The Conservative party is about to waste the whole summer pretending that Brexit isn't happening. It's actually quite impressive https://t.co/dkvQH9SVwy
— Luke McGee (@lukemcgee) June 7, 2019
Theresa May has resigned. That means commencing at 6pm any and all crime, including murder, will be legal for 48 continuous hours. May God be with you all. https://t.co/tSoKUysiON
— J Clee (@jmsclee) June 7, 2019
Furthermore, this is a press release issued by the Conservative 1922 Committee on June 4th. They are the organisation that officially run the leadership contest. In the statement they explicitly say that Theresa May will stay on as leader until her successor is appointed. (3/3) pic.twitter.com/KlsI8Xut1W
— Betfair Help (@BetfairCS) June 7, 2019
Europe's press sees Brexit as May's 'spectacular failure' https://t.co/Oona6DvYCS
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 7, 2019
In one of my final pieces for @POLITICOEurope I look at May’s Brexit legacy. In her failure she’s managed what Brussels long sought to avoid: exporting UK domestic crisis to rest of Europe. No-deal *&* stasis now pose systemic threats. Q: which is worse? https://t.co/BiuWc7ocSc
— Tom McTague (@TomMcTague) June 7, 2019
it's the political tribute everyone wanted https://t.co/GyMdJEmqaU
— Alan White (@aljwhite) June 7, 2019
I asked a number of Westminster people to write a few words on Theresa May, her premiership and what her legacy will be and, huh, they weren't kind: https://t.co/4m1lErPYIe pic.twitter.com/oh2knXdA14
— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) June 7, 2019
The story behind the @coldwar_steve TIME cover on Brexit Britain https://t.co/idzM4wIlOO
— Cold War Steve (@Coldwar_Steve) June 6, 2019
This really is Theresa May's legacy – not only that she has completely failed to bring the country together but also that she's more or less destroyed the chances of her successors salvaging the ship – be that Boris or anyone else who puts themselves forward. https://t.co/Oj8xMfpLHQ
— Dia Chakravarty (@DiaChakravarty) June 7, 2019
Pretty cool how normal people can get thrown in jail for cocaine use (a policy Michael Gove doesn't want to change) whilst he can dust off an anecdote about that time he used nose drugs in order to look slightly less fucking dull in a leadership contest pic.twitter.com/VMUNnvF9JE
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) June 7, 2019
Don't forget: https://t.co/LXp2RFkNMk
— Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) June 7, 2019
Extraordinary. New YouGov poll puts @RoryStewartUK ahead of @BorisJohnson as public’s choice for PM out of all the Tory leadership contenders. pic.twitter.com/voGrgRbiNb
— Catherine Philp (@scribblercat) June 7, 2019
All these politicians' confessions have put me in mind of my most successful ever tweet https://t.co/MGho5uZagX
— Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg) June 7, 2019
Leader of the Brexit Party Nigel Farage has delivered a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May demanding his party is involved in the Government's Brexit negotiations
— Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) June 7, 2019
At this rate, Corbyn may finally come out unambiguously for a #PeopleVote on 1 November.https://t.co/GFItpKxv3v
— Stephen Farry (@StephenFarryMLA) June 7, 2019
Very strong piece on the future of our democracies from @CarolineLucas. What a vital force for good she has been during the whole Brexit fiasco. https://t.co/dD5p9xjE65
— Marc Stears (@mds49) June 7, 2019
Green Party will beat far-right hate, says Jonathan Bartley https://t.co/gNJUIPqgNm
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) June 7, 2019
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TRUMPWORLD
Trump Calls Off Plan to Impose Tariffs on Mexico https://t.co/jeZLW1uG4O via @nytimes
— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) June 8, 2019
“President Donald Trump said he would drop plans for #tariffs on #Mexico that he’d been threatening to impose for the past week after the country promised new steps to stem an influx of illegal migration into the U.S.” https://t.co/n9ZNBeYPUc #PeopleRespondToIncentives #Border
— Will Anderson (@WillWVNN) June 8, 2019
I don’t understand; why call off the tariffs if the tariffs were going to make us rich and convince firms to relocate in the US?
