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The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine

The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War
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If Trump be the food of thy love, be quiet
We have excess of it, that, surfeiting,
Trump appetite may sicken, and so die.

UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.

I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.

Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.

A thread 🧵 1/8
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No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’

If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
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Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.

🕯️ Combat medic Anastasia "Pandora" Osintseva died during a combat mission, the press service of Lyceum No. 7 of Dnipro reports.

💔 She served in the aerial reconnaissance unit of the 71st separate brigade of DShV. During her school years, Anastasia was the president of the school self-government.

Refugees to face 20-year wait to settle permanently under asylum reforms Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expected to announce major reforms to the asylum system on Monday.

The Labour government has released to the media more details of its asylum reforms - to be released on Monday.

Their premise: UK attracts asylum seekers because it is too generous + reducing pull factors will change that.

There is a lot of overspinning from this govt

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Jinx the bobtail tabby looking cheekily at the camera.

I did indeed walk across the piano keys over and over at 3:00 AM. Why do you ask?

Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)

This is me at 15. I’m a child.
I’m a CHILD.

Anne Applebaum as usual on the mark. I would add: most elected Republicans quietly fold the millisecond this happens to them. So in speaking up MTG is GOP unusual.

Malcolm Nance said these sound like the titles of porn movies.

Good test of how UK politics at least is failing, there isn't a single frontline politician with a convincing big picture view of the country. Nostalgia, simplism, and warm words will have to do instead.

The impression given by a morning scroll is that the politics of Europe and North America has largely become a performative sideshow detached from real life (though not of course if you are one of the designated 'victims')

Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want

New reflections from me about the challenge of countering disinformation when the state itself is distributing it

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Great that personal bribery has become the default way to get deals with the world's richest and most powerful country. Really positive development.

Clarifications & corrections •A COMMENT piece in Wednesday's paper wrongly In fact Mr Robinson made no • To report an inaccuracy, please such statement. We apologise email corrections@dailymail.co.uk. claimed that BBC Today for the error.

The Daily Mail has been relentlessly attacking the BBC over the editing of Trump quotes in a documentary and look:

It completely fabricated a quote from a BBC presenter. Robinson should sue them for, ooh, at least $2 billion dollars as it’s worse than what they accused the BBC of.

EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas
@kajakallas.bsky.social:

Right now, Russia does not want to negotiate at all. Every time the world reaches out, Russia responds with missiles. Russia's latest attacks make abundantly clear that Russia is pressing with war. And this pattern keeps repeating.

Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now

Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

Show of hands please.

How many women could lay their hands on £900,000 cash to buy their fella a house in his constituency ?

Asking for a country still wanting an answer.

#Farage #Frintongate

Aside from the cruelty of this, I’d just like to know why it’s ok to ignore and disappoint liberal/progressive voters.
Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?

Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit The US president confirmed he intends to sue the broadcaster for at least $1bn over the Panorama edit of a 2021 speech.

Buckle up - because this now amounts to a direct and deliberate attack on our country and its cultural sovereignty. Which side our politicians take - Trump's or the BBC's - over the coming days and weeks will speak volumes about their patriotism.

But if the argument is that the BBC misrepresented the event and the speech in its entirety, or what happened that day, in a way that is biased in an anti-Trump direction - it 100% did not. THAT is a complete misrepresentation of what happened. And it is presented in total bad faith.

So let’s be absolutely clear here - the BBC said he incited violence at January 6th. If you read his speech, that is true. If you read coverage of his response to the attack, that is true. If you read the Congressional report on January 6th, they recommend criminal charges for it.

Read Trump's Jan. 6 Speech, A Key Part Of Impeachment Trial The former president's remarks are being used by Democrats hoping to convict him for incitement of insurrection — and are being defended by his lawyers in the Senate proceedings.

It sounds like the BBC did in fact edit two bits of his speech together to illustrate that the speech was incendiary. And the way they did it was not journalistically ideal. But let’s be clear here, he *absolutely* lied, misrepresented and incited that crowd to violence.

Samir Zitouni named as train hero who saved lives during attack The family of rail worker Samir Zitouni say they are

Wishing Mr Zitouni a full and fast recovery and hoping the story of his heroism would bring some sense and shame to the rampant racist narratives sweeping our country.
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Perhaps the Tory appointees?