@ASAP_Pain_ @ScarcityStudent @JOSH______NZ @mart1na33 They did tell him to let verstappen past and he wasn't happy about it - after they came together Lawson went off track and team must have been worried about a penalty.
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@ScarcityStudent @JOSH______NZ @mart1na33 Well he’s never explicitly told to let Verstappen pass but it’s a business decision for him. There’s no reason to fight the inevitable and cook his tires that early
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Lawson doing Lawson things
One mistake and everyone’s on his back again, and everything else he’s done right this season is forgotten about
F1 fans try not to be reactionary challenge - IMPOSSIBLE difficulty
Ferran West@FerranWest
Lawson doing Lawson things
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‘On the basis of that logic, would you ban Tommy Robinson’s rally?’
@Lewis_Goodall pushes the Tories’ Helen Whately for ‘consistency’ as the party calls for a ban on pro-Palestine ‘hate marches’.
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Our hapless CEO is scared of being asked difficult questions.
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I'm curious whether he grapples with the fact that in order to be in his bubble, he had to consciously ignore everything that other Black people had said about race in America for his entire life until his adopted daughter experienced it directly.
The Fifth Column 🖐@wethefifth
Adopting a child from Ethiopia changed David French's perspective on the state of racism in America. From our new episode with @davidafrench.
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@dime4justice The two parties agreed to it in their employment contract.
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This premeditated attack on journalists, carried out over multiple hours with medics and a huge part of the public begging Israel to stop, should really be enough to lock up Netanyahu for life. This is just blatant murder.
Nada Maucourant Atallah@MaucourantNada
We spoke to reporter Zaynab Faraj, who survived a triple-tap attack that killed her colleague, Amal Khalil. She described how an Israeli strike first hit a car ahead of them, killing two civilians, before a second strike targeted their own vehicle, severely injuring Amal. Ms Faraj said she helped her into an empty house, where they lay wounded and terrified, waiting for help. A third Israeli strike then hit the building where they were hiding, collapsing it on top of them. “Amal was gone,” Ms Faraj said. “And I was left alone.” Throughout the ordeal, the journalists made repeated calls for help. But Israel prevented the Lebanese Army and the Lebanese Red Cross from reaching them, informed sources told us.
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@SBart91429 @CoysConf Nothing implements a losing mentality like winning the clubs first European Trophy in decades and qualifying for the Champions League right?
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@CoysConf Well here’s why - he encouraged the team to bin the league from last January which implemented a losing mentality which has spread into this season
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Tottenham Hotspur saw this and thought, yeah, the correct move here is to sack the manager.
Soccer Forever@soccerforeverhq
An estimated 225,000 fans turned up for Tottenham’s Europa League trophy parade, you can’t say they’re small anymore…😅
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Christian explains the logic of why he turned on Mike White on #Survivor50, and reveals he actually asked a producer at one point, "Am I allowed to do this?"
Full interview: parade.com/tv/christian-h…
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Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—
AOC: Wah wah wah.
We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. Republicans have fought for partisan gerrymanders across the United States of America. And these are the rules that they have set.
And so if the Republican Party wanted to start this, they did this in North Carolina. They drew out three Democratic members of Congress in North Carolina. They did it in Texas.
What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over, doesn’t fight, and takes everything sitting down. And what they’re mad at right now is that we are here in a new day. And we have been asking the Democratic Party to stand up and fight, and now they did—and now the Republican Party doesn’t like the fact that they are fighting against someone who actually will stand up for the American people.
So if Republicans decide that they would like to revisit a ban on partisan gerrymandering, I welcome them. We have the bill right here to end this all today. But they don’t want to, because they like pursuing and continuing to enact an unfair electoral landscape. And so we have an obligation to defend ourselves.
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A self vote is against the core tenets of #Survivor, but my main issue is limiting Christian so that he can’t bluff. If he could protect himself with pure lies, or if they could sniff it out or take the risk, that push/pull is the beauty of the game, but the people making it don’t get it #Survivor50
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Everyone should read what the Israeli military did to journalist Amal Khalil today in this minute-by-minute account as the international community watched in horror. First the text messages threatening her then trapping her and a photographer in a house then bombing them then firing on international rescue crews, all with the world watching in real time. There are no words left for the horrors that U.S. political leaders are enabling.
