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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : le conseiller de la Maison Blanche Steve Witkoff a conseillé la Russie sur la manière de présenter son « plan de paix » à Trump
EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : le conseiller de la Maison Blanche Steve Witkoff a conseillé la Russie sur la manière de présenter son « plan de paix » à Trump
L’émissaire spécial a eu un entretien téléphonique, le 14 octobre, avec Iouri Ouchakov, le conseiller du Kremlin pour la politique étrangère, selon un enregistrement consulté par Bloomberg, qui en produit la transcription. Ensemble, ils ont élaboré un plan pour l’Ukraine et suggéré que Vladimir Poutine en discute directement avec le président américain.
www.lemonde.fr
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : le conseiller de la Maison Blanche Steve Witkoff a conseillé la Russie sur la manière de présenter son « plan de paix » à Trump
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I've done more than my fair share of jury service - 4 cases in total - and am in favour of it as a direct result of that experience. It works. Feels like an important democratic check (not least) on the power of judges - who, through no fault of their own - must inevitably get jaded by experience.
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I've done more than my fair share of jury service - 4 cases in total - and am in favour of it as a direct result of that experience. It works. Feels like an important democratic check (not least) on the power of judges - who, through no fault of their own - must inevitably get jaded by experience.
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In essence: juries are important for what decisions they prevent others from making.
Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In essence: juries are important for what decisions they prevent others from making.
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The entire world can clearly see that Putin owns Steve Witkoff and yet Witkoff is the one that Trump wants leading the negotiations on a peace deal. If Putin owns Witkoff, and Trump doesn’t care, that means Putin owns Trump - either directly, by proxy, or by stupidity.
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The entire world can clearly see that Putin owns Steve Witkoff and yet Witkoff is the one that Trump wants leading the negotiations on a peace deal. If Putin owns Witkoff, and Trump doesn’t care, that means Putin owns Trump - either directly, by proxy, or by stupidity.
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Witkoff advised the Russians on how to pitch their Ukraine plan to Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Witkoff advised the Russians on how to pitch their Ukraine plan to Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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I think that is a little too much but other systems out there and no one says that betrays justice ? a defendent is still presume innocent and the crown still have to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I think that is a little too much but other systems out there and no one says that betrays justice ? a defendent is still presume innocent and the crown still have to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt
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Whose side is he on? Whose side are we on? Spoiler alert: We already knew the answers. This just confirms them.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Whose side is he on? Whose side are we on? Spoiler alert: We already knew the answers. This just confirms them.
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Dutch public broadcaster NOS quits X over disinformation reut.rs/3KpybRU
Dutch public broadcaster NOS quits X over disinformation
Dutch public broadcaster NOS on Tuesday said it had stopped posting on Elon Musk's social media platform X, as it said it did not want to facilitate the spreading of disinformation.
reut.rs
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Dutch public broadcaster NOS quits X over disinformation reut.rs/3KpybRU
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Rumpole fans are often shocked to learn that it's the source of "She Who Must Be Obeyed."
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Rumpole fans are often shocked to learn that it's the source of "She Who Must Be Obeyed."
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As of today, NOS will no longer post news items on X
over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
NOS plaatst vanaf vandaag geen nieuwsberichten meer op X - Over NOS
De NOS en Nieuwsuur (NOS/NTR) zijn gestopt met posten op X. Het platform past niet meer bij onze visie op...
over.nos.nl
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
As of today, NOS will no longer post news items on X
over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
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Hell, the DSGE might even have shared it with the Élysée this time.
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Hell, the DSGE might even have shared it with the Élysée this time.
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Someone (Rubio?) is MEGA pissed at the Ukraine peace plan situation if they leaked a full on *recording* of this Witkoff call (with transcript, lol).
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Someone (Rubio?) is MEGA pissed at the Ukraine peace plan situation if they leaked a full on *recording* of this Witkoff call (with transcript, lol).
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Not good.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Not good.
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It's my favourite theory but it's not true.
Oswald killed JFK.
Oswald killed JFK.
The theory I believe is that the cover up is of the fact that what actually killed Kennedy was a misfire from a Secret Service agent using a newly-implemented assault rifle when they tried to get out of there.
