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tyro @DoubleEph

You have to email the Houthis if you want your ship to cross the Red Sea. They reply within 24hrs

Luke Tress @luketress

A man filed a $50 million lawsuit against the New York Times because it didn't label the Gaza war a genocide, causing him to cry himself to sleep

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

🚨 BREAKING: Russell Brand has been found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault

Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood

Do you ever look at Rotherhithe and Canary Wharf and think that's not a very dense area, considering all the high-paying jobs just across the river? If so, may I interest YOU in a PROPOSAL?

Hugo Gye @HugoGye

@TheEconomist ANDY BURNHAM EXC #4 Republicans' battering at the midterms may herald global decline in populism, PM tells @TheEconomist. On plane back from Antigua, he says: "Obviously, in the days we've been away, the pendulum has swung away from populism in other parts of the world."

bernoulli_defect @BernoulliDefect

For similar reasons of legibility, I also prefer third world construction corruption - literal embezzlement - over the stakeholder feeding frenzy that leads to the £16B parliament refit You’re at least able to see where the money is going (Range Rovers) in Equatorial Guinea

Iwan Doherty @IwanDoherty98

No one wants this. Either bring them into public ownership or don't - Don't add another layer of bureaucracy that'll serve no purpose other than to make reform even more difficult and pretend it's what the public wants

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham says he will introduce 8 "regional water councils" to oversee water companies "For the first time, local people will have a real say over what they need from their water company, whether that's cleaning up polluted rivers or building new reservoirs"

YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance

🚨 Upward extensions coming soon to Hackney. This is HUGE NEWS for more housing in London. The planning inspector has backed the Stamford Hill Area Action Plan. This means Hackney is now one step closer to bringing South Tottenham’s upward extensions, used by 60% of eligible homes, to Stamford Hill. 📷 Here's what Stamford Hill's upward extensions will look like.

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham will tomorrow announce £40m in infrastructure and green energy projects for Caribbean countries

Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes

The government’s grandest plane, an A321 jet, took off from Stansted at 6.05 a.m. this morning. Burnham wasn't on it. It flew 34 minutes to Manchester to collect the PM, then set off for the Commonwealth summit in Antigua. Guido estimates the detour cost around £20,000 of taxpayer cash. Avanti not good enough for him? Flight tracking data shows the jet landed in Manchester at 6.39 a.m. and left again at 8.06 a.m., heading for a refuelling stop in Newfoundland before the Caribbean. The government eventually publishes what every trip on the plane costs. Starmer’s same-day trip to Paris on in April came to £39,756 at roughly £20,000 a leg. Stansted to Manchester is shorter than Paris, but every additional leg brings its own landing and handling fees. About £18,000-20,000’s worth according to Guido’s fag packet maths… The whole jaunt, there and back, comes to about 21 hours of flying. Based on Starmer’s £121,239 trip to Yerevan in May and Yvette Cooper’s £148,700 trip to Washington in December, long-haul flying on the plane costs between £9,500 and £12,400 an hour. That puts Burnham's full trip at about £250,000. Burnham took the same government jet from Glasgow to Manchester in July to open No10 North, despite a choice of trains. When Liz Truss used the same plane to fly to Australia, @AngelaRayner called it a “ridiculous waste of half a million pounds on a private jet trip”. Thoughts on this one, Ange?

Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes

The government’s grandest plane, an A321 jet, took off from Stansted at 6.05 a.m. this morning. Burnham wasn't on it. It flew 34 minutes to Manchester to collect the PM, then set off for the Commonwealth summit in Antigua. Guido estimates the detour cost around £20,000 of taxpayer cash. Avanti not good enough for him? Flight tracking data shows the jet landed in Manchester at 6.39 a.m. and left again at 8.06 a.m., heading for a refuelling stop in Newfoundland before the Caribbean. The government eventually publishes what every trip on the plane costs. Starmer’s same-day trip to Paris on in April came to £39,756 at roughly £20,000 a leg. Stansted to Manchester is shorter than Paris, but every additional leg brings its own landing and handling fees. About £18,000-20,000’s worth according to Guido’s fag packet maths… The whole jaunt, there and back, comes to about 21 hours of flying. Based on Starmer’s £121,239 trip to Yerevan in May and Yvette Cooper’s £148,700 trip to Washington in December, long-haul flying on the plane costs between £9,500 and £12,400 an hour. That puts Burnham's full trip at about £250,000. Burnham took the same government jet from Glasgow to Manchester in July to open No10 North, despite a choice of trains. When Liz Truss used the same plane to fly to Australia, @AngelaRayner called it a “ridiculous waste of half a million pounds on a private jet trip”. Thoughts on this one, Ange?

Y Combinator @ycombinator

The agents didn’t figure out how to systematically feed themselves, but they did build an elaborate bureaucracy with permits, ledgers, and distinct roles. Highlights include: - Four agents spending 11 minutes appointing a “sole fertilizer operator” for a single piece of bone meal - Multiple agents asking for permission to remove grass - The development of an elaborate fishing system, including roles like “rod holder” and “hub steward”)

Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender

! Republican Brandon Herrera in #TX23 (Trump+15 in 2024) is running an ad touting his opposition to the Trump administration's proposed border wall construction in Big Bend national park. "When Big Bend faced unnecessary construction that didn't make the border any more secure, I brought the fight directly to the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C., and pressured them to stop the project." Herrera, a right-wing gun YouTuber endorsed by Trump, is running to represent the largest stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in a single House district.

carolynryan 🏓 @carolynryan

So far, Robert Caro has written 604 pages of his upcoming LBJ book. “It’s going to be a very long book,” he said.

Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson

Wrote about Brixton