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❗️Russia earned a record $2.7 billion from oil exports in a week — Forbes

This is horrific. Residents of occupied Oleshky who wish to escape to free Ukraine will not be allowed to cross the Dnipro River – which is less than 4 km away. They will be taken to occupied Crimea or to the Russian Federation, where they will be subjected to coercive measures.

Brent crude oil prices surge above $117/barrel for the first time since March 19th amid fears that the US will renew strikes on Iran.

I'd like to remind Trump administration that after Iran war started, Ukraine deployed experts and technology to the Middle East to help Gulf states defend themselves against Iranian drones and protect US bases in the region, while Russia provided targeting information to Iran.

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey just came together to form the Mecca Pact. It's facing a credibility test thanks to renewed Houthi attacks. But as American influence declines, the pact could be a step forward. Amr Hamzawy and @iacoskun.bsky.social explain: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

These aren’t even US gifts. Through NATO’s PURL, Europe pays for them. Washington just has to sign. 12 interceptors a month, per Zelensky, against barrages of hundreds of drones and missiles. Holding paid-for air defence while Kyiv’s grid burns isn’t neutrality. It’s leverage.

We in Europe know that if Putin wins in Ukraine there are other countries on his list - the Baltic countries, Poland etc. Ukraine is our buffer and with Trump backing out it's up to the rest of us to stand with them.

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Scenes from St. Petersburg this morning.. Ukrainian drones struck multiple targets across St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region overnight. Hits include the oil terminal, a VK data center, power substations, the Korabelny Fairway bridge, the Ruchyi oil depot and an Ozon warehouse. #Russia

Not only Ukraine! He also denies any intelligence that russia helps Iran to launch attacks on US bases. He endangers US military. He is willing to sell out the US, middle Eastern allies, as well as Ukraine, to serve his own ends.

I doubt Starlink limitations will severely hamper Ukraine's mid-strike campaign as planners in Kyiv have not trusted the US for a while. From an EU/UK angle I'd worry more about how unreliable US leaders could tamper with basic intel and air defence systems Europe and Canada use

⚡️ "At night we didn’t attack any energy objects on the territory of Russia," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Despite Ukraine holding back, Zelenskyy reported that Russia launched attacks on Ukrainian gas stations and critical energy facilities.

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This volume is approximately equal to 16 hours of diesel consumption in the US. At the same time, America itself produces more fuel than it consumes and exports the surplus. It weakens the sanctions pressure on the Russian energy sector.

All three Yandex AI supercomputers are reportedly offline: Galushkin in Vladimir, Chervonenkis and Lyapunov in Sasovo, whose data center shut down after the Oct 8 strike. Yandex Cloud outages also threaten thousands of Russian firms relying on it for websites, databases and payments 👏

Oooppss 🤭

Dnipro 🙏

A big problem I frequently face right now is trying to explain to people that their walls of text they easily produced with Claude are redundant, confusing, irritating, and unnecessary. It doesn't even matter if they're also wrong, because nobody is going to read them. And yet they still keep coming

Houthi forces appear to have shot down a Saudi Air Force F-15 over Marib.

Saudi Arabia is telling some European oil refiners that their September-loading crude cargoes have been cancelled following the closure of the east-west pipeline - Reuters

“The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labor, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right.” - Donella Meadows (one of my top heroes of all time H/T @altmetric.com)

Germany's populist, far-right Alternative for Germany party has declared victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt after more than doubling its share of the vote in the first of several regional elections this fall. n.pr/4xf7x0G

Canadian PM Mark Carney: I’ve met Putin in the past, multiple times. He only understands strength and directness. And the message would be simple: get out of Ukraine, give back all of Ukraine to Ukraine, end this war, which is killing more than 30,000 of your people every single month.

The price of diesel has reached an all-time high, a result of the war in Iran and Ukraine's attacks on Russian refineries. That will matter across the supply chain. n.pr/4ykjqmT

To be clear, overshooting 1.5 degrees is not an invitation to give up. It means we have to work even harder to return to a lower baseline. The authors emphasize: “Every fraction of a degree matters, and every year spent in overshoot increases climate risks and the potential for irreversible losses."

The US has collected about $13bn of Venezuela’s oil money. Where is it? ft.trib.al/EZ8JpLK

Meanwhile in the Azov Sea and Black Sea the campaign against Russian shipping is going on. Last 48h an additional 13 ships have been struck, bringing the total number of hit ships to 196 since the beginning of this month.

The VP talking about the CIA like he has no access

Paris: July 14 military parade Champs Élysées - ‘Coalition of Volunteers’ (also known as ‘Coalition of the Willing) is led by Australia 🇦🇺 Around 500 allied troops from the coalition marched alongside 25 Ukrainian soldiers. Via @bfmtv.com

For the first time, Ukrainian troops marched in Paris's Bastille Day parade on July 14, representing the Coalition of the Willing. Overhead, two Mirage 2000B jets crewed by Franco-Ukrainian teams joined the flyover. 🎥: Telegram/ClashReport

⚡️Poland to host joint Coalition of the Willing drills this fall. "These drills will prepare the entire coalition gathered here today in Paris to provide genuine security guarantees for Ukraine, but also for the broader region," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

It's sad and scary to think buildings that have stood for decades or even centuries are no longer suited for the routine extremes of the climate where they stand.

Funny how the price increases started exactly when the war did

Utah voices were well represented. Written comments remain open through June 29:

Oh no, is Russia threatening to keep doing the same thing they've done for years?

The EPA is holding a virtual public hearing on May 28, the public needs to speak up NOW! 📢 Registration deadline to speak: May 25 🗓 Public hearing: May 28, 10am-4pm (ET) ⏱ 4 minutes per speaker You do NOT need technical expertise. The goal is simple: flood the EPA with opposition to this proposal.

𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐍 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒: 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐊 𝐔𝐏, 𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐏𝐀, "𝐍𝐎 𝐖𝐀𝐘, 𝐄𝐏𝐀!!!!" The EPA is proposing a dangerous new rule that could allow major polluting projects, INCLUDING AI DATA CENTERS, to begin construction BEFORE receiving air quality permits. Yes, seriously.

If Kevin O’Leary’s Stratos data center campus is built, BYU ecology professor Ben Abbott predicts Hansel Valley will turn into another dust source on the Wasatch Front, in addition to the exposed and drying lakebed of the shrinking Great Salt Lake.

“Ukraine has no cards” might be the worst prediction since “this invasion will take three days.”

Spain speaks in favor of the European army: The EU must build its own military so foes like Russia aren’t tempted to exploit doubts about whether the U.S.would come to its rescue-Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares   “We cannot be waking up every morning wondering what the U.S.will do next

The massive Utah data center, called the Stratos Project, will be as big as 2,000 Walmarts, will need 9GW of electricity to run, and will generate the heat equivalent of 23 atom bombs detonating every single day in Hansel Valley. www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

bypassing normal zoning and public input processes entirely. It also hands developers an 80% property tax cut and slashes energy taxes from 6% to half a percent. The whole thing went from an initial meeting with the governor in January to county approval in May.