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USDA head says ‘everyone’ on SNAP will now have to reapply Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Thursday said the Trump administration is planning to have all Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries reapply for the program due t…

Asking 42 million to reapply, and then thinking the USDA is going to process those applications in an expeditious manner, is obscene.

I hope those Senate Dems are glad they gave away people’s healthcare so the GOP could then dismantle SNAP benefits.

ECHR stopped me from going mad in Putin’s gulag A British-Russian dissident sentenced to 25 years of solitary confinement by Vladimir Putin has said his sanity was saved by the European Convention on Human Rights.

READ THIS: A British-Russian dissident sentenced to 25 years of solitary confinement by Vladimir Putin has said his sanity was saved by the European Convention on Human Rights👇

🔗 www.yahoo.com/news/article... via @telegraphnews.bsky.social

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

Russia’s new robot was meant to wow the crowd — instead it toppled over mid-show and had to be carried away like broken props.

Attacking a federal district judge as an “activist” for issuing a lawful ruling is an assault on judicial independence. A democracy cannot function when executive agencies denigrate judges for doing their jobs.

I agree that the BBC should apologise to Trump for being misleading.

Right after Trump apologises for the 30,573 false or misleading claims he made during his first presidency, or for each of his current daily average of 21 new lies per.

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Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy.

For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.

The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.

Long blackouts across #Russia in #Voronezh, #Kursk, #Belgorod, #Rostov, #Oryol. We target substations by military plants – their war machine slows. Ukrainians use apps, generators & grit. In Russia chaos: stolen generators. Share the truth. 🇺🇦⚡️ #StandWithUkraine #MakeRussiaSmallAgain

The BBC was right about the Capitol riots. In a sane world, Trump would be in jail The US President faced impeachment over the violence, and in a world where Republicans had more courage, he would have been found guilty

The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something?

Wrote this on it earlier this week:
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‘Flagrantly Unconstitutional’: Letitia James Slams DOJ’s Political Prosecution, Asks Judge to Toss Charges Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss the felony charges against her, arguing that President Donald Trump and his political appointees at the Department of Justice (DOJ) are selectively and vindictively prosecuting her.

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The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.

Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.

Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.

But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

Remember this.

A Russian Shahed-136 kamikaze drone was intercepted and shot down in broad daylight over Ukraine by an FPV drone unit.

Zorhan Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

The 750 kV "Vladimirskaya" substation, one of the most powerful in Russia, has again been successfully targeted. Ukraine has repeatedly struck this key node in Russia’s energy grid, critical for power transmission and stability across the Vladimir region.

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Huge Democratic party win across the board, but a lot of European newspapers are just reporting on Mamdami

It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.

🇺🇸 On this day in 2008, Barack Obama was elected in a landslide to become our nation's first Black president.

(In case you are looking for a good omen today.)

The European Convention on Human Rights

Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.

Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇

🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR

There are thousands more.

#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int

Ukraine’s self-defense forces carried out precise overnight strikes against key nodes of Russia’s military-industrial complex — infrastructure that powers troop transport, fuel supply, and ammunition flow.👇

🇪🇺 “In the long term, we need to rejoin the European Union.” 👉@ZackPolanski 👏

Finally, someone in politics saying what most young people already know: Britain’s future lies back in Europe.

Rejoin the customs union. Rebuild Erasmus. Restore freedom 👏 👏 👏

#RejoinEU #SaveBritishFarming #ReUnion

Dominic Grieve’s response to Nigel Farage’s ‘let’s leave the ECHR’ stunt in parliament is spot on.

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

I knew Gill and Farage and the rest of the UKIP crew in the European Parliament

They were crooks and shysters to a man

They repeated Putin talking points and appeared on Russia Today

UKIP then and Reform now are both a threat to our democracy

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🚨🔥 #Moscow is literally surrounded by drones! In the 21st century, no tanks needed to show #Russia’s vulnerability. Last night, 🇺🇦 drones took out a strategic oil pipeline just 50 km from the #Kremlin. Three sections of Russia’s energy infrastructure are down, and over 160 refineries hit this year.

Obama: As for the president, he has been focused on critical issues like paving over the rose garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes and gold plating the Oval Office and building a ballroom… If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry. He will save you a dance.