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Mark
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My Twitter experiment ended in early 2025. I like politeness, engagement, humour... and to follow only 50 accounts... All opinions are subject to alteration - sometimes the correct response is to swear.
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Outside of Woodward and Bernstein types much of what we think is "journalism" has always been spelt f-e-l-l-a-t-i-o...
There is not even a debate to be had on tariffs with Trump that Reagan could sway either way...

Trump likes tariffs because they're a gun to point at people's heads...

and he enjoys watching how people behave with him pointing that gun at them... then taking it away... then pointing it again...
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🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS: A bombshell set of new polls has shown that support for the monarchy has fallen under 50%. 77% of the public also believe there should be a criminal investigation into Prince Andrew. #AbolishTheMonarchy #Epstein

And there's more...
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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For those keeping track, it's now three days since I asked the Conservatives for (fairly basic) details of their policy on revoking indefinite leave to remain, eg whether it would include separating families and if it would work as per Chris Philp's draft bill. Despite several reminders: nothing.
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New video @afp.com:

I explained how we caught US President Donald Trump's White House using outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska and other states in a video that it claimed showed "Chicago is in chaos."

youtube.com/shorts/sKRcv...
White House's Chicago 'chaos' post video uses footage from other cities
YouTube video by AFP News Agency
youtube.com
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🚨Trump’s team is plotting to declare a fake "national emergency" to hijack elections.

One operative says they can “take steps without Congress” and mandate state election rules.

Independent, state-run elections are the last firewall between democracy and authoritarian rule.
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These people have no clue how their own policies hurt them.
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NEW: Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys joins the Home of the Brave advisory board.

“Growing up here in Massachusetts, you learn to never take shit from a bully...Trump's a bully who's bad for America, and it's time to stand up to him."
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What Labour should be saying (and all parties, days ago)...
People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk has written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
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How has the government got itself into the position of standing up for Israeli football hooligans, while criminalising peaceful supporters of Palestine Action?
I agree with your point of magnitude - I was thinking in general terms of how the project will be sold to hide how much worse it will become.
The "no public support" assessment...

There was low public support for any extreme version of Brexit,

but we were given the full horror show after red lines and other never-discussed criteria were then added to a simple "mood" vote...

and there are attempts now to "add" leaving the ECHR...
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UKIP leader Nick Tenconi presents himself as a defender of Britain, opposing the establishment for the working man. Radicalised during the pandemic, he has become the speaker of choice at anti-migrant protests.

But who is he really? Here's all you need to know:

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/21/n...
Nick Tenconi: From Pornographic Tweets to Deporting One in Seven – HOPE not hate
UKIP leader Nick Tenconi is treating Britain’s anti-migrant protests as his personal political roadshow. Like a far-right whackamole, he has popped up at locations across...
hopenothate.org.uk
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Trump’s Press Secretary tried to show how a journalist was “a left wing hack” by posting screenshots from their texts. The texts confirm that the question was a reasonable one, and that Karoline needs therapy.
@davidallengreen.bsky.social

In the worst years of UK football hooliganism it was heard suggested that the "lack" of a recent war meant the violence latent in society had no outlet - that a war was "needed" to bring perspective to football supporters prone to rioting...

Meanwhile in Tel Aviv:
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What have the news media been thinking as they’ve normalized and empowered MAGA fascism over the last decade? I took an intrepid journey inside the media’s brain to find out.
Read my free Stop the Presses newsletter.
My exclusive Trump-era tour inside the media’s brain
What were America’s journalists thinking? I have strong suspicions.
www.stopthepresses.news
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CHRIS CHRISTIE (a Republican): “This is no longer the Department of Justice. What it is now is a Capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so.”
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I’m not saying they’re Nazis. I’m saying being a Nazi isn’t a deal-breaker for them. I’m saying at a minimum they’re Good Germans.
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Not a peep from Musk about this government spending. Was the chainsaw from him worth it, Elon?
Some people living in the greatest nation in the history of the world might wonder if the greatest nation in the history of the world might be able to be the greatest nation in the history of the world by repeatedly stating that they are the greatest nation in the history of the world.
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Contrary to popular belief, white supremacy is not extra-strength racism. And, according to a thing called a dictionary, white supremacists and white nationalists are as different as alligators & crocodiles

Let me explain.

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