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🔴 BREAKING: Ukraine hammered Russian missile plants and drone factories in a massive wave of long-range strikes.

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Oh god it's so heartbreaking. The zoo is such a sanctuary for families in this awful war.

‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says

Lucia is so stunningly brilliant and brave www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It will never not fustrate me that the Tories havent faced any consequences for how they systematically underfunded our forces - all while claiming to be a party serious about defense.

And now they want us to get involved in a random, pointless war, shredding what little equipment we have.

Martha got it

✊ “Hands off women’s rights” and “No sexism in the army,” protesters chanted at the Women’s March in Kyiv — the first since Russia’s full-scale invasion

Participants also spoke out against the new draft of Ukraine’s Civil Code.

Well that was GREAT

Ok I’m watching Sinners.

I don’t like horror - I had to turn the BBC Xmas ghost story off because I got too scared - but I’m assured it’s more gore than needing to turn all the lights on and check under the bed!

And I’ve also heard it’s too brilliant to miss due to being a scaredy-cat.

In Kharkiv, Russia killed a mother and her son 💔

Pavlo Zhivotov and his mother, Tetiana Zhivotova, were killed in the Russian missile strike on a five‑story building on March 7, 2026 🕯

Pavlo leaves behind a 14‑year‑old son.

I'm out of words here

Dozens killed as Israeli special forces raid Lebanese village in search of 40-year-old remains Overnight, one Israeli operation saw at least 41 people killed and 40 injured, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

Pretty serious allegation here. "Witnesses told the BBC that the Israeli soldiers had arrived disguised in Lebanese military fatigues and used ambulances with signs of Hezbollah's Islamic Health Organization."
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That’s a good shout - I’ll try that.

And of course the antihistamines make me feel like my brain has been scooped out with a spoon, hoping nasal spray makes me feel less broken.

When Israel targeted Gaza’s water supply, people rightly called it out as a war crime, denying civilians the most basic supplies.

‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

Revealing and disturbing profile of the man in charge of operation epic fury.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Alright over there John?

Men have intense bond, woman turns up and disrupts it.

It’s not bad it’s just uncomfortable - not like covid levels of pain but constant low level discomfort

Best depiction of the Homosocial triangle

I think it's tempting to see this as hyper-Atlanticism but I think really at root it's a bunch of imperial nostalgists who desperately want to be alive in an era when Britain Roolz The Wavez. The hyper-Atlanticism is just a veneer for that.

But in terms of Iran, a country they clearly know fuck all about beyond "brutal regime" and "pro-democracy movement", the "muscular liberal" demand we join a war that isn't even interested in democracy, let alone have a plan to secure it and sustain it, is a toddler's temper tantrum

There was a good piece in the Observer about this - about posters praising the UAE response I mean

Enjoying every hour of the warm weather — and still can't believe we survived that winter. #russiaisaterroriststate

Women’s rights are under pressure worldwide.

That is why we come together on 8 March – International Women’s Day during Women Unite! in Amsterdam.

I will be taking part as a speaker, at this international conference organised by the City of Amsterdam and Royal Theatre Carré.

"We work to gather coal"
First of three articles about life in the Donbas region, starting with the experiences of miners who are on the second frontline of Russia's war with Ukraine.

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No one talks about how hayfever can feel like flu combined with PMT - hello spring!!! 🎍🌷🪻🌹🥀🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾

Since getting back to the UK I’ve been drowning in my own personal cloud of pollen. My throat hurts, my nose is swollen, my eyes are running… hayfever totally sucks.

I read The Golden Notebook aged 22 and was like - I don’t get it, but I feel like one day I will get it.

Aged 30, it was completely different.

'We work to gather coal': Ukraine's mines are the war's second frontline Last week, I visited the Dnipropetrovsk oblast in Ukraine's Donbas region, to meet miners working through shelling, blackouts, and loss of colleagues.

Ukraine’s other frontline.

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Thanks Arthur!