the Holocaust, alongside many LGBT people, political dissidents, other racial minorities, disabled people, and humanists. #HMD
January 27, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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Today is #HMD. As we remember all victims of Nazi genocide, we also remember the humanists persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime – including those in the humanist organisations Hitler destroyed, and the leaders who were killed. #HMD26

andrewcopson.com/2021/01/what...
What happened to humanists during the Third Reich?
Today on Holocaust Memorial Day we remember victims of the genocidal Nazi regime and of the many similar acts of other governments in the years since. As it’s Humanists UK’s 125th anniversary and a ye...
andrewcopson.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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On this Holocaust Memorial Day @andypearce.bsky.social reflects:

'As the country gathers to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, the Centre would like to pay tribute to our survivor community, including Mala Tribich MBE and Eva Clarke BEM, who remain committed to sharing their testimony with us...'

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a candle is lit up in the dark with a single flame coming out of it
ALT: a candle is lit up in the dark with a single flame coming out of it
media.tenor.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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Today, on #HolocaustMemorialDay, we remember the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, the millions more murdered under Nazi persecution, as well as all those who have been persecuted during genocides worldwide buff.ly/tuqqfvy
January 27, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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A genocide against Ukrainians is unfolding right now.
It already has a name: "Kholodomor" (exhaustion through cold)

This crime is being deliberately committed by Russia.

In legal terms, it has a clear definition - genocide
January 26, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Daily botanical illustration from Curtis's Botanical Magazine.

Gibraltar candy-tuft (Iberis gibraltarica)

The Botanical magazine; or, Flower-garden displayed, volume 4, 1791

#magazine #artist #plants #curtis #botany
January 25, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." — George Orwell
January 25, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Only MAGA bootlickers whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron are defending this photo
January 25, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him.

The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/
January 25, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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Apt comparison.
January 25, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.
January 25, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Like many analysts, I reviewed the video of the ICE shooting of a man in Minneapolis yesterday. I observed the following:

1) The suspect was being held down by several agents, and his hands were restrained.
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January 25, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"
January 24, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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The Nazi SA - Sturmabteilung, or Storm Troopers - were often recruited from the dregs of society: barely literate failures incapable of holding down a job and only fit for murder and terror. The scum of Germany. Hitler gave them free rein to vent their rage on their betters. Sound familiar, America?
January 24, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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The former commander of Poland's GROM special forces in Iraq and Afghanistan has condemned Donald Trump for questioning the contribution of America's allies

"This is the cynicism of a coward who hasn’t been on the front lines himself," said General Roman Polko.
Polish general who served in Iraq condemns "coward" Trump over criticism of NATO allies
notesfrompoland.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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The regime relies on both the former and the latter.

Ukrainians are being killed. Frozen. Terrorized. Right now.
In front of the whole world.
January 24, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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The Mad Orange Fucker has really overstepped here. What an absolute disgrace.

USA = Unreliable ally
January 23, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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BREAKING: Prime Minister Keir Starmer mocks the idea of Trumps board of peace

“Putin being on a board of peace? He is waging war on a European country"
January 23, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Sir Keir Starmer has said President Trump’s comments about British troops in Afghanistan were “insulting and frankly appalling” and suggested he should apologise for his remarks ⬇️
Keir Starmer: Trump was wrong over Nato troops slur
The prime minister said British and US troops fought together during the 20-year war in Afghanistan, in a rebuke to the US president’s remarks
www.thetimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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I was in Helmand with UK troops. Draft dodging Trump's words are a gut punch to those killed
I was in Helmand with UK troops. Draft dodging Trump's words are a gut punch to those killed
After the damage done by the American president in Davos - and make no mistake, it was significant, with alliances further ruptured - he has now managed to amplify it with comments that are as disrespectful as they are false.
news.sky.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:45 AM
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A group of ten local residents climbed 800 meters above the city and lit 450 torches to form the message: "No Kings." This is how Davos welcomed Trump.
January 21, 2026 at 1:19 PM