The Supreme Court just shut down warrantless geofence dragnets — a massive win for your phone privacy. The regime tried to track everyone without cause. It didn’t go well. Read what else collapsed this week:

"Growing questions about prosecution of US military personnel for crimes on UK soil", which I raised yesterday in the #ArmedForcesBill and intend to pursue. It surely should be possible to stop this evasion of UK justice #VAWG www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

BP not only funded the research behind the influential “Wedges” climate science paper, but company execs even tried to revise versions of it. “Chaps, I have had a go at rewriting the paper,” a BP climate adviser wrote the researchers at one point.

"Either way, the concentration of wealth at the very top is much higher now than it ever was during the Gilded Age. And these are numbers from last year, before the SpaceX IPO. The robber barons were pikers compared with today’s oligarchs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...

We should support the ceasefire deal with Iran. But Obama's JCPOA had the force of international law through the security council and intrusive inspections. It also led to far less in transfer of dollars to the Iranian regime than is being reported.

The constant flow of (horrifying) domestic violence stories coming out of the NFL doesn't get nearly enough attention. Thanks to @sportsballitics.bsky.social for writing about it. www.thebroncosblitz.com/nfl-wants-to...

Vozinha was spectacular for Cape Verde. This is shameful.

If Texas’ MMRC is not reauthorized, Texans will lose the most important source of data about preventable reasons for maternal deaths and severe illness.

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

Nearly 4,000 jobs. 47,000 solar panels a day. Made top-to-bottom on American soil. This is the clean energy promise kept: good jobs, lower bills, and a better future. electrek.co/2026/06/11/g...

No boots on the ground. Read my full statement about Trump's threat to seize Kharg Island. ⬇️

An American armored brigade should be permanently stationed in Poland as part of a broader military realignment designed to prepare the U.S. for simultaneous conflicts with Russia and China, according to a new think tank report. www.stripes.com/theaters/eur...

RIP Marcia Lucas, the genius who edited Star Wars (1977) Return of the Jedi (1983), THX 1138 (1971), American Graffiti (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), and Taxi Driver (1976). She won the editing Oscar for Star Wars. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/m...

My latest Substack post looks at the over 7600 council homes built by Norwich City Council between the wars and the ideals of its early postwar planning. Part II on Thursday will describe the city's Golden Age of council housing ... municipaldreams.substack.com/p/council-ho...

"just think that the owner of a UK electric car of typical efficiency, on Octopus Energy’s off-peak charging tariff might end up paying some 2p per mile*... That’s an eighth of the cost of running a traditional car, at current petrol prices" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... *According to Aurora

"The law that established the ODNI specified that anyone nominated to lead it “shall have extensive national security expertise”. Every prior dni has been either a former intelligence official, military officer or elected official" www.economist.com/united-state...

✍️ "Economic success requires a sense of purpose." @theguardian.com's economics editor @guardianheather.bsky.social recently reviewed IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social's new book 'The Common Good Economy', which proposes a new economics of the common good. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/pv7wUrF

The best European response to Hegseth's moronic rant is to accelerate efforts to achieve the strategic self-reliance needed to make Americans like him irrelevant to Europe's security

Data centers are asking just too much for too little in return. I'm pausing the release of any new data center tax incentives in Illinois — and I'm calling on the General Assembly to act in veto session to make sure data centers are paying their fair share.

"Potential 2028 Democratic presidential contenders would be appealing subjects for a Pulte-directed data dive in the National Security Agency’s trove," Jason Willick writes. "No probable cause required." https://wapo.st/3RNMJhL

EXCL: Govt accused of neglecting the body set up to promote UK “soft power” & wasting efforts of senior figures from culture/sport/etc recruited to join Members of soft power council complain it’s been “a bit of a waste of time”, as ministers have “zero interest” in it & have not attended since Oct

i genuinely hate how internet culture has become so normalized and widespread. i do not want a white house deputy chief of staff saying "it's white boy november" or a secretary of state tweeting that he's "locked in for this banger." grow up.

