Debbie Thornton
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Debbie Thornton
@debbiethornton.bsky.social
Managing Director of content production company Animo TV.
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In a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe.
Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847 [Historic Vids]
August 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death.

Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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New statement in from Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calling on the international community to ensure safe passage for the Madleen.
June 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Our medical staff are donating their own blood to provide life-saving treatment for patients in #Gaza.

Patients that were gunned down while trying to get food.

Food for their families.

Food to live.

We need an immediate #ceasefire, now.
June 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Doctor Tom Potokar who is currently working in #Gaza called on world leaders to take urgent action to end the war. #ArmsEmbargoNOW #BreakTheSiege #EndTheOccupation #BDS #FreePalestine
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Doctor Tom Potokar calls for political action after operating on ‘small, emaciated bodies’
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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May 26, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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The children were Yahya, Rakan, Ruslan, Jubran, Eve, Revan, Sayden, Luqman and Sidra.
May 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Military intervention must be used to stop the genocide in Gaza | Ahmed Ibsais
Military intervention must be used to stop the genocide in Gaza | Ahmed Ibsais
In Kosovo, Nato intervened in 1999 after mass killings and the threat of further ethnic cleansing. Why aren’t Gazans being protected in the same way?
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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BREAKING: Over 100,000 Protest in The Hague for Gaza. This is one of the largest protests in The Hague in 60 years.
May 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Today 25-year-old photojournalist Fatima Hassouna was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit her home in northern Gaza. 10 members of her family, including her pregnant sister, were also killed.

Your courage will be remembered, Fatima.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
wck.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Full contribution:

‘I got it wrong’: Conservative MP ‘withdraws’ support for Israel over war in Gaza
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'I got it wrong': Conservative MP 'withdraws' support for Israel over war in Gaza - Politics.co.uk
A long-serving Conservative MP has symbolically “withdrawn” his support for Israel over its actions in Gaza. Mark Pritchard, the MP for The Wrekin since 2005, noted that over twenty years as a parliam...
www.politics.co.uk
May 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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The World Health Organization's emergencies director Mike Ryan said the situation was an "abomination".

"We are breaking the bodies and the minds of the children of Gaza. We are starving the children of Gaza"

All States must act now to stop this.

This atrocity must end.
Two months into Israel's full blockade on aid into Gaza, humanitarians described scenes of starving children and people fighting over water, with aid operations on the "verge of total collapse".
Gaza aid work on verge of collapse, UN and Red Cross warn
Two months into Israel's full blockade on aid into Gaza, humanitarians described horrific scenes of starving, bloodied children and people fighting over water, with aid operations on the "verge of tot...
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May 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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“A huge 89% majority of the world’s people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the climate crisis, but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests.”

Most of us want #ClimateAction.
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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von der Leyen: Europe is still a peace project.
Also von der Leyen: Europe supports Netanyahu.
April 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks.

Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again.

NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.
March 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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This is why I’m here:

🧵Trigger warning: suicide

I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.

Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was sixteen, to her sister, Kate a few months later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/10
November 9, 2024 at 10:34 AM
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After two long years, the new season of The Great House Revival is here! Spot Hugh Wallace and some brave restorers each week make dream homes from old crumbling walls. Sundays 9.35pm on @rteone.rte.ie
February 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Wonderful story. Deservedly on the front page.
January 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Vaccines are “like stealing fire from the Gods and burning plagues with it.” Love that. 🔥
Seriously. I sue drug companies, you don't have to tell me they suck, nor explain to me the risks of pharmaceuticals.

But vaccines are different, they're like stealing fire from the Gods and burning plagues with it. Their benefit/risk ratio is downright magical.
January 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Sorry Laura 🙈🤣

#IrelandsFittestFamily | New season starts Saturday at 6.35pm 🙌
January 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM