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Who'd have thought Germany was standing up to dictatorship when the United States is failing?

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Trump attacks Fox News polling

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Zelensky has said seeing as Donald won't send Ukraine weapons, can he at least give Russia SpaceX rockets instead.

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White British — the two words toxifying politics https://on.ft.com/443Xhvu | opinion

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He’s posting more drug tests

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The only business Trump has been successful at is conning people.

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“We recently terminated our contract with X due to nonpayment,” Cassie Coccaro, head of communications at Thorn, told NBC News. “And that was after months and months of outreach, flexibility, trying to make it work. And ultimately we had to stop the contract.”

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"The point is to intimidate Ukrainians not just through sheer violence (these attacks regularly kill people in their homes), but also through the noise of constant bombardments," writes Kyiv Independent Audience Development Manager Elsa Court in her op-ed.

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US to end LGBT suicide prevention service, says general hotline sufficient reut.rs/3TBiFmR

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British decline in one story. Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.

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New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' More of this, please"

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Brutal.

submitted 19 hours ago • 346 comments

'Spend a day in our life, PM' says mum whose disabled daughter may lose PIP benefits www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Trump asks the Juventus players standing behind him if women could make their team and tries to bait them into endorsing his transphobia

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Trump just shared this alarming text from Israeli Ambassador Mike Huckabee, effusively praising him while telling him that no president has been in his position "since Truman in 1945" (when the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Japan) & that he "will hear a voice from heaven" telling him what to do.

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U.S. Intel Says Iran Isn’t a Nuclear Threat. Israel Wants the U.S. to Bomb It Anyway. The U.S. is helping Israel wage war on Iran over its nuclear program. But U.S. intelligence says Iran is not building a bomb. theintercept.com/2025/06/17/i...

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Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered

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Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

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Trump says he can’t allow Iran to make a nuclear weapon. But Tulsi Gabbard addressed this last quarter, so which of them is lying?

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"Trump's message is plain. If you commit violence in his cause, he will have your back...America in 2025 is making political murder easier. This is a choice, not fate." My column. www.ft.com/content/e172...

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A discussion among Group of Seven leaders over dinner on Monday did little to move US President Donald Trump toward tougher sanctions on Russia, according to people familiar with the matter.

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This is freaking weird. Trump just posted a text message he received from Mike Huckabee, his ambassador to Israel, urging him to attack Iran: “I don’t reach out to persuade you. Only to encourage you. I believe you will hear from heaven, and that voice is far more important than mine.”

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The anti-immigration president is now demanding that everyone leave Iran. Where exactly does he expect the more than 90 million people who live there to go?

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For ten minutes, Wilf Frost tried to get Shadow Home Sec Chris Philp to accept the rank hypocrisy in saying his party was totally right not to do something for 14 years AND Starmer totally wrong for not doing it sooner than six months. But it was like arguing with a tenacious parakeet. ~AA

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She hates him lmfao #NoKings

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Thought for the day ... "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." ~ George Orwell #NoKings

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💥 Explosions heard in Kyiv. Russia is attacking Ukraine’s capital with kamikaze drones

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Please enjoy this photo of our new kitten Bobby and our mostly confused dog Ralph

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Benefits reform must be pushed through, says UK PM. NO. Disability benefit cuts, two child benefit cap are cruel. Don't scapegoat the poor. How about cutting corporate welfare, profiteering? Decent pay reduces demand for benefits - 37% of universal credit claimants are in work.

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Windrush scandal victims got less compensation due to lack of legal advice funding, review finds. Similar pattern at the Post Office, infected blood and other scandals. Poor can't buy legal advice, bludgeoned into accepting low compensation, leaving injustice behind. Govt must provide it.

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Jacinda Arden on Trump, how to lead and Covid www.channel4.com/news/jacinda...

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Donald Trump repeats call for Russia to be readmitted at G7 summit in Canada

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Lee Anderson, never one to miss political scoring points, forgets he was part of the Tory government when they ignored multiple reports and recommendations around child grooming and exploitation Cooper reminds him.

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Trump with Mark Carney: "The G7 used to be the G8. Barack Obama and a person named Trudeau didn't want to have Russia in, and I would say that was a mistake, because I think you wouldn't have a war right now if you had Russia in."

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My god. Russia's Foreign Minister doesn't advocate on behalf of Putin as hard as Trump does.

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NEWS NATION: Your dad's financial disclosure says he had $57.7 million in income from your crypto company. So he does benefit financially. DON JR: But he doesn't touch it. That's all walled off. He doesn't get involved in that.

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Trump Calls Shooting Victims To Rant About Tim Walz

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Donald Trump just laid bare his real immigration plan: 1) Target blue cities 2) Inflame tensions, divide families and stir up more chaos 3) Placate the MAGA base at the expense of our economy. Trump’s extreme policies are tearing the country apart and bad for America.

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NEW: Making false claims about illegal voting by noncitizens, President Donald Trump ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to target the “core of the Democrat Power Center.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Trump Condemns Vance Boelter’s Incomplete Hit List

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American Bar Association sues to block Trump's attacks on law firms reut.rs/3SWHz09

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Trump again takes Putin’s side at the G7 (and has his facts wrong)

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Trump just openly endorsed "remigration," the vile goal of white nationalist extremists, and media yawned. On the pod, @willsommer.bsky.social is just fascinating on this idea and on the violent lawlessness and sadism at the core of MAGA. Don't miss this one: newrepublic.com/article/1968...

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Today marks nine years since Jo Cox MP was murdered by a far-right extremist while serving her constituents in Batley and Spen. Jo dedicated her life to building a fairer, more compassionate society, and her belief that “we have more in common than that which divides us” continues to resonate.

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Don Jr: "The radical transgender movement is per capita the most violent domestic terror threat if not in America, probably the entire world."

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Was waiting for this: Heart's Nancy Wilson calls out Trump for blasting "Barracuda" during his military parade. A “powerful piece of music that was never intended for political use" and used "without permission or authorization from us." www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...

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