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Populist Right: 'We're not racist, we just want immigrants to integrate & contribute.'
Immigrant gains BA, MA, works for charities, marries a 'Brit', becomes Brexit-supporting, lockdown-sceptic Tory MP, then Deputy Speaker of HoC.
Populist Right: 'People born abroad shouldn't be allowed to do this.'

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Air Defence shot down:

▪️558/596 strike UAVs;
▪️1/5 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles;
▪️12/23 Kh-101/Iskander-K cruise missiles;
▪️4/4 Iskander-M ballistic missiles;
▪️2/4 Kh-59/69 guided aviation missiles.

🇺🇦 Zelensky: The Russians launched about 36 missiles and almost 600 drones against ordinary life. The main targets of the attacks are energy and civilian facilities, a lot of damage and fires in residential buildings. As of now, dozens of people are injured and three people have died.

[Q]: What kinds of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?

President Trump: Well, they're making concessions. Their big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land.

[Q]:
Do you remember this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?

[President Trump]:
Well, I haven't heard it, but that's a standard thing. He's got to sell this to Ukraine, he's got to sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does.

Ukraine struck military factories, an experimental A-60 aircraft, and oil facilities in Taganrog and Krasnodar Krai of Russia, the General Staff said.

Ukrainian Bars jet-powered drone-missiles and Neptune cruise missiles were used in strikes⤵️

Macron says that after a peace deal is signed, "assurance forces" will be deployed beyond the front line, including in Kyiv and Odesa. Nearly 20 countries, among them the UK, France, and Turkey are ready. These won’t be NATO forces but a multilateral coalition acting like NATO’s eastern flank.

1/6 If Trump and his administration truly want to end Russia’s war in Ukraine as soon as possible, I have a solution for them.

It starts with understanding one simple fact: the war will not end without real pressure on Russia👇

X's new feature that allows you to see where accounts are based has shown that many loudmouthed MAGA accounts are based in countries far from America. They are very likely paid by Russia.

The EU is preparing €90 billion in grants for Ukraine if the plan to use frozen Russian assets fails. The EC has outlined three options: direct grants from member states, a joint EU loan, or using the assets as loan collateral. Belgium continues to block the full use of the €200 billion in Euroclear

So very disappointed with Belgium.

“Oh, if we do this people will not trust is with their money…”

People? No! Genocidal dictators, not people. You aren’t confiscating “people’s” money but a genocidal dictator’s.

If those are your most valued clients, Belgium, we need to sit down and talk…

A kaboom on a gas pipeline in Omsk region of Russia.

Locals say the explosion was heard in several settlements nearby. The flames went up to 30-40 meters.

According to local authorities, the pipeline exploded in the course of repair works.

Welcome to THE daily Ukraine thread.
Every single day - since Day 1 of the full invasion - a handy thread with all the Fact Checked news in one place.

And now it's Day 1364 - please help Ukraine get a just peace, otherwise war won't end, it will pause before Russia resumes.

There was no doubt that Hungary will be exempted from the Russian sanctions. Orban‘s poll numbers are in the gutter and he is going to need every foreign help. Unfortunately for him is that there more ways to disrupt Russian oil from reaching its destination.

Undefeated

Ukraine may be repeating a costly mistake in Pokrovsk.

It’s a recurring pattern, seen for example in Vuhledar and Kursk – a reluctance to conduct a controlled, militarily justified withdrawal from a threatened salient when the situation no longer favors the defender. 1/

New Rule

Good morning on Day 1343 of Russia's illegal, immoral, vile, sickening war on Ukraine + myriad associated war crimes.

It's another daily thread - I've still never missed a single day of fact-checking, analysing and reporting all the important news without the gore.
Let's begin:

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How can he want her to WORK before she's sworn in but not VOTE.

It doesn't make sense.

It's Thursday 23 October - Day 1338 of this immoral and sickening war, started by Russia on its peaceful neighbour.

Ukraine, as history tells us, refuses to give in and suddenly last night things took a terrible turn for Putin.

It's the Daily Thread: all the news all the time:

Die Neue Reichskanzlei ("New Reich Chancellery"), Berlin, c. 1939: (1) reception hall; (2) main dining hall; (3) entrance to the office of the Führer, with SS guards; (4) office of the Führer.

Trump demanding $230 million from the DOJ, that he controls, is a shakedown of the American taxpayers so that Trump can line his own pockets.

“There’s a government shutdown happening right now across the street, and on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, they’re tearing down the East Wing.”

It's Day 1336 of Russia's full invasion, but that only started because the world didn't provide a deterrent almost 12 years ago when Putin first tested the west's response by invading Crimea

The west failed the test. Are we about to fail the biggest exam too?
It's Tim's daily🧵

The grifter-in-chief knows no bounds.

Zaporizhzhia region. Recent successful actions of Ukrainian militaries, in particular the 17th Army Corps.

The enemy launched an attack with armored vehicles - several dozen different vehicles were destroyed.

🇺🇦 Glory!

Europe urgently needs its own social media platforms and stronger regulation across the board. This is a strategic and existential issue

Trump’s AI video targeting the No Kings protest is a sad reflection of how far he’s slipped from reality. Hillary’s comment about it made us laugh. 😂

KARL: “Why haven’t you sworn in Adelita Grijalva?”

SPEAKER JOHNSON: “I’m following the Pelosi precedent with Letlow.”

KARL: “But that was the date Letlow requested.”

SPEAKER JOHNSON: 🤷🏼

#EpsteinFilesCoverUp

An explosive start to Day 1334 of Russia's 10-day operation to erase Ukraine from the map.

Not quite #EATP for Putin.
An early start to Sunday's thread as we have news from central and eastern Russia.

All the news, all the time, every damn day. Here we go again!