Laura Blanken

Trump threatens 50% tariffs on Brazil if it doesn’t stop the Bolsonaro ‘witch hunt’ trial | CNN Business President Donald Trump sent out a slew of letters Wednesday to some global trading partners, advising them of tariff levels as high as 50% for their exports to the United States.

Heel normaal allemaal

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Het lijkt op een persconferentie van een partij in doodsnood

Ukraine accuses China of supplying Russian arms industry Kyiv’s intelligence chief ‘confirms’ that China is directly aiding Russia’s arms industry.

Kyiv’s intelligence chief ‘confirms’ that China is directly aiding Russia’s arms industry.

Taxpayers set for £10bn loss on NatWest as disgraced ex-boss takes £600k-a-year pension Government expected to sell last shares in banking group this week, drawing a line under 2008 financial crisis bailout

17 years on, the Tories still paint the £45 billion bailout of RBS as a once in a lifetime economic disaster that proves Gordon Brown was a terrible PM.

Brexit costs just as much every 19 months. Tories spent last week demanding we keep it.

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AP LIVE: PAM BONDI HOLDS A PRESS CONFERENCE MEMORIAL DAY BREAKING: Trump, flanked by Pam Bondi, interrupts his own tribute to announce he's fast-tracking U.S. citizenship for jailed UK hate-speaker Lucy Connolly "No bureaucrat can silence free speech!" Britain fumes: "Stay out of our courts."

WTAF!? Surely a fake, but If it were true, all I can say is they're welcome to her.

Ironically, she'd be barred from entry because her criminal record would void her ESTA.

More worrying still - that doesn't sound like Trump. I've noticed a distinct shift in the style of his posts recently.

Letter: Let’s make ‘Brexit betrayal’ off-limits Letter to the editor

"And what of their beloved Brexit?

So far, annually, it has delivered a 5% plunge in GDP (CER), a £27 billion loss of exports (LSE) and a 15% reduction in trade (OBR)."

See the May 2025 edition of Byline Times, Blue Labour in the 'MAGA Square' by Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar. It's about Maurice Glasman, McSweeney and others.

"The main thing is that you've heard from me. Now you can sleep easy knowing that I'm home."

This is Anton,a Ukrainian Defender from Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region,who returned from Russian captivity today.He called his mother &girlfriend,who had been waiting for him for 37 months

#Ukraine

Canadian dollar hits 7-month high after upbeat retail sales data The Canadian dollar strengthened to a seven-month high against its U.S. counterpart on Friday as the greenback posted broad-based declines and domestic retail sales data supported bets that the Bank of Canada would remain on the sidelines.

Canadian dollar hits 7-month high after upbeat retail sales data reut.rs/3H6NOM9

Corruption on a massive scale, all in plain sight. The GOP is too craven and greedy for its own tax breaks to call it out.

as much though being put into economic policy as a 14 year old mashing buttons playing street fighter

“The whole world left us alone to die” – one family clings to life in Gaza As Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel will ‘take control’ of all Gaza, we look at what his military campaign has done to ordinary people

This is one of the toughest articles we have published to date

“The whole world left us alone to die” – one family clings to life in Gaza

As Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel will ‘take control’ of all Gaza, we look at what his military campaign has done to ordinary people

If you need a little hope this morning

He Thinks He Owns The Country And We Are His Bank!
The Election Was Rigged! No Doubts Now!

Dial for Democracy—Impeach Trump, Again (and This Time, Finish the Job) - Resistance Kitty So it’s happening. On May 13, 2025, Rep. Shri Thanedar dropped seven glorious articles of impeachment on Donald “Orange Julius Caesar” Trump. Charges? Tyranny. Corruption. Abuse of power. Obstruction....

🚨 The Articles of Impeachment Just Dropped.
Trump’s crimes are right there in print—obstruction, corruption, TYRANNY.

Call your reps. Email. Yell into the void (aka Congress).

Let’s make removal more than a fantasy.

#ImpeachTrumpAgain #Revolution2025

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Megyn Kelly Roasted After Calling For MAGA To Boycott Versace Due To Trans Influencer Ah yes, we know how much MAGA loves Versace.

Shouldn't we be focusing on real problems?

Murphy: "There's no guarantee that we are gonna have a free and fair election in 2026. He's trying to rig our democracy, to destroy dissent, to cripple the opposition, so that even if his approval ratings are in the 30s next year, there isn't the ability for his opposition to muster a real campaign"

🚨New - 23 Reform UK councillors have resigned already since 2025 local elections two weeks ago. #ukpolitics

the girls are fighting and I mean, much as I hate to ever have to hand it to Jeff Bezos for anything

Time is of the essence!!!

How to trash an economic superpower in 100 days | CNN Business How to trash an economic superpower in 100 days

Biden made the US economy the envy of the world. Trump trashed it in less than 100 days. www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/b...

Violette Simpson, Reform UK's candidate in #Calne Central, #Wiltshire.

Her candidate statement doesn't include her love of this, unsuprisingly.

Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.

Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.

I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

I just don't understand that it is still 41%.

Video: Ron Brownstein explains why trump ‘dug a pretty serious hole’ amid approval ratings | CNN Politics After winning a plurality of the popular vote in November, Donald Trump’s approval rating has plummeted to 41% - the worst of any president in his first 100 days in 70 years - according to a new CNN/S...

Trump’s approval rating has plummeted to 41% — the worst of any president in his first 100 days in 70 years — according to a new CNN/SSRS poll. His approval on the economy — a key to his longtime political viability — is at its lowest-ever level at 39%.