A federal judge threw out the criminal charges against James Comey after finding that the prosecutor President Trump handpicked to bring the cases had been illegally appointed.

"A mafia style deal" : Trump’s grab for Russian frozen assets puts EU Ukraine loan in doubt - on.ft.com/49tvBoc via @FT

Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com. It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South. www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...

The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums. He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up. How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?

The economic upsides of Donald Trump’s second term - on.ft.com/48U9Ygz via @FT

Israel continues to restrict aid entering Gaza says Hamas has not met its end of deal to release all bodies of captives.

2/2 Best part of Patinir's painting: two gold feet on a stone. All that's left of an idol that knew it couldn't compete against Christ & so self-destructed. Sad!

Pensive Mary quietly rests and feeds her baby on the way to Egypt, before a completely amazing landscape that includes lots of thwarted idolatry & miracles! By Joachim Patinir of Antwerp, whose day is today.

BREAKING: Multiple people were wounded and killed in a shooting at a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas, and the shooter was killed after a self-inflicted gunshot wound, federal officials said reut.rs/42Os9jJ

"An effective EU policy ... needs to acknowledge that settler violence is state violence, enabled and tolerated by the Israeli regime’s policy of complete impunity". Strong piece by Yoav Shemer-Kunz, co-founder of European Jews for Palestine. euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

L’Art déco, cent ans de multitudes, qu’en reste-t-il aujourd’hui ? www.liberation.fr/lifestyle/de...

🛬 Une collision entre deux avions a été évitée "de justesse" dimanche soir à l'aéroport de Nice, a appris l'AFP du Bureau d'enquêtes et d'analyses pour la sécurité de l'aviation civile (BEA).

Advertising giants change tune on climate as industry grapples with AI - on.ft.com/4mrMORK via @FT Great piece by @kenzabryan.ft.com on an alarming - yet predictablly opportunistic - shift by by fossil-sector publicists marching in step with Donald.

Un post ap' passé sous les radars ''L'île'' collection kayak chez Gaïa. Une Islande en mode confinement qui part vite en vrille. Puissance de le langue et arrière goût d'oralité contée en fil rouge. À relire👇 boojum.fr/sigridur-hag...

From flexible implants to circuits seeded with living cells, a new kind of electronics is starting to produce long-lasting implants with the potential to help everything from paralysis to hearing and vision loss.

substack.emilychomicz.com/p/extra-arti... My article discusses suicide, and what we can do to prevent it. This is a heavy read, but it was something that I had to say straight from the heart, as it contains my story too.

President Trump's executive order purporting to rename the Department of Defense is just one more piece of evidence that he's prepared to destroy the postwar legal order. Here's why that matters: nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

A dinosaur fossil found in Morocco may be the most bizarrely and elaborately armoured vertebrate that has ever walked the Earth.

Hello Thursday. The Swan Maiden, John Bauer, 1908. 🦢

This is evil, and it’s also national suicide. Countries that do this decline fast.

Indignation après de nouvelles sanctions américaines contre des magistrats de la Cour pénale internationale L’administration Trump considère que la CPI est devenue «un instrument de guerre juridique contre les Etats-Unis et leur proche allié Israël»

Yesterday's @flaminghydra.com, featuring Sam Thielman on Moebius, is incredible. Go read. Now. flaminghydra.com/issue-114/

Feed: "NYT > Books > Book Review" By: Sam Thielman on Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Devastating flash floods have killed more than 300 people across Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Climate change is driving the rise in extreme and dangerous weather events. My thoughts are with all those affected by this tragedy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer

🖼️ Arnold Lobel #FrogForFriday

Where’s my #medusa fans at! My OC and Medusa are BFFs😍

Here is a reminder on how the anti-climate change the Trump administration was when he was in office.

How big tech plans to feed AI’s voracious appetite for power www.economist.com/business/202... From The Economist

German economy shrinks 0.1% in second quarter amid tariff uncertainty https://on.ft.com/4fhD1f6

Experts warn that ISIL-affiliated ADF fighters may be stepping up attacks to stay relevant, amid regional peace efforts.

L'armée israélienne a annoncé samedi que des largages d'aide humanitaire, menés par des pays étrangers, auront lieu dans la soirée sur Gaza et qu'elle mettrait en place des couloirs humanitaires pour assurer le passage des convois de nourriture et médicaments de l'ONU ⤵️

Nearly 30 campers at the 99-year-old Hill Country institution are still missing after flooding devastated the area on Friday. via @texaspublicradio.bsky.social

More than two dozen children from Camp Mystic on the Guadalupe River in Texas were unaccounted for as of Saturday evening amid deadly floods. The wait has been agonizing for the tight-knit community of parents and alumni.

Around 75,000 people - 3.6 per cent of the population - in the Gaza Strip died from violent causes between 7 October 2023 and 5 January 2025, according to an independent study. That is higher than the estimate of 46,000 violent deaths by Gaza’s health ministry www.newscientist.com/article/2485...

Carmakers seek western supplies of rare earths and magnets https://www.ft.com/content/b9596651-ccf5-4477-8bc8-256c460b7920

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social I learned from the best

“An Australian man who was detained upon arrival at Los Angeles airport and deported back to Melbourne says United States border officials told him it was due to his writing on pro-Palestine protests by university students.” So much for free speech. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Russia says it struck oil refinery that supplies Ukrainian army with fuel reut.rs/3TqJc6k

Although more bloodshed is likely, even inevitable, it is not too soon to think about de-escalation and ways in which the war between Israel and Iran might end. Iselin Brady and Daniel Byman outline a few possibilities.

This is a wild and terrifying escalation nd suggests that the UAE is doubling down on its engagement in Sudan (the UAE supports both the genocidal RSF militia in Sudan and the rogue Libyan general Haftar).

ICE arrests under Trump top 100,000 as officials expand aggressive efforts to detain migrants From @camiloreports.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...

Muzaffar Chishti & I highlighted that while the Trump admin is ramping up deportations, it's taking them time to shift enforcement from the border to the interior of the US We also looked at effects on asylum, legal immigration, including student arrests & more

Liya Petrova et Adam Laloum jouent un programme de trois sonates, du premier Strauss à l'ultime Debussy, en passant par la rare sonate en si mineur d'Ottorino Respighi, composée en 1917 au cœur de la première guerre mondiale. ➡️ https://l.francemusique.fr/22b

The absurdity of Trump gets more absurdly widespread and more absurd🙄

Ukrainian HIV patients are worried their life-saving drugs will run out amid uncertainty over US funding.