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Kemi Badenoch is upset that Labour have cut some of the Brexit red tape that hindered businesses that her party spent so long putting in place

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Kristi Noem, our homeland security secretary, does not know a literally 1000-year-old core legal principle. Arguably the first, foundational legal principle of a free society.

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Delay in improving NHS maternity care costing lives of hundreds of babies a year – report

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happy 3 month anniversary to this inside boy. i'm so happy we found each other 🥹

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This should be the end of Noem’s career in public life. It almost certainly won’t be, however, which is itself damning.

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Ted Cruz is not a natural-citizen of the United States. He was born in Canada to a U.S. citizen mother and a noncitizen father.

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When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely

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Many of the major changes Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service pushed at Social Security have been abandoned or are being reversed after proving ineffective, while others are yielding unintended consequences and badly damaging customer service and satisfaction.

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Breaking news: The US has been stripped of its top-notch triple-a credit rating by Moody’s on concerns about rising levels of government debt www.ft.com/content/e456...

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Hadi Matar got the maximum sentence for attempted murder. He was found guilty in February for repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie during a 2022 lecture and wounding another person on stage.

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500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

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the President of the United States, everyone

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Trump accuses former FBI director of calling for his killing through coded picture

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I don't think it's a coincidence that cops started acting extra out of hand once we let them wear military gear. Make them wear clown outfits for several years to restore humility to the job

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Books are a total scam. Every single word is already in the dictionary—they’re just selling them back to you in a different order.

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Feels like just in my lifetime the tech industry went from solving problems to pretending to solve problems, to creating problems

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Pedants: actually, AI doesn't use that much water compared to farming Wise people: literally a single drop of water spent on the Plagiarism Machine That Lies is one drop too many

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1 year ago ~to the day~

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Kleya actress Elizabeth Dulau posts a message to the ANDOR fans “I can’t reply to everyone but I’m seeing all your lovely messages and honestly thank you so much, it means the world ❤️ I am immensely proud of our beautiful show Andor and I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed it.”

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They really think their mass firings had nothing to do with the problems we’re now seeing.

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A 2-year-old girl who was left in the United States after both her parents were removed from the country, sparking an international custody dispute, has been returned to Venezuela, according to the child’s family and the Venezuelan government.

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Thai officials on Wednesday said they seized 238 tons of illegally imported electronic waste from the United States, one of the biggest lots they've found this year.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi concept art by Christian Alzmann

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The series finale episodes of #Andor are now streaming on Disney+: Ep. 10: “Make It Stop” Ep. 11: “Who Else Knows?” Ep. 12: “Jedha, Kyber, Erso”

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I already miss #Andor. 😔

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It was on this day in 2015 when it was first reported that Diego Luna had been cast in ‘Rogue One’. Now, exactly a decade later, his final performance as Cassian Andor in #Andor Season Two premieres on Disney+.

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EU ambassadors have agreed to new sanctions on Russia including targeting almost 200 ships that are part of the so-called shadow fleet.

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‘Andor’ is definitely one of the best television series of the last decade. I hope we’ll see more phenomenal storytelling and character work like this out of Star Wars in the future. Now it’s time to watch ‘Rogue One’ again.

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In an evening address to the nation, Shehbaz Sharif promised to 'avenge every drop of blood' of the more than two dozen Pakistanis his government says were killed by the Indian air strikes in the early hours of Wednesday. Follow live updates: www.ft.com/content/0ebc...

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The lawsuit challenges a Day 1 executive order signed by the president to halt federal leasing for offshore wind energy projects.

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Me after watching Andor

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The real hero of Andor: B2EMO. #art #StarWars #Andor #MayTheFourth #RevengeOfTheFifth #droid #B2EMO

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Here’s my Met gala.

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Video captured the moment of an Indian military strike in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. The Indian Ministry of Defence says it struck multiple sites in what it calls “Operation Sindoor". India has blamed Pakistan for an attack that killed 26 people last month in Pahalgam.

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By calling a genocide a genocide, Andor just made its most political point yet

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I don't mean to set off another annoying internecine argument but it continues to be mind boggling to me that there are people who think it's unacceptable to criticize Democrats because they're the opposition to something worse. You get rid of incompetent firefighters you don't make excuses for them

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email stands for evil mail

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WIth everything else you kind of forget that the president of the united states is a crypto scammer

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James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.

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Why do you lock your door at night. Is it because you think I'll come in and debate you. Are you afraid of free speech

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