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@EarlBrideshead @EUdelegationUK @RoxanaMinzatu @EUErasmusPlus @UKMisBrussels You know what Erasmus is right?

@EUdelegationUK @RoxanaMinzatu @EUErasmusPlus @UKMisBrussels Farage will get us back out of this in 2029.

The EU and the UK have completed the final step towards the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027. From 1 Jan 2027, students, apprentices & educators will reconnect, boosting mobility, skills & cooperation. Welcome back, UK!

@Joshlikesuncutt @Dreamager @skitzomatic @allenanalysis Bot

@Dreamager @skitzomatic @allenanalysis We did Obama sent Iran Tons of money to build their nuclear weapons.

Trump threatened to suspend the US-UK trade deal because Starmer refused to join the Hormuz blockade. Starmer’s response: “I am not going to act under pressure. This war is not in my national interest. I cannot yield.” This is America’s closest ally. The country that has followed Washington into every military engagement for 80 years. Starmer already refused the blockade. Called Israel’s bombing of Lebanon wrong from the floor of Parliament. Suspended automatic defense renewals with Israel. And now when Trump threatened the trade relationship — he didn’t move. Britain, Australia, Italy, Meloni — every ally Trump expected to follow him has said no. The blockade has no coalition.

Absolutely horrific night in Ukraine last night - 44 ballistic missiles and 659 drones fired from Russia. Deaths in Kyiv, Odessa and Dnipro. Not even bothering to hide the fact that it is residential areas under attack. Barely on the news outside Ukraine. And @JDVance says he is proud that USA has pulled its support so the aggressor can keep aggressing. Disgusting. But Europe has to do even more now

@DonaldL65773 @RpsAgainstTrump You’re talking about the institutions of Epstein and Trump then?

This from an institution that allowed and protected pedophile priests to predate on the children of their own congregations, horribly persecuted people who contradicted the Church’s earth centric view of the universe and let’s not forget the Inquisitions that occurred in Europe. The Catholic Church only has credibility with those who willfully overlook the Churches centuries worth of atrocities.

@StuartSlaney2 @Microinteracti1 @slasherphobe About the most sensible thing I’ve read all day

@Microinteracti1 @slasherphobe Just phone Trump and tell him we have the Epstein files. He’ll blow up Cuba to distract

🇬🇧 Starmer still has time to pull King Charles aside and say: don’t go. Don’t get on that plane. Don’t shake the hand of a man who just called your Prime Minister a facilitator of drug dealers and mental patients. Trump is now threatening to downgrade Britain’s trade deal. Over Starmer. A man so inoffensive he makes beige look exciting. This is what grovelling gets you. Not respect. Just more abuse, delivered louder, in front of the whole world. Keir, for the love of God, say something. You are the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Act like it. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@Microinteracti1 People still want to travel to the USA? Wow!

The United States is so toxic on the world stage right now that it can’t fill hotels or sell World Cup tickets. Let that land. FIFA projected $30.5 billion in economic impact from millions of international visitors. That demand never showed up. Hotels in Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia and San Francisco have slashed match-day rates by a third from their peak. FIFA has cancelled tens of thousands of reserved rooms across all 16 host cities. Some hotels report cancellation rates above 95%. The reasons aren’t hard to find. Anti-American sentiment. Fear of border crossings. The Iran war driving up oil prices and airfares. And tickets priced into the stratosphere, with finals seats hitting $10,990 a pop. Industry executives are now openly blaming the Trump administration for the shortfall. Tourism economists say the Iran war made an already bad sentiment problem worse. Empty stadiums are now a real possibility. It happened at the Club World Cup last summer. It could happen again, on American soil, at the biggest sporting event on the planet. The White House says this will be “the greatest World Cup ever.” The market disagrees. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@EmmelineWyndham I’ve just turned it off does that count? SW Scotland here btw

Hands up anyone else in the UK who's crumbled and put the bloody heating back on....?

@LeahRemini Good on you, well done for being strong and determined in the face of absurdity (intended)

I graduated!!! I earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a concentration in Psychology, summa cum laude! Five years ago, I started this journey with an eighth-grade education, and even that was from a Scientology school, where critical thinking was discouraged and the quality of instruction was subpar, to say the least. I did not get here alone. Thank you to @NYUSPS and @DeanKamath. Thank you to everyone who supported me, encouraged me, and believed in me, especially on the days I was not sure I could do this. And there were plenty of those days. To my therapist, who told me not to give up when I was told I likely would not be accepted into a prestigious program. To my tutor, without whom I likely would have given up at the harder points along the way. To all those here who have sent me loving messages on social media. And to everyone else who has cheered me on in person through the ups and the downs of it, it means more than I can put into words. It got me over this finish line of being a student again and graduating. That goal once seemed impossible. To those who have asked me, “Why this? Why now?” I pursued higher education to reclaim a piece of myself. When you come out of a high-control group like Scientology, or even a high-control family, there are parts of you that were never allowed to fully develop. Those parts include your curiosity and your ability and right to question. Education was discouraged because knowledge creates confidence in your ability to trust your own mind and navigate the world. That leads to true independence, and that would never be allowed. I wanted that back. But more than that, I needed to understand. I needed to understand how my mother could have us join Scientology when I was just eight years old, and how my family and I could be part of something like this and stay in it for so long. I needed to understand how these systems work, how they influence people, and how they take hold. Without education, access to real information, and support, people can fall into systems that work against their best interests. Some assume that because they are educated, even highly educated, they would never fall for something like this. But it turns out that is not necessarily true. What many of us are impacted by, but never quite understand, is how high-control groups operate. Many still do not understand how misinformation spreads, and how tribalism and radicalization shape what we think, what we believe, and who and what we trust. Without that awareness, none of us are immune. Today, we are seeing how these forces can influence good people and distort reality. History has shown us that this is not new; it just comes in a different form now. Social media connects us in ways we never imagined, but it also creates echo chambers that reinforce beliefs and justify behavior without question. Real critical thinking is hard when we are fed so much by algorithms designed to appeal to us. In learning and achieving this milestone in my own life, it has helped me take a good, hard look at my own beliefs and ideologies. This journey was about healing for me, but also about figuring out how to help others in whatever way I can in the future. So what is in my future? I am considering continuing my education and possibly pursuing a master’s degree, with the goal of contributing to advocacy and policies that protect people, not systems. For now, I am taking this moment in. I am proud of myself. And I am grateful. Thank you for being on this journey with me.

