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Russian bombs attack bus station, university in Zaporizhzhia, injuring at least 12 The first guided bomb struck a bus station, while the second hit a university medical clinic, authorities said. Rescue workers are still searching for victims who may be trapped beneath the rubble.

⚑️Russian bombs attack bus station, university in Zaporizhzhia, injuring at least 12.

The first guided bomb struck a bus station, while the second hit a university medical clinic, authorities said. Rescue workers are still searching for victims who may be trapped beneath the rubble.

10.08.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 166    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 1
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Reform Accused of β€˜Cash for Access’ Over Β£250,000 Champagne Breakfast With Nigel Farage Reform UK is offering access to Nigel Farage at its party conference for sums ranging from Β£25,000 to a quarter of a million pounds. The right-wing populist party is advertising for companies to…

Farage is selling access to Reform. The price tag?
Over Β£250,000 πŸ’Έ

10.08.2025 06:32 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 3
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Ukraine has no luxury of never-ending talking: our defence forces keep hammering russia's oil industry with hellish, precision sanctions. This time it's Saratov.

10.08.2025 06:33 β€” πŸ‘ 205    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3
Nixon's resignation letter.

Nixon's resignation letter.

Fifty-one years ago today.

10.08.2025 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 10481    πŸ” 2643    πŸ’¬ 492    πŸ“Œ 316
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πŸ•―οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ During the combat mission, 39-year-old Maryna Hrytsenko β€œMary” β€” a combat medic of the 3rd OSHB, the chief custodian of the funds of the Chernihiv Art Museum β€” died.

Maryna died on the morning of August 7, 2025, along with two comrades, as a result of an attack by a Russian drone.

08.08.2025 07:30 β€” πŸ‘ 7089    πŸ” 1634    πŸ’¬ 500    πŸ“Œ 137
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England’s swimming waters five times more likely to be polluted than in EU, research finds Experts warn country is in danger of becoming β€˜dirty man of Europe’ as it falls to bottom of bathing water leaderboard

πŸ’₯ NEW RESEARCH FROM @bestforbritain.org πŸ’₯

Once again, when it comes to environmental regulation, enforcement and protecting people’s health, the European Union leads the charge.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

08.08.2025 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 91    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

I am so sick and tired of seeing MPs and the media shit themselves over refugees arriving in small boats over the channel.

If your initial reaction to seeing these boats is anything other than β€œthose poor bastards, I hope they make it across” then you have failed as a human being.

08.08.2025 06:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2182    πŸ” 495    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 3
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1/ The Russian army is experiencing an epidemic of hepatitis and other infectious diseases, including HIV and tuberculosis, threatening a public health disaster. It has resulted from the Russian military ignoring its own recruitment rules and poor medical hygiene in the field. ⬇️

07.08.2025 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 359    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 15
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Hmm, what do β€˜central camps’ and β€˜final plan’ remind you of?
πŸ€·πŸ½β€β™‚οΈπŸ‘‡πŸ½

08.08.2025 04:10 β€” πŸ‘ 9326    πŸ” 3257    πŸ’¬ 741    πŸ“Œ 253
EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS

POWDER KEG UK ABOUT TO BLOW UP AS BRITAIN STANDS ON THE BRINK OF THE WHOLE NATION DESCENDING INTO CIVIL WAR

by Our Apocalypse Staff
HELENA HANDCART

THE entire country has turned into a tinderbox, one spark and the whole thing could turn into a raging inferno of hatred and violence. All it needs is one little push - preferably from us - and this once peaceful island will explode.
It may not take much, maybe an article with some badly researched facts, maybe some exaggerated and provocative hyperbole, and before we know it there'll be blood on the streets, and flames too, as millions of furious citizens attack each other, the police, and the emergency services,
not to
mention the armed forces should they tragically be called in to deal with the hate-filled mob rampaging through our cities, towns and villages, armed with burning torches and pitchforks, calling for justice, free speech and the immediate death of everyone they don't like. (Top journalism, Ed).
Make no mistake, if Britain even exists by next week, we will run this piece again until someone sparks the tinderbox on the brink of the powderkeg that... (cont. for entire summer).

EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS POWDER KEG UK ABOUT TO BLOW UP AS BRITAIN STANDS ON THE BRINK OF THE WHOLE NATION DESCENDING INTO CIVIL WAR by Our Apocalypse Staff HELENA HANDCART THE entire country has turned into a tinderbox, one spark and the whole thing could turn into a raging inferno of hatred and violence. All it needs is one little push - preferably from us - and this once peaceful island will explode. It may not take much, maybe an article with some badly researched facts, maybe some exaggerated and provocative hyperbole, and before we know it there'll be blood on the streets, and flames too, as millions of furious citizens attack each other, the police, and the emergency services, not to mention the armed forces should they tragically be called in to deal with the hate-filled mob rampaging through our cities, towns and villages, armed with burning torches and pitchforks, calling for justice, free speech and the immediate death of everyone they don't like. (Top journalism, Ed). Make no mistake, if Britain even exists by next week, we will run this piece again until someone sparks the tinderbox on the brink of the powderkeg that... (cont. for entire summer).

No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.

08.08.2025 06:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2912    πŸ” 1036    πŸ’¬ 134    πŸ“Œ 59

Me: Try to keep up at the back, please!

08.08.2025 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Me: Will you be upgrading to version 5 soon?
ChatGPT: There's no official "version 5" of ChatGPT announced or scheduled for release at this time.
Me: I just heard on BBC news that there was a version 5 now.
ChatGPT: You heard it correctly - OpenAI has officially released GPT-5, and it happened today

08.08.2025 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Afipsky Oil Refinery is one of the most modern in Russia.

