Francis Chubb
@francischubb.bsky.social
Lawyer and Liberal Democrat 🔶 (pic is earlier guise, Berlin 1989. Because I’m an optimist really).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... While it's good that the BBC is covering Russia's attacks on Ukrainian civilians but this false attempt at neutrality shows just what problems BBC News seems to be having these days - "Both sides have denied deliberately targeting civilians."
Russian strike kills 21 as Ukraine calls for interceptors
The Russia defence ministry said it had struck logistics hubs and supply centres in Kyiv and the surrounding region.
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The Ukrainian Air Force reported that air defense forces unfortunately failed to shoot down any Russian missiles overnight.
Last night, Kyiv looked like this. Russia targeted the capital with 4 Zircon/Oniks missiles, 24 Iskander-M/S-400 missiles, and 115 strike UAVs including Shahed (mostly jet-powered), Gerbera, and Italmas types, as well as "Parodiya" decoy drones (98 shot down).
At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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They allowed a feedback loop of suicide-related content to build up, possibly leading to the suicide of one kid, to provide a control group so they could figure out whether or not safety measures dampened engagement. 10% of users were in the control.
Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 10h agoThis is absolutely awful
On August 1, a Russian drone completely destroyed the shrine. This is the 337th Ukrainian church destroyed or damaged by Russia since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. The destruction of the church is yet another act of cultural genocide and a deliberate attack on Ukrainian shrines.
These people use violence and intimidation, and have to be stopped. Significant that they claim has offered to cover their legal bills. They don’t say who, but we know who does the same for ‘Tommy Robinson’. Elon.
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
This is some seriously sinister stuff.
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
A better title for this thread is "How Russia built a time bomb on top of its retail sector." bsky.app/profile/did:...
Stanimir Dobrev@delfoo.bsky.social · 10h agoI think folks don't quite get what Ukraine is removing from the equation when it comes to their strikes on Wildberries. Wildberies is an online marketplace that focuses on fulfillment by the organization. They have warehouses first, sorting centers second.
I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …
Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups
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This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.
Conservatives challenged for selecting a man who formed a far right group + was jailed for serious antisemitic harassment of former MP Luciana Berger.Badenoch says he has reformed sufficiently to have a local candidacy, but should not have a national platform www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kemi-b...
Kemi Badenoch Says Former Neo-Nazi Standing For Tories Can Be A Councillor But Not An MP
The Conservative leader said she would not want to give Joshua Bonehill-Paine “a national platform”.
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The sentencing remarks for someone Kemi Badenoch is allowing to stand as a Conservative candidate.
Samantha Asumadu@samanthaasumadu.substack.com · yesterdayThe sentencing remarks are quite something
Obviously, the non-American world has a digital sovereignty problem - Trump has means, motive and opportunity to order his tech companies to shut down any public official, large corporation, or individual who displeases him: pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/t... 1/
Today, they're active across the US, tracking and analyzing crimes committed by the Trump regime: hrdag.org/2026/07/05/n... And they are working in Gaza, to document the genocide so that someday, the truth can be acknowledged and the perpetrators brought to justice: hrdag.org/pressroom/ny... 23/
Naming Police Officers Who Kill in California
New Functionality in the Police Records Access Project Highlights the Names of Individual Police Officers Oakland resident Erik Salgado was 23 years old when he was stopped by the California Highway P...
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Big Tech is key to Trump's pogroms. Without Oracle's databases, Microsoft's administrative tools, Amazon's cloud, and Google's location data, ICE would be frozen in place. Big Tech is the source of Americans' risk from authoritarian oppression. 9/
Ukraine Foreign Affairs Minister: "We have detected intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilisation." Far-right from EU (& US!) falls with open eyes for hybrid threats from the weaponisation of migration, even fan the flames. #unity #solidarity
The events in Spanish Ceuta show that the EU is still very vulnerable and has no answer to uncontrolled migration flows - especially when migration becomes a weapon and a tool of coercion.⤵️
"We destroy the enemy in his blind zones." Ukrainian unit U2 Brotherhood hit dozens of russian logistics targets - what they call a logistics lockdown. Extremely efficient SBU unit, absolute cinema!
In Komyshuvakha direction, Zaporizhzhya oblast, Ukraine, Some positive news. The latest sentinel imagery shows new Russian glide bomb strikes in the southern part of Plavni, indicating Ukraine has advanced and retaken most of the town over the past week.
It’s a low bar but I am delighted to see this. The UK has had four widespread instances of extreme heat this year. The national May temperature record was broken at 35.1°C in West London, and June bringing temperatures above 37°C in East Anglia.
A Paris court today rejected Russian television star Xenia Fedorova's appeal against a ruling that she must leave the country, a week after French authorities accused her of acting as "a conduit for disinformation campaigns" orchestrated by Moscow.
Paris court rejects pro-Kremlin TV star’s appeal against expulsion
The ruling leaves in place Xenia Fedorova’s house arrest, daily police checks and a six-month asset freeze.
politico.eu
Farmers are reporting poor yields due to lack of water & rain. Winter silage is already being used to feed animals due to dead summer grass. Agrivoltaics, where solar panels are raised so that more conventional farming can continue underneath is proving a solution with surprising benefits.
Heatwaves, farmland and solar energy
Could mediterranean style agrivoltaic systems help farmers cope with mediterranean style heatwaves, and improve energy independence?
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Updated infographic. We don't have information if the final part of the Vladimir facility was fully manned. In late 2024 1/3rd of the facility or 58 500 square meters of the total 176 000 were launched. We have 5 000 jobs for late 2024. Use our data as minimum estimate.
French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡
The pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC has spent a jaw-dropping $30M+ in tomorrow's Democratic primaries in Michigan and Missouri. But if you saw their attack ads, you'd never know it was them. Watch.
Meet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026
Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou
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First before and after aerials of Spokane, WA. 800 houses/structures burned so far, and the fire is still 0% contained. Worst fire season in over 30 years for the northwest US. 📷 Nearmap
The greatest magic trick of them all is *lying*. The reason you can't figure out that coin vanish even after the conjurer performs it three times in a row is that they *didn't* do the same trick three times in a row! 1/
