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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 18h
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Trees have no legal status’: calls rise for stronger protection in UK against felling
After destruction of the tree at Sycamore Gap, campaigners warn more must be done to protect country’s arboreal heritage
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Lawyers For Nature @lawyersfornature.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
"I believe that the Rights of Nature will be to the 21st Century what human rights were to the 20th Century and we're just at the start of that journey." - @paulpowlesland.bsky.social Read about the ceremony held to recognise the importance of the River Wye here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Importance of River Wye recognised in Herefordshire Council ceremony - BBC News
The Goddess of the Wye puppet accompanied the river water into the council offices.
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Lawyers For Nature @lawyersfornature.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
What happens when a 200 year old oak tree takes the Secretary of State for Climate and Ecological Breakdown to court? Lucy Neal shares her experience of staging a play to imagine a future in which a Rights of Nature court case takes place. www.lawyersfornature.com/ring-of-truth/
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Ring of Truth: A Case for Nature
What happens when a 200 year old oak tree takes the Secretary of State for Climate and Ecological Breakdown to court?
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Lawyers For Nature @lawyersfornature.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
#WeAreNature was featured in The Guardian! www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
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What is ‘nature’? Dictionaries urged to include humans in definition
Defining nature as separate from people perpetuates troubled relationship with the natural world, say campaigners
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 19h
How Hoad’s Wood came to be destroyed, began decades ago. In the 1970’s, the t #ancientwoodland was divided up into plots and sold. In 2023, 30,000 tonnes of landfill waste was dumped onto it. The Destruction of Hoad's Wood - and the need for Rights of Nature share.google/voywv5oH64iZ...
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The Destruction of Hoad's Wood - and the need for Rights of Nature
Paul Powlesland tells the tragic story of Hoad’s Wood, used as a landfill and ignored by authorities, and how it shows we need Rights of Nature and guardianship.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Janice from Electric Mayhem Sticks Her Tongue Out
ALT: Janice from Electric Mayhem Sticks Her Tongue Out
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dying in Detention www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
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Dying in Detention
The 73-page report, “Dying in Detention: Rising Deaths in an Expanding US Immigration Detention System,” documents the increasing number of deaths in ICE custody through expert statistical and medical...
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?" So 10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Joel got a reply.
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
2) How the Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract to funnel tens of billions to ICE for a nationwide "ghost network” of concentration camps—just got a lot bigger. migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...
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How the Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps
SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract is funneling tens of billions into a "ghost network" of detention camps that can materialize anywhere in America overnight.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Can someone give me a logical explanation why the U.S. is funding Russia’s bioweapons facilities?
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Russian plague lab reportedly received research funding from RFK's HHS
The death of a worker from the lab last week caused concern worldwide and is said to have killed at least one other person since and has many curious about the Siberian lab.
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🦋marciebp Be a Dolly 🇨🇦 @marciebp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Homily for the Mass for World Day of Migrants and Refugees
Read the homily delivered by Robert Cardinal McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, for the Mass for World Day of Migrants and Refugees.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If the 2024 film, “Nickel Boys,” left you horrified by what some Black boys endured inside America’s juvenile reform schools, the real history behind the film adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel is even more devastating. (cont.) I've read the book. 💔😢 www.theroot.com/the-real-nic...
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
AI is being used to steal school pictures, photographers warn - BBC News share.google/gAxteVwrt5Q6... "The scary thing is when you submit a #picture to #AI by default it is allowed to do whatever it wants and I don't think a lot of parents realise that," said Ian Gilbert.
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AI is being used to steal school pictures, photographers warn
Ian Gilbert says he's heard parents boasting about using AI to take the watermark off his photos.
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Billionaire Jeff Bezos Says AI Could Enable 3-Day Workweeks For Americans share.google/38SQ1NyPvZn1... Right - would he be prepared to pay a 5 day salary though? And full health insurance? Or would the savings go straight to his off-shore account?
