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🇬🇧 Liberal. Scientist. Empiricist. Bearist. Atheist. Child of the Enlightenment. Democrat. Believe in objective reality not subjectivity. The Rule of Law is Central to Democracy. 🇪🇺 European 🇺🇦

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 1h
YOUGOV POLL For both Labour and the Conservatives, this marks a substantial recovery since early May, when the combined vote share of the two historic parties stood at just 33%, relative to 47% in our latest figures. yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
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Voting intention, 11-12 October 2026: Lab 24%, Con 23%, Ref 21%, LD 12%, Grn 11%
Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention figures
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 1h
UK Voting intention, 11-12 October 2026: Lab 24%, Con 23%, Ref 21%, [ Oh dear ] LD 12%, Grn 11% YouGov 13 October 2026 yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
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Voting intention, 11-12 October 2026: Lab 24%, Con 23%, Ref 21%, LD 12%, Grn 11%
Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention figures
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 1h
Reform being Sinister & Silly 'Nigel Farage has denied that a Reform UK government would authorise lethal force against small boat crossings in the Channel, hours after one of his MPs said the Royal Marines should be permitted to fire on the boats' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Farage denies Reform would let troops shoot small boats after Jenrick’s ‘lethal force’ claim
Farage’s intervention comes as Reform chair Zia Yusuf criticises ‘everybody’ in former Tory government that included Jenrick and Suella Braverman
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 1h
Reform Lethal Force Fiasco Jenrick: “What we are going to do, and we’re the only political party that has the courage to say this, is deploy the Royal Marines into the Channel. If they need to use lethal force, then they’ll be able to do so,” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Farage denies Reform would let troops shoot small boats after Jenrick’s ‘lethal force’ claim
Farage’s intervention comes as Reform chair Zia Yusuf criticises ‘everybody’ in former Tory government that included Jenrick and Suella Braverman
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 1h
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, envoys of the US president, have informed the Ukrainian delegation that they, and Trump, are clinically insane. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
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US envoys say "diesel deal" is attempt to coax Russia into negotiations – Reuters
Reuters reports US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner urged Ukraine to halt refinery strikes, framing the diesel deal as leverage for peace negotiations.
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 1h
It must be incredible to be too stupid for the Trump regime. BBC News - Trump ousts Kimberly Guilfoyle as US ambassador to Greece after corruption allegations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump ousts Kimberly Guilfoyle as US ambassador to Greece after corruption allegations
Guilfoyle the allegations of improper conduct are "false" and being ambassador was the "honour of a lifetime".
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 1h
Trump chum Putin still killing civilians in Ukraine.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1h
⚡️1 killed, 4 injured in Russian missile strike on Kyiv residential building as official says no early warning received from allies.
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1 killed, 4 injured in Russian missile strike on Kyiv residential building as official says no early warning received from allies
Ukraine did not receive a warning of the attack from allies in the same way it usually does, presidential adviser Dmytro Lytvyn told reporters.
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 1h
'Screens in class damaging children’s speech and eyesight, doctors warn More than 150 clinicians urge Lucy Powell to act after analysis shows nearly one million pupils spend almost every lesson on devices' Keep children away from screens. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10...
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 1h
An oil depot in Valuyki, Belgorod Oblast is on fire after Ukrainian drone attacks.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 1h
❗️Another storage tank exploded at the oil loading terminal of Russia’s Novoshakhtinsk petroleum products plant in Rostov. The facility was attacked on October 10. No new attack was reported before the latest explosion. #Russia
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h
Trump promised lower prices and no new wars. In Iowa, voters are paying the price for both broken promises. @cheetah.bsky.social reports from two battleground House districts where voter frustration with Republicans is boiling over and GOP donors are backing away. lnk.thebulwark.com/4znfeTG?utm_...
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1h
Kimberly Guilfoyle resigned as the U.S. ambassador to Greece, U.S. defense startups are flocking to Taiwan and the Justice Department threatened the American Bar Association with an antitrust probe. Read more in today’s What’s News newsletter: on.wsj.com/4rZO8Q4
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Kimberly Guilfoyle resigned as the U.S. ambassador to Greece, U.S. defense startups are flocking to Taiwan and the Justice Department threatened the American Bar Association with an antitrust probe. Read more in today’s What’s News newsletter:
Plus, U.S. defense startups are flocking to Taiwan, and the Justice Department threatened the American Bar Association with an antitrust probe.
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 2h
The Silent Spring is now with us..... The birds are dying.... Wikipedia share.google/tm1axfOkHR3E...
