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Compared to 2025, this is happening much faster. Back when Input out my work on this in 2025, it took months of Ukrainian strikes to barely get to even spotty strikes everywhere. To lut some perspective, 2025 was about a single drone with a 50-100 pound explosive every other day. Now we are seeing strikes with multiple drones with much larger warheads every day or sometimes double. Before I estimated that loss of more than 25% of total capacity would be needed to start seeing systemic effects. Ukraine has reported the reduction has been more than that this week. This is ehat you would expect. What to look for is how quickly Russia can repair refineries. Last year they could sustain the prior rate of hits. If Ukraine can consistently get one refinery daily with multiple drones, it looks like that is beyond Russia's repair capacity. Time will tell, but we will all be watching closely.
Spot fuel outages (stations reporting they have run out of AI-92, AI-95, AI-100, and/or diesel) have spread throughout western Russia and the far east. Can't stress enough, these are spotty outages. Only the Ryazan Oblast has widespread shortages.
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🇬🇪 Georgia’s 2024 census shows a major demographic shift. Ethnic Georgians fell from 86.8% to 84.1%. Biggest surprise? Indians. Their population surged from 446 to 23,996 in 10 years (+5,280%), making them Georgia’s 5th largest ethnic group. Russians: +61% Ukrainians: +139%
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My fourth observation from the grooming gang report: The NHS treated a 13-year-old rape victim for STIs including chlamydia in the throat and vagina, gonorrhoea, genital warts, and pelvic inflammatory disease, and later treated her again for injuries caused by gang rape, without ever once filing a safeguarding referral. Our precious NHS, which this country treats like a second religion, is happy to lecture pregnant mothers that they are not women but “uterus havers” and “chest feeders”, yet repeatedly failed child rape victims right in front of them. Britain is broken.
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Latviskās identitātes glorificēšana, tā to tagad laikam sauc. Mūsu tautas tērps ir goda tērps, kurš ir pelnījis, lai pret to izturas ar cieņu. Un nevajag tajā ietērpt homofobiju un citas fobijas un fīlijas. Paturiet savas kodes pie sevis. Tautastērpam ar to nav nekāda sakara!
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🤫 Par dievturu dižgariem un tautā iemīļoto viņu veikumu vairāk vari uzzināt ceļojošajā izstādē "Latviskās dzīvesziņas dievestība tautas vēsturē", kas līdz šī mēneša beigām pieejama Dzīvesziņas un arodu sētā, Jelgavā, bet jau 4. jūlijā tiks atklāta Rīgā.👉 100.dievturi.lv/
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Free Speech 101
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It's crazy, but Portugal's post-2020 immigration surge has even passed the Trudeauwave of Canada in its size relative to the population to be the largest of its kind in the Western World.
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A new political wave is sweeping Latin America. What began with Javier Milei in Argentina has turned into a broader rejection of Marxist models. Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Honduras, and Costa Rica are shifting rightward. The biggest game changer may be Cuba itself.
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As #HPV vaccine coverage continues to rise, cervical cancer deaths among young women plummeted. In the most highly vaccinated cohorts, deaths fell to ZERO. Among unvaccinated women, mortality rates barely changed. Vaccines save lives. thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine bbc.in/4ovjOLq
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Turkey🇹🇷 2010–2020: Istanbul became a human vacuum cleaner, the coasts collected the leftovers, and half the interior turned into a WhatsApp group with grandparents.
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Long COVID capillary damage is real. Here are my damaged capillaries. For comparison these small and straight capillaries were photographed by me testing the capillaroscope on the healthy clinic staff.
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“In 2022 and 2023, her facility treated a steady stream of sexual-assault survivors from the occupied territories, ranging in age from 4 to 75. “Over the past four years,” she told me, “we have become a world leader in new methods for gynecological reconstructive surgery.”
My latest in @TheAtlantic, about the women who form the backbone of Ukraine's resistance. Many of the drone strikes we're seeing are the last link in a complex kill-chain — one that begins with agents deep behind enemy lines. I was granted rare access to this network. Their courage is staggering. theatlantic.com/internationa…
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Crimean vibes: resident of occupied Crimea sarcastically reflects on the gloomy mood on the peninsula in recent days: the sea is there, the sun is shining, yet somehow nobody feels like smiling. Meanwhile, explosions and the sound of air defence systems operating can be heard in the background.
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Jeb, kā teica Džordžs Orvels: "Ja brīvība vispār jel ko nozīmē, tā nozīmē tiesību teikt cilvēkiem lietas, ko tie negrib dzirdēt."
Hate speech bans are free speech bans
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The happiest men and women are married and have kids. Family is the solution.
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I don't have many strong beliefs, but one of them is that market capitalism is humanity's greatest social invention. Once, we slept in lice and often died of starvation; now, we have steak delivered to our door while complaining that the house is 75 degrees instead of 73.
Clara Mattei brilliantly debunks a century of capitalist propaganda by explaining how capitalism is unnatural, has existed for only 0.1% of human history, took control of the world through violence, and is maintained by coercion and the superficial facade of liberal democracy.
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"Russia continues to deepen the militarization of ever-wider sectors of its education system. And this forces us to ask a question that just a few years ago would have seemed unthinkable: Where does the university end and where does the war machine begin?" "Many Western observers continue to analyze Russian institutions as if there were a separation between them and the state comparable to that found in European democracies." In this article in @vocedelpatriota Vadym Syroyezhko discusses the relationship between Western universities and Russian academic institutions aligned with the Kremlin’s strategic priorities. lavocedelpatriota.it/en/from…
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Dramatic events are unfolding in the Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea, Ukraine. Local Russian regime authorities announced that all fuel deliveries to civilians are suspended. The remaining fuel resources are distributed to government (military) forces and emergency only.
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Saulgrieži Uzvaras parkā 🌿🌾🔥
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