GayfordA

Taking a journalistic interest. Likes facts, creativity & human decency. #FBPA Bunny Hugger & mask wearer

[GayfordA @RejoinersRus]

Watch this and share widely, should be available to all for public information! https://t.co/k1DBchxTII

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration has abandoned over 3 dozen lawsuits against major corporations, allowing companies to keep millions they had already agreed to refund to consumers.

This includes companies run by Trump megadonors, Don Jr, and Pam Bondi's brother.

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

"I really hope the British public learns the lesson of Donald Trump, when it comes to Nigel Farage."

Congressman Brendan Boyle says the Reform leader is a "fraud", but is it too late for the UK?

https://t.co/GlJMCNDVhu

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

We cannot increase our reliance on US technology while the President is tearing up the rules-based order and threatening our allies.

Ministers must wake up to reality, cancel their misguided F-35A order, and buy British jets instead.

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

1/ NEW: The net zero economy is now supporting:

✅Over 1m jobs
✅£105bn in GVA
✅22,000 small businesses

This analysis from @CBItweets is a reminder that net zero is a great British success story. And exactly why this Government is doubling down.

https://t.co/ppuG7DKY2B

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Germany's Chancellor Merz:

We are 450 million consumers in the European Union.

The European Union has 100 million more consumers than the United States of America. We must not make ourselves smaller than we are.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Another one bites the dust

Reform councillor quits after just 25 days (and one meeting) https://t.co/ljBUj5DhiB

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Dr. Oz really just said that Trump has gone to the doctor 4 times because he does so well there and "likes the results".

The scariest thing about this is that this man is actually a real doctor who heads up the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

We are so screwed!

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

New reports reveal that the Trump admin has reassigned ATF agents to immigration work instead of gun trafficking prevention, causing ATF agents to leave the agency:

"I didn’t sign up to be an immigration person... I don’t see things getting better. I see things getting worse.”

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration is withholding funds from the bipartisan group created to celebrate America's 250th birthday, instead funneling $68 million in taxpayer funds to Trump's Freedom 250 group.

Freedom 250 is in charge of the White House UFC fight and the botched Great American Concert Series.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

U.S. Senator @SenGaryPeters calls out Trump for punishing victims of natural disasters due to their political affiliation:

"There are reports that President Trump has approved nearly 90 percent of disaster requests from red states, but only 23 percent from blue states even when the request met the FEMA-established threshold for federal assistance. I have behind me a chart that's up there now showing this unprecedented politicization of disaster assistance by the administration. I don't think there's any other president since the establishment of FEMA that has chosen to actually punish American citizens that have survived a flood or a wildfire because their home state governor or senator's political affiliation."

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Russia’s only response to losing on the battlefield and watching its economy collapse is to threaten Europe with destruction and murder more Ukrainian civilians with missile & drone attacks. Why do the most powerful economies and militaries in the world tolerate this terror?

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America.

This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

At a time when ocean temperatures are smashing records and scientists are still trying to understand how fast the system is shifting under climate change, they are talking about scrapping a 368 million dollar early warning network that has ALREADY BEEN PAID FOR by tax payers.

This is not just a few sensors in the sea. It is a network of ~900 instruments measuring temperature, currents, carbon, chemistry and ecosystem change. It was designed to deliver long term data over decades.

This would effectively end key long running records and that matters because ocean data only becomes powerful over time. You cannot rebuild a continuous climate record once it is interrupted.

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

It looks like they’re getting the old band back together on the far-right.

Farage and Tommy Robinson are leading the field in calling for hatred and rage.

Are they inciting hatred that could lead to civil unrest?

I’d say so. And I’d go one further and say that it’s their stated aim.

Painting a target on the backs of police and assembling a bunch of yobs will not end in a peaceful protest.

Will it?

[Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) @speechboy71]

Earlier this week, Will Smith and I released a new Stimson Center report on the war in Iran as part of the "Is War Worth It?" project.

We examined the stated US objectives, whether the US achieved them, and the costs (direct and indirect) of the conflict.

Our conclusion: the Iran War is worse than a failure. It's a strategic calamity with no notable achievements and potentially trillions in direct and indirect costs to the US and global economy.

Iran’s nuclear capacity is broadly unchanged, its missile force largely intact, its hard-liners empowered, its leverage over the Strait of Hormuz enhanced, and U.S. munitions stockpiles depleted.

How did we come to that conclusion?

We actually took into account how the Trump administration publicly tried to justify the war -- and then took a deep dive look at the costs of the war. https://t.co/yR28eZwbnT

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Trump appoints a totally unqualified political crony who's shown a willingness to violate ethics rules and probably the law to go after Trump's political opponents as Acting Director of National Intelligence.

A ludicrous appointment, but a very dangerous one.

[Lib Dem Peers @LibDemPeers]

Donald Trump could legally donate to UK political parties under the government's current plans and @markpack, Cabinet Office spokesperson, wants to know why ministers are letting it happen.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

That’s odd because Trump and the White House said that tariffs don’t increase costs

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Rubio: "We're getting a lot of questions about us. I don't think it's fair because ultimately the people who have closed the Strait of Hormuz are Iran."

Sen. Schatz: "Nobody's defending what Iran is doing. I think what we're saying is this was not just predictable, it was predicted…It's really shocking to me the degree to which this administration expresses shock that the thing that everybody said was going to happen ended up happening."