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Phew guys, we're in safe hands. 🙄 After reports from Russia’s Irkutsk region revealed a potential public health crisis, Donald Trump gave his thoughts on a seeming outbreak of the rare and often deadly pneumonic plague. Given his handling of COVID, some fear his approach to public health concerns.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 11h

Why not? Hundreds of Tory politicians and donors are being allowed to walk free after their crimes of making obscene profits from public funds by corruptly obtaining government contracts to import sub-standard PPE during the pandemic and helping to kill ~200,000 of us.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 4h

17 times! But no crime was committed?

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Billy Bob @billymusicguy.bsky.social · 7h

Stabbed in the back, a deputy stabbed a prisoner in the back and killed him. What the f*** is wrong with these people?

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 5h

Very likely. But how will you prove that? Also, as I'm sure you recognise, genocide is a state crime, not an individual crime. Even if you were to know what the leader had in his mind, it's the intention of the state that is material.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 5h

Intent - of the required specially (unusually) high standard required by the Convention - will ultimately be the issue, if the ICJ ever gets around to trying the case. That, and the imprecise terms "substantial part" and "in part".

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Dear Leader @dearleader8647.bsky.social · 6h

To be legally classified as genocide, any of the five listed acts must be accompanied by a mental element: the intent to destroy a protected group in whole or in part. Targeting a group randomly or for political reasons alone does not fit this specific legal definition. But Bibi had intent.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 6h

.. inhumane and inexcusable slaughter of civilians looking very much like a holocaust tribute act. A technical defence against genocide, under the Convention, even if successful, doesn't go anywhere near excusing/justifying the conduct complained of, and clearly doesn't successfully deny it.. (2)

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 6h

I have read the arguments from certain lawyers about why Israeli actions in Gaza don't amount to genocide within the meaning of the Convention. Even if they were right (which I don't accept), my criticism of Israel would simply substitute the following for the word genocide: .. (1)

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OPB @opb.org · 7h

Prosecutors in Clark County said Monday that a deputy who stabbed a suspect to death in May 2025 won’t face criminal charges. The decision could play an important role in whether the county is ultimately held liable for the killing.

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Clark County deputy who fatally stabbed suspect in the back won’t face criminal charges

The prosecutor’s decision comes three weeks after the man’s family filed a $27 million tort claim against the county.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 11h

I hold Starmer personally responsible for acquiescing to Trump's demands over his illegal war.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 11h

We will all be Chinese in another 10 generations. We may as well get used to the idea. Also, one can't help noticing that their women are generally speaking much more attractive. Listen to this from the amusingly naned Tai Mai Shu: youtu.be/Lf_lMHIg90Q?...

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Asian/AZN Pride - Got Rice? (Original)

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 8h

There isn't a right thing to say, because nothing you say could possibly cure the cancer. And that's what is needed. So the thing to aim for is the least wrong thing to say.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 8h

Extraordinary!

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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 8h

Trump backed reclassifying marijuana during the 2024 campaign and signed an executive order in December directing the change.

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Marijuana industry money is boosting Republicans who oppose legalization

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 8h

There isn't a right thing to say, because nothing you say could possibly cure the cancer. And that's what is needed. So the thing to aim for is the least wrong thing to say.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 8h

If the key to a full authoritarian takeover of the US is the composition of the supreme court, that tells me that SCOTUS is not performing the function that it is supposed to. It is supposed to interpret the constitution and existing US law. Not to bend it to personal agendas and prejudices.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 9h

He knows because he and his supporters are the ones who will be rigging them. His real complaint about rigging is that they might not be able to rig them sufficiently to overcome Republicans' unpopularity, which arises primarily from his own appallingly awful incumbency at the White House.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9h

Trump is already claiming the midterm elections are going to be rigged. Listen to Stress Test, our new video podcast with David Corn and Garrison Hayes, to find out. New episodes drop every Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe at youtube.com/motherjones.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 9h

I'm so old that innumerable friends have had cancer. Some died, some didn't. I have been diagnosed myself, but it turned out to be wrong. There isn't a right thing to say, because it depends entirely on the friend and what they need to hear. Say nothing. Listen to them and then make your best guess.

