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🇬🇧 Investigative journalist Richard Sanders on how 's government is more worried about protecting Israel's genocide in Gaza than averting the deaths of eight political prisoners in jails.

https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/2001675288657424653

@democracy @workersrights @socialmedia

on a plane: flies rescue mission for a critically endangered species https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/21/campbell-keeled-glass-snail-translocation-norfolk-island

"in 2020, Dr Isabel Hyman received surprising photos from a citizen scientist of an unusual . Hyman recognised the species... 'As far as I knew, it was extinct, so we were very excited'. She and colleagues made a trip to the island, and in a sheltered valley found what they were looking for: a lineup of Campbell’s keeled glass-snails, hidden under a palm frond"

Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns

Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’

Archive:
https://archive.ph/GI2GZ

Original:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/20/some-will-take-their-own-lives-puberty-blocker-bans-in-queensland-and-nz-risk-extreme-harm-to-trans-youth-uk-expert-warns

If you want to understand what's happening in Australia, and especially NSW, right now read The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein.

I will email you a copy if you shoot me your email address.

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" comprise 0.2% of the world’s population.

Take a group of 500 random people, and on average, 499 won’t be .

So you may be wondering what it’s like to be part of that 0.2%.

Here’s a little snapshot:

In May, Jews gathered at a museum reception in . A started . Two attendees were .

In June, Jews gathered at a park in , . An assailant threw into the crowd. A woman was killed.

In October, Jews gathered at a in , . A man drove his car into pedestrians and them. Two people were killed.

In December, Jews gathered on a beach in , . opened fire. Fifteen …

It is nearly , so here is a very seasonally appropriate target.

is comprised of two parts - there is the , which is a , and the accompanying . For us here in this is a complex - appearing for us in the lead up to Christmas itself.

This is a two and half hour exposure, or 150 frames, at 60s/frame, gain 80, using the inbuilt Ha/OIII filter, shot on a .

Post processing was using Stellar Studio in the app, and .