Robert Dawson
@rdawson45.bsky.social
Miniaturist who loves books, art, culture and life in general.
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I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls
Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...
people.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
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Pentagon disbands panel on military women, alleging divisive feminist agenda reut.rs/4mv5DmY
Pentagon disbands panel on military women, alleging divisive feminist agenda
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has disbanded a committee that provided recommendations for women serving in the military, including on their well-being and treatment, alleging on Tuesday it had pursued a "divisive feminist agenda."
reut.rs
September 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Pentagon disbands panel on military women, alleging divisive feminist agenda reut.rs/4mv5DmY
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"At first there was no comment at all from LBC. Then a note appeared [saying] that Myska was ‘presently on Garden Leave due to unannounced circumstances’.
Unlike other departures, it had not been preceded by a handover, nor a farewell from the host."
Unlike other departures, it had not been preceded by a handover, nor a farewell from the host."
The silencing of Sangita Myska matters
Why has Sangita Myska (LBC) not been on the air since interviewing Israeli Government spokesman, Avi Hyman, in April?
sussexbylines.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
"At first there was no comment at all from LBC. Then a note appeared [saying] that Myska was ‘presently on Garden Leave due to unannounced circumstances’.
Unlike other departures, it had not been preceded by a handover, nor a farewell from the host."
Unlike other departures, it had not been preceded by a handover, nor a farewell from the host."
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🔴 NEW 🔴
GB News Owner Paul Marshall Calls for BBC’s Fact-Checking Service to be Shut Down
At a Pharos Foundation event, which Marshall funds, he called for the BBC to be privatised and for BBC Verify to be closed
@desmog.com story with @adambarnett.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/g...
GB News Owner Paul Marshall Calls for BBC’s Fact-Checking Service to be Shut Down
At a Pharos Foundation event, which Marshall funds, he called for the BBC to be privatised and for BBC Verify to be closed
@desmog.com story with @adambarnett.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/g...
GB News Owner Paul Marshall Calls for BBC’s Fact-Checking Service to be Shut Down
A hedge fund manager who owns three right-wing UK media outlets has called for the BBC to be “broken up” and its fact-checking service “shut down”. Sir Paul Marshall – proprietor of GB News, The Spect...
www.desmog.com
May 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🔴 NEW 🔴
GB News Owner Paul Marshall Calls for BBC’s Fact-Checking Service to be Shut Down
At a Pharos Foundation event, which Marshall funds, he called for the BBC to be privatised and for BBC Verify to be closed
@desmog.com story with @adambarnett.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/g...
GB News Owner Paul Marshall Calls for BBC’s Fact-Checking Service to be Shut Down
At a Pharos Foundation event, which Marshall funds, he called for the BBC to be privatised and for BBC Verify to be closed
@desmog.com story with @adambarnett.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/g...
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Back to the future?
First, a statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin appears in the Moscow Metro. Then a Kremlin adviser says that “from a legal standpoint the USSR still exists.” In Russia the past hangs over the present. My report from Moscow.
Stalin statue appears in the Moscow Metro
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
May 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Back to the future?
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Brooklyn magnolias!
April 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Brooklyn magnolias!
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I can think of a long list of things that would do more for women. Like, oh I don’t know, maybe actually supporting women who don’t have millions of dollars to spend on going to space for a 10min joy ride. 🔭🧪
April 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I can think of a long list of things that would do more for women. Like, oh I don’t know, maybe actually supporting women who don’t have millions of dollars to spend on going to space for a 10min joy ride. 🔭🧪
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Another beautiful misty morning with bird song
April 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Another beautiful misty morning with bird song
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The deputy speaker of Israel’s parliament and a leading member of Netanyahu’s party calling for the bombing of food stocks in Gaza just a few hours ago.
You won’t see this mentioned by any European or American leaders, or by most western media.
You won’t see this mentioned by any European or American leaders, or by most western media.
March 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The deputy speaker of Israel’s parliament and a leading member of Netanyahu’s party calling for the bombing of food stocks in Gaza just a few hours ago.
You won’t see this mentioned by any European or American leaders, or by most western media.
You won’t see this mentioned by any European or American leaders, or by most western media.
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.
February 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.
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Meta said it would end its fact-checking program and rely instead on Facebook and Instagram users to add notes or corrections to posts. The new protocol, which will begin in the U.S., is similar to the one used by X, called Community Notes, Mark Zuckerberg said. nyti.ms/40nRNLu
January 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Meta said it would end its fact-checking program and rely instead on Facebook and Instagram users to add notes or corrections to posts. The new protocol, which will begin in the U.S., is similar to the one used by X, called Community Notes, Mark Zuckerberg said. nyti.ms/40nRNLu
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👀🇷🇺 Fascist invaders now attack Georgian civilians
Has anyone in the entire world ever seen freakin special forces ensuring a Christmas tree is lit up? #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
December 14, 2024 at 3:18 PM
👀🇷🇺 Fascist invaders now attack Georgian civilians
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This. Don’t betray the people of Georgia. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
December 14, 2024 at 3:39 PM
This. Don’t betray the people of Georgia. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
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Whoever doesn’t know Georgians cannot comprehend what it means that we would begin protesting at 07:00 AM, before daylight. It’s much more likely that Georgians would go to sleep at that time. We are NOT morning people. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
📷 Khalibeg Magamedovi
📷 Khalibeg Magamedovi
December 14, 2024 at 8:30 AM
Whoever doesn’t know Georgians cannot comprehend what it means that we would begin protesting at 07:00 AM, before daylight. It’s much more likely that Georgians would go to sleep at that time. We are NOT morning people. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
📷 Khalibeg Magamedovi
📷 Khalibeg Magamedovi
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Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.
