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Europhile, bilingual and here to explore the world. Support Ukraine 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Congress dropped a so-called "minibus" deal to end the 40-day shutdown but it's a surrender disguised as progress.
It funds veterans and agriculture but abandons the 20 million Americans who rely on ACA subsidies for health care.
A Band-Aid won't fix a bleeding nation.
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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🔴 The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods

The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections.

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The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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A Russian blogger shared that many Russians do not realize how many Russian soldiers are dying in the war against Ukraine.

"For these two small cities [Pokrovsk and Bakhmut], Russia has already killed 80-100 thousand of its own soldiers. It wasn't Ukraine that killed them, it was Russia," he says.
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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A Russian soldier was buried in a pit for refusing to go die.

On this soldier’s cap, it says: "To be a soldier means to live forever."
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Small business owners who thought that leaving the EU would reduce administration were also stupid enough to have voted for Farage. Now he is blaming them for their stupidity.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Oh dearie me! How shocking?

Any ideas of just who, exactly, may have betrayed small business owners?

I guess we’ll never know.
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The administration went all the way to the Supreme Court on Friday night to halt food-stamp funding. 🤡
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Yay! A fresh round of baseless scaremongering.

Now, the noisy minority of greedy super-rich are telling us settling up charges will mean no one will invest or start business in the UK.

Just like they don't elsewhere with exit taxes like **checks notes**

USA, France, Germany, Canada, Australia...
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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I do hope our intelligence services has stopped sharing intelligence with 🇺🇸 that can be used against our democracies

With the current governments habit of replacing professionals with loyalists they should assume CIA etc. is penetrated.

That they will be assisting totalitarian movements in 🇪🇺.
The Heritage Foundation, the intellectual engine behind the 922-page blueprint that has become the key policy manual for Donald Trump’s second term, is partnering with a constellation of European nationalist far-right movements to export its playbook.
The Heritage Foundation goes from MAGA to MEGA — Make Europe Great Again
On the agenda: pro-natalism, freedom of expression, opposing trans rights and fighting Chinese influence.
www.politico.eu
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”

Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Sack the editor of the New York Times every time it writes about boiled mutton.
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.

The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Tory donor Anthony Bamford’s company donates £200,000 to Reform UK on.ft.com/3WNoNKx
Tory donor Anthony Bamford’s company donates £200,000 to Reform UK
JCB to contribute equal amount to Conservative party
on.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.

This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.

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November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Brexit damage worse over time. Has already knocked up to 8% off GDP, reduced productivity by up to 4% and investment by up to 18% (let that sink in for a moment) plus the loss of untold jobs. Surely fair to say forthcoming tax rises wouldn’t have been necessary without Brexit. Pain for no gain
Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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White House gloats over the resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, posting a meme on social media implying Trump’s influence toppled the BBC executives

The Guardian: The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack.
Daily Telegraph Disinformation Check
This blog challenges statements made by The Daily Telegraph by quoting other sources and giving our own editorial view.
westenglandbylines.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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A conversation with a Russian soldier who went to fight in Ukraine, fired his weapon, but didn’t want to kill. That’s how it was.
youtu.be/tLYlJVnuVDA?...
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Greensill:
“Kemi Badenoch & previous Conservative government interfered in Greensill’s insolvency case in order to deflect allegations that could implicate Lord Cameron in any suggestion of wrongdoing,”
- so he could become Foreign Secretary under Sunak.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Badenoch accused of ‘interfering’ in lobbying scandal linked to Cameron
Lex Greensill alleges current Tory leader used business secretary position to protect former PM from scrutiny
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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OTD in 1999 the OSCE conference was in Istanbul. Russia promised to remove our troops from Moldova & Georgia by end of 2002.

We lied. But Ukraine should believe Russia’s promises & negotiate…
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Private Eye ran a story a few months ago about how GB News has set up Washington office, and will run a nightly show from DC. They wrote about BBC's place in the White House Press Lobby being under threat as a result of this.
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’

More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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What Russia does to Ukrainians:
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM