This is what makes it art: '(...) the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.' www.science.org/content/arti...

insanity.

"The criminalization of HIV refers to the existence and enforcement of criminal laws that rely on HIV status as the 'foundation for criminalizing otherwise legal conduct' or for increasing punishments ... [O]ne-in-seven HIV-positive people still pass through the U.S. prison system each year."

Ep. 314: JD Vance Rebrands as Church Dad for Prez—a review of Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, now up at Conspirituality Podcast. This series finale reel is about Vance’s affinity for St. Augustine. Memoirs by night, religious coercion by day.

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

The sentencing here is so absurd, it's a miscarriage of justice. A guy who wasn't present or involved got 30 years for moving a box of zines. The two people who helped plan January 6th, Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes got 22 years and 18 years for seditious conspiracy, respectively.

France registered its hottest day on record since measurements began in 1947. 40 people have been confirmed to have drowned since 18th June while swimming in unsupervised areas. Most of the victims are young people. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

TBH I feel like Mamdani has bent over backwards to demonstrate that he's not remotely antisemitic, and guys like Frum who will call him an antisemite anyway on the basis of his religion and anti-Zionism are doing the work of bona fide antisemites

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

The president not knowing the difference between "political asylum" and an "insane asylum" is a four-alarm executive branch fire whether or not the media treats it as one

Here's a fun metric for Brexit: the UK has had 14 prime Ministers since the 1960s, half of those are since Brexit.

Chef's kiss, salute, tears, all of it

Look at Keir Starmer’s tenure as prime minister. This is no ‘decent man’ who got unlucky | Owen Jones

Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in its genocide. That’s the findings of a latest UN commission. Remember: if you oppose this abomination, you’re treated as a dangerous, hateful extremist

Once you post transphobia you never post normally again.

No one could’ve predicted that an impulsive, poorly planned war led by a senile narcissist and a drunk TV host would end in a humiliating defeat.

"These latest federal arrests on first amendment protected activity are part of a broader attack on Trump's political enemies he has ramped up in recent months, with a ... focus on 'antifa,' the 'left,' and advocates of [trans] rights[.]"

A livable planet or shitty pictures, what a tough choice.

I hope they never hear the end of it. May they never move past this, and wither on the vine. #spéirghorm #ireland

Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk’s politics, because he is desperate to brand himself an insurgent against the powerful elite, but as the world’s first trillionaire, he needs a definition of “elite” not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

"police said it wasn't terrorism" Oh, well, if the state terrorists say it wasn't terrorism 🙄

Buddy, you're out here claiming Starmer enabling genocide is "relatively small fry". You don't get to get upset people are calling you very mild names.

A senile Republican narcissist surrounded by grifters and drunks just led our nation to the greatest diplomatic humiliation in its history. Here’s why my next five Atlantic pieces will be about the dangers of woke.

As a conservative Republican, I’m all in favor of JD Vance taking the Israeli government to task. Here’s why any college student who makes similar remarks should be expelled.

This is only the beginning. The climate crisis is here. So why are politicians and most of the media still acting as though this can wait? It can't. We can still avoid some of the worst impacts - but only if we find the courage to act. metro.co.uk/2026/06/22/g...

In the uk anything articulated by the far-right, even if they are foaming at the mouth fascists, must be treated as serious political concerns which need to be addressed, while anything articulated by the left, even an expert opinion, is portrayed as childish opinions not worthy of acknowledging.

If you missed seeing the discussion Policing, Borders, Militarization & Abolition live, the recording is up at this link. Check it out!

"The moment we accept that some members of our community are expendable—that their suffering is the price of our mainstream acceptance—we abandon the revolutionary spirit that birthed PRIDE ... [W]e cannot celebrate progress while our most vulnerable community members disappear into concrete tombs."

Those poor women, such trauma from then to now, putting them through a full trial. In awe of their courage

Pretending not to understand how things work is 100% of being a political commentator

Such a head scratcher 🤔 Economist Brussels bureau chief is mystified about Starmer's exit, and we wonder why the mainstream media has no credibility.

I don't feel sorry for Starmer. I feel for the Palestinians whose slaughter he enabled, for the trans people and refugees he's victimised, and my colleagues who've had their careers wrecked by Labour's assault on universities. A record to be ashamed of.

Keir Starmer lied through his teeth to become Labour leader. He justified Israeli war crimes, arrested opponents of genocide, attacked pensioners, disabled people and migrants, pocketed freebies, crushed dissent and threw others under the bus to save himself. History damns him

Really telling that of all the political analysis about the defeat of Keir Starmer, none addresses this at all. Yet, for a lot of people it really was one of the turning points of his short-lived premiership, and in a lot of cases it is *the thing* that they remember Starmer for

Demonstrators chant "Albania is not for sale," challenging coastal projects tied to Kushner amid environmental concerns https://aje.news/q28j7f

Zack Polanski has slammed right-wing politicians' 'hatred' after five people were left injured following an 'anti-Muslim' attack in Edinburgh

That 54% fossil fuel needs to be zero if people who are under the age of 50 ever want to retire in a liveable climate.

Yes. If you're a bigot who wants to divide communities, a billionaire wanting to preserve your wealth or a "newspaper" that wants to preserve power: we're very sinister indeed. To everyone else: feels a lot like hope. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Reminder that Burnham's right hand man Josh Simons IN FEB had to resign after Labour Together scandal Earlier this month Democracy for Sale revealed that PR firm he hired to discredit journalists accused him of making "wrong" and "misleading statements" democracyforsale.substack.com/p/wrong-in-n...

"Burnham’s victory in Makerfield was so decisive that it exposes the hollowness of Starmer’s position as prime minister." Great to have @johnmct.bsky.social writing on where next for Labour in today's Democracy for Sale newsletter democracyforsale.substack.com/p/john-mcter...

This is the AI leadership I want to see.

This is who Israel murdered There are literally hundreds if not thousands of sea turtles that were given a chance to survive thanks to Mona Khalil. She’s been doing this work for over two decades. And Israel murdered her

DogMan finally covering the Dublin Lock-Out

The RTB told a woman who is homeless that it will close her case because she can’t provide an address.

The very latest. San Marcos, TX, a college town, did this. #NoNukes #NoDataCenters

#Israel 's targets in #Iaraeli occupied #Palestine 's #Gaza during the 'ceasefire": Killed yesterday, June 18th, by IOF: bsky.app/profile/cros...

This is a brilliant essay on Vauban Books, a small American press publishing far-right French books in translation souvenirmagazineparis.substack.com/p/the-great-...

Climate justice broadens the #climate agenda beyond narrow, technology-focused carbon emission reductions. A vision of alternative economic systems prioritising human rights & quality housing, food, healthcare, education for all. www.irishtimes.com/environment/... @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social

We were quoted in the Belfast Telegraph as saying that racist violence CCE is a pipeline for paramilitary recruitment. The PSNI played down paramilitary links and didn’t investigate or identify who or which group was criminally exploiting young people compelled to commit pogroms. [2/n]

In January End Deportations Belfast uncovered via FOI that 49 children involved in the August 2024 and Ballymena 2025 racist violence had been identified by PSNI as Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE). [1/n]