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Happy birthday, Hole

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Today's @usatoday.com front page First US death from measles in 10 years First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US All of this fully preventable

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15 March, the "Ides of March", when in, 44 BC, Julius Caesar was assassinate. "Beware the Ides of March" is from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Will the Orange Emperor last that long?

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The untold stories of Black Londoners who escaped slavery in the capital and joined free communities in the East End have been uncovered by researchers.

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Reading about the Rupert Murdoch family trust mess. My favorite anecdote is when Rupert’s lawyer cross-examined his son James, trying to get him to admit that his plans to make Fox News more honest would hurt its value because it’s business model was to just tell viewers what they wanted to hear. 👀

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Snouts in the trough

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Trump Team Weighs Pulling Funding for Moderna Bird Flu Vaccine And so it continues. Disinformation informing political decisions can be lethal. www.bloomberg.com/ne... 1/3

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Spain continues to show there is a better way on immigration, spending & more, & the economy is booming as a result. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"Russian intelligence operatives posing as fruit pickers are suspected of flying drones over UK military bases in a possible espionage operation. New details suggest Russian involvement in drone swarms over military airbases, with agents accused of assuming false identities."

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So... A) Austerity 2.0, tax and NI rises, cuts in foreign aid, ongoing disruption to intra-UK trade and trade with the EU. Or... B) Rejoin the EU. Feels like a no-brainer, don't you think?

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He's one of the biggest downsides I know. They will do well together.

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The SNP's Stephen Flynn calling Reform UK MPs what they are — #PutinsPoodles — in the House of Commons made my day. #SlavaUkraini

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Probably going to mute / block the provisional wing of the EU Brexit commentariat. Twenty replies saying "you left, don't dare return to Brussels except to beg for forgiveness" get rather tedious. As well as displaying flat earth qualities of their UK Brexit ultra friends. Many others already did.

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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

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Reality check. Thank you, Financial Times.

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Makes yer proud to be British

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The Lib Dems have been prepared to speak out against Trump and Musk, both of whom are deeply unpopular in the country so their surge perhaps isn’t surprising. To achieve a lasting surge they will need to communicate a radical and exciting vision for the country that touches a nerve with most people.

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🚜 Farmers hit back accusing Labour of being “determined to make the Tories’ Brexit work”. “They are aggressively trying to derail a legal challenge to the dreadful Australian trade deal which saw Boris Johnson famously ‘cede the whole kingdom over dinner.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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An important campaign to stop misleading the public about Physician Associates Any contributions will be helpful www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-mi...

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A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse. It’s disgusting & terrifying. And America has been here before.

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As the UK raises its defence spending stuartmcgurk.bsky.social investigates the £6bn splashed on two aircraft carriers. It's a monumental piece of reporting www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

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"There will be no cessation of hostilities in Ukraine along the line of contact. We have a constitution." - Lavrov.

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Here's a scene from Judgement at Nuremberg that covers what happened in Germmany when the Nazis decided to sterilise people who they didn't think were "worthy". (There's also a second part to the segment). To think that MAGA now considers doing the same thing is incredibly disturbing. #MAGAmerica

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Previously on Bylines Scotland...

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Musk posts: "Canada is not a real country" on his hate filled social media platform. He did this after thousands of Canadians signed a petition to revoke his Canadian citizenship. Don’t use ‘X’

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Henri Dresner, ten years old - one of an estimated 1.5 million children that fell victim to the Holocaust. Let's never forget.

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"The EU has a 'decisive role' to play in global development aid amid USAID’s sudden temporary shutdown, but it doesn’t have the means to go at it alone, France’s Development Minister Thani Mohamed-Soilihi told @euractiv.com" www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

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A couple of Kremlin disinformation websites targeting the US population. It'd be a shame if something happened to them. usa.news-pravda.com swentr.site

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The front page of the New York Times, July 31, 1965, showing LBJ signing the Medicare and Medicaid Act of 1965 into law in the presence of Harry Truman.

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Former Brexit Party MEP and ex-Reform Wales Leader, Nathan Gill has been arrested for taking "Russian-linked bribes" from Oleg Voloshyn. Here’s Nigel Farage with Voloshyn’s wife... #FuckFarage Edited version of @carolecadwalla.bsky.social BBC Article www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

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What an image.

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❗❗❗ former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Never forget Matt Hancocks actions during the pandemic Care home scandal PPE shortage Test & trace contracts to his mates Breaking lockdown rules Only giving nurses a 1% pay rise, which was actually a pay cut due to inflation, after everything they went through

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In view of this poll then I’m rather puzzled why Starmer isn’t being more ambitious on Youth Mobility. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/brexit/... #VoicesofLostFOM #SaveFOM

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So, Bill. Why did you vote for RKJr? You’re a physician, there is no excuse. You know how dangerous measles is despite all the MAGAts wittering on how it’s good to get parties it & planning measles. Children will die. This is on you.

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America, are you in a cult? Part 1/2

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Coming from a party that left the armed forces, police, the entire UK state teetering on a precipice, this is a sick joke

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Attempts are bring made to take this article off line….. We need to share and keep on sharing it. bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

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Good to be out with the crew in North Hants this morning. Plenty of local and national issues to the fore in these testing times........#LibDems

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Casually bringing this back… #OCanada 🍁

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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