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You can see why Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks felt paying £10m+ to Prince Harry was cheap to avoid three months of these headlines. Met’s statement shows they couldn’t be less interested in reopening criminal case and money largely shut down media coverage. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

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Trump here, treating the Pope's funeral as a sort of Spring Break/Business Summit. "Some of you are going to go. Anybody going? It's going to be very interesting. AWe're going to meet with a lot of the foreign leaders. They want to meet. Trade deals are going very well." ~AA

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Last month, I wrote that "it's never been easier to steal secrets from the United States government. Can you even call it stealing when it’s this simple?" I worry I may have understated my case. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/o...

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Reuters published the full text of Trump's peace plan,which was reportedly presented at a meeting in Paris by US envoy Witkoff The proposals are as follows: ◾️permanent ceasefire along the front line;⤵️

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A new article estimates that even a 10% DECLINE in MMR vax coverage in the US could lead to 11 MILLION US measles cases over 25 years. IF instead MMR coverage INCREASES by 5%, cases would falled to <10K. Given infectiousness of Measlies, it's VITAL to ⬆️ MMR vax rates. Measles info below 1/2

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President Trump has personally ordered the Justice Department to open an investigation of Democrats' primary ways for raising donations. It is the third time he has personally ordered an open-ended criminal investigation, each against a perceived political foe. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Trump’s first-term pick to run the National Science Foundation quits in frustration: ‘I have done all I can’

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This is one of best FT Big Reads I can recall. Kudos to @robinwigglesworth.ft.com and co-authors

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President Macron reacted to massive Russian attack of Ukraine. He said that while Putin says to the whole world "I want peace," he continues to bomb Ukraine. "The only thing to do is for Putin to finally stop lying. America's anger must be directed at only one person, president Putin,"he said

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Trump, asked about China’s denial of trade talks: “Well, they had a meeting this morning.” Reporter: “Who's they?” Trump: “I can't tell you. It doesn't matter who ‘they’ is.” @calltoactivism.bsky.social

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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

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Walz: "This is how government is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be one old man in the Oval Office sending out middle of the night tweets that shock markets into free fall. It's not supposed to be a bunch of 20 somethings unelected and firing everyone. It's not supposed to be chaos."

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Trump is lying about egg prices

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This is probably the biggest investigation* ever done on a house in the Omaze prize draw, taking in Napoleon III, odds of winning, manifestation meditations, some influencers, and a councillor buying tickets to win an ex-council house they sold. www.londoncentric.media/p/omaze-lond... *yes, I know

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Proper "I'm on live TV" moment this morning when I was talking about how well the pope looked and sounded yesterday only for the presenter to interrupt us to announce that the pope, had in fact, just died

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Despite there being mounting evidence of Brexit being a monumental exercise only in self-harm… We continue down this ridiculous road because politicians are too scared to re-open the debate.

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"U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday" www.reuters.com/world/us/def...

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Last week I flew to Chile to meet the wife and baby daughter of one of the Venezuelan migrants thrown in jail in El Salvador after being deported by Trump - a talented singer called Arturo Suárez. “If something happens to my husband, I will hold Trump & Bukele responsible,” she told me 💔

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Russian student Daria Kozyreva, 19, was sentenced to almost three years in Russian prison last week. She was punished for taping a paper with poems by Taras Shevchenko (a Ukrainian poet) to Shevchenko's monument in Russia on the anniversary of the war. In her last word, Daria said:⤵️

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What happens to people when researchers encourage them to deactivate Facebook or Instagram for a few weeks in the lead up to an election? People get modestly* happier/less depressed/less anxious. "The Facebook effect is driven by people >35, while the Instagram effect is driven by women <25."

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Beautiful. Like an anxiety dream in which your idol tells you that you suck, but real and directed at one of the world’s worst people

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For those who don't know, driving an 18-wheeler is the #1 job in more than half of all states. The will turn into a sort of kitchen table calamity the likes of which this country has never known. Also, because so many of them are technically self-employed, their access to benefits will be minimal.

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🔴The Sheer Scale of the COVID ‘VIP Lane’ PPE Scandal Has Still Not Been Revealed Five Years On New evidence published by the COVID Inquiry suggests that at least 20 more politically-connected suppliers received contracts worth £1 billion bylinetimes.com/2025/04/16/c...

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If there was any argument about the value of something like the ECHR, the Trump admin’s contempt of its own courts is reminder of the value of a higher body. And no, I don’t think there’s anything special about the British that means we’re immune from fascism.

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We study this stuff at school & college. The judiciary's unique role in preventing the executive from riding roughshod over laws & populations. But I'm not sure we in the 'West' ever expected to live through its most urgent implementations. The thing you don't realise in class is how brave it is.

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Just to be clear, the benefits of a UK trade deal with the US would be trivial compared to the benefits of removing trade barriers with our European allies.(Based on government figures.) Post Trump #tariffs, this will hold, because the UK exports much more to the EU than the US.

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“The public expect Starmer to be more ambitious in recalibrating the UK’s relationship with the EU. If he is not prepared to do that now, when the atmospherics are what they are and the entire world order has been turned upside-down, maybe we have to accept he is just not going to do it.”

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Russia has asked the US to let it buy Boeing aircraft using money from frozen assets,-Bloomberg US lawmakers have estimated there are about $5billion of Russian assets in the US.A deal allowing the purchase of jets could form part of an easing of sanctions in the event there's a ceasefire in Ukraine

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This did not age well. Ted, we hardly knew ye.

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Scoop for @reuters.com: On Friday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to staff cuts at the CDC. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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Morning. Yes, the Telegraph really did publish this yesterday afternoon.

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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue BECAUSE I BELIEVE…this clip can’t be shown too much. Because I believe that news commentators like @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com and @maddow.msnbc.com are an endangered species. Because I believe that the Truth is the Truth, and does not change.

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Referring to citizens as “home-growns” while asking a foreign country known for prisons that operate like black sites to build more of those prisons so he can send those “home-growns” is fascist stuff and it needs to be called as such.

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MORGAN STANLEY: “.. Investors should prepare to be fooled many more times. If a master plan exists, .. it's unlikely to work in the way the US administration envisions.”

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1. A full time worker doing 40hrs a week on the new increased £12.21/hr minimum wage would earn just over £25,000. 2. The Plan 5 student loan repayment threshold (ie English students who started uni since 2023) is £25,000 and is frozen until 2027 contd

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Extremely honored to join @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social on Posting Through It Listen to our discussion of Trump's hellish prison partnership with El Salvador's Nayib Bukele here ⬇️ postthroughit.substack.com/p/014-judici...

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It's not being talked about enough that the Trump administration is actively committing hundred of counts of crimes against humanity and bragging about it on television

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I think the world has been over-estimating Trump's negotiating ability. And we thought it was pretty poor.

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The S&P 500 recovered btw 👍

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the President firing the two Democratic FTC officials was like a forty second news cycle

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That’s exactly right - fossil gas sets the price of all electricity, even from the wind and sun - this is what I’m talking about when I argue for ‘breaking the link’ - it’s an absurd market mechanism that enriches generators at the expense of the whole country. 1/2

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Sam Coates: "We should all be coke dealers now, frankly." ~AA

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