@Iain4Europe #FBPE 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇧🇪 🇪🇺

In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Jeffries: "You've got Leavitt, who's sick, she's out of control. I'm not sure if she's just demented, ignorant, a stone cold liar, or all of the above. But the notion that an official WH spokesperson would say that the D Party consists of 'terrorists, violent criminals & undocumented immigrants'..."

Hour-long queues in Prague airport as EU entry-exit system comes into effect Exclusive: Czech Republic vowed to introduce 100% EES checks on day one

Hour-long queues in Prague airport as EU entry-exit system comes into effect

Czech Republic vowed to introduce 100% EES checks on day one

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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She called it. Kamala Harris laid out Trump’s vengeance agenda before it even happened.

One line that stuck with me most from 107 Days was when she wrote that during the debate, Trump was “unburdened by the truth.”

He’s also unburdened by threat of accountability, thanks to the Supreme Court.

The contact of Reform UK’s Russian puppet Nathan Gill is linked to efforts to destabilise the US and Ukraine. Why, even now, is no one asking questions? Gill, former leader in Wales of Nigel Farage's party, admits taking bribes to help Putin. And his Russian connection - the Ukrainian politician Oleh Voloshyn - in turn has links to a key figure wante...

I tried to interview Gill, but he refused to talk to me..months later, I would embark on an investigation into #Brexit, Trump and Cambridge Analytica. What I could never have predicted is that, nine years on, Gill and that story would crash directly into one other.
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Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

Republicans declare themselves patriots, then turn around and block the paychecks of the men and women who defend America.

And what’s really wild, some of those same troops keep voting red while getting screwed over again and again.

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

UK travellers should expect "four-hour queues" as new EU border system comes into force. Brexit really is the gift that keeps giving

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It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Donald Trump and JD Vance have been raging at this washoff Graffiti art exhibit.

In Canterbury... England.

The USA really has the worst President ever.

So the latest complaint of the permanently enraged right wing is that temporary stickers have been placed in Canterbury Cathedral, asking provocative questions like: "Why are you indifferent to suffering?"

A photo of steps at Canterbury cathedral, on the wall a graffiti-style graphic in red and black reads "god, what happens when we die?"

People online are losing their absolute minds at this art installation at Canterbury Cathedral and all the ridiculous reasons they're giving as to why it's bad kind of prove the point of why it's good, actually.

The douchey face of utter incompetence.

#SaveOurNHS
We can’t let this govt or any other one sell it off piecemeal to private companies! We must fight to save it & enhance value of the staff who work there. From care staff & GPs, from doctors, nurses & technicians to support staff. They’re all important!🤔

‘POTUS is clearly furious’: White House is frustrated by all-consuming Epstein coverage Officials and allies close to the White House detail the mood inside an administration haunted by a notorious sex offender who died by suicide nearly six years ago.

“POTUS is clearly furious,” said a person close to the White House, who was granted anonymity to discuss the mood inside the West Wing. “It’s the first time I’ve seen them sort of paralyzed.”

What a line from Warren Buffett this morning:

“Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer."

[applause] 🙏🏼

The main reasons why Labour did badly on Thursday:
-Means-testing the WFA
-Talking of cutting disability benefits
-Copying right-wing narratives on immigration and benefits, instead of challenging those narratives
-Tying themselves to fiscal rules that make it hard to improve people’s lives

Local Elections: 'Keir Starmer's Rightward Shift Is Laying the Ground for Nigel Farage' Labour's embrace of economic and political orthodoxy is forcing voters to look elsewhere for change, argues Keir Starmer's former adviser Simon Fletcher

Local Elections: ‘Keir Starmer’s Rightward Shift Is Laying the Ground for Nigel Farage’

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We all recognise smoking kills , that's why tobacco ads were banned in 2002 . Fossil fuels kill too & according to a study in BMJ , cause 5.1 million deaths per year .

Help me ban fossil fuel ads for good– sign my petition to force a Parliamentary debate govpetition.uk/700024

These farmers who voted for Trump can’t blame anyone but themselves.

Are you effing kidding @cnn.com

How about

"After a week of disastrous losses due to his unhinged tariffs, Trump backed down and US markets finally regained some of the trillions he cost the American people"

Jesus, learn how to write a social media post

"Just trust Trump" is the only plan they have for you.

Former MEPs head to Brussels to make Scotland's case for rejoining EU FORMER Scottish MEPs are set to go to Brussels to reaffirm the country's desire to join the EU as an independent country.

Proud to be supporting this @yesforeu.bsky.social initiative and looking forward to seeing some old pals in Brussels this week. Independence in Europe will go a long way to fixing Scotlands problems 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺
www.thenational.scot/news/2507020...

🇺🇸 Small businesses posting that they’re getting clobbered by Trump’s tariffs as he lies about who is paying for them

(It isn’t China, it’s businesses that import anything from China)

Trump's big fat bumbling incompetent incredibly stupid utterly lawless attempt at destruction of our government is losing in court If you’re anything like I am, you have probably spent a considerable amount of time over the past two months trying to figure out what these dull fuckers think they’re doing.

Trump's big fat bumbling incompetent incredibly stupid utterly lawless attempt at destruction of our government is losing in court
"The whole enterprise is beginning to show cracks of excess and madness that are getting wider seemingly by the day."
Let's hope he's right. Good read as always!

For those that don’t know what a starter pack is, it’s a list of people that have been vetted, in this case, blue resisters. You can follow all and they will follow back because we aren’t doing this for the likes. We are fighting for democracy.

go.bsky.app/2R1VCMq

Civil Servants Felt Pressured Into Giving ‘Special Treatment’ to Conservative-Connected COVID PPE Suppliers Private correspondence reveals officials felt threatened by firms benefiting from "back-scratching" by Conservative ministers

Was there any doubt with the general public that it was, if you scratch my back I will scratch yours?
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