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Silent Spring - Wikipedia
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 2h
'Enter the Zachbot: Trump’s new press secretary malfunctions on podium debut Katie Zacharia’s maiden briefing was excruciating – at least her predecessor had delivered her propaganda hot' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Enter the Zachbot: Trump’s new press secretary malfunctions on podium debut
Katie Zacharia’s maiden briefing was excruciating – at least her predecessor had delivered her propaganda hot
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 3h
Mifepristone - Wikipedia share.google/mDhApkyrP92p...
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Mifepristone - Wikipedia
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 3h
Katie Zacharia: Trump Press Nutter 'Loves Trump, lies and conspiracies: Katie Zacharia is the perfect presidential press secretary' Mifepristone was developed in the 1980s by a French company. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 3h
Climate change and more... First Birds Then Humans..... ‘Shocking and sobering’: UK bird populations fall to lowest level on record Nearly half of species are in decline, with farmland birds and seabirds the worst hit, conservation bodies say' www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Shocking and sobering’: UK bird populations fall to lowest level on record
Nearly half of species are in decline, with farmland birds and seabirds the worst hit, conservation bodies say
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 3h
BBC President Donald Trump was set to be deposed Friday in a defamation lawsuit he filed against the British Broadcasting Corporation, but his lawyers recently canceled the session and said he is unavailable through at least mid-December, according to a court filing. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Trump cancels deposition in BBC case, lawyers say
The president was set to be questioned under oath in his defamation lawsuit over the British broadcaster’s 2020 election documentary.
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 3h
Russian oil. Burn baby burn. Russian data centres. Burn baby burn. Russian Retail and Online. Burn baby burn. Russian Logistics. Burn baby burn. Russia. Burn baby burn.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 3h
Former Trump Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg said he would tell Zelensky to strike every Russian oil refinery, arguing there should be no military sanctuaries. “I’d burn down every one of the goddamn refineries that Russia has today. Take them all out. Make them pay the price.” #Ukraine
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 3h
FARAGE'S BREXIT 'Russia did try to interfere in Brexit referendum, head of MI5 confirms Ken McCallum says Kremlin attempted to influence vote through social media and TV reports but had little impact' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Russia did try to interfere in Brexit referendum, head of MI5 confirms
Ken McCallum says Kremlin attempted to influence vote through social media and TV reports but had little impact
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 4h
Europe must finally develop measures to deter Russia from conducting attacks against its territory. For example, Europe must prioritize denying Russia the ability to conduct sabotage operations or drone incursions. understandingwar.org/research/cog...
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 4h
Ukraine’s partners must learn what is arguably the most important lesson from this war – recognizing (and denying) the Kremlin’s strategy of disrupting Ukraine’s and its partners’ initiative. Russia has undermined Ukraine’s and Western initiative in the past by manipulating Western decision-making.
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 4h
Ukraine’s deep strike campaign has triggered fuel shortages in Russia, degrading at least 30 percent of its refining capacity, and forced Moscow to choose which infrastructure to protect with air defense assets. understandingwar.org/research/cog...
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 4h
Ukraine has forced the Kremlin to confront dilemmas inside of Russia that would have been unthinkable not long ago. understandingwar.org/research/cog...
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 4h
Ukraine has regained the operational initiative on most key battlefield directions and has been contesting Russia’s strategic initiative since late 2025. Ukraine has slowed Russian battlefield advances to a footpace in 2026 and has grown the already staggering human cost of the Russian advance
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 4h
Trump Daft Diesel The Kremlin is vigilant about Ukraine and its partners holding the initiative and seeks to deter and disrupt it at all costs.The United States and Europe can either deny the Kremlin’s strategy or risk a greater war with greater escalation risks.
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 4h
Europe MUST Support Ukraine NOW The Kremlin, unlike the United States and Ukraine’s other partners, recognizes that Russia is critically vulnerable to initiative, momentum, and sustained pressure. understandingwar.org/research/cog...
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 4h
Trump Screw Up The Kremlin’s offer to supply diesel to global markets is a cognitive warfare effort that similarly aims to disrupt the momentum of the effective pressure campaign against Russia’s energy sector. understandingwar.org/research/cog...
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 4h
SPECIAL REPORT: The United States and Europe risk squandering the best opportunity since 2022 to alter Russia’s trajectory toward a longer war. Ukraine currently has the best chance of seizing the strategic initiative against Russia since December 2022. Read more: isw.pub/RussiaSRBSK
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h
Sarah Matthews: "Trump's narcissism won't allow him to accept the fact that the American people are upset with him and the job that he's done...They have to fearmonger because they actually have no real message to run on."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h
"A political candidate promised to do things that would create inflation; voters chose his program against the warnings of 'experts'; inflation resumed. Moronic inflation."
