Nothing more appropriate than the event of the year to round off Aisling Grace’s superb work on PA’s social desk - if you’re looking for a funny Boxing Day read this is it. A pleasure having AG on the team and am sure this isn’t the last excellent tale we’ll enjoy from her

What doesn’t kill you would make a great essay in The Cut

So many questions: If analysing histories of slavery & violence means you “hate Britain”, what kind of history demonstrates a love of the country? Is patriotic history going to be truthful history? What idealised version of Britain should we love - the one when White supremacy

The military ties of the man who carried out an attack in New Orleans and another who died in an explosion in Las Vegas are highlighting concerns about extremism among members of the military and veterans. apnews.com/article/new-or…

Always been fascinating to me how deep the 2022 seam of solidarity with Ukraine ran in rural England. This from today at a churchyard in Helmsley, North Yorkshire

🧵 Disinformation is increasingly being used as a tool to fuel division in #Syria. At تَـأكّـدْ, we have observed an alarming trend over the past weeks: viral content, including fabricated and AI-generated audio-visual materials, is being disseminated to exploit societal tensions

BREAKING: Donald Trump says he's directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants in the U.S. illegally. apnews.com/article/trump-…

How one five-year-old girl escaped an Israeli airstrike on a school in Gaza channel4.com/news/how-one-f…

Shock horror scoop in the UK press: Israel is not a paragon of virtue. My analysis of the recent shift in coverage for Declassified UK declassifieduk.org/the-uk-media-d…

Tánaiste has 'no objections' to Dáil sitting through summer to pass Occupied Territories bill jrnl.ie/6715510t

📢 NEW REPORT: A year-long analysis of BBC coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza reveals a pattern of bias, double standards & silencing of Palestinian voices. Despite 34x more Palestinian deaths, Israeli fatalities received 33x more coverage per death. DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT HERE 📄

'On the basis of our own evaluations, we came to the conclusion that we could not affirm that there is any systematic effort in Iran to manufacture a nuclear weapon' The nuclear watchdog does not believe Iran was trying to develop a nuclear weapon, its chief tells Yalda Hakim

Fashion waste from well-known brands like Penneys, Zara and Marks & Spencer has been found exported from Europe and dumped in massive quantities in Ghana in fragile areas of nature. jrnl.ie/6736951

BREAKING: At least 25 people killed after Israeli forces open fire near aid trucks in Gaza, witnesses say 🔗 Read more trib.al/GOe27MQ

Yeah. It's become hard, very hard. But there are a few things you can at least follow: - Don't trust random social media accounts - Don't trust AI chatbots - Learn reverse image search - Train your eyes on generative AI - Learn content verification - Don't trust viral posts

Israeli soldier describes arbitrary killing of civilians in Gaza news.sky.com/story/israeli-…

We urge all Irish reporters & concerned citizens to join us at 6pm today at The Spire to stand against the targeting of colleagues in Gaza. If we stay silent, we fail our courageous colleagues & facilitate a new norm where brave reporters on the frontline are legitimate targets.

He wasn't a Groyper. He also wasn't Antifa. x.com/kenklippenstei…

I've had like a half-dozen people say that someone leaked this to me, is anyone reading the news where this is everywhere now? It's a screenshot from a public charging document: nytimes.com/interactive/20…