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#StandingStoneSunday at Stanton Drew circles

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#standingstonesunday with @bridgesvictoria.bsky.social at the Cove in the garden of the Druids Arms in Stanton Drew

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I mean three months. Anyone would thow in the towel ... "Mr. Rubio said Mr. Trump “has spent 87 days at the highest level of this government repeatedly making efforts to bring this war to an end. We are now reaching a point when we need to decide and determine whether this is even possible or not.”

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An unserious process heads to its unserious conclusion… news.sky.com/story/ukrain...

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We’ve gone from the war will be over in a day to this….

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Wow. The International Criminal Court has opened proceedings against Hungary for failing to comply with the Court's request to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and surrender him to the Court, and invited Hungary to provide submissions by 23 May 2025.

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Espionage. 🧵

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You just know that beneath some of this Harvard nonsense, the golfer and his little henchman are just mad they didn’t go to Harvard.

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Breakdown of what just happened. Judge Boasberg 1) Finds probable cause of Trump officials' criminal contempt of his order to turn back flights. 2) Gives USG opportunity to "purge" the contempt. 3) If not and if DOJ will not prosecute, he "will appoint another attorney to prosecute the contempt."

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JUST IN: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold administration in contempt of court for defying his order to turn around planes, demands new details in order for officials to “purge” their contempt. Details TK

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Tesla's shares of EVs sold in California has dropped to 43.9%, down from 55.5% a year ago. @karacarlson.bsky.social and @danahull.bsky.social have more here > www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Among other things in this insane wsj article, Elon hits up women on DMs to have his babies, of which he seems to have dozens. He sets them up with money partly structured as loans. He has a compound in TX where he wants each mom/kids to live in separate residences. Kids are called his “legion”.

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UPDATE: It happened. In an 11:15 meeting, employees were told that the office has been eliminated and their positions will be terminated.

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The Trump administration have only ever used coercive instruments to try to force Ukraine to capitulate - because an actual negotiation would require Russia to make concessions, and they demonstrably do not want that. But yet again, they over-estimated the US's coercive power.

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Members of leading British Jewish body condemn Israel’s latest actions in Gaza

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In new Economist/YouGov weekly track Trump's job approval is 42%-52%, down 16 pts (!!!!!) from week 1. And..... 18-29 33%-54% (-21) Hisp 25%-71% (-46) !!!!!!! Indies 32%-56% (-24)

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I think having a harem is sexist and betrays poor values and a corrupt worldview. www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

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As you read NYT story describing the inevitable problems in Trump's extortion of law firms, worth reading this amicus brief in Perkins Coie about all the ethical problems the arrangements create. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jesus, Elon Musk is a creepy fucker

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It's now been over a month since Trump sent innocent man Andry Hernández to one of the world's worst prisons because of "Mom" and "Dad" tattoos. Like the others, he is being imprisoned with no contact with the outside world. Don't let him be forgotten.

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This is surely the fastest a headline question has ever been answered.

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A right wing propganda site and two Christian broadcasters. Expecting a lot of speaking truth to power (not)

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Journalism historians may someday conclude that the White House Correspondents Association's statements were an insufficient response to Trump's ban on the AP.

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A thousand pound squid! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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This.

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I wrote about foreign academics being in danger in the US last week. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att... This week the Canadian Association of University Teachers advised against non-essential US travel. I meet 2 criteria - never thought I'd be scared to go to the US. horrible.

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Reuters and Bloomberg out of permanent WH press pool. www.reuters.com/business/med...

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The White House has kicked global wire services Reuters and Bloomberg out of the permanent press pool. Trump isn’t keen on scrutiny.

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Meanwhile in Washington-on-Don. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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I only there ws a word for this kind of behaviour

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Trump to Fox on deporting Americans to a gulag in El Salvador: "We want to do it. I would love to do that."

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My dispatch from the Ukrainian city of Sumy, hit on Sunday by a Russian missile strike. Today the first victims, Viktor Boiko and his wife Olha, were buried. They were among 35 people killed when their bus was engulfed in shrapnel - "a mistake", according to Trump www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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As far as I'm aware, the first documented spike in data leaving an agency after DOGE infiltration. Extensive forensic evidence. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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“By continuing to punish Columbia even after the school gave in to its demands, the administration also appears to have overplayed its hand. If cooperation and even capitulation don’t get you anywhere, why should other universities give in?”

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Timothy Synder of autocracy's three tools open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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New DOGE-y acting head of foreign assistance at State Dept www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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New DOGE-y acting head of foreign assistance at State Dept www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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When Isaiah Berlin paraphrases Heinrich Heine the results are pretty powerful. I’d forgotten this passage from the opening of Two Concepts of Liberty (1958). ALT text may be easier to read.

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NEW | Reading Liz Truss in the Telegraph so you don’t have to… LOW TRUSS ECONOMY Could The Daily Telegraph save money by replacing Liz Truss with AI? brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/low-truss-...

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Trump's FCC chief: "Europe is caught a little bit between the US and China. And it’s sort of time for choosing" www.ft.com/content/0a08... Quite a serious mis-reading of the mood & misjudgment of the message.

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We are fortunate to have astute central planners penciling out the value of these critical goods out so that we are not at the mercy of capricious market forces. Believe in the five year plan.

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(Bloomberg) - The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products, adding to a growing list of headwinds keeping recession risk elevated. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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As we have all now seen that techno utopian more accurately parses as techno dystopian, I'm not sure why we need more pieces like this. Maybe they could all fuck off to Mars tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/m...

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Exclusive: The US has told G-7 allies it won’t endorse a statement condemning Russia’s deadliest attack on Ukraine this year

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