Hala Jaber@HalaJaber
🚨BREAKING🚨Israeli forces are now issuing direct death threats to Lebanese journalists on WhatsApp as well as besieging them. Al-Akhbar correspondent @AmalKhalil83, who has been documenting the devastation across southern Lebanon, received these messages from an Israeli number (+972 54-869-5113): “We know where you are… we will reach you… leave if you want to keep your head on your shoulders.” First message: “Alright, my lady, you are moving from one village to another, but you still haven’t gone to enough funerals or hospitals. There is a lot of grief & sorrow behind that smile you try to show on Twitter. Let’s see what your answer will be… Is your house still standing, Anisa (Miss)? I hope so?” Second message: “We know where you are & we will reach you when the time comes. Even though you are not important to us, in the end we will take everything into account. I suggest you flee to Qatar or somewhere else if you want to keep your head connected to your shoulders :)” This is not intimidation. This is the IDF issuing an explicit death threat to a journalist for covering their crimes. At the same time, Israeli forces besieged Amal al-Khalil & journalist Zeinab Faraj in al-Tayri, blocking the Red Cross & Lebanese Army from reaching them. They were in a delegate vehicle when a drone strike hit a vehicle behind them, killing two people. Both journalists were trapped at the scene. Amal contacted the Red Cross before her phone died. Her last message confirmed she was still safe. Rescue teams still cannot reach the two besieged journalists, Amal al-Khalil & Zeinab Faraj. They are just 500 meters away, but the road has been cut off by an Israeli strike, according to Red Cross paramedics. This is targeting journalists in real time. This is a crime. Pure state terrorism against the press.
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@ByPhillipRollo Would be a sad way for a club legend to go out with little fanfare.
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Alex Rufer may have played his last game for the Phoenix. Off-contract at the end of the season and he's just earned himself a yellow card suspension for the final round.
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@meerkat01155611 @henrycooke Why should they lose their shit over an interpretation of 'the feast of the gods' depicting Olympian gods at the olympics?
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Christopher Luxon on the Trump-as-Jesus image + the Pope fight:
"If you're a person of faith or not, I think the image was pretty ridiculous. And I just say to you know the Pope - we believe in freedom of speech."
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Sure!
Some of the first things he did were get rid of red tape regulations that held back small businesses and prevented new housing.
He issued an order for every department to identify wasteful spending.
Did a hugely visible bum rush to fix 8k potholes and now moving on to scaffolding.
He’s also generally left the police alone.
Seems very measured and pragmatic. I think the budget crisis is forcing him to be less of an ideologue, but I think it’s a good model for a Democrat in a blue city so far. Way better than what’s gone on in places like Chicago, San Francisco, Portland etc.
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It's definitely a long shot, but a Mahan win would be transformational.
Not just for California, but for the entire Democratic Party—and therefore the country.
Electing a sane, competent centrist technocrat to lead the biggest, bluest, most poorly managed, lefty special-interest-dominated state in America?
That would be the anti-Mamdani whitepill moment.
Benjamin Freeman@benwfreeman1
San José Mayor Matt Mahan has seen his odds to become the next California Governor more than double in the last 48 hours from 6% to 14%. He’s in second place behind Tom Steyer (53%)
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You know what would be amazing if Vance and his team can negotiate an agreement where Iran doesn't enrich above 3.67% (far below weapons grade); gets rid of 98% of its stockpile of enriched uranium; has weekly inspections by the IAEA; keeps the straits open without charging anyone; and commits to all of this for at least ten years. Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.
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Got a strange feeling this actually reads like a list of Owen's regular extra curricular activities? 🤣
Owen Jones@owenjonesjourno
Marwan Barghouti was convicted by a kangaroo court in an absurd parody of justice. Reza Pahlavi is the son of a murderous dictator - who he venerates. The Shah's secret police: - pumped boiling water into people's rectums - hung heavy weights from people's testicles - inserted bottles into people's anuses - extracted nails and teeth - tied prisoners to heated metal tables I could go on, Heidi. I'm sure you'll accuse me of colonialism for objecting to this horror!
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@henrycooke The whole programme is fiscally insane from the start.
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In 2024 the Govt set out that RoNS would be four lanes and grade separated.
But that’s so expensive NZTA are now moving to downgrade this standard
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@LewSOS If he wasn't spending all his energy fighting simeon and seymour I'm sure he would find things too turn me off, but they are keeping him so busy his dickishness is firmly focused on them and stopping them destroying Auckland.
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