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I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

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There’s an Icelandic way of saying of “I’m gonna kick your arse” that translates to “I will take you to the bakery.” A Hungarian version is “you’re prying open the lid of the slap-crate.” And the most colourful threat I’ve come across in Urdu… “my foot is in your butt’s destiny”

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If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

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January 6th 2021 was the day.

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"“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” said Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, in a statement to the university" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

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It is legally impossible to deport citizens. This is not deportation. Removing citizens to foreign prisons, knowing to a certainty that they will be subjected to treatment that violates the U.S. constitution, doesn’t deserve any label that connotes legal legitimacy.

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Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

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Guy who claims to be a master dealmaker can’t even strike a deal with one of his closest allies to secure the return of a man he mistakenly sent to prison?

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Thousands of heart attacks or strokes could be prevented and lives saved with a combination of two cheap drugs, a study suggests.

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Trump has 5 different sorts of tariff - with different levels of negotiability: 1) instrumental tariffs (deportation/fentanyl) 2) geostrategic (China mainly, but also Canada and Mexico) 3) sectoral ( reshoring) 4) reciprocal ( getting countries to grovel for deals) 5) baseline (revenue raisers)

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More success in the NHS as the Feb 2025 data is released. - waiting lists down for the 6th month in a row - 3.1m additional appointments delivered in 8 months (target was 2m in 12 months) - cancer diagnostic / all clear target met in 80.2% of cases - up on previous months Thank you Labour!

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Trump just shut down the DOJ's unit that investigates crypto fraud. Remember: Trump and his inner circle stand to profit from their crypto investments and a proposed national crypto reserve — while taxpayers could be left holding the bag. It's a new Golden Age for corruption.

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President Macron, "The reality is that you have 2 million people trapped in Gaza" "The legitimate right of the Palestinian people to have a State, a territory, and to live in peace"

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⚡️Russia attacks Mykolaiv with drones, residential buildings on fire. “As a result of the attack with Shaheds on Mykolaiv, a fire broke out in two residential buildings,” Governor Vitalii Kim said.

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New York! 😳 Fifth Avenue is filled. Trump will hate this 🎉 #HandsOff #FiftyFiftyOne #HandsOff2025

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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

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Salt Lake City showed up

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Blimey. The Boston Anti-Trump Protest

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NEW: Incredible scenes in Washington DC now. Tens of thousands on the National Mall for the #HandsOff protest against Trump & Musk. There must be over a million people protesting across every US state today. #FiftyFiftyOne #HandsOff2025 (🎥 Alejandro Alvarez)

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The number of wounded from the missile strike on Kryvyi Rih has risen to 72. Nearly half are hospitalized, with 17 in critical condition. 19 people were killed, 9 of them children.

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The clearest formulation of the Trump administration pitch to the average American I can articulate is: "You should accept an indeterminate but significant amount of economic pain short term, and higher prices and less choice long term, in order to live in a country that has more factories in it."

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Farage and Trump’s friend busy bombing children.

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I've written a book that is a set of spiky dialogues between a king and a tutor to show how powerful people can justify brutal, total, murderous rule. Available online Blackwells.

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1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

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Israel is heavily bombing central Gaza right now horrific videos on x. Palestinians have no dome, no airforce, no radar defence, no tanks, Just trapped civilians forced from the north and south to be kettled and bombed by Israel with US weapons.

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We've been talking an awful lot about how the Trump tariffs will hit the big players: the UK, China, Canada, France, Germany etc But it's time to talk about the ones who DON'T have loud voices. Because some of the poorest countries in the world are going to be crippled by what happened last night

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I fear that this is true and has a chance of succeeding.

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