Huge. Just huge. This is Eurobonds for Ukraine and it’s exactly what is needed. German leadership in Europe appears back. Credit to Merz. on.ft.com/42GQDve

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned yesterday that a "hybrid war" has started in Europe after waves of drones shut down Danish airspace this week.

F'd up and autocratic as this is, kind of fitting that Comey is shafted by Trump given he was stupid enough to hand him his original election win against Hilary in 2016. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Overnight in Denmark, unidentified UAVs flew directly over the Skrydstrup air base, where F-16 and F-35 aircraft are stationed. Unidentified drones were also reported at the airports in Aalborg, Esbjerg, and Sønderborg. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Trump brags about extracting $16 million from ABC settlement, says he wants to “test” the network out again. More explicit threats that if a private company doesn’t do his bidding, Trump will punish with lawsuits or government action.

Yup. We have formally entered the age of illusion.

This sounds my mate John Lyons, good onya John!

Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says nearly 60% of weapons are domestically made as role of drones increases

Tesla seeks to award Musk $1tn if carmaker hits formidable targets on.ft.com/4mZH6Yc

Watch: Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region is on the frontline of the military and diplomatic battle over the country’s future. Our latest from Donbas. youtu.be/g1HM7-Vu_Wg

Looks really excellent by Patrick & Jerome who have followed HTS from right up close for years

I feel like Zaluzhnyi might not actually really want to be president. He seems like too much of a nice guy www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Famine declared in Gaza, in case there was any doubt

The war in Gaza has yielded 83% civilian casualties ...and yet some people still buy that "it's unintended" or "it's unavoidable" or "Israel has the moral right to kill civilians if Hamas is standing behind them". Bullshit. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Surprise surprise, Russia has no interest in peace. As expected Putin sabotages any hopes of a bilateral meeting with Zelensky, or anything other than total Ukrainian capitulation.... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

EU speeds up plans for digital euro after US passes stablecoin law on.ft.com/474wqCN

The sudden stampede of European leaders to Washington to buttress Ukraine’s position in any future peace agreement with Russia seems to have paid off, at least in the short term, with the talks focused on security guarantees for Ukraine.

If it makes you feel (worse), they do it covering other countries, too

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country “is counting on America,” hours before US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to meet in Alaska.

26 EU leaders say Ukraine should have freedom to decide its future reut.rs/4mdq34Q

Idiot. The Russians tried to establish an airhead outside Kyiv, and were defeated at the battle of Antonov Airport. Then they rolled tank columns down both sides of the Dnieper—using highways!—and were beaten back.

If you look at the map around Pokrovsk, you may finally see why I’ve long been worried, about both the city and the trajectory of the war. Talk of big enemy losses, forecasts of economic collapse, or claims I’m “too negative” won’t change it. Change starts by seeing problems

wild

Deeply shocked by Israel’s deliberate killing of the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, his colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. Israel has now killed at least 186 journalists in this war.

Targeted strike

🔴 Three people were killed in restricted coastal zones of Odesa region due to explosions. Police are investigating the circumstances. Many local beaches remain closed due to the threat of sea mines; about 30 are open with official approval.

Bloody hell this is good! @bhgreeley.bsky.social

The core problem is this, he doesn’t practice principled anti-imperialism. He practices inversionism: if the U.S. supports something, he reflexively takes the opposite side, no matter how brutal that side is, no matter the evidence.

It's terrible what's going on in Sweida. What's almost as shocking are the dismal production values of this video. News orgs are so stretched these days that all they can afford is user generated videos stitched together with webcam and laptop mic narration. www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

A lot of people on the hard left go on about Euromaidan being a CIA orchestrated protest movement, and it's events like these that call bullshit on that. Ukraine's democracy movement is substantive, independent, self interested and authentic www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

People run away from kamikaze drones flying near a metro station in Kyiv. 🎥 Novyny Live

More than 8,100 people have been expelled to a "third country" since January 20.

Where are all the articles about the fantastic and fulfiling new jobs AI is creating in the tech enabled future utopia? www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Gaza starting to resemble Marinka - a Donbas town Russia shelled off the face of the earth - in the drone footage others posting on Insta. Wildly bleak.

Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups

Thailand and Cambodia agree to ceasefire following Malaysia talks on.ft.com/456p52J

Introducing AI&Us, a new feature series from @reuters.com exploring the surprising ways artificial intelligence is transforming everyday life. First up: @hanirichter.bsky.social on how chatbots are becoming a lifeline for some neurodivergent users. www.reuters.com/lifestyle/it...

Turkey reached 50.0°C for the first time in recorded history today (preliminary) This isn’t just a heatwave, It’s the edge of human survival. In low humidity just 30 minutes of exposure risks heat stroke. Increasing humidity shortens that time. This is climate change, and it’s accelerating.

Thai authorities evacuate 100,000 amid border clashes with Cambodia https://on.ft.com/4o43GA0

Gaza faces mass starvation with supplies 'totally depleted', aid agencies warn news.sky.com/story/gaza-f...

BBC NEWS / AFP / BBC NEWS / REUTERS JOINT STATEMENT: “We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. "They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering. "

I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.' Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...

Colbert said the 16 million $ settlement Paramount paid Trump in his bogus lawsuit was a „big fat bribe“ (correct). His show has the highest rating out of all late night shows. Cancelling it is punishment for not shutting up and calling out his employer for bending the knee to Trump.

Miserable There's so many reasons to dislike Trump, but on a personal note he's just probably ended my international reporting career. A third of PBS's budget comes from the US government Fuck my life, who'd be a journalist / filmmaker in 2025 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Stuff moving:🇨🇭Patriot batt being diverted and 2 🇩🇪 paid batts to 🇺🇦

“In 2002, there were an average of 40 local journalists per 100,000 U.S. residents. In 2025, that number fell to 8.2 local journalists per 100,000 residents.”

Beijing 1989 vibes