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“Steadily the US has taken ownership of thousands of British businesses while in our daily lives we have become dependent on US suppliers” - Trump often says other countries are ripping off America but in the UK at least US private equity firms are taking us over! www.bigissue.com/opinion/brit...

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The National Trust has five times the membership of all the political parties combined. If you think it's got it wrong, you're going to lose your shit over British politics.

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This will probably come as no surprise to anyone but..

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Meanwhile we’re too chicken shit to retaliate with tariffs on th US because we’ve isolated ourselves from everyone and have no leverage whatsoever. For the love of God let’s stop pussy footing around and get to work reversing Brexit so we can have all this too 👇

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Add Australia to the list of countries where Tesla sales are sliding www.businessinsider.com/tesla-sales-...

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Rep Jamie Raskin is encouraging all US citizens to file demands for access to their personal data obtained by DOGE. DC U.S. District Court issued an injunction ordering DOGE to comply with citizen requests under FOIA. Fillable Privacy Act request form HERE. s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ak-raskin/im...

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Wild scenes out of Argentina as protesters are clashing with the police. Cops have deployed water cannons, tear gas, and are shooting people with rubber bullets. President Javier Milei has slashed pension funds, inflation is over 23%, and over 50% of people live in poverty.

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important thread about Georgia #GeorgiaProtests where people have been fighting for true independence from Russia for years and directly protesting for democracy on the streets of their land for every one of the 135 days since Putin's puppets Georgian Dream rigged the elections last November

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In this global political turmoil, a world that feels like a parallel universe, there’s little space or attention for #Georgia, a country of just 3 million. It’s time to change that. Here’s a brief yet extensive take on it: 🧵

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PATHETIC @bankofengland.bsky.social Pathetic.

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Russia would ‘absolutely’ break ceasefire – ex-Nato commander www.channel4.com/news/russia-...

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Just saying that France shares a border with Canada. Has to count for something.

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The Employment Rights Bill will strengthen statutory sick pay, end exploitive zero-hour contracts and end unscrupulous fire and rehire tactics. This really is tremendous

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If you can hurt Tesla sales, then you hurt Elon in the pocketbook, which hurts Trump, which hurts the Republican Party, which in turn hurts Russia. #ResistTrump

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"The UK's response (to tariffs) must be to deepen ties with the EU which independent research shows will not only shield the UK and Europe from Trump's tariffs, but deliver significant economic growth across Britain." Naomi Smith - Best for Britain CEO🇪🇺 www.bestforbritain.org/uk_must_resp...

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🚨 PMQs 🚨 Our research shows that the best way to deal with Trumpian tariffs is deeper alignment with the EU on goods and services. Boosting the UK (up to 2.2% of GDP) and EU economies and shielding us both from the effects of punitive Trump tariffs.

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Trump's attacks on the Department of Education should remind us never to elect to high office anyone without a stake in society. We suffered the same in the UK from 2010, when people who used private healthcare and private schools ripped up public services.

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The captain of a cargo ship arrested after a collision with a tanker in the North Sea is a Russian national. The tanker was carrying 220,000 barrels of aviation fuel to be used by the US military. A criminal investigation has been launched.

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Just on this not only is the chainsaw thing crass etc it’s also really really bad / ineffective messaging. Anyone who thinks it makes sense for a Labour government to associate themselves with Milei / M*sk - I mean - at this stage - has completely lost their mind.

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AUSTRALIA RESPONDS TO US TARIFFS As Warran Buffett said: Tariffs is an act of war.

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The EU retaliates. Meanwhile, maybe the UK will write a letter to Trump asking him not to be mean to us… cos “special relationship”… yawn. Brexit continues to weave its idiotic magic, turning our ‘sovereignty’ into simpering powerlessness. How ridiculous and ruinous those ‘red lines’ have become.

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When it comes to EU Member State non-papers, always look at the number of signatories. 20 is significant and very hard for the Commission to ignore. Deeper UK-EU security cooperation is on the way, and trade ties will follow. (from FT Europe Express)

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He was a few months ahead of himself.

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From this morning’s FT. It should be illegal for political parties or individual politicians to accept funds from foreign sources. Give me a single reason why not?

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All the news about the ceasefire appears to come down to the simple fact that Ukraine refused to be bullied into surrender by Trump. And from that defiance, this has followed. Slava Ukraini

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Not something I ever thought I’d say, but it’s the customs agents I feel sorry for. Dave what’s the tariff on this steel now? - 25%, I think Still? - maybe it’s 50% now. Check Twitter and see if it’s changed will you? - It says here it’s 3400% unless Canadians buy 100 Teslas by Thursday. 🤦‍♂️

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Just spent day reading about the collapse of the British car industry. The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on ‘world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations. And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.

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One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ? They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses. That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue. The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

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Wow! The number of @bsky.app users just passed 33 MILLION!!! 👏 LETS DO THIS!!

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I want this to happen just to piss off Dan Hannan.

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The Grifter-In-Chief is using the White House as a backdrop for a Tesla commercial to help boost Elon’s failing company. This is corruption in broad daylight.

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Trumpnomics in action again He’s such a very stable genius winning bigly

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Shock.

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I imagine the head of marketing at Tesla today had a really bad day. "more nazi branding was not what we were hoping for" But they've all been selling stock so they know what's up.

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⚡️Russia will not agree to a 30-day ceasefire because it will just enable Ukraine to regroup and rearm - Russian MP Viktor Sobolev. He added that a temporary ceasefire is unacceptable and only plays into Ukraine's hands.

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🚨🚨 Breaking news; US will resume intelligence sharing and military assistance with Ukraine, on the condition of a thirty day immediate interim ceasefire and on Russian acceptance of the deal. /1 www.state.gov/joint-statem...

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Watching Michael Gove at the COVID Inquiry today. The DHSC paid Meller Designs £12.64 per gown when the going rate at that time was £5.87 per gown.

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While I understand the distress of Amess's daughter, I also feel that, given her father's own party in gov't refused an inquiry twice, to zero coverage, there is something performative about hiring a PR agency to attack a Labour gov't of 7 months for "a cover-up". It pushes hard against my sympathy.

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Morning Bluesky. The first big sign that Orban’s Fidesz is in trouble in Hungary. Big swing to Peter Magyar’s TISZA. Maybe Trump really is poisoning the well for Far Right demagogues.

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The Hungarian MCC think tank is paid dividends by a company that makes money selling Russian oil

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Trump can surround himself with statues of history’s statesmen but it will never make him one. A petulant orange fool in a baseball cap, lashing out at opponents, betraying his country’s allies and helping Putin in his murderous plans for Ukraine. An international disgrace. (Letter, Times)

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Much has been said about this post, but it's also interesting for non-obvious reasons. His first person language — "my Starlink system" and "if I turned it off" — is extremely telling. We rarely see him speak so plainly about his unilateral power like this.

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