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Listen, read, walk, swim, cook, eat, walk again, watch birds, friends, fam, rage at unfairness, unkindness, and (some) politics and politicians. And again.

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@rmkinnunen I’m so sorry for your loss of your dear father

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@rmkinnunen I am so sorry to read about your Dad. Your connection is there - as you say. He will know.

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@rmkinnunen Thank you, I hope had a good evening too

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@HDunn_Writer Yay and yay

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@robnitm Brilliant to see. Loved that place

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@andrewswalks Wow!

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@JENNIFE55690269 Jennifer, such a beautiful painting. Thank you

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@andrewswalks Such a beautiful image, and my favourite lake. Thank you

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@DavidMuttering I am so sorry to hear this news from you, and for your loss.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

It's 54 miles between Russia and America. Trump is a fucking dumbass.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

It beggars belief that this even needs stating.

Trump-Putin doesn’t constitute a peace process - it’s just two aggressive autocrats, sitting round a table, deciding about Ukraine, without Ukraine.

Shame on the pair of them.

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump slams President Zelensky for demanding a seat at peace negotiations over his own country’s future:

“You’ve been there for three years. You should’ve ended it in three years. You should have never started it.”

(Fact check: Russia started the war against Ukraine.)

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

So the Tories who hollowed out our armed forces over 14 years are furious that Labour hasn’t rebuilt them fast enough and refuse to accept any responsibility whatsoever for the state of affairs.

Have I got that right?

[Grant Certiorari @GrantCertiorari]

I am once again reminding you that Donald Trump PAUSED CDC COMMUNICATION.

If a disease is spreading, the CDC is legally blocked from informing the public.

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@JENNIFE55690269 Thank you for this treat! How lovely.

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@rmkinnunen Well deserved

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@andrewswalks How wonderful, thank you!

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Good to hear Alan Sugar say it like it is on Brexit. Worst thing to happen in his lifetime. Got to undo it.

[Beth Rigby @BethRigby]

ANALYSIS: The treatment of Jess Phllips over recent days tells me all I need to know about the epidemic of misogyny, sexual abuse and violence against women and girls that still plagues our culture.

The domestic violence campaigner-turned politician, who has spent her career fighting for victims, has found herself the subject of abuse on an industrial scale over the past week that has put her in danger, and, in dark moments, left her wondering whether she should give up frontline politics for good and go back to the women’s hostels where her journey to champion vulnerable women and girls began.

Outspoken and a women’s campaigner, Phillips has long been a lightning rod, but when the world’s richest man, who owns a social media platform with 211m followers, starts trolling you as a “rape genocide apologist”, complicit in a what he claims is a ‘cover-up’ of the most disgusting and sickening abuse, that’s a different order of attention, and danger. This week the female politician charged with trying to protect the actual victims of these unspeakable crimes becames subject to an avalanche of abuse - and threats - herself. It was undoubtedly horrific for Phillips, who tells me she felt physically sick and hunted as the tweets came raining down. And as everyone piled in with their outrage and indignation, where were the voices of the actual victims themselves?

It has been so vicious and noisy and fraught as the very serious matter of grooming gangs and the exploitation, rape and torture of young victims turned into a political battleground of finger pointing and point scoring.

You can read the full piece here > https://t.co/9WX0gGQECo