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The Experts Were Right: Trump’s an Economic Moron
Plus: The Triad Mailbag of your nightmares.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 5h
Is the new target voter for the Tories really 'Waitrose Women'? Emily and Jon press John Glen for answers.
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 5h
TRUMP REGIME: RATS IN A SACK: 'House Speaker Mike Johnson expressed concern over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's plan to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, warning it could be used as a terrorist recruiting tool' www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
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Mike Johnson turns on Hegseth over plan to broadcast firing squad execution
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 5h
Trump Press 'The overtly propagandistic notes took a backseat to Zacharia’s first-day performance, which even included the error of referring to her husband as “my president.” By turns halting and anxious, it made Karoline Leavitt, who resigned in September, seem like a rhetorical genius'
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Katie Zacharia bombs first day as White House press secretary
She appeared physically strained, even sighing heavily, while reading prepared remarks.
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 5h
The key qualifications for Trump press person: 1 Female 2 Blonde 3 Conventionally pretty 4 Economical with the actuality 5 Ghastly
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 5h
Kimberly Guilfoyle resigns as ambassador to Greece after Trump told her to
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Kimberly Guilfoyle resigns as ambassador to Greece — after Trump told her to
The former Fox News star and ex-fiance of Donald Trump Jr. vowed to fight the ‘false’ allegations against her
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 5h
Farage is a dinosaur. He will be extinct soon. Like Trump.
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 5h
FAR Right ' 'Patriots' who claimed that a group of balaclava-wearing men taking photos on Plymouth Hoe may have been migrants have been ridiculed on social media after the men turned out to be servicemen from a visiting Indian frigate taking part in a joint training exercise with the Royal Navy.'
plymouthherald.co.uk
Plymouth 'patriots' may have mistaken Indian Navy crews for migrants
Investigators have said there is no evidence any criminal offences took place after examining reports from two teenage girls
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 6h
Far Right Terror Trend 'Ken McCallum said a shift from radicalised rightwing sentiment to violence was “the most marked trend” in the spy agency’s caseload over the past year, contributing to a rise in the overall UK terror threat level.' Does Farage know?? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Rightwing extremists increasingly likely to consider terrorist attacks, MI5 chief says
Move from anti-immigration or anti-Muslim views to violence is ‘most marked trend’ in spy agency’s caseload over last year
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 6h
Trump's Russian diesel is a drop in the ocean.
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 6h
The Trump nutjob regime, just sacrificed a senior nutjob. 'Kimberly Guilfoyle steps down as US ambassador to Greece after alleged misconduct' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Kimberly Guilfoyle steps down as US ambassador to Greece after alleged misconduct
White House asked Guilfoyle, who is alleged to have sought a bill payment from a Trump donor, to resign from post
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 9h
Trump Beyond the noise. There is nothing.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 9h
The number of people injured in the strike on an educational institution in Rivne rose to 25, police said. Two people in serious condition underwent surgery, while three others were being examined by doctors. #Ukraine
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 9h
The Spectator is a terrible mistake. spectator.com/article/jagu...
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Jaguar’s new electric car is a terrible mistake
At least it has dropped the bright pink. But in every other respect the new, all-electric Jaguar launched in New York yesterday was exactly the same as the widely ridiculed ‘barbie-mobile’ that was fi...
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 9h
Ukraine’s 15th Separate Artillery Reconnaissance Brigade "Chornyi Lis" found and struck a Russian Buk-M3 air defense system. The brigade estimated the system’s value at around $45 million. #Ukraine
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 9h
❗️A large fire was reported at the Aksaykardandetal plant in Rostov. The facility had metalworking, stamping and metal heat-treatment capabilities, technologies that could potentially be used to produce components for various equipment, including military hardware. #Russia
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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 9h
Putin's oil refinery nightmare. Specialised equipment is being damaged. Much of this is imported. Repairs, at best, take ages. And may be impossible without imported kit. youtu.be/nInLvXm90N4?...
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Putin CAN'T Restart the Refinery His Own Governor Just Buried
YouTube video by Geopolitics & War
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So, a Trump supporter told me that, “nobody gives a sh*t” about Indigenous Peoples Day. Please, tell me, do you care about Indigenous Peoples Day?
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