We’re getting to the point where we just don’t want the royal family anymore | @tompeck https://t.co/VBtHV4DNor
— Independent Voices (@IndyVoices) February 16, 2022
🇬🇧 Reign Storm
— 𝙵𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝙿𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝚃𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚢 📰 (@ukpapers) February 17, 2022
▫Police to probe Prince Charles' Charity
▫He & Harry may face quiz as witnesses
▫Queen to pay £2m over Andy sex case
▫@rjmyers▫https://t.co/If4FjVUyPb 🇬🇧@DailyMirror #frontpagestoday #UK 🗞 pic.twitter.com/rW6njL4ccD
Prince Charles' cash for honours inquiry rocks Royal Family in 'terrible week' for Firm https://t.co/p1u50okycY
— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) February 17, 2022
Presumably Prince Charles will be sent a questionnaire. https://t.co/WFaETu6ZmA
— Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 (@JujuliaGrace) February 17, 2022
British Exceptionalism at its best.This will be spun, with straight faces all round, as "proof that nobody is above the law".Expressions of hurt bewilderment that people are angry, pleas for "Christian forgiveness" & appeals to sentiment via the Jubilee will be led by Gove & JRM.
— Karen Angelosanto (@AngelosantoK) February 16, 2022
Your regular reminder that Harry and Meghan got excommunicated from the Royal Family for eating avocados and asking politely not to be racially abused https://t.co/raxOuhIYcf
— Sophie Levin (@sophielevin11) February 15, 2022
BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell just assessed Prince Andrew’s settlement ‘a huge relief to the royal family in a very special jubilee year.’
— Simon Binns (@simonbinns) February 15, 2022
Yes, that’s the take.
Remember that time Meghan Markle dragged down the reputation of the Royal Family by *checks notes* guest editing Vogue 🇬🇧🥴
— Bella Caledonia (@bellacaledonia) February 16, 2022
Wait a min!
— Glow (@SussexRoyalGlow) February 16, 2022
In 2017 Prince Harry’s told by the Royal Family / The Queen that there’s no money for security & clothes for his wife Meghan & maybe she can continue working as an actress to pay for this herself.
But now they have 12m+ to pay off a lady Prince Andrew hasn’t met?
Ah, those good old innocent times. When the Royal Family, rather than indulging in sexual deviancy, cash for access, and doling out dodgy honours as they do today, were simply happy to make total fools of themselves in the name of cheap television. pic.twitter.com/xXmD0oyWxk
— Miffy, Marchioness of Minoux (@miffythegamer) February 16, 2022
The monarchy has survived because of its capacity to adapt to change. As change has accelerated, it has struggled more & more to adapt, stretching it to its limits. Now, change has reached such a speed that it is bursting apart. Time to put it in a museum.
— Nicholas Whithorn (@NickWhithorn) February 16, 2022
Just on @lbc talking about Met investigating Prince Charles’ charity over cash for honours.
— Peter Geoghegan (@PeterKGeoghegan) February 17, 2022
Asked why Met still isn’t investigating !
Boris Johnson for the very same offence
As an ex Tory chairman said: ‘Once you pay your £3m, you get your peerage’ 🧐https://t.co/dcTZgmjX3c
Brexit shaves off record £20bn from UK exports in one year alone with imports from EU also dropping
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) February 16, 2022
Welcome to Boris Johnson’s “golden age”https://t.co/DuDKAjwOI9
I feel sorry for the good people of Dover but honestly Nathalie Elphicke MP is the hottest comedy ticket in Britain right now. https://t.co/L0ZpW5vvtV
— Otto English (@Otto_English) February 17, 2022
Brexit takes that final corner to reach the sunlit uplands pic.twitter.com/CIwiiZi8cX
— Chris Kendall (@ottocrat) February 16, 2022
As Oliver Dowden gives a speech celebrating free speech in Washington, Priti Patel is making one final push to criminalise protest in Britain. https://t.co/wK6YhJYyRy
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) February 16, 2022
‘Net Zero Watch’ is climate denial rebranded, a right wing scam like hard Brexit and ‘libertarian’ covid stupidity. Often this nonsense starts with Steve Baker MP, an amiable menace, who causes relentless harm to this country. I welcome ‘Steve Baker Watch’ https://t.co/SoJqCELy8Z
— Brendan May (@bmay) February 17, 2022
Powerful piece on a UK Supreme Court ruling that dangerously undercuts any notion of public interest. "In Britain, we are stumbling toward a system in which serious journalists cannot report on potential wrongdoing at public companies by powerful people." https://t.co/r9Ir9zkBlO
— Catherine Belton (@CatherineBelton) February 16, 2022
Britain https://t.co/RDo7Pc6tDe
— Duncan Robinson (@duncanrobinson) February 16, 2022
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Russians not actually ‘withdrawing’ shocker
NEW: Ukraine accuses Russia-backed separatist forces of shelling a village controlled by Ukrainian government troops and hitting a school there. https://t.co/VfpymcVAcD pic.twitter.com/zYyX4chcJo
— ABC News (@ABC) February 17, 2022
Shelling breaks out in east Ukraine as West and Moscow dispute troop moves https://t.co/JlmkEioqrV pic.twitter.com/wz74MEoliS
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 17, 2022
Pro-Russian forces are desperately trying to draw fire from Ukraine — they’re clearly trying to elicit a response that would give them a “reason” to invade. https://t.co/FlJNPkvGhd
— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) February 17, 2022
Not only is Russia not withdrawing forces from Ukraine's border, but a senior admin official says the Kremlin has added about 7,000 troops in recent days — "with some arriving as recently as today." That would place number of forces above 150k figure cited by Biden yesterday.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) February 16, 2022
BREAKING: Russia has added as many as 7,000 troops near the Ukraine border in recent days, contrary to claims by President Vladimir Putin that troops would be pulled back from the region, according to a senior Biden administration official. https://t.co/U0aECk9V1d
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 16, 2022
A good reminder. 8 days before Russia has invaded Georgia, it had "pulled back" its troops, and Western media had celebrated it. https://t.co/7XYOWUJ0AH
— Sergej Sumlenny (@sumlenny) February 16, 2022
Dollar spikes on Ukraine jitters after Russia reports attack https://t.co/bpsjmO7gt8 pic.twitter.com/LsLi9aGDwe
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 17, 2022
NEW: Ukraine says they are suffering from the largest cyber attack they’ve ever experienced.
