Joost Steffensen

Girlguiding in the UK has banned transgirls from joining. This is a horrible decision. Scouting has been one of the few places my child felt welcome growing up. We should stop pushing people to the margins of society. Please sign and share this petition if you agree. c.org/9Dbq8BRS66

As a Muslim who has been accused of dual loyalty and asked to denounce everything from ISIS to the Iranian state, I breathed a sigh of relief that I think I’d been holding in for like two decades watching this.

Great idea and practical Brazilian prisoners can earn 4 days off their sentence for every approved book they read and successfully review, up to 48 days a year.

I believe Clacton deserves an MP who will spend their time shining a light on everything the area has to offer. And why wait till I'm elected? I've been to visit one of the constituency's most stunning landmarks.

Animaris Rex is an 18-metre-long walking 'beach animal' propelled by the wind, created by Theo Jansen as a fusion of art and engineering. Original post

Hear hear! Well deserved!

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ An asteroid crater in Arizona. Dramatic enough you might think, but look how close it came to hitting the Visitor Centre 😱

The 6 largest oil companies will collectively rake in $45B in profits in the second quarter of 2026 — nearly double what they made in the first quarter. Meanwhile, Canada, France, and Spain are battling record-breaking wildfires spurred by the climate crisis. Big Oil profits while the world burns.

What a shock that one of the worst people on the planet doesn’t like one of the best.

In our lifetimes: Berlin wall down ✔️ Fall of USSR ✔️ 1st Black US Pres 2 terms ✔️ Establishment of ICC ✔️ Many countries legalize same sex marriage ✔️ Legalized weed ✔️ "Me too" accountability ✔️ A lot of positive change Things we thought we'd never see U.S Democracy CAN be restored WORK FOR IT #Pinks

Oh well, it seems that *some* people have not been distracted.

Black kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE

This was so damn funny, I had to go show it to my wife. ☠️☠️☠️

BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.

‘Labour must start speaking about extent of Brexit damage’ – Andy Burnham www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/and...

FoxNews called me a freakshow for wearing an N95 and "declaring" that evictions are violent. Good times! We are changing the narrative to uplift the tempest tost. 🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽 #HousinglsAHumanRight

I feel like some White House reporter needs to ask Trump about the fact that his DOJ has lost 16 straight cases to access state voter rolls and that in 7 of the cases it was before judges he nominated. Oh and point out that I am still not tired of winning.

If you have *real* evidence of election fraud, you file a lawsuit. But if you are a pathetic sore loser who wants desperately to believe any fiction that excuses your actual loss, you go on TV where, unlike in court, you won’t be held accountable for your brazen and ridiculous lies.

He should have gone to prison for pressuring Brad Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes. That’s the very definition of election interference. We all heard the call.

Bevor er zum Staatspräsidenten der #Ukraine gewählt wurde, war mir Wolodymyr #Selenskyj völlig unbekannt. Deshalb hatte ich bis vor wenigen Minuten auch noch nie etwas von ihm aus seiner Zeit als Comedian gesehen. Ein schweres Versäumnis! 🤷🏼‍♂️

There is no need for fireworks now with drone shows. No need for pets and vets to cower and for wild life to suffer as well as the pollution and noise. I said what I said.

I 🤎 this depiction. The ancestors are telling us something.

For most of us, seeing the Klan 2.0, a.k.a. Patriot Front, march through Washington, D.C., unchallenged by authorities overshadowed any celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. My ancestors lived through this. And no one today can say with a straight face that racism is behind us.

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

Army Media 🇺🇦 Ukraine just stripped the Kerch Bridge of its air defence. In a joint operation on June 21, Ukraine’s Security Service and Special Operations Forces struck 2 Pantsir air defence systems deployed directly on the Crimean Bridge — and simultaneously disabled 4 S-400 radar stations.

⛽️❗️Reuters: Russian-installed authorities in Crimea have suspended fuel sales to the public and businesses following a major Ukrainian drone attack. Fuel supplies are now restricted to government agencies providing essential and security services.

This makes a hell of a lot of sense.

Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar said Ukraine is the victim and has the full right to defend its territorial sovereignty and integrity by all means available to it. The statement was made during a joint statement with Polish PM Tusk in Warsaw. #Ukraine

🇺🇦🇺🇳 Ukraine called for Russia to be stripped of its status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council due to systematic brutal attacks against the civilian population of Ukraine and winter strikes on the energy sector, with which the Kremlin tried to force Ukraine into submission.

APPLEBAUM: War in Ukraine is fault line between democratic and autocratic worlds. Russians are trying to destroy Ukraine as a nation, they want it to disappear. As an empire, they want Ukraine to be their colony. And they understood that by invading Ukraine, they were defying liberal world order.

Russia is failing on the battlefield in Ukraine and is trying to intimidate us into reducing our support for Ukraine. The right response is to do the opposite: increase our support to Ukraine and boost Europe’s defences even further. (2/2)

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

One of my best investments was getting an OV-fiets account. Love that I can get a train anywhere in the country and then get straight onto a bike for less than €5 per day

As an American. I make the decision to buy a gun and go shoot somebody. I get convicted and go to jail. An a health Insurance exec. I make the decision to deny care and kill someone. I get a bonus.

Fossil Fuels Are Not The Future….