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Retired policy wonk. Energetic volunteer.

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Russia murdered a child and five adults overnight

07.03.2026 07:05 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Explosions rock Kyiv, 4 killed in Kharkiv as Russia strikes residential building Russia attacked Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with ballistic missiles and drones overnight on March 7, the Air Force reported.

⚑️Update: Explosions rock Kyiv, kill 5 in Kharkiv as Russia strikes residential building.

Russian ballistic missiles and drones attacked Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, including Kharkiv, where five people were killed and 10 were injured overnight on March 7, authorities reported.

07.03.2026 05:54 πŸ‘ 137 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

While Russians paraded under their flag to the sporting world’s cheers, their missiles murdered a 13 year old girl in Kharkiv. Shame on the IOC!

07.03.2026 07:10 πŸ‘ 97 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Obama on Jesse Jackson: "The message he sent to a 22 year old child of a single mother with a funny name, an outsider, was that maybe there wasn't any place, any room, where we didn't belong"

06.03.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 4252 πŸ” 840 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 36

I certainly want someone dim and thin-skinned with terrible judgement in charge of the big pow-pow. What could go wrong?

06.03.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 0
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Everyone spare a thought for Nigel the Poodle as he’s reunited with his owner in Florida today!

#NigelThePoodle

06.03.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1
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What Does Russia Have on Trump? Americans Deserve an Answer As Russia reportedly shares intelligence with Iran that could endanger American forces, the White House chooses to ease pressure on Moscow instead of confronting it.

Ukraine offers to help defend the West from Iranian drones.

Russia helps Iran track American forces.

And the White House eases sanctions on Russian oil.

Explain that to the families of U.S. troops. My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

06.03.2026 17:44 πŸ‘ 4161 πŸ” 1547 πŸ’¬ 197 πŸ“Œ 77
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Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say β€” The Washington Post The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

Not quite sure what it will take for MAGA to see Putin as an enemy.

06.03.2026 12:56 πŸ‘ 509 πŸ” 206 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 11
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Kemi Badenoch fact-checked by BBC's Charlie Stayt over armed forces claim Kemi Badenoch was fact-checked live on air over her claim that British military jets are "just hanging around" in Iran.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/kem...

06.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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"Did you not hear me? Get yourselves over to Tehran and make the country proud"

06.03.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 5

Mmm...I cleaned mine the other day and quickly decided the World looks better through finger prints and dog licks!

06.03.2026 15:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œDear Diary,
Super excited to say that I’ll be serving my Clacton constituents today by flying to Mar-a-Lago to meet Donald Trump and to undermine the UK government. God I love being a patriot!”

06.03.2026 15:25 πŸ‘ 583 πŸ” 183 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 5

Clyde is gorgeous and you are so right. Big cheer from across the pond.

06.03.2026 15:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined They don't know what they want to achieve, why they're doing it or what the consequences might be. They are lost in the void.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

06.03.2026 07:44 πŸ‘ 1928 πŸ” 486 πŸ’¬ 95 πŸ“Œ 60

Daily Mail, Andrew Neil, WW3. What a party.....

06.03.2026 09:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My American friends are apologising for their ghastly President and his boot-licking lackeys. They say pretty impressed by Starmer stand and hoping HRH cancels visit in the Summer.

06.03.2026 09:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Anti-nature policies are a dead end for Labour.

You don’t secure lasting growth by risking long-term harm to the ecosystems we rely on.

The public knows this.

There’s no need for the Government to pick a fight with voters on nature.

It’s bad policy and bad politics.

13.02.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 118 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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What we see here is Donald Trump, acting as he always does, as a global chaos generator.

The further we stand away from that, the better off we will be.

Well said @georgemonbiot.bsky.social πŸ‘

#bbcqt #IranWar

05.03.2026 23:16 πŸ‘ 1461 πŸ” 379 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 36

Asked earlier today whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump said:

β€œI guess.”

β€œLike I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.”

He can’t even pretend to give a single fuck about human life. Truly a conscienceless sociopath.

06.03.2026 00:27 πŸ‘ 1824 πŸ” 444 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 16

I thought exactly the same.

06.03.2026 06:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Iran school and nearby military base struck multiple times, satellite image reveals Iranian authorities say the attack, which took place on Saturday, killed 168 people.

BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes".

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

05.03.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 540 πŸ” 361 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 29

The reason we have β€œstupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

05.03.2026 23:15 πŸ‘ 22519 πŸ” 5528 πŸ’¬ 605 πŸ“Œ 173

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

05.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 1141 πŸ” 336 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 18

'Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas'. WHAT?!

05.03.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s not how human rights work. They’re rights that you have because you’re human, not because someone thinks you’re good enough.

05.03.2026 18:24 πŸ‘ 124 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1
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I don’t know if you have Instagram.

From time to time (rarely) I post some photos and videos there.

Maybe one day it will become a small archive of my visual work. We will see.

Today I added a few from Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
www.instagram.com/strategywoman

05.03.2026 15:24 πŸ‘ 267 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 0

School just rang

Aoparently, putting black masking tape over the boy's face and sending him as the Epstein files is "highly inappropriate for World Book Day"

05.03.2026 09:41 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

05.03.2026 15:00 πŸ‘ 5083 πŸ” 906 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 21

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

05.03.2026 14:58 πŸ‘ 14354 πŸ” 2114 πŸ’¬ 522 πŸ“Œ 207