Families cram into Greek court for Tempi trial into deadliest train crash

This car costs $8500. Not a typo. Less than 10 racks. And you don't have to put gas in it. But we can't have it in the US, because we'd rather have racism and argue about solved problems like birthright citizenship, and should Black people be allowed to vote. So you get Cybertrucks instead. Enjoy!

A polite but forensic discussion and dismantling of the government's incoherent/inconsistent argument for the "earned settlement" proposals from @sundersays.bsky.social. As he says, media reporting/discussion has been lamentably ill-informed. ukandeu.ac.uk/unsettled-st...

Thames Valley Police have now confirmed that they have arrested a 44-year-old man from Bromsgrove on suspicion of causing racially and religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress, in connection with reports of incidents on Abingdon Road. He has been released on police bail.

❗️Ukraine has been shooting down Russian drones for almost 24 hours, with air raid alerts in most regions and over 700 drones, mostly Shaheds, intercepted at a high rate of about 90%. Unfortunately, there were hits in Volyn, Zakarpattia, Ternopil, Chernivtsi, Cherkasy, and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts.

Good, efficient summary by @pemalevy.bsky.social @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social: "the legal minds who submitted friend of the court briefs supporting Trump’s EO ... put forward both novel and recycled already-rejected arguments that are not only morally reprehensible but historically implausible."

Trump bolted from the Supreme Court early, then unleashed a furious Truth Social rant calling the US “STUPID” for allowing birthright citizenship.

sometimes you don't need a sex trafficking cop you need a SEX TRAFFICKING cop. right? you know? www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...

Exactly.

Russian military channels are reporting the loss of an Su-34 fighter-bomber and an An-26 transport aircraft in the temporarily-occupied territory of Crimea. A good day for Ukrainian defenders …

📍 NEW 📍 A small Pennsylvania town just proved what organized communities can do to fight climate threats: Archbald residents protested and persuaded officials to reject a data center project tied to pollution and rising utility bills. buff.ly/BlnHtYm @edwarddonnelly

Perhaps they can put 2+2 together and see what is coming down the line….unlike some commentators, apparently

native americans determined to not be birthright citizens; deported back to america

There’s always a tweet. Rubio on December 14, 2023. Before he hooked his wagon to Satan.

Adding that there are many current and former professional officers in the U.S. military who are also very concerned about civilian-led efforts to promote partisanship in the ranks.

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

Two dead and one missing after trying to cross Channel to UK

While this finding might have surprised the researchers, it makes sense to me that the men who view women as inherently inferior would also be the ones most able to justify exploiting women's unpaid labor for their own pleasure, power, and personal gain.

Americans, Brits, and Russians need to remember the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. Ukraine voluntarily surrendered the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world. In exchange, Washington, London, and Moscow pledged to respect Ukraine’s borders

One of Europe’s foremost Trump whisperers tries to talk him off the ledge.

"We expected protective paternalism to play a central role in explaining why some men perceive the tradwife movement positively... We were taken aback to discover that it was instead men’s overt sexism that played the most important role in their attitudes about the tradwife movement.”

All the shades of red in the sandstorm hitting south Crete right now #Weather #SandStorm #Crete #Kalima #Storm

Foreseeing this possibility [of leaving NATO], in 2023 Congress approved a measure that was explicitly aimed at preventing a US president from unilaterally withdrawing the US from the alliance without congressional approval.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Yup This SCOTUS needs to be replaced. They next Congress should create a new one from scratch, and have the jurisdiction of this one limited to appellate Third Amendment cases

This is very effective. And keep looking at Rubio’s and Hegseth’s faces

Everyone needs to just keep repeating this, over and over. The politics of a case is NOT JUST ABOUT THAT CASE. There is a meta-game here too. This case is surely going to be used as cover for gutting the VRA. And too many pundits are going to fall for it.

