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[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Farage on #BBCBreakfast: “If Andy Burnham becomes PM we need a General Election, no mandate!”

Sally Nugent: “Do your MPs who defected from the Tories have a mandate?”

Watch the chancer’s face as his own logic gets rammed straight back down his throat. Pure gold.

This is the exact line every interviewer should use on him from now on.😂😂😂

RT if Sally Nugent deserves a medal 👇👇👇👇

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Why did Farage run scared from news interviews today?

It’s because there’s something fishy about the £5 million he took. And he knows it.

He’s normally very happy to shout from a TV studio -as long as he controls the terms.

The truth is that cash wasn’t for Reform.
Watch👇

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

Exclusive: Richard Tice’s company broke the law by failing to pay tens of thousands of pounds in tax on dividends that were paid to him and his offshore trust.

He received at least £91,000 in excess payments as a result of the failure.

https://t.co/9g6M2jmbUT

[European Parliament @Europarl_EN]

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[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

You won’t believe who has nominated Reform UK’s HMO managing Wigan candidate Lee Moffitt?

RAY and JUNE that just won the Nigel Cut My Bills competition.

You cannot make it up.

#NigelCutTheCrap

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

This is as contrived and fake as when Lee Anderson got his mate to pretend he didn't know him in front of Michael Crick.

Farage and Reform are just a bunch of lying charlatans.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

So turns out the “London is collapsing” narrative isn’t grassroots at all.

It’s being pumped out by bots, content farms, and foreign-aligned networks then laundered through politicians and media.

Manufacture the fear. Repeat it enough. Turn it into policy.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks.
The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people.

ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher.

My Take
The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing.

I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all.

Hedgie🤗
https://t.co/8Kg8FOrgHW

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick meet the winners of Reform UK's competition to have your energy paid for the whole year

Right: Here are the two winners with Nigel Farage at a Brexit Party rally in Fylde on the 4th May 2019

Credits to @linfitlass @donmcgowan for putting this together

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

MAGA calls Europe freeloaders. Here’s what they’re not telling you.

​1. Ramstein Air Base, the most important US military hub outside America, is built on German land provided rent-free, with Germany contributing hundreds of millions to its upkeep. The US couldn’t replace it anywhere in the world.

2. Every US military operation in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia flows through Ramstein. Lose it and US power projection in the Eastern Hemisphere is crippled.

3. The UK provides and maintains RAF Lakenheath used almost entirely by the US Air Force. Italy provides Aviano. Greece provides Souda Bay. Turkey provides Incirlik. European land. European infrastructure. American operations.

4. The US Sixth Fleet depends entirely on European ports for fuel and supplies. Souda Bay, Naples, 11 Greek ports. Without them the Sixth Fleet cannot operate in the Mediterranean or project power into the Middle East.

5. The majority of NATO’s intelligence and surveillance capacity is hosted on European soil and fed directly to the CIA, NSA and Pentagon.

6. Early warning radar at Fylingdales, UK. Missile tracking in Greenland. Norwegian monitoring stations near Russia. All dependent on European goodwill.

7. It would cost America MORE to bring the troops home than keep them here. European hosts subsidise roughly a third of all basing costs.

8. Europe is America’s largest arms customer. Stop buying American and part of their defence industry goes bankrupt.

9. The bases aren’t charity. They’re America using European soil, European money and European goodwill to project power across the world.

10. We’re not the freeloaders.

[Dr Aadam Aziz @Aadam_Aziz]

Absolutely disgraceful racism from @jkyleofficial on @TalkTV. As the camera zooms in on me and @DrHWazir on the picket line, he sneers that “a lot of them have come into this country to be doctors.” He based this solely on the colour of my skin.

I was born in the UK. I studied and trained in the UK and I currently work as a doctor in the NHS. My grandfather fought for this country in WW2.

This is racist, demeaning, and utterly unacceptable.

[Carrie Coon @carriecoon]

Anne Applebaum nails it:

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

MASSIVE BOMBSHELL: DAN GOLDMAN UNLEASHES TRUTH!
Congressman Goldman just went live with FBI 302 receipts. Evidence shows Trump unzipped his pants, forced a 13-year-old’s head down, and when she bit his p*nis in self-defense, he punched her and called her a "B."

The FBI interviewed her FOUR times while the case was buried. Pam Bondi lied to Congress, claiming “no evidence” of these crimes while sitting on files describing this exact assault. This is perjury and a cover-up for a predator.

You don’t get to "save the kids" while your AG hides files of a child being beaten for fighting back. History will remember the enablers.

