Matt Lake
@mattelake.bsky.social
Book lover and often tortured follower of Liverpool FC, Worcestershire CCC and Welsh rugby. All posts personal and shares are not endorsements
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So not from tariff money www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump's military bonus will draw $2.6 billion from military housing funds
Trump’s announcement that U.S. troops would get a $1,776 bonus in their stockings this year will cost about $2.6 billion, and the one-time payment will come
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December 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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For years, rumors swirled about where his wealth came from. A Times investigation reveals the truth of how a college dropout clawed his way to the pinnacle of American finance and society.
He constructed a sex-trafficking operation that would later ensnare hundreds of teenage girls and young women.
He constructed a sex-trafficking operation that would later ensnare hundreds of teenage girls and young women.
Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich
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December 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
For years, rumors swirled about where his wealth came from. A Times investigation reveals the truth of how a college dropout clawed his way to the pinnacle of American finance and society.
He constructed a sex-trafficking operation that would later ensnare hundreds of teenage girls and young women.
He constructed a sex-trafficking operation that would later ensnare hundreds of teenage girls and young women.
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Surprise, surprise! The grifter was discovered.
The $1776 Warrior Dividend checks are coming from money already allocated for the military housing allowance. In other words...
He's giving the military money they were already getting, and making it sound like he's such a patriot.
The $1776 Warrior Dividend checks are coming from money already allocated for the military housing allowance. In other words...
He's giving the military money they were already getting, and making it sound like he's such a patriot.
Trump's new $1,776 ‘Warrior Dividend’ to troops is coming from Pentagon funding, not tariffs
The “Warrior Dividend” that President Donald Trump announced Wednesday is not a Christmas bonus made possible by tariff revenues, as the president appeared to suggest during his televised address to t...
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December 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Surprise, surprise! The grifter was discovered.
The $1776 Warrior Dividend checks are coming from money already allocated for the military housing allowance. In other words...
He's giving the military money they were already getting, and making it sound like he's such a patriot.
The $1776 Warrior Dividend checks are coming from money already allocated for the military housing allowance. In other words...
He's giving the military money they were already getting, and making it sound like he's such a patriot.
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The prosecution by the Trump administration is an effort to send a message to judges who oppose the president’s deportation efforts that Trump intends to exact revenge against them in any manner he can, no matter how contrived or absurd.
4 Takeaways From Trial of Judge Accused of Aiding Undocumented Immigrant
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December 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The prosecution by the Trump administration is an effort to send a message to judges who oppose the president’s deportation efforts that Trump intends to exact revenge against them in any manner he can, no matter how contrived or absurd.
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‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
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December 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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I hope more in the USA see him and his Band of Hatefuls for what they are clearly telling us they are. The worst collection in the Whitehouse ever.
I hope more in the USA see him and his Band of Hatefuls for what they are clearly telling us they are. The worst collection in the Whitehouse ever.
Trump’s ‘Bah! Humbug!’ address suggests he is feeling the chill of opinion polls
Primetime speech – delivered with shouty spirit but no cheer – betrayed a figure dogged by a cost of living crisis and the looming release of the Epstein files
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December 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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I hope more in the USA see him and his Band of Hatefuls for what they are clearly telling us they are. The worst collection in the Whitehouse ever.
I hope more in the USA see him and his Band of Hatefuls for what they are clearly telling us they are. The worst collection in the Whitehouse ever.
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The latest project with Jessie Pang, Han Huang and James Pomfret is about the national security trial of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai.
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December 14, 2025 at 5:22 AM
The latest project with Jessie Pang, Han Huang and James Pomfret is about the national security trial of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai.
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Right... it's all about halting drugs... www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...
Trump says he will pardon former Honduran president serving sentence in drug-trafficking case | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Friday he intends to grant a “full and complete pardon” to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a move that would erase a major US drug-trafficking conviction ...
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November 30, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Right... it's all about halting drugs... www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...
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👀 Tensions grow after research in England finds there may not be enough water for planned carbon capture and hydrogen projects
🚨 Add this to the AI data centre problem with water, and some serious rethinking is needed by GOV.UK
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🚨 Add this to the AI data centre problem with water, and some serious rethinking is needed by GOV.UK
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Water shortages could derail UK’s net zero plans, study finds
Tensions grow after research in England finds there may not be enough water for planned carbon capture and hydrogen projects
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
👀 Tensions grow after research in England finds there may not be enough water for planned carbon capture and hydrogen projects
🚨 Add this to the AI data centre problem with water, and some serious rethinking is needed by GOV.UK
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🚨 Add this to the AI data centre problem with water, and some serious rethinking is needed by GOV.UK
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Trump plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking
Hernandez was convicted in U.S. court of conspiring to import cocaine & fentanyl into the U.S.A. & was convicted for drug trafficking & weapons charges & sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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Hernandez was convicted in U.S. court of conspiring to import cocaine & fentanyl into the U.S.A. & was convicted for drug trafficking & weapons charges & sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking sentence
President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 ye...
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November 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Trump plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking
Hernandez was convicted in U.S. court of conspiring to import cocaine & fentanyl into the U.S.A. & was convicted for drug trafficking & weapons charges & sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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Hernandez was convicted in U.S. court of conspiring to import cocaine & fentanyl into the U.S.A. & was convicted for drug trafficking & weapons charges & sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
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November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Officials Had Been Warned for Over a Year Before Hong Kong Fire www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Officials Had Been Warned for Over a Year Before Hong Kong Fire
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November 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Officials Had Been Warned for Over a Year Before Hong Kong Fire www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
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Immigration agents swept into North Carolina this week. “They came in, they made a splash, they terrorized, and they left,” the mayor of Durham tells @dgraham.bsky.social in The Atlantic Daily:
Border Patrol’s Chaotic Week in North Carolina
Agents swept in and left residents to sort through fear, fact, and fiction.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Immigration agents swept into North Carolina this week. “They came in, they made a splash, they terrorized, and they left,” the mayor of Durham tells @dgraham.bsky.social in The Atlantic Daily:
Why the British dream of moving to Australia is far from the paradise people think - The Telegraph apple.news/AOLB4WE47RQq...
Why the British dream of moving to Australia is far from the paradise people think — The Telegraph
Expats reveal what they wish they knew before leaving the UK for the other side of the world
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November 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Why the British dream of moving to Australia is far from the paradise people think - The Telegraph apple.news/AOLB4WE47RQq...
