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Oh excellent. Another think tank grifting for foreign money to buy our democracy and put Farage in No. 10 - via a pact with the unelectable Tory party, a manifesto modelled on Trump’s Project 2025 and the strong hope that - with helpful media cover - voters will be stupid enough to fall for it.
June 22, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Oh excellent. Another think tank grifting for foreign money to buy our democracy and put Farage in No. 10 - via a pact with the unelectable Tory party, a manifesto modelled on Trump’s Project 2025 and the strong hope that - with helpful media cover - voters will be stupid enough to fall for it.
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Really?🤦🏼♀️
These posts pop up periodically and are mind numbingly tedious.
Is TFL being “racist against white people” by offering an internship to those with a minority ethnic background?
Or is it possible there’s more to this than the screenshot and tweet suggest?🤷🏼♀️
🧵1/10
These posts pop up periodically and are mind numbingly tedious.
Is TFL being “racist against white people” by offering an internship to those with a minority ethnic background?
Or is it possible there’s more to this than the screenshot and tweet suggest?🤷🏼♀️
🧵1/10
June 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Really?🤦🏼♀️
These posts pop up periodically and are mind numbingly tedious.
Is TFL being “racist against white people” by offering an internship to those with a minority ethnic background?
Or is it possible there’s more to this than the screenshot and tweet suggest?🤷🏼♀️
🧵1/10
These posts pop up periodically and are mind numbingly tedious.
Is TFL being “racist against white people” by offering an internship to those with a minority ethnic background?
Or is it possible there’s more to this than the screenshot and tweet suggest?🤷🏼♀️
🧵1/10
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Should we follow Putin out of the ECHR?
Or is it just another Brexit where we give up our rights in the vain pursuit of making migrants disappear?
Or is it just another Brexit where we give up our rights in the vain pursuit of making migrants disappear?
June 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Should we follow Putin out of the ECHR?
Or is it just another Brexit where we give up our rights in the vain pursuit of making migrants disappear?
Or is it just another Brexit where we give up our rights in the vain pursuit of making migrants disappear?
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Júlia followed every rule, but the UK’s immigration system trapped her in bureaucratic limbo for 7 months. Now, she faces being forced to leave.
This is the reality of an immigration system that isn’t working. We can do better.
Read her full story: the3million.org.uk/julia-story
This is the reality of an immigration system that isn’t working. We can do better.
Read her full story: the3million.org.uk/julia-story
the3million | Júlia Story | Giving a voice to EU citizens in the UK
the3million.org.uk
June 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Júlia followed every rule, but the UK’s immigration system trapped her in bureaucratic limbo for 7 months. Now, she faces being forced to leave.
This is the reality of an immigration system that isn’t working. We can do better.
Read her full story: the3million.org.uk/julia-story
This is the reality of an immigration system that isn’t working. We can do better.
Read her full story: the3million.org.uk/julia-story
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Canada has shown the world how to stand up to the gangster regime.
The United States is losing $12.5 billion in travel as Trump turns them into an international pariah.
This is the "find out" phase of international relations.
Keep the boycott strong.
#FAFO
#elbowsup
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/t...
The United States is losing $12.5 billion in travel as Trump turns them into an international pariah.
This is the "find out" phase of international relations.
Keep the boycott strong.
#FAFO
#elbowsup
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/t...
As Foreign Tourists Stay Away, U.S. Could Lose $12.5 Billion This Year, Tourism Group Says
www.nytimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Canada has shown the world how to stand up to the gangster regime.
The United States is losing $12.5 billion in travel as Trump turns them into an international pariah.
This is the "find out" phase of international relations.
Keep the boycott strong.
#FAFO
#elbowsup
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/t...
The United States is losing $12.5 billion in travel as Trump turns them into an international pariah.
This is the "find out" phase of international relations.
Keep the boycott strong.
#FAFO
#elbowsup
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/t...
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A vote for Reform is not a vote for anything new, disruptive, or ground changing. It's not a vote for working class representation. It's a vote for Tories who left the Tory party because it wasn't cruel and nasty enough.
June 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
A vote for Reform is not a vote for anything new, disruptive, or ground changing. It's not a vote for working class representation. It's a vote for Tories who left the Tory party because it wasn't cruel and nasty enough.
