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Retired Engineer #FBPE
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Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial, on charges that he falsified business records related to a 2016 hush-money deal with the porn star Stormy Daniels will start on April 15. See where each of Trump’s four criminal cases stands: nyti.ms/3VyQwzd
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A Bloomberg News investigation identified Starlink kits being traded and activated illegally. How they are smuggled and the sheer availability of Starlink on the black market suggests that its misuse is a systemic global problem. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Elon Musk’s Starlink Terminals Are Falling Into the Wrong Handswww.bloomberg.com Starlink’s effectiveness as a communications tool makes the satellite internet service a target for a growing black-market trade worldwide.
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Parents have started to mention friends getting caught in the GB News vortex. Even relatively decent TV news is a terrible retirement hobby.
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Politicians who voted for Brexit were dishonest, ignorant, cocky, prejudiced and have inevitably turned out to also be useless. Politicians who vote for Rwanda are dishonest, immoral and dangerously irresponsible. They are the same politicians. They represent nothing but failure.
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"Unlawful Rwanda Scheme Set to Cost UK ‘Staggering’ £500 Million, National Audit Office Reveals With the Government refusing to say how much the controversial asylum plan would cost, MPs commissioned the NAO to produce its own report @BylineTimes #RwandaCosts bylinetimes.com/2024/03/01/u...
Unlawful Rwanda Scheme Set to Cost UK 'Staggering' £500 Million, National Audit Office Reveals – Byline Timesbylinetimes.com With the Government refusing to say how much the controversial asylum plan would cost, MPs commissioned the NAO to produce its own report
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"What he said was wrong, he believes he was right, as do many wrong people on the right who're wrong to think he's right but right to think wrongly as long as they vote right for the wrong reasons"
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Remarkable that our politics is now such that this is a genuine concern for serious people. Constitution law should not be like this, it should be boring.
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Lots of concern and some alarm at possibility of government putting off a general election beyond current last date of January 2025. This can only be done with Lords approval. Cannot be done either by government or Commons majority alone. Nothing government *itself* can do to stop this happening.
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25 out of 36 libraries closing. Jesus. This is a tragedy for Birmingham. But it's also a tragedy for the UK if, with all our prosperity, ingenuity and resources, we've mishandled things so badly that we can no longer afford the basic services which are the foundations of a civilised country.
This makes me so sad and angry. Birmingham is the UK’s second biggest city. This is a national disgrace. Screenshot btw from the Birmingham Dispatch, a great new venture in making local news richer and move away from clickbait ad traffic nonsense. www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk
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Excellent quotes from @jennifercobbe.bsky.social & @michae.lv -tempered by the Bleurgh Institute...
Anyone hoping Britain would unveil a decisive course of action for how to govern a technology that has caught the world by storm will be sorely disappointed.
Rishi Sunak dithers on AI as the US and EU forge aheadwww.politico.eu Rishi Sunak’s can-kicking on artificial intelligence regulation is at odds with bolder action in Brussels and Washington.
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‘Recent events have undermined the reputation of the British state for integrity and effectiveness. Not least the actions of a Prime Minister who repeatedly lied to Parliament and committed criminal offences while in Downing Street.’ Bring on the reforms explored here⬇️
New proposals from the independent Commission on UK Governance aim to fix a political system increasingly corrupted by those in power | Prof David Howarth
Time to clean up our politicseastangliabylines.co.uk New proposals from the independent Commission on UK Governance aim to fix a political system increasingly corrupted by those in power
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Bluesky is officially “open” now (no more invites). So just a reminder to not engage with trolls and bad actors, there is no algorithm here to promote or spread them, replying to them is what puts them on everybody’s timelines. So block and give no oxygen.
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The Internal Revenue Service is fighting back against Republican efforts to shrink its budget with a new study suggesting how extra investment in the agency would collect billions more from the very rich.
IRS: Fund us, and we’ll collect hundreds of billions from tax cheaterswww.washingtonpost.com Biden administration officials say that economic research shows they’ll avert hundreds of billions of dollars of tax evasion by funding the IRS.
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This Tactical Voting site will help decide which party to vote for in order to Stop the Tories. Simply enter your constituency name & see which party is most likely to defeat the Tory (or ensure they don't sneak in if the opposition vote were split). #NeverVoteConservative stopthetories.vote
Stop The Tories .Votestopthetories.vote There are more of us, let's show up, set the agenda, and own the future
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Billionaire board members feeling peer pressure to take drugs with Elon because if they don't they think Musk will be angry and cut them out of his companies and life. The world is so stupid.
Sources: some Tesla and SpaceX directors have consumed drugs with Elon Musk feeling there is an expectation to do so, raising concerns about their independence (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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