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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 1d

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy

Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

www.ft.com

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 1d

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 1d

I had a ruder phrase but then thought the better of it

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks David!

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 1d

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy

Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

www.ft.com

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Son of Eric @spiritof44.bsky.social · 3d

A BLIND ELDERLY man using a mobility cane is ARRESTED for holding a sign which read "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

#PalestineAction #GazaGenocide

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 4d

Weds column

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René Smits @rs-lawsociety.bsky.social · 6d

read this - on revenge by Trump and backlash against @opensocietybr.bsky.social
on.ft.com/4pVuUtK Why Trump is going for Soros
by @edwardluce.bsky.social in today’s @financialtimes.com

Why Trump is going for Soros

The philanthropist is as close as the world’s strongmen get to a cross-border demon

on.ft.com

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 7d

Pretty sure it’s Trump not Starmer

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 7d

I defer to you on that.

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 7d

that he's got a poor record on his own I don't doubt. But he was a partner at Soros Fund management for many years

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 7d

? Bessent's career is well known and on the public record.

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 8d

Didn’t miss just thought it so obvious no need to repeat.

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 8d

Hegseth’s a disgrace to any trained soldier: “Comfortable inside our lethality”, “killing is what we do”. WTF play acting is this?

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 8d

"Soros is as close as the world’s strongmen get to a cross-border demon. The very name of his foundation — Open Society — offers a strong hint. Those who prefer closed societies dislike Soros." My column. www.ft.com/content/aa00...

Why Trump is going for Soros

The philanthropist is as close as the world’s strongmen get to a cross-border demon

www.ft.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11d

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 13d

Whenever I have to take the cartoonish primate pose at TSA security, I think of Pete Hegseth.

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