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https://twitter.com/CharlesMichel/status/1792438047058890987

Good move from the EU.

What's Farsi for 'Mull of Kintyre'?

I'm not that broken up about it either, but that's still a weird kink.

I think anyone seriously considering RFK Jr has probably already ruled out Biden, so my instinct is Trump.

He'll double down on that idea and repeatedly "joke" that he's, actually, running for his third term

Looks like they figured something out, so good, but good lord a lot of the reactions in this thread were basically "let's make people's lives worse so we can feel good about ourselves"

Uber and Lyft workers: we don't want this, we're fine with choosing our own hours.
Restaurant workers: we don't support this, we're losing a ton of money with this in place.
Night goers: we don't want this, it helps a lot to be able to easily get home after drinking.
Atlas: they're doing for the working class, now be quiet, workers and regular people!

Has this leak enhanced or impeded a criminal investigation?

It's important to note that McBride's motives for leaking the information, as conceded by his own lawyers in court,  was not to 'expose the crimes,' but because he believed the soldiers had done nothing wrong and were being unfairly investigated. This is the slant he went to the ABC with, who upon receiving the material realized that no, actually the soldiers had committed serious war crimes. I'm not entirely comfortable with his prison sentence, but honesty is important. He wasn't trying to bring the truth to light but rather derail active investigations

And yet still revealed valuable information.

Yes, which is why I said I'm uncomfortable with this prison sentence. His actions ended up being good, but his motives weren't. He's a whistleblower by accident but still probably deserves protections

Providing jobs and supporting regional economies being, of course, entirely socially useless things.

At this point in the electoral cycle polling of the entirety of NI (and especially first preference support) is less useful, because those aren't going to be the dynamics of the general election. It's a question of how hostile the voters moving to the TUV from the DUP are; how willing nationalist/neither/moderate unionist voters are to vote tactically to remove opponents; and to what extent that varies from one constituency to another.

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https://twitter.com/CharlesMichel/status/1792438047058890987