Jessica Simor KC
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Barrister, environment, energy, public law, human rights. Visiting Prof LSE & Goldsmiths.
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Terry Reintke
about 2 hours ago
“EUROPA, EUROPA” People shouting for Europe after the election victory of the pro-European opposition in Hungary. So beautiful. So emotional. So important. 🇭🇺❤️🇪🇺
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Adam Schwarz
about 2 hours ago
One way that Orbán sought to entrench power was adopting a new Hungarian constitution in 2011 that classified many policy areas as 'cardinal laws' that require a two-thirds majority vote to change. With almost 100% of votes counted, the Hungarian opposition has just achieved what seemed impossible.
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Jon Worth
about 2 hours ago
I did appreciate the Russian doll with Orbán on the outside and Putin inside at the Tisza party 😀
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Filipe Campante
about 3 hours ago
Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.
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Otto English
about 3 hours ago
Bad night for Nige
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ICE detained for ten days an 86 year old French woman - yes, 86 - who was married to a U.S. veteran - she had failed to get the requisite green card…..
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Roll-on November.
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Kim Lane Scheppele
about 5 hours ago
Orban called Magyar to congratulate Magyar - and admitted defeat to his supporters. It's over. Peter Magyar and his Tisza Party wins with such an overwhelming victory that he has two-thirds of the seats in the parliament and can undo Orban's autocratic legalism!
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Peter Geoghegan
about 4 hours ago
Mathias Corvinus Collegium -which Orban used to fund Christian Right across Europe - has endowment worth *1% of Hungary’s GDP* This money has gone to Matt Goodwin, Frank Furedi, a Roger Scruton foundation run by Michael Gove + James Orr Magyar needs 2/3rd of seats to unpick this. Be huge if he can
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Ursula von der Leyen
about 5 hours ago
Ma este Európa szíve erősebben dobog Magyarországon. Europe’s heart is beating stronger in Hungary tonight.
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Dr Kathrin Luddecke
about 9 hours ago
Right now, a cruel government decision is tearing child refugees apart from their parents. I'm supporting Safe Passage International's legal challenge to stop this - but there are just a few weeks to act. Please chip in today:
www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-su...
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Stop the Home Office’s cruel suspension of Refugee Family Reunion
Safe Passage International is a charity that provides legal and social support to families torn apart by war and persecution, helping them reunite safely. We work in the UK, France and Greece.
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-suspension-refugee-family-reunion/
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Who are the blonds behind him? And what is the “rap”? All pretty demonic - End of Empire stuff.
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“No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas…. I have…instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran.”
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Torsten Bell
1 day ago
We already knew Richard Tice aggressively avoided tax. Now we’re told his company just plain failed to pay tax that was legally due. For someone supposedly in public service he goes to extreme lengths to avoid paying his fair share towards public services
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Phil Brickell MP
1 day ago
A tiny firm - so small it doesn’t have to publish audited accounts - with £81k in cash made 7 donations totalling £200k to Reform UK. We now know the firm has had long-term dealings in Iran, including a €145m deal with the Iranian state-owned telecoms company. Reform have more questions to answer.
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Reform UK donor linked to sanctioned Iranian conglomerate
A churchwarden behind a £200,000 gift to Nigel Farage’s party is the director of a company cited in French intelligence memos
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reform-uk-donor-linked-to-sanctioned-iranian-conglomerate-q7ckvgfkq
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A wonderful interview with an extraordinarily intelligent leader shown in his immense humanity. Please listen to the end. The last bit reminded me of when my father (born 1933 Hungary) showed me two photos of himself before the War & afterwards; a 12 year old adult.
open.spotify.com/episode/5TsD...
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184. President of Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Spotify video
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5TsDQtXWp7IOf3MJkZ0fpg?si=cghDCRhJR1-jOSRz6CwrDw
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Dan Neidle
1 day ago
The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT. From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't. A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
1 day ago
Here's Pope Leo arriving at his Vigil for Peace. The prayer event will see people from different continents lighting candles from Assisi's Lamp of Peace. ... I think Leo is becoming a Vatican version of Zelensky! – a quiet man prepared to take a stand to defend our hard won peace and democracy. 🕊
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The question for me is why does Trump care about this?
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Sonia Purnell FRHistS
1 day ago
Very excited to be speaking at the Sonoma Valley Authors Festival next month. Much to talk about including 3 formidable women. Come join me! @svauthorsfest
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Rachel Maddow
2 days ago
“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..."
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Albert Pinto
2 days ago
Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Timothy Snyder
3 days ago
1/2. Notice that after losing the war Trump threatens his allies rather than Russia — even though Russia quite literally helped Iran defeat the US and he knows it.
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Phillips OBrien
3 days ago
Fascinating, Zelensky coming out publicly more and more and saying that Trump is working with/for Putin. The Ukrainians seem to have determined that telling the truth is preferable to lying to please Trump.