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Holy crap that's fascinating. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
May 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Holy crap that's fascinating. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
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Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling
Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
www.npr.org
May 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
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We’ve asked Information Commissioner’s Office to investigate the health department's refusal to release information about KPMG's £8million Palantir contract
We will keep pushing this case - and many others
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May 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
We’ve asked Information Commissioner’s Office to investigate the health department's refusal to release information about KPMG's £8million Palantir contract
We will keep pushing this case - and many others
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Trump delays tariffs on EU until July 9th www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump extends deadline for EU trade deal until 9 July
Trump said he granted the request to extend the 1 June deadline after a
www.bbc.co.uk
May 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Trump delays tariffs on EU until July 9th www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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For the hard of thinking - Jill Biden holds a Doctorate in Education, not a medical degree.
May 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
For the hard of thinking - Jill Biden holds a Doctorate in Education, not a medical degree.
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I'm sorry,
Am I supposed to take the multiple adulterer who gave his protection detail the slip to attend an orgy in Italy hosted by the KGB seriously?
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Am I supposed to take the multiple adulterer who gave his protection detail the slip to attend an orgy in Italy hosted by the KGB seriously?
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Boris Johnson brands Starmer ‘the orange ball chewing gimp of Brussels’
Former PM criticises ‘appalling sell-out of a deal’ with EU
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I'm sorry,
Am I supposed to take the multiple adulterer who gave his protection detail the slip to attend an orgy in Italy hosted by the KGB seriously?
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Am I supposed to take the multiple adulterer who gave his protection detail the slip to attend an orgy in Italy hosted by the KGB seriously?
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Come for "the batshit signal", stay for the final line
VICTORY! DEFEAT! Unpleasant mental images! My SKETCH of Today in Let's Get Back Together And Brexit Again!
May 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Come for "the batshit signal", stay for the final line
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The hysterical reaction of certain commentators to today’s UK-EU agreement is something to behold.
The “surrender” of using e-gates when you go on holiday. The contempt for the “will of the people” of making education abroad more accessible. Rigorous debate is good. This nonsense is a waste of time.
The “surrender” of using e-gates when you go on holiday. The contempt for the “will of the people” of making education abroad more accessible. Rigorous debate is good. This nonsense is a waste of time.
May 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The hysterical reaction of certain commentators to today’s UK-EU agreement is something to behold.
The “surrender” of using e-gates when you go on holiday. The contempt for the “will of the people” of making education abroad more accessible. Rigorous debate is good. This nonsense is a waste of time.
The “surrender” of using e-gates when you go on holiday. The contempt for the “will of the people” of making education abroad more accessible. Rigorous debate is good. This nonsense is a waste of time.
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Can I ask those many journalists who ignored, ridiculed or minimised Carole Cadwalladr’s revelations about Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica and Russian election interference —
You won’t apologise. Journos never do. But please acknowledge and fight against big tech and disinformation
You won’t apologise. Journos never do. But please acknowledge and fight against big tech and disinformation
November 8, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Can I ask those many journalists who ignored, ridiculed or minimised Carole Cadwalladr’s revelations about Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica and Russian election interference —
You won’t apologise. Journos never do. But please acknowledge and fight against big tech and disinformation
You won’t apologise. Journos never do. But please acknowledge and fight against big tech and disinformation
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Johnson put a border in the Irish Sea, sold out the fishing industry, all SMEs trading with the EU, our farmers, universities, musicians, young people, scientists, all of us…
And now he sits in the mess he made throwing insults at those who are clearing up after him.
What a monumental piece of shit.
And now he sits in the mess he made throwing insults at those who are clearing up after him.
What a monumental piece of shit.
May 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Johnson put a border in the Irish Sea, sold out the fishing industry, all SMEs trading with the EU, our farmers, universities, musicians, young people, scientists, all of us…
And now he sits in the mess he made throwing insults at those who are clearing up after him.
What a monumental piece of shit.
And now he sits in the mess he made throwing insults at those who are clearing up after him.
What a monumental piece of shit.
Ukraine is 'not our war' says JD Vance
news.sky.com/video/share-...
Ah, crawl back in your ditch of historical ignorance, son
Yankee Generation ‘Y’ is even more dumb than Generation ‘X’. How embarrassed are Americans to have this stinking pile of 💩 cluttering up their ‘Great Sidewalk of Life’?
news.sky.com/video/share-...
