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Today's 'Russia Day' marks the path to the present-day Russian Federation. At #MSC2025, Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, called to envision a future for her country without #Putin. Watch the full session: securityconference.org/msc-2025/age...

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I know this is a losing battle and yet! I will die on this hill: SIX EPISODES IS NOT A SEASON IT IS A MINISERIES

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This looks like the most unsurprising chart I've ever seen, but if you only read British media you'd lose your mind learning that this is the reality of it

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Morning Bluesky. The first time this has happened in 20 years. This only raises tensions higher.

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It's like the increasingly long-winded attempts to define "biological sex" which, ultimately, resulted in the SC declining to define it. We have "men's" and "women's" public toilets largely because of longstanding social convention, not because of some naturally occurring binary.

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It's literally copied from a war bonds poster, and DHS got it from a Twitter white supremacist.

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Watch: Remarkable historic remains found in York sinkhole | YorkMix share.google/R96lkQqFz0Of...

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We've covered lots of spacecraft bits on Spacedock, but what do you actually attach them to? Find out on this weeks video covering spacecraft structures: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyHb...

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Ukrainians in the UK are facing a hidden crisis ✍️ Mubeen Bhutta

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This is like when Russian oligarchs and, more recently, Chinese tech billionaires learned the difference between being a fantastically rich person and being in direct personal control of the state and its powers.

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With pure joy, we can finally say that after 7 years of dogged campaigning, this barbaric law will be consigned to the history books. A petition by Oxford students began the campaign, which has ended in real change for society's most vulnerable. Our voices do matter. www.oxonld.uk/vagrancy-act...

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Facebook has removed a link to my BBC programme about art history bc it "contains nudity". The nudity is... a picture of the shoulder of a classical statue? My mum used to have to do this for her Orthodox Jewish art students, so I'm not unfamiliar w fundamentalism. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

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Another successful long running Liberal Democrat campaign. Congratulations @laylamoran.bsky.social!!!

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Something leaflet delivery volunteers of ALL parties can get behind: Labour MP Anneliese Midgley has the first reading of her 10-minute rule bill on low-level letter boxes, which aims to ban those below a certain height in new housing developments.

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"If we can support family carers just a little bit more, that would help so many of the problems that we have." @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk

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forever in our hearts* </3 *and probably the lining of our stomachs, which I doubt have fully recovered

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Farage pretends to support Welsh steel. Meanwhile, his mate Trump is hitting the UK with brutal tariffs that target our steel industry. Nigel backs Trump all the way, then claims to stand with the workers paying the price. 🤦‍♂️

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This is the equivalent of the Golden Rule but for "woke," and even that was too much for many to handle.

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Music autistics! History autistics! Andrew Hickey autistics! Give @500songspodcast.bsky.social a follow, will you?

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Really well-reported overview. The metastasization and political/geopolitical fallout of the Sahel insurgencies are an overlooked but central feature of the past 15 years in global politics. As much as any other development, they tell the history of that period, and the decades preceding it.

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One of those times where it's necessary to point out that drafting the ECHR was led by David Maxwell Fyfe, a Scottish Conservative MP for Liverpool, MacMillan's Home Secretary and a prosecutor at Nuremberg. A functional party would trumpet it as a great Conservative achievement in the rule of law.

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I wasn’t able to attend welfare protests. So I wrote about it all here. I wish I hadn’t had to. Not after countless forms, assessments, questioning, tribunals - hours bleeding out in the hope of being heard. But if you’re like me and want to survive, you learn to get good at it. #TakingThePip

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Naval mines are powerful weapons. Clearance is dangerous work. Read about Royal Navy mine clearance off Libya in 2010

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It's 20 years since the Glazer family took control over Manchester United in a £604m debt-funded buyout. BBC Verify calculations show £1.2bn has left the club in debt interest, debt repayments, dividends and fees to the Glazers. Read the findings here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Lib Dem MP Max Wilkinson is celebrating victory in his campaign for solar energy generation technology to be included in all new homes as standard, the Lib Dems say. He introduced a 'Sunshine Bill' last year - the Govt now seems to have backed the idea

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San Antonio police have walked back on a previous statement that there was no evidence of a hate crime in the killing of actor Jonathan Joss, with the police chief now calling the statement “premature.”

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This result sees the Liberal Democrats GAIN Wokingham Council from No Overall Control (was already a Lib Dem minority).

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Liberal England: Listen to Mike Martin on the Strategic Defence Review "The Navy, for instance, has aircraft carriers, but no planes to launch from them, and at any one time can have only five ships at sea." liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/06/list...

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I emailed the Women and Equalities Committee about this. Took me 5 minutes. You can do it, too. [email protected] @commonswec.parliament.uk Pass it on.

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Gather round, friends! Did you suffer from morning sickness during your pregnancy OR do you care about women’s health OR do you want to feel enraged? Well have I got a thread for you! of course you do, you’re on Bluesky 1/

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Someone really ought to tell the Labour Party that there are potential Chairs of the EHRC that don't come burdened with transphobic baggage. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Avoiding splits, quits and feuds has always been Farage’s biggest challenge. He’s already lost one MP out of a starting five from last summer, lost a deputy leader (Ben Habib) and has now a widely hyped party chair too.

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Last year, 2x/3x lethality was defined as having a British brigade combat team defeat a Russian combined arms army of 21,000 (see below). By the same token, SDR aim of 10x lethality would mean that a lone British division should be able to defeat ... the entire Russian invasion force of 2022.

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AI is changing the labor market in real time. Universal Basic Income is increasingly vital.

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I’m the same age as this author; had a baby in my early 40s (which cost me one career)… and yet somehow it’s clear to me that my freedom is not something to be bartered with at the expense of the freedom of others? That none of us is free if one of us is unfree? That we’re all deeply interconnected?

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Moldova faces hybrid threats ahead of its elections. Russia is likely to use cash, content and coercion to meddle. Let there be no doubt: only the people of Moldova should decide their future – free from interference. Extract of my press conference with Prime Minister Dorin Recean ↓

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Last week, the State Department published a Substack post accusing European allies of destroying democracy. I looked into the author, and found out that he was a disciple of Adrian Vermeule who believed in infiltrating the bureaucracy to undermine liberalism www.vox.com/on-the-right...

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There are some very smart cis people writing about the right wing influence from US on UK and I am begging them to stop ignoring what is happening to trans people. They are not coming. They are here.

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If you’re looking at Elon Musk’s DOGE and thinking that is how we want to have our bins collected and potholes filled - you might be learning the wrong lesson.

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Israeli soldiers have barred journalists from entering villages in the West Bank on a planned tour organized by the directors of Oscar-winning movie “No Other Land."

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"One candidate now standing for Reform – Elisa Perna – previously stood in the Oundle ward during May’s council elections. "But now doubt has been cast over whether this is actually allowed."

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