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Trump is sending in the Marines now "The U.S. military cannot perform law enforcement activities inside the United States without invoking the Insurrection Act"

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Paul Morand's ‘The Six Day Night’ is a 1920s' short story set in the smoke-filled world of the Vélodrome d’Hiver and the Paris Six, and a rare example of a serious author incorporating Six Day track racing into their work. So why does it never appear on listicles for the literary cyclist?

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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

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Impressive way to take your fridge with you #CaravanLife

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In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

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First draft of a chapter for an edited volume on crime fiction under communism sent off today 😌😃

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I remember when it was a huge scandal that National Guard members were sleeping in a parking garage after January 6

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Left, Ballymaclinton "Irish village". An attraction at the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition at White City, with 150 living 'exhibits' and corporate sponsorship from a soap company. Right, the "Senegalese village".

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Tibor 😂😭

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Sly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82

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Hoe zeg je 'broodje' in jouw Brabants? De laatste maanden plaatst Yoïn van Spijk hier regelmatig dialectkaartjes. Daarop zie je wat waar wordt gezegd - of wérd gezegd. Die kaartjes zijn namelijk gebaseerd op grote onderzoeken uit 1937 en 1952. Maar nu loopt hij tegen een probleem aan. ... 1/

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#AlpecinDeceuninck #AntwerpPortEpic #TiborDelGrosso

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no comment about those pesky confederate flags at Jan 6 though

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Bluesky prevents me from replying so I'll have to quote @philippeauclair.bsky.social @levparikian.bsky.social , but apparently this is a very old issue that just keeps on rolling. Seems they were close to killing it off in the 70s www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

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"One Sunday a month where roads in the capital are closed to cars, just what would that even look like?" 🎪 Well, we showed just what it could look like with the London Cycling Festival! 🙋‍♂️ Fancy more closed road events? Email Sadiq and let him know: bit.ly/43YSUC7

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VIDÉO. Tour de France 2025 : on a testé la côte du Mont-Pinçon avec un Vélolib' de Caen #Caen #TDF2025 #Vélo @ouest-france.fr www.ouest-france.fr/normandie/ca...

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Reform in Redditch are claiming that they have saved the taxpayer almost £46,000 by having one fewer cabinet member than the previous administration on Worcestershire County Council. An official council spokesperson tells me: "There were 10 Cabinet members previously...and 10 Cabinet members now."

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New post. Gullegem Prof Koerse. The most intense racing in the world. IMHO.

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It goes down smooth but not fast.

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You can also watch my chat with @mrjamesob.bsky.social earlier today here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AZ7...

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Well done Alfie - 2nd The SCO Dijon rider is supported by @raynerfoundation.bsky.social

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#SpeakCornish is back again this summer! 😃 From Monday 23rd June to Sunday 29th June This year's theme: I am . . . / We are . . . . . .ov vy/ . . .on ni Lowen on ni - We are happy Speak Cornish on ni - we are Speak Cornish Kernow ov vy - I am a Cornish person cornishstuff.com/cornish-lang...

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Because if customers can’t drive into the parking spot outside at 40 mph (65 km/h) then they won’t go there (It’s at the top of a mountain pass by the way)

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Reminds me of the 1980s joke Substitute Farage and BBC for this Russia attacks (W) Germany but headline news in the Bild Zeitung is that it’s 30C in Berlin!! (Both are/were plausible too)

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In the clear-out we found some old signed casquettes but I have forgotten whose the signatures are. Anyone wanna take a crack at figuring it out?

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Now this is what you call a train station! Stopped at Nîmes Pont-du-Gard on the way back to Berlin and discovered a spacious and sustainable paradise where it was actually a pleasure to wait an hour or so for the next train. ❤️ #slowtravel More info: ideat.fr/architecture...

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I know I'm a miserbale git for only liking about one in ten cycling books but, I promise you, I would never write a headline like this one from the Daily Express, May 1922.

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Hoe relevant is het woord veganist hier. Fucking Telegraaf www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/i...

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Ottomma karten-bost klassek (c. 1985) gans geryow y'n yeth Kernewek! (Yn Kernewek Unys yw an lytherenansow. Treylys dhe FSS: chy=chi, golowjy=golowji, crows=krows, scath=skath, tyak=tiek, jynjy=jynnji. Nyns yw an dyffransow re vras!) #Kernow #Kernewek #Cornwall #Cornish

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Cornish/Welsh singer @gwennosaunders.bsky.social tells @theguardian.com that Cornish should be more widely taught to children and I completely agree! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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