Ah, crawl back in your ditch of historical ignorance, son
Yankee Generation ‘Y’ is even more dumb than Generation ‘X’. How embarrassed are Americans to have this stinking pile of 💩 cluttering up their ‘Great Sidewalk of Life’?
US Vice president says Ukraine conflict is 'not our war' as Trump calls Putin
JD Vance told reporters 'we should be able to move beyond the mistakes of the past' but will walk away if the US isn't able to bring the war in Ukraine to an end.
news.sky.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Ukraine is 'not our war' says JD Vance
news.sky.com/video/share-...
Ah, crawl back in your ditch of historical ignorance, son
Yankee Generation ‘Y’ is even more dumb than Generation ‘X’. How embarrassed are Americans to have this stinking pile of 💩 cluttering up their ‘Great Sidewalk of Life’?
news.sky.com/video/share-...
Ah, crawl back in your ditch of historical ignorance, son
Yankee Generation ‘Y’ is even more dumb than Generation ‘X’. How embarrassed are Americans to have this stinking pile of 💩 cluttering up their ‘Great Sidewalk of Life’?
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Astonishing evidence at the Covid Inquiry.
The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale.
Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs.
1/2
The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale.
Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs.
1/2
May 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Astonishing evidence at the Covid Inquiry.
The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale.
Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs.
1/2
The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale.
Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs.
1/2
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It’s so much easier to tear something down than to build something better. Farage will only ever destroy. Because his ideologies don’t work.
They divide, they harm, they cost, they isolate. He doesn’t want a better EU deal.
He *needs* the failure.
His power relies on the anger that creates.
They divide, they harm, they cost, they isolate. He doesn’t want a better EU deal.
He *needs* the failure.
His power relies on the anger that creates.
May 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It’s so much easier to tear something down than to build something better. Farage will only ever destroy. Because his ideologies don’t work.
They divide, they harm, they cost, they isolate. He doesn’t want a better EU deal.
He *needs* the failure.
His power relies on the anger that creates.
They divide, they harm, they cost, they isolate. He doesn’t want a better EU deal.
He *needs* the failure.
His power relies on the anger that creates.
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Her 150th anniversary was this week. Born in poverty, she became a journalist, photographer, screenwriter and the first woman to fly the Channel. She was also famous for her beauty.
Harriet Quimby - an American story.
#harrietquimby #history
Harriet Quimby - an American story.
#harrietquimby #history
The Spectacular Story of Harriet Quimby
Journalist, photographer, screenwriter and early aviator; the short but spectacular life of Harriet Quimby
mikerobbinsnyc.blogspot.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Her 150th anniversary was this week. Born in poverty, she became a journalist, photographer, screenwriter and the first woman to fly the Channel. She was also famous for her beauty.
Harriet Quimby - an American story.
#harrietquimby #history
Harriet Quimby - an American story.
#harrietquimby #history
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A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY!
Trump cut global food aid, now enough rations to feed 3.5 million people are rotting in warehouses. People are starving, but this man’s legacy will be cruelty in bulk.
Trump cut global food aid, now enough rations to feed 3.5 million people are rotting in warehouses. People are starving, but this man’s legacy will be cruelty in bulk.
May 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY!
Trump cut global food aid, now enough rations to feed 3.5 million people are rotting in warehouses. People are starving, but this man’s legacy will be cruelty in bulk.
Trump cut global food aid, now enough rations to feed 3.5 million people are rotting in warehouses. People are starving, but this man’s legacy will be cruelty in bulk.
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BREAKING: A massive explosion from a bomb has destroyed American Reproductive Centers, an IVF and fertility center in Palm Springs, CA. At least one person is dead. Authorities are investigating whether terrorism played a role.
May 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
BREAKING: A massive explosion from a bomb has destroyed American Reproductive Centers, an IVF and fertility center in Palm Springs, CA. At least one person is dead. Authorities are investigating whether terrorism played a role.
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Food for millions wasted, children left to go hungry, and America’s reputation permanently damaged.
Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage
The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs.
www.reuters.com
May 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Food for millions wasted, children left to go hungry, and America’s reputation permanently damaged.