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I predict Liz Truss will not in fact emigrate to Orban's Hungary. It would be an utterly untrue & ludicrous argument that she could not make this identical speech to a CPAC meeting in London. It is the sort of risible argument that a radicalised ecosystem may well propagate & defend.

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‘Something had been loosened worldwide,” Ardern says, with rage everywhere, public servants being followed and attacked, as if they were “somehow distinct from being human” www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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"The US is now claiming that if you’re on the internet and using a service provided by a US tech company then Donald Trump sets the rules. The US is quietly declaring sovereignty over cyberspace and expecting the world to acquiesce, making an unprecedented digital landgrab in the name of freedom."

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Could it possibly be that it has only been men who have tried to explain this to me and I am simply reporting on realities of my experience on social media? No of course I obviously just hate men

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Apparently states’ rights stop the moment women board a plane with autonomy in their carry-on.

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If the Tories want to start winning back the professional middle classes, they should start by pledging to fix olive oil prices.

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Morning on the Seine, Clear Weather - 1897 #artbots #monet https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10721

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Transport for London has blocked adverts from running on the tube that urge people to lobby their MP to vote to decriminalise abortion — because they may bring the Metropolitan Police into disrepute. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Closer UK/ EU links slowly gain public approval. Media and government haven't caught up. The summit was a start, but reconciliation is a complex process when each side has a different view. Read Jenny Rhodes' monthly UK/EU round-up ⤵️

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President Macron, "If we abandon Gaza, if we consider there is a free pass for Israel, even if we do condemn the terrorist attacks, we kill our own credibility with the rest of the world' "We do have to work very hard for the recognition of a Palestinian state"

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The Right Wing Hate Speech Religious Fundamentalists who fund transphobic activism in the UK are now pivoting to anti-abortion activism. As we always said they would - because their agenda of policing patriarchal norms is the same. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

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🔴NEW:The dark money behind UK's anti-abortion backlash - Key US anti‑abortion lawyer funding Toby Young’s Free Speech Union - Alliance Defending Freedom’s UK spending soars Warnings of “obvious danger” of “importing America's toxic far right politics” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...

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something so troubling and so scary about this front page image.

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Mayors in states that border Canada are calling for an end to President Donald Trump’s trade war with the country, saying it has harmed businesses and workers in their communities and upended one of the world’s most successful economic relationships.

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For JD Vance, "immigrant" and "servant" are synonyms.

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In Warrington, Keir Starmer condemned Reform UK’s economic proposals as reckless and unserious, comparing them to the Truss'. He described Farage as a dangerous charlatan trading in division and economic vandalism, not serious leadership. #ukpolitics

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Lindsey Graham says the Senate will start moving sanctions against Russia next week. “We're going to change that game for Russia. The game that Putin's been playing is about to change. He's going to be hit and hit hard by the United States when it comes to sanctions.”

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We were so close to eradicating HIV in our lifetimes. I will never get over the cruelty & hate.

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In the alleged Land of the Free, your failure to have a social media account, or your decision to keep that account private, can and will be used against you. No Facebook, Insta, or X account? You're probably hiding something, according to the Trump admin, so maybe no visa for you.

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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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I represent Silicon Valley. There are more billionaires here than anywhere else on Earth. If I am saying “Tax the Billionaires,” why is that such a hard vote for the rest of Congress?

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Wow, powerful stuff. So when did Elon turn around and take Trump to task for pardoning so many criminals?!

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Villas at Bordighera - 1884 #artbots #monet https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10060

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It's about fucking time. I have to go privately to get my breasts checked for cancer. It's astonishing to me that there is no understanding in the UK that preventative medicine, can actually save more lives and money... www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Make AI Hallucinate Again.

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Not been well this week & have been thinking about my value as a disabled (autism+ADHD+PMDD) human & been comparing myself to others (never good). When I feel low I make miniature posies. I’ve been mocked for them before but they lift my mood-I hope this one lifts yours. Maybe a small life is ok…

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Trump’s weird magical language around making things sound “official” is so boomer coded

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Fontainebleau Forest - 1863/1865 #artbots #monet https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/6648

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President Trump on Thursday nominated Paul Ingrassia, a former far-right podcast host now serving as the White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, to a new key role: head of the Office of Special Counsel, which examines public corruption.

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Lutnick on Fox News tonight claimed Trump has "$10 trillion coming to build factories in America." (The entire GDP of the US is under $28 trillion, so this is as ridiculous of a lie as you'll ever hear)

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I don’t think we need any more white male presidents. This is the last one. I’ve seen enough.

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Path of the Swallows, 2023 by UK painter Emma Haworth #WomensArt

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Confirmed - Radisson Hotels say they're pulling their ads from the GB News website following our joint action with @goodlawproject.bsky.social 👏👏👏 A huge thank you to the 6,000 people who have already taken action - let's keep this going! goodlaw.social/sfh

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these visuals hardly do it justice, but just staggering to contemplate this scale of destruction. An estimated 60 percent of all buildings destroyed; 90 percent of housing gone. 90 percent of the population -- 1,900,000 people -- displaced www.bbc.com/news/world-m...

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Dismay as UK prepares to sign ‘values-free’ £1.6bn trade deal with Gulf states

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Allister, what have you been inhaling? Nigel Farage IS the establishment. Privately educated at Dulwich College, former commodities broker. A man rich enough to argue about having an account at Coutts. Elected as an MEP in 1999, leader of UKIP, the Brexit Party, Reform Party, current MP for Clacton.

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Reform supporter Tim Montgomerie says Reforms numbers don't need to add up now because we are 4 years away from the next general election #BBCQT It's sound just like Brexit, promise voters everything, and deliver them the opposite 🤷‍♂️

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Dude was born in Cambridge and went to Harvard.

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I try to cope with the Horrors but every day there's at least one story that just fills me with an overwhelming sense of dread

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Lady with magenta hair, "It it the case that Reform will say whatever is popular to get the vote" "With no backing, with no numbers" "This is what Nigel Farage does in every campaign" Yes - see Brexit #BBCQT

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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

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FOX BIZ: Could you explain the administration's justification of economic emergency invocation on dolls and Wayfair furniture and Lululemon yoga pants. That's gonna be a hard sell to a court. NAVARRO: Let's take the fentanyl issue first FOX BIZ: I said Lululemon and Wayfair

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It’s just one of the many exciting ways Republicans plan to kill us.

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NEW: The Trump administration misleads the Supreme Court in the fight over its effort to send migrants to South Sudan, with a brief undercut by the judicial record as well as flight-tracking data reviewed by Rolling Stone.

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The only acceptable answer here should have been "absolutely not"

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Can’t read stories about the Trump tariff authority ruling without thinking of Handforth parish council clerk’s infamous quote: “You have no authority here Jackie Weaver, no authority at all” m.youtube.com/watch?v=l17U...

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“If universities start to fail, it will be disastrous for Labour MPs and their constituents. It would be the modern equivalent of the factory closure, or the end of the pit. “And despite how some Labour MPs seem to imagine their voters, it would be Labour’s core supporters who were most affected.”

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Amazing. Right out in the open: "universities are free to do research as long as they're sympathetic to the administration." I want to personally play this clip in the face of every fucking clown who spent the last several years pretending that the left is the "real" threat to free speech.

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My @newstatesman.com piece on why the return of Boris Johnson would not save the Tories. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

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Labour government policies have led to losses of more than £1bn from the HE sector since it came to power in July, new analysis suggests. It comes as @politicshome.bsky.social understands there is concern in the sector over the direction of HE reforms www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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