Trump suing the BBC for $10B for "ruining his reputation" is hilarious. The BBC pulling an ultimate Uno-reverse by demanding his Jan 6 phone records is even better. His lawyers are definitely sweating trying to explain how legal discovery works.

US 19th century leftist literature is weird. Guys like George Lippard would write these exhaustively detailed novelistic screeds against capitalist exploitation but his cure for urban poverty in Philadelphia was conquering more of Mexico and populating it with impoverished white settlers.

Brazil: Comando Vermelho gunmen have imposed a "crime code" on residents, app drivers, and motorcyclists in Jardim América, Rio de Janeiro's North Zone, distributing banners and circulating instructions on social media while conducting armed checkpoints in the neighborhood. 1/3

"The only way there can be hope is to realize there is none. And to put away all these illusions." Robert Fisk

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

Y'all remember the R judge who presided over Dylann Roof's bond hearing? "...Gosnell allegedly admitted to abusing children in his care, in his neighborhood, and traveling internationally to engage in sex with children on several occasions." spectrumlocalnews.com/sc/south-car...

3,300 year old Egyptian poem

Real out-of-the-box thinking to have the Civil Rights Division committing actual civil rights violations.

Extraordinary detail in the new book on Trump's second term administration

💥 Chaos in Beirut. Riots in the streets. Fury over corrupt Lebanese authorities signing an agreement with Israel. They say it legalizes Israel's occupation of South Lebanon and gives Netanyahu immunity for war crimes. 🔻@HadiHtt

Breaking news: A small propeller aircraft crashed into Beijing’s tallest building on Friday, sending debris tumbling to the ground in the Chinese capital’s business district. ft.trib.al/n2pRqHr

Five years on, Apple Daily staffers reflect on Hong Kong paper's demise Pro-democracy journal's closure haunts media in city once seen as 'bastion of press freedom' trib.al/CtcZWNT

It has been estimated that "nekonomics" -- a blend of neko (cat) and the English word "economics" -- has an annual economic impact of around $20 billion in Japan. trib.al/s7WAn04

Europol: EU Crime Networks Regenerate Fast www.occrp.org/en/news/euro...

Let's get this paper

I didn't expect to start Kill Bill discourse on Twitter but it has been that kind of day.

Hong Kong: Authorities arrested 19 people, including serving footballers, coaches, and the alleged ringleader of a match-fixing syndicate, during Operation Double-edged, a joint ICAC and Organised Crime and Triad Bureau investigation into illegal betting and corruption in local football. 1/5

Portugal: The UNODC's 2026 World Drug Report warns that cocaine trafficking into Europe is increasingly shifting from major container ports to offshore maritime routes using semi-submersible vessels capable of transporting up to 10 tonnes per voyage. 1/4

It's a shame that Christopher Marlowe was assassinated by British intelligence because he easily would have been as well known as Shakespeare if he had lived longer. As a gay atheist playwright spy, he simply had too much swag to be allowed to live in Elizabethan England.

Florida might have been ok if it wasn't filled with the most evil people in America.

Boots Riley has been trying to tell ppl this for a minute.

As violent crime in America falls, especially in urban areas of the Northeast and Midwest, homicides perpetrated by police officers skyrocket and American police establish themselves as the most violent part of US society. It seems to be a function of the legal doctrine of impunity.

This Ebola strain may be spreading faster than previous outbreaks because its symptoms are milder, with initial data suggesting only 10% of patients develop the extensive bleeding usually associated with the disease potentially making it harder to detect and thus control.

One of the great victories of neoliberal globalization was to erase any remaining distinction between intelligence agencies, corporations, organized crime and governments. Capitalists believe destroying all stability and lawfulness will ensure their power instead of creating revolutions

Greenspan wasn't into the sex side of Rand's cult, but he was VERY deep into the self-deception, which lies at the heart of almost every cult. I quote from an article about the gold standard as a point of comparison, where he demonized the Federal Reserve before going on to head it for 18+ years.

It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization.

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.

90% of modern media criticism just sounds like this

Like the DNI was doing the bidding of a literal cult in Hawaii the entire time she was in congress…like wtf was she doing the last 2 years is a question I’d like answered

fuck you keep asking us for money for, then

Crazy how central the ideas of Nazi political theorist Carl Schmitt are to the thought of Vladimir Putin, Peter Thiel, the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, and the academy in China

The Colombian peace process is in shambles now and was designed to fail. I don't see why that is being blamed on Petro other than right wing propaganda. The real objective was to butcher the Colombian left under a banner of demilitarization and reassert control of the drug trade

Frank Carone, Top Aide to Mayor Adams, Arrested in Migrant Shelter Bribery Scheme www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/24/f...

A truly fascist law

Eric Adams confidant Frank Carone arrested in alleged bribery scheme

Recalibrating completely the entire NYC Dem machine in less than a year as mayor is a generational jack move. Mamdani is moving like LaGuardia

Mamdani is in the big leagues now. Lander won, but we expected that. The story is that Valdez, also backed by Mamdani, beat Reynoso. The Brooklyn party told Mamdani in public to back off. A mayor from outside Brooklyn who can tell the Brooklyn party to get in line is powerful indeed.

hudsoncountyview.com/jersey-city-... “Citizens Bank made a choice to finance the caging of human beings for profit. Jersey City is making a choice too: we will not be complicit, and we’ve already begun the process of pulling city funds,” Mayor James Solomon said in a statement.

ICYMI: One in five manga artists in Japan say generative AI has cut into their income. Between ¥6.6 billion in lawsuits and industry-wide demands for opt-in training, here's how Japan's creative world is fighting back.

Black Dragon Society members employed Pan-Asianist rhetoric. They professed a belief in “the unity of all Asian peoples”. But this was a cover for Japanese imperialist leanings. Soon, they inserted themselves into military and political situations, both overseas and at home.

NEW: The state never even recorded her birth. A century after the Japanese anarchist Kaneko Fumiko died in prison at 23, condemned for treason against the emperor she despised, a new film and book revisit her explosive, short life.

Every day normal people walk down the street and they pass a dog and that dog barks at them and they somehow manage to get out of the situation without shooting the dog. Cops cannot do that. Not in their skill set