One day after @jaredkushner took to this platform to insist his work diplomatically is unconnected to his business interests, the Times drops this one

A reminder that not all pensioners receive a full pension rate. Further. many do not have work pensions and rely totally on this benefit. Particularly women over 75 who paid a reduced NI contribution.

Video shows Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece and former fiancee of Trump Jr. meeting privately with the leaders of Romania's Social Democratic Party on March 31st, in a Bucharest hotel. Just 6 Days later, the Social Democrats allied with the pro-Russian extremists from AUR and filled the motion that collapsed the Romanian government led by PM Bolojan, which strongly opposed purchasing US gas at above market prices. In a WSJ article yesterday, sources present at a meeting between a Greek minister and Guilfoyle stated she bragged about having collapsed the RO government for its refusal to buy US gas, warning the US can do the same in Greece.

SHAME: Former British diplomat Tom Fletcher, now head of the UN's relief agency, bows to Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi whose regime just massacred tens of thousands of protesters in January. Fletcher often echoed Iranian regime talking points against the US and Israel.

This is clear evidence that the Garvaghy protest is orchestrated, and directed from outside. If there are any actual residents there, they're being told what to do. That is not organic opposition to an orange parade. It is a republican who is an officer holder in Sinn Féin directing people in opposition to a court ruling.

Marco Rubio delivering a speech in the US Congress, shortly after the Russian annexation of Crimea in March 2014. Can we remind him?

Barack Obama at his last press briefing with reporters, 2017: "I have enjoyed working with all of you. That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics. You're supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."

Luton Twitter, it's been a while but I wanted to look at the state of play and see whether things are truly as bad as they look - or not. There are a bunch of issues at play, but none more central than the quality of goalkeeping this season, for me. A thread 🧵

Well done Fox News. Media networks need to stick together in the face of a President who seeks to dominate a free press. He needs to be reminded that the US is a democracy and citizens rely on journalists to report on government and issues effecting them.

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I am so sorry that Secretary Rubio misled you in stating that Ukraine is targeting American linked ships. This is not so. Ukraine are targeting the Russian shadow fleet as are European nations. I really do not know what he is on about. Iran causing fuel increases not Ukraine.

This was in place before and now it remains in place

So, after eighteen months of lying on the supermarket floor screaming at Denmark, Donald Trump has been handed the 1951 defence agreement, which already gave America bases and the run of Greenland for as long as NATO exists, and which it was using so enthusiastically that it closed sixteen of its seventeen installations there. The grown-ups have simply wrapped the toy he already owned in shiny new paper, told him it was the biggest present anyone has ever had, and he is now running round the garden showing it to everyone. He will certainly make the history books, although I fear not in the chapter he was hoping for.

Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin—ProPublica

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

An unelected American 🇺🇸 with no diplomatic experience is telling me to surrender my home, and telling Ukraine 🇺🇦 to surrender even more land, to an imperialist, fascist dictator committing acts of terrorism every day. I never thought I’d see the day, but here we are, Jared Kushner, negotiating away somebody else’s country.

Also, no one ever said London would take 200 years to hit the limit. The KCL paper said 21 years. But of the 130 roadside air monitors, one showed reduction so slow it would have taken 193 years. That single reading was misrepresented by City Hall as a whole-city forecast.

One of the lowest points in American history. Two grifting scumbags, representing financial interests of the US President, groveling before a mass murdering dictator that's currently helping Iran murder Americans and waging war against every American ally that's fought alongside the US, all for promises of lucrative business deals that Putin will never give them.

'Kamala will lead your sons and daughters into war. I will not.' - Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, October, 2024