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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Cosmo Sheldrake:
🎵 Nightjar
#CosmoSheldrake
https://open.spotify.com/track/60OMpDolsd2qTApmDzBoFM

"‘Chasing Deforestation’ in Liberia: Behind the scenes with Mongabay"
#Liberia #Deforestation #Trees

‘Chasing Deforestation’ in Liberia: Behind the scenes with Mongabay
Mongabay’s investigation into deforestation in Liberia started with a tip from a source last year. “There’s deforestation, and a migrant rights issue,” they said. Areas along the border with Côte d’Ivoire were losing vast swaths of rainforest to cacao farming. It was the beginning of a months-long journey that led us from the Liberian jungle […]

A previously undetected outbreak of Ebola is coursing through parts of central Africa,
and the US appears to be doing little to help stop it, after massive cuts to global and domestic public health efforts.
There is no cure and no vaccine for the rare Bundibugyo variant of Ebola, which has caused two outbreaks in recent decades.
Health leaders and scientists are now racing to understand where the virus is spreading and attempting to stop it
– but the US is notably abs…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Chikinki:
🎵 You Said
#NowPlaying #Chikinki

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
—Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

Press releases about the successful #Smile launch: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Smile/Smile_lifts_off_on_quest_to_reveal_Earth_s_invisible_shield_against_the_solar_wind and https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-plays-leading-role-as-landmark-mission-launches-to-unlock-secrets-of-earths-magnetic-shield and https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/landmark-mission-launches-earth-magnetic-shield-smile and https://www.avio.com/press-release/avio-successfully-launches-the-smile-satellite-with-vega-c- and https://cnes.fr/evenements/vv29-lancement-de-vega-c-satellite-smile - and two photos from https://x.com/EuropeSpacePort/status/2056591274384257239 and https://bsky.app/profile/transport.esa.int/post/3mm6s5d5nxk2d

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Wyatt Waddell:
🎵 I Saw the Light
#WyattWaddell
https://open.spotify.com/track/6I7W5lsc1wSM1eXfFSRpkQ

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#BetweenTheEars
- Miniatures (Midsummer Dreaming)
An ascent of Mount Stilwell, chasing the last of the summer light in Australia before it moves to the northern hemisphere.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xfn8

On October 31, 1803 the frigate USS Philadelphia hit a reef and ran aground chasing Barbary pirates near Tripoli, Libya.
All 307 members of its crew were captured and held hostage by the Barbary states.
Rather than pay tribute to the pirates, U.S. President Thomas Jefferson sent U.S. frigates to intervene and free the hostages.
The first of two wars against the Barbary pirates, the scourge of shipping for decades, hastened the building of the U.S. Navy
and began a lon…

The Slow Death of the Global Commons
Hormuz is a sign of worse things to come.

Under acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the pace of investigations against Mr. Trump’s perceived enemies has accelerated
— most strikingly, the indictment of the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, for posting on social media an image of seashells that prosecutors cast as threatening.
Blanche has used his new perch to boost debunked election conspiracy theories promoted by the president.
But the moves that most starkly illustrated Blanche’s evolving approach came th…

Trump’s Fund Shows Blanche Choosing Loyalty Over Pushing Back
Once seen by some as the most conventional of President Trump’s political appointees, Todd Blanche has taken off the gloves in his new role as acting attorney general.