Raiders of the Lost Ark was made in 1981 and set in 1936, so an equivalent movie made today would be set in… 1980.
Ima go lie down.
Forbes: The Qataris have been trying to get rid of that ostentatious luxury jet for five years, but no one would buy it. It costs too much to fly, costs more to maintain, and needs too big a landing strip. They had another one they unloaded on Turkey.
Delicious.
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Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump
The president may be thirsting for a new four-engine jumbo jet, but many governments and royal families are unloading their fuel-guzzling palaces in the sky.
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💥 This is the type of speech Starmer could have given on immigration. But unlike the Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez, Starmer doesn't seem to feel any sense of duty, protection, or thanks towards the foreigners in the UK who are holding this country together.
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I left my phone on a train like an idiot and someone *handed it in at lost property* like something out of the 1950s, not bad for an island of strangers (also, thankyou)
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Winston Churchill's mother was an immigrant.
#NotStrangersA mysterious supernova discovered in 2014 stayed bright for years, defying expectations by brightening and fading multiple times. Scientists suspect a massive star, possibly generating antimatter, caused the repeated eruptions.
Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon, STScI
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UK to start talks on return hubs for failed asylum seekers???
You mean like the ‘Dublin Agreement’ which we had whilst in the EU, to enable the UK to return failed asylum seekers.
A new agreement that we will now have to pay for?
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Hospitals in Gaza say at least 64 people were killed by Israeli strikes as President Trump wraps up his regional visit.
At least 48 bodies were brought to the Indonesian hospital and another 16 bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital, health officials said.
Israeli strikes kill at least 64 people in Gaza as Trump wraps up his Middle East visit
Gaza hospitals say Israeli strikes across the territory have killed at least 64 people just as U.S. President Donald Trump wraps up his Middle East visit that skipped Israel.
This morning, the Supreme Court hears a landmark case on Birthright Citizenship.
At stake? The 14th Amendment. The right to citizenship by birth.
Pay attention. History is being made, right now.
Plot line: Dehumanize migrants, making it acceptable to terrorize them.
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Kristi Noem wants migrants to battle for citizenship on reality TV
Kristi Noem is now pushing for a reality show that would see immigrants compete 'for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,' DailyMail.com has learned.
Sickening.
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Kids are locked out of home ownership, burdened with tuition fees, suffer massive poverty, are threatened by the climate crisis and AI, had their live chances whacked by Brexit, have no healthcare support, and are constantly monstered by the press.
They don't need "grit"; they need fairness.
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The painful truth is that UK voted to leave EU, and entrusted negotiations to a dire team, led by Johnson and Frost, who agreed a lousy deal for ideological reasons. The EU initially offered better terms, and they rejected them. Now, we face the consequences of this self-inflicted disaster.
As I said yesterday, these are the usual final haggles in negotiations, but they reflect very badly on an EU that already got a deal heavily balanced in its favour and now greedily returns for more.
She was 9 weeks pregnant. She died. The state of Georgia is making the doctors keep her alive to incubate the baby. She’s been dead for three months. This is REAL. this isn’t about what should or should not be done. This is about having a VOICE. This is about having a CHOICE.
RIP Joe Don Baker
His ridiculously charismatic performance as CIA agent Darius Jedburgh in the brilliant mini-series Edge of Darkness is an all-timer & his rapport with Bob peck is off the charts.
Loved him in everything but see this if you haven’t.
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I am still so proud of our election campaign in Islington North last summer.
Why? Because it was made up of people of all backgrounds, languages and faiths.
This was no group of strangers. This was a community, campaigning for a better society for all.
Reform is a Limited Company
Farage owns 53%
It was formed in 2019 to push for a “no-deal Brexit”
It wants to reintroduce the Liz Truss budget
It wants to privatise the NHS
& invest in fossil fuels
Close the BBC
& break International law
It’s a scam
Please retweet widely
Calvin "Walter Mitty" Robinson has now worked his way through 5 denominations in just 3 years.
Maybe all of this is actually some secret Guinness record book attempt. Would make more sense.
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RIP poet Emily Dickinson, died this day 1886.
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
Here's the full leaked recording of Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp admitting that it's now harder to return asylum seekers who previously claimed asylum in Europe to that first safe country.
And it's because of the botched Brexit deal that Boris Johnson claimed was a success.
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Last known surviving WWII vet from Hamilton regiment celebrates 104th birthday
#Hamilton #Ontario #Canada
Tony Mastromatteo, an honorary lance corporal, fought in a Canadian Forces scout platoon
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Last known surviving WWII vet from Hamilton regiment celebrates 104th birthday | CBC News
Tony Mastromatteo fought in the Second World War as part of Hamilton-based regiment The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada. Regiment historian Robert Fraser says Mastromatteo, who turns 104 t...
This is going to make you feel very small.
Fly away from the surface of Earth, past the Sun, out of the Solar System, through the closest stars, leave the Milky Way, to the cosmic web of galaxies in the nearby Universe.
On Nakba Day let's recall British complicity in covering up the horrors of 1948 and the years preceding it. Below, a Guardian article from 1977 by the Historian Bernard Wasserstein reveals the destruction of key documents related to Palestine by the British State in the decade after the Nakba.
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"Why do you 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 talk about Pakistani grooming gangs? There are 𝙩𝙚𝙣 times as many white grooming gang suspects?"
@maitlis.bsky.social asks ex-Reform MP
@rupertlowe.bsky.social why he won't denounce all perpetrators of grooming gangs equally.
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV has received lists of Ukrainian Defenders held in Russian captivity.
A representative of the families of captured soldiers personally handed the lists to the pontiff during his meeting with communities of the Eastern Catholic Churches.
UK suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst was a trained artist and in 1907 created several watercolors depicting women workers in factories, mills and potteries to highlight working women’s rights, their pay and conditions
#art #watercolor #potteryFollow the money
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If you bomb a hospital filled with patients it's unambiguously a war crime, but if you say there was a known enemy combatant inside at the time, that's still unambiguously a war crime, like seriously, what are we even doing here
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The US president said he had 'a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday' after the Apple chief executive confirmed last week that Indian factories would supply the 'majority' of iPhones sold in the US in the coming months.
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