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Russia-aligned actors are amplifying anti-Ukrainian sentiment in Poland before June 1 vote through coordinated campaigns across X, Bluesky, Facebook, and Telegram, according to a new investigation by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

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🔴NEW:The dark money behind UK's anti-abortion backlash - Key US anti‑abortion lawyer funding Toby Young’s Free Speech Union - Alliance Defending Freedom’s UK spending soars Warnings of “obvious danger” of “importing America's toxic far right politics” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...

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For four long years I was told not to call what’s coming our way fascism but here we are:

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Why temporary EFTA membership is the UK’s quickest and best route back to the single market and rejoining the EU.

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“If a homeowner is thinking about solar and can afford it, now would be the time.” House Republicans want to end federal tax credits that help make solar affordable. If that happens, it could upend the economic calculus of powering a home with sunlight.

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# always cite accurately. You may save the world www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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More than a thousand people who worked to keep American agriculture free of pests and disease have left the federal workforce in President Trump's massive government downsizing.

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SCOOP: Elon Musk will not be fully exiting DOGE. In fact, federal workers from at least six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments, and President Trump himself said in a press conference today that “Elon's really not leaving.”

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“250 million bees are now loose.” A tractor-trailer carrying 70,000 pounds of pollinator hives rolled over on a country road in Washington State on Friday, releasing an eye-popping number of honeybees, the authorities said.

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Millennial and Gen Z voters helped propel Donald Trump back to the White House. But our polling with YouGov shows many of them are already turning against the president https://econ.trib.al/nz2lI4F

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In the days of Woodward and Bernstein, the Washington Post held the nation’s most powerful officials to account. Now it's facing an identity crisis.

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Again, what a surprise US green energy firms brace for federal funding cuts www.bbc.com/news/article...

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#oh US government report cited non-existent sources, academics say www.bbc.com/news/article...

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GET THIS TO NUMBER ONE! It's VERY CHEAP as well as VERY GOOD.

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I can't believe they are still playing. the one time I saw them in london is a cherished memory. Fabulous

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#Oh Interestingly open discussion of covert action, which makes you wonder if there is anything really happening. Do they really mean it this time?

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The absence of any reform of the second house in the UK highlights the ongoing failings of a political system entirely staffed with turkeys. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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"Can I speak to the Sub-Editor please?..."

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The updated total is that TACO Trump has now pardoned NINE former Republican members of Congress convicted of crimes.

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#oh

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A view from outside of the US: why has this taken so long?

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Have you looked at images of Gaza on Google Maps? You should | Arwa Mahdawi

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“The irony that shimmers through all his prose plays against a backdrop of sadness—the sadness of a world in which hope is left for heaven and even tentative joy is rare.” —Susan Nieman on the novelist Daniel Kehlmann buff.ly/DBLnI8u

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I'm not sure this is just a Democrat problem. Hegemonic control throttles the redistribution of capital and power, and kills off any opportunities to widen participation in leadership.

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I've just found a paper on "Moral Disengagement, Machiavellianism and Academic Dishonesty" written, amongst others, by a man called Prince. #pleasing

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A British couple were found dead in a hotel room in Thailand after accidentally consuming a lethal cocktail of drugs, an inquest heard

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A Harvard behavioural scientist who earned global renown for her studies on ethical behaviour has been fired after an investigation found she had fabricated data to bolster her research

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⚡️Explosions heard in Kyiv for 3rd night in a row amid Russian attack. Explosions occurred in the capital around 1 a.m. local time, according to the Kyiv Independent reporter on the ground. Russia is targeting multiple regions of Ukraine with drones for the third night in a row.

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A record number of Americans applied for British citizenship in the first three months of this year, and for the right to live and work in Britain indefinitely, according to official data.

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Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

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President Trump, "I'm not happy with what Putin is doing, he's killing a lot of people" "I don't know what happened to Putin, I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him" "But he's sending rockets into Ukrainian cities and killing people and I don't like it at all"

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Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw

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The UK-EU relationship is going to become crucial for the next decade. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

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Denmark has raised its retirement age to 70 for everyone born after 1970, becoming the first European country to reach the symbolic threshold

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In the days of Woodward and Bernstein, the Washington Post held the nation’s most powerful officials to account. Now it's facing an identity crisis.

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Bluesky is plotting a total takeover of the social internet. In an interview with WIRED, CEO @jay.bsky.team says that as Bluesky is built on an open protocol, other apps are starting to fill in spaces traditionally occupied by apps like TikTok or Instagram.

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"Uncertainty is the most rational position to embrace, and unlike optimism or pessimism, it does not entrench us in complacency or inaction." No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair @theguardian.com @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

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Conservative MP Kieran Mullan criticises Labour's UK-EU reset deal saying the fishermen are losing out Fiona Bruce points out that its the same terms the Conservative government negotiated Kieran Mullan then humiliates himself trying to disagree with the deal his own government negotiated #BBCQT

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Happy birthday Sun Ra. It’s after the end of the world. Read Rick Moody in MAGNET on Mr. Blount: magnetmagazine.com/2009/11/10/f...

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From today Michael Gove will disgrace the House of Lords. I have described him in sworn evidence as a "deliberate and disgraceful liar". goodlawproject.org/covid-inquir...

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