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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot
This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Crude oil prices have been climbing steadily since May, nearing the $80 per barrel, driven by escalating conflict between the US, Israel, and Iran in the Middle East - a key oil-exporting region. If the trend holds, it could boost Russia’s economy and help sustain its war effort
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 18/05/2025
⚡Nicusor Dan wins Romanian presidential election, defeating anti-Ukraine Simion. In an anxiously watched race, Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan won the presidency against the far-right candidate George Simion, who is banned from entering both Ukraine and Moldova due to his extremist views.
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Nicusor Dan wins Romanian presidential election, defeating anti-Ukraine Simion
In an anxiously watched race, Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan won the presidency against the far-right candidate George Simion, who is banned from entering both Ukraine and Moldova due to his extremist vi...
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Hanna Liubakova @hannaliubakova.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
#Belarus The regime launched a criminal case against the legendary Nina Bahinskaya. She is 78 and is probably one of the most resilient Belarusians I know - despite arrests and heavy fines, she never gave up her peaceful resistance and the white-red-white flag.
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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
There's an enduring discussion about how many four-star officers there should be, and it includes thoughtful, nonpartisan people. That said, we got to current numbers in part by the first Trump administration creating Army Futures Command and Space Force. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Hegseth orders cuts to Pentagon’s stable of generals and admirals
Hegseth’s directive, characterized as an effort to rein in a bloated bureaucracy, follows a purge of top military leaders soon after Trump returned to office.
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Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
How bad is Russia’s war chest? Has the country entered stagflation? Why does it fear falling oil prices, but not a crash? And how is the tariff war hurting Russia? These questions — and more — are explored in a special interview with Russian economist Vladimir Milov. 🧵Thread:
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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
NEW: Pete Hegseth had the Signal messaging app installed on a computer in his office www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Hegseth had Signal messaging app installed on an office computer
The move was intended to circumvent a lack of cellphone service in much of the Pentagon and enable easier communication between Hegseth and other Trump officials, said people familiar with the matter.
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 23/04/2025
US ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink has finished her term in Kyiv after resigning over increasing policy disagreements with the Trump admin. Her Twitter account no longer shows her photo and is being archived, and the “our ambassador” page on the US embassy Kyiv website now looks like this:
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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Jordan has banned the Muslim Brotherhood and its ‘ideology,’ saying the group’s offices will immediately be shut down.
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Jordan bans Muslim Brotherhood and its 'ideology'
Interior minister says the group's offices and premises will immediately be shut down
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Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Thread🧵 1/ The exhaustion of Russia’s vehicle fleet is becoming increasingly evident. The reduced use of armored vehicles and the growing reliance on civilian: including motorcycles, golf carts, and vans, continues to signal a degradation in Russian maneuvering capabilities.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza medics www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza medics
Israel says soldiers fired on ‘terrorists’ in ‘suspicious vehicles’ but footage shows clearly marked ambulances
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Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
He never knew a day of peace
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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The Washington Post can confirm that Gen. Tim Haugh, the director of NSA and chief of U.S. Cyber Command, was ousted tonight along with his deputy, Wendy Noble. That's a big damn deal. CYBERCOM is one of the 11, four-star unified combatant commands.
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OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Moments ago, Russia bombed a vacation resort in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, setting the area, including the resort restaurant's replica wooden sailing ship, ablaze.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"I’ve never seen such clampdowns in Istanbul. Turkey’s democracy is fighting for its life" - Orhan Pamuk www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I’ve never seen such clampdowns in Istanbul. Turkey’s democracy is fighting for its life | Orhan Pamuk
The jailing of President Erdoğan’s main political rival is the low point of a decade-long march towards autocracy – but the protesters aren’t done yet either, says writer Orhan Pamuk
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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Flight bookings coming into the US, compared to last year. “Winning?”
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 26/03/2025
⚡️ The Armenian parliament passed a bill "On starting the process of accession of the Republic of Armenia to the European Union" in its second and final reading on March 26.
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Armenia's parliament passes bill on EU accession
The Armenian parliament passed a bill "On starting the process of accession of the Republic of Armenia to the European Union" in its second and final reading on March 26, the News.am news agency repor...
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Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
According to the DNI assessment, Russia had more than 750,000 military casualties during its war in Ukraine. By comparison, the U.S. had just over a million service members killed or wounded in World War II. The U.S. at the time had a population roughly the same size as Russia today.
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Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Hold on, so Steve Witkoff was participating in the Signal group discussing war plans against Houthis while being physically in Moscow, perhaps even in the Kremlin? He met Putin late on March 13. Obviously the odds of Russia not compromising any device he would bring there are pretty slim.
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Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
These are the civilians that Russia considers to be its own people, by the way.
