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If what’s happening in L.A. is an “insurrection,” then January 6 wasn’t a “tour” it was a full-blown terrorist attack. Say it with your chest.

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Ironic that #thearchers chief anxiety with OpenFarmSunday has been the spectre of protesting environmentalists When the actual threat is from Cryptosporidium, spread chiefly by allowing farm waste to contaminate our rivers. Something environmentalists have been warning about! #r4today

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UK nation debt rose from 42% to 105% GDP since 2007, sure #r4today. But debt rose to 70.3% GDP by 2010: entirely down to bailing out the financial sector Austerity didn’t pay down debt! Why do we think it will work this time round?

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Anyone else’s auto correct insist on changing Bedenoch to ‘Bad Enoch’ That’s Ai for ya! #wato

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Badenoch, Jenerick & Philps are so sure there’s a problem with the ECHR that … [drumroll] … there should be a commission to look into the pros & cons of membership Born to lead! #wato

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Good interview with Haaretz journalist Akiva Eldar on #wato & important to realise Netanyahu’s real enemy is not Hamas, but the idea of Palestinian independence itself (& therefore all Palestinians)

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Well I suppose it’s a chance to segue onto the ‘big beautiful bill’ I may yet eat my words #wato

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The Trump-town-Musk-spat is the lead story on #wato It’s gossip! & it’s of zero consequence to anyone not called Trump or Musk Get some perspective BBC

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The whole debate on the collapse of the Dutch government caused by the far-right throwing a tantrum is up on @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social now 👀 The three of us guests all chose to wear white by coincidence but it does look a bit like we’re in a cult 🤦‍♀️😂 www.aljazeera.com/video/inside...

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Today’s output: - MagaWorld woes - Leaving the ECHR (immigrant) fears & - Banning the burka (more immigrant fears) I was holding out for the yawning piece, but honestly #r4today I can’t take any more of this rubbish

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8:10 #r4today slot dedicated to the Musk v Trump twitter fart-club MAGA bout that ANYONE remotely interested would have already caught-up with on X “MAGAworld” - what a pillock

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Though yawning was ‘contagious’ for most species living in social groups? It’s an important unthreatening/pacifying signal that (obviously) communicates you’re in a relaxed state PS. Yawning thu a Richard Tice interview doesn’t count #r4today

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You have to admire the ‘Alt’-Right for their sheer hutzpah Don’t like people who wear burkas: Burkas are ‘divisive & oppressive’. So let the rest of us who don’t wear burkas debate if we should force people who wear burkas to not be allowed to wear burkas Next on GBNews … sorry, #r4today

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The world according to ReformUK (Or #r4today as we used to call it)

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Oh dear, ECHR membership. Another terrifying foreign ogre to battled by our brave knights on the far-Right Thanks for keeping the struggle alive #r4today we’d barely notice otherwise!!

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#r4today warns against government regulating private profits: But Thames ALSO collects a taxpayer subsidy & wouldn’t survive without it In the case of utilities where taxpayers donate cash intended for maintenance or price capping, government must ensure that money isn’t used to pay shareholders

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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

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With respect to all on #wato just now, Truss wasn’t the only one offering unfunded policy. Sunak did just the same: £22bn worth if you believe Labour (£9bn Tories claim) And when you experience the underfunded shambles in UK public services, then it’s hard to accept the Tories costed for anything

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Wow - #r4today trailed this Mel Stride interview as Tories [FINALLY] taking responsibility for electing Trickle-down Truss & her unfunded tax cuts for millionaires Evidently it was really just a chance to claim how much better off we’d all be if we’d just kept voting Tory.

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“How YOU gonna pay for THAT?!!!” [ #R4today Question never asked of anyone from the Right of British politics]

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Absolutely agree with that last Republican racist: There’s no room in America for immigrants to come & commit acts of violence. Surely that right is reserved for Americans citizens with guns? #r4today

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Never before have I seen a combination of photo and headline that so clearly have to be—on some very deep level—fucking kidding, and yet both the items below, photo and headline, are apparently 100% serious

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Pretty sure the CBI is trying to say get yer transition energy infrastructure sorted & don’t just stick consumers (esp UK business) with the bill. Shame #r4today sees it as an anti-NetZero dig. Not for the 1st time but there’s a world of ideas out there beyond the Telegraph/Spectator op ed pages

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The politicians telling you they can stop immigration are taking you for absolute mugs. Here & all across Europe.

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Oh the Tories would also commit to spending 3%gdp on defence… “And HOW would YOU pay for that??” would’ve been yer immediate interruption if a Labour mouthpiece had come out with that [crap] #wato

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Labour “inherited a strong economy”? Are you stupid Mr Cartlidge, or do you just assume we are?

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Did London2012 help the South east “feel good about ourselves for the next three years” rather than the UK as a whole? I only ask because within 4 years we had voted to Leave the EU #r4today

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Good section on diet & mood with Doc Van Tulleken. It’s not only that fresh food is expensive #r4today it’s the quality of some of it that’s a real problem: It’s impossible to encourage children to choose fresh fruit over processed food when the fruit is often unpalatably sour etc.

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Another change to US tariffs. More unforeseen costs? More uncertainty? Sounds like UK is better off with a trade deal with Europe. I hear they have something called a single market #r4today

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Thames’ shareholders should pay the £22bn debt: it was Thames’ shareholders that agreed to refinancing of the company that created the debt. & shareholders took their dividend payments despite the debt. That should be reflected in any renationalising payout to shareholders #r4today

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Another Israeli voice on #r4today using their well practiced tactic to justify the IDF’s indiscriminate killing of Palestinian non-combatants by obnoxiously mouthing-off with “Hamas propaganda” accusations No criticism of Anna Foster’s efforts to break thru. But hard to justify airing this nonsense

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Anyone buying Thames Water is buying their £22bn debt opportunity, i.e Investors will need their reward: This will be ‘serviced’ of course with increased contribution from customers, 26% will not suffice, & taxpayers (same people btw), again £3bn gifted this year a drop in the river #r4today

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Guess which MP has received £224,575 from people + companies linked to the private health sector between Jan 2023- March 2025? Wes Streeting, our Health Secretary.🚨 We think these donations should be BANNED! If you agree, please click here to sign! bit.ly/HealthNotWea...

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UK right-wingers showing an increasing interest in anti-abortion rhetoric as US money starts to flood in - very interesting report from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

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The 10 richest Americans saw their wealth increase almost $1 BILLION a DAY this past year. While their wealth skyrockets, working people are struggling to make ends meet. U.S. wealth inequality will only get worse. Tax the damn rich!

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