November 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It's my favourite theory but it's not true.
Oswald killed JFK.
Oswald killed JFK.
@stuartdowell.bsky.social Recall that core elements of Putin's demands were that NATO forces would withdraw to the old Iron Curtain, or at least to the Oder/Neisse line.
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
@stuartdowell.bsky.social Recall that core elements of Putin's demands were that NATO forces would withdraw to the old Iron Curtain, or at least to the Oder/Neisse line.
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GDPR is a great example of the sort of regulation which (I) creates a bunch of effort for people who want to comply (ii) gets innocently over-zealously deployed (III) becomes deployed as an excuse for orgs not to do things they don't want to and (iv)is fairly easily disregarded by those who want to.
Also actually I am sick of how much you hear about GDPR when absolutely every fucker signs you up to their email list by default no matter how careful you are not to opt in.
October 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
GDPR is a great example of the sort of regulation which (I) creates a bunch of effort for people who want to comply (ii) gets innocently over-zealously deployed (III) becomes deployed as an excuse for orgs not to do things they don't want to and (iv)is fairly easily disregarded by those who want to.
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It grants a licence so he can't claim they are trespassing without terminating that licence.
If they acted to their detriment in accordance with the promise, they might be able to enforce the promise against him under the doctrine of promissory estoppel.
If they acted to their detriment in accordance with the promise, they might be able to enforce the promise against him under the doctrine of promissory estoppel.
September 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It grants a licence so he can't claim they are trespassing without terminating that licence.
If they acted to their detriment in accordance with the promise, they might be able to enforce the promise against him under the doctrine of promissory estoppel.
If they acted to their detriment in accordance with the promise, they might be able to enforce the promise against him under the doctrine of promissory estoppel.
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Some written constitutions work - see Germany, Ireland. Some unwritten ones are atrocious - see Israel.
But ultimately form makes no difference if there is no culture of constitutionalism. If the gatekeepers surrender and the checks and balances are unused, it is game over.
But ultimately form makes no difference if there is no culture of constitutionalism. If the gatekeepers surrender and the checks and balances are unused, it is game over.
September 18, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Some written constitutions work - see Germany, Ireland. Some unwritten ones are atrocious - see Israel.
But ultimately form makes no difference if there is no culture of constitutionalism. If the gatekeepers surrender and the checks and balances are unused, it is game over.
But ultimately form makes no difference if there is no culture of constitutionalism. If the gatekeepers surrender and the checks and balances are unused, it is game over.
@conorgallagher.bsky.social Interesting Supreme Court ruling in CC this morning. Will have obvious implications for certain other persons serving life sentences with an expectation of a court review.
March 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
@conorgallagher.bsky.social Interesting Supreme Court ruling in CC this morning. Will have obvious implications for certain other persons serving life sentences with an expectation of a court review.
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If you have a straight choice of the imperfect but good or the wholly-evil, and you sit it out demanding the perfect, you enable the evil. What happens is your fault because you thought your purity more important than reducing harm to others.
History remembers the KPD as cretins, and rightly so.
History remembers the KPD as cretins, and rightly so.
February 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
If you have a straight choice of the imperfect but good or the wholly-evil, and you sit it out demanding the perfect, you enable the evil. What happens is your fault because you thought your purity more important than reducing harm to others.
History remembers the KPD as cretins, and rightly so.
History remembers the KPD as cretins, and rightly so.
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Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified…
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
February 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified…
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
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People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.
F.D.A. Approves Weight-Loss Drug to Treat Sleep Apnea
Zepbound is the first prescription drug approved specifically to treat the common condition.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:41 AM
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
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OTOH given that the error that makes it to print more than any other is "lead" where "led" is meant, we'd probably still be f'd.
Looking to "lead" or even "breed" for inspiration, I'd say that "red" would work just fine and would be unlikely, in context, ever to be misread.
Um, misred.
Um, misred.
If I could change one single thing in the English language by fiat, it would be to make the past tense of "read" something other than "read."
December 12, 2024 at 7:20 PM
OTOH given that the error that makes it to print more than any other is "lead" where "led" is meant, we'd probably still be f'd.