Latest posts tagged with #UVIPolitics on Bluesky
This is an excellent modern history lesson on conflict in the Gulf & the USA’s role, from George H Bush & the first Gulf War to Trump & the Iran War by @BowenBBC
@BBCr4today at its best 👏👏
#r4today #bbcr4today #IranWar #Trump #USIsrael #GulfWar #UVIPolitics
“Bigger risks for more uncertain results”
William Hague looks ahead to the dangers for Trump if the war continues in @thetimes.com
#r4today #IranWar #Trump #skynews #Hormuz #UVIPolitics
@jemima.bsky.social says liberals should be bolder in defending their ideas
Freedom of speech, religion & thought; autonomy of the individual; protection of the rights of minorities make our societies possible
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#r4today #skynews #UVIPolitics #liberalism
"Hegseth’s puerile displays on TV are aimed at sating Trump’s desire for a warmonger worthy of the manosphere"
David Smith in @us.theguardian.com on Pete Hegseth & the Iran V USA war
#Hegseth #Trump #IranIsraelUSWar #r4today #UVIPolitics
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An imperial President at war
It’s started: the US & Israel attack Iran
The goal: end the nuclear programme once & for all AND regime change?
#Iran #IranRevoIution2026 #Trump #r4today #UVIPolitics
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
@us.theguardian.com's David Smith on Trump's #SOTU2026: the protests, the poison, the alt reality & why despite being the longest it was one of the most inconsequential
#Trump #StateOfTheUnion #SOTU #r4today #UVIPolitics
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Trump, Tariffs & the Supreme Court
A #mustlisten emergency Americast pod with @bbcsarahsmith.bsky.social @justinwebb1979.bsky.social & Anthony Zurcher on the 6:3 judgement & Trump’s response
#SupremeCourt #Trump #tariffs #UVIPolitics
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After Learning Resources V Trump, great analysis of where this leaves US politics, Trump, trade & the Supreme Court in today’s @financialtimes.com leader
#Trump #LearningResources #SupremeCourt #UVIPolitics
Huge: Supreme Court rules 6:3 Trump does not have power to levy current tariffs under IEEPA 1977.
Thomas. Alito & Kavanaugh dissent
#UVIPolitics #SupremeCourt #Trump #Tariffs
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The Tony Blair Story, just starting on @Channel4 now & on More 4, is a must watch for all #LVIPolitics & #UVIPolitics students
#TheTonyBlairStory
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* for extra 🤓points #UVIPolitics they were helped in that unusually Georgia state law requires runoffs in a Senate election where no candidate
reached 50% in the first election, effectively making it a majoritarian system
Jon Ossoff & Raphael Warnock narrowly defeated 2 GOP Senators in Georgia in 2021*
Ossoff is narrowly the favourite in this key race, with some Dems talking about him as a challenger for President in 2028
#midterms #Georgia #Ossoff #UVIPolitics
The House Judiciary Hearings with AG Pam Bondi were 🧨as Democrats tried (& failed) to get answers on #EpsteinFiles, the DOJ's closeness to #Trump & the murders of #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti
#PamBondi #UVIPolitics #r4today
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@ellabaron.bsky.social captures the terrible reality of Jeff Bezos’ destruction of the Washington Post 🗞️whilst 💰💰sucking up to Trump with ‘Melania’ 🎞️
“Democracy dies in darkness”
#WashingtonPost #Melania #Trump #JeffBezos #r4today #skynews #UVIPolitics
The gutting of @washingtonpost - one of the world’s great newspapers - is a tragedy ⬇️
As Bezos (not short of💰) is doing it to please Trump it’s also another step away from the liberal democracy the Post used to defend 📰
#WashingtonPost #Trump #r4today #UVIPolitics #Bezos
In the MAGA world of Melania the movie & #fakenews @NesrineMalik explores the worrying state of US media & the sinister role of the tech bros: "It all stinks to high heaven"
#UVIPolitics #Melania #TrumpEpsteinCoverup #r4today #MAGA
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@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social warns that #Trump's retreat after #Minneapolis killings is only tactical & Democrats are naive not to push harder in his moment of weakness
#ICE #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #r4today #UVIPolitics
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Interesting thread about Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, the race for 2028 & MAGA after Trump⬇️ from @timothysnyder.bsky.social
#StephenMiller #Trump #ICE #r4today #UVIPolitics
It’s hard to see how Kristi Noem survives as Secretary of Homeland Security. But it’s the Trump White House so 🤷♂️
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #ICE #ImpeachKristiNoem #r4today #UVIPolitics
GOP candidate for Governor in Minnesota pulls out saying ICE are out of control & he can’t “look his daughter in the eye” whilst standing for a party supporting them
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #ChrisMadel #ICE #r4today #skynews #UVIPolitics
“We get one person a little bit wrong” Trump 😮😱
A little bit. Your agents murdered Alex Pretti. And not just one person: they murdered Renee Good too.
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #ICE #Trump #r4today #UVIPolitics
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Trump facing opposition from GOP Senators over his tariff attack on NATO allies in his bid to own Greenland
Remember Senator Murkowski visited Denmark to talk to leaders there last week & has, shall we say ‘history’ with the GOP right 🇩🇰 🇬🇱 🇺🇸
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #Senate #r4today #UVIPolitics
And let’s leave aside the scandal that Liz Truss was able to reward anyone for their 49 days of collective, destructive failure
#r4today #KeirStarmer #Lords #UVIPolitics #skynews
Yes, Keir Starmer appointed 25 new #Labour Lords
For context: Cameron, Johnson & Sunak appointed c.420.
Tories will still be Lord’s largest party
#r4today #KeirStarmer #Lords #UVIPolitics
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“Please Mr Trump, end this drive-by diplomacy & sack Steve Witkoff. He is out of his depth”
Roger Boyes weighs Witkoff’s achievements (Israeli hostages’ release) in @thetimes.com but finds him hugely wanting in Ukraine where #Putin plays him
#SteveWitkoff #Trump #Ukraine #r4today #UVIPolitics
Key UA figures slam the US Russ peace deal as reminiscent of 1938 Munich agreement which appeased Hitler, as European leaders help push back & even Trump admits it's not his final offer, @lukeharding1968.bsky.social reports
#r4today #Ukraine #Trump #UVIPolitics
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After the Trump v Musk fall out, with its savings exaggerated & disruption to federal work & political norms, it looks as though DOGE has been disbanded ahead of time, Livi Empson reports
#DOGE #Musk #Trump #UVIPolitics #r4today
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s statement as she announces she’ll stand down from the House at the end of this term
Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene sees the coming Trump revenge primary & decides to step down with dignity, railing against the shutdown, “disgusting political drama” & (Democrats 👀) overpriced healthcare.
#Trump #MTG #MarjorieTaylorGreene #EpsteinFiles #shutdown #UVIPolitics
Trump signs Bill to release Epstein Files, no📸but a Truth Social where, belatedly, he tries to get on the right side of this
@nbcnews.com report⬇️what next - how much will we actually learn?
#r4today #UVIPolitics #EpsteinFiles #Trump #EpsteinTrumpFiles
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Trump U-turns & backs #EpsteinFiles release after Congressional defeat loomed, despite a week of arm twisting by him.
Here he can't control MAGA but has to follow. Analysis from @us.theguardian.com's Sam Levine⬇️
#Trump #EpsteinTrumpFiles #UVIPolitics #r4today
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
