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submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

The "SAVE Act" may come up for a vote as early as next week & must be stopped! It makes it harder to register to vote & will purge registered voters from the rolls. Sign the petition, & share! Call your Senators/Reps & tell them VOTE NO! #Voterizer #StopTheSAVEAct social.fieldteam6.org/s/uCf0G7nY

submitted 40 minutes ago • 0 comments

Synchronised Starlings Studland - by Dorset artist, and children's book author & illustrator, Gill Williams... who knows a thing or two about painting murmurations! More of this artists wonderful murmurations (and other landscapes and seascapes) here: gillwilliamsart.weebly.com #birds #birdart 🪶🌿

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

submitted 6 hours ago • 27 comments

For @terrysesson1.bsky.social today's UK newspaper 🇺🇦

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

🚨🚨 The Rebellion Strikes Back: European leaders are working on a military aid package for Ukraine — worth at least €20 billion — to bolster Kyiv, as the United States increasingly aligns with Moscow. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-w...

submitted 16 hours ago • 14 comments

The only end to this war that I can see, is that Europe will keep funding Ukraine while waiting for Russia’s inevitable financial collapse. It may take 1 or 2 more years. But I see no other realistic way.

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

Revelations from the NGO Global Witness: in the run-up to the German elections, 64% of the political content recommended by X's algorithm was linked to the AFD. On TikTok, the figure was 78%. Like a sleepwalker, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu has not yet completed her investigation of X under the #DSA.

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

🚨BREAKING CROSSPOST AFTER DDOS ATTACK Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman www.bylinesupplement.com/p/breaking-c...

submitted 23 hours ago • 73 comments

The issue: without a truly strategic dependency management, where one can counter such extortion with a similar impact counter measure, the 'dealmakers' will go their way. EU should take Ukraine under their umbrella of measures right now.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

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submitted 14 hours ago • 12 comments

Dependency on Starlink casually weaponized by US administration. Conclusions for Europe and anyone else in orbit of former US-led alliance should be crystal clear. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 14 hours ago • 31 comments

Not the least surprising after recent days. The EU, UK and Ukraine need to check every dependency on the US in Ukraine's defence - military, intelligence, economic, tech - to see where they have the ability to say no to US pressure. I fear the answers will not be pretty, but important.

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

The British government will announce another military aid package for Ukraine and new sanctions against Russia on February 24. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

submitted 14 hours ago • 29 comments

A question that no-one in Whitehall dare ask. What happens if Trump decides to turn off Britain's nukes? A column in the FT... www.ft.com/content/762c...

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

UK competition regulator fines Citi, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Canada, Deutsche Bank £100m for breaching competition law. All have history of abuses. No one prosecuted, no personal fines. Puny fines don't deter, will be passed to customers.

submitted 14 hours ago • 13 comments

💚🇺🇦 Now is the time to stand with Ukraine and against the authoritarianism represented by the likes of Trump, Farage and Putin.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 21 hours ago • 146 comments

ProPublica has released another study related to the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., this time showing a spike in sepsis cases in Texas following the implementation of that state's "heartbeat" abortion ban in 2021.

submitted 1 day ago • 520 comments

The problem with being a “bridge”, is that people walk over bridges.

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In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

submitted 1 day ago • 715 comments

Gannets - by Dumfries and Galloway artist and printmaker, Lisa Hooper Because you can never have too many Gannets (or Lisa Hooper prints) in your Bluesky feed More of this artist's wonderful prints, here: hoopoeprints.co.uk #birds #art #seabirds #birdart #gannets 🪶

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Council tax is rising and services are declining. It could be local government failures that are fuelling Reform’s growing support. By @lizcrosbie.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

🎶when you go, will you send back the lettuce from America 🎶

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

French MPs vote through the left's wealth tax on the ultra-rich

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BREAKING: The Department of Energy said DOGE firings of nuclear safety officials were non-critical staff. That is not true. In fact, one of the officials who was locked out of his work accounts was Acting Chief of Defense Nuclear Safety James Todd.

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

🧵👇The scale of this month's diplomatic events is difficult to envisage. We need new models, alliances, strategies & defence capacity to adjust to Trump & the Putinists. We need an informed national debate in the UK. I hope they are burning the midnight oil in foreign & defence ministries.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If you are an agency employee asked to take a polygraph contact a lawyer immediately. I am more than willing to immediately respond to anyone being pushed into this. My email is in my bio and my signal is NationalSecurityCounselors.16

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

☄️ 🔭 The impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 has dropped from 2.8% to 0.16%. Thanks to new observations, Earth is now at the edge of our shrinking ‘uncertainty window.’ If this trend continues, the risk may soon reach 0%.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Of all the things Elon Musk has said, this is the worst. We cannot rely on Trump and his shadow president Musk. The UK must boost defence spending and take the lead in Europe.

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

Nigel Farage and the Putinettes

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UK energy industry made £483bn profit since 2020. OFGEM's marginal pricing rules guarantee profits to the most inefficient/costly producer. 1 in 5 of all deaths are people in fuel poverty – including 110,000 pensioners. No curbs on profiteering. Real wages cut. WFP cut. Cost of living soaring.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Trump is on the brink of betraying Ukraine and the UK. Britain must lead in Europe by increasing defence spending immediately and all political parties should get round the table to make that happen. I fear what happens if we don't take this step.

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

Here we go. Certain generals must be removed before any martial law plan is put into action—as Trump and Hegseth are worried there may still be some generals out there who support the Constitution rather than his proposed dictatorship. This is a political purge intended as a precursor to far more.

submitted 2 days ago • 267 comments

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 2 days ago • 556 comments

"Europeans may whine about US policies, but their deep dependence on the US for security (and now energy) means that they have little choice but to accept and even contribute to whatever policy emerges from a US geopolitical negotiation." Hard truths by Jeremy Shapiro. ecfr.eu/article/lett...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

This is a really powerful piece: 'Without a focus on people, who (and what) is technology in service of?'

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Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A ground-breaking official report in Wales recommends that the Welsh equivalent of the Representation of the People Act, the RPO, be amended to ensure that any political candidate or campaign manager who issues a deliberately false statement to gain electoral advantage could be guilty of an offence

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk ‘Hijacking’ Republicans to Control Entire US Government – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/s...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

👏 The @ombudsman.europa.eu has opened an inquiry into the job move of the former high-level EU official Banasevic to Microsoft - following a complaint by CEO and @lobbycontrol.bsky.social www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

⚡️ Trump wants to remove Zelensky, according to The Economist. The publication states that Trump sees Zelensky as an obstacle and may cut military aid, intel access, and Starlink, while lifting sanctions on Russia. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

submitted 2 days ago • 93 comments