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US judge orders refunds for more than $130 billion in illegal Trump tariffs. Trade court directs customs to repay importers with interest after supreme court ruled tariffs unlawful. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
#tariffs #economy #economics #SCOTUS #law
Um, Fort Campbell middle school would like a word. We have many schools on bases, and Bolton knows it. More ghoulish nonsense from war Hawks to justify the murder of little girls.
Here's your first look at tomorrow's front page 📰
Tony Blair's 'secret' plan for NHS in Scotland 🥀
I wrote this for International Women's Day about our experiences facing down fascists over the last seven months. It's half the length it originally was (submission guidelines). There's so much more to say about the casual misogyny built into Unite The Clans and their friends.
NEW BLOGPOST: Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty
For any MP unsure of how to vote on the government’s proposals to restrict trial by jury.
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This is insane.
Blair is the last person who should be piping up.
Trump’s appetite for military adventurism and risk-taking seems undiminished and at this point I’m guessing will only be curbed by disaster.
Month after month of Starmer polishing Trump's posterior to a fine sheen rather than stand up to him, all in the bin now.
Special relationship? Gone. (In truth, that was the case years ago.)
I hope Starmer will now tear up the hideous one-sided surrender trade deal. But I don't expect he will.
Arguably a "bold" move to pull off in an election year.
Obama on Jesse Jackson: "The message he sent to a 22 year old child of a single mother with a funny name, an outsider, was that maybe there wasn't any place, any room, where we didn't belong"
FT exclusive:
Russia has shared targeting intelligence with Iran, including locations of American military assets in the Middle East, as Tehran unleashes a barrage of drone and missile strikes against the US and its allies, said people familiar with the matter.
www.ft.com/content/19be...
Absolutely spot on. Very astute, clear summary of the unfortunate situation we find ourselves in.
This is almost exactly what I said would happen on yesterday’s show. The conflicting & contradictory reasons given for the war, coupled with client journalists & pusillanimous politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, will enable him to claim ‘success’ when nothing remotely successful has happened.
Belarusian freedom fighters Maria Kalesnikava and Viktar Babaryka are out after years in prison and here in my Brussels office with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.
Maria says she was always “free in her mind” during her detention - inspiring.
All political prisoners must be released and repression ended
Remember this is what Badenoch and Farage believe we should be doing.
Barack Obama lashed out at President Donald Trump for conducting an "assault on our democratic institutions" as he paid tribute to the late civil rights activist Jesse Jackson.
"Every day, you wake up to things you just didn't think were possible."
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Even the right-wing press, once so wedded to the notion of #Brexit and its inevitable success, is beginning to let slip that perhaps it hasn’t all gone as swimmingly as many suggested it would. It’s been a long and downhill road since the Brexit referendum.
eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
What a mess 👀
"A councillor who defected to Reform UK from the Conservatives rejoined the Tories in the same week."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7955ee0v30o
Repressive régimes attack #journalism
Israel has slaughtered hundreds of Palestinian #journalists
Now turns it attention on foreign reporters.
Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.
A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.
Energy insecurity. Higher bills. Exposure to catastrophic economic consequences of Trump's wars.
That's what happens when you fail to shift fast enough to renewables, and cut back on support for clean energy.
Let's cut bills & create jobs through a clean power revolution.
LIVE: A large anti-immigration protest is taking place at Sighthill in Edinburgh, following an incident on Monday in which two people were injured
Updates: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Tomorrow's paper 📰
This is the human cost
Good evening
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Following last year’s Gen Z-led revolution, Nepalis voted on Thursday for a new government. A millennial rapper and former mayor is aiming to lead the country, six months after the old guard was ousted. nyti.ms/3MOGMit
AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do
Holy shit! With America's pedophile führer sending young men and women off to die in a war with Iran for the benefit of Israel, Marine Corps veteran Brian McGinnis, shouting "No one wants to fight for Israel," had his arm broken by MAGA Senator Tim Sheehy and police. 😡😡😡👇