WATCH: Katy Tur explains we have a pathological liar in the Oval Office making up things that never happened— and now he has taken us to war for no clear reason. (H/T @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Good morning! I wanted to share this pic of the pretty azaleas blooming this year. Last year, a big storm came through and knocked many of the blooms to the ground. I've really enjoyed watching them show out this year and I think the bees appreciate it too. 😊💮

✨ Good news ✨ The EU has approved Denmark's €1 billion state aid scheme to pay farmers to give their land back to nature. This means that Danish landowners can voluntarily remove their farmland and forestry from productive use 👉 link.europa.eu/66bcQb #NatureRestoration

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

Most of the snow in California’s Sierra Nevada has melted after a record-breaking heat wave. “Climate change is influencing California’s water system quickly and severely.” @petergleick.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

The eastern Finland peatland restoration planning progressed to the ministry. Wetlands are useful for defence, climate mitigation and restoration benefits various species, including the whitefish in adjacent rivers. #RestoreNature

Trump giving a speech about the Iran war, on April Fools’ day, because democracy may have died but irony never will!

Federal investigators were unable to conclusively match bullet fragments from the Charlie Kirk killing to the rifle found at the scene.

Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...

I haven’t yet seen mainstream press coverage of the extraordinary leak of Claude Code’s source code, shared on X by an intern at Solayer Labs! It is a treasure trove for rivals such as DeepSeek - especially its 3 layer memory architecture. Seems a big deal… venturebeat.com/technology/c...

Well Trump says America does not need the Strait …so maybe any diplomatic solution should be on terms to ensure they don’t have access to it, given America broke it and does not appear to wish to mend it. Just insult everyone else.

And of course, the right to bear arms in the US to prevent tyranny is working so well at the moment, isn't it! Helps tooling people up for civil and sectarian wars though, doesn't it.

4 yrs ago today, on April 1 2022, Ukraine liberated Bucha, that Russian forces had taken after its invasion of 🇺🇦 in the last week of Feb 2022. At least 400 civilians were massacred, brutally executed with bags over their heads or their hands tied behind their backs, and dumped in mass graves.

“'Brexit did deep damage': Starmer vows closer ties with Europe amid Iran [Trump’s] war cost of living crisis The PM insisted he would not change his position on Britain's involvement with the US-Israeli war against Iran despite “pressure” from Trump” www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Yes. Fine words. But what ACTION does that mean. “Closer” by the hitherto centimetre snail‘s-pace abutted by Labour’s daft red lines? Or is he saying things have changed so much in the last year (which he can reasonably and factually assert) that those red lines must go?

My best guess for the Trump announcement: A rambling declaration of victory, some more complaints about allies being useless and a promise to wrap it all up within a week or two. I.e. not much he hasn’t already said.

Kyiv Independent spoke to two Ukrainian sailors who claim they unwittingly became part of one of the Kremlin's major money-making operations used to fund its full-scale invasion of their country. "I didn't know we were recruited (by the 🇷🇺 shadow fleet), because I didn't even know who recruited us.“

Breaking: The president has signed an executive order on mail voting. He has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result. 1/2

An investigation by the Kyiv Independent reveals that Russia’s shadow fleet uses Starlink and cryptocurrency, and identified Ukrainians recruited for maritime jobs who later worked on shadow fleet tankers now under investigation by the FBI and SBU.

"It's not uncommon for investors to assume that banking in Ukraine is opaque, unstable, or disconnected from international standards," says Oleg Goshchansky, head of the KPMG Ukraine Gateway initiative.

"These perceptions are often shaped more by past crises and recent wartime headlines than by the current reality. For informed investors, the challenge is less about banking risk and more about distinguishing between legacy narratives and current institutional realities," he says.

The Kyiv Independent, in collaboration with KPMG Ukraine Gateway, has released the third installment of its Investor’s Guides to Ukraine — a must-read for foreign investors looking to navigate Ukraine’s business landscape.