Finally!

The Trump family corruption and activity in agitating anti EU sentiment in one story. DT junior has been very involved in this.
The risk for the EU not halting it, is greater than the temporary ‘fallout’ from a p*ssed off Trump.
#JustDoIt

We never seen "Putin threaten genocide". We have seen:
-Deportations
-Killing civilians & targeting infra to set conditions of life calculated to bring destruction of 🇺🇦 & 🇺🇦ians
-Genocidal rhetoric
-Forced adoptions
-Arrests for speaking 🇺🇦
-Forced change of citizenship...

But no "threats"...

Yet another Russian attack on Ukraine last night. There are dead and injured.

▪️ In Dnipro, two people were killed and ten were injured, four of them in moderate condition. Among the injured are two kids - girls aged 9 and 14.

📹: Dnipro

Meat grinders with VPNs: How Russia’s Telegram blockade has hampered its own military effort Russia is pressing ahead with measures to throttle Telegram and, ultimately, to block the app entirely. The messenger is not only the country’s most popular…

Russia's crackdown on Telegram is a serious threat to Russian battlefield communications -- units are fundraising for VPNS to avoid the bans imposed by their own government

theins.press/en/politics/...

The country that shares a 1,340 km border with Russia is now saying Europe can't rely on Washington.

Sanna Marin: Europe needs unified military forces — and Ukraine must be inside them.

Has Tory leader Kemi Badenoch ever faced consequences for her admission of hacking the website of a Labour MP?

It is a criminal offense.

Or has she sacked her shadow attorney general, who has been working as a lawyer for Putin's friend, billionaire Roman Abramovich, while also on her front bench?

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

What the American "drug war" looks like on the ground: Ecuadorian fishermen were attacked in a double drone strike, arrested at gupoint, taken to El Salvador and then finally released.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Nobody is safe as long as this man is in office. Impeach now.

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

President Trump is said to be in talks to send Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

A very british coup

1/ Russia is entering a full-scale debt crisis, according to newly published official figures. Non-payments have reached an all-time high equivalent to nearly 4% of GDP or a fifth of the entire federal budget. It's a fresh sign of a deepening economic crisis worsened by war. ⬇️

This morning I’ve seen Olly Robbins’s appearance before the select committee described as ‘box office’, while a commentator flagged up another key political moment with the words ‘bring the popcorn’.

That’s one of our main problems right there.

A road bridge between Russia and North Korea has been completed. Official opening in a couple of months.

Whether this happened or not, the point made is relevant - a guarantee made by the US administration isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
The Budapest Memorandum was breached by Russia and the US.

Land is not permanent - but we think it is Entire civilizations depend on something that is subject to change and over which humans have no control.

We expect our cities to last forever. Yet the land on which we build them is constantly changing. Our folly, perhaps, is to think that only we have the right to reshape land.

My reflections on recent visits to Holy Island (Lindisfarne) and Turkey. coppolacomment.substack.com/p/land-is-no...

The problem with Europe’s Big Tech breakup: It’s still hooked Thanks to Trump, EU governments are trying to break their overreliance on U.S. technology. It won’t be cheap or easy.

The problem with Europe's Big Tech breakup: It's still hooked

🖊️ Mathieu Pollet and Anouk Schlung

Thanks to #Trump, #EU governments are trying to break their overreliance on U.S. technology. It won't be cheap or easy.

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

New Hungarian PM brutally confronts a news channel that banned him for years.

This from trade guru Richard Baldwin on Trump's trade war conduct is great. And helps explain why in fact he is not remaking the world economic order or anything else. He's just going to leave a huge mess behind. www.linkedin.com/pulse/trumps...

I'm interested in how the "exclusive" happened given the journalist who scooped it is married to a senior comms bod in the FCDO.

🔥🇺🇦Ukraine is preparing a revolutionary replacement for infantry, - CNN

As the commander of "NC13" Mykola "Makar" Zinkevich said, last summer's operation was the first time in history that an position was stormed and prisoners were taken by ground robots and drones without participation of infantry.

Europol hackathon identifies 45 more Ukrainian children forcibly deported to Russia The two-day operation, held on April 16-17, brought together 40 experts from 18 countries, alongside the International Criminal Court and several non-governmental partners.

Europol hackathon identifies 45 more Ukrainian children forcibly deported to Russia

The two-day operation, held on April 16-17, brought together 40 experts from 18 countries, alongside the International Criminal Court and several non-governmental partners.

kyivindependent.com/europol-hack...

Somewhere deep in the Georgian mountains, the sky just closed. A no-fly zone, larger than greater Tbilisi, appeared almost without notice. The official story involves a telescope. The telescope hasn't been touched since the Khrushchev era. The real story involves something else entirely. 👽🧵 [1/10]

Are Nigel Farage's Reform UK getting around the whole lottery aspect by admitting later that it was a fix? Like Elon Musk did on the swing states for Trump's 2024 victory?

selection from article in link Fraser Hayes, 63, also said he has not received the winnings but would give them away if he does get them, as he is no fan of the insurgent right-wing party. “I have no qualms about depriving Reform of the money and giving to a local kids’ charity or maybe even the Labour candidate,” he told The Telegraph. “[The stunt] is appalling. It’s obviously a data grab. They’re trying to get loads of people to write in and they ask, ‘Who did you vote for last time. Who will you vote for this time?’ “I am absolutely not a Reform fan and I am appalled that anyone is.”

Reform UK generating more bad publicity for themselves by leaving out half of the street with their data harvest energy bills giveaway.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Nice one, Fraser 🏆

In a nutshell. 😊

Find a screening near you. Urgent viewing.

Greenpeace targets Trump Turnberry in ‘wind farm’ protest Greenpeace UK activists targeted Trump Turnberry this morning, erecting a set of wind turbines on the golf course.

Protestors build wind farm on green at Trump Turnberry to protest against the US president’s opposition to wind energy. “More clean energy that doesn’t rely on the Strait of Hormuz or Russian pipelines can save us money, boost our security and tackle climate change,” said @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social

Middle East crisis live: ceasefire under pressure as Iran says it has no plans for talks after US seizes ship Donald Trump said on Sunday that US marines had taken custody of a vessel that tried to get past the American blockade on Iranian ports

So the US is firing at Iranian tankers in the Strait of Hormuz now

Meanwhile, Trump has lifted sanctions on Russian tankers while Russia continues to bomb Ukraine

Rumen Radev wins Bulgarian Parliamentary election With 87% of the vote now counted, Progressive Bulgaria has secured a majority in the Bulgarian parliament.

Radev’s full of contradictions - condemned Putin’s invasion in Crimea and again in ‘22 but opposes arms support and EU accession for Ukraine.
Putin will be happy his puppet Orbán has been replaced by someone equally useful.
Rumen Radev's party wins Bulgarian election www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...