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Ex Lab GE Candidate. @joecguinan.bsky.social "With such cognitive firepower, rapier wit & winning personality difficult to believe that you didn't make it into Parliament"
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And there it is... the greatest header in modern history.

This is like a natural experiment of "what happens if we elect the worst person in the world to be president"

Seems obvious: “Drivers & businesses will no longer need to submit a planning application to install electric car chargepoints. The change will cut red tape to make it easier than ever to install electric vehicle (EV) sockets.” www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Tesla Europe Sales Slumped by 49%. Why the Stock Rose. 🤷‍♂️ www.barrons.com/articles/tes...

State Department orders embassies to pause new student visa appointments as it moves to expand social media vetting www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/p...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to bar government scientists from publishing in major medical journals, saying on a podcast that three top journals were “corrupt” and influenced by pharmaceutical companies.

A new era for rail travel begins as South Western Railway comes into public ownership! 🚆 After years of delays and disruption, Labour are putting passengers before profit. ➡️ The first step in Labour’s plan to build a better, passenger-focused rail system. www.kingstonlabour.com/2025/05/24/s...

This is an atrocity. A nakedly authoritarian, illegal attack on a private institution. The damage to American innovation and education will be permanent. If you are American, I beg you to contact your representatives now and demand an end to this madness.

JUST IN: International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."

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On May 18, 1980, Richard Lasher got up early to get some photos at Spirit Lake. Instead, he was forced to stop because of the massive, explosive Mount St. Helens eruption and captured this iconic photo with his own red Ford Pinto on the road. 🧪⚒️ #OTD www.hemmings.com/stories/mt-s...

Tutta L’Italia ✅ #Eurovision

Once-pristine … Moody's cuts America's pristine credit rating, citing rising debt - www.reuters.com/markets/us/m...

The French president has held talks with allies such as Germany and Poland as Europe responds to signs that the US plans to scale back its military presence on the continent. www.ft.com/content/9623...

Got round to reading Farage two page “manifesto” in yesterday’s Mail. Populist slogans/unfunded promises strung together in a piece designed to portray 🇬🇧 as third world. But how about this for nerve from Mr Brexit? “The casual lies and careless attitudes of our political class have let people down”.

Another classic from the Queen of gaffes…

Ending double taxation of Indians here on temporary work visas just as we do for many other countries (including US, EU, etc) is "two-tier taxation". Ignorance, racism, cynical opportunism, or all three?

Fully agree with Jon on this. The UK has lots of similar social security agreements with other trade partners. I’m not surprised by Conservatives being wilfully dumb on this but the Lib Dems shouldn’t blow this dog whistle.

“Are we the baddies?”

WELKER: You are not ruling out military force to take Greenland? TRUMP: I don't rule out anything. No. Not there. We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a very small amount of people which we'll take of and we'll cherish them and all of that. But we need that for international security.

FYI. Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation. www.savensf.com 🧪🌎🦑

Australia’s centre-left prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has won a second term with a crushing victory over the opposition, whose rightwing leader, Peter Dutton, failed to brush off comparisons with Donald Trump and ended up losing his own seat.

The 8th May has been marked as VE Day since before Trump was born. VE stands for Victory in Europe. As for the First World War, the idea that some Yank who refused to serve in the military, will command people around the world not to call it Rembrance Day is laughable. Sod off.