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  1. Pinned Tweet
    May 16

    BACK IN STOCK! "Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered The World" is now on same-day/next-day delivery. 🎉

    9 replies 12 retweets 56 likes
  2. Retweeted
    5 hours ago

    Count as someone who is not happy Dems had dinner w/ Trump. via

    3 replies 6 retweets 15 likes
  3. 7 hours ago

    EU has said for a long time that detail is hugely important to this. Has May worked that out, or is this just for headlines?

    Replying to @BBCBreaking
    The new "UK settled" status would grant EU citizens rights to stay in the UK and allow benefits after Brexit
    3 replies 6 retweets 13 likes
  4. 9 hours ago

    This is quite something: proposals included fire regulations.

    Deregulation taskforce Red Tape Initiative targetted building standards before Grenfell Tower blaze via
    1 reply 30 retweets 10 likes
  5. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    Jesus this is disturbing.

    0:40
    Replying to @JordanUhl @SenateMajLdr and 2 others
    Protester ripped from her wheelchair and carried off
    2 replies 19 retweets 12 likes
  6. Retweeted
    12 hours ago

    Important - lots of news sources jumped to the wrong conclusion here

    Replying to @alexGspence
    Clarification on earlier figure of 600 towers — it wasn’t 600 that have similar cladding to Grenfell, but 600 that have cladding of any kind
    5 replies 8 retweets 8 likes
  7. Retweeted
    12 hours ago

    Preet gets a book deal

    2 retweets 16 likes
  8. 12 hours ago

    So is *claiming* paracetamol won't make your son gay. Suspect he's in the pay of Big Calpol/Big Gay.

    3 replies 12 retweets 21 likes
  9. Retweeted
    12 hours ago

    In his speech at Carnegie, Bernie just whacked Trump for spreading falsehoods about Sadiq.

    1 reply 5 retweets 9 likes
  10. Retweeted
    24 hours ago

    If news networks actually want compelling TV they should go to the briefing and just turn their cameras on

    No camera or recording allowed tomorrow at White House briefing with spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, per advisory.
    67 replies 890 retweets 2,803 likes
  11. 12 hours ago
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    It would be nice if May would at least *pretend* to obey the niceties of our weird and badly-drafted system of government.

    3 replies 3 retweets 5 likes
  12. 12 hours ago

    May still hasn't proven a majority in the Commons, can't portray this as "technical", is doing it anyway.

    1 reply 6 retweets
  13. 13 hours ago

    Users are always so resistant to new features.

    My Amazon box, which I fortunately opened outside the apt, was full of spiders. OK Amazon, you win. Message received.
    4 replies 5 retweets 7 likes
  14. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

    Private Tower Block Owners Won't Be Forced to Test For Flammable Cladding via

    1 reply 27 retweets 5 likes
  15. 13 hours ago

    Dissembler-in-chief?

    Trump appears to have reversed his position that DNC hacking was perpetrated by Russia, and now believes it as a "hoax"
    1 retweet 2 likes
  16. 13 hours ago
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    …either that, or they're already here.

    1 reply 1 like
  17. 13 hours ago
    Replying to

    Just started scratching my wrist in phantom panic about bedbugs being found roughly 3,400 miles away from where I am now.

    3 replies 2 likes
  18. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

    McDonalds pledged allegiance to the new Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia

    Newspapers are filled with pledges of allegiance to new crown prince including this one from
    1 reply 35 retweets 26 likes
  19. 14 hours ago

    This was a nice speech from Amber Rudd.

    1 reply 5 retweets 5 likes
  20. Retweeted
    14 hours ago

    I know politicians aren't supposed to answer awkward questions but our prime minister takes it to another level. this just in from Brussels:

    16 replies 95 retweets 69 likes
  21. Retweeted
    14 hours ago
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    "When I looked out of the window and saw the minaret was no longer there, I felt a part of me had died."

    2 replies 8 retweets 1 like

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