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Dear Leader @dearleader8647.bsky.social · 9h

He is the third-grader who the smart kids laugh at because it's obvious to them he didn't read the book he's delivering a report on. He lives that experience every day of his life.

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Dear Leader @dearleader8647.bsky.social · 9h

"Everyone says he is crazy—which maybe he is—but the scarier thing is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.” ~ Fran Lebowitz, 2018

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Dear Leader @dearleader8647.bsky.social · 9h

“I’ll stop trading with countries with which we have a deficit” if the Federal Reserve doesn’t cut interest rates. “If we stopped Trading with every country that we have a Deficit with, which is most of them, we would make, at least, 1.5 Trillion Dollars a year.” Makes perfect sense to MAGA.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11h

The former DHS secretary appears to have gotten a sweetheart deal for one of her biggest donors on her way out the door. trib.al/syMZuyj

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Kristi Noem Has Some Explaining to Do

The former DHS secretary appears to have gotten a sweetheart deal for one of her biggest donors on her way out the door.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 11h

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Asian/AZN Pride - Got Rice? (Original)

YouTube video by icenaharry

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11h

NEW: The Trump DOJ plans to send roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places this November — and hasn't disclosed who they are, where they're going or what they've been told to do. The NAACP is now suing to force DOJ to turn over the records, citing fears of voter intimidation.

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DOJ sued for records on ‘unprecedented’ plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors in midterms

DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 11h

I hold Starmer personally responsible for acquiescing to Trump's demands over his illegal war.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 11h

The USAF girls' school bomb squad (its St. Trinian's wing) quietly evacuates the UK over the weekend, leaving behind its trail of shame for us to deal with having facilitated its illegal bombing of Iran.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 12h

The French have no US bases on their mainland or any French territory. They threw the Americans out in the mid-60s, even though the French owed the Americans big time for rescuing them from WW2 German occupation. Yet the UK, which was never occupied, let the Americans stay on. That was a mistake.

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Roger Reynard @rogerday.bsky.social · 12h

He'd've had real issues with the Greenham Common protesters

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 12h

As I suggested on here this weekend, withdrawal of Trump's girls' school bombers (his St. Trinian's wing, as I call them) might signal that Trump is having a private tantrum over the UK govt's inadequate protection of its long-despised US bases in the UK

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🇨🇦DM ME RECIPES🇨🇦 @professorrecipes.substack.com · 12h

Bingo. It's not that dementia has turned Trump into an incompetent, sadistic, moron. Donald Trump has always been an incompetent, sadistic, moron. And now he has late-stage dementia.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 12h

Britain and the U.S. sought to ease friction today after American bombers were suddenly withdrawn amid major security concerns at the base that hosted U.S. aircraft used to strike Iran.

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America’s bomber withdrawal points to wider UK-US friction

The Pentagon’s decision to relocate B-1 bombers from the British air base comes after months of frustration in the Trump administration over Britain’s defense spending.

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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 12h

Trump Warns of Rigged US Elections as GOP Braces for Midterm Hammering

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Trump Warns of Rigged US Elections as GOP Braces for Midterm Hammering

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 12h

Think how economists must feel when they listen to Trump. Perhaps like I did when my hairdresser tried to explain to me why Einstein's special theory of relativity must be wrong.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 12h

Trump so personifies and epitomises Dunning-Kruger effect that we really ought to rename it the Donald-Trumper effect.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 12h

Trump so personifies and epitomises Dunning-Kruger effect that we really ought to rename it the Donald-Trumper effect.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 12h

Thing is, the author presents Trump's cognitive failings as if they are the result of recent deterioration, rather than a congenital cognitive incapacity. I maintain that he has always been this dumb and his former tutors bear me out.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 12h

Think how economists must feel when they listen to Trump. Perhaps like I did when my hairdresser tried to explain to me why Einstein's special theory of relativity must be wrong.

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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 12h

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