to be clear, Trump's position is that violence against cops is unacceptable, but pardoning people convicted of violence against cops is the right thing to do because hey look over there!

What’s the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn’t like, vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn’t like.?

In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently

Wouldn't it be nice if this had been true under the Tories but not under Labour?

But well over half of the donations made to Wes Streeting - an advocate for private healthcare involvement in the NHS - are connected to... private healthcare.

Musk is a public order threat of the highest category, spewing far-right lies in order to destabilise political systems across Europe. Suing him for libel (which this clearly is) won’t work, just shut his network down completely.
The @ec.europa.eu needs to get serious about defending EU rule of law.

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“Obviously there will be no return to freedom of movement, the customs union or the single market” says Prime Minister Keir Starmer at #PMQs

In other news the OBR report the Gov’t keeps quoting from says Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15%. Hiding from it won’t make it go away

Musk has now threatened the leaders of Canada,Brazil, Germany. X helped create a riot in the UK. Now it seems he doesn't want the UK to make its own legal decisions. Time to act?

Afterall, the Times also managed to publish an entire article on James Dyson opposing this change without once mentioning that he reportedly owns more land than the monarch…

go.bsky.app/aMUtPo

Sad story in The Times about 88 year old farmer, John Kemp-Welch, who works 5,000 acres of difficult hill farming land in Scotland.....(sobs...)
Fortunately, he somehow found time to be Chair of the London Stock Exchange, a stockbroker for 30 years and on the board of HSBC....etc etc etc

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

"Trump has no mandate to implement Project 2025 -- in fact he denied all links with it on the campaign trail. But because of the trifecta voters handed Republicans, it's likely to happen nonetheless."

Danny Kruger repeatedly says spending on end of life care reduces when you introduce the choice of assisted dying

Victoria Derbyshire provides evidence that that is not the case

Danny Kruger doubles down and disputes the evidence

Whatever your view, ideology above facts, never a good look

Never forget how much responsibility Merrick Garland has for Donald Trump’s second presidency and total evasion of legal accountability.

"Some jobs are productive and others less so," says Kemi Badenoch, whose own job has involved trying to start a culture war with autistic children, calling for civil servants to be locked up, and attempting to start an online spat with Doctor Who

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