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 8, 2019
Scoop: Former aide to Roger Stone has turned over to a grand jury all of his texts with Stone from October 2016 to March 2017, as well as the written agenda for Stone while he was at the RNC in 2016. This follows his 2-hour grand jury testimony last week. https://t.co/38FEXP5O4M
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) June 7, 2019
Court orders release of sealed documents in mysterious Mueller grand jury case https://t.co/UMK8ga9XMh pic.twitter.com/DDUJ7aS4jb
— The Hill (@thehill) June 7, 2019
A federal judge has ruled that the FBI must un-redact more portions of former Director James Comey's memos about his meetings with President Donald Trump, in response to a lawsuit from CNN, per @cnnadam https://t.co/xCuQSCPkpi
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 7, 2019
So this week Trump continued his feud with a dead man, picked a new one with Bette Midler, attacked a royal family member, said Ireland should build a wall on its border with N. Ireland, that he didn't serve in Vietnam b/c it was far away, & the moon was part of Mars. Cool cool.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) June 7, 2019
Trump attacks Nasa and claims the moon is 'a part' of Mars https://t.co/6jOWCanwCG
— The Guardian (@guardian) June 7, 2019
Trump administration refuses to let US embassies fly the Pride flag https://t.co/6FeBaalZFn
— The Independent (@Independent) June 7, 2019
The White House tried to block former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach from testifying about his conversations with Trump regarding the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 censushttps://t.co/bcjorOj0uM
— POLITICO (@politico) June 7, 2019
“No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust … shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, … of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”*
*Constitution does not apply to payments at Trump Hotels, with feckless GOP. https://t.co/gTqPndp3r9
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) June 7, 2019
This week the Trump kids went royal in the hopes of laundering their brand and enjoying some of the fruits of their father’s high office. New from @MollyJongFast https://t.co/p7UZxkOPEo pic.twitter.com/Lcz8JPcEyd
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) June 7, 2019
For other kids, though…
The men known as The Central Park Five watched the press about them as kids. One said to me years ago, “I used to wish we could just get to Oprah and tell our story.” That time is now. On June 12, @Oprah will interview The Innocent 5. Airing on @OWNTV + @Netflix. ✊🏾#WhenTheySeeUs pic.twitter.com/uE4EMGYW0K
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) June 7, 2019
The two states hardest hit by Trump’s tariffs on US companies that import Mexican goods, Michigan and Texas, are ones he won in 2016. They’re absolutely critical to his reelection chances, but he’s behind in each of them.
Trump’s trade war may go down as a damaging self-own. pic.twitter.com/yFerXPDd7A
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 7, 2019
The Dow is where it was in January 2018. https://t.co/QARRbpcZE3
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) June 7, 2019
The super-low unemployment rate didn’t budge in May from 3.6 percent.
But the small pool of available workers still hasn’t translated to higher pay. Workers only got an average hourly pay raise of 6 cents in May. https://t.co/CqcEWsgn6E
— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 7, 2019
California's largest utility warns tens of thousands of people could see power shut off due to extreme fire risk https://t.co/vhCRgafXqY
— CNBC (@CNBC) June 7, 2019
Arms deal for Arab allies approved by the Trump admin. will allow US hi-tech bomb parts to be manufactured in Saudi Arabia, giving Riyadh unprecedented access to a sensitive weapons technology. https://t.co/lqLWhUFzb5
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 7, 2019
Trump tried to justify selling arms to Saudi Arabia while it bombs and blockades Yemeni civilians because that yields US jobs. Now he's outsourcing the jobs to Saudi Arabia. https://t.co/jdkvxVBQ8w pic.twitter.com/g0fRwjPY0Q
— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) June 7, 2019
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WORLD
Xi, Putin Condemn U.S. Dominance as Tensions With Trump Grow https://t.co/DEok6B1ssX #SmartNews
— BarbaraErskineMiller (@barbaraemiller) June 7, 2019
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are building significant ties, defying expectations of a shortlived marriage forged under fire from the US https://t.co/CrugshBKRA
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) June 5, 2019
Russian warship and US Navy ship nearly collide.
Less a return to Cold War than an increasingly risk acceptant Putin leading a Russia in decline and blaming US for it. pic.twitter.com/aqM80HUlFE
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) June 7, 2019
This is happening with no other crisis in the hopper; the Russians are doing it because they *can*. Their audience for this is not Trump – whom they know they have cowering – but the rest of the U.S. defense and national security community. https://t.co/uKhwV41Bsg
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) June 7, 2019
Maybe not on the same scale…
Scotland warns Ireland it will force fishing boats to leave Rockall waters.
Didn't expect us to be in a naval standoff with the Scots of a Friday night but here we are…https://t.co/FNjmDmw1KC
— Richard Chambers (@newschambers) June 7, 2019
Germany passed a controversial package of bills bringing major changes to the country's asylum and immigration policy following a fierce debate in parliament https://t.co/eTm8pR09BK
— POLITICO Europe (@POLITICOEurope) June 7, 2019
Once a hotspot, Zhengzhou is now among the worst affected by a slowdown in China's economy pic.twitter.com/IXZisLHmqN
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 7, 2019
NASA will allow private astronauts on the ISS for $11,250-$22,500 a day https://t.co/WcibsY1ySW
— Jennifer Ouellette (@JenLucPiquant) June 7, 2019
Finally…
💪🏳️🌈✊❤️👩❤️💋👩 🌈👏 London bus attack women: “We are not scared to be visibly queer” https://t.co/skR9IJwr49
— Hannah Jane Parkinson (@ladyhaja) June 7, 2019
Those arrested for the homophobic, lesbiphobic and misogynist brutality and hate crime on the bus in May are 15-18 years old. Now tell me why we don't need education about LGBTQ lives in schools?https://t.co/gfUJfV5geG
— Stella Duffy (@stellduffy) June 7, 2019
