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[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"You're spending something like £65 billion on defence and £360 billion on welfare. Lucky you, you must not feel any danger..."

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski on Britain's defence spending.

#Newsnight

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

What the hell, @Netflix?

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Just incredible.

And the partisan hypocrisy of those who berated the JCPOA but praise this massive transfer to Iranian terrorists is striking and tragic.

[A.A.Milne @A_AMilne]

"I would go down to the river and find a quiet place, secluded, hidden beneath the bank, and sit there for hours, watching the water as it gently twisted and eddied past me. Then I might see a damsel fly, its wings making a dry whispering sound." ~C.R.Milne

[Chuck Pfarrer | Indications & Warnings | @ChuckPfarrer]

JUST PASSING THROUGH: Breaching what was once considered the most heavily defended airspace on earth, a Ukrainian AN-196 ‘Lyutyy' strike drone sails undisturbed over downtown Moscow. And in broad daylight, too.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

ANDREW NEIL: Reform is waning — at least for now — but Kemi Badenoch has never looked in finer fettle
https://t.co/OjcWJxc2N9

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

- Giorgia Meloni
Prime Minister of Italy:;

"It doesn't seem particularly effective to tell Ukraine that it must withdraw from Ukraine.
That sounds more like a propaganda initiative than a genuine peace proposal. There can be no true peace if it means Ukraine's surrender.

The choice before us is simple: either we defend international law and the sovereignty of nations, or we accept that the strongest can impose their will by force.

We have chosen to stand on the side of freedom.
Italy will continue to stand with Ukraine."

Just, wow, she is great😉

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

MIKE JOHNSON: “If we lose the midterms, the Dems will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They will go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, and friends.”

This is actually the best case I’ve heard for voting Democrat.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

This is absolute cinema 🔥

🇺🇸 Trump TODAY: "I can’t tell a lie. Not something I do."

Fun fact: Donald Trump made 55,657 false or misleading claims as president. That’s 98 lies per day.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

“We do a Watergate twice a day” is a crazy way to confess your own corruption…

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

I’m so sick & fucking tired of watching videos of Trump colon-dwelling sycophants lying about whatever the fuck, while the droopy-faced fuckmuppet is fast asleep below them, slouched in his fucking chair. What a fucking clown show. Please make it stop.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

🎯 And when Westerners travel to repressive Islamic countries, they’re told to respect Islamic traditions. When representatives from these nations come to the West, Westerners are told to discard their traditions and freedoms and respect Islam.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Wow, now Iran’s regime and Egypt have objected to Seattle’s Pride Match and urged FIFA to remove Pride-related symbols.

This is exactly what I’ve been warning about: authoritarian Islamists never stop at asking for tolerance.

First: “Respect our religious practices. Respect our customs. Respect our sensitivities.”

Then: “Change your traditions. Silence your values. Adjust your society to our ideology.”

These are the same “values” that sentence women to 74 lashes for singing, execute gay people, and shoot peaceful protesters in the streets.

Free societies should never surrender their values to appease authoritarianism.

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Ukraine now clearly hopes to cut Crimea off from Russia. Crimea has declared a state of emergency after supplies of oil and food have been cut off by Ukrainian drones.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Now, would be a great moment to have in place a disaster relief organization to help the people of Venezuela. We once had one -- USAID -- but Trump destroyed it.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Volkswagen aims to axe up to 100,000 jobs in a “profound” strategic shift to counter trade tariffs, stagnating markets and, above all, fierce competition from China.
It will cut one in six of its 660,000 jobs worldwide and production at four German factories — the largest restructure in automotive industry history.
China is out to do to Europe’s car industry what it’s already done to its solar panel industry — destroy it.
Judging from the pathetic response of the EU so far to this threat (the UK is equally pathetic) it’s likely to succeed.
China also aims to dominate batteries, wind power machinery, machine tools, Pharma and chips — with its mercantilist ‘industrial policy of everything’.
China 2.0 poses a far bigger threat to European industry than China 1.0 over 20 years ago. Some forecasts predict over 50% of what’s left of Europe’s manufacturing base will be gone in a decade.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Trump:
“I was disappointed with Italy, with the UK. I was disappointed with Germany and France. Spain is a horror show.”

Mmmmm and what is the common denominator here?…🤔

It’s you fuckface. You are the problem here.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

To be clear: JD Vance is bragging about how corrupt the Trump administration is.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Fun fact.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Our corrupt and rigged campaign finance system has enabled 50 billionaires & special interests to pour over $1.3 billion into the midterm elections.

Democracy must be one person, one vote, not billionaires buying politicians.

Yes. We must end Citizens United and ban Super PACs.