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Michael O'
3 days ago
REUTERS LIVE:- Updated: Huge Israeli strikes on Lebanon threaten Iran truce; talks planned but strait still shut -
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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Huge Israeli strikes on Lebanon threaten Iran truce; talks planned but strait still shut
Israel bombed more targets in Lebanon on Thursday, putting the U.S.-Iran ceasefire into further jeopardy after the biggest Israeli attacks on its neighbour of the war killed more than 250 people and threatened to torpedo Donald Trump's truce.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trump-warns-major-war-escalation-if-iran-peace-process-fails-2026-04-09/
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Le Monde
3 days ago
La Cour suprême russe criminalise l’ONG Memorial, prix Nobel de la paix en 2022
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La Cour suprême russe criminalise l’ONG Memorial, prix Nobel de la paix en 2022
Lors d’une audience à huis clos, à laquelle l’avocat de Memorial n’a pas pu assister, la Cour suprême russe a déclaré l’organisation de défense des droits humains « extrémiste » et « antirusse ».
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/04/09/la-cour-supreme-russe-criminalise-l-ong-memorial-prix-nobel-de-la-paix-en-2022_6678626_3210.html
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Timothy Snyder
4 days ago
“This is a trans-national effort, funded by Russian oil, to replace Western liberalism with a pro-Russian ideology... Orbán is not just the puppet that gives this packaged ideology a European face... he oversees the money laundering vehicles to fund the larger network”
emptywheel.net/2026/04/07/p...
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Putin's Puppet Project in Peril - emptywheel
JD Vance took time out of Trump's Crusades against Iran to tamper in Hungary's election not just because Viktor Orbán is the ideological figurehead of the far right, but because Hungary serves as a ke...
https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/07/putins-puppet-project-in-peril/
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THE NERVE
4 days ago
I’ve known Lebanon for three decades. What’s happening now is an invasion. This is Gaza 2.0 – and the world is barely paying attention. @CaroleCadwalladr for the Nerve Link 🔽
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Mujtaba Rahman
4 days ago
Macron last night publicly agreed with Iran - & disagreed with the US - that Israeli attacks on Lebanon must end if the fragile Gulf ceasefire is to hold. He was writing on X after he became the first word leader to talk to the Iranian president Massoud Pezeshkian since the ceasefire was agreed 1/
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Ewart, Dave
4 days ago
Spanish PM Pedro calls for the IMMEDIATE ARREST of Netanyahu He said: "Netanyahu launched the worst possible unjustified attack against Lebanon. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. He is a criminal that must be arrested immediately.”
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Sadiq Khan
5 days ago
NEW: Today I’m announcing plans to deliver at least one new late-night youth club in every London borough - the biggest investment in youth clubs ever made by a Mayor. We’re bringing youth clubs back.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Mayor allocates £30m for a youth club in every London borough
The mayor says the late-night clubs would offer activities, mental health support, mentorship and food.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9v7z3j40eo
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Simon Marks
5 days ago
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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Rise Up Western Mass Indivisible ❌👑
5 days ago
Every single member of Congress posting on social media aboutTrump needing to be removed, impeached, 25th amendment…. Needs to get in a car, on a train, on a plane and get back to Washington immediately. Show up there en masse!
@neal.house.gov
@warren.senate.gov
@markey.senate.gov
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Human Rights Index 💙
6 days ago
Our silence on Gaza, and the way we set aside international law, is the greatest gift we have given to authoritarian regimes. By abandoning our own moral compass, we set a precedent that weakens democracy and strengthens those who challenge it.
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Santiago Mayer
5 days ago
Mike Johnson refuses to call Congress back — even as the President threatens nuclear genocide. We need to win in November because millions of lives depend on it. Literally.
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Alex Hall Hall
5 days ago
All countries between the US and Iran should shut down their airspace- deny landing rights, overflights, refueling or any other support for these explicit genocidal operations. Ideally, US military would refuse illegal orders and Congress would intervene- but that’s not happening. So, world must act
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
5 days ago
We won't last 33 more months of this. This must stop. We must make it stop.
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Congresswoman Nikema Williams
5 days ago
Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.
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Sunny Moraine
5 days ago
Like… We cannot go ahead and have the World Cup now like nothing is going on. Regardless of what does or doesn’t happen tonight. Countries should simply refuse to send teams. The rest of the world cannot treat us as a remotely normal country after this
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Governor Newsom Press Office
5 days ago
The Vice President is abroad campaigning for a dictator. The President is threatening to wipe out an entire civilization. Congress is on recess. This is a total collapse of American moral leadership — at a historic scale.
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Michael
5 days ago
We have definitely hit the point where Republicans who are not invoking the 25th Amendment are complicit of all destruction going forward, they are no longer just cowards or lazy, this is on them too.
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Robert Reich
5 days ago
Senate Republicans refused to convict Trump after Jan 6. Republican SCOTUS appointees gave him immunity. Republicans in Congress today stand idly by as he unleashes death and destruction across the globe. We are now at the whims of a mad king because GOP leaders have refused to constrain him.
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Caroline Lucas
5 days ago
Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.
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Adam Bienkov
5 days ago
A reminder that this is the same "unhinged" war and President the Daily Mail has spent weeks berating Keir Starmer for not joining and following
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Justin Gibson
5 days ago
@aoc.bsky.social
spitting truthbombs here.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
5 days ago
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
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Mujtaba Rahman
5 days ago
You may wonder why the Europeans aren't responding more forcefully to JD Vance in Budapest 1/ Because Orban looks set to lose & any EU intervention could be counterproductive 2/ Because the US is so far beyond the pale - Greenland, Iran, Ukraine etc. The EU is quietly moving on
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Pete Buttigieg
5 days ago
Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.
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Maxwell Frost
5 days ago
I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.
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