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[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

Australia banned X for children but not BlueSky.

Britain is banning X for children but not BlueSky.

This proves one thing.

It's not about protecting children.

It's about censorship and controlling the narrative.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

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[Taya. @TLtj18]

My grandson is 13
He goes to bed at 9pm on a school day, phone off
And funnily enough he's up at 7am getting his own breakfast
No government interference needed

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Keir Starmer doesn’t know how VPNs work.

David Lammy doesn’t know how the court system works.

Rachel Reeves doesn’t know how the economy works.

None of them knows what a woman is.

Not exactly Britain’s brightest and best.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Dartmoor's hill ponies have grazed those commons for longer than there has been a country called England. Fewer than a thousand are left, down from six thousand a generation ago. The United Nations listed them as endangered in 2023. So, naturally, the body charged with protecting nature has decided to get rid of nine in ten of the survivors.

There is a process, obviously.

Natural England's new grazing contracts now count the ponies in the same bucket as the cattle and sheep. A commoner with a fixed quota has a choice: keep a semi-wild pony worth nothing at market, or use the slot for a lamb he can sell. Guess which one survives the spreadsheet. The rest are gathered in the autumn drifts, and with nowhere to put thousands of unhandled moorland ponies, the next stop is the abattoir.

Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy.

And now the funny part. The pony is the best tool on the entire moor for eating Molinia, the coarse purple grass strangling Dartmoor into a brown monoculture. Cattle and sheep won't touch it. The ponies hoover it down and clear the ground for the orchids, the wildflowers and the insects behind them. Remove the ponies and the moor chokes into precisely the lifeless scrubland the contract was meant to prevent.

So the conservation strategy, in full: protect the habitat by deleting the animal that maintains the habitat. A masterclass.

Better still, Natural England's own Fursdon review looked at this exact question and told them, in plain English, not to lump ponies in with cattle and not to cut pony numbers. They read it, praised it, said they fully supported it, then did the precise opposite.

Four thousand years these animals have run Dartmoor with no committee and no contract. They could be gone within one, and the people who did it will write it up as a win for nature.

[Blues Badger @badgers_back]

I have put restrictions on my kids phones so they can’t use them before 7am or after 8pm except to make calls/send texts.

They can’t download apps without me approving and they’re not allowed:

WhatsApp
Instagram
TikTok
Snapchat
X

It’s called parenting, some should try it.

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

My 17-year-old daughter:
“I’m confused. We’ve always been taught not to share personal information or anything that identifies us online because it isn’t safe. Now they want us to do exactly that to access social media.”

[katrina taylor @katrinaxtaylor]

@UPS #UPS utter crap service, useless ‘ track parcel’ app,
No way to contact them. 8:04 today 16th got email re: scheduled delivery for 15th, would b today - duh
Yet my pkg was @Depot 15th am & UPS van delivered other items on 15th just not mine. Why? Needed for job today. CRAP

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Everyone has been so impressed by Japanese fans cleaning up after themselves but most probably missed this beautiful moment at the post-game (🇳🇱2 - 2🇯🇵) press conference.

Toward the end after reporters were done asking questions, 🇯🇵head coach, Hajime Moriyasu, asked to speak one more time.

🗣️ “May I speak?”

He turned to the Dutch reporters in the room.

🗣️ “I think there are many Dutch reporters here as well, so I’d like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the people of the Netherlands once again.”

Moriyasu explained that when he became part of the Japan national team, Japanese football still had no professional league.

🗣️ “I was trained by a Dutch coach named Hans Ooft. It wasn’t just me. Japanese coaches in general were greatly influenced by him, which has led to the development of Japanese soccer today.”

He also mentioned another Dutch figure who shaped his career.

🗣️ “The legendary Dutch coach Wim Jansen served as the manager for J.League’s Sanfrecce Hiroshima and also as a coach for Urawa Reds, contributing to Japanese soccer.”

🗣️ “It’s not just those two. Many other coaches and players have contributed to raising the level of Japanese soccer, so I want to express my thanks. Thank you very much.”

