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[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

💷 Reform UK is raising millions more than other political parties from private donations, bringing in £9m largely from cryptocurrency billionaires in first three months of year.

Nigel Farage’s party took £3m donation from Christopher Harborne, a British-Thai dual citizen, and £4m from Ben Delo, who is relocating to UK from Hong Kong.

Between them, the pair’s donations account for a third of all private money flowing into politics in first quarter.

Reform’s fundraising far outstripped Labour and the Tories, which each raised about £4m from private donations.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

The Guardian reports that Reform UK have got

Another £3m from foreign based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne

And £4m from another crypto billionaire Ben Delo

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

I remember when Zack Polanski RT'd a person criticising the Police's excessive use of force.

He was publicly condemned by the MET Chief as if he had committed a serious crime.

Nigel Farage incites riots, AGAIN, and we have complete silence.

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice

"We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights."

Full statement👇
https://t.co/2eZAsJXdzV

[Alexander Brown @AlexofBrown]

Exc: Nigel Farage's Reform is pocketing a fortune from people or companies linked to offshore tax havens, new analysis reveals. Of the £18.6million donated to the party last year, some £15m came from those with offshore links.
https://t.co/im7ZaEvQur

[THE NERVE @thenerve_news]

NEW

Nigel Farage keeps changing his story about why crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne gave him £5m in 2024

Ex-MP and professor of law David Howarth lines up each of Farage's explanations against what the rules actually say

[HOPE not hate @hopenothate]

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate, Rob Kenyon, had a SECOND deleted social media account, and the archived posts are damning.

https://t.co/sJTR1gl63y

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world.

https://t.co/mJqk5FxkFY

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

⚡️BREAKING:

The New York Times obtained autopsy reports for 14 of the 15 people killed in the March 23 Israeli attack on an ambulance and fire truck in Gaza.

The reports show that most victims—paramedics and rescue workers—were killed by gunshots to the head, chest, or back. Four were shot directly in the head [executed]. Others had shrapnel wounds. Despite wearing medical uniforms and traveling in marked vehicles with sirens, they were shot multiple times at close range.

Israel initially lied about the crime committed then later took responsibility once the lies were exposed. The 15 victims included 14 rescue workers and a UN employee. Israeli soldiers buried the bodies in a mass grave and crushed and buried the ambulances, fire truck, and UN vehicle.

[Financial Times @FT]

Farage’s accounts challenge claim he paid for £1.4mn house with TV fee https://t.co/Cp0Jw7mkTA

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

"The only option left was to take direct action"

Zoe Rogers' interview after 18 months of being treated as a 'terrorist' in prison for smashing Israeli drones. She was then acquitted of all charges.
https://t.co/CbwbTuszdl

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Can't stop thinking about Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth $828 billion, spending $290 million to elect Trump, becoming $563 billion richer since Trump was elected and ending humanitarian aid that will lead to the deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Nearly 12,000 habeas cases filed is a staggering amount, something not seen in generations. And for the government to lose 86% of the time, in front of hundreds of judges appointed by every living president, is a sign of just how much ICE and DOJ stretched the law until it broke.

[Eddie Yang @ey_985]

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

[Ralph Blackburn @RalphBlackburn]

Breaking: Reform has suspended new Sheffield councillor Nathaniel Menday, after further social media posts were uncovered by my colleague @finnsmithjourno for the @SheffieldStar which included a huge photo of a Nazi flag with a swastika on it and a photo of Hitler's Mein Kamf.

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

GPs and hospitals to be forced to share patient data as Palantir is granted “unlimited access” to identifiable information
https://t.co/w0oKnIGhRQ

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

I appreciate the intense interest in my column. For skeptics, why not agree on Red Cross and lawyer visits for the 9,000 Palestinian "security" prisoners? If you think these abuse allegations are false, such monitoring visits would be protective. So why not?

[Dr Iain Overton @iainoverton]

Brilliant summary from @TheEconomist

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: https://t.co/aMMHId49OO