Carney and the Broligarchs - it's worse than you think. Incredibly important and worrying three-parter from @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/Series/2026/...

This is not satire, as I’d initially thought.

Some of Chadwick Banken's customers lost their life’s savings and their homes, unknowingly violating their religious principles in the process. One testified that he ended up homeless and living in his truck.

“Third world savages”, but no, they’re not racists.

Must read essay by Gary Wilder: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...

Yep Starmer lost 30% of Labour's vote to the Greens and Lib Dems because he was just too nice to migrants and those on welfare.

When you think you've heard it all. German courts have ruled that a family who entered Germany on German passports in 2020 had never been German citizens, because a 1908 marriage between a German colonial official and a Togolese woman was not legally valid under colonial law.

the fig tree remembers every child who climbed it. memory, unlike nations, does not require documents to prove it exists.

This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up

A review essay for grown-ups on political violence and the political violence we normalise and even celebrate. Like the best review essays, it might be better than its source material.

How Elon turned a local news story into an explosion of violence and international political threats by broadcasting more than 110 outright lies, racial fictions and hateful incitements to his quarter-billion followers during week he became a trillionaire www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

The BBC has requested that Donald Trump hand over his phone records from Jan. 6 as part of his defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster.

The news update I didn't know I needed.

Love to catch up with my buddy, the heir to an international manufacturing conglomerate, during my meetings with foreign diplomats.

should have just had the whole thing in mexico

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

Is there a constituency that actually likes Badenoch and to whom these displays are directed?

This Day in Labor History: June 24, 1867. Chinese workers building the transcontinental railroad across Sierra Nevada went on strike over the horrific conditions of their work for the Central Pacific Railroad. Let's talk about their brave, if failed struggle and how awful the railroads were!!

It’s wild that politicians don’t seem to grasp the degree to which universities contribute to the economy- local, regional, national. The failure to intervene is a stain on this govt - a shocking dereliction of duty to every worker, every local business, every student, every area that is suffering

credit to Sally Nugent who just, in normal circumstances, brought Nigel Farage's political career to an end. If polls don't plummet after this, I will be truly astonished.

Another one bites the dust.

a government full of blue-haired trans-loving officials sounds amazing. Might actually solve our various collective crises.

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

It's the 'original' that gets me.

"You have to be a special kind of toxic to be kicked out of the Trump inner circle."

The most destructive forms of consumption were linked to two main areas: food – particularly red meat, a primary driver of deforestation – and energy, including flights and heating and cooling homes, which typically rely on burning of fossil fuels, such as gas, oil and coal.

Mamdani's speech at the Knicks parade was easily the best I've ever heard at an event of that sort. I posted the whole thing on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Highly recommended.

One of the best descriptions of how the economics of AI work. Or don't.

"Activities such as speeding, walking a dog not on a leash, or fishing without a valid license may now serve as the basis for the government filing a civil denaturalization complaint in federal courts." From new TRAC report on rising denaturalizations. tracreports.org/reports/774/

Honestly shocked by this.

What a craven embarrassment. Unforgivable.

Damn Colbert is a treasure. He very knowingly and intentionally played Linus and Lucy on the air, and the copyright holder joyfully got a fine out of CBS for it and then donated it to World Central kitchen. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

There’s an analogy for all of capitalism in this tweet

Perfect photo, no notes.

This is the perfect Kemi Badenoch line: obviously crazy, coarsens our politics and the kind of thing that collapses if she ever put herself somewhere she might face a gentle follow-up question. What does she think the Gestapo *did*?

A return to Victorian poorhouses that punish people for being poor.

In the Syrian border town of Quneitra, Israel is seizing land, attacking and abducting residents, mauling them with army dogs, and spraying chemical agents over farmland. The Syrian government remains silent. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/isra...

This really is an incredible piece

Kids whose parents have been seized by ICE are left to fend for themselves. Here’s a gut wrenching (but also somehow inspiring) story of one such family from @samanthamichaels.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What happens when solar farms get built on land where people have herded yaks for generations? A look at how Tibet's renewable energy boom, fueled by Chinese companies, is reshaping life on the ground: theconversation.com/how-the-deve...

In case we had any doubt

Breaking: Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of interfering in NYC vote, French officials say www.reuters.com/world/israel...

Looks like Imminent Deal is back on the menu, boys

Wondered why so much disorder recently had stemmed from social media posts? Wonder no more after reading my piece, with @judewebber.bsky.social, on how the loss of social media moderation has left officers scrambling to cope with the speed and reach of rightwing activists: as.ft.com/r/778f724a-b...

This will end real fine.

"We hear little of these other incidents because their white perpetrators do not fit the narrative — or the political business model — of the populist right." - terrific column by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social: