Ex-Optimist 🇬🇧
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I have an inferiority complex but frankly it's not a very good one.
No DMs unless you're a stunning nymphomaniac brewery heiress with a father on life support.
No DMs unless you're a stunning nymphomaniac brewery heiress with a father on life support.
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About bloody time . . .
Trump is facing a GOP rebellion over the Epstein files which Johnson can no longer contain.
The discharge petition now has enough signatures to force a vote and more Republicans are saying they will go on record and vote to release the files.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
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The discharge petition now has enough signatures to force a vote and more Republicans are saying they will go on record and vote to release the files.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
apple.news/APWddSMmUR-
Epstein furor takes over in the House — The Hill
The furor surrounding Jeffrey Epstein is in full force with the return of the House and the end of the government shutdown.
apple.news
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
About bloody time . . .
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Another reason to Honor Veterans. Full Stop. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Another reason to Honor Veterans. Full Stop. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
2,000 years ago the 'European' single market depended on slaves.
👉 2,000 years ago Europe had a single market, single currency, and free movement
𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗘’𝗦 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗘𝗧
Once united by conquest, now united by consent - how Europe was rebuilt as a democracy.
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𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗘’𝗦 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗘𝗧
Once united by conquest, now united by consent - how Europe was rebuilt as a democracy.
Read and share:
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November 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
2,000 years ago the 'European' single market depended on slaves.
What makes you think that?
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
What makes you think that?
Here is a nice photo of Mr Trump and some young friends in an aeroplane.
I wonder what happened next.
I wonder what happened next.
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Here is a nice photo of Mr Trump and some young friends in an aeroplane.
I wonder what happened next.
I wonder what happened next.
I've a feeling that these gals have hugely larger balls than their spineless political menfolk.
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I've a feeling that these gals have hugely larger balls than their spineless political menfolk.
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More than a dozen Israeli soldiers spoke to ITV for their new documentary Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, about how their army’s two-year campaign in Gaza involved shooting unarmed Palestinians en masse, using teenagers as human shields, and flattening entire neighborhoods without pretext of...
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
More than a dozen Israeli soldiers spoke to ITV for their new documentary Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, about how their army’s two-year campaign in Gaza involved shooting unarmed Palestinians en masse, using teenagers as human shields, and flattening entire neighborhoods without pretext of...
Haha, this is fabulous . . .
Responding to a 2017 message that Trump was 'so gross', Jeffrey Epstein said Trump was "worse in real life and upclose."
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Haha, this is fabulous . . .
Disappointed as they are with their elder statesmen, Democratic voters can live with this.
Republican MAGA cult members on the other hand will shit their pants.
Republican MAGA cult members on the other hand will shit their pants.
Tara Palmieri says "jaw-dropping" revelations in the Epstein files will implicate no fewer than 30 identifiable, powerful people on both sides of the political spectrum once all the files are released.
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Disappointed as they are with their elder statesmen, Democratic voters can live with this.
Republican MAGA cult members on the other hand will shit their pants.
Republican MAGA cult members on the other hand will shit their pants.
I've never met a Canadian I didn't like.
Turns out I've got bloody millions of lovely Canadians still to meet.
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/202...
Turns out I've got bloody millions of lovely Canadians still to meet.
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/202...
Canadians continued to shun travel to the U.S. in October
Canadians continued to steer clear of the United States in October, with the month marking yet another major drop in year-over-year visitors.
www.bnnbloomberg.ca
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I've never met a Canadian I didn't like.
Turns out I've got bloody millions of lovely Canadians still to meet.
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/202...
Turns out I've got bloody millions of lovely Canadians still to meet.
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/202...
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NEW: Trump, Blanche, Bondi and Patel are going to meet with Boebert. Maybe they’re going to pressure her to remove her name from the discharge petition? www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/p...
Exclusive: Trump administration plans meeting over House effort to force release of all of DOJ’s Epstein files | CNN Politics
Top Trump administration officials were planning to meet Wednesday about an effort in the US House to force a vote on releasing Justice Department case files related to Jeffrey Epstein, according to m...
www.cnn.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
NEW: Trump, Blanche, Bondi and Patel are going to meet with Boebert. Maybe they’re going to pressure her to remove her name from the discharge petition? www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/p...
Following the release of 3 emails by Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee, Republicans on the Committee have swamped the media with 20,000 pages.
So what's in them?
Live feed by the BBC ➡️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
So what's in them?
Live feed by the BBC ➡️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
New Epstein emails that mention Trump released by House Democrats - live updates
The White House accuses Democrats of creating a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Following the release of 3 emails by Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee, Republicans on the Committee have swamped the media with 20,000 pages.
So what's in them?
Live feed by the BBC ➡️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
So what's in them?
Live feed by the BBC ➡️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...
The American Political Science Association has rated the orange con man and felon as the worst U.S. President in history.
www.axios.com/2024/02/19/p...
www.axios.com/2024/02/19/p...
Historians rank Trump as worst president
Obama was the only living president to make the top 10.
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The American Political Science Association has rated the orange con man and felon as the worst U.S. President in history.
www.axios.com/2024/02/19/p...
www.axios.com/2024/02/19/p...
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Donald Trump in the US pardons scores of supporters for their roles in his plot to steal the 2020 election from Joe Biden and the scandal in Britain is a bad edit in a BBC hour-long programme on that attempted coup.
Get a grip, people!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Get a grip, people!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump pardons Giuliani, Meadows and others over plot to steal 2020 election
Federal clemency towards president’s close allies largely symbolic as some still face legal exposure at state level
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Donald Trump in the US pardons scores of supporters for their roles in his plot to steal the 2020 election from Joe Biden and the scandal in Britain is a bad edit in a BBC hour-long programme on that attempted coup.
Get a grip, people!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Get a grip, people!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Musk says the UK is a police state and has called for the dissolution of Parliament yet all UK government departments use X as part of their digital communications strategy.
To start a petition requesting a change in this government policy I need 5 British supporters. Anyone interested?
To start a petition requesting a change in this government policy I need 5 British supporters. Anyone interested?
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Musk says the UK is a police state and has called for the dissolution of Parliament yet all UK government departments use X as part of their digital communications strategy.
To start a petition requesting a change in this government policy I need 5 British supporters. Anyone interested?
To start a petition requesting a change in this government policy I need 5 British supporters. Anyone interested?
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The owner of the Daily Mail, Viscount Rothermere, was an admirer of Hitler and openly supported British Fascists in his paper . . .
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The owner of the Daily Mail, Viscount Rothermere, was an admirer of Hitler and openly supported British Fascists in his paper . . .
When will UK Government departments stop posting on X?
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
When will UK Government departments stop posting on X?
Great perspective . . .
November 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Great perspective . . .
When people with political and commercial axes to grind blame an organisation for not reflecting a 'polarised society' remember that truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between two opposite points of view: it is possible for one side to simply be wrong.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie says departure is ‘my own decision’, while head of news also quits, as BBC prepares to apologise for editing of a Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
When people with political and commercial axes to grind blame an organisation for not reflecting a 'polarised society' remember that truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between two opposite points of view: it is possible for one side to simply be wrong.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
I hope Africa has some good bands.
It's about time they did a BandAid concert in reverse.
It's about time they did a BandAid concert in reverse.
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I hope Africa has some good bands.
It's about time they did a BandAid concert in reverse.
It's about time they did a BandAid concert in reverse.
