What if I told you they are STILL GOING OFF, now, at 12:38 AM, and the smoke is so thick you can't even see them?

glad congress isn’t alive to see this

Could Farage quit? Questions swirl over Reform UK leader’s future

He was born for this

The immorality of world leaders is contagious. Thank heavens for the pope | Simon Tisdall

Investors dumped Stocks last week at the fastest pace since March 📉 🤯 👀

The actor, writer and director was welcomed with a huge ovation and honored with the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival President’s Award before a screening of Richard Ayoade's 'The Double' in the Czech spa town.

📈 #Markets "The Bank of Korea warned that single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds tied to Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. could deepen market concentration, amplify volatility and intensify one-way trading flows, according to a local report."

Wow.

[AL JAZEERA] NATIVE AMERICANS RESISTING ICE

Australia's New South Wales confirms H5N1 bird flu case, third state reut.rs/3RjiLSH

I became able to vote here exactly one month ago, on June 4. This will take that exciting and hopeful privilege, and democratic rights, away.

10/10, no notes. Happy 250th from San Francisco 😶‍🌫️ 🎥: Thomas Sawano

[1/2]#USHB9584: To amend the United States Housing Act of 1937 to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to reallocate unobligated funding for tenant-based assistance to public housing agencies which are in need of more funding for tenant-based assistance. Status: Referred to the

BILL UPDATE: H.8552: Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2026 ACTION: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote. #congress #military #veteran

Australian Space Agency working to confirm origin of objects as space archaeologist says they may be connected to a rocket launch

This was a cluster fuck in DC today. The evacuation. The rain delay. The re-entry. ICE agents. The music sucked. The Trump speech, lame. The fireworks started after midnight. On July 5th. A total shit show! I should have added the Benny Hill theme music to this video. 🤪

has in effect already trumped Putin’s hand, yet again Putin has shown he’s no strategic genius.

Zelensky had few cards visible. He didn’t take what was on offer. Now he’s losing and he knows it and Ukraine has the aces and most of the winning cards. If Putin wants out he’ll have to bend over backwards to save face and make concessions. But it won’t be because of Trump this war ends. Zelensky,

or face disaster down the line. It’s a blatant cry for help crafted to look like something else. Only it’s too late. His fake friend doesn’t have the power or the levers to get him what he wants anymore. Putin had a chance to end this when Trump first offered him outrageously generous terms and

and the Europeans will not be ignored or sidelined this time. If Putin thinks a few words of love to Trump will restart peace talks that will do him any favours he’s grossly mistaken. Putin just showed his hand and thinks he didn’t. This is a big moment because it’s recognition he has to end the war

desperately wants American re-engagement in the peace process in a vain hope it will persuade Ukraine to stop the war more effectively on Russian terms. Putin is looking for leverage and an off ramp. That’s incredibly significant but a serious mistake. The US has very little leverage over Ukraine

blatant flattery is Putin’s way of trying to restore a friendship between the two men that has waned as quickly as Ukrainian effectiveness has waxed. Trump praising Ukraine’s capabilities is a huge turnaround, not that it will make any practical difference. Putin is crying out for help here. He

PUTINS OUTRAGEOUS SUPPORT FOR TRUMP IS A CRY FOR HELP Putin went out of his way to tell Americans to stop criticising Trump, respect the president, and to remember he was elected on the policies he’s trying to implement. There was only one person he was really talking to: Trump. This blast of

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❗️Overnight, two substations in the temporarily occupied Crimea were hit: ▪️ Substation “Bakhchysarai” 220 kV; ▪️ Substation “Zimino” 110/35/10 kV.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Mysterious debris found on Queensland beaches could be ‘space balls’ – and may contain toxic rocket fuel

A Sacramento County vegetation fire threatened homes on the Fourth of July. Learn more: https://www.kcra.com/article/mccoy-vegetation-fire-sacramento-county-july-4/71825050 

@crow.house.gov is the real deal. FYI.

🛢️ #Oil "CME Group to launch 10-barrel contract after Iran war triggers rush of bets on crude prices"

France’s far right didn’t drop its grudge against Les Bleus. It recast it. - Politico #politics#france

🟡 From Last Month’s Magazine: Turning the Tide on the Rage Wave? Nigel Farage’s Explicit Politics of Race and Violence Could Cost Him Andy Burnham’s victory in the Makerfield by-election indicates that a ‘politics of hope’ may yet be possible to counterweight the… Read the full story below.

California prison officials are searching for an incarcerated man who walked away from a minimum-security conservation camp in Nevada County on the Fourth of July.

Chinese underground church figure Jin Mingri freed from prison

‘They ate the shrimp, they even ate the crab’: Thai fishers count the cost of a voracious invader

❗️Fighters of the 19th Army Corps have published a video address from Kostyantynivka in which they refute the claims of Putin’s propaganda about the occupation of the city. Kostyantynivka is holding.

As the July 5th (hahaha) fireworks wind down, so does the Strait of Hormuz, again.

📰 #Finance "Indian motorists will gather in New Delhi on Sunday, in the first major protest against a flagship biofuel program intended to reduce crude imports and support farm incomes."

The other day USAF Major Jason Watson was arrested. I hate it here under Trump.

I hate Illinois Nazis - or wherever else these fools are from.

I have to admit these are the best July 5th fireworks I've ever seen

Holy hell! Is anyone going to be able to breathe in D.C.? He is still filling the sky with smoke, as though he didn't blow enough smoke during his speech.

Energy Stocks just saw an outflow of $3.2 Billion over the last week, the largest in 2 years 🚨 🚨

Severe thunderstorms disrupt July 4th fireworks across Minnesota, leading to cancellations and delays.

From Albania to Portugal, privatisation of the coastline is bringing locals out on to the streets. For them, the economic benefits are few and far between, says Adam Almeida, a writer living in London

Trump's Corruption is more of a threat to America... "Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty" - DJT 🎨 by Ed Hall

Didn't take him long to invoke the communist boogeyman. 🤬