@Sassafrass_84 Congratulations to your daughter 💯

You guys!!!!! I just got the best news in the world!!!!!! My daughter passed her test..she is graduating. She is a NURSE!!!! OMGGGGGG, I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!

@twieneruk @Logically_JC Sarcasm 101

@Logically_JC We have to thank Trump for sorting out the mess Mr Biden and the Brits created.

Can he go one day without embarrassing us?

@TerniL90896 @MorrisBrightMBE Same I still say the lines now and used to say them to my baby daughter who is now 24. Obsessed with that show and loved him

@MorrisBrightMBE I loved his narration to Willo the Wisp as a child.

This night 1988, actor, writer & raconteur Kenneth Williams went to bed. He woke in the night & took strong painkillers. He was due a major operation & was in great pain. By morning, he'd died. He was 62. Remembering one of the greats, my hero. I wish he'd known how loved he was.

@rut85826 24 and 21 here. Son moved out in 23 but came back last Nov 25. Can’t see either leaving any time soon

Anyone else got adult children at home? What’s a reasonable age to throw them out ( sorry I mean encourage them to fly the nest.) Just had an argument about potatoes 🙄

@SenateTim @BohuslavskaKate @squirlkit @JDVance @POTUS Disgusting, he’s no Christian he’s a Soviet puppet

@BohuslavskaKate @squirlkit If that’s his proudest achievement, I’d hate to see his worst achievement. The US promised to protect Ukraine in 1994. Why would anyone believe or trust America again? @JDVance @POTUS Obviously Putin is pulling their strings. trump & vance are puppets of Putin.

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration. ​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro. Dozens more were injured. ​The military assistance you are so proud of stopping was used to save lives in a war Russia started and continues every day by choice, in a war that only became possible after USA pressured Ukraine into disarming... ​I do not know if Vance can fully comprehend the scale of the tragedy unfolding here: a brutal, illegal war of extermination by Russia, and the slow abandonment by our allies. There is nothing to be proud of. Absolutely nothing.

@lady_valor_07 David Gray

Who’s the most famous person you’ve ever spoken to? Not “seen from far away” — actually talked to, even for a minute. A quick hello, a handshake, a normal conversation… and you still remember it. Who was it?

@sirdka @dirk7890 I can hear his laugh now seeing that! Thank you!

Born 14th of April 1932 recognise him 🚍

@MartinSLewis I never carried that on either. Weird. Like every one of my parent’s friends I had to call “Aunt Margaret” or “Uncle Mike”! No that ended with me.

Was watching an old TV show where the kids didn't call their friend's parents by their first names, but as "Mr Smith" or "Mrs Jones" much as I did in the 80s. Yet it would feel bizarre to me, if my daughter's friends called me Mr Lewis now. When did it change (or has it not for you)?

@Wayne18Bridge @JamesBlunt 🤣🤣🤣🤣🙏

@Wanderer0612 @JamesBlunt

I use conditioner on my armpits.

@MbarkCherguia Fancy dress as a left testicle?

On what occasion would you wear THIS?? 😭

Jack White on Trump depicting himself as Jesus Christ in a new meme: "Hey evangelical Christians? Remember that anti-Christ you been squawking about all these years and how he'd present himself as Christlike and bring about the end of days with a final war in the Middle East involving Jerusalem? Well...check out your boy now! "Listen, if the felonies, epstein files, rapes, bombing of schoolchildren, gestapo ICE agents attacking his own citizens, threatening to invade Greenland, Cuba, Venezuela and Iran all didn't convince you that you fell for this deranged grifter, maybe this lil' post will? How can any so called Christian support him after this blasphemy? How could any Catholic support him after he attacks the character of their Pope multiple times? How did so many millions of people fall for this conman? He's already got worst President in the history of America on lock, but I'm gonna go ahead and take the honor of pronouncing trump 'Worst American of All Time.' "P.S.: after some backlash (looks like SOME christians actually take their own religion seriously) trump is now saying that this AI image depicts him as a doctor for the Red Cross! He lies, then lies about the lie, then doubles down on that lie with another lie and they Just. Keep. Falling. For. It." 📸: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images

@Wayne18Bridge @JamesBlunt Ew I sicked up a little seeing this 🤮

@JamesBlunt Duh