@cranehestia.bsky.social
Moderate, lesbian, atheist carer. Trying, in my own way, to make a contribution before I shuffle off this mortal coil. Don't believe in an afterlife so will be pleasantly surprised if it turns out there is one ( or not, depending on the elevator direction)
Epstein’s prison guard, Tova Noel, has been summoned to testify before Congress on March 26. The House Oversight Committee wants answers about his final minutes.
Six years later, the questions still haven’t gone away.
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
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Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied.
But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.
"We know that within that first hour of war, between 140 and 160 Iranian school girls were killed by an American Tomahawk missile," says Emily Maitlis.
"Now, if that's what Trump thinks of a success, I am speechless, frankly"
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A very strong moment during the debate on International Women's Day⬇️
@dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social: "For many of us, progress has not been made by us being welcomed in the room. Progress has been made by us taking up room, Progress has been made by us taking up space."
In the psychopathology of the MAGA GOP leadership, this furnishes a chapter all on its own.
Russia enters Viktor Orban's election campaign, providing consultants who will flood social media with messages designed, ironically, to frame Orbán, a Russia puppet, as "the only candidate who can keep Hungary sovereign"
From @financialtimes.com
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Utterly baffling briefing just now with Kemi Badenoch’s spokesman in which he repeatedly insists that “we’re in the war” with Iran and that she supports it, while simultaneously denying she ever said she wants to join the war she thinks we're already in
For those wondering what Ed Davey was talking about, Nigel Farage said in 2014 that handgun restrictions brought in after the Dunblane massacre were "kneejerk" and "ludicrous."
The man who would be PM must do better than smirk when people bring up old comments.
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This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology
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⚠️ Beth Rigby: "Keeping British people safe and secure is any government's number one priority."
❓ "But if you can't even agree a position amongst the leadership, how do you expect people to trust your national security?"
Trump: All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are right now walking around with no legs.
#DeadMenWalking
Saying all the *right* words. But not *necessarily* in the right order.
Here's Farage full of self importance a day before he flew talking about his big trip at a Guido event.
I wonder if that slightly dismissive throw away remark made its way to the president.
Or whether Trump now grasps that Farage has zero influence on UK policy.
Russians are providing military technology to Iranian proxies
In case you missed..more documents from the Epstein files were released on Friday 👇
Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.
"We are not winning."
Wow. This is brilliantly on point & ridiculously prescient.
Farage talking Chagos with Trump over dinner at Mar-A-Lago last night is your latest reminder that official U.S. policy is to grease the wheels for "patriotic European parties" to take power across the continent. An astonishing moment, nonetheless.
Just got off the phone after Sec of State of Energy, Ed Milliband, called to discuss in detail the problems people are facing with home energy bills & heating oil. Here's what I fed through. YOUR feedback would be useful...
Samira, (not her real name), spent many of her teen years homeless. She shares her experience of living in supported accommodation. | Isabelle Goodhand
3/3 Did you drive the pink Cadillac hired by Nathan Gill who last year got ten years for taking bribes from a Russian spy?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
2/3 So I'm asking the Great British public to help because NF is seeking to be our master.
Were you at school with NF? Worked with him in the City when he was a tin trader? Met him through politics?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
1/3 I'm writing a book about Nigel Farage for Headline.
Some of his pals are blanking me.
Is it because after I reported on the killing of a Polish man in Essex in 2016, he said that I had caused him "more misery than any other in 25 years in politics"?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
NEW POLLING OUT FOR WALES
New polling from @Moreincommon_ shows a drop in Reform polling from a month ago:
- Reform UK 26% (-5)
- Plaid Cymru 26% (+2)
- Labour 20% (nc)
- Conservative 10% (–3)
- The Green Party 10% (+5)
- Liberal Democrat 7% (+1)
What a shock. Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating in the war if if indirectly. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Farage meets Trump today at Mar-a-Lago.
I wonder what he'll whisper into the lunatic's ear this time.
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This is an interesting early indication of how people are feeling about Reform competency (or otherwise) in local government.
‘Did you find a suitable image for the story on what Keir Starmer said about the Iran conflict?’
‘Yes - how about Chris Mason realising he’s just accidentally sent his search history to his mum?’
‘Perfect.’