As someone who studied modern history and lives in Germany while being Dutch, with a family history of resistance during WW2, make no mistake. The money Trump feeds to ICE means that he is creating the US version of the German Nazi SA, also known as #BrownShirts. Today they go after supposed illegal immigrants, tomorrow they will go after anyone who doesn’t fit to whatever weird version of supremacy The Leader wants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

Manifestly Illegal: Israeli International Law Scholars on the Stated Plan to “Concentrate” the Palestinian Population in South Gaza

https://www.justsecurity.org/116904/israeli-international-law-scholars-gaza/

New horrors. The Biodiversity Heritage Library needs help. The Smithsonian Institution will end its support as of 1 Jan 2026.

This is the world's largest open-source archive for biodiversity literature and archives -- the place where you can find all the old, but still very useful, botanical literature, among other things.

Please share widely with your networks. #biodiversity #Archives #defendresearch #botany

https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/

Hello #PortfolioDay 😀
My name is Nancy, I'm a French artist specialising in illuminations.

Here are some samples of flowers from the Great Hours of Ann of Brittany...

illuminiatures [at] gmail.com
https://illuminiatures.fr/catalogue/

I'm with the British Medical Association here. Genocide enabler Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS.

#Palantir #NHS #BMA #UKPolitics

Palantir accuses UK doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row | Palantir | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/08/palantir-technology-uk-doctors-patient-nhs-data

A breast cancer vaccine has completed Phase one trials, with more than 75 percent of the 35 participants showing a strong immune response. The shot is aimed a preventing and treating triple-negative breast cancer, the deadliest form, and targets a milk protein. Side effects were limited to mild injection-site irritation. Here's more from @Independent.

https://flip.it/xvpb6O

#Science #Health #Cancer #Research #BreastCancer

And so it starts;

Police have arrested peaceful demonstrators under the Terrorism Act, for holding placards in support of Palestine Action.

Yes, Britain the home of democracy....

Yvette Cooper should be ashamed of herself for this attack on democracy & the right to protest.

How has it come to this?

[rhetorical Q.; I have a pretty good idea]

#democracy #protest #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/05/palestine-action-activists-arrested-london-gandhi-statue

French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft

Microsoft faces growing rejection in Europe whereas open source software sees growing adaption.

https://news.itsfoss.com/french-city-replaces-microsoft/