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Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
An update on the war following a recent trip. The situation has improved compared with Fall 2024. Russian offensive momentum slowed significantly over the winter, though it is premature to claim that the front has stabilized, especially following AFU withdrawal in Kursk. /1
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Elon Musk’s daughter says father’s rally gesture was ‘definitely a Nazi salute www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Elon Musk’s daughter says father’s rally gesture was ‘definitely a Nazi salute’
Vivian Jenna Wilson tells Teen Vogue she feels obliged to take stand for trans rights as Trump attacks community
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Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Kremlin has been messaging all day that it wanted a pause in arms deliveries to Ukraine as a condition of a full ceasefire. (As though Russia would cease taking deliveries from China, Iran and N. Korea.) The absence of a full ceasefire suggests the White House didn't cave.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 18/03/2025
New Gallup poll: 46% of Americans say US not doing enough to help Ukraine against Russia’s war, marking a 16% increase since December to new high that dates back to 2022. At same time, proportions thinking US is doing too much (30%) or the right amount (23%) for Ukraine shrunk.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 18/03/2025
One of the most elite Ukrainian units accepting foreign volunteers has received “a massive spike” of applications, according to a source involved in recruiting, who said that “a significant amount of guys expressing outrage and shock over what has been happening with the shift in American policy.”
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‘I can’t sit and watch it’ – US volunteers join Ukrainian army after Trump’s sharp policy turn
Editor’s note: Soldiers interviewed for this article are identified only by their first name, callsign, or nickname due to security reasons. William, a 25-year-old U.S. Army veteran, has come to Ukra...
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Early voting in the election to fill an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court - a crucial race Musk-affiliated PACs are spending millions on - starts today. My take: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...
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Opinion | Musk Is Not Stopping at DOGE
Elon Musk isn’t stopping at DOGE.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Cutting @rferl.org.web.brid.gy's funding is one of the Trump administration's most blatant acts of Kremlin-friendly sabotage. It's been an invaluable news and archive source in and about the formerly communist-run states of Europe and Central Asia.🧵
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Mark Igra @markigra.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2025
DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…
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"There's nothing you need to do - we've deducted the funds from LEONARD A.
JOHNSON's account."
Uh oh. It itemized how $5,201 had been stricken from their bank account, on the grounds that Ned wasn't justified to get those benefits - because he was dead.
That was for payments he'd received in December and January.
Ned found that his February Social Security check hadn't been paid, and he's yet to receive his March check, either. His Medicare insurance had been canceled.
He also learned that when you die, your credit score gets marked as "deceased, do not issue credit," which makes it tough to get a loan.
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Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Our team has a good understanding of the situation in Kursk. There are no encircled troops. The retreat was generally organized but occasionally chaotic. There is no threat of encirclement, and no evidence suggests otherwise. It’s wise to rely on intelligence, not Putin’s word
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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Peace is always good news, though this sounds closer to surrender at gunpoint: "An unnamed Western official... told OC Media that the agreement included major concessions from Armenia, including the removal of EU monitors from the border and the dropping of lawsuits in international venues."
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The past 16 months, since the start of the Gaza War on October 7, 2023, have witnessed a marked escalation of Israeli attacks on various parts of Syria. The nature and patterns of the attacks have varied during this time period, affecting military and civilian sites across the country.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We're at "policy failure and denial", for those keeping track.
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The skipper of the Solong, the ship which rammed the Stella Immaculate a tanker carrying jet fuel for the US military causing one death and a lot of damage, has been arrested by British authorities. He is a Russian.
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Liveuamap @liveuamap.com · 12/03/2025
Bosnian prosecutors order arrest of Bosnian Serb leader Dodik balkans.liveuamap.com/en/2025/12-m...
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Bosnian prosecutors order arrest of Bosnian Serb leader Dodik Sarajevo, Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine - Interactive map of news and conflicts in Southeastern Europe at Balkans and Mediterranean Sea r...
Bosnian prosecutors order arrest of Bosnian Serb leader Dodik. News from Balkan Penninsula on live map in English. Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Slovenia
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Greenland election won by centre-right party who told Trump ‘we are not for sale’ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
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Greenland election won by centre-right party who told Trump ‘we are not for sale’
Opposition Demokraatit party secures 29.9 per cent of vote, ending ruling coalition’s majority
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Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Today was a good day for 🇺🇦 diplomacy: 🇺🇸 arms and intel support are restored, political pressure shifts to 🇷🇺, at the cost of a notional commitment to a ceasefire, with no territorial concessions and, as yet, no minerals deal. Things get harder from here, though. (A 🧵) /1
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Dmitri Alperovitch @dmitri.silverado.org · 11/03/2025
Opportunities for Ukraine during a 30 day ceasefire should it take place: - rotate some forces off the line for much needed rest - dig in and improve defensive line - fix to the extent possible destroyed critical infrastructure - build more drones - double down on new recruit training 🧵
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Oh, and the cherry on this ethical turd sandwich- Trump says he will label violence against Tesla dealers domestic terrorism www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump says he will label violence against Tesla dealers domestic terrorism
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will label violence against Tesla dealerships domestic terrorism as he appeared with Tesla CEO Elon Musk to show support amid recent "Tesla Takedown" protests and the slump in the company's stock price.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
HE'S LITERALLY READING A SALES PITCH
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Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Subdued reactions in Ukraine to news coming out of Saudi Arabia. Definitely good that the US restores military aid and intelligence sharing. Ukraine is willing to show its commitment to peace hence agreed to a ceasefire. But there's little trust that Russia will agree and stick to it
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