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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 22h
And now insurance companies are adding to the problem refusing to insure houses anywhere near trees therefore forcing owners to fell trees on their properties or demand that their neighbours do so !
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 22h
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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 · 22h
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
All the time 😂
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#Jo_Lycett Seen 'Live from The Lycett Arms'? Watch it here on Channel 4: www.channel4.com/programmes/l...
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Live from The Lycett Arms
Joe Lycett serves up comedy, celebs and chaos at his very own paisley-carpeted pub
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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
@thetraitors.bsky.social
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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
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What ! What! The western civilization is dying
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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
#Schools are deleting all photos off of their #websites because of #AI while parents voluntarily upload them onto it 🤦🏼‍♀️
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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
YouTube video by Focus Features
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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
Whose fault is it that they've gone up? And he is threatening Europe and asking why Americans have to take the burden? 🤬
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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
share.google/9k3mxpawIkxG... #plant_trees
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Climate change could see more trees in cities to tackle heatwaves
Scientists say air temperatures could be reduced by 5C by planting more trees.
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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
There are no longer enough menhaden in the Bay to support both industrial reduction fishing at its current level and a healthy ecosystem
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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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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That sip bot water she had to take - she was fuming
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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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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water - BBC News share.google/NU1g5HOsyxcp...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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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
The row first erupted after another academic - self-defined " #racerealist" Nathan Cofnas, who was sacked from his Cambridge role in 2024 - said he found numerous instances of #plagiarism in the professor's work
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead - BBC News share.google/3Ux1nj9nbOvM...
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
His family said it was "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son" after the academic was found dead in London on Friday.
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nancymariat.bsky.social @nancymariat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor
Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism
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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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