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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 2h

Russia lost 17,000 tanks in three years. Only 2,478 remain in storage—nearly all badly rusted and needing expensive restoration before they can fight.

The timing? Russia just shifted back to tank warfare after 282,000 infantry casualties.
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Russia’s last 2,500 tanks are in very sorry shape

Russia's oldest tanks—some 50+ years old—are all that stand between Moscow and forced mobilization

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Iris @irisnotsiri.bsky.social · 1h

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 2h

☠️ Operators of the Black Sky 3rd Brop NGU Spartan as always delight with the bright results of their hunts.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h

Estonia’s Border Guard Board has closed the Saatse Boot passage after detecting increased Russian border activity.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15d

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 15d

Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts

After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...

Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts

Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.

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Jazzaoxon @jazzaoxon.bsky.social · 1h

Good luck with the Nerve.

Jazzaoxon @jazzaoxon.bsky.social · 4h

Vote @reformuk.bsky.social get 10% MORE council tax NOT LESS, oh foolish Reform voters.

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Jazzaoxon @jazzaoxon.bsky.social · 8h

Oh, sure they have. 🤪

Jazzaoxon @jazzaoxon.bsky.social · 8h

Sure ain't saving Lincoln money. The power has gone to Jenkyn's head.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 9h

The kind you get from active-shooter drills?

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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 10h

Exc: The Electoral Commission has been given early notice of the UK's first ever crypto donation

The has been "made, but not declared", to a party understood to be Reform

Reform spox said: "All donations above the reporting limit will be disclosed in the usual way"

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Calls for transparency on political funding after first c...

Electoral Commission notified of financial contribution, which is rumoured to have been handed to Reform UK

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ᑕ ᕼ ᓰ ᗷ 〇 ᒪ 乇 @chibole.bsky.social · 11h

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 11h

Thank goodness there are still people who are willing (and safe) to say it.

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GuyDorrellEsq @thenotoriousguy.bsky.social · 12h

Someone has created an online Random Affront Generator

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Jazzaoxon @jazzaoxon.bsky.social · 9h

Needs something reciprocal in the ladies' to affront Reform.

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stroudos.bsky.social @stroudos.bsky.social · 9h

David Frost?!? 4th most popular?!? Laura EffingTrott?!?!? 🤯

I know YouGov methodology is usually robust, but someone needs to have a proper drains-up on this one!

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 23h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Ehijacked 📎 @ehijacked.bsky.social · 9h

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The Descent of Robert Jenrick

The Shadow Justice Secretary's transformation from a 'Generic' moderate Conservative to the Great Hope of the far-right should alarm us all

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Jazzaoxon @jazzaoxon.bsky.social · 9h

It's the Jenrick Punch and Judy Show. Roll up! Roll up!

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 18h

Who believes Nigel Farage when he says he was “shocked” to find out Nathan Gill took bribes (after a week of saying nothing and being incredibly close to him for a decade)?

#ReformRussianBribes

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 18h

11 October 1941 | Dutch Jewish boy, Heinrich Lange, was born in Amsterdam.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in July 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection with his mother Berta. His father Hans perished in the camp in September 1942.

Family portrait of Lange family. The father and mother stand with a baby. The father holds the baby in front of them.

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Jazzaoxon @jazzaoxon.bsky.social · 16h

This is why they must be kept out of government.

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Jazzaoxon @jazzaoxon.bsky.social · 17h

The deceit of Reform

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Jazzaoxon @jazzaoxon.bsky.social · 17h

Vote Reform, tax raised.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 18h

The Reform UK Councils that are considering raising Council tax (one even by 10%):

Kent
Durham
West Northamptonshire
Warwickshire
Leicestershire
Worcestershire
Staffordshire
Lincolnshire

TBC:
Derbyshire
Lancashire

Eight Reform UK councils likely to raise tax next year

Despite Nigel Farage’s promises to cut waste and ‘save a lot of money’, senior officials have now admitted they will likely have to resort to tax rises

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