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this is what happens when you let some billionaire control critical infrastructure. this is why critical infrastructure shall not be privatised

It is insane when a billionaire megalomaniac can control the capabilities of a besieged nation- dystopian stuff

High school students across France set fires and clashed with police on Wednesday and Thursday, escalating nearly a week of disruption. https://cnn.it/4yqS0Mn

About damn time

Marco Rubio: “Iranians are radical religious lunatics.” Also: Have you met Paula White, the White House faith advisor?

Babies ‘will face almost twice as much’ extreme fire weather in Europe than great-grandparents

The most influential member of the Trump Administration by far - Natalie Harp.

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NEW: Politico, CNN and MSNOW are jointly suing to demand immediate restoration of White House press passes. They’re asking a judge to declare Trump’s ban a flagrant violation of First and Fifth Amendment rights. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

Merz insists he will stay as German chancellor despite heavy losses in state elections – Europe live

Google is fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data

The Obama family shared that Sunny passed away yesterday after 13 years by their side. She was fiercely protective of her big brother, Bo, and we can imagine the two of them together again. Today, hold your pets a little closer and cherish every moment you share.

Honestly just touch the fucking stove already buddy. We’re already boned six ways to Sunday, might as well make it Sunday.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney takes a swipe at Trump, insisting Canada-EU alliance is more than a new geopolitical bloc with "better manners." https://cnn.it/4gYAitF

It's worse than this. Because in the early morning of October 7, Israeli intelligence picked up signs that Hamas was doing something - but concluded that it was likely just a drill. Had Netanyahu passed along the specific warning from MBZ that Sinwar was planning something big and imminent ...

Everyone in the Trump administration, every Republican elected official, every Republican candidate, every Trump donor, should be asked what they think about Trump inventing heroic stories about himself on 9/11.

I’d like to know who is on the Anthropic comms team

1. Earlier today, AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who spent the past three years working at OpenAI and Anthropic, publicly resigned from Anthropic, warning that both companies are racing toward superintelligence and “gambling with our lives.”

Hormuz traffic back to the pre-MoU average. @bloomberg.com

Andy Burnham is officially the UK's 59th prime minister. www.bbc.com/news/live/cgrkv8e...

If it's any consolation, it won't be returning to the US for a generation and every football-loving nation will be grateful for that. It was a glorious success (the World Cup always is) in spite of FIFA, Trump, Infantino and the US, not because of them. Our sympathies with Canada and Mexico.

Of course, Hitler violated an agreement Germany had with Denmark because he decided he needed it for strategic reasons. So, you know, this tracks.

Progress against cancer not shared by poorer countries, WHO report finds

We have reached the stage where the President of the USA has to bully the President of FIFA for an hour and a half….to be more corrupt.

Air pollution may cause childhood obesity by disrupting impulse control, study finds

Trump’s Huge Windfall Has Few Known Global Precedents, except Maybe Putin Putin and Trump-- richest Oligarchs in the world? - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...

A trail of destruction. Imagine their reaction if Obama had done even one of these things.

Great moments in brazen corruption. Trump celebrates his latest massive violation of one of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clauses.

Meanwhile Italian right wing newspaper Libero today: "Trump is a pr*ck".

That would be Friday. Just in time for another stock rally.

LOL

Exclusive: Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites since the war began, according to a Post analysis. The amount of destruction is far larger than what was previously reported.

"In a maximum-gerrymandering scenario, more than 400 seats in the House could be safe and essentially uncontestable, delivering to voters year after year an unresponsive and unimpeachable class of lazy representatives with little incentive to represent them" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

He truly believes he’s the main character of existence so he’s fundamentally incapable of accepting he doesn’t control the universe. To cope with this he’s crafted a number of delusions to explain why he’s still in Iran.

Can you imagine going back to 1776 and telling the Founding Fathers that in 250 years, the King of England would be standing in the United States Capitol lecturing American lawmakers about the importance of democratic norms?

standing ovation after King Charles sings the praises of NATO and says "that same unyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine"

When a King and direct descendent of King George III has to remind the American government about the utmost importance of checks and balances, you know we're in deep trouble.

Divers are installing waterproof speakers in the ocean to help pull a coral reef near Jamaica back from the brink

Witness the mesmerizing murmuration of starlings in Italy, a stunning display of nature's coordination and beauty as they dance through the sky in unison.

As I have been saying for a while this is going to happen and we need to start talking about it and pushing for it. We have to MAKE it happen If we take the defeatist approach that some Dems take—that he'll just magically disappear, or that we can just wait until Jan. 2029, ... (1/3)

Trump approval slips as polls show warning signs for Republicans ahead of midterms

so the story Trump is telling this morning is that Iran agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz, and yet the strait remains closed to Iranian shipping because he says so the math ain't mathing

We should take the same lesson and apply it to the criminal enterprise being run by Trump and his family. Then boot them from power just like voters just did to Orbán.

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