December 4, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.
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A massive thank you to everrybody who turned up at the picketline to support our strike to Save the Observer. It was truly inspiring to witness such solidarity, passion and good humour ✊🏽✊✊🏿💙💙
December 4, 2024 at 7:17 PM
A massive thank you to everrybody who turned up at the picketline to support our strike to Save the Observer. It was truly inspiring to witness such solidarity, passion and good humour ✊🏽✊✊🏿💙💙
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Here's a good thread. Kids, eh?
The beauty of an attempt to erase stuff in clay is that it can leave behind ancient smeared and smudged fingerprints.
This tablet from Uruk, dated to the 600s BCE (or later), might be a school exercise text showing some partially erased cuneiform signs collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Recor...
This tablet from Uruk, dated to the 600s BCE (or later), might be a school exercise text showing some partially erased cuneiform signs collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Recor...
December 3, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Here's a good thread. Kids, eh?
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#BBCNews - Georgians risk serious injury and jail in fresh pro-EU protests
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#Sakartvelo
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#Sakartvelo
Georgians risk serious injury and jail in fresh pro-EU protests
More than 300 people have been arrested and police are accused of using unnecessary force on the streets.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2024 at 7:26 AM
#BBCNews - Georgians risk serious injury and jail in fresh pro-EU protests
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#Sakartvelo
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#Sakartvelo
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From the Parliament outlook towards the Opera, if the horizon is full of people, that’s an insane number. And we are having insane numbers for the 6th day in a row now. These people are sleepless, gassed, beaten, exhausted. But determined for freedom. #GeorgiaProtests
December 3, 2024 at 7:29 PM
From the Parliament outlook towards the Opera, if the horizon is full of people, that’s an insane number. And we are having insane numbers for the 6th day in a row now. These people are sleepless, gassed, beaten, exhausted. But determined for freedom. #GeorgiaProtests
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did a little survey of my socials this morning. the news from South Korea was all over Bluesky, nothing on Threads, only one post on X, a little commentary on TikTok and (surprisingly) at the top of my Instagram feed. feels like news orgs are trying to figure out where to invest for breaking news.
December 3, 2024 at 5:13 PM
did a little survey of my socials this morning. the news from South Korea was all over Bluesky, nothing on Threads, only one post on X, a little commentary on TikTok and (surprisingly) at the top of my Instagram feed. feels like news orgs are trying to figure out where to invest for breaking news.
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Four lifelong friends from the UK recreated their favorite vacation photo over half a century later.
Four friends posed for a photo on vacation in 1972. Over 50 years later, they recreated it | CNN
Four lifelong friends from the UK recreated their favorite vacation photo over half a century later. The group chatted to CNN Travel about the experience and how they’ve stayed close over the decades.
cnn.it
December 3, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Four lifelong friends from the UK recreated their favorite vacation photo over half a century later.
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"He also owns.. holy relics ... bit from the Crown of Thorns, a hair from the shirt of Thomas More, a fragment of the True Cross. Was Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale considered too common to be taught at Eton?"
Excellent piece on the horror of Rees-Mogg tv
www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
Excellent piece on the horror of Rees-Mogg tv
www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
The torture of Meet the Rees-Moggs
The last thing Jacob Rees-Mogg needs is to be coddled by reality TV.
www.newstatesman.com
November 30, 2024 at 8:16 AM
"He also owns.. holy relics ... bit from the Crown of Thorns, a hair from the shirt of Thomas More, a fragment of the True Cross. Was Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale considered too common to be taught at Eton?"
Excellent piece on the horror of Rees-Mogg tv
www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
Excellent piece on the horror of Rees-Mogg tv
www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
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Tom Gauld on the John le Carré advent calendar – cartoon
Tom Gauld on the John le Carré advent calendar – cartoon
Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Tom Gauld on the John le Carré advent calendar – cartoon
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Yotam Ottolenghi’s Christmas feast: trout rillettes, leek nut-roast tatin, guanciale potatoes and pistachio bombe
Yotam Ottolenghi’s Christmas feast: trout rillettes, leek nut-roast tatin, guanciale potatoes and pistachio bombe
An alternative festive spread: a starter to make ahead in minutes, a showstopping vegetarian main, Scandi-inspired spuds and salty-sweet ice-cream doused in boozy caramel
Christmas is here! Well, nearly, and it’s never too early to commit to memory some…
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Yotam Ottolenghi’s Christmas feast: trout rillettes, leek nut-roast tatin, guanciale potatoes and pistachio bombe