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DeepMind staff attempt to block AI to Israeli military with unionisation

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DeepMind staff attempt to block AI to Israeli military with unionisation - The Jewish Chronicle
Hundreds of Google DeepMind employees trying to obstruct technology deals with Israel, report suggests
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April 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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churchtimes.bsky.social
Quotes of the week
Quotes of the week
The downside of living through a religious revival is that parking is a nightmare Tim Stanley, The D...
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April 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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thetablet.bsky.social
Russia claims to have foiled assassination of ‘Putin’s confessor’
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Russia claims to have foiled assassination of ‘Putin’s confessor’ - The Tablet
Russia’s security service reported that it intercepted a plan to assassinate a prominent Orthodox hierarch, believed to have close ties to Vladimir Putin.
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March 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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samfr.bsky.social
My Prospect column this month is on Badenoch and her entanglement with the very online right.

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Kemi Badenoch's alt-right trap
The revolutionary authoritarianism of the online right, in which the Tory leader has got herself caught up, is anathema to people who just want a quie...
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March 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, sues HHS, alleging that HHS's refusal to pay $36 million in open grant agreements has resulted in "over 100,000 eligible individuals and families losing access to critical services" and layoffs and furloughs across partner agencies.
Despite four attempts by CCFW on January 29 and 30 to obtain payment of obligated grant funds through Defendants' Payment Management Services system ("PMS"), and another ten requests in the following four weeks, Defendants have persisted in unlawfully preventing CCFW from obtaining over $36 million under its open grant agreements— an amount owing that continues to mount with the services CCFW continues to provide, unfunded, with each passing day. As this Court is aware, CCFW has been far from alone in confronting Defendants' unlawful attempt to pause all federal grant funding. On February 25, 2025, the Honorable Judge Loren L. AliKhan of this Court ordered that the Administration was preliminarily "enjoined from implementing, giving effect to, or reinstating under a different name the unilateral, non-individualized directives in OMB Memorandum M-25-13 with respect to the disbursement of Federal funds under all open awards" and that agencies may not take any steps to implement the federal funding freeze as contemplated by OMB Memorandum M-25-13. National Council of Nonprofits v. OMB, Civil Action No. 25-239, Dkt. No. #52 (Feb. 25, 2025) (issuing a preliminary injunction to block the government's efforts to freeze federal funding). Defendants' unlawful behavior, in defiance of the Constitutional authority of Articles I and III co-equal branches of government, results in real-world harm not only to CCFW but also to the more than 100,000 individuals and families to whom CCFW and its partner agencies provide essential, Congressionally-mandated services. In CCFW's case, as CCFW wrote to ORR on February 17, "the lack of payments has resulted in 24 of our 29 partner agencies experiencing staff layoff or furloughs," resulting in the over 100,000 eligible individuals and families "losing access to critical services." Neither CCFW, nor its large network of contractors and sub-recipients, have the ability to 3 Case 1:25-cv-00605 Document 1 Filed 03/03/25 Page 4 of 28 cover the cash flow necessary to continue operating to serve Congress's intent without receiving the Congressionally-appropriated funding for those services. Thus, CCFW's partners have had to lay off staff, close offices, and cut certain supportive services programs as a result of the lack of payments, resulting in a frustration of CCFW's mission and Congressional mandate.
March 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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audreysuffolk.bsky.social
New legal guide about UK law re changing rooms and toilets at work by us at Legal Feminist www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2025/02/26/s...
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE -
A GUIDE TO NAVIGATING UK LAW ON SINGLE-SEX TOILET, WASHING & CHANGING FACILITIES IN WORKPLACES & IN SERVICES PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC
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February 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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As a lawyer who does Equal Pay law it is interesting to note that the prospect of young men falling behind young women is causing a sense of societal crisis that the reverse position consistently failed to invoke.
March 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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thetablet.bsky.social
Bishops call on government to pay debts to Kenya’s Church-run hospitals
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Bishops call on government to pay debts to Kenya’s Church-run hospitals - The Tablet
Catholic bishops in Kenya urged the government to pay its debts to faith-based health institutions, warning that the delay in payments made it difficult for
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March 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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jewishchron.bsky.social
UK Sephardi appeals to Zionist Supreme Court in attempt to gain admittance to Zionist Federation
UK Sephardi appeals to Zionist Supreme Court in attempt to gain admittance to Zionist Federation - The Jewish Chronicle
A local branch of the Orthodox party Shas is seeking to win recognition ahead of World Zionist Congress later this year
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March 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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The View from Westminster newsletter has gone out. Free sign-up here www.independent.co.uk/newsletters
March 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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churchtimes.bsky.social
"Those who had sought comfort and absolution in the confessional simply decided that they would make up their own minds — on sex and, by association, on other matters, too."