What a masterclass in graciousness and gratitude. Imagine after a high-stakes match, instead of basking in glory and bravado (well-deserved in my opinion), the coach took to the microphone to... thank his opponents publicly and sincerely.

Japan's cultural operating system prizes harmony (wa), respect for precedent, and gratitude as a form of strength, not weakness. Japanese sports culture reflects its broader society where you'll see athletes bow to their opponents, thanking referees, and even crediting rivals or mentors.

Think of sumo wrestlers, Olympic athletes, or even bullet-train staff apologizing for a 30-second delay.

The Japanese have this concept of On (恩) - it is the sense of indebtedness to those who came before or helped you. It's what you'd expect from a culture that truly prizes continuity.

Moriyasu was acknowledging a real debt to Dutch coaches like Hans Ooft (who coached Japan in the early 90s and helped professionalize the game) and Wim Jansen. Japanese football openly credits foreign influences - Dutch "Total Football" philosophy, German organization, Brazilian flair - while building something distinctly their own. Few nations do this with such little ego.

Japan is pure class

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

According to this Labour Government 16 and 17 year olds are mature enough to vote, but not to serve on a jury. That is an "adult duty" apparently.

They are old enough to vote, but are now subject to a government-mandated social media curfew at 8.30pm.

The only consistent thing about Labour's votes at 16 policy is the blatant party political self interest.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Any attempt to impose mandatory Digital ID will be fully repealed, scrapped and eradicated by a Restore Britain Government.

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

Yesterday in the Lords I asked if every illegal migrant is asked who told them about their boat trip, who they paid and who drove the boat. The Minister’s refusal to answer implies government does not ask migrants to help them smash the gangs. Why?

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Adam Schiff wants Americans to believe the problem with this country is that some people build too much, earn too much, and succeed too much.

Here is what he said:

“Schiff: There is something terribly wrong about an economy that produces its first trillionaire, but cannot provide health care for its people. Or one in which the richest handful of families have the combined wealth of almost forty percent of the rest of the country. This is the cost of a corrupt system, where wealth perpetuates itself, and poverty, at the same time.”

Schiff is dead wrong.

The problem is not that people like Elon Musk build companies, create products, take risks, hire workers, push technology forward, and generate wealth. That is not the failure of America. That is the American dream in action.

Elon Musk, who is clearly the kind of person Schiff is targeting here, did not become wealthy by sitting in Washington, holding hearings, blaming others, and spending taxpayer money. He built companies that changed entire industries.

Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, and his other ventures have created jobs, opened opportunities, pushed innovation, and made America stronger. That is not something to punish. That is something a healthy country should want more of.

And let’s be honest, even if Schiff and the Democrats got their dream and took every dollar of Elon Musk’s wealth, it would not fix the federal government’s spending disaster. It would not come close to solving the long-term debt problem. It would barely make a dent before Washington came back demanding more.

If Schiff really cared about the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable, he would be focused on stopping waste, fraud, abuse, corruption, and reckless spending inside the federal government.

That would make programs stronger for the people who truly need help.

Instead, he points at successful Americans and tells everyone else to resent them.

Source: Adam Schiff X account

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

🚨 Serco - the government contractor that runs large parts of Britian's immigration and justice operation - has taken the extraordinary position of saying it would oppose Reform's plan to deport illegal migrants from Britain.

Having read the Telegraph's report making this claim, I have written to Serco's CEO asking him to urgently clarify their position.

Serco is the firm the Home Office uses to deposit unvetted men from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq into British housing estates without the knowledge nor consent of local residents.

Serco is the firm that launches huge bids for rental homes, outbidding local residents by such a vast amount that lifelong residents - including veterans - have been served eviction notices by landlords. All to house illegal migrants.

Serco has expressed no moral concern about any of this.

Yet they apparently take exception to our plan to actually uphold immigration law and remove those who break it.

Moreover, if the Telegraph's reporting is correct, a company so enmeshed in the British state it even runs recruitment for British Armed Forces, says it will take a hostile position to a duly elected Reform government.

If the Telegraph’s reporting is correct, the only reasonable interpretation of Serco’s position is that it now believes itself to be an alternative power base to the duly elected government of the United Kingdom, and is willing to act contrary to the interests of the British electorate.