We stand with the children who bit back.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: The most irreversible consequence of this war is not happening in Tehran. It is happening in a barn in Iowa.

A farmer is standing over a kitchen table looking at two seed catalogues. One is corn. One is soybeans. Corn needs 180 pounds of nitrogen per acre. Nitrogen costs $610 per ton on the CBOT March futures settlement as of yesterday, up 35 percent in a month. Soybeans fix their own nitrogen from the atmosphere through root bacteria called rhizobia. They need nothing from the Strait of Hormuz.

The farmer is choosing soybeans. Millions of acres are choosing soybeans. And once the planter rolls into the field, the choice cannot be reversed until next year.

USDA projected corn at roughly 94 million acres for 2026, down from 98.8 million. Soybeans at 85 million, up from 81.2 million. Those projections were published February 19, before urea surged past $683 at New Orleans. The actual shift will be larger. USDA Prospective Plantings reports March 31. By then the seeds will be in the ground.

This is the transmission channel the world is not watching.

A 21-mile strait enforced by provincial commanders with sealed radio orders just rewrote the planting economics of 90 million acres of the most productive farmland on Earth. Not through sanctions. Not through diplomacy. Through the price of a single molecule that corn cannot grow without and soybeans do not need.

Now follow the cascade.

The Renewable Fuel Standard mandates 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol annually. That consumes roughly 43 percent of the entire US corn crop. The mandate is set by the EPA. It does not flex when corn acres shrink. It is inelastic demand consuming a fixed share of a declining supply. When supply tightens against a fixed mandate, the remaining corn reprices upward. Corn above $5 per bushel compresses every margin downstream.

The US cattle herd stands at 86.2 million head, a 75-year low per USDA NASS. Poultry and pork operations face compression from higher corn prices. Feed is the single largest cost in livestock production. When feed reprices, protein reprices. When protein reprices, every grocery shelf in America absorbs the increase.

This is the protein cascade. Corn to feed to meat to eggs to dairy to the checkout counter. Each link tightens because the link before it tightened. The originating cause is a urea molecule that cannot transit a strait because a provincial commander’s sealed orders say it cannot.

The farmer did not start this war. The farmer cannot end it. The farmer responds to the price on the screen and the biology of the two crops in front of him. Corn needs the molecule. Soybeans do not. At $610 the arithmetic is settled. The planter rolls. The season is locked.

Israel just authorised the assassination of every Iranian official on sight. The US has spent $16.5 billion. South Pars is burning. The Fed is holding rates because oil inflation will not break. Gold touched $5,000. Bitcoin is bleeding. China is running exercises near Taiwan. Sri Lanka shut down on Wednesdays.

And underneath all of it, a man in a barn is making the decision that determines whether four billion people pay more for food this year. He has never heard of the Mosaic Doctrine. He does not know what a sealed contingency packet is. He knows what nitrogen costs. And he is planting soybeans.

Full analysis - https://t.co/iFmUcarGdV

[Johann Eugen Maleta✝️🇦🇹 @JE_Maleta]

‘The Gravest Sin’: Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Responds to Hegseth Invoking God at War Briefings. "The abuse and manipulation of God’s name to justify this and any other war is the gravest sin we can commit at this time,” Cardinal Pizzaballa said.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

NEW: Reform UK risks breaching data protection laws with its competition to win free energy bills for a year, lawyers and data experts have warned.

Nigel Farage announced the lottery as a way to advertise his latest policy to cut energy bills.

But entrants have to sign up via a website, disclosing not only their name, email and telephone number, but also how they voted at last election and how they intend to vote at next one.

@kiranstacey reports

https://t.co/fAFfFh4VVQ

[Mike H @mikoh123]

Jon Sooel - You were a remainer when Cameron was PM, you were a brexiteer under Boris, you said it was shameful that Truss was still in the party but voted for her budget & now that the Tories are languishing in the polls you go to the party leading in the polls.
#bbcqt

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

“I didn’t ask him, I don’t like him, I don’t trust him.”

Nigel Farage says he was offered a safe Tory seat over 20 years ago “on a plate”, but former Conservative MP Sir Paul Beresford says it’s “completely and utterly untrue”.

[Colin McQuistan 🇬🇧🇪🇺🏍️🏃🧘‍♂️ @McquistanColin]

@Feargal_Sharkey @rolandhoskins1 @Ofwat when are you going to fulfill your public mandate to regulate the water sector? Clearly we are not getting the best customer service and you are certainly guilty of facilitating environmental pollution?
The great #EnglishWaterSwindle