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Heather Donahue is the Film's Unsung Hero in 'Blair Witch Project' share.google/rUzU6LZcHIz3... #heather_donahue
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Heather Donahue is the Film's Unsung Hero in 'Blair Witch Project'
Revisit ‘The Blair Witch Project’ and discover why Heather Donahue’s raw, unforgettable performance makes her the film’s unsung hero.
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tubeway.bsky.social @tubeway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
my weekend movies... www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUT6...
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THE UPRISING Official Trailer (2026) Andrew Garfield
YouTube video by ONE Media
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The Numbers @thenumbers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Uprising finished its three-week domestic run on Thursday with a total North American take of $6.51M. www.the-numbers.com/movie/Uprisi... #BoxOffice #TheUprising
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
youtu.be/ZVkrhHebz1Q?... Inspiration #uprising
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THE UPRISING - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters September 10
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Botched US execution | ‘Oil shocks’ explained | Flydubai attack | Burnham’s change pledge In this week’s Your Week in Four, we look at how Christa Pike survived two lethal doses of a drug meant to kill her in the state of Tennessee, 30 years after she was convicted of murder. Read our newsletter:
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Botched US execution | ‘Oil shocks’ explained | Flydubai attack | Burnham’s change pledge
Your Week In 4: Hand-picked insightful, inspiring and compelling reports from Channel 4 News this week.
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BDVE - Big Donkey VOTING Energy @boulevaardvark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Polish president backs down and approves government’s windfall tax on fuel companies | Notes From Poland share.google/W9wdJxNh3Ylx...
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Polish president backs down and approves government's windfall tax on fuel companies
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.tes.com/magazine/new... I'm not surprised; schools cannot afford support staff anymore so who is supposed to support pupils? #education #bullying #tes
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Most students say school staff not aware of bullying
Major DfE survey of Year 8s also reveals that girls and students with SEND are less likely to feel like they belong in school
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Staffordshire residents call for cull of Tean school's 60ft trees - BBC News share.google/R71fXRuGbHg6... These people 🤦🏼‍♀️. It must have been like heaven during the unbearably #hot #summer. Tree haters infuriate me. How is "like they're "living in the woods"a negative? #climatechange
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Staffordshire residents call for cull of Tean school's 60ft trees
Residents in a Staffordshire Moorlands village say the towering trees "block out the sky".
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's already estimated that the richest 1% alone evade $163 billion in taxes every year. But Trump gutted the IRS — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires. The agency's audit revenue fell 35%. Now, Trump's IRS is not publishing data on unpaid taxes. See the problem?
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fresh on the heels of similar complaints about OpenAI from mathematicians, a biologist says Anthropic’s Claude “discovered” the same system his team has spent years researching while sharing their unpublished work with Claude. It’s no longer just publishers & artists accusing AI labs of plagiarism.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The U.S. owes $40 trillion in debt. Everyone has an opinion about why. But there’s one question you almost never hear asked: Who’s actually getting paid?
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
share.google/6bNSsjjBKgac... Great ideas! #wildlife
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Nature spaces 'need to be right next to where people live'
Campaigners are pushing for more wildlife-rich green spaces to be created within urban communities.
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bad news isn't the only news | Bill Gates share.google/BZcyR5cjPEl5...
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#Ospreys are disappearing along the East Coast. #Scientists think they know why. - The Washington Post share.google/177pDpK0zRwM... #OceanHarvesters, caught nearly 300 million pounds of #Atlantic menhaden for the plant in 2024.
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Ospreys are disappearing along the East Coast. Scientists think they know why.