If this were true, a Reform government would be left with no choice but to view Serco as a threat to national security. 

I have given Serco until 6pm to clarify their position.

Should they fail to do so, we will take the following steps to decouple the British Government from Serco:

1) On forming a Government, we will initiate an accelerated review of all Government contracting with Serco with the aim of removing Serco as a public contractor within our first Parliamentary term.

2) Where Serco has breached contracts or break clauses are available, we will terminate those contracts and continue to exercise break clauses as they come due. 

My full letter below 👇

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

This farmer just said the quiet part out loud.

“I was nothing more than a serf on the land.”

“A chemically-addicted farmer beholden to all these large ag conglomerates.”

“Monsanto.”

“Big seed companies.”

But Kevin Fulton escaped.

He transitioned his Nebraska farm to an organic, regenerative operation in 2002.

“I can’t tell you how good that feels to not have all those gorillas on your back.”

Now, he’s warning that pesticide companies are threatening to put countless farmers at risk with their push for a federal liability shield from lawsuits over harms caused by pesticides.

“We have to be able to… stand up against them and have some type of recourse if there’s damages.”

The stakes could not be higher as Congress debates the 2026 Farm Bill.

The House voted to strip the pesticide liability shield out, but it’s still unclear if the Senate will vote to put it back in.

And on top of that, Congress must decide if this Farm Bill will provide vital support for farmers to transition from conventional pesticide and chemical farming to regenerative practices.

Regenerative farming protects human health, restores soil health, and empowers farmers to keep their profits out of the hands of Big Ag corporations that treat them like serfs on their own land.

This Farm Bill is a pivotal moment for independent farmers.

Read our new blog below to find out how Congress can empower farmers and how you can make your voice heard:🧵

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

For thirty-five years it was illegal to put a particular red dye in your lipstick, because it caused cancer in laboratory animals. It stayed perfectly legal to put the same dye in sweets aimed at children.

The dye is Red 3, the bright cherry colouring known in the trade as erythrosine. In 1990 the American regulator banned it from cosmetics and skin creams, having accepted that it caused thyroid cancer in rats. There is a law, the Delaney Clause, that is meant to be simple. If an additive causes cancer in people or animals, it should not be in the food supply.

So it came out of the lipstick.

It stayed in the food. Sweets, cakes, frostings, some medicines, the cheerful red things pointed straight at children. For more than three decades the very same substance was judged too dangerous to wear on your lips and perfectly fine to feed to a five-year-old.

It took until January 2025, after a campaign group filed a formal petition, for the regulator to finally pull it from food as well. Manufacturers have until 2027 to take it out.

For thirty-five years the system held two positions at once. Too risky for your face. Acceptable for your child's mouth. And it took an outside group, not the regulator, to finally force the contradiction shut.

These are the people whose judgement you are told to trust completely on butter, beef and salt.

Bear that in mind.

[Matthew Marsden @matthewdmarsden]

I have 7 kids at home. They get a dumb phone when they get to an age when we need to pick them up from their extra curricular activities.

As they get older they get a regular phone, but have restrictions and they are monitored, as is their access to computers.

They do not get an email till they are 13.

Their school has a no social media policy that parents sign on to.

They are not allowed x, insta, snap or facebook till they are 18.

No government supervision required. Just good old parenting.

[Kosher Chutzpah @KosherChutzpah]

Palestinians want a right of return to pre-1948 homes. Surely they want it to be fair and equitable, right?

Well then, let's discuss the uncomfortable truth about equality that they never seem to want to discuss. The 850,000 Jews who were expelled or fled from Arab countries after 1948 should also be granted that identical right. That means full restitution of their homes, synagogues, businesses, and the $100 billion+ in seized assets across Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and elsewhere. They should be free to return, reclaim their properties, receive guarantees of security, and have the option to rent them out if they prefer to stay in Israel.

Sounds perfectly fair, doesn't it?

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

Japanese politician: ”Japan is a cremation country. Allocating land for Muslim burials is not appropriate. If they want burial, it should be done in their home countries at their own expense.”

Thoughts?