Bron Larner @Numabiena

@politico So we're all good, then? Kiss and make up?

At approximately 12PM ET today, I’ll be speaking on the House floor to honor and memorialize the brave crew of the USS Liberty. Many survivors of the attack will be here watching my speech live from the House gallery. You can watch live as well: c-span.org/congress/?cham…

@GeauxGabrielle There was a similar case like this in NSW, Australia, a few years ago.

@GTX_Press Click bait. Not true.

@Jeetuburdak @grok So. Clickbait.

נתניהו: ”לראש ממשלה בישראל חייבת להיות יכולת אחת: להיות מסוגל להגיד ’לא!‘ לנשיא ארה"ב.“ 👇 אמש נתניהו שוב עמד בהצלחה במבחן הכי קשה מול נשיא ארה"ב.

No deal is required for us to just walk away. It’s evident that we can’t stop either side from attacking the other. There is only one realistic choice we have—stay & get sucked further into the war or look out for our interests & just walk.

The White House @WhiteHouse

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“Both sides, Israel and Iran, are looking to do an immediate CEASEFIRE! Final negotiations on “Peace” are proceeding, subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way…” - President DONALD J. TRUMP

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A year and a half later, this former under-secretary for defence in Tony Blair’s government has not been charged. Meanwhile, he has been hosted by LBC, though.

Lowkey @Lowkey0nline

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Ivor Caplin, the former chair of the Israel lobby group the JLM, which is closely linked to the Israeli embassy, has been caught by paedophile hunters attempting to meet a child. He was chair of the organisation during the campaign to oust Corbyn.

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@business If push comes to shove ... (The Maduro Gambit).

@LukeGromen SEE ALSO:

Post #2 of 4: This has all happened before... Read the quotes below from Nick Bunker's excellent 2015 book "An Empire on the Edge", about (reserve currency issuer and global hegemon) Britain's trade with China - British merchants made huge profits buying cheap goods in China & marking them up massively to the British public (sound familiar?)... ...but the problem was the Chinese didn't want any British goods in return...mainly just silver...but the "free market" Brits didn't want to let their currency reflect free market trade fundamentals - the UK's massive trade deficit with China balanced by silver should have driven GBP to collapse v. silver...but the UK wanted to have their cake (cheap stuff from China, fat corporate profits) AND eat it too (maintain GBP's value v. silver.)

@newsaboutwomen @HeidilBlake Horrifying.

@honeydijon13 @ChadSamson__ Vank off ...

@agentsmart

The UK is spending £369m refurbishing Buckingham Palace for King Charles, who has £22bn and gets £500m more a year. He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country.

@TIME What a charistmatic chap.

@commiepommie Thank you for some rational and positive coverage.

🇨🇳 Right now across China, cities are deliberately going quiet Here in Xiamen the rules are clear and city-wide: no car horns, no loud construction or renovation work and no unnecessary noise. It’s not subtle and it’s not just Xiamen. The Gaokao, China’s National College Entrance Examination, started today. Roughly 12.9 million students are sitting it over the next couple of days, with some provinces running through the 9th or 10th. Their scores will largely decide which university they attend and, for many, shape the direction their lives take. In a country this size and this competitive, that’s not an abstraction. What gets me the most living here isn’t the pressure, though it’s real and everyone feels it. It’s the collective seriousness. This isn’t a top-down crackdown. It’s not students being treated as cogs in a machine either. It’s a society deciding, at scale, that the next generation’s education is worth temporarily reorganising daily life around. Construction pauses, traffic patterns shift and the police are out, but not in the way Western headlines tend to imply. Here in Xiamen I’ve seen them gently reminding drivers and workers to keep the noise down. Polite, professional and focused on protecting students’ concentration rather than making a show of authority. The goal is simple: give these kids the best possible shot at performing when it counts. That attitude works for bigger things. China doesn’t lead the world in EVs, high-speed rail, renewables, advanced manufacturing and a growing share of frontier STEM fields by accident. The reason it’s leading is that it sees developing its people as a main national focus, not an optional extra or a political distraction. The Gaokao is one visible expression of that. A highly competitive, performance-driven process that funnels talent into the organisation on a vast scale. When a country of 1.4 billion people decides its children’s education is important enough to quiet entire cities for it, you start to understand the results you see in patents, infrastructure and technological development speed. Western coverage tends to reduce this to “exam hell” or “rote memorisation factories.” That framing misses the point. What you’re seeing here is the practical outcome of consistent, long-term investment in the next generation, defined by concrete actions that underscore the principle that those who prepare for the future will own it. The kids sitting these exams today will be the ones building, innovating and leading the next phase of what’s happening here. The country is making sure they get the quiet they need to do it.

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🇨🇳 The West loves to lecture China about “democracy” while their own voters get more fed up with every election. Politicians come and go, campaigns make all kinds of amazing promises. But once the votes are in, nothing really changes. The same groups stay in control and regular people are left waiting. Is that really what they call freedom of choice? China operates on a completely different model. One that can be hard to understand and easy to misinterpret. President Xi Jinping didn’t gain power through inheritance or wealth. He worked his way up for over forty years, serving at every tier: villages, counties, cities and provinces. He has spent his life governing, not just running for office. Top leadership is elected by the National People’s Congress, while local residents choose their community representatives, with the entire system built from the grassroots up. The Communist Party of China is the world’s largest political organisation, with almost 100 million members rooted in communities nationwide. Its five-year plans aren’t just empty promises either; they get delivered. This is how China pulled hundreds of millions out of poverty, built the planet’s most extensive high-speed rail network and now takes the lead in electric vehicles, renewable energy and key cutting-edge technologies. The country’s leadership has a clear mission: to rejuvenate the nation and work for the Chinese people. When people see real progress being made, the system stays stable, rather than cycling through one disappointment after another. This is supported by the polls. Long-running research from Harvard Kennedy School shows Chinese public satisfaction with the government consistently sits above 90 percent. Edelman’s global trust surveys record government trust at 89 to 91 percent among the highest worldwide. National happiness scores range from 70 to 79 out of 100. Considering everything, it’s reasonable to argue he’s among the most effective national leaders in the world right now. It’s understandable why the critics target this; after all, China keeps achieving things their nations simply cannot. If you witness this steady progress firsthand while living here in China, the reality is simply astonishing. At the end of the day, I have to wonder: does that so-called Western freedom of choice truly deliver better lives for ordinary people, or is it just better marketing?

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@POLITICOEurope How evil the Chinese are, providing cheap goods.