In the Books section this week, Peter Stanford looks at the decline in going to confession in the US
Book review: For I Have Sinned: The rise and fall of Catholic confession in America
Peter Stanford looks at the decline in going to confession in the US
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March 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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sarmiento.bsky.social
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Winchester Cathedral: Bishop’s Review | Law & Religion UK
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March 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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thetablet.bsky.social
Record numbers of Britons volunteer to join Order of Malta teams helping Jubilee pilgrims
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Record numbers of Britons volunteer to join Order of Malta teams helping Jubilee pilgrims - The Tablet
Britons are queueing up to volunteer for Order of Malta teams helping Jubilee pilgrims in Rome.
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January 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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spinninghugo.bsky.social
Christianity is pretty demanding if you take it seriously. Which is why, having been found difficult, it goes largely untried.

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January 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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barbararich.bsky.social
I spoke about the judicial oversight provisions in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (the Assisted Dying Bill) with Max Hill KC and Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today this morning (starts at 2 hrs 36 mins in) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Today - 31/01/2025 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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January 31, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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sarmiento.bsky.social
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Are women safe in the Church of England? — WATCH
Given recent news stories about sexual harassment and assault of women in the Church of England and as a campaigner for equality for women in the Church, I am frequently asked whether women are safe i...
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January 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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scottwortley.bsky.social
Interview with the drafter of the assisted dying private members bill at Westminster. Worth a read. Particularly noteworthy is the time pressure Dame Elizabeth was under. Once again indicative of a lack of serious policy testing and consideration before introduction of the legislation.
Assisted dying bill: Special series #2 - Parliament Matters podcast, Episode 71
In this special episode we have an exclusive conversation with Dame Elizabeth Gardiner, the former head of the government’s Office of Parliamentary Counsel, who drafted the Terminally Ill Adults (End ...
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January 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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sarmiento.bsky.social
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Bishop Budde went viral because she showed us what's wrong with American religion
(RNS) — The sermon reminded many Americans what public religious faith looked like in the not-so-distant past, when the Episcopal Church was the de facto faith of the American ruling class.
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January 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Roundup: Listed Place of Worship Grant Scheme, more on the Makin Report, Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015 (Extension) Act 2025, burial & cremation - & more: lawandreligionuk.com/2025/01/19/l...
Law and religion roundup – 19th January | Law & Religion UK
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January 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Roundup: Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme, bishops in the House of Lords again, the Charity Commission on safeguarding and the C of E Synod; regulation of the funerals market; employment law cases to look out for in 2025 – & more: lawandreligionuk.com/2025/01/26/l...
Law and religion roundup – 26th January | Law & Religion UK
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January 26, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Ecc Law Soc/ICLARS free webinar: Anglican canon law: 2pm GMT 12 March. Revd Russell Dewhurst, Rt Revd Dr Vicentia Refiloe Kgabe, Bp of Lesotho Anglican Ch of SA & Ven Alan Perry, Gen Sec Anglican Ch of Canada. Chair, Prof Mark Hill. Register at least 24 hrs before: ecclawsoc.org.uk/events/angli....
Anglican Canon Law – webinar on behalf of ICLARS - Ecclesiastical Law Society
12/03/2025 @ 2:00 pm GMT - 3:00 pm GMT - Webinar in collaboration with the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS) on Anglican Canon Law.
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January 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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audreysuffolk.bsky.social
This is a lovely and heartbreaking obituary for a young lad who clearly lived life to the full
February 1, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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lawandreligionuk.bsky.social
Street preaching: hate speech vs freedom of expression: a note on Sleeper v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2025] EWHC 151 (KB): lawandreligionuk.com/2025/02/01/s...
Street preaching: hate speech vs freedom of expression: Sleeper | Law & Religion UK
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February 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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spinninghugo.bsky.social
What do people mean by "written constitution"? Why do they think the UK's is "unwritten"?

Do they mean more power to the judges to review legislation (a bad idea for the reasons Waldron gave IMO

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Or what?

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February 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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spinninghugo.bsky.social
I did dry January, and without the protection of life enhancing ale, fell victim to Covid (which I have never had).

A stark warning for the young,

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Almost half of young people no longer drink alcohol
Britons of all age groups are cutting back to improve their health — although ‘abstinence influencers’ seem to have less impact on the over-55s
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February 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM