Randeep Ramesh
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Randeep Ramesh
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Chief leader writer, The Guardian. @tianran at the other place
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Tim Walz: "What side do you want to be on? The side of an all-powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace, and kidnap its citizens off the streets, or the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness - the side of a mother whose last words were 'I'm not mad at you.'"
January 25, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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British Airways, Air France and KLM have cancelled flights to the Middle East.
January 23, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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The exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park have been removed amid pressure from the Trump admin www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
January 23, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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the destruction of local news has done more damage than just about anything else to our ability to process reality as a country and this is a shining example of why
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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NEW REPORT: the gov’s proposals for judge-only trials will deliver only marginal savings and distract from the real route out of this crisis: reversing recent falls in court productivity.
Trial and error?: The impact of restricting jury trials on court demand | Institute for Government
The government’s reforms will unlock only relatively modest reductions in demand.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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Trump poodle Nigel Farage says
World would be a ‘better place’ if US took over Greenland.

Appeasement of Trump means all powerful nations are free to expand their borders. Years of conflict & unrest would follow.

UK needs political leaders, not poodles.
World would be a ‘better place’ if US took over Greenland, says Nigel Farage
Reform leader says he agrees ‘strategically’ with Trump but adds that views of Greenlanders must be respected
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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Agriculture is only a tiny part of EU-Mercosur free-trade agreement
• EU tariff cuts on Mercosur-made meat will apply only to small share of European imports
• Real economic rationale of deal could lie in industrial and services trade, as well as mineral products
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
January 22, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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A regime that finally backs down when confronted by a united Europe is still tough enough to kidnap a five year old after preschool.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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NEWS: Trump has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko to join his so-called “Board of Peace” to oversee Gaza.
January 19, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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mad king moment

from the PBS Newshour correspondent
January 19, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Nixon shocked the system in 1971 because the system was coming apart. Today we have disorder, but Trump shocks the system because he seems to enjoy the spectacle www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on Trump and Greenland: get real! Bullying is not strength | Editorial
Editorial: Tariff threats over the Arctic island expose the limits of coercive diplomacy. Europe’s united response and pushback shows fear is fading
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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Pape Gueye fires Senegal to Afcon glory against Morocco after walk-off chaos
Pape Gueye fires Senegal to Afcon glory against Morocco after walk-off chaos
This had been, by general agreement, the most predictable, least dramatic Cup of Nations in living memory. And that was true, until eight minutes into injury time in the final, when a video assistant referee decision contrived to produce perhaps the most ludicrous finale to any major final in history. Senegal won it, but that is a tiny detail in the denouement that erupted. There was a walk-off in protest, a missed Panenka and a brilliant winning goal from Pape Gueye. The chaos began two minutes into injury time when Abdoulaye Seck was penalised for a slight push on Achraf Hakimi as he headed against the post. Ismaïla Sarr nodded in, but the whistle had already gone. Four minutes later, Adam Masina was penalised, following a VAR review, for a pull on Morocco’s Brahim Díaz as he defended a corner. For Senegal, already convinced there was a plot against them, that was too much and the majority of their players stormed off. Sadio Mané seemed notably reluctant to go, and it was he who eventually ran down the tunnel to bring them back from the dressing room after the veteran coach of multiple African sides Claude Le Roy materialised to act as an improbable peacemaker. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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For this post to be about the United States and not Russia shows that there has been an absolute diplomatic revolution.
I spoke to the Secretary-General of NATO, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz and Giorgia Meloni.

Together we stand firm in our commitment to uphold the sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark.
January 18, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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#BREAKING European Union, Mercosur bloc sign 'historic' trade deal in Paraguay
January 17, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Taxing Americans and alienating allies in the service of the Greenland fixation.
Trump says on Feb 1 he will impose a 10% tariff “on any and all goods sent” to US from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, UK, Netherlands, & Finland, increasing to 25% June 1 “until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.”
January 17, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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🇺🇬 Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine said he escaped a police raid on his home and was in hiding as the country braced for the results of a fraught election held under an internet blackout.
➡️ u.afp.com/SBZ7
January 17, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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UK cancels travel authorisation of Dutch far right activist www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Dutch far-right activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek appears to lose right to UK visa-free travel
Influencer, who promotes conspiracy theories and anti-immigration rhetoric, posts notification that her ETA has been cancelled
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Renee Good's family is accusing federal immigration officers of killing the Minneapolis mother of three as she attempted to follow agents' instructions, and have now hired the same law firm that represented George Floyd's family to press for answers and accountability.
Renee Good's family hires George Floyd law firm to investigate Minneapolis ICE shooting
Renee Good’s family hired the law firm that represented George Floyd’s family to seek answers and accountability for the Minneapolis mother’s killing by a federal immigration agent
www.washingtonpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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A power that is currently devolved. There isn't even a pretence of being interested in devolution despite it being a headline policy.
NEW Shabana Mahmood announces not only that Craig Guildford, the chief constable of West Midlands Police, no longer has her confidence after a "devastating" independent review, but also that the government will reintroduce the power for home secretaries to sack chief constables
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Cynics might suggest it suits ministers not to have to hire extra staff to cope with increased demand for disability benefits while the tech solution comes on stream sometime in the future. Hard to disagree! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on long waits for disability benefits: the system should not push people closer to poverty | Editorial
Editorial: It takes a year for some personal independence payment claims to be processed, creating the perfect storm for vulnerable applicants
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Attacking Jerome Powell distracts from Republicans’ thin legislative record and policies that continue to squeeze American household incomes … another one of Trump’s desperate midterms ploys www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on Trump’s assault on the Fed: it is part of an affordability blame game | Editorial
Editorial: Attacking Jerome Powell distracts from Republicans’ thin legislative record and policies that continue to squeeze American household incomes
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:37 AM
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"ICE is violence-prone because its main purpose has become theatrical. Under present leadership, ICE is less a law-enforcement agency than it is a content creator.

from David Frum:

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter
The vice president knows what ICE means to MAGA.
www.theatlantic.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 AM