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"Perhaps the biggest threat to the US press" - greater even than Trump’s attacks & threats of what he'll do - "is its fading relevance, as trust in the mainstream media plummets and consumption habits shift" Daniel Thomas Anna Nicolaou Christopher Grimes write ft.com/content/c57ab0…

The funny thing is that Pooh doesn’t like being called a Teddy Bear now, and if anybody says to Christopher Robin, ‘Is that your T—y B—?’ Christopher Robin says very coldly, ‘No, it’s Pooh,’ and then Pooh and he go off whispering together. ~A.A.Milne #friendship

Countering abusive lawsuits aimed at stifling free expression: European #AntiSLAPPCon in Strasbourg co-organised with European Centre for Press and Media Freedom and The CASE coe.int/en/web/portal/…

The UK is banning new coal mines. businessgreen.com/news/4379806/g…

BREAKING: The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, relatives of Sandy Hook shooting victims say. apnews.com/article/onion-…

Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias confirmed plans to shut down 137 military bases across the country and a transition to more "flexible" units, aiming to complete this by 2025. “It doesn’t make sense to have 800 camps, even more than the US." ekathimerini.com/news/1253543/d…

Video shows the latest airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs and the Israeli jet that just dropped the bomb… Video by my neighbour

Post airstrike. #beirut #lebanon

First Nations in Canada Seek China Deals Despite Security Concerns fascinating story by Ilya Gridneff in the Financial Times ft.com/content/e598dd…

Very important business at the Embassy today! 🎄🎄

WATCH LIVE: House Oversight Committee holds hearing on preparation for next pandemic x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Stockholm has an undergound system of vacuum tubes that transport waste bags at speeds of up to 70 km/h. They also transform their organic food waste into fuel for city buses. All this to reduce litter in the streets and in nature.

Insurers say bear that damaged luxury cars was actually a person in a costume apnews.com/article/bear-c…

New storms hit Spain this week, leading to school closures and train cancellations.

Food and water has been cut by the South African government to force out an estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground. Many South African miners and undocumented migrants have been working in abandoned mines since losing their jobs. bbc.in/4ezviqG

The Harvard Kennedy School Student Government will not fund any student-run conferences in the 2024-25 academic year as the group scrambles to cover the $46,000 budget deficit it incurred in the last academic year. William Mao and Dhruv Patel report. thecrimson.com/article/2024/1…

“Closing the book on the gross injustice of no-fault evictions can’t come soon enough.” 🚫 8,425 households were served with a section 21 eviction notice from July to September 2024, the highest number in eight years. Read more. ⬇️ bigissue.com/news/housing/r…

Michel Barnier déclare qu’il utilisera « probablement » le 49.3 pour faire adopter le budget lemonde.fr/politique/arti…

Beirut this afternoon. #lebanon