Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
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UK. From Norfolk, now Surrey. Reposts are generally endorsements (minus any personal insults contained therein). 💚🐕🦺🐈🦆🦢🦔🦋🐝🌳 🌷🌻🌈🧪
Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
How to protect gardens and pots from heat shocks ft.trib.al/lkhMnE3 | opinion
How to protect gardens and pots from heat shocks
Even brief temperature spikes can kill plants or stress roots — particularly if they are over-planted or in plastic containers
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Perhaps this will help, Trish. I built this 13 years ago for the Orange County Register.
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Denby Pottery has registered for administration support. Please consider signing the petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
Petition: Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills
Apply energy intensive industry relief (Supercharger scheme) to the ceramics industry to help cut soaring industrial energy costs & support ceramics businesses, which are at the risk of imminent colla...
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social They want to abolish DEI and making it about *everyone* legitimises their aim.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk This is an excellent article by @stephenkb.bsky.social
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis, by @stephenkb.bsky.social, is by far the best thing I've read on all this since it all kicked off. Yet another reason, as if another one were needed, to sign up for his morning newsletter, which, btw, you can try for free here: www.ft.com/newsletter-s... (and no I'm not on commission!).
This, by @stephenkb.bsky.social, is by far the best thing I've read on all this since it all kicked off. Yet another reason, as if another one were needed, to sign up for his morning newsletter, which, btw, you can try for free here: www.ft.com/newsletter-s... (and no I'm not on commission!).
What Henry Nowak’s murder does — and does not — tell us about policing
Kemi Badenoch says his killing needs to be seen as a ‘Stephen Lawrence moment’ but the failures in both cases differ
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Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk James, this was in Mark Carney’s first parliamentary speech and I thought at the time it was exactly what politics needed…
This is my favorite twitch stream, you get to interact with the animals in a cute little farm 🥺🥺🥺 www.twitch.tv/oneportugues...
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Baby hippos on cam 10! 🦛🦛🦛🦛 -- !animals !meteorite !discord !feed !water !wishlist !donate !mbway !twitch !buy
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Thousands of cyclists across U.S states and more than a dozen countries joined memorial rides organized by 'Angry Catfish', a Minneapolis bike shop where Pretti was a regular customer, honored Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse and avid cyclist who federal agents shot dead on January 24.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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While purporting to care deeply about the funding of other organisations and the importance of free speech, Lord Young's FSU won't reveal who funds the er ... Free Speech Union Excellent work from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...
Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk James, listened to this podcast by @thetimes.com The Story which basically says keeping the ‘Peace Process’ in the news is designed to keep largely poor Russians enlisting in the army, in the hope the war will soon be over. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The Story
Daily News Podcast · Updated daily · One remarkable story, told in depth, daily. Manveen Rana and Luke Jones bring you the flagship podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times. Hosted on Acast. See a...
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk Do we have any idea how Farage became so racist?
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk This seems very relevant right now, especially the last part… James Baldwin substack.com/@thememoryho...
TMH (@thememoryhole)
“People who can’t make love, make money”
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Both the Lucy Connolly and the Epping hotel cases have now taken on a political-media existence of their own, unconnected with what actually happened in court. It doesn't matter there were published sentencing remarks in one and a judge-prepared summary in the other. People want stories instead.
The government will tax the middle class out of existence instead of trying to tax the vast wealth of the very rich.
Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns. He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...
FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response | CNN Politics
The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.
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Farage’s cronies are being exposed www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07... Two out of the five Reform MPs elected a year ago have now gone, and Farage's party is appointing 19-year-olds to run council childcare services. How long is it before Reform might do real harm?
Farage’s cronies are being exposed
As The Guardian has noted: A Reform MP, James McMurdock, has given up the party whip while he is investigated over allegations about his business conduct during the coronavirus pandemic. Lee Anderson...
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Happy 4th of July everyone- this is the most American thing I’ve read today - please read every word: Goodbye to All That www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
Goodbye to All That
My resignation from the FBI.
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