“Farage has said he wishes the party "hadn't bothered" to take minority control of Worcestershire County Council, because of its financial problems”
V much summing up his approach to power.
Grifting and gobshiting - yes please.
Hard work and responsibility - god no.
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EXCLUSIVE | Kristi Noem awarded $1 billion in contracts to build the Mexican border wall to a company accused of smuggling illegal immigrants into the country, giving them guns, and allowing them to take part in a wild shootout.
It's Friday. Make plans to read a book this weekend.
Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week.
Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool.
But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.
Recognising the impact of female archaeologists
www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/ma...
#women #archaeology #history
Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart” Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001 Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar at city hall Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
America is a gun.
For this administration, it’s not about doing good, it’s about looking good...even when American lives are on the line.
congrats on the sex, small ridiculous birds news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Your daily reminder that not a single epstein client has been arrested.
A beautifully kept copy of the 1920-ish Grosset & Dunlap edition of "The Haunted Bookshop" by Christopher Morley. The jacket is freshly covered in a protective sleeve, and the book came professionally wrapped in brown paper and bubble wrap, with a free (and very striking) bookmark. This was a very well packaged book!
Just want to give a shout out to our neighbors Source Bookstore in Davenport, Iowa, who sent this surprise package to us.
This is so thoughtful! I love that my colleagues are so kind 📚❤️
An easy slip to make.
I notice a lot of women candidates. Kats bruised butt coalition.
I notice asstons of pasty white video warriors behind the internet at the finish line telling us how to do it.
I notice statistical trends continuing.
Yes please. Happy to contribute to their leaving present, just to get rid. (Oh, you mean they're not actually going to leave the HoC? Just the party that got them elected in the first place? Gosh, how ethical of them.)
Pleased to see 600 new youth sessions as part of @bradfordcouncil.bsky.social budget tonight .
More investment in community and youth .
Positive futures in a young diverse city
#Bradford @judithcummins.bsky.social
Iranians living in UK tell Starmer that war will only strengthen Tehran regime www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Yup.
Black and white photo of Marie Curie.
#WomensHistoryMonth Day 10 - Chemist and physicist Marie Curie is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
Where in the World...was she born?
Click to guess and find out on this #map: www.whereintheworldgame.com?id=51&type=q
#History #Science
Or wanted to.
Thank you.
I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app
BREAKING: As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the war with Iran, according to sources familiar—far higher than the Pentagon’s publicly disclosed figure of just 8 seriously wounded troops. The true toll of this war is already far worse than the public has been told. (Reuters)
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- have generated in other sectors of the front show how constrained the Russian force structure in Ukraine really is.
Read more in the March 9, 2026, Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment:
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The counterattacks in southern Ukraine are also having strategic effects in other parts of the theater.
The cascading effects that the Ukrainian counterattacks in the Oleksandrivka, Hulyaipole, and Zaporizhia directions-
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which would in turn enable Russian forces
To advance toward Orikhiv from the east and west and later enable advances toward Zaporizhzhia City itself.
Russian forces are thus facing a far more difficult battlefield situation in southern Ukraine in early March than they did at the start of 2026.
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These counterattacks are generating tactical, operational and strategic effects that may disrupt Russia’s Spring-Summer 2026 offensive campaign plan.
The Russian command likely hoped that Russian advances in the Hulyaipole direction would complement Russian advances near Orikhiv, -
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NEW: The Russian military simply does not have the capacity to overrun Ukrainian defenses that Putin constantly claims. Latest Assessment ⬇️(
Ukrainian forces are successfully counterattacking not only in the Oleksandrivka and Hulyaipole directions but also in western Zaporizhia Oblast.
Also known as "using insider knowledge for war profiteering."
Btw, happy belated birthday to the only surviving Monkee Micky Dolenz. He is 81 years and 1 day old. 🥳
