Alex Cruikshanks

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Balkan history and X-Men opinion-haver. Did a PhD on diplomacy in the Bosnian War. Host of The History of Yugoslavia podcast.

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I know we're all understandably calling out the blatant dishonesty of them claiming to have nothing to do with it. But: i) that they're responding like this clearly indicates they know P25 hurts them, and badly. ii) I'm not convinced this kind of response doesn't just draw more attention to it.

Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

I'm now even more firmly opposed to changing the candidate. Giving "crypto billionaires" what they want would be an actively bad thing for everyone.

whelp, guess the big interview didn't give them what they wanted since the goalposts have now moved to "can he win over crypto investors with inexplicable politics" www.cnbc.com/2024/07/06/b...

Like Sophocles

Boo

History nearly repeating itself right down to the name... youtu.be/FSbtyRTINgk?...

Artim Sakiri direct goal from corner - England - Macedonia (16-10-2002)youtu.be

Big Shaq on to emphasise the Kosovan victory over England, come on

Switzerland once again the last Balkan team standing and proving their worth

Iranian of mixed Kurdish-Azeri parentage with an Armenian name wonders if he missed anyone else in the region.

Masoud Pezeshkian, the reformist candidate who advocated moderate policies at home and improved relations with the West, won the presidential runoff in Iran against a hard-line rival, according to results released by the interior ministry on Saturday. nyti.ms/3xMgPZc

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Trump said “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.” But Project 2025 is run by Trump's closest aides, raising concerns about cognitive fitness for a candidate who seems unable to recall those around him. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

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NEW: Biden has narrowed Trump’s lead in swing states despite a widely panned presidential debate performance, the Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll finds

Biden Narrows Gap With Trump in Swing States Despite Debate Losswww.bloomberg.com The incumbent trails his GOP rival by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race.

Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

I demand a Greek-speaking President. Bring back Michael Dukakis.

I do not care if he's senile or incapable of saying words or is lucid and capable of speaking Kione Greek. Anyone want to ask him a real question?

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I just want to save this series of tweets for posterity. Hopefully, we’ll have a chance to go back over what’s going on here when tempers have cooled.

Here's a thought. Imagine a scenario in which Trump never ran for the presidency, the one-term GOP President Biden defeated in 2020 was Jeb Bush or Scott Walker, and that his GOP opponent this year is Mike Pence or Rick Scott or whoever. Suppose Biden has a similar debate and polling to irl.

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

I don't think any sitting US President should ever meet Putin again, so this question is kind of redundant.

sometimes people will be like “would you trust him to be alone with Putin” what are you talking about buddy

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Holy shit! That's really good!!!

Keir Starmer (Interahamwe - Holborn and St Pancras)

Farage doesn't want to join though. Unless he can do so in at least some sort of equal merger arrangement (which he can't on the current seat disparity), joining the Tories would be an admission of failure.

Conservative MP Sir Edward Leigh, the Father of the House, says it’s time to invite Nigel Farage and Reform voters into the Conservative Party.

The pundits for the France-Portugal match are talking about scrapping extra time and just going straight to pens. And I admit it's entertaining, but I do kind of find it perverse how there are so many ways of resolving group-stage points ties, but at knockout you can just repeatedly win on penalties

You can't fool me, these are clearly AI generated.

These are the directors of Project 2025. Look at these pasty, pathetic, autographed-Bret-Easton-Ellis-first-edition, drunk-on-daddy’s-calvados little megachurch dillholes. TROUP? Stop it. Get the fuck out of here immediately.

Oh, and one more thing, though not putting it in this thread because it's a somewhat different issue. But it honestly seems transphobia just doesn't really work as an electoral mobilising or demobilising "culture war" the way Brexit and immigration somewhat do. People just don't seem to care.

OK here goes. Obviously, the big story is the Labour landslide, but a win of that size was only really possible due to the fragmentation of the right. At the same time, while on these results they're unlikely to care much, Labour underestimated the susceptibility of the left to fragment too. 1/

OK, my completed thread of my first overall take on the election results:

May try and do a fuller thread a bit later after I've had a nap 😅 but my big take on these election results is, despite the large Labour majority: - i) UK politics is fragmented like never before, all across the spectrum - ii) I'm not really seeing any obvious way any of that "settles".

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Not to mention the precedent this sets for future Dem primaries. Other elected Dems pressuring the primary winner is not ideal, but at least they have some democratic legitimacy to do so. Donors *explicitly* trying to do so, by contrast, looks horrific.

Okay what candidate wants to take over after this? Every question is gonna be “so millionaire donors wanted you over Biden - why is that?”

Taking a break from happiness at the UK result to get mad about the US, but honestly, this is utter and complete destructive insanity. Thinking another candidate has a better shot is one thing. Threatening to blow everything up unless you get your way is another. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Disney heir joins other Democrat backers to pause donations until Joe Biden steps asidewww.theguardian.com Abigail Disney says choice to suspend donations is based on ‘realism, not disrespect’, and suggests Kamala Harris as an alternative

So, apart from the three Reform MPs you've heard of, the fourth is Rupert Lowe, a multi-millionaire farmer who used to own Southampton FC. Combined with Tice, that may well mean Reform has a higher average per-MP wealth than the Tories. Their supposed "revolt" is of the haves against the have-nots.

For all the talking up of Reform, they seem to have actually underperformed their polling and only come marginally ahead of the Lib Dems in vote terms.

The current popular vote in the UK—and with 98% of constituencies reporting, this is pretty close to final. Labour 34% (+2) Conservative 24% (-20) Reform 14% (+12) Lib Dem 12% (+1) Green 7% (+4) That's the lowest vote share in the history of the Conservative Party.