At the center of a widening crisis for one of the nation's great wildlife comebacks is a fish most Americans would hardly recognize.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Will international media ever start covering Russia’s ongoing genocide? Ukrainians in Russian occupied Oleshky are eating grass and weeds to survive and the world stays silent 😭
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'Nothing left to eat' — Sybiha urges partners to act on Oleshky humanitarian crisis
Oleshky's population has fallen from around 24,000 to approximately 2,000 as of spring 2026, according to the Foreign Ministry.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
France’s prestigious Goncourt prize drops novel after author accused of using AI | CNN share.google/Zivj20ze69DI... I think they need to be more careful with a decision like that and really look into a reason why the novel was even tested for plagiarism
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France’s prestigious Goncourt prize drops novel after author accused of using AI | CNN
The organisers of the prestigious Goncourt literary prize said on Friday they had removed a smash-hit novel by Haitian-Canadian author Thelyson Orelien from their longlist after accusations he used AI...
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Cybersecurity For All @cybersecurity4all.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
This is a fascinating show. He's so good in it. The Crowded Room #appletv
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THE CROWDED ROOM First Look Trailer (2023) Tom Holland, Amanda Seyfried, Drama Series
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nana-ya 🍊 @miyaeowdei.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
this series with Tom Holland "The Crowded Room" is the best series i've ever watched. tom is the quintessence of acting. i hope someone praises him for this role every day 😭
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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
Weird that The Crowded Room only scored 7.7 in imdb. Genuinely one of the best series I've ever watched, and one that stays with you. Amanda Seyfried and Tom Holland are superb. m.imdb.com/title/tt1441...
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The Crowded Room (TV Mini Series 2023) ⭐ 7.7 | Biography, Crime, Drama
47m | TV-MA
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Seth Bob-Omb @theflemishseth.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Just going to say it — Tom Holland deserves an Emmy for his work in THE CROWDED ROOM
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Mightymite @mightymite.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
On another note, I finished watching The Crowded Room with Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried. (appletv) What a masterfully executed show. I'm grateful I went into it blindly or else it might not have had the impact on me that it did. 🪷💚🦋
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former ceo of teat tweets @demondoyle.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
watching the crowded room and like. i genuinely didn't know little tom holland had this in him
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live laugh laura (palmer) @toodrunktogender.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
here: youtu.be/Sdf1Y221lGo?...
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Danny as Ariana | The Crowded Room E08 - Amanda Seyfried, Tom Holland
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A Little Night Musing @alilnightmusing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For Tom Holland fans, seek out The Crowded Room, an oft-overlooked masterpiece from the pen of Akiva Goldsman. youtu.be/UAslkAV-qyk?...
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The Crowded Room - Official Trailer (2023) Tom Holland, Amanda Seyfried, Emmy Rossum
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Climate emergency declaration scrapped by Calderdale Council - BBC News share.google/zs2QtujxrwzM... The decision was made by the #Reform UK-led administration Pretending it's not happening is not going to stop it from happening 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Climate emergency declaration scrapped by Calderdale Council
Two members of the public are removed from the gallery during the Calderdale Council debate.
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
US rejects pleas from OpenAI, Anthropic for global AI standards - BBC News share.google/yDuzEyIJKFzh... Unbelievable. #AI
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US rejects pleas from OpenAI, Anthropic for global AI standards
OpenAI's Sam Altman has called for risk evaluation standards, as have Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Hugging Face's Clement Delangue.
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.imdb.com/title/tt1441... So good #TomHolland
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.forbes.com/sites/pamdan... Wow - that law! It prohibits race- and sex-based goals, quotas and preferences in hiring, promotion, pay, executive compensation, mentorship programs and supplier selection.
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Why Starbucks Settled Florida DEI Lawsuit, Allegations and Implication
Starbucks has resolved a Florida DEI lawsuit, agreeing to pay $1 million without admitting wrongdoing. Yet it highlights ongoing legal challenges regarding DEI policies.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Chipotle is working with surveillance company Palantir to build a “food safety risk platform.” Should you be worried Palantir might be tracking how much guacamole you add to your burrito? Maybe not. But you should be worried about what it’s doing for the federal government.
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The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.
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