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How Fox this morning frames Russia’s latest missile attacks against civilians: “Both sides now accusing each other of violating the 30-day cease fire agreement.”

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⚡️Russian attacks on Kherson kill 3, injure 2. Shelling in the city center killed a 62-year-old woman, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said. Two other Kherson residents, a 48-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman, died in the hospital after being injured in drone attacks.

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Chris Mullin in the Weekend FT

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Fun. But completely removed from reality.

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Have just turned on the TV and ex IEA chief Mark Littlewood - who now works for Liz Truss - is on the BBC talking about why Labour should revive Rwanda policy. Why is Littlewood still given airtime?

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⚡️Turkey to hold Black Sea security meeting with Russia and Ukraine. The meeting will focus on upholding peace in the Black Sea after a potential ceasefire, sources from Turkey's defense ministry told regional media outlets.

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Under the Trump budget plan just passed by Congress, a staggering 70% of House Republicans would personally financially benefit from extending major tax loopholes. More money for them, paid for by cuts to YOUR benefits.

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2025: Nigel Farage, "We've got the most expensive industrial electricity prices in the world" 2016: Daniel Hannan, "Outside the EU, our fuel bills will be cheaper"

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L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week. R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday. Putin’s stooge.

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Savings accounts, pensions, working class 401ks, all of these have been decimated by Trump. He is building policy off the crackpot ideas of one disgraced economist, Peter Navarro, and we are all paying the price. Watch @therickwilson.bsky.social here: t.co/CfwAJVZWOt

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Rachel Reeves says she will “secure an ambitious new relationship with the EU that deepens ties with our largest trading partners” But will it just tinker around the edges rather than make a real difference by aligning us with the Single Market and Customs Union? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Only 11% of England is built on - but land use is still a national concern. The government is preparing England’s first Land Use Strategy to balance housing, food, nature, and climate. What it’s about & have your say ⤵️ | Stephen McNair @eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

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They make tax fascinating!

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The ultra wealthy are building bunkers to insulate themselves from the world they're rapidly destroying. It's why we have to work together because it really is a 0.1% vs the 99.9% situation www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

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⚡️A Russian missile strike killed at least 20 people in the city of Sumy on the morning of Palm Sunday, Sumy Mayor Artem Kobzar reported on April 13.

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Stephanie Ruhle, "Our allies are not rushing to partner with a US President who goes on TV saying they're all kissing my ass"

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This is how tariffs work. ..and now I want Crab Rangoon.

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Hi All, just released my free weekend update. Some historical analysis added to the mix today. We are now just over three years since the Russian full scale invasion was launched, and it often takes three years to understand what will determine the outcome of a war. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

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Before anyone starts quoting poll numbers in favour of nationalising British Steel, can I just remind us: The British public are in favour of nationalising most things. Unless they want to ban it. Those really are the only options they like on most issues.

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Just think about what this authoritarian coward is saying. He’s saying he has the power to deport people without any due process, but when it comes to bringing back the ones who were mistakenly deported, he says he’s utterly powerless. The courts must slap him hard.👇

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Shall we press into it, my friends, until the oligarchs tremble at our nonviolent crowds, and the power of our democratic message and unified voice?

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The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. But who benefits from those riches? Consider: the richest 10% of Americans hold nearly 70% of the nation’s wealth – while the bottom 50% hold just 3%. See the problem?

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The FBI has suspended an analyst on Kash Patel’s so-called enemies list after Patel told lawmakers that the bureau under his leadership would stay out of the political fray and not punish employees for partisan reasons.

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First we'll kill all the subversives. Then we'll kill the collaborators. Then the sympathizers. Then the undecided. And finally, we'll kill the indifferent. ~ attributed to Argentinian General Iberico Saint-Jean after the US-backed coup in 1976.

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Trump surrenders again.

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⚡️4 people injured in Russian glide bomb attack on Kupiansk. Russian forces struck a private residence in Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, with a glide bomb on April 12, injuring four civilians and potentially trapping others beneath the rubble.

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There are a lot of "but what about my sector" posts which prove my point that the UK and other countries badly needs a debate on economic security.

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Americans used to call the Canadian dollar the "northern peso." At the rate it's falling now, Canadians will soon be calling the U.S. dollar the "southern ruble."

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More tariff exemptions. So again, the question: If tariffs are so great, why so many exemptions? www.mediaite.com/news/breakin...

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World class policy-making.

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If we don't turn our backs on the world, how do we face forward? I understand the sentiment, I just don't understand the geometry

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77 million people voted for deregulation (Trump). Did they know they were also voting for pollution, cancer, and climate chaos loved ones and future generations? We can now be poisoned on purpose—without a check.

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Badenoch now saying she WOULD HAVE negotiated it and it was going to be a beautiful deal, she doesn't say it, everyone says it. Also they had not agreed a price. 😂 Seriously, Tories, do something. You may think it's a laugh, but we actually need if not an effective opposition, at least a sane one.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has inadvertently hit Russia’s economy after his "Liberation Day" tariffs caused oil prices to drop drastically on April 7, with potentially massive ramifications for the Kremlin's ability to fund its ongoing war in Ukraine.

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A reminder that it was Brexit which stuffed British steel. And thatcher stuffed British coal - Thatcher who Farage loves. Farage feasting on grievances having ensured this catastrophe! youtu.be/U-iGG4ffrVQ?...

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Commerce Sec Lutnick promised Chinese jobs "screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones” would be moved here. Treasury Sec Bessent said American dream was not cheap "flatscreens" And yet here we are: first China tariff exemptions are for iPhones & flatscreens www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/t...

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I did a video with @vanityfair.com about Trump and tariffs

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After exemptions the only tariff on China that remains is on Chinese tooth picks, that’ll show ‘em!

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Man our failure to do any productive public investment during an entire decade of negative real interest rates is going to look awfully foolish in hindsight.

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Corn now exempt from corn law tariff.

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We had trade agreements around the world. We broke them. Now we have to renegotiate, in a rush, without expertise, with countries who know their interests and who cannot trust us. Here’s how that puts America First. by Peter Navarro

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Who saw that coming..

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So much “winning”

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MTG is the dumbest person on the planet.. except when it comes to the stock market? 🤔

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Too many people within New York politics seem to think there is no choice between the field and Andrew Cuomo or Cuomo, Adams or Sliwa, and I'd just like to say that plenty of other viable candidates on the Democratic ballot would be far better mayors than any of those 3 men.

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