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A quick reminder of what today is really about: Russia threatens Europe. America is gone. It will not save us. Britain and Europe must work closely and with trust, on defense and everything else, in order to counter the Kremlin threat.

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This person is supposed to be running the most powerful country in the world.

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It sounds like the fishing part of the deal with the EU is trading off access to waters against access to markets When so much of our shellfish is exported and deteriorates so rapidly this is clearly a deal worth doing Such deals are the best we can hope for without EU membership #UKEUSummit

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“Sesame Street” has signed a new distribution deal with Netflix, as well as a separate deal with PBS, the show announced on Monday. This gives the children’s show a much needed-boost as it battles a financial crisis. nyti.ms/3Zswh7l

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Absolutely disgraceful. This will be an historical black stain - among so many others - on this Administration & those senior officials in Justice Department forever. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Rather exciting to find what I believe to be a female Black-headed Leafcutter Bee (Megachile circumcincta) on a coastal brownfield site in Neath Port Talbot yesterday (17th May). Unfortunately, it is a much declined species in Britain. Note, she was safely released after a few photos 😊

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PRIORITIES! Benefit fraud 7 billion. Unclaimed benefit £22 billion. Tax gap (fraud, evasion etc.) £40 billion.

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Trump, Obama And Other Leaders From Both Parties Send Well Wishes To Biden After Cancer Diagnosis

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My God. I never had the slightest hope this could happen. It seemed impossible. Romania votes against populism, rejects the far-right. An incredible result www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

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A 2023 audio recording of President Biden speaking haltingly and having memory lapses is the latest in a series of recent disclosures that have reopened a debate over Biden’s physical and mental fitness while in office and prompted fresh recriminations among Democrats.

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This is so far over the line it’s disorienting.

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WHY DO WE HAVE TO SETTLE FOR SECOND BEST? No half-arsed agreement with the EU will restore the amazing advantages that we enjoyed - and celebrated - with free movement. Let’s stop pissing about and rejoin the SM & CU and get free movement back. Only Starmer is stopping this.

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A Mexican Navy sailing ship drifted directly into the underside of the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday night, killing two crew members. At least 22 people were injured, half of them critically. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/n...

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Unless and until our politicians realise that every economic decision they make creates an economic reaction, they'll ignore that fact, at cost to us all. youtu.be/ih9u2xLmZoE?...

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One person was dead and a Palm Springs, California, fertility clinic and several other buildings were damaged after a bomb exploded less than a mile from the city’s downtown on Saturday, the mayor said.

submitted 2 days ago • 89 comments

Anyway my statements stands. Go get ya prostate checked. My dad had prostate cancer and because my mom insisted he get checked it was caught early and he’s alive and in remission for 15 years. Get checked. Your life depends on it.

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To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.

submitted 2 days ago • 417 comments

I have endured his scurrilous attacks for years. He has sued me for racketeering — and lost. He has unleashed his right-wing army of online trolls. Since his reelection, he has threatened me, defamed me and singled me out by name in two executive orders. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-t...

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Happy anniversary, Head Start! It was built on a simple but powerful idea: that every child deserves a strong start in life and currently supports more than 4,000 kids enrolled in programs across in New Mexico. We must continue investing in our kids—in our future. ❤️

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Guess we could just accept massive inequality and poverty... Or we could start taxing the richest 1% so we can invest in public services and help those struggling to pay rent, feed their families and heat their homes 🌍

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✝️ Zelenskyy gifts Pope icon painted on ammunition box brought from front line – photo

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"I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the United States after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."

submitted 2 days ago • 316 comments

Imagine needing to have to organise and agree to travelling freely and being able to work in your friendly, neighbouring country. Remind me again why we thought this would be such a terrible thing. 🤷‍♂️

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Holy sh*t!

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Today Everton’s men’s team say an emotional goodbye to Goodison Park after 133 years. In this special tribute piece, @danhaygarth1.bsky.social pulls together memories from Blues from all walks of life of the Grand Old Lady www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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I have always loved my ‘New Dawn’ roses, but they are especially stunning this year. 🌱

submitted 1 day ago • 154 comments

President Biden is a man of deep faith and extraordinary resilience. Chasten and I are keeping him, and the entire Biden family, in our prayers for strength and healing.

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47% of children in Washington state get their healthcare from Medicaid... Medicaid is the foundation stone of our healthcare system right now. - @rweingarten.bsky.social

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Pence: "Individuals who broke into the Capitol, who assaulted police officers...should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law...The heroes on January 6 were all wearing uniforms...To have pardoned the people who assaulted police officers that day, was wrong."

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Majority People's Assembly, Newcastle today

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The European Union breathed a huge sigh of relief tonight as moderate Bucharest Mayor Nicușor Dan fended off a fierce hard-right challenge to win the Romanian presidential election.

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Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

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Fantastic news.

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Does it matter if the pilot has never landed an aircraft before?

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For those interested in the Romanian election, the things you need to know are that Nicusor Dan is the good guy, and George Simion is the bad guy. And when I say bad, I mean really bad. This is fork-in-the-road time for Romania. So far, looks less awful than I feared.

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⚡️Zelensky gifts pope with icon from war-torn Izium. Zelensky presented Pope Leo XIV with the icon"Mother of God with Child," painted on an artillery box. The icon represents children "who suffered from the war, who were deliberately kidnapped and deported by Russia."

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In Sunday evening european news, Romania seem to have seen off an extreme nationalist, and the UK and EU might still be arguing about fish.

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UPDATE: Investigators have identified Guy Edward Bartkus, 25, as the primary person of interest in the explosion that injured four others.

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Putin sends combat troops & spies to Finland's border as Nato tensions grow on its Eastern flank. Hundreds of 🇷🇺 troops inc battle-hardened units from Ukraine & suspected intelligence specialists have been deployed to the Finnish border in recent days as Moscow inews.co.uk/news/putin-t...

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🇺🇦 Ukrainian high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the gold series of the World Athletics Continental Tour in high jump in Tokyo. The athlete cleared the height of 1.96 meters at her first attempt.

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"Mutual aid and harm reduction are bourgeois because they reinforce existing systems and we should heighten contradictions so people want revolution" Folks in order for the working class to have a revolution, the members of the working class have to first, you know, be alive

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Brexit was a referendum on whether the UK should leave the European Union. The UK has left the European Union. Referendum fulfilled. If the people bleating about "Brexit Betrayal" wanted the Referendum to enshrine their pet policy preferences, they should have included them in the question.

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Thinking of former President Joe Biden and his family after the news of his cancer diagnosis. Wishing him strength, healing, and moments of peace in the days ahead.

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About politics but could apply to other white-collar workplaces (ridiculous)

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A thousand times this. From the very beginning we were force fed preposterous narratives of what Brexit ‘really meant’. A total travesty.

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