frances bulwer #Still European #RejoinEU🇪🇺

Hostage on Plague-Brexit Island so please send EU rescue boat; 💕 the V&A, art, languages, classical music and theatre.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

"Pete Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity.’ Historians and campaigners accuse US defence secretary of desecrating memory of soldiers who fell in Normandy"
https://t.co/VFtZCfZKJS

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Picturesque river polluted with sewage just 13 days after being given official bathing status."

Yep the River Avon at Salisbury was designated as a bathing spot on 15th May and just 13 days later on the 28th the EA have to issue a pollution warning due to E. coli levels. What a shambles.

https://t.co/nC3WWbwgt6

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

The details about the Tate brothers in this @newyorker profile are as sick as anything you will ever read. They are rapists, pornographers, traffickers - and heroes to the "conservative" MAGA movement
https://t.co/Zv2l52b9Id

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”

Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

There's a really easy way for students to avoid hearing stuff they don't like: don't go to the lectures. And a way to prevent disruption of academic freedom: kick the perpetrators off campus 👇🏽

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

EU Defence Ministers are meeting today to discuss Europe’s security, from support for Ukraine to freedom of navigation in the Middle East.

Ukraine is turning the tide of the war, and we are helping them, including by advancing the unblocking of €6.6 billion through the European Peace Facility.

The Middle East does not need another escalation.
All parties must return to the negotiating table.

My press remarks ahead of today’s meeting of EU Defence Ministers ↓

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

One Russian paper today: “In many Russian regions there are restrictions on the sale of petrol.” Another reports that, in Crimea, hotel bookings are “down 31%...& hotel cancellations double due to the fuel crisis.” #ReadingRussia

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Hodges: The idea that Russia has infinite manpower is a myth.

Russia has under 140 million people, many young men are dead or gone, and the Kremlin avoids mobilizing Moscow and St. Petersburg because that would make the disaster impossible to hide.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ZELENSKY: I told Trump that I didn’t play with Putin. For us, it’s very serious. It’s not about cards.

I didn’t have cards, but I had the most important — smart and brave people. This is our card — the card of Ukraine. That’s why we’re now very strong with our drone technology.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

This is appalling. Whatever happened to academic freedom and freedom of speech? Surely the @UniofOxford can deal with the students disrupting these lectures? They are not fit to be at a university and are taking up places that should be available to young people who are.

[Michael Foran @michaelpforan]

Due to escalating disruptive protests, I have decided to cancel the remainder of these lectures. This is deeply lamentable, but the disruption has undermined the academic nature of this series. Students shouldn't face bullying or harassment when attending academic events.

[Rush Doshi @RushDoshi]

Trump administration indeed pausing arms sales to Taiwan.

Unclear what, if anything, Beijing offered in return.

Allies will see it (rightly) as further evidence that the US approach to Beijing is conciliation and accommodation.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

You can be sure that whatever Beijing offered in return, it was to Trump and his personal allies, not the US. It’s the only motivation he has. Occasionally those interests may overlap, but his are always top priority.

[Alan Lester @aljhlester]

Did he really think he could just casually throw it out that Russia leaked his £5M bung without anyone asking for at least one tiny shred of evidence? He’s got so used to his lies being swallowed whole that he’s become complacent. Keep digging Nigel.

https://t.co/8zVHLQetoX

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

HOLY CRAP Trump actually accomplished a miracle. Here is what he got out of Iran:

- Reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium by about 98%

- Limit uranium enrichment to 3.67% purity (far below weapons-grade)

- Cut the number of installed centrifuges by roughly two-thirds

- Only enrich uranium at one declared site (Natanz)

- Stop enrichment activities at Fordow and convert it into a research facility

- Redesign the Arak heavy-water reactor so it could not easily produce weapons-grade plutonium

- Ship out or dilute excess enriched uranium
Allow extensive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Permit continuous monitoring of nuclear facilities and supply chains

- Accept “snap” inspections under expanded monitoring rules

- Avoid building new heavy-water reactors for years

- Stay within strict limits on uranium stockpile size and centrifuge development for set periods ranging from 10–25 years

Ooops, sorry!

That was the JCPOA that Obama signed with Iran, only to have him tear it up, kill 140 kids, get hundreds of Americans injured, 13 killed, and gas prices to surge 50%.

[ABC News @ABC]

The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, calling the information about the prosecutions “partisan propaganda.” https://t.co/0IhIU0SwWo

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell, 1984

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Russia is losing on the battlefield and in the Black Sea. Its economy is in tatters. All it can do is bomb Ukrainian cities and civilians. This is why we must pass Russian sanctions and military aid to Ukraine. The House will vote on this in two weeks.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Kasparov: Fifth year of the war, Putin still gets components from the free world despite 20 sanctions packages.

Russian missiles killing Ukrainians are made with sanctioned parts. Strangle him: prosecute companies violating sanctions and deplete his resources. 1/

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

This is the Gaza that the flotilla cretins tried to “rescue” with their three tubs of “aid”.
It was always only about themselves