Made it out of Ireland with 2 samples of Aughinish alumina powder to get tested.
It’s from two sources: at the refinery and from a worker who doesn’t want to be identified. He told me the biggest threat to his job is russian ownership and he wants it exposed & nationalised
It is astonishing how much material and assets Russia is losing to Ukrainian drone attacks every day and they are committed to pretending like there is no problem.
Local artist, Light Guerrilla, projected TAX THE RICH on Mark Zuckerberg’s $300M mega yacht. It is docked at Seattle’s Lake Union and the company is laying off 1395 employees in Washington state starting next month
🇺🇦 Ukrainian sanctions at work 🔽
“Due to the lack of gasoline, our guys cannot go out on combat missions. They cannot carry out the evacuation of our wounded.”
A “humanitarian” mission set off on a 1,500-kilometer journey to deliver fuel to the occupiers in Tokmak. 😏
Left: Republican Senator Roger Marshall blames President Biden and immigrants for the rise in cases of flesh eating screwworms
Right: In 2025, under President Trump, "US halts screwworm fly eradication flights after budget cuts"
Mick Lynch repeatedly humiliates Reform UK's Laila Cunningham
She then accuses Mick Lynch and Labour of spreading lies to "win the argument" denying that Nigel Farage wants an insurance-based NHS
Here are two clips of Nigel Farage saying,
1. He doesn't want the NHS funded through general taxation
2. He wants an insurance-based system for the NHS
Iraqi footballer Aymen Hussein issued a statement after being detained and questioned for seven hours upon entering the United States:
“If America is so hostile towards foreign nationals, why is it hosting the #2026WorldCup?”
Russians could not be dumber.
These two easily identifiable cars from Kizilyurt in Dagestan are delivering gasoline to "our fighters" in occupied Tokmak in Ukraine.
In the same breath he claims it to be "humanitarian aid."
A black rat snake can eat dozens of rodents in a year and make you less likely to be bitten by a tick.
The mice and rats a snake hunts are the same rodents that carry the ticks that spread Lyme disease. Fewer rodents, fewer infected ticks.
A University of Maryland analysis estimated that a single timber rattlesnake, just by eating small mammals, removes somewhere between 2,500 and 4,500 ticks from the landscape a year.
Garter snakes pull their weight too, working through slugs, grasshoppers, and beetles in the garden.
So when you find a snake in the yard, the move is to let it be.
And whatever you do, skip the rat poison, because a poisoned rat gets eaten by the snake, the owl, the hawk, or the fox that would have kept those rodents in check for free, and the poison kills them right along with it.
Over the past couple of weeks, Russian forces have been making repeated attempts to establish pontoon crossings across the river in Vovchansk, Kharkiv Oblast.
What stands out compared to similar operations elsewhere is the monstrous appearance of the heavily modified pontoon sections and the trucks transporting them, giving the entire setup a distinctly Mad Max-style look.
The FCAS is dead. Long live the GCAP!
🇫🇷 France and 🇩🇪 Germany have reportedly decided to halt development of the Future Combat Air System after years of delays and industrial disputes.
Counterintuitively, this may not be bad news for European strategic autonomy.
With FCAS effectively shelved, Berlin is now more likely to join the 🇮🇹 Italy–🇬🇧 United Kingdom–🇯🇵 Japan Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), a project in which Germany has already expressed interest.
If that happens, Europe could finally concentrate its resources, industrial expertise and political capital on a single next-generation fighter platform.
For decades, Europe's defence industry has been weakened by duplication, fragmentation and competing national programmes.
One common solution would be a major step towards a stronger and more integrated European defence industrial base.
@CaolanReports Even if it doesn't directly end up in weapons, it's import to Russia allows then to direct other aluminum stockpiles to weapons.
They can also use in in weapons manufacturing equipment.