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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/04/190422.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

US threatens to veto UN resolution on rape as weapon of war, officials say - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/22/us-un-resolution-rape-weapon-of-war-veto trump gets more evil by the day…

Donald Trump plans state visit to UK in June - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/23/donald-trump-plans-state-visit-to-uk-in-june I’m confident @ExtinctionR will greet the climate-denialist-in-chief in a suitably demonstrative way, along with many others disgusted that this reprobate is being welcomed by the UK government…

Scribd’s Takedown Of The Public Domain Mueller Report Is A Preview Of The EU’s Future Under The Copyright Directive - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190420/23233942052/scribds-takedown-public-domain-mueller-report-is-preview-eus-future-under-copyright-directive.shtml but the MEPs who voted for this won’t care… #article13/17

Greta Thunberg condemns UK’s climate stance in speech to MPs - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/vacant-seat-for-may-as-party-leaders-meet-greta-thunberg damn right…well done her

Trump’s Chinese Telecom Protectionism Always Seems To Be Lacking Evidence - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190422/07574942058/trumps-chinese-telecom-protectionism-always-seems-to-be-lacking-evidence.shtml #huawei

G7 Comes Out in Favor of Encryption Backdoors - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/04/g7_comes_out_in.html cluelessness to the seventh power… #crypto

Emilio Estevez Uses Some Public Domain Footage In Film, So Universal Studios Forces Original Public Domain Footage Offline - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190420/23485242053/emilio-estevez-uses-some-public-domain-footage-film-so-universal-studios-forces-original-public-domain-footage-offline.shtml “Yet another example of the awfulness of copyright filters.” #uploadfilters

Trump baby blimp back and could be even bigger for UK state visit - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/23/trump-baby-blimp-bigger-protest-uk-state-visit yay; important he knows what we think of him…

Labour says Theresa May unwilling to offer key Brexit concessions - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/23/labour-says-theresa-may-unwilling-to-offer-key-brexit-concessions hate to break it to you, chaps, but she is incapable of compromise; talks were doomed from the start…

Secretive hard-Brexit Facebook campaign got 1m responses - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/23/secretive-hard-brexit-facebook-campaign-got-1m-responses @facebook is the most toxic force in politics today…

The Greta Thunberg effect: at last, MPs focus on climate change - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/greta-thunberg yeah, for a day or two; and then…?

UK’s biggest fishing trawler sails up Thames in Brexit warning - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/23/uks-biggest-fishing-trawler-sails-up-thames-in-brexit-warning this monster is part of the problem: “Smaller vessels, which employ more people per catch, have been championed by green campaigners as a better option for keeping the fishing industry alive”