Thanks to its deep oil refining capabilities (over 90%) and a delayed coking unit, it produces (or produced πŸ˜‰) a maximum amount of light oil products with minimal waste.

07.08.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 339    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 2
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I see this meeting as a disaster. You could argue that it's necessary for Trump and Putin to meet, maybe. But the truth is, Trump is easily influenced by those he speaks to and harbors a blind adoration for Putin. This won't end in anything but another round of bullying Ukraine.

07.08.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 265    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 5
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The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshimaβ€”killing members of my family.

06.08.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 18864    πŸ” 4739    πŸ’¬ 450    πŸ“Œ 157
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Migrants can use rights laws to evade deportation


Loopholes could undermine treaty with France
Matt Dathan Home Affairs Editor

Small boat migrants will be able to frustrate attempts to deport them to France under Sir Keir Starmer's returns deal by exploiting human rights laws, according to the treaty's terms.
Under the terms of the agreement with France, migrants will be ineligible for deportation if they have outstanding human rights claims or other legal challenges or claim they are under 18.
These are among potential loopholes that threaten to undermine Labour's attempt to end Channel crossings. The treaty also gives France and other European Union member states an effective veto over which individuals are returned.

Headline and first 2 paragraphs Migrants can use rights laws to evade deportation Loopholes could undermine treaty with France Matt Dathan Home Affairs Editor Small boat migrants will be able to frustrate attempts to deport them to France under Sir Keir Starmer's returns deal by exploiting human rights laws, according to the treaty's terms. Under the terms of the agreement with France, migrants will be ineligible for deportation if they have outstanding human rights claims or other legal challenges or claim they are under 18. These are among potential loopholes that threaten to undermine Labour's attempt to end Channel crossings. The treaty also gives France and other European Union member states an effective veto over which individuals are returned.

Just the supposed β€˜paper of record’ bemoaning the fact that asylum seekers have *human* rights and may be able to enforce them. Accompanied - ultra cynically - by a photo of Human Rights lawyer, Amal Clooney, at a glamorous fundraiser. What a sly and deeply unpleasant rag The Times now is.

06.08.2025 07:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2045    πŸ” 545    πŸ’¬ 145    πŸ“Œ 46

People should be up in arms about the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the destruction of the economy, the arrests of non-criminal immigrants and the increasing banning of books and other information sources in this country. Wake up, folks.

05.08.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4642    πŸ” 1286    πŸ’¬ 177    πŸ“Œ 55
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Breaking: Tesla’s board has approved the award of 96mn shares worth about $30bn to Elon Musk as part of a new pay deal after the billionaire chief executive threatened to leave the electric vehicle maker if he is not given more stock. https://on.ft.com/3U7LfNc

04.08.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 24
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Over 100 journalists demand 'immediate and unsupervised' foreign media access into Gaza Signatories are calling on both Israel and Hamas to allow foreign journalists into Gaza to report independently on the war, something they have been barred from doing since the conflict started in 202...

More than 100 journalists, photographers and war correspondents have signed a petition demanding "immediate and unsupervised foreign press access to the Gaza Strip"

news.sky.com/story/over-1...

04.08.2025 06:02 β€” πŸ‘ 496    πŸ” 181    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 8
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With a storm coming and often more storms around the equinox, weights and straps on hives can reduce impacts.
Hive's aerodynamic properties are not fantastic!

04.08.2025 08:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really important report out today from @cmmonwealth.bsky.social

Wrong to Sell: How Right To Buy Gave Away Billions in Public Wealth

www.common-wealth.org/publications...

04.08.2025 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 239    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 8
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Right to buy in England β€˜fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers Β£200bn’ Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the β€˜largest giveaways in UK history’

Successive governments have watched as Right to Buy hollowed out council housing stock, fuelling chronic shortages and deepening inequality. We cannot wait any longer: end Right to Buy, urgently reinvest in affordable, social homes fit for the future, and secure stability for ourΒ communities.

04.08.2025 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 171    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 4

Trump has never cared about his supportersβ€”just used them as tools. He says whatever it takes, then does what he wants. If Ghislaine Maxwell has dirt on him, he’ll protect himself at any cost. A pardon? Maybe. If not, expect another β€œmissing minute” of video. Self-preservation is his only principle.

04.08.2025 09:14 β€” πŸ‘ 121    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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'Massive' Ukrainian drone strike targets Russian railway station in Volgograd Oblast, local official claims Russia's Defense Ministry claimed that a total of 61 Ukrainian drones were shot down over various regions of the country overnight.

⚑️'Massive' Ukrainian drone strike targets Russian railway station in Volgograd Oblast, local official claims.

Russia's Defense Ministry claimed that a total of 61 Ukrainian drones were shot down over various regions of the country overnight.

04.08.2025 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 773    πŸ” 132    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 4
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The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enoughβ€”and what the latest energy data really shows.

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧡
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

04.08.2025 08:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1840    πŸ” 754    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 64

For fucks sake, leave it where it is!
#climatechange

04.08.2025 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey Fellow πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Miscreants

The Senate's trying to slip Bill S-209 through on the down-low, and it's basically a photostatic copy of the UK's Online Safety Act except worse because they're making your ISP do it (Telus, Rogers, et al)

Time to start raising hell on our own soil now.

03.08.2025 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 340    πŸ” 287    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 13
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The voting age for all UK elections has been lowered to 16 – and about time, too Young people deserve the right to vote, and on 17 of July 2025, it was officially confirmed that they will be granted that right

Young people deserve the right to vote, and on 17 of July 2025, it was officially confirmed that they will be granted that right | Lydia Pearson
northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/the...

03.08.2025 06:22 β€” πŸ‘ 244    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 2

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