The pound sinks to a 28-month low against the dollar as Boris Johnson's government toughens its rhetoric on Brexithttps://t.co/18EzxErZnP
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) July 29, 2019
The Guardian front page, Tuesday 30 July, 2019: Pound on the slide as alarm over no-deal Brexit grows pic.twitter.com/V3vCQD5lte
— The Guardian (@guardian) July 29, 2019
Tories talk, pound £ tanks … https://t.co/DLEjFlPFJW
— etymologic (@etymologic) July 29, 2019
An economic crisis is soon set to envelop the know-nothing Johnsonian zealots. Sterling’s weakness – a 2 year low- will continue. Housing transactions down 16.5% on June 2018. Foreign Direct Investment down. Business investment flat. Car industry in crisis. So ignorant it hurts.
— Will Hutton (@williamnhutton) July 29, 2019
On the bright side, the pound sterling is not the worst performing currency in the world today. That accolade goes to the Madagascan Ariary. The pound, on the other hand, is only the second-worst performing currency in the entire world pic.twitter.com/bwJLNID8Ho
— Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky) July 29, 2019
Traders have panicked about the trade war between America and China, and are increasingly concerned about Britain's economy https://t.co/AY1QC8EfCN
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) July 25, 2019
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ELSEWHERE IN BREXITSHAMBLES BRITAIN
Boris Johnson booed as he turns up in Scotland.
Gives the word ‘divisive’ extra meaning. You can feel the UK tearing.pic.twitter.com/PO5FVjqNnJ
— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) July 29, 2019
After meeting Boris Johnson in Edinburgh, First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, says that "behind all the bluff and bluster", he has "set the UK on an almost inevitable path to a no-deal Brexit". pic.twitter.com/qbe04ur9ON
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) July 29, 2019
Hardly an isolated incident…
Here is Boris in Manchester yesterday 2/3#BackDoorBoris
pic.twitter.com/ARIgwsVnk7— Chalford Labour (@LabourChalford) July 29, 2019
This thread is quite something: https://t.co/HHkoCsFW6k
— Wolfgang Blau (@wblau) July 29, 2019
However bad your first day in work was, at least you didn't cheerily suggest tearing up the Good Friday Agreement; 35 page document crucial to your job, and your nation's history, which you admitted not having read some time ago, and clearly haven't since. https://t.co/fOHDCIrFzz
— Séamas It Ever Was (@shockproofbeats) July 29, 2019
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WORLD
Waiting for GOP (and other) outrage to explode on this — Trump blatantly tying US troop numbers in Afghanistan to a) an arbitrary deadline and b) his own re-election timeline, and not "conditions on the ground." https://t.co/usEPiJbLKP
— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) July 29, 2019
The two American soldiers killed in Afghanistan today bring the number of U.S. fatalities this year to 15. Since combat ops began 7 Oct. 2001: 2,432 Americans have been killed
— West Wing Reports (@WestWingReport) July 29, 2019
A U.S. appeals court ruled Venezuela's stake in Citgo can be seized, opening the door to a potential sale of the oil refiner https://t.co/RjYTyAMXuh
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) July 29, 2019
Partnership is much better for China than it is for Russia https://t.co/XNOTyarQ3M
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) July 29, 2019
In 2010, India sought to double its tiger population by 2022.
Now, officials have announced they met their goal four years earlier than expected. There are now about 3,000 tigers in India. https://t.co/HOjUcIet7L
— NPR (@NPR) July 29, 2019
Borders enforce eco-apartheid. We need a globally just #GreenNewDeal that both prioritizes freedom of movement & transforms hemispheric relations so that all can flourish without abandoning their communities & land. (1)
https://t.co/9HgaNGVcSC— Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos) July 29, 2019
The #UN’s annual report includes evidence of thousands of cases of #children being killed, maimed or forced to become a soldier last year, especially in war zones such as #Yemen where the #Saudi-led coalition is waging a war.#YemenCantWaithttps://t.co/K2NetXtYwo
— Brits4Rights (@Youth4R) July 29, 2019
A man evaded security, cut through a fence, brought in his assault rifle, and shot up a garlic festival. But 45 will tell you that the “real criminals” are the children at our border. Make it make sense. #gilroyshooting https://t.co/qhBkvfW4gU
— April (@ReignOfApril) July 29, 2019
The gunman who killed three at a food festival in CA last night encouraged people to read a white supremacist book in his final Instagram post: https://t.co/mrjCIIrGHO
— Kelly Weill (@KELLYWEILL) July 29, 2019
My favorite part about Scott Adams's baffling start-up is that it's based on a near-worthless cryptocurrency. Shortly before he launched it, all the characters in Dilbert started talking about how great cryptocurrencies are. What a coincidence! https://t.co/6OpGjnF9ij pic.twitter.com/tNyhrMpjGf
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) July 29, 2019
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TRUMPWORLD
Dan Coats served ably & with deep integrity. Ratcliffe showed abject subservience to Trump in Mueller hearings. The women & men in the Intelligence Community deserve a leader like Coats who puts nation first; not a servile Trump loyalist like Ratcliffe. https://t.co/fbYgS3MoOM
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) July 29, 2019
Trump was not "down there" during 9/11 with first responders, and the only role he played was bragging on TV that he now had the biggest building in NY once the towers fell. Oh and lying about how American Muslims reacted to 9/11. https://t.co/5ZMyudJG4l
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 29, 2019
This is a photo of @realDonaldTrump at ground zero. Oh, wait, this is Hillary Clinton. Trump wasn’t there. pic.twitter.com/LAMuPSKAkU
— TDP (@TDPattillo) July 29, 2019
TSA agents find a MISSILE LAUNCHER in a passenger's checked bag https://t.co/FPOO174pvL via @MailOnline
— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) July 29, 2019
This is unbelievably corrupt.https://t.co/LHck8kjhqQ
— Zach Dorfman (@zachsdorfman) July 29, 2019
ABC NEWS –
"A longtime Trump insider has been pushing a proposal to build dozens of nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia while seeking to avoid restrictions on the transfer of U.S. nuclear technology and has at times stood to profit from the effort…"https://t.co/FMi3NROvdZ
— Jesse Ferguson (@JesseFFerguson) July 29, 2019
Republicans are urging the administration to give the 1 percent another tax cut, this time via executive order https://t.co/SncswcQjvy
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) July 29, 2019
If Alan Dershowitz is ever credibly accused of cannibalism, the first thing he’s gonna do is write an op-ed entitled, “Eating People Is Wrong, But What Exactly IS A Person?” https://t.co/0oHHMgxV7E
— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) July 29, 2019