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) February 16, 2022
Viktor Zhora, head of the State Special Communications Service said that they cannot confirm that Russian hackers stand behind the attack on Ukraine's critical infrastructure networks.
The last of nearly 5,000 U.S. troops have arrived in Poland, Pentagon officials said, providing reassurance to a key NATO ally and help with the possible evacuation of U.S. citizens and others from Ukraine should Russia invade.
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 17, 2022
Follow updates. https://t.co/59nl82c2kP
Fear, loathing and normality: How Ukraine is living with the threat of invasion via @RTENews https://t.co/zLkIuJWM6p
— Tony Connelly (@tconnellyRTE) February 17, 2022
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Trumpworld melting down as legal woes grow shocker
The NY Attorney General is using Trump's own social media statements against him, arguing that they show he lied in court proceedings. The AG filed a civil lawsuit accusing Trump of overinflating the value of his assets to obtain favorable loans. pic.twitter.com/gMdvkU0wY2
— Seth Hettena (@seth_hettena) February 16, 2022
Donald Trump has long invented facts and figures about his wealth. Now, dropped by his accountants, he’s made new claims about his net worth. https://t.co/3T3kJyrJqg
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 17, 2022
“#James’s investigation is one of the most advanced and potentially dangerous of all the 19 legal actions bearing down on Trump. The inquiry is being pursued on both civil and criminal lines.”
— Ramona (@desderamona) February 16, 2022
#NYAGhttps://t.co/B7XWP7zW8P
The reason Mazars only went back 10 years is actually telling. That’s the statute of limitations for banking fraud and exactly what the NYAG is investigating the Trump Organization for. The AG’s office also has the authority to seize control of certain Trump assets if necessary. pic.twitter.com/hE2O3wR2lE
— Hey, Dave! (@davegreenidge57) February 15, 2022
Too many times, but this may actually be the last one.
— thefast1 (@FredJudeich) February 17, 2022
Court Filing Started a Furor in Right-Wing Outlets, but Their Narrative Is Off Track – The New York Timeshttps://t.co/2Ddf1WNKMU
— Marginalized Outlier (@MarginalizedO) February 16, 2022
.@MaddowBlog: Donald Trump thought he finally had “indisputable evidence" that his campaign and White House "were spied on." Alas, reality tells a very different story.https://t.co/mYQHv0tLNu
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 17, 2022
"The fake Durham scandal will be chum to muddy up the media water as this full picture comes into view. It’s no accident that Trump himself has been madly pushing the Durham story in recent days. He’s very much in on this scam." https://t.co/GH6Qr0Kqm8
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) February 17, 2022
"There's no spying to speak of in any traditional sense of the word in the John Durham filing. There's nothing in the John Durham filing about Hillary Clinton paying to infiltrate the Trump White House or Trump Tower" – @FrankFigliuzzi1 w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/BhG0MPwq5Z
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) February 16, 2022
Eric Trump vows revenge against NYAG Tish James, with "pages of videos".
— Jesse Elin Browne (@effiedog) February 16, 2022
What are pages of videos?
https://t.co/MrtInOnrFZ
He ran the Interior Department.
— David Beard (@dabeard) February 16, 2022
But he wanted to own a brewery in his hometown.
A report shows he texted and emailed developers 64 times on the real estate project while in office.
And lied to an ethics official about it.https://t.co/TekqrxNZkY @annamphillips @Reinlwapo
Trump & Fox are desperately spinning up a fake scandal to distract from his real ones. So it's a day that ends in Y.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 16, 2022
The more his misdeeds are exposed, the more they lie.
For those interested in reality, here's a good debunking of their latest nonsense.https://t.co/iYY8Uxuogx
But, of course…. shocker
One White House official lamented a sense of strategic drift and said that “everyone’s resigned” to Democrats’ getting thwacked in the midterms.
— Jonathan Allen (@jonallendc) February 17, 2022
“It feels like there is a wave coming and no one is doing anything to stop it,” the official said.https://t.co/EbkjrQNC5V
The Overnight Note 