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[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Democrats got their leftist Joe Rogan and are too allergic to winning to realize it

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Today, we're putting the cowboys out of business.

Most builders in this country are decent people who take pride in their work and charge a fair price for it.

But the small number who don’t follow the same pattern: take a big deposit, do half a job, then disappear with your hard-earned money.

That's got to change. So we're backing a new system that gives you the option to have your money held safely and released bit by bit as the work is completed.

Do the work, get paid. It's as simple as that.

And we'll help our good builders stand out from the cowboys too.

Tradespeople who meet our new set of standards will be able to show customers that they do things properly and can be trusted with their homes.

This is another one of our everyday fixes to help with the cost of living, and to get people in every part of this country to finally believe in Britain again.

[Malcolm Conn @malcolmconn]

Under Article 2.4 of the @ICC constitution government interference in a country’s cricket administration is prohibited… YET PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi, Pakistan’s Minister of the Interior, is said to be behind a threat by Pakistan to abandon the Test
https://t.co/Heqxdt1kIj

[Vikrant Gupta @vikrantgupta73]

Pakistan threatened Lord’s Test boycott after broadcaster Sky Sports telecast interview with Imran Khan’s two sons which was actually recorded at the Lord’s Long Room a day before the Test. PCB wanted SKY not to air the interview during Lunch break else they wouldn’t take the field post Lunch.
The 18-min interview done by Michael Atherton (one of the 21 captains to sign the letter to Pak PM) was shown and Pak did take the field too

#PakvsEng

[Ihtisham Ul Haq @iihtishamm]

Imran Khan’s sons, @Kasim_Khan_1999 and Suleman, have given an interview to Sky Sports ahead of the second Test match between England and Pakistan at Lord’s.
#EngvsPak

[PTI @PTIofficial]

“The most intense and harsh prison conditions I’ve seen in my 25-year career.”

International human rights lawyer @JaredGenser told @CNN that the torturous solitary confinement and isolation of former Prime Minister Imran Khan is part of a deliberate strategy by the Pakistani regime to “crush his spirit or break him psychologically.”

#FreeImranKhan

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Carville: “What AIPAC doesn’t understand is a lot of people and a lot of Democrats can’t stand the current government of Israel and you can spend all the fucking money you want telling me they’re good and I’m not gonna ever believe it. The people that say that people that disagree with the policies of the government of Israel are antisemites are frankly full of shit and they need to be told that. You can’t have the kind of policies the government of Israel is engaged in and not expect that there’s gonna be pushback and backlash”

[Chris Doyle @Doylech]

The LFI argument is a disgrace. Just because Israel makes its hard to tell which are Israeli goods and which are settlement goods is not the UK's problem. It is Israel's. You do not get to export proceeds of crime just because the criminal party mixes the legal with the illegal.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇺🇸 Former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes called House Democrats’ elevation of Jared Moskowitz to the top Democratic position on the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee “a giant fuck you from Democratic leadership to Democratic voters,” adding: “This is not subtle.”

Rhodes questioned how House Foreign Affairs ranking member Gregory Meeks could claim to oppose the war with Iran while appointing “one of the only Dems who supported the war” to lead the subcommittee responsible for overseeing it.

In a separate post, Rhodes argued the appointments reveal how Democrats intend to govern — with disregard for war crimes and voter concerns.

[Financial Times @FT]

Pakistan's imprisoned former leader may not survive his imprisonment unless he's given proper medical treatment, one of his sons said. https://t.co/qa06Whhw0K

[Meral Hussein-Ece @meralhece]

You wrote this headline with a straight face? Imagine ‘Putin warns he’d kill Ukrainian children if they fly kites’

[Dr. Betul Dogan-Akkas @betuldoganakkas]

A very timely and focused expert discussion on the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement and what it means for the future of regional security @ME_Council. Together with @Rabs_AA and @AzizAlghashian, moderated by @omarrahman, we discuss the emerging Saudi–Türkiye–Pakistan defense framework, shifting security partnerships, and the region’s changing reliance on traditional external powers. Link is below for this significant conversation on a rapidly evolving regional security architecture.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham plays a Smiths song on the guitar with a soldier in Ukraine

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The ongoing detention and shocking mistreatment of Imran Khan is a grave violation of human rights, democracy and basic decency.

I reiterate my calls for his release.

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

Prime Minister @andyburnham and Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband : how much longer will Britain remain silent?

For three years the father of my two sons, and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has been brutally penalised by his political opponents, in a personal vendetta by Army Chief, Asim Munir,  which according to the UN,  amounts to torture and which  is now taking a potentially fatal toll on his physical and mental health. 

He has endured 3 years of solitary confinement. For nearly ten months now his family has been denied contact with him. He has been deprived of the most basic human contact, denied access to books, lawyers and doctors.

The international human-rights standards are unequivocal. Under the UN’s Nelson Mandela Rules, solitary confinement lasting more than 15 consecutive days is prohibited and amounts to torture.

He has endured this treatment not for 15 days, but for three years.

Pakistan’s own Supreme Court has now intervened: ordering comprehensive  medical treatment, access to his personal doctor, regular family visits and twice-weekly calls with his sons.

Yet those orders are being defied.

This is no longer simply a Pakistani political matter. It is a human-rights emergency.

He has deep and lifelong ties to Britain. He studied at Oxford University, captained Oxford University cricket and spent years playing county cricket in England. His relationship with this country stretches back more than half a century. His charitable activities were internationally recognised, and  include building the only free cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as a university.

His sons, my two boys, Sulaiman and Kasim, are British citizens. They have been forced to watch their father’s health decline from thousands of miles away, prevented from visiting him, denied visas, publicly threatened by government officials with arrest themselves, and even denied court-mandated regular phone calls. 

I have repeatedly appealed to the UK government to intervene. Purported attempts at back channelling have evidently failed. The previous Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy informed me in writing that Britain would not  intervene if my sons, British citizens, are arrested when they travel to Pakistan to visit their father. 

@FCDOGovUK: Britain must now speak out publicly and unequivocally. Demand that Pakistan comply with its own Supreme Court;  restore Imran Khan’s medical access, his right to see his family, end his prolonged isolation and uphold his fundamental human rights.

Pakistan is a Commonwealth country. Britain has a long and proud tradition of standing against arbitrary detention, inhumane treatment and the denial of fundamental rights. Those principles mean very little if we invoke them only selectively and neglect them when inconvenient.
This an appeal to the new Burnham government  to please now do the right thing.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The only meeting Hakeem Jeffries should be having with Jared Kushner is to tell him he’ll be subpoenaed by the House for a corruption investigation on day one of Democratic control of the House.

This is just pathetic stuff from the House Dem leader.
https://t.co/hy6lq7vYMk

[Niraj Warikoo @nwarikoo]

Speaking today at a Pakistani-American event in metro Detroit, U.S. Senate Dem nominee Abdul El-Sayed called for democracy in Pakistan, currently under military rule: “On the 79th anniversary of Pakistan, we also have to be clear that right now, democracy is not being allowed to take its place.” El-Sayed cricitized the jailing and intimidation of politicians such as ex-PM Imran Khan.

[Vikrant Gupta @vikrantgupta73]

BREAKING NEWS: 22 Former international cricket captains have once again written a letter to Pakistan PM over the treatment for Imran Khan. They first wrote a similar letter in February and this one comes after Pak allegedly didn’t completely comply with SC directions.
They have laid down 3 demands:
1. That the medical board directed by the Supreme Court — including Mr Khan's own doctors — be permitted to complete a full and independent assessment of his health, particularly the reported loss of vision in his right eye.
2. That the weekly family visits reinstated by the Court be honoured without interruption or administrative delay.
3. That whatever the outcome of that medical assessment, the treatment recommended by it be provided without delay.

Three Indians - Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar and Dilip Vengsarkar are among the 22 former captains.
#ImranKhan

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

Imran Khan ‘being tortured in prison’

Former Pakistani leader’s sister claims he is ‘subjected to severe psychological pressure’

https://t.co/dRiTsnzBcr

[Politics For You @PoliticoForYou]

🚨 He’s reaching Mamdani levels of ‘Actually quite good at this.”