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Journalists working for French public radio have begun a campaign against plans to cut Breton language news broadcasts in an ‘unprecedented’ attack on the ‘soul’ of their station ✍️Luke James

Vuelta a Colombia - Étape 1: Victoire de Diana Penuela !

🟢 Je réagirai demain matin à 8h30 aux déclarations d'Emmanuel Macron sur les océans et l'écologie. 🎙️ Rendez-vous sur @franceinfo.fr radio et TV (canal 16 de la TNT).

N'eo ket diaes ober skritelloù divyezhek ! #bzhg #Brezhoneg #Gwengamp

ICE appears to confirm that California National Guard are being used to provide security to ICE officers during immigration arrest operations.

Important thread from Adam here. Public space - especially in towns and cities - isn't just there for the fast, efficient movement of motor vehicles and we mustn't let that motonormative thinking enable another generational landgrab as automated driving slides in

This is the Chief Constable of Hertfordshire, talking about 20 mph zones. “No decision not to enforce the law” “Doesn’t say that someone can’t be stopped and advised” “where 20 zones are sensible”. And we wonder why motorists believe they don’t have to obey the law!

My heartfelt condolences to the victims of the cowardly act in Graz. I had the honour of running the European Police Championships marathon there in 2014. A beautiful, warm city that now faces dark days. All my support from Belgium.

Are Labour pro-people or pro-pollution? Congestion charge - a Labour policy under Ken Livingston - has been supported by subsequent Mayors of London, both Tory and latterly Labour

Can’t disagree Although there is the danger of being too pragmatic. And compromising too much

Quartier cité moderne à Shevchenko 1966

Congratulations to Innes McDonald of Scotia OffRoad Race Team who has just won the 4th round of the Tong British X-Country race The “delighted” @pedalpotential.bsky.social -supported rider posted elsewhere “The course was excellent as always and the mid race rain made it super spicy and fun!!”

Jack Reed: youtu.be/AgBv5xR80iA?si…

Joe Biden's final request to US servicemen and women before leaving office: "Remember your oath." I hope the US marines that Trump is deploying against American citizens were listening.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass: "Saturday night... the president tweeted out that it was because he sent in the National Guard that the violence was stopped... The National Guard didn't arrive in the city until Sunday."

No child deserves to go to school and not come home safely No person deserves to go to their place of work and not come home safely Ruhe in Friede 9 who didn’t today in Graz (And note there were not 10 victims or 10 killed. 9 were murdered; alternatively 10 died including the perpetrator)

Je suis fatiguée de vivre dans un pays où la parole d'extrême droite prend toute la place.

Leicester- a great city (Not to be confused with the shire, though)

School shooting in Graz

Gotta be an annoying surname for an Irishman, especially when this happens www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

Cycling choon

Sepp Kuss interview 😊 Not much info though, he's chill as ever. Training camp was good, everyone is going well, just looking to see where he stands in this Dauphiné, Jonas is in good shape. 😅

It's time for the big old (new) free fortnightly Global Peloton Newsletter - and it's a very busy one. 🇷🇼 Rwandan Cycling President on Kigali Worlds 🇲🇺 Kim Le Court-Pienaar at the Tour of Britain Women 🇪🇷 The 'new Biniam' wins for his new team + more 🇮🇷🇰🇷🇲🇽🇦🇫🇨🇲 globalpeloton.substack.com/p/gpnews106-...

“The Women’s Tour of Britain was a trailblazer - a race that led by example and showed what women’s cycling could become with the right support." 🇿🇦 Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio on the role of this British Cycling-run race in the evolution of women’s cycling: teamafricarising.org/african-wome...

Quite a read 😆

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"

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?

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.

Impressive way to take your fridge with you #CaravanLife

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.

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

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

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".

Tibor 😂😭

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

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/