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now this is the anecdote of the day

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Apparently the Trump administration doesn't want to know anything about the weather anymore www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

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It is important to understand what a complete and unqualified failure Elon Musk and DOGE has been. (📸 Wall Street Journal)

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74% of EU citizens think that their country benefits from EU membership. And for a number of years every single UK poll has shown a majority now want to return to the EU #RejoinEU www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 Trump administration warns China against retaliatory tariffs, but Beijing ignores warning, - CNN Washington insisted that Xi Jinping personally request a meeting with Trump. However, the morning began without any signals from Beijing - no request for a meeting, no attempt to soften rhetoric.

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🇨🇳❗️🇺🇦 ~200 Chinese mercenaries are fighting against Ukraine, - Reuters 🤔 US officials say they’re poorly trained and have minimal impact. Chinese officers have been observing the war from behind Russian lines and even visiting the front to draw tactical lessons.

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Not sure what kind of a deal we’d get with the US, but if it undermines our own industries, lowers our standards or risks undoing progress with the EU… then it won’t be worth it. Particularly as - like a house in an earthquake zone - it could collapse at any moment. Good letter in The Times.

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Janet Yellen, former US Treasury Secretary on Trump's tariffs, "This is the worst self inflicted wound that I have ever seen an administration impose on a well functioning economy" "Tariffs will cost average households $4,000 a year"

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'Pull your socks up Prime Minister! Abandon the timidity - it's time to soften Brexit.' It's time someone told those who were 'completely wrong' about leaving the EU to 'shut up and sit down', says @mrjamesob.bsky.social with urgency, in light of Trump's tariffs and market instability.

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"This is what arbitrary, absolute power looks like. And this is why the men who wrote the Constitution never wanted anyone to have it" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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🚨Every word of this from AOC. "If people are pissed about insider trading here at the House, look at what's happening at the White House.” (🎥 NY1)

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Federal spending is up under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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This is how Kaganovich talked about Stalin.

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Just to be clear, this post earlier is now a crime 👇

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why is every newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been. What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.

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🚨When the stock market was deep in the red yesterday, Majorie Taylor Greene bought tens of thousands in stock. Trump then paused tariffs & she made thousands in profit. Stories that start like this have ended in prison for others.

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New voter just dropped: Dead Man www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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frankly delighted to have got to use "git gud" in copy

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The White House. The actual White House. This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.

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furious at how perfect this column is, wish I could be happy for Duncan but unfortunately I'm simply seething at how good he is

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Left: Keir Starmer, "Trump's tariffs are not good news.. The world is changing, and we as a country must change with it" Right: The elephant in the room which Labour ignore against the national interest, the EU Single Market, which provides stability for growth, and by staying out costs us 5% GDP

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Feels almost cruel to point out that all the bollocks about our 10% tariffs being a 'Brexit benefit' lasted for about four days. But here we are...

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Just the UK Labour party gaslighting the nation by talking about the 'national interest' While ignoring the largest free trading market on our doorstep, the European Union and it's Single Market

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Lots of differences but the similarity with Truss is that a lot of the market response is less about the specific event and more the realisation that these people really are total clowns and there's no clever plan behind the public statements of blathering ignorance.

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Don’t overthink this. He’s asking for bribes.

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Remember Trump is using emergency legislation for the tariffs. So the measures that were urgent and necessary to meet that emergency have now suddenly become non-urgent and unnecessary. If US congress and courts properly held president to account for misuse of emergency powers, this would matter.

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Think about what kind of person you have to be to lie about sending someone to a torture prison for life based on nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Following John Bolton’s criticism of Trump as someone who’s “one immutable focus is himself” @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk is looking at the interplay between the personal and the political.

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China continues trolling the US with new videos. Here’s one - “US sweatshop factory”

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The British government doesn’t get it. Brexit was the first step in the populist crapshow that has weakened Europe as a whole vis a vis Trump and Putin. Reducing the harm of Brexit is the first step to Europe recovering

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“A situation in which the occupant of the White House can make such momentous changes on his own, unchecked, reflects serious political decay in American politics.” Holding out for some dismal deal with Trump will not be worth the very high price we’ll all pay for it. economist.com/by-invitatio...

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This reminds me of Brexit and “blue passports”

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Trump officials admitted to an “administrative error” when they deported Abrego Garcia — a legal resident with no criminal record. A judge ordered Garcia be returned, but Trump is fighting it in court. Garcia now sits in a prison in El Salvador. The cruelty is staggering.

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