Tim L 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧🇨🇦
@tim0.bsky.social
Born before colour was invented! Now retired from a working life mix of drinks industry and audio-related trade. Hard work but fun! Despise Brexit 🤬... I want my freedom of movement back #FBPE / DM's usually ignored
RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now a cyclosporiasis outbreak has killed 2 and sickened thousands across 45 states. "Make America Healthy Again."
My latest on Substack (free). How one incredibly stupid Excel error broke Britain. russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spread...
The Spreadsheet That Broke Britain
The absurd error behind austerity, stagnation and the rise of populist rage.
russincheshire.substack.com
We are deciding whether we want to be a country of ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 2d agoBREAKING — Another person died at Delaney Hall. The family of Edwin Lopez Cornejo (age 39) said he was not receiving the medications required to treat his diabetes, and blames his death on the lack of medical care (via USA Today). www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Sexual violence has become a systematic weapon in Russia's war against Ukraine.
How Russia Uses Sexual Violence as a Weapon Against Ukrainians
Survivors, prosecutors, and the UN detail how sexual violence has become a systematic weapon in Russia's war against Ukraine — from Bucha to POW camps.
united24media.com
Lithuania is moving to manufacture Ukrainian-designed drones under a bilateral "Drone Deal," with production set to use Ukrainian technology. The partnership expands Ukraine's defense manufacturing abroad as Kyiv works with allies to increase output and build production capacity.
Lithuania moves to produce Ukrainian drones locally under bilateral defense pact
The project will manufacture Ukrainian-designed drones in Lithuania using transferred technology, expanding Ukraine's production capacity abroad while strengthening Europe's defense industry.
euromaidanpress.com
Ukraine's air defense network remains one of the country's greatest military successes. But the air war is changing. As Patriot interceptor stocks remain limited, Russia is increasingly relying on ballistic missiles to inflict greater damage on Ukrainian cities. euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/04/u...
A massive fire has engulfed a Wildberries logistics center (194,500 sq m) in Aleksin, Russia's Tula region, following a drone attack.
If someone had wanted to systematically destroy the US from the inside, they would be hard pressed to find a better candidate than Donald Trump to enact their plans. Deplete military - check. Deplete treasury - check. Destroy diplomacy - check. Destroy constitution - check.
🔴 BREAKING: Russian missile and drone strikes on logistics hubs in Kyiv and its region killed 15 people and injured 42. Taking advantage of a critical lack of Patriot air defenses, Russia’s frequent hypersonic strikes leave the capital with no choice but to absorb the hits.
🔴UPD: Russian missile attack killed 15 people and injured 37 across Kyiv and the surrounding region. Exploiting a lack of air defense interceptors, Russia continues to terrorize the city, leaving civilians in grave danger with almost no time to reach shelter.
Another ghost town. This is what Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region looks like now - wounded and dying in agony because russians wanted to "liberate" it from people, homes, dreams, and life itself.
4/4 This motion calls on the Government to recognise Nature as a rights-bearing entity, establish a duty of care towards Nature, and ensure that public policy supports the protection, restoration and regeneration of the living systems on which we all depend.
2/4 Nature is not a luxury. Healthy ecosystems are the foundation of our food security, public health, economic resilience and national wellbeing. As climate and ecological crises deepen, protecting and restoring nature is essential to our collective future.
1/4 The Government's own National Security Assessment identifies biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse as imminent risks to our security, resilience and prosperity.
Yesterday, #Morocco’s Interior Ministry confirmed what independent analyses had already indicated: the entry of at least 50,000 people into #Ceuta was not spontaneous.
A fully loaded Russian BM-27 Uragan turned into a spectacular firework display after two precision drone strikes by Ukraine’s Lasar’s Group on the Novopavlivka axis.
Clacton you’re letting us down. You’re letting the country down. And mostly, you’re letting yourselves down.
Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 2d agoClacton By-Election Voting Intention: ➡️ RFM: 73% (+27) 🗑️ CBF: 20% (New) 🟥 REC: 2% (New) ⚫ Others: 5% (-49) Via @survation.bsky.social, 16-24 Jul. Changes w/ GE2024.
⚡ Russia is physically beating and blackmailing men into military service to solve its recruitment crisis. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
Russia Beats and Blackmails Men Into the Army as Recruitment Collapses, WSJ Reports
Russia uses police raids, beatings, and threats of fabricated charges to force men into military service as recruitment for the war against Ukraine falters.
united24media.com
"Questions about [my] money could go on for years," says Nigel Farage, when asked about the secret deal he struck with the convicted fraudster George Cottrell before agreeing to return as leader of Reform UK.
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European Democrats@europeandemocrats.wsocial.eu · 2d agoYesterday, #Morocco’s Interior Ministry confirmed what independent analyses had already indicated: the entry of at least 50,000 people into #Ceuta was not spontaneous.
The Wildberries logistics hub in Russia’s Vladimir region is now almost completely engulfed in flames.
"Russia will not exist in it's current form 10 years from now" - Garry Kasparov
National regulators and relevant EU bodies will monitor compliance with the rules. Companies that violate the requirements may face fines of up to €15 million or 3% of their global annual turnover.
The European Union has introduced mandatory labeling of content created by artificial intelligence to combat disinformation.
⚡ Ukrainian firefighters arrive in France to help combat a massive wildfire. united24media.com/world/ukrain...
Ukrainian Firefighters Arrive in France to Combat 42,000-Hectare Wildfire
Ukrainian emergency specialists join French forces to combat a massive Gironde wildfire, spanning 42,000 hectares and a 240km perimeter.
united24media.com
🤯 WTH: Russian soldiers spotted evacuating on a horse-drawn cart.
It just gets murkier The accountancy firm that administers Reform donor, George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 2d ago"[Byline] revealed that Cottrell entered corporate finance under a false Swiss identity, hired by the same City network that produced Reform UK’s own treasurer, Mehrtash A’zami. "Byline Times has since confirmed that this identity was stolen from a real person – Cottrell’s old school friend."
Not a great day to be Reform UK 👀 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/richard-tice-parliamentary-standards-investigation-reform-uk-b3026355.html
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice under investigation by standards watchdog
The standards commissioner confirmed that an investigation had been opened into allegations against the Reform UK deputy leader
independent.co.uk
