⚖️ PUNISHED FOR BEING NORMAL is Center for Global Development researcher Maya Forstater (pictured) FIRED in 2018 for tweeting simple fact that "male people are not women" and that "a man’s internal feeling that he is a woman has no basis in material reality."

Surprisingly, she just won $135,200 in compensation through UK Employment Tribunal from her former employer for lost earnings and emotional distress in 5 year long victory and battle for all "people with perfectly ordinary beliefs about the material reality of sex."

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⚡️ Russian forces shoot down Ukrainian drone over Belgorod region (pre-war Russia).

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🇦🇷🏦 For the first time, Argentina uses Chinese Yuan to settle part of its debt to International Monetary Fund (IMF).

It met a payment obligation in Yuan worth the equivalent of $1 billion, with a further $1.7 billion disbursed in Special Drawing Rights.

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⚔️SITREP⚔️ JULY 1

◾️Russian forces repel 11 Ukrainian attacks in Donetsk region, more than 455 enemy soldiers killed and injured, 6 tanks, a US-made M119 and a Polish-supplied Krab self-propelled howitzers destroyed.

◾️Ukrainian army suffers up to 150 soldiers in casualties as a result of Russia's strikes in south of Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions (ex-Ukraine).

◾️Kiev lost up to 40 Ukrainian soldiers, 2 ammo depots destroyed in Kupyansk, East Ukraine.

◾️In Kherson (ex-Ukraine) elimination of Ukrainian soldiers who landed near the Antonovsky Bridge is completed, up to 20 Ukrainian soldiers killed and 2 US-made M777 howitzers destroyed.

◾️ Russian air defenses intercept 4 US-supplied HIMARS multiple-launch rocket shells and an AGM-88 HARM missile, 14 drones destroyed, Ukrainian-operated Su-25 attack jet shot down.

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