The cost of just about everything is rising. The last thing Wisconsinites need is the NFL making them spend their hard-earned money on another costly streaming service just to watch our Packers play. www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

With Welsh Cabinet appointments approved, positives & negatives: • extremely experienced Elfyn Llwyd as a Counsel-General; • separate skills minister; • prioritising preventative healthcare. Doubtless downgrading Agri-Food major mistake — similarly surrounding early education, children & families!

At some point on my lifetime we might get a government which recognises that having an entire tier of elected institutions which are just powerless complaints departments for a failing social care system is not a healthy or sensible state of affairs.

I think its also a sign of someone who is not only securely middle class themselves but who's immediate family is also all securely middle class as well. Otherwise the reality that "if older relatives fall on hard times, then its either the state or the kids who pick up the tab" would be obvious

This is truly mind-blowing: Norway has gone from near-zero sales of non‑emitting battery electric vehicles to now close to 100% of all new passenger car sales - achieved in about 13 years. More in my next substack newsletter. Sign up here: substack.com/@janrosenow

Just remembered that I missed this extra consideration: the USA economy is larger in part because it's not paying its carbon debt.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

About 25,000 Medicaid enrollees in Nebraska are at risk of losing coverage as the state moves ahead with work requirements early, despite limited federal guidance and a tight timeline that could worsen administrative barriers and confusion. www.cbpp.org/blog/nebrask...

$50m waste would’ve horrified DOGE’s own optimisation, to that end! But, language is important: “Defense” describes protection, whereas war asserts aggression — really retrograde naming convention considering how 2003’s Iraq invasion’s viewed in international circles consequently, even among allies.

My faith in using the brute force of state power to achieve good has taken a battering these past few years but I do believe I'm going to be vindicated that we just need a real state contributory pension scheme that builds some element of redistribution to boost the floor and lower the ceiling

There is *a lot* to unpack here but I have to go meet with students so I'll just say: not enough "yikes" in the world.

The platonic ideal of a flight is to take a late one in the evening, wake up at a normal time, have lunch, then head to the airport, sit with your book and a nice drink in the departure lounge, and don't actually *board* until they're calling your name.

Do you want to see the "big picture" on climate change? Here it is. Emissions are on the left, and include CO2, CH4, N2O, and f-gases. Natural CO2 sinks (from healthy forests & oceans) are on the right. And carbon removal, what little there is, is on the right, too. All expressed as GWP100.

It's why the podcast is to DC what the Forum was to Rome

A quick plug for another recent publication, in the Welsh History Review. On this occasion, I explore in detail the role that the body corporate model played in the instability, and unravelling, of the first Welsh devolution dispensation #Senedd #Devolution

💾 Beyond Floppy Disk Economics Capitalism needs a new operating system. IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social's latest @foreignpolicy.com article outlines how to rewrite the global economic framework for a progressive multilateralism. 🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/dqZOY4k

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

Act of national self-harm that we're not throwing money at American scientists to move here

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

Trump has called on Congress to pass a record $1.5T defense budget. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering right now.

The world would be a better place without a tyrannical IRGC regime. But the cost of a US campaign against it run without any thought of long term consequences has high risks of generating lasting Iranian destabilisation and refugee flows. That hits the GCC, Turkey and the EU.

I know we've all seen it already. But I honestly think this is the defining moment of our time. Past generations couldn't have believed it would happen. Future generations won't believe it could have happened. But here we are, bang in the moment. Lucky, lucky us.

‘Walking the Way of St Augustine reminds you, if nothing else, how secular England feels: how far we are from the god-haunted era whose empty buildings we like to poke around.’ Cal Revely-Calder on pilgrimage in Kent, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

Labour! 🤦 Ready to abandon bans on foie gras and fur, which the public want, in favour of gene-edited crops, which public don't want @gmwatch.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

‘“The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced,” Willa Cather wrote of Katherine Mansfield. “It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.”’ @tricialockwood.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘It is possible to date the Resurrection with some exactness: it occurred “before daybreak on a Sunday, probably on 9 April, AD 30”. But this exactitude is self-defeating.’ Frank Kermode on the first Easter Sunday, in the archive. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

“Make good use of the power given to you, and remember that whatever you do to another human being, especially to the small and vulnerable, you do unto me